World Peace and the Unified Field

During this time of year, when we are spending it with our families, setting aside for a moment all the turmoils, tragedies, and numerous conflicts occurring in the world today, we celebrate a time when good will towards men is the theme.  In all of our hearts, no matter where we live in the world, we all cherish joy, love, and peace.  It is our natural state, and when we set aside our judgments, disagreements, and feelings of separation from our human family, we come in contact, even if it's just for an instant, of the possibility of what life could be like.  It's a time where we are given a chance to be re-born to our truer selves, to the goodness within, and plant the seeds for a better day when we will no longer see each other as separate.  I'm reminded right now of the Christmas Miracle of 1914, when the German and British soldiers fighting in World War I put down their arms for one day, stepped out of the trenches, and celebrated Christmas together.  They drank tea, sang Christmas songs, and played games with each other despite the fact there was a war going on between them.  In the midst of trench warfare, these soldiers somehow found it within their hearts to take a step back, recognize each other's common humanity, and let peace, joy, and goodwill towards all men reign for one day.  If those men could do it then, we can do it today, no matter where our brother lives, or what his religious or ethnic background is.  It's going to take all of us to look deep within our hearts as to what kind of world we want to live in.  This time of year, we are given the opportunity to touch what is most true in us.    

One of the videos I have my clients watch when I’m working with them is a video from the Maharishi University of Management, from a lecture given by David Lynch and John Hagelin.  This talk is on world peace and the unified field.  David Lynch as you may know is a well-known filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician, and an occasional actor.  Some of his best known films are Dune (1984), Mulholland Drive (2001), and Inland Empire (2006).  John Hagelin is a former researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC).  He is now Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Maharishi University of Management.  He has conducted research into the unified field theory and the Maharishi Effect. 

In this particular video, they are talking about world peace.  This is something everybody wants, everybody wants world peace, but unfortunately nobody believes that there can be world peace.  It’s this nice idea that’s just hanging out there.  It’s really meaningless.  We think it’s got to be this way, the world has got to be the way it is.  We think we've got to have war, we think we've got to have violence, we've got to have intense struggle and intense conflict in order for life as we know it to exist.  I want to introduce you to a new science; it’s called the Vedic science, or the science of consciousness.  This technology of the science of consciousness can easily bring this world we so want about, this reality of world peace.  The science of peace is not just the absence of war; it’s the absence of all negativity.

Peace is real.  And it comes from this unified field.  It can be enlivened in an individual and it can be enlivened in a group to bring peace.  This information comes to us in the video from David Lynch.  Dr. John Hagelin, who is a quantum physicist, speaks next, and he goes into great detail about the science behind all this theory.  He begins by saying there are 300,000 manuscripts and books on peace, and on average, about 3 people have read them, which includes the author and the publisher.  We all want to create peace.  Now, the field of consciousness is the field of unity, the field of bliss, the field of peace, on a tangible, palpable, physical level, millions of times more powerful than the nuclear force, if we could just access it, access this consciousness.

What we need in order to access this consciousness is we need more peacemakers who can develop their nervous systems to a point where they become the lighthouses of peace, where they radiate peace.  When an individual mind contacts Being at the Source of Thought, when individual awareness expands to become universal, it creates a ripple in the universal field, just like a ripple in the electromagnetic field.  And this ripple propagates in all directions at the speed of light.  Just imagine, for instance, what happens with a broadcast antenna.  Just like a broadcast antenna, when you shake the electrons up and down in the antenna, it creates a local disturbance in the electromagnetic field, and that disturbance propagates out in all directions at the speed of light.  If we have a transistor radio on the other side with an antenna, this disturbance will cause the electrons in the antenna of the transistor radio to shake up and down and this shaking up and down of the electrons in the antenna is decoded by our transistor radio as music.  So this information gets communicated through ripples propagating through the electromagnetic field.  We are all very familiar with this reality.  Whenever you turn on your radio in your car, this is what is happening, these ripples that are being propagated through the air and being decoded by the antenna of your radio so that you can hear music in your car.

In the same way, we stimulate the more fundamental field of unity, the more fundamental field of consciousness; it creates a ripple that can be felt.  Research shows that to have a really powerful effect you need to have these ripplers rippling in close proximity to each other.  That creates not just a ripple, but a tidal wave of unity, a tidal wave of peace, a tidal wave of coherence.  This coherence, this unity, this peace get communicated through this field of consciousness.  That’s why it is important to understand consciousness is a field that we all share, that underlies and pervades us all!

