DNA MONTHLY August 2008

2. "Predicting the Future Is an Inside Job," by Toni Elizabeth Sar'h Petrinovich

We are living during extraordinary times. The air is rife with possibility and consciousness is exploding. Everyday people are waking up as if from a deep, deep sleep, questioning to what values and systems they have given their power, energy, and attention--and wondering what lies beyond their present reality. Wondering if perhaps there is something "more" beyond what we are being told or have been taught ...

Interestingly, I was re-visiting Carlos Castaneda's writings recently ... Castaneda was an American anthropologist who met a powerful shaman--or medicine man--called Don Juan Matus in 1960 while conducting anthropological field work along the US-Mexico border. He subsequently became Don Juan's pupil and later went on to write a number of bestselling books based on Don Juan's teachings that have since been translated into seventeen languages. Under the tutelage of Don Juan, Castaneda learned about Three Forms of Attention.

The First Attention is culturally conditioned and confined to the world of our five senses. The Second Attention orders the world of the unknown--that is, that which is beyond the limitations of our five senses. The Third Attention integrates the first two, empowering us to access that which is otherwise unknowable. Reviewing these teachings, it struck me how relevant such definitions were with respect to Transformation and the growing quest for Freedom these days.

If we are paying attention, it is very easy to see that we are living during transformational, exhilarating times. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and weather pattern reversals are escalating; prescriptions for anti-depressants are at an all-time high; and long-term drought, water shortages, pollution and species extinction are all too common. The sun, too, is demonstrating all manner of unusual activity, affecting not only weather, but also human behavioral patterns.

Yes, the Energies of Transformation are intense at this time. And amid the chaos and mismanagement of our resources, the Earth and each other, the US$70B worldwide Personal Development Industry is growing exponentially. Interest grows daily in mysticism, alternative healing, personal development, corporate spirituality, prosperity consciousness, angels, crop circles, and sacred sites.

Indigenous peoples such as the Hopis, Aztecs, Maoris and Incas, ancient calendars of the Mayas, Egyptians, Tibetans and Hindus, and leading-edge visionaries and mystics, all say we are moving towards an end-time in or around 2012. This is truly the end of the world as we know it. It is insisted that we have the potential to move into a Golden Age of multidimensional consciousness, if we so choose, one well beyond the limitations of our current, dominant First Attention focus. This is a time filled with possibility.

Correspondingly, we are in the midst of a major housecleaning of all the thoughts, emotions and identities that have limited us. We are required to let go of that which no longer serves us or the evolutionary dynamic. We are quite literally witnesses and participants in the crossing from an old order into a new one. We are part of the new Emerging Consciousness, and the signs are everywhere.

Quantum physicists are making major contributions at this time, telling us that the subatomic energy fields which surround us respond to our feelings, thoughts, and focus. Moreover, numerous possible realities exist in any one moment. This is exhilarating information! It means that we contain, within us, immense power to become conscious, deliberate Architects of Reality.

Russian DNA researchers have discovered that DNA not only constructs our bodies, but actually follows the syntax, semantics and rules of all human language. By using the correct language, thoughts and emotions, we can affect DNA waves and therefore genetic data itself. These findings have been corroborated at the Institute of HeartMath, where tests revealed that DNA strands changed shape according to the feelings of the researchers.

Energy healers worldwide talk about activating DNA. Many say we are moving away from being only two-DNA-stranded human beings--obsessed with survival and accumulation of material goods--into multidimensional beings of limitless expression. In a nutshell, we are powerful. Our thoughts and feelings have documentable effects on the subatomic world, including our DNA. Whether we have two DNA strands or twelve or more (as some say), and whether we understand the subatomic world, each of us can alter reality--radically, if we choose--by changing our focus, thoughts, and emotions.

Scientists are also saying that although 400 billion bits of information per second are carried through frequencies around us, our brains are decoding only 2,000 bits. We perceive with our senses only a fraction (less than one percent) of that which is available to be perceived and experienced. To me, this indicates that we have been boxed into the world of First Attention.

So how do we move into Third Attention? How do we navigate the current changes--and the larger ones yet to come as systems and infrastructures alter--and embrace the potential of 2012? How do we decode more than just 2,000 bits per second so that we can choose our thoughts wisely and create realities for our highest good and the highest good of others? Here are seven important keys:

1. Take total personal responsibility. Playing the victim in any area of life leads to abdication and powerlessness. You create reality. Your reality is the perfect, exact mirror of your thoughts and what you consistently focus on.

2. Ask yourself key questions. "Why have I drawn this circumstance? What can I learn from it? What do I need to change about myself?" In so doing, you exit the "2,000-bits-box" and tap into the multidimensional potential of the other 400 billion bits per second, or the realm of Third Attention.

