Shows
Butterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies29
In the last chapter of the book, the author suggest that “toward the end of your time in the cocoon, you begin to see ripples in the Universal ocean, movement in the ‘Earth Environment’ template; and sometimes it’s fun to speculate – in a general sort of way – where those ripples might be heading. I’m seeing a couple ripples I want to focus on for a few minutes before I end this book, simply because I find some of this stuff fascinating.”
“The first ripple I see is that the drama and conflict and pain and suffering...2011-01-1326 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies28
In Chapter 35, the author uses a lot of quotes from U.G. Krishnamurti (no relationship to J. Krishnamurti), as an example of the way other scouts talk about the transformation into a butterfly. For instance…
“People call me an ‘enlightened man’ – I detest that term – they can’t find any other word to describe the way I am functioning. At the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I’ve searched and wanted to be an enlightened man, and I discovered that t...2011-01-1323 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies27
In Chapter 33, the author explains why he cannot recommend the work of Robert Scheinfeld, even though he credits Scheinfeld with providing him with a lot of pieces of the puzzle. But, the author says, he met Scheinfeld on the road and killed him.
In Chapter 34, the author uses extensive quotes from the Enlightenment Trilogy of Jed McKenna as an example of another scout who the author believes “– whoever he really was – was totally authentic. He had to have actually experienced what he was writing about or he couldn’t use those words and describe his conditio...2011-01-1329 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies26Chapter 31 begins with the question: "You’ve been pretty hard on the ego throughout this book. Isn’t that a judgment in itself?" The author explains that "we have assigned the ego a lot of power during the first half of the Human Game, and we have rewarded it time and time again for the good job it has done, to the point that it seems to have taken on a life of its own. But we should not make the mistake of judging or blaming the ego, or view the transformation into a butterfly as an all-out war with...2011-01-1337 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies25
In the second part of Chapter 30 dealing with the question of Money, the author further explains why fads like “The Secret” and the “Law of Attraction” don’t work for most people most of the time, and end up making us feel even more deficient and defective when we fail to manifest what we want. “Despite what the ego would like us to believe – that we have the power to create a motorcycle, for example, or money, or a house, or anything because of something we, as a Player, did – this is one of those beliefs inside the movie theate...2011-01-1326 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies24
Chapter 30, dealing with the question of Money, is divided into two episodes. In this first part, explaining that “I have an unlimited supply of money to have whatever holographic experience comes up for me in each moment; and so do you, although you don’t realize it yet. But I don’t ‘make money.’ No one makes money. We only think we do. That’s part of the illusion inside the movie theater.”
He then goes into detail about all the false beliefs people have about money that determine how much and in what way they are able...2011-01-1326 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies23
In Chapter 27, the author admits that he believed in past lives for about 50 years, but had to change that belief in light of the holographic universe model, since time does not actually exist and a “past” life is not possible. He explains about parallel universes and the Many-World Interpretation of quantum physics.
In Chapter 28, the author looks at the questions of Karma and “Cause and Effect.” “In truth, the “law of cause and effect” is nothing more than a belief system, and, like space and time, is a function of the hologram and is therefore not real. Reme...2011-01-1339 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies22
In Chapter 24, the question is, “If we don’t share one big common hologram, how can you and I go out at night and see the same stars, or watch the same movie, or see the same people? How could someone else agree with me so much on what we call “reality” unless we were actually seeing the same thing?” To which the author suggests there is an “Earth Environment” template in The Field which Infinite Is use to create the holographic experiences for their Players.
In Chapter 25, the author explains why the now-popular New-Age saying, “We Ar...2011-01-1326 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies21Part Three is a section with Questions and Answers.
For example, to the question of whether or not we all live in one big, common hologram, the author suggests in Chapter 22 that "each individual human brain receives and translates its own separate hologram downloaded by its own Infinite I from The Field. This, of course, is inherent in the truth “you create your own reality,” if we would just pay attention to what those words really say and mean."
In Chapter 23 the author deals with the question of "other people" who appear in our individaul holo...2011-01-1325 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies20In Chapter 21, the author talks about what it's like to become a butterfly...