Amazingly, because the strength of numbers is such that it doesn't take that many people to influence large areas, say for instance, the whole Pacific Coast.  The reason behind this is because, let’s say for instance, you have 2 loud speakers in a boom box, they are close together, and they are playing minoral sounds.  What that means is they are playing in sync.  The volume of sound generated by two loud speakers is 4 times the sound of 1 loud speaker.  3 loud speakers produce 9 times the sound of one loud speaker if the speakers are close together.  That’s because these waves all coherently produce a wave that is 3 times as high.  A wave that is 3 times as high has 9 times the power.  The power grows as the square of the height of the wave. 

That is why the research shows the radiated influence of peace in the environment grows roughly as the square of the number of the people doing it together.  The end squared effect amplifies the power to be enough to produce a demonstrable, repeatable, publishable effect on crime rates, even terrorism, even stopping warfare in war torn areas like the Middle East.  I have a prime example.  Look how we miraculously averted war with Syria.  War appeared to be inevitable, and yet, suddenly, miraculously, a way out of the conflict appeared, and we avoided military interaction.  Enough people around the country and the world were radiating peace, which in turn provided for the right conditions to produce an alternative way out of the crisis and what seemed like a point of no return. 

This is a technology.  It is a science and a technology for peace.  Negativity goes away, like darkness goes away when the sun comes up.  The sun doesn't even have to do anything to drive the darkness away.  The sun doesn't even care about the darkness, the sun just comes up, and the darkness goes away.  When this happens, when the unified field gets enlivened, negativity goes, it just goes.  

If we look at it in that way, connect the dots, and use this field towards bring about peace, we will discover that peace is much more powerful than we realized.  At this time of year, when our hearts our filled with all that is good about ourselves, each other, and the world, let us take the time to contemplate extending this sense of peace we feel, not just to this time of year; but to the possibility of peace being the norm of every day of the year, not the exception.  If we all do our part, and treat each other with a little more kindness, a little more compassion, a little more love, each moment we do, we are bring more peace into this world.  When enough of us are doing this, being lighthouses of peace, the negativity in our world will gradually dissipate, and our children, and our children's children will be born into a much different world than we were.  We must choose what kind of world we want to gift them with.  It's up to us.    

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Charlie Pacello is a PTSD, Depression, and Healing Trauma Recovery Expert and Life Coach, a former US Air Force Lieutenant, and creator of the program, 'Lt. Pacello's Life Training Program.'  He can be reached by visiting his website at www.charliepacello.com

The Incredible Story of Jill Bolte Taylor

I want to share with you now one of my favorite videos I have in my program that I share with my clients.  I am going to share with you the story of Jill Bolte Taylor in her own words.  A neuroanatomist by profession, she had a rare opportunity few brain scientists ever could have.  One morning she realized she was having a stroke.  And as it happened, she felt her brain functions slip away one by one –her speech, her movement, her understanding – and while this was happening, she studied and remembered every moment.  This video is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Jill grew up studying the brain because she had a brother with a brain disorder, schizophrenia.  As a sister and as a scientist she wanted to understand why she could connect her dreams to her reality and make them come true.  At the same time, she wanted to know what it was about her brother’s brain and his schizophrenia that he could not connect his dreams with a common and shared reality so they instead became a delusion. 

She dedicated her life’s work to research and study severe mental illnesses.  She worked at the Harvard Department of Psychiatry, and her function there was to look at the biological differences between someone who has what we would consider “normal” control as compared to the brains of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizo-affective, or bipolar disorder.  Essentially, they were mapping the micro-circuitry of the brain. 

Jill had a very full life.  She was working on something she was passionate about, she was spending her weekends supporting a non-profit organization she was deeply committed to, and so her life was fulfilled.  Yet, on the morning of December 10, 1996, she woke up to discover she had a brain disorder of her own. 

A blood vessel exploded on the left side of her brain.  She had a major hemorrhage.  In the course of 4 hours, she watched her brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information.  She could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life.  Essentially she became an infant in a woman’s body. 

If you have ever looked at a human brain, most of us have, (you can find on the internet pictures of what the human brain looks like), you will notice that there are two cerebral cortices that are actually completely separate from one another.  For those of you who understand computers, the right hemisphere functions like a parallel processor while our left hemisphere functions like a serial processor.  The two hemispheres do communicate with one another through the corpus callosum.  Other than that, the two hemispheres are completely separate. 

Our hemispheres process information differently.  They each think about different things and care about different things.  Our right hemisphere is all about the present moment, this present moment.  Right here.  Right now.  It thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies.  Information in the form of energy streams in simultaneously through all of our sensory systems and then it explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, what this present moment smells like, tastes like, what it feels like, and what it sounds like.  We are all energy beings connected to the energy all around us through the consciousness of our right hemispheres