3. Be fully conscious of your focus. Eight percent of our self-talk is negative! Stop what you are doing often and check in with yourself. Change your focus if need be.

4. Learn to maintain sustained focus and cultivate the Presence that exists in the Now. Scientists also tell us that we are able to sustain focus for only six-eight seconds per minute. We lose focus up to ten times per minute. This is definitely a scatter-gun approach to creating reality! Spend time each day focusing consistently on being present so that all your decisions and actions come from a clear space, and so that you can masterfully focus on a result or feeling you would like to have more of.

5. Learn how to generate feelings of appreciation, gratitude, ecstasy, joy and happiness at will. These are very powerful states and have corresponding effects on your DNA, the subatomic field, and--therefore--your reality. Regularly bring to mind memories or people or circumstances that induce those particular feelings. Hold the feelings, then focus on what you want to experience.

6. Take consistent action in the form of books, CDs, seminars, coaching, healing, affirmation, meditation and visualization to reprogram what may be a mindset based on limitation. Learn to find your Center. Operate and create reality from your Center.

7. Finally, get out of the way and allow the Universe to move the chess pieces around ... Often, we set intentions in motion, then with our doubts we sabotage the process. Remember: doubts create reality, too--if not exactly the reality we want!

This is an exciting time to be present on Earth, a time long-prophesied and -anticipated. The power is truly within you as to how you experience this moment's potential. Choose wisely! Every thought you think, every emotion you feel is creating your reality. Right here, right now.

Copyright (c) 2008 by Fatima Bacot. All Rights Reserved.

[Fatima Bacot is a futurist dedicated to personal and planetary transformation and peace. She has been involved in personal and spiritual development for twenty-five years and believes that we are at a critical time in our evolutionary journey, with humanity in the driver’s seat as to the realities we will collectively choose to create. She is passionately committed to the acceleration of a "critical mass" focused on the co-creation of universal peace. She contributes to this process as a mentor, speaker, channel, healer, and presenter. Currently, she lives in Australia. Please visit www.diamondconsciousness.com for more information about her programs and services.]

DNA-related Definition of the Month

Galactic Center: astrophysical name for Source or the Logos located between the Black Hole and White Hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Also called the Black Sun and Healing Sun.

"We still have very few answers to the big questions ... The more knowledge we accumulate, the less we know. Gaining knowledge is like chopping down a forest from the inside out. The more we know, the bigger the circle of the unknown becomes. If we keep going at this rate, in another thirty years we'll be totally clueless." --Edgar Mitchell

With these words, Edgar Mitchell, sixth astronaut to walk on the moon and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, answered the question, "Where do you think we will be in thirty years if we keep going the way we are going right now?" His response, in a nutshell, is that we will know that we know nothing.

While this might sound quite humble, Mitchell means something entirely different. What he means is that we are slowly creeping (if sometimes leaping) to the understanding that we create each moment of our lives and that there is no thing to know "in advance." In other words, there is no future "out there" except the one that we create in each moment.

The future is usually defined as that which has not yet occurred with respect to the past (that which has already occurred) or the present (that which is occurring right now). This definition includes a belief in the concept that time is a concrete dimension that is not malleable or given to manipulation by the forces of human consciousness. Hence, to be able to say that something that has not occurred WILL occur is predicated on a conviction that what is occurring in the present will remain the same and thus lead to the future forecast.

A prediction is usually defined as an informed guess or opinion. The use of the word "informed" here suggests that the predictor has the ability to base his or her opinion on some knowledge that is concrete and founded on some type of rigorous informational input. There are few prophets or paranormal readers who have the humility to state that their predictions relative to future events are actually based on the fact that conditions must remain as they are at present for the prediction to come true.

Quantum physics--as well as the philosophy of metaphysics--points out in an increasingly clear manner that time is an illusory dimension based on our revolution around our sun. Given a different orbital gravitational body controlling the revolutions of the earth, our experience of time would be indeed quite different. Perhaps time might not even exist.

Since we need a spatial equivalent to create the need for time, our concept of the future and what might come of it is rooted in what we are experiencing right now, based on what we have experienced in what we call the past. Since the human brain always looks for the familiar with which to cast its next prediction, the brain/mind complex surmises that the future will be somewhat like what has been experienced in the past--without, generally, allowing room for anomalies or "supernatural" events.

Humankind's limited viewpoint of linear time has caused much of the chaos experienced by earth's populations. The basis of quantum physics is nonlocality, in which no system is independent from all other systems. If this is true, and it appears to be, then every system in operation affects every other system in some way. Hence, the future is in the making in each instant based on interactions being created in each instant. Therefore, it is technically impossible to predict the future--although it is possible to present possibilities and/or probabilities given what is happening in the present.