"Keep peeling away layers of an onion and what do you have when you get through? Nothing. It isn’t that you peel away the layers and finally get to the onion. You get to the no-onion. The same thing is true for the self. After peeling away all the layers of the ego, you get to… no-self. Jed [McKenna] says it takes about ten years to get used to living as a no-self, to get accustomed to being “awake from the dreams...2011-01-1024 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies19In Chapter 20, the author says, "Finally I have the opportunity to tell you how I feel standing where I am, looking at the Pacific Ocean, close to emerging from my cocoon as a butterfly."
"In short, life is even more than I ever imagined it could be, and who I am now is who I only hoped I could be for many, many years; and I haven’t yet finished my transformation into a butterfly, so perhaps there is more to come. I know I have done my job well and fulfilled my purpose, because, most importantly, I...2011-01-1026 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies18In Chapter 19, the author looks closely at fear, focusing especially on the fear of death and the fear of non-existence.
"Are you living your life so if you died today, you would have no regrets, no sorrow, no remorse? Could you meet death today and welcome it with open arms? You will find yourself living exactly that way when you get a little further into your cocoon and start to let go of all the fears you are carrying. But I’m starting to sound like some other new-age philosophers, suggesting we need to let go of ou...2011-01-1029 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies17
"After more hours upon hours of spiritual autolysis, I wrote something else that is true: What you resist persists."
In Chapter 18, the author examines the question of resistance and how the idea has been perverted inside the movie theater.
"The truth is that all resistance is based on a judgment; or put the other way, resistance would not exist without a prior judgment. If you judge something to be “negative,” you resist it. So the solution is not to try to deny or ignore the “negative” thoughts and focus on the “positive o...2011-01-1029 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies16
In Chapter 17, the author discusses the effects that beliefs and opinions have on our world as a result of the judgments we make. He talks about Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, who says, “How we see life determines our behavior, and since perceptions can be wrong, it is more accurate to say that beliefs control biology – what you believe creates your life. Life has everything in it, but you will only see what you have belief filters to see.”
The author uses a very controversial example of our belief in Jesus dying...2011-01-0744 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies15
In Chapter 16, the author suggests that “judgment” is the glue that keeps the first half of the Human Game going.
“After hours upon hours of spiritual autolysis, I finally wrote something that is true: Judgment is the source of all pain and suffering. This might only be true for me, but I doubt it.”
“All holographic experiences created by all Infinite I’s for all Players are completely neutral. It is only the Player’s judgmental reactions and responses to those experiences that cause the drama and conflict and pain and suffering.”
“Letting go of...2011-01-0735 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies14
In Chapter 15, the author discusses “detaching and desirelessness.”
“The truth is there is nothing “wrong” with desires and no reason to resist them or try to live without them. We are free to desire anything and everything we want. Our desires make life interesting and exciting. The problem only starts when we become attached to having those desires fulfilled. In other words, you cannot be attached to realizing or achieving your desires, so that whether you realize or achieve your desires or not has no effect on your happiness or state of mind. It is not the des...2011-01-0726 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies13
In Chapter 14, the author discusses the process called “spiritual autolysis,” offered by Jed McKenna in his Enlightenment Trilogy, using extensive quotes from Jed’s three books.
“Autolysis means self-digestion, and spiritual means, uh. Hell, I don’t really know. Let’s say it means that level of self which encompasses the mental, physical and emotional aspects; your royal I-ness. Put the two words together and you have a process through which you feed yourself, one piece at a time, into the purifying digestive fires…. It’s an unpleasant process…. basically like a Zen koan on steroids. All you r...2011-01-0730 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies12
In Chapter 13, the author discusses a “process” originally proposed by Robert Scheinfeld to use when a holographic experience causes a Player discomfort - “which includes mental discomfort as well as physical and emotional discomfort, all the way from a slight emotional reaction to intense pain and suffering. The easiest way to spot this is that you will wish something about your present hologram would change, because you don’t like some part (or all) of it very much.”
“That’s what Robert’s Process is all about… recognizing we are immersed in an amazing 3D holographic movie i...2011-01-0734 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies11
In Chapter 12, the author suggests that the Human Game is divide into two halves, much like a rollercoaster has two parts - up the first hill and then down. He then goes into detail about the “rules” of each half and how they work.
“According to this model, the first half of the Human Game was designed to experience limitation and restriction – in all shapes and sizes – and all these rules lead to that. So if you have been following the rules (and you literally could not do anything else), you have most likely experienced a great dea...2011-01-0729 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies10
In Chapter 11, we listen to a fictional conversation between two Infinite I's as they supposedly create the Human Game on Earth, offered by the author as a new model for how the universe works.
"And it’s high time for a new model. The models of how the universe works we used inside the movie theater are no longer valid, all based on the wrong premise that the movies we are watching are real. With the recent results in quantum physics and other scientific experiments, we need to come up with a new model that conforms to ou...2011-01-0731 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies09
In Chapter 10, the author suggests that we - the “you” and “I” in this holographic universe - are not the “consciousness” we like to think we are, the one who chooses our holographic experiences. Instead, the author suggests, we are Players in a game.
“If you are not your Infinite I, then what are you? And exactly what’s your relationship to your Infinite I? The best answer is that you are a 'Player' – and so am I – a Player created by your Infinite I to play a game, which it loves to do. Shakespeare told us over four-hu...2011-01-0632 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies08
In the Preface to Part Two, Inside the Cocoon, the author makes an important distinction between a “model” and a “belief system,” and insists that the remainder of this book will be about models based on the results of the experiments in quantum physics and brain research discussed in Part One - “models that have been tested and found to work. You are not going to be asked to believe anything. Instead, you are invited and encouraged to test these models for yourself.”
In Chapter Nine, the author discusses the “consciousness model.”
“A number of highly res...2011-01-0631 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies07
In Chapter 8, the author returns to his movie theater metaphor to ask the questions:
~ Who or what is creating the holographic movies I’m experiencing as my reality?
~ If the movies I’ve been watching and thinking were my life aren’t real (along with the movie theater itself), then what is real?
~ Why do the movies seem to contain so much drama and conflict and pain and suffering, both internal and external?
~ What does it all mean in the end?
And perhaps even more importantly, in light o...2011-01-0528 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies06
In Chapter 6, the author describes how a hologram is made, and why quantum physicists believe that we are living in a holographic universe.
“It is relatively easy to understand this idea of holism in something that is external to us, like an apple in a hologram. What makes this difficult is that we are not looking at the hologram; we are part of the hologram.” (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe)
In Chapter 7, the author explains Dr. Karl Pribram’s conclusion that the human brain is itself a hologram that "mathematically constructs ‘hard’ reality by relying o...2011-01-0539 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies05
In Chapter Four, the author discusses the famous experiment in quantum physics called the “Double Slit,” and its startling conclusions…
“How is it possible to send one tiny particle of 'matter' at a time through two slits and have it form a wave interference pattern? There was only one explanation that made any sense: An electron is a wave rather than a particle; it is not a solid piece of matter as we have always thought!”
In Chapter Five, the author continues looking at the Double Slit experiment and what happens when you add an “obse...2011-01-0331 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies04
In Chapter Three, the author explains why all of the groups in the back of the movie theater can’t work and don’t achieve what they claim they can.
“If any group in the back of the theater were really successful in producing constant and true and abiding joy, abundance, power, and love, don’t you think word would get around quickly and everyone else would leave their group and join that one? If any one of them were even moderately successful in changing the movies or a person’s reaction to them, thereby providing...2011-01-0332 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies03
In Chapter Two, the author examines the different groups of Human Adults in the back of the movie theater who bond together in order to try to change their lives. Each of these groups, he suggests, promises promise certain very specific things to their followers…
1. They claim they can teach a Human Adult how to change the content of the movies they are watching – how to change their life, their reality – OR
2. They claim they can teach a Human Adult how to change their emotional reactions to the movies they are watching, even if they...2011-01-0328 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies02
In Chapter One, the author explains Plato’s allegory of The Cave, and suggests that we, like the prisoners, live inside a movie theater watching total immersion 3D movies that we believe are real. He explains the difference between Human Children who sit in their seats watching the movies, and Human Adults who have left their seats - like Plato’s prisoner who is freed from his chains - and wander around the back of the movie theater.
"At a minimum, a Human Adult has become aware there is something “wrong” with the life it has been...2011-01-0326 minButterflies Are Free To FlyButterflies01Episode 1 is the Introduction and Preface for the book in which the author explains why he wrote the book and offers suggestions about getting the most out of listening to it.
"If you want, you can think of me as a “scout” – like a scout on a wagon train in the Old West, whose job it was to ride ahead looking for a way over the Rocky Mountains to reach the Pacific Ocean, finding a path for others to follow with relative safety and security against the elements and the Indians. I’m not the only scout out ther...2011-01-0321 min