Michael Bernard Beckwith - Life Visioning: A Transformative Process for Activating Your Unique Gifts and Highest Potential

Crisis ignites evolution. The collective nature of current global crises is a clear sign that humanity is poised on the brink of a radical evolutionary upheaval. Exciting research from the frontiers of science emphasizes that we are, each and all, active participants in what will amount to be the greatest adventure in human historyconscious evolution.

In support of our evolutionary destiny, I am honored to introduce Michael Beckwiths Life Visioning, a life-changing technology that can profoundly influence the fate of human civilization.

Science now acknowledges that we are deep into the sixth mass extinction of life on planet Earth. Unfortunately, that extinction includes the fate of human civilization. The five previous extinctions, one of which wiped out the dinosaurs, were due to physical factors such as comets or asteroids hitting the Earth. The current mass extinction, according to science, is directly attributable to human behavior.

The beliefs we hold about ourselves and the role we play in the world have undermined the environment and are destroying the web of life. For almost two hundred years, modern science has been the source of the truths that shape our worldview. The cultural story created from these truths is now leading us to our own extinction. If we want our world to change, then what we think about our world and more specifically ourselvesour storymust change first.

The good news is that frontier science is shattering old myths and rewriting the fundamental beliefs that shape culture and the fate of human civilization. Recent discoveries offer civilization a compelling and hopeful new story, one so out of the box of conventional wisdom that even science is having a hard time accepting its implications. The premise of sciences new story is one of harmony and relatedness, of life and love.

In order to effectively contribute to our evolution and outgrow the threatening global challenges, we must first shed our image of being helpless victims and learn the truth as to who we really are. Through conventional science we have been led to believe that humans are genetically programmed biochemical automatons, powerless in controlling the unfolding of our lives. In contrast, recent advances in frontier science now offer a radically new biology.

As I write in my book The Biology of Belief, discoveries in quantum physics and cell biology now invoke a fundamental role for spirit (referred to as the field in physics) and mind as the creative forces that control behavior and genetics. The newly described biological pathways illuminate the mechanisms by which our thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs create the conditions of our body and our experiences in the external world.

Most people are understandably skeptical of this conclusion simply because their own lives rarely match the wishes and desires they hold in their minds. Exacerbating the problem is that the much-touted effort of changing ones life through positive thinking (controlling the mind) is rarely successful.

Fortunately, new research provides empowering insights that resolve this perplexing issue and offer us an opportunity to create Heaven on Earth. The secret to our problem is that we have failed to fully understand the nature and interaction between the minds two functionally different subdivisions, the subconscious and the (self-) conscious minds.

The conscious mind is the seat of the personal identity we associate with self, source or spirit. It is the thinking, creative mind that contemplates and acts upon our wishes, desires, and aspirations. The conscious mind is not time-bound, for its thought processing allows us to relive past experiences or leap into visions of the future.

In contrast, the subconscious mind is neither a thinking nor an especially creative mind. Its proficiency is that it is an unimaginably powerful record-playback mechanism, a million times more powerful than the conscious mind. The subconscious mind primarily engages habits, preprogrammed reactive behaviors acquired from genetic instincts and life experiences.

The fundamental behavioral programs in our subconscious minds were acquired during the formative period between gestation and six years of age. Now heres the catchthese life-shaping subconscious programs are direct downloads derived from observing our primary teachers: our parents, siblings, and local community. Unfortunately, as psychologists are keenly aware, many of the perceptions we acquire about ourselves in this formative period are expressed as limiting and self-sabotaging beliefs.

The subconscious minds activities are always fixed in the present moment and it does not readily discern a past or future. When the conscious mind is engaged in thought, operationally, it is not being observant of the present moment. By default, our behavior is then managed by the ever-vigilant subconscious mind. An important understanding is that we are generally unaware of our subconscious behaviors when we play them, since our conscious minds are not present or observing ourselves at these times.

So what is the reason as to why our lives dont match our conscious wishes and desires? According to neuroscientists, we only use our conscious mind about 5 percent of the time in controlling our lives. Therefore, most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behavior are derived from the programs in the subconscious mind.

Since the fundamental behavioral patterns in the subconscious mind are primarily derived from others, it becomes clear that we are not living our lives, we are living other peoples lives. Adding insult to injury, we engage these limiting, disempowering behaviors because our conscious minds are not present, and as a consequence we are generally unaware our actions are self-sabotaging.

What would life be like if we could keep our conscious minds present, a state called mindfulness, without defaulting to subconscious programs? Most readers have actually experienced such a time; it was when we fell head-over-heels in love with someone. Referred to as the honeymoon period, most remember it as a time when they were exuberantly healthy and happy, filled with abundant energy, and life was so beautiful they couldnt wait for the next day. In truth it was as if we were experiencing Heaven on Earth.