This discussion naturally comes full-circle back the increasingly widespread notion that our consciousness creats that which it wishes to experience in each moment. The catch to this natural form of "active manifesting" is that most people create from past experiences, some of which were not necessarily comfortable or joyous. What can we do about this situation? How can we change the memory of what we have experienced and, thus, create a totally new future more to our liking?

Are you open to believing that you can change the past? It is important to consider this possibility because you truly can, and must, if you desire the future to be the joyous, loving perfection that you wish to live. It is imperative that any negative memory you have be transformed into the ideal situation or experience if you are to change the wavelength of your frequency and, by doing so, usher in a new set of vibrations that is ... you!

The future you desire requires coherency in your frequency. This does not mean that you need to actually "enter" the past. It simply means that you must create a new way of remembering that which you call the experiences you have already lived. Since we typically anticipate what is coming based on what has been experienced, changing the nature of our memories automatically changes future events. Nothing exists until we observe (live) it. Any experience is only a potential in the Zero Point Energy Field awaiting activation--which always occurs through choice. There is absolutely no limit to that which we can manifest through choice.

We, and only we, decide what we remember, how we perceive our memories, and what we experience. The trick is to let go of negative expectations that have become a habit (worry). Our subliminal belief that by obsessively thinking about "negative" past experiences we can somehow allay them is form of self-imposed mental abuse, without benefit. In place of this mental abuse, we are invited to create what we wish to experience, hold it in our heart-consciousness, and KNOW that, since we are inherently creators, we have set in motion exactly that which we wish to add to our list of earthly experiences.

Since the present moment contains the energy of the future, it is the perfect--indeed, the only--place and time to begin future creation.

If it is necessary to change a past event to know that the future will be different, reassign new memories to the past. Look at what happened and ask yourself why it happened the way it did. Ask what you could have done differently and see yourself doing exactly what would have contributed to a different result. Do this enough that you can actually feel a change in the memory. The chemical reactions in your body are now shifting and assisting you in recreating a feeling that will align with your desires for the future.

This is an example of the Law of Attraction at work, and clearly shows that predicting the future is an inside job!

Copyright (c) 2008 by Toni Elizabeth Sar'h Petrinovich. All Rights Reserved.

[Toni Elizabeth Sar'h Petrinovich, Ph.D., is the owner of Sacred Spaces in the beautiful San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State where she conducts personal sessions, retreats and etheric readings for those drawn to the authentic Self. She is author of The Call--Awakening the Angelic Human and creator of its accompanying CD, DNA Re-Awakening. For more information please see her websites: http://www.sacredspaceswa.com and http://www.angelichuman.com.]

Did You Know ... Earth's movement through a denser area of what has been called the Photon Band directly aligned with Galactic Center began around the time of the so-called Harmonic Convergence in 1987, will enter into a historical astronomical alignment around 2012, and will be complete (from our present linear perspective) by about 2016? Over the course of the past two decades, major Earth, planetary and solar changes--from unprecedented alterations in planetary atmospheres to drastic surges in volcanic and earthquake activity--have been observed. Arguably of greatest significance from our perspective is that the sun is now moving into alignment with Galactic Center. During this transit the sun's magnetic field has vastly increased and there have been wildly elevated levels of sunspot activity (as reported by NASA and other space agencies) that have transmitted record-breaking waves of energy to Earth and, thus, to us. Could there be a relationship between such activity and DNA? And could such "ener-genetic" stimulation be related to the notable increase in human consciousness?

The Paradox Of Perspective

Any particular reality can be experienced and observed from countless different perspectives. These perspectives represent points of awareness with their own experiential context. Each perspective and experience is useful and meaningful and all co-exist synchronistically within the One Source to generate the fulfillment of existence.

These different perspectives are all appropriate within themselves to facilitate the experiences needed by consciousness. Some are more primitive and imbalanced than others, yet that is a valid and purposeful part of the expression of Infinite Self imagining its own evolution.

s the human perspective more expansive than that of a cockroach or a patch of mold? The roach and the mold would not be engaged in the philosophical dialogue necessary to ponder such a question, so I will take a brave guess and conclude that humans are more self-aware (and more aware of Self) than the spiritual expressions operating through simpler biological vehicles. Yet, there is nothing "wrong" with the level of awareness of insects and fungi. That fungi might really seem like a "fun guy" if you were a natural "decomposer" living in the same environment.

One individual's pleasure may be another's pain and suffering. At this physical level of reality, experience is largely guided by polarized programs operating in one's consciousness. This includes genetic and biological programs, such as those that generate fear when safety or security are threatened, hunger when the body needs nourishment, passion and arousal when the mating instinct is activated, and more.

Soul memory and social and cultural beliefs are also filters for experience. Beliefs about life roles, justice, freedom, religion, gender, relationships and other aspects of human existence operate within our minds to shape our experience. By partaking of all these experiences and experiencing the results of these patterns of consciousness, we evolve toward a greater understanding of creation and a greater ability to generate balance and harmony within our environment and our selves. "Self" cannot be fully understood and appreciated without an experience of "other" in relationships with self.

One thing we can recognize as we interact with others is that each individual has a unique personal memory record of his or her experiences. This recorded history of experiences informs the individual's perspective, from which it is logically concluded that no two individuals can share exactly the same perspective on life. Despite this obvious fact, we often mistakenly assume a shared context of experience or shared perspective when we interact with people. Likewise, people often experience unease with persons who have a starkly different perspective from their own.

Examples might include something as important as assuming that others share one's political or religious beliefs, or something comparatively mundane such as assuming that someone has been exposed to the same music, TV shows, films, foods, stores, or other aspects of one's cultural environment. The tendency to expect similarity of perspectives exists for convenience, just as we place things in our environment into categories for convenience and develop prejudices as a type of convenience for our mind to make quick judgments when responding to the environments we encounter.

It is possible to enhance our awareness of self and others by deliberately halting our assumptions and seeking to learn about the actual perspectives of those with whom we interact. To do so requires identifying more with our higher selves than with our animal instincts and human personae. Spirit is curious and desires to learn, while the animal organism and ego often seek to preserve themselves from real or imagined fears.

It's All Good vs. It's All God

The imbalances perceived in the human realm of existence are inevitable projections of polarized consciousness experiencing external reflections of these patterns of consciousness in order to grow, learn and evolve toward greater balance, integration, and wholeness. Therefore, as we become more aware, we can become more appreciative and accepting of all that exists, recognizing that all the distortion and dysfunction in the world facilitates a learning process in which spirits can more fully understand and appreciate balance and harmony.

In human lingo people sometimes say, "It's all good." It would be even more accurate to change that phrase to, "It's all God," with an understanding of God as the sum and essence of all that exists. The word "good" has been used by humans to refer to that which they find positive or desirable, a concept which has been distorted to be associated with the concept of that which the Creator approves of. People want to be "on God's side," so they label what they value as good to indicate it is what they believe God would like.

It is also believed by many that God has an enemy, some "dark force" that wishes to subvert the Creator. So people associate God with the light polarity and refer to a personification of the dark polarity as "the Devil" or "Satan." Yet, both polarities are part of the One Source--actually, they are vibratory illusions generated within the One in order that experience may occur. Light represents our openness to the flow of Source energy and darkness represents resistance to the energy stemming from Oneness.

Freedom is the underlying principle that allows any focus of consciousness to choose how it uses and responds to energy. Freedom allows for experience, learning, and evolution. Since people have created the conceptual polarities of good and bad, "bad" is part of God's Creation as well, since God is all there is. It's just our subjective viewpoint that something is bad. If it exists, then it has value and purpose. That value could be an opportunity to help one recognize the implications of thoughts or actions, to help another develop more balanced intentions, or any number of other possible learning opportunities.

Observation of human experience can quickly illustrate how "dark" and "light" need one another to provide a medium for experience and greater understanding of and appreciation of Self. When seemingly "tragic" events occur (usually involving "death," which seems cruel and unfair to those attached to the illusory physical identity), people are often motivated to change their focus in life. This often leads to altruistic ventures or efforts to create change or progress in society. During wars many people get to aid wounded persons and care for those affected by loss and separation. Meanwhile, people who desire a more harmonious world get to voice their desire for peace.

In Florida, where I currently reside, a man whose child was kidnapped and murdered went on to become an advocate for enlisting cooperation between media, law enforcement and citizens in capturing persons suspected of carrying out serious crimes. The TV show "America's Most Wanted" arose from John Walsh's experience of losing his son Adam. Similarly, people who have been affected by drunk drivers, environmental pollution and sexual violence are examples of those who have become involved in educating the public to help others avoid encountering the trauma and injuries that they and their loved ones have gone through.

One metaphor to help elucidate the polarized dynamic I am describing is that without darkness there is nowhere for light to shine. The darkness exists so long as the related experiences are needed by those expressions of consciousness that have intended to participate in exploring such potentials of existence. All involved in these types of issues and circumstances have at some higher level chosen to co-create the drama ... Otherwise, the drama could not exist! So all is One and you can appreciate even those who seem vile and totally contrary to your values, for they have conspired with you as sparks of the Infinite to create that which you are experiencing.

All existence is ultimately synchronistic, and this is related to how the process of creation occurs. Think of creation as a feedback and information processing system. Any change in input and information within the system will generate a shift in the system. In a system where separation is actually an illusion and all is One, then the process of movement and change within the system has to be synchronistic. If time is ultimately an illusion (as many physicists have recognized and consciousness research corroborates), then linear cause-effect associations must also be illusory.

This is a difficult concept to accept for any science that only examines the surface of reality. Time and space exist on the surface of vibrational existence and are observed from within the level of illusion where they appear to exist. From within that context, it cannot be directly demonstrated that time and space are just illusions generated to provide a medium for certain types of experience.

If your radio is only designed to tune in to FM frequencies, then you have no way of knowing or demonstrating that AM stations exist. Science is often trapped in a similar dilemma, in that it operates within a reality that is an illusory creation of deeper layers of reality that are psycho-energetic (founded on conscious energy) in nature and cannot be measured by material devices.

Synchronicity & Virtual Reality

Synchronicity is a concept that is difficult for many to comprehend. In Western society, it became popularized by the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, a student of metaphysical topics whose ideas became widely explored in the midst of the "hippie" era and rise of the "new age" movement. Even a platinum selling rock music album promoted this term, as the album Synchronicity by The Police brought Sting and his two band mates international success.

The idea of synchronicity posits that there are truly no coincidences. Nothing is actually random and everything is meaningful. In an article about synchronicity, Val Valerian shares the following quote about synchronicity (source unknown): "Synchronicity is the conscious perception in a physiological time track of the simultaneous manifestation of the multidimensional universe. It is the conscious recognition that all events, objects, relationships, points of view, perceptions and interactions are ONE thing viewed from different perspectives."

Virtual Reality of Existence

Imagine playing a computer game where something pleasant and rewarding happens with everything you do, no matter what. That game would get pretty dull and tiresome quickly because it would provide no challenge or learning system. Meanwhile, a game with all kinds of hazards and challenges is engrossing and helps the game player refine skills needed to achieve progress.

We, as aspects of Source, are playing a game at a certain level of existence. A higher intention generated the game and patterns of spirit were drawn to participate due to their intentions for experience and growth and desire to understand and experience the essence of and union with the Ultimate Source.

Just as in the virtual world of a computer game, an entity controlling a character or characters in the game exists beyond the game and can't be truly harmed or destroyed by anything that happens in the game. Similarly, the game and all the potential experiences existing within its matrix or field of probabilities can be played over and over until there is nothing left to master. Additionally, the entire game and all experiences involved are "stored" in universal memory. In this context, memory does not refer merely to recollections of an apparent past, but rather includes all patterns of experienced realities.

There is a paradoxical quality to this game, as the creative process is interactive, nonlocal, and nonlinear. While we are immersed in the game, everything seems linear and sequential. Simultaneously, Source is aware of the full spectrum of experiences in the past, present and future of the temporal game player. For the player immersed in the game, the future doesn't exist and varies according to choices made within the game. Yet, from a higher perspective, the future already exists because it is part of the intrinsic matrix of potentials that becomes "real-ized" when interacted with.

All experience is imaginary from the perspective of the awareness that is detached from the experience, while it is made real by the awareness immersed in experience. In altered states of consciousness, an individual may interact with information and energies from either the past or the future because at the deeper level of reality all awareness is simultaneous and contiguous.

When someone gets a precognitive psychic impression, s/he is tuning in to vibrational information concerning experiential potential that is in close vibrational proximity to the individual present in this reality. The thoughts, choices and energies generated by the individual and others will shape whether or not the prophetic details will actually be experienced within linear time.

Clearly, without an experiential layer of reality, all that could exist would be purely imagination. It is the realm of experience that actualizes reality, so to speak. By using one's consciousness to bridge the world of the game and the world outside the game, or the self and higher self, it is possible to facilitate tremendous transformative effects, including miraculous healings and dramatic life shifts.

[Jed Shlackman holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.S.Ed. in School Counseling and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. His offerings in the field of health and wellness include counseling, hypnosis, past-life regression, Neuromodulation Technique, HeartMath Heart Coherence Biofeedback, holistic health and intuitive consultation, and the Regenetics Method of DNA activation. The foregoing article is adapted from Jed's book Consciousness, Creation, and Existence: A Guide to the Grand Adventure. For more information visit http://potentiation.net/Facilitators/jshlackman.html and http://www.phinsights.com.]