Category: The Cielem’el Survival & Growth Journal

I’ve spent a lot of time and had numerous experiences that have helped me understand the answers to two very big questions: •   “What is Reality?” and •   “What is Consciousness?” [Oooooh! I just remembered another big subject in my personal growth research/study/education: Subjective Reality. Look that up and read some Steve Pavlina and more if you like thinking about this […]

Starting in 2010, I began a daily Runes practice and made that the first element in my daily journaling. And one of the meditations I learned through my Runes study has the same effect on me as the fifth mantra of Deepak Chopra’s Daily Intentions: the mantra Sankalpa. For me, Sankalpa as a mantra pretty well describes my existence as […]

I’m still writing about things related to the Deepak Chopra course “The Nature of Reality,” but from here on all the posts are simply my own, nothing is quoted or pulled from Chopra’s lectures. All this stuff about Consciousness is hard to explain, but I have actually experienced it while playing the flute in a concert with Kathleen West in […]

It is fascinating when you realize that everything is awareness, everything is made out of awareness, that the raw material of the universe is not matter, that the essential stuff of the universe is non-stuff. It is you. Practicing the seven daily reflections/mantras bring you into the awareness that is consciousness. The Daily Reflections are the seven big ideas that […]

This session focuses on seven phrases—you could call them sutras or mantras—to reflect on. Over time they will begin to change your reality of everyday experience. Why are these seven words important? Well, they actually come from ancient times, attributed to great seers, sages, rishis. Most of them are anonymous—they were detached from their ego minds and their identity was […]

One part of the previous lesson that Deepak Chopra went into a lot of detail on was explaining his personal practice of awareness in sleep. This is something I have not done quite as explicitly as he describes it, though the outcomes he ascribes to it are things I definitely experience on pretty much a daily basis. My dreams are […]

Chopra’s fourth lesson expands on other ways we can start to experience the visible from its source in the invisible; the manifest from its source in the unmanifest, the physical and mental world from its source in awareness. Remember the quantum vacuum? The quantum vacuum is not something you can experience. It is an emptiness. It is a void. It […]

– by Joan Walsh, The Nation, August 28, 2020https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-rnc-acceptance-speech/ So that was terrifying. With the Covid-19 death toll at 180,000 and counting, California ravaged by wildfires, Texas and Louisiana besieged by Hurricane Laura, and Kenosha, Wis., reeling after a teenage pro-police vigilante apparently murdered two of the many people protesting police violence there Tuesday night, Donald Trump took to the […]

In this post, everything comes from Deepak Chopra. The fourth lesson in Chopra’s “The Nature of Reality” series is called “Fulfillment of Desire.” It explores the next phase by connecting the previous lessons and how understanding the concepts can change our experience of life. That which we call the objective world, including our body, is an interpretation of experiences and […]

Wall Street’s rapid recovery — even as 28 million Americans remain jobless — is a sign of something profoundly amiss in the economic system. I read a decent brief article in the Wall Street Post about the fact that the stock market is disconnected from the economy and is an inappropriate economic indicator. It also talks about how the Federal […]

The third lesson inn Deepak Chopra’s course, “The Nature of Reality,” is called “Dreaming Reality.” Whether or not you remember a dream, it’s still an experience you have. Dreams aren’t considered “real” because when you look back on the dream is not here, it’s over. So a dream by definition is transient, evanescent, ephemeral, and ungraspable. But memories are the […]

“Fundamental Experience,” the second lesson in Deepak Chopra’s “The Nature of Reality” course, goes beyond the scientific model of reality, which, if we believe it, has its source in the quantum vacuum [nothingness], including the existence of our body mind. Fundamental experience, though, comes from perceptual fluctuations in our awareness. The awareness is just having an experience of itself. The […]

Noam Chomsky gave an utterly brilliant interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! this week [August 4, I believe], and some super-PAC has already used parts of it to make an anti-Trump commercial. I don’t remember exactly what’s in the commercial [which I saw on TYT yesterday], but I want to record verbatim a number of important things he said […]

I’m taking an online course by Deepak Chopra called “The Nature of Reality.” My understanding of the overall course concept is something like . . . understanding reality so you can create the reality you want. I’ve made some notes that I don’t want to just keep to myself in my handwritten journal, rather I want to record this information […]

I was listening to the Thom Hartmann Podcast from July 13th, and somehow it really put a lot of what scares me about COVID-19 into perspective. Thom Hartmann was rebutting the idiots on Fox News and elsewhere who were basically saying “What’s the big deal? If only 1% die from getting coronavirus, well, it is what it is and let’s […]