Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within

I found myself drawn to books by Barbara Brennan, a medical intuitive who described her hands-on healing work and ability to see auras—the energy fields that she claims surround living things.

Are these higher dimensions merely mathematical tools, or do they actually exist all around us, just outside our reach? In her recent book, Warped Passages, physicist Lisa Randall explains why a growing number of her colleagues are coming to believe that this may indeed be the case.7

Similarly, take time to listen to the sounds around you. Do not “think” about them—just listen to them.

In fact, not only may we be able to sense our possible futures, but we might also be able to mold them—through powers of conscious creation, or what I call active consciousness. Another important goal of this book is to kick-start your own process of personal transformation so that you can develop these abilities for yourself.

The Hopi Indians, for example, believe that we are now leaving the Fourth World of Destruction and entering the Fifth World of Peace.

I believe that the Now is also the gateway to active consciousness. It is from this vantage point that we can develop our ability to bring the non-physical into the physical world, to coax Bohm’s “implicate order” into the realm of our three-dimensional lives.

Homeopathic remedies are made from such extreme dilutions of plant, animal, and mineral matter that they do not contain even a single molecule of the original substances from which they are derived. Instead, homeopaths believe that they carry an energetic signature of these substances—a claim that only today is beginning to be scientifically verifi

At one point I began to see a counselor who directed me to a series of books by Sanaya Roman.4, 5, 6, 7 These “channeled teachings”—information supposedly transmitted from a spirit-being to a human receiver—were transformational for me.

Gurdjieff taught that there is yet another way—what he called the “Fourth Way.” This involves developing a deep awareness of all three elements of the outer self—the body, the emotions, and the mind. By distinguishing, clarifying, and intensifying each of these distinct aspects of our being, and then by finally integrating them together in a consci