Angie Aristone - Consciousness Becomes You

First published by Sixth Books, 2016

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Text copyright: Angie Aristone and Roderick Alan 2015

ISBN: 978 1 78535 133 4

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For Leslie. Our time together was far too short. Words cant begin to express the love and gratitude I feel for your constant presence and wise influence in my life and thank you for turning my life around at 21. Your message was loud and clear.

Four blind men were led to an elephant

An elephant is like a column, said the first blind man, hugging the elephants leg.

Nooo, an elephant is like a fan, exclaimed the second blind man, flapping the elephants ear.

No, noooo, an elephant is like a spear, yelled the third blind man, caressing the elephants tusk.

No, noo, noo, noooo, noooo! An elephant is like a rope, sighed the fourth blind man, wiggling the elephants trunk.

~ Ancient Proverb

This book is written from the perspective of a proverbial blind woman with her hand on the elephant; not to argue over what the elephant is, but to share what Ive found, and help you put your hand on the elephant too. Though I humbly share what Ive found, and acknowledge that there are many parts of the metaphorical elephant I havent put my hand on yet, I must fiercely insist that the elephant is very real, and there for everyone to experience if you are willing to try.

What follows is a perspective based on my personal experiences, and the product of many long conversations between my partner and I to reconcile my experiences with modern life, science, religion, shamanic traditions and new age teachings. Although this book is written mostly first person from my perspective, it is the product of a joint effort and you will notice the ebb and flow of both our voices throughout this guide. True to the subject matter, we wrote this book in connected states and ways in which far more was accomplished together than either of us could have managed alone. In writing the book, it became impossible for us to separate our contributions, or our voices.

In sharing this work we hope to help you understand and embrace an essential, sacred and powerful part of yourself and others; a part of all of us that you may be uncomfortable with, as it has been ridiculed, objectified, demonized and denied by mainstream culture for centuries. In doing so, we hope to give you access to a whole new realm of connection, meaning, extraordinary experience, empowerment and possibility.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

~ Nietzsche

People often ask me about my childhood, I think, because they want to know if you can learn to be telepathic, or if you have to be born that way. Most are excited to hear that my childhood was quite ordinary; a stereotypical, middle class, 1970s North American childhood. I lived in the suburbs, ate Campbells mushroom soup and drank Cherry Coke. I loved The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, Match Game and Saturday morning cartoons. If there was anything unusual about me, it was my need for constant motion. I ran, skipped, jumped, cart wheeled and did back handsprings endlessly, indoors and out, winter and summer, incessantly talking all the while.

Outwardly, my childhood was very normal, except maybe for an early fascination with bones, the result of breaking my ankle several times; a fascination that probably lead me to anthropology, and an unusual interest in dead people. I did grow up in a tricky home with an emotionally volatile and extremely unpredictable parent. I recall, from a young age, constantly having to project myself home before walking through the front door to get a feel for what I was about to walk into a survival skill that served me well, and Im sure contributed to my telepathic abilities later in life.

My answer to the question Are you born telepathic, or can you learn?, however, is Yes, and Yes. Like many questions about consciousness and telepathy, the answer is far more complicated than the question presupposes. I think we are all born telepathic, very telepathic, but quickly learn to hide or suppress our natural abilities, unless we are encouraged to use them, or forced to. The process happens slowly throughout childhood, the result of many little moments where we discover that grownups dont understand our telepathic experience of the world, and that these experiences scare them.

As a child, you may remember walking into a room and feeling or simply knowing that something was off. After inquiring you might have been told Everythings fine, sweetie and maybe given a worried or stern look. Well-meaning parents, myself included, in an effort to protect our children from grownup problems, sometimes pretend that everything is fine when it isnt, leaving kids confused about their psychic senses until they eventually learn to disregard them altogether. In many families, childrens intuitively bang-on questions, however innocently asked, can result in a hard and fast lesson in ignoring telepathic cues: childrens intuitions all too often hit on family secrets, or shameful, emotionally charged issues that grownups know not to talk about.

The discomfort, alarm or outright fear that many adults react with when children talk about very ordinary psychic experiences is also a clear and unequivocal lesson for children. For example, my friends niece once announced to him, while being pushed on a playground swing, that she could see pretty colors around people. My friend was dumbfounded, and didnt know how to respond. Although he was deeply interested, he was so shocked he couldnt muster a response. He continued to push her on the swing in silence, a response Im sure his niece felt and noted. Silence speaks volumes, but sometimes adults react to such information with much more than silence.