Interview Contents
Opening Oneself to the Miraculous
Balancing on the Shoulders of Giants
A Body of Practical Applications
Enlightenment.com -- Cynthia, what is a reality shift?
CSL - Well, Jordan, I'm glad you asked. Basically, a reality shift is a mysterious physical appearance, disappearance, transformation, or transportation of something where you don't really have an explanation for why it would move. It seems like things are moving by themselves. A reality shift could also be a change in the way we experience time.
I think most people can relate to the fact that they'll run the laundry and put socks in the laundry, and you dont necessarily find all the socks mates when they come out. Youll put two socks in and get one sock back out. This is a well-known phenomenon. Most people make jokes about it and talk about it ... but few people have thought about whats really happening. Similarly, we have synchronicities and coincidences in our lives, and we notice that if we make a wish or a prayer, often that wish or prayer comes true.
A reality shift is actually the point in time when these changes take place.
If you are open to seeing them, you can actually witness reality in the process of shifting. You can see something materialize seemingly out of nowhere. You can see something disappear. You can see things transform. I believe that this is possible for all of us to do. I believe we are all reality shifters, and some of us are able to see this a lot more often, just by being open to it.
Enlightenment.com - Now, have you actually seen objects appear from nowhere yourself?
CSL - Yes, I have.
Enlightenment.com - Could you describe one of those?
CSL - OK. A very noteworthy experience that I had was when my friend and I were out... it was a holiday... I think it was Memorial Day. The keys probably got locked inside the trunk of the car. It seemed that he was holding the keys, then he locked them in the trunk, shut the trunk, and the car was entirely locked. Still, we were searching around, looking for the keys, and neither of us could find them anywhere.
My friend just took a very meditative pose. Wed searched everywhere; wed pretty much given up on finding them, but he was standing on the passenger side of the car with his hands in a prayer-like position, just meditating and looking inside the car. And as he was doing this, I was standing just to the left of him and watching his hands. Hes not a stage magician -- he wasnt doing magic or anything -- but what I saw was the keys appear right below his hands - about an inch below - I saw them as they appeared, just out of nowhere, and then they fell to the ground.
He was very surprised. He wasnt expecting that to happen. He heard them fall to the ground, and I said, There are your keys! He looked down, and there they were. He was pretty certain they had been in the trunk of the car.
Enlightenment.com - How did you feel when you saw that?
CSL - I was amazed. I just
got chills. I felt like this was an amazing experience. Ive seen
several things like this, and each time it happens I get a sense of awe and
wonder that first of all Im able to experience something like this,
and secondly that its possible for things to just materialize.
Its a surprise every time it happens. And it gives me a renewed sense
of faith that theres something much greater than what we normally
experience as reality.
Enlightenment.com - So you think reality shifts are going on all the time? In effect, you think reality is fundamentally not what we think it is?
CSL - Exactly. I think that our perception of reality as being very static and as objects staying where we put them, and being exactly as we saw them.... I think thats a very large assumption on our part that we often dont check. I think we have a lot of beliefs that we dont examine, and many of these beliefs were set up back in the sixteenth century. Theyre pretty old. Theyve been with us for a long time.
We tend to think that if we examine a situation, like if we are outside of something, we can observe it and be a very impartial observer. And that theory, that assumption of being strongly objective is very principal in most of our sciences. Its also incorrect, and it doesnt work at some levels of reality. Thats something that has been observed in quantum physics to be not true.
Enlightenment.com - The Heisenberg effect, among others.
CSL - Thats right. Its impossible to even participate in a quantum physics experiment without affecting it. What Im discovering and I think a lot of other people are also discovering right now, is that the things that happen on the quantum level can be seen at the macro level. It is possible for very large objects to move around. Everything has a wavelike nature. And thats definitely what Im seeing when things can transform, transport, appear and disappear.
Enlightenment.com - Now our common sense says that thats not possible. Do you think that its mainly our common sense that prevents more of this sort of thing from happening for people more frequently?
CSL - Thats a really good question. I believe that thats true. When our beliefs are such that we feel that this is impossible, this cant happen -- thats setting up a request to the universe that we dont experience it happening, and so of course that wont happen for us. And I know that thats true.
When people are around who are open to seeing reality shifts, they definitely see reality shift around me, because Im very open to it. Im pursuing it, actually! I want to know, What are all the different kinds of reality shifts that can happen? So if youre around me and youre open to it, you probably will experience this phenomenon. I think people that are closed to it -- they dont experience it.
Enlightenment.com - So you think you can teach a way of being to people that enables more reality shifts to happen around them.
CSL - Right. And you might wonder why would they want to do that.
Enlightenment.com - Why would they want to do that?
CSL - (laughing) Good question! Im glad you asked! I think its very valuable for people to see the beauty of this universe. Its a very magical place. Its very mysterious. And when you open yourself to the experience of witnessing the moment when a wish or a prayer is becoming true, then its a real gift. Its like being present -- being fully present -- and being perfectly aware of whats happening all around you.
I think most of us are pretty much in a trance most of the time. I believe Gurdjieff said that many years ago, and Ive seen that thats true. Some people are less likely to observe reality shifting due to their beliefs, and others are less likely to see it because theyre not observant enough.
And so if you want to observe reality shifting and you want that sense of reverence that it brings -- at least thats what it brings to me -- and it gives me a feeling of hope, too! Because each time I see that, then I feel like, Well things are never what they seem. Things are never as hopeless as they might seem. Theres no such thing as an impossible situation. Everything can change in a minute. And I really love that. I really love the feeling of faith that that brings me. Its a very strong message of hope that I get from reality shifts.
Enlightenment.com - How do reality shifts differ from what the standard religions would call miracles?
CSL - I dont see a big difference, actually. So I think what youre asking is Are reality shifts basically miraculous?, and yes they are. Definitely, they are miraculous. I used to be very skeptical; I wasnt raised with any kind of formal religion. When Id hear of stories in the Bible, such as Moses parting the waters, Id think that sounds kind of hokey. Obviously, I have a different perception on this and a different feeling about it now, having witnessed many miraculous events in my life.
Id say that these things are not out of the realm of possibility. Ive never seen waters parted, and Ive never seen a burning bush, but that doesnt mean that it hasnt happened -- because I have seen things such as cars and statues vanish or appear. Ive seen people walking towards me vanish. Ive seen just very basic household items move around -- all kinds of things change. And when I witness that, then I know that things are very different than what we tend to think of.
Enlightenment.com - What about the traditional prescriptions in all of the great religions and the perennial philosophy that says you want to avoid getting sucked into the powers, into the siddhis. That these things happen, but that they actually are a distraction and a diversion from the pathways to higher consciousness.
CSL - I have heard that, and it fascinates me. All I can speak for is my own experience. In my own life, Ive experienced a greater sense of faith and connection to the universe by seeing these things. I find that by paying more attention to them, it renews my faith. Because otherwise, I tend to get stuck in feelings of hopelessness... I think most of us do. We can face a situation and think, Well, this is impossible. Things cant change. Im stuck.
But when I see reality in the
process of shifting, I get a real feedback from the universe that says,
Theres something going on here thats very much more
powerful than anything that you can physically do. Theres something
from the heart ... something from the way you feel about yourself ... that
can have a very powerful effect on everything around you.
Enlightenment.com - But you think it is kind
of heart or spirit related, and not just having to do with the way physical
reality is structured? What Im thinking of here is Ken Wilbers
notion that the perennial philosophy says that there are a certain number
of levels ... a rough analogy is an apartment building with seven levels.
On the bottom level, the level of physical reality where we are right now,
what science has shown us in the past hundred years lets say, is that
everything is interconnected in a horizontal fashion.
CSL - Right.
Enlightenment.com - So, there are all these
really cool ways that things interconnect, but what Ken says is that that
doesnt have very much to do with ascending levels from matter to mind
to soul to spirit. That yes, everything is connected horizontally on the
physical plane, but its not that relevant. The physical world may
actually work in a way that is fundamentally different than the way
standard sciences said it works for the last three or four hundred years,
but it still doesnt have anything directly to do with spiritual
ascension.
CSL - OK. So what was the question?
Enlightenment.com - Well, the question is --
lets say youre right, and things are actually only staying put
because most of us believe that most of the time, that thats what
theyre supposed to do. And we opened up our belief systems and
paradigms, and all of the sudden we realized that things were a lot less
stable - and things did appear and disappear and move. What does that have
to do necessarily with spiritual evolution and progress?
The universe might be physically
interconnected that way -- a large network, holographically intertwined, or
fractally cascading, or whatever it is -- but does that really speak to
spiritual progress and evolution?
CSL - OK! Thats an excellent question,
and I think I understand it. What I would say is that theres a carrot
and stick thing going on. As you realize that you are creating all the
reality around you, you actually are giving yourself the opportunity to
experience the direct feedback from your own feelings. And so if
youre feeling very loving, very expansive -- thats your energy
field thats actually expanding around you.
You can try this out with coat
hangers. You can actually dowse and feel where your energy field is, and
where your friends energy field is. This is something that Ive
got on my web site that people can try out as an exercise. Its very
powerful. And youll notice that as youre feeling much more
loving, youll find that the things that youre thinking come
true. Its more like living in a waking dream thats a good kind
of dream. Now when you do the opposite and you dont feel very loving
-- youre feeling angry or youre feeling fearful -- what that
does is it collapses your energy field. You have a much reduced impact on
everything around you, and so if youre making a wish or making a
prayer, theres much less likelihood that anything will come of
it.
Enlightenment.com - So the negative, bad
things that youre thinking tend not to come true, because you
dont have enough energy being put out. But the good, positive things
that youre wishing and hoping and praying for do come true. Its
sort of like a one-way filter, almost.
CSL - That can be true. Fears can come true,
too, though. Because you can put so much energy into it. It really has to
do with your energy field.
So if youve got a very powerful energy field,
and youre putting a lot of energy into a fear, you can manifest that
-- the thing that youre most afraid of, and a lot of people notice
that that happens. And so, when it comes to a spiritual path, I think this
is a very, very powerful carrot and stick kind of a way of learning about
the way that your beliefs and your attitudes affect your reality.
Enlightenment.com - Now when youre
talking about having a bigger, more expansive energy field, bringing more
reality shifts your way, is that just being physically robust and healthy,
or is that also or mainly what we call heart energy, or what is it?
CSL - Its mainly
heart energy. Its feeling the things that make you
happiest. Its the things that bring you the
greatest sense of joy. Thinking about your friends, the favorite places
that youve been to, the moments in your life when you felt like a
complete success, of feeling completely loved by someone, of being held in
that love. Of being just surrounded and wrapped in love. Feeling the most
loving and loved that its possible for you to feel.
Enlightenment.com - Now
youve been cultivating this over time, I take it?
CSL - Yes. Its definitely a spiritual
discipline, and so I think that it addresses the question that people might
ask of How does this give you a sense of spirituality?
Its definitely a process of becoming aware of how you feel, and
noticing that your feelings affect your reality.
When Ive gone into a state
of feeling just complete relaxed ecstasy, its really a very loving
state of mind and state of being, and it gives me an integration of all
those different levels of perception that you were referencing earlier ...
because its possible not to just be in one of them.
I think that theres a lot
of focus given to going for the top, reaching for enlightenment, going
straight to the maximum enlightenment point. But what Ive found to be
true is that its actually healthy for me and it feels better to be
operating on all of those levels of reality creation concurrently, and
thats something that I havent seen written about, but it feels
best for me, so thats why I do it.
Enlightenment.com - Whats the simplest
thing that somebody could do
to put themselves on this path? Is it as simple as
just spending a few minutes when you wake up and orienting yourself in a
positive way?
CSL - Yes! Actually, that is the simplest way to do this, to wake up and start each day with a meditation or a feeling of being loved, of being held. If you believe in a God, then feel that you are basking in that God's love... like being held in Gods hands, completely surrounded with love.
And when you go to sleep, you can feel that again. This gives you a direct connection with spirit. If you dont believe in God, thats OK too... it doesnt really matter. The point is that you need to feel all of the love that its possible for you to feel. Most of us shut love out in some way. We have barriers to it. We feel like, Well, I cant really be worthy of that much love. Theres something about me thats not good, or I did something thats not so good and I know that, so therefore I dont deserve all this love. Sometimes, even if we dont think this way consciously, there is a lot of unconscious blockage to love going on.
I believe that by making this a
daily meditation when you wake up and when you go to sleep, it can empower
everything in your life and start changing the way that you feel about
yourself.
Enlightenment.com - But its mostly a
feeling tone that youre creating in your body? Its not saying a
mantra, its not ... I mean, how do you do it? Could you demonstrate
aloud what it is that you do or say to yourself?
CSL - Well, that first one that I told you
is a feeling based meditation. You can work with attitudes, mantras. You
can work with things that adjust your reality by working on internal,
repeating statements that you may make.
I used to be in a rush a lot of the time, and Id feel that I wasnt good enough unless I was getting lots of things done. If Im not careful, I can still slip into that sometimes. Now, I take each statement that I make, and I flip it around to its reverse, and have a very customized mantra just for me working with the kind of things that I tend to knock down in myself.
For example, as things come to my consciousness, I realize, Im not letting love in, because I feel like I need to rush around, and I feel like Im not getting enough done. That's a statement Ill write down because it helps to write these things down. Ill write down, Im not getting enough done, because Im not doing enough things in a given day. Thats what Ill write on one side of a page. And then Ill flip that around, and Ill say, Everything is happening just exactly the way it needs to, and Im perfect the way I am, and I dont need to get lots of things done in order to prove that, and Ill repeat that back to myself as many times as I need to, to change the belief within me.
These affirmations are extremely powerful, and I do believe in them. Depending on what kind of person you are -- if, for example, you are conscious of hearing these kinds of critical voices -- then affirmations are something you can work with. However, if you are more of a feeling, body-based person, you can work on feeling loved and just soaking in that. If you want to do everything, then you can do both of those ... and you could also do the exercise on sensing your energy field and noticing the difference it makes when you feel loving thoughts versus when you feel angry thoughts or fearful thoughts. Getting that feedback is very powerful.
So thats most of the
spiritual practice: it's just working with yourself and becoming aware of
your own feelings and your own perceptions, and realizing that it all
begins with you and your relationship to spirit.
Enlightenment.com - Is it important to not,
in effect, wish for particular
things, or to want... If theres something in
your life that you want, whether its a new apartment, or a kitten, or
a new relationship, or a new piece of electronic equipment, or finding the
perfect whatever... do you recommend that people should do the thing where
they focus on what they want and try to materialize it and manifest it, or
are you more of the notion that you ask for whatever is best for you and
let it go?
CSL - Do you mean personally in my life?
Enlightenment.com - Or what you recommend to
people.
CSL - What would I recommend?
Recommendations are tough, because it really depends on where youre
at right now. Some people, even if I could tell them to do the generic form
and wish for whatever is best for them... thats a very enlightened
path and it shows a great trust for the universe to do that. Some people
dont have that kind of trust, and for them, even if they said
something like that, their heart wouldnt be in it, and there would be
some part of them really hoping for that perfect kitten. Those unconscious
feelings are very powerful, and you cant really shut them off.
I feel that this is something
thats very personal. Each person needs to do
what feels best for them. I cant really
advise one way or the other. But if you are going to wish for the best for
everyone, theres a great deal of good to be said about that, because
it tends to prevent you from being in a situation where it seems that
things are spiraling downward.
A lot of times
when people make very specific wishes, it seems like things are going great
because they get what they wished for ... but then it can also start a
pattern where they find out that thats not really what they meant...
I need to change that now! Ive seen that happen so many
times, when people make wishes and then they are very surprised, Wow!
This really works, and I got what I wished for... except, now I realize
thats not quite what I wanted ... Ive got problems ... this
kitten is tearing up the house, and I need to take care of it
Enlightenment.com - Right... the old saw
about be careful what you
wish for; you might get it.
CSL - Exactly.
Enlightenment.com - It also seems important
to not get addicted to or hung up on the notion of the universe magically
delivering to you everything that you want or need. On the one hand, you
want to keep in your mind that its true -- that it may be possible to
in effect magically and synchronistically change the course of the
universes energy flows, and that your life will be better if you are
loving more and wanting better things. But on the other hand, if you get,
well, almost greedy, that wont work, either.
CSL - The question that cuts right through
it all is to ask yourself What do I need?, and thats
another very powerful meditation. Just ask yourself, What do I
need? When you do that, youll find that youll start off
by answering with all the things that you mentioned before, like, I
need a good job, and I need a good relationship, and I need a better sense
of connection to my spirit."
However, as you start going through this process and do this every day, asking yourself, What do I need?, youll find that things start changing. Whatever you start with is likely to be more petty than what you end up with down the road.
I believe that what we all need is love. We may start off saying other things, but eventually it just comes down to I need love. You can lie to yourself and say, I dont need love, and Im fine without it. What Ive found is that thats not true ... that none of us can live without love. When we have love, then we feel the connection to everything that gives us the power to feel everything else that youd want. I think the other things slip away ... they become less important as you realize that what you want -- love -- is with you right now, and its fully attainable.
But dont take my word for
it! Go ahead and try it. Each day, ask yourself, What do I
need?, and then as you move through this process, let me know what
you find. I think you'll find its very powerful.
Enlightenment.com - Personally, at this point, youre basically re-creating yourself and starting a career where you want to take the notion of reality shifting out to the world. Who do you see as your predecessors in all of this?
Seth comes to mind right away -- his notion that "you create your reality." Certainly there have been a lot of other magical traditions, both western and non-western indigenous, where there is a more magical world-view. The Perennial philosophy tends to say, "This stuff is real, but its not important; you shouldnt get hung up on it. Western science says Its just not real at all.
So how do you see your
career ... what would you like to see happen with your reality shifting
career?
CSL - Ideally, Id like to be
beneficial to people who want to know what
the nature of reality is, and who want to make a
difference in the world and in their lives. I see myself as someone who can
shed light and illuminate a new way of believing about the world.
Youre correct when you say its also a very old way of looking at the world. It is. Its very similar to the Aboriginal dream time in Australia, and a lot of other traditions such as Huna, would be right along those lines. So Im synthesizing the very old with the very new, and Im making it understandable for people.
A lot of people get excited about
quantum physics, and they want to know what reality really is, and I
cant say for sure that we know.... because actually we dont
know, and our science is changing every day. As we were saying before this
interview started, string theory is very popular right now. Most likely,
that will be replaced by something new in the next decade, and who knows
what that will be?
As our science changes, and here I agree with Ken
Wilber completely, the one thing that doesnt change is our
understanding of spirituality and our connection to spirit. Thats
very ancient, thats very pure, thats very true. What
Id like to do is bridge the gap between our understanding of science
and our understanding of ourselves and how we connect to spirit.
Id like to make it easy for
people to see the nature of reality in their lives, and to see ways that
they can change the world with their thoughts and feelings, because this is
real. I think a lot of people want that kind of confirmation. A lot of
people are noticing things change around them, and they think theyre
going crazy. Thats what I was wondering about when it was happening
to me.
Enlightenment.com - How do you convince
yourself that you arent going crazy? How do you know that youre
not crazy?
CSL - How do I know
Im not crazy? Well, I can talk to therapists and psychiatrists,
and....
Enlightenment.com - Theyll tell you
youre crazy!
CSL - No, actually, they dont!
Enlightenment.com - You talk to
therapists...
CSL - Yeah.
Enlightenment.com - ... and psychiatrists
...
CSL - I do.
Enlightenment.com - ... in the strict
western model...
CSL - Yes.
Enlightenment.com - ... and they say,
Yes, well youre probably actually experiencing objects moving
around and appearing because youre having better feelings, and they
think thats OK?
CSL - I think its fine as long as
youre not losing your ability to cope. As long as you can function in
the world and youre able to see what other people can see, which I
do. Thats not a problem. I think the problem comes in when people
lose control, and they feel that reality is just changing around them, and
its not anything that they can keep a grip on. In other words,
theres too much change.
Enlightenment.com - This sort of goes back
to William James notion of the world as a booming, buzzing
confusion, and basically consciousness is a filter to bring us a
little slice of it, because otherwise we would be overwhelmed.
CSL - Thats true.
Enlightenment.com - And what youre
saying here is that you want to be able to realize that reality shifting
happens, but you dont want to be necessarily seeing it all the time
or inviting it all the time, because then you would become a freak.
As Jean Houston said, If you make yourself a
freak, you become useless to the collective. You want to invite
people to open the filter, but not open it too much -- because then
youd become psychotic.
CSL - Exactly. With all things, balance is
important, and this is no different than anything else. I believe that
its important to have the intention that you can witness enough of
this to give yourself an energy rush. Because it does! When you can see
that reality changes around you, it gives you faith... or it gives ME
faith... I cant speak for you. It gives me a great deal of faith that
theres a much larger force working here.
It renews my commitment to myself and to love, and it takes me out of old, habitual ways of reacting to the world that were fear-based or were based in anger. I think the world is ready for that right now. A lot of people believe that were faced with more crises right now on Earth than we ever have before in history. Actually, some old traditions would disagree with that. The Hopi Indians, for example, say that this is but one of many worlds. Weve gone through the end of the world many times, and probably were facing it again.
The most important thing to do
is to keep open to spirit, and to keep your heart open, and treat the world
with loving feelings of affection and compassion. This is a very old
message; its true of all of the great religions, so I think
theres a lot to be said for living a balanced life and being aware of
the connection that you have to spirit, to yourself, and to other
people.
Enlightenment.com - So basically, reality
shifts, when you let yourself see them ... are kinds of external
confirmations that there is a spiritual reality that surrounds us ... or
that we are in it.
CSL - Right. I was raised in a very western framework. My father is an engineer, and my mother is a school teacher. I was raised to believe that science has the answers, and if we have questions, we can seek them, and receive the absolute facts about whats going on. But what Ive found to be true as I majored in Physics at U.C. Berkeley and have continued following physics for the rest of my life is that actually there are lots of things that we dont have answers for. And a lot of the questions that we ask can give us an answer, but then it raises more questions.
The main thing to realize is that there is much more out there than we are ever going to understand. So when we have a sense of balance, and we allow ourselves to be open to that mystery without being consumed by it, then we can live a balanced life and be useful to the community.
Enlightenment.com - Do
reality shifts happen on .... weve talked about physical objects,
about them transporting or moving around. What about the human body? Silly
question: can we just lose that five pounds of truncal fat? You cant
do things like THAT, can you, but you can encourage healings? How does it
work?
CSL - Well, I can only speak about my experience here, and what Ive seen. Ive seen the most miraculous transformations on myself and my children. Children are very open to reality shifts. In fact, if you ask small children about this, theyll tell you about many experiences that theyve had.
My daughter was seven years old,
playing in a playground and she got a blood blister in the web between her
fingers. She came running up to me, crying ... it was a really nasty blood
blister, about a quarter inch in diameter. She was wondering what I could
do for that. Shes very open
to energetic healing .... Reiki is a form of energy
healing where you can envision something on the body being transformed.
Its basically reality shifting.
So I was able to hold her hands in mine, and envision and remember her hand being very healthy, the way it normally is. The only other thing I did was feel all of my love for her. With both of us joined in the intention that her hand would be fine, when I took my hand off of her hand, it was fine ... and there was no blood blister there! She just wiped her tears away, and gave me a big hug, and asked me, Is this what your mommy did for you when you were a little girl?, and I said, No... actually not!
Its a very wonderful thing
to be able to do for someone. For myself I can do that. Ive had a
number of injuries where Ive smashed my finger in a car door, and
been able to heal it. Ive injured myself with steam ... now I
dont suggest you go out and do these things!
CSL & Enlightenment.com -
Dont try this at home!
CSL - But if you want to pursue this, you
can definitely investigate Reiki. There are other ways you can learn to
work with energy. The main thing is just feeling love and connecting to
yourself being whole. I feel theres a tremendous power available to
all of us, and when we can realize its there and available for us, we
can transform everything.
The other things Ive seen have been related to long-distance prayer for people. That was my initial introduction to prayer and healing, and I didnt believe in it at all, actually. I had a friend of mine, and a member of her family was in a coma, very sick. He was in a different state, Arizona -- a different state of consciousness, too, actually! As it turned out, she asked if I could do anything, and I said I dont know... Ill definitely keep him in my prayers, and Ill send thoughts of love, because I really care about him.
As I was doing that, I was starting to get feedback in my body which was like a real-time sense of what he was going through, which was very off-putting and confusing ... a little bit disorienting to me at first, because I didnt understand how I could be feeling here in California what someone in Arizona is going though ... both physically and emotionally. I was thinking, Im doing something wrong, and I dont understand whats happening, but Im getting a feeling of pain in my heart right now, and that cant be right because hes not in the hospital for heart problems. Hes having other kinds of problems."
And then I found that he *was*
experiencing heart pain, because there was a mass of fluid causing pressure
to his heart, exactly at the time that I was feeling it. That blew away all
of my doubts, and I realized that there is such a thing as non-local
consciousness, like what Larry Dossey writes about.
Enlightenment.com - And what Elisabeth Targ
has shown.
CSL - And Elisabeth Targ! Shes proven
it! I love that -- its a
phenomenal study.
Enlightenment.com - Well,
that brings us to the question of psychic
phenomenon and ESP in general, and how that relates
to what youre doing. Weve talked a little bit before about Dean Radins The Conscious
Universe, and Ive argued on Enlightenment.com and
elsewhere that the reality of psychic phenomena is proven beyond a
statistical doubt, and any real scientist with an open mind at this point
would say, Oh, yeah! That stuff is real. So how does your
reality shift perspective work in with the whole body of experimental data
and descriptions of psychic phenomena that people have been doing for a
long time. Where do you fit in?
CSL - OK! Good question again! Regarding the
non-local phenomenon,
what Elisabeth Targ has shown with her study of
AIDS patients is very much in line with what Im noticing about
reality shifts and what I write
about ... and also with Dean Radin and The
Conscious Universe. It fits right in with all of that. What Id
like to see is more studies being done and more experiments being conducted
on reality shifting, and observing it as it happens. There hasnt been
too much of that. There were some studies done with Uri Geller, and there
were some scientists working at Stanford to observe him and to be able to
isolate different powers of the mind, but I think a lot more can be done in
this area, and Im looking forward to that as we go forward.
Enlightenment.com - In a way, what
youve done by putting the term reality shift on all of
this, and I assume youre hoping to garner intellectual property in
the term ... by putting a label on it, youve collapsed it down and
made it easier to understand for a lot of people what is out there in a lot
of different places. A lot of different churches, lets say slightly
more New Age churches, embrace the notion that if youre feeling good,
and youre loving more, and youre in touch with God, then better
things will happen for you in your world. They sort of already have that
notion built-in.
What youre doing by putting
a specific label on it ... its almost as if
youre collapsing the quantum wave, and
youre collapsing it into a meme that is definite enough and small
enough that people are going to carry it around in their heads and
pocketbooks, and say Oh, yeah! Thats what this is! By
looking for it, they start to see a lot more of it.
Robert Anton Wilson talks about
an experiment you do where you start thinking about finding quarters on the
street, and you start
looking on the ground for quarters ... within a day
or two, youll see
quarters all over the place! Youll think
someone is playing a joke on you, or some kind of cosmic genie is kind of
throwing quarters at you! But theyre just kind of out there.
So I imagine that your notion is
something like: to the extent that by popularizing this meme and making it
possible for people to get a handle on it, they will see a lot more of it,
and then a feedback loop starts between having more heart energy and more
spirituality in their lives and seeing more good things happen, and then it
continues to build.
CSL - Exactly! Its very powerful for
people to have a word that they
can refer to when this happens. I talk to
strangers, and ask them what kind of reality shifts theyve observed.
Once I have a word for it, they can
explain it. They can say, Oh, yes! Ive
walked past a building and there
was no door in the wall there, and then the next
time I walked by there WAS a door there. I didnt tell anyone about
this, because what do you say about it?
Its the kind of experience
that you dont have a place to put, so theres no way to talk
about it, really, because its an experience that doesnt fit in
our normal concept of what reality is. And by having the words
reality shifts, it gives people a powerful tool for
understanding whats all around us right now.
Enlightenment.com - And youve got both
sort of a noun and a verb, right?
CSL - I like that about it!
Enlightenment.com - Reality shifts are
things ...
CSL - Yes ... and its something we
do.
Enlightenment.com - ... and its
something we do. Is that a transitive or
intransitive verb?
CSL - We do shift reality! I think that
there are people who are probably more open to seeing this phenomenon
happening, theyre more readily
able to access that.
Enlightenment.com - Seth argued that
youre constantly co-creating your body all the time, for example.
Would you say that reality shifting is something that youre doing
right now and that Im doing as were doing this interview, and
that sometimes we just become more aware of it? Or that most of the time
were really not doing reality shifting, and every now and then it
kind of pops up to the level of something amazing happening. Is it going on
all the time -- and its kind of on a continuum and occasionally it
pops up into awareness, or does it only happen some of the time?
CSL - I believe its happening all of
the time. Its funny you mention time, because Ive had very
strange experiences with time, as well. Ive seen it come to a stop
and slow down, so as soon as you mention time, its fascinating to me!
Yes, I believe its constantly happening. Its all around us.
Its the one thing thats probably always true. Youve heard
that saying, that change is the one constant, and I think thats true
of reality shifts as well -- thats the one thing thats always
happening.
You may not be seeing things
flying around all the time and transforming, transporting, appearing and
disappearing ... but I dont think its necessary to see that
right in front of us. It could be that just as youre thinking what
youre thinking, its having an effect somewhere else in the
world ... somewhere else in the universe. And that I know is true! I know
that were non-locally connected to each other, and that when you have
expansive feelings of love, you are spreading that throughout the entire
universe.
Its something you can do right now for peace. If youre worried about things, you can bring about change in the world by focusing your thoughts on love and by changing yourself. Once again, its one of those old messages that sounds new again. Its very powerful, and its very true.
Enlightenment.com - What
else would you like to tell people about reality shifts?
CSL - I think if
youre interested in learning more, you can access a
couple of articles that Ive written. One is
out in print right now. Its
available through MAGICAL BLEND magazine; and
thats the January 2000 issue. Its a good introduction to
whats happening. It talks about the basic assumptions we make about
reality, and how those have been proven to be untrue. Those are assumptions
about objectivity, locality,... and I think the best thing to do is to read
the article rather than go into all that right now.
And the next article is in PARABOLA magazine. That article is about the Hopi Indians and what they believe about manifestation for the way reality operates. That article comes out, I believe, in February 2000; its the spring issue. I am hoping that my book will be published soon; its written and awaiting publication .... and Ive got a web site; the address is: http://www.realityshifters.com
Enlightenment.com - Is
there any last kind of energetic pulse youd like to give people,
inviting them to practice being open-hearted more?
CSL - Just think about that question I was
asking earlier, What do I
need? Really ask yourself that and answer it
honestly, and get a feeling
for what that is. Thats going to help do two
things. Its going to focus
your awareness on what youre really
interested in, so you can learn a
little bit more about yourself, and it will also
bring in the sense of
inspiration that will keep that momentum going to
bring about that which you most need. You may not see a reality shift come
about directly through this, but it will start powering the process up.
The next thing is to just feel as
good about yourself as you can. Remember all the good times in your life.
Think about how special you are right now on this Earth, and what special
gifts you have. As soon as I say these things, if you feel anything talking
back and saying anything other than that, take a note and just write it
down. Try out the experiment of writing an affirmation on the flip side of
it. If you feel like No, that cant be true, because Im
not worth it, then write that down and flip it around and say,
Yes, it can be true. I am here for a reason and I am worth it.
Start repeating these personalized affirmations back to yourself, and
youll see reality shift. I can guarantee it.
Enlightenment.com - Well thank you very
much!
CSL - Thank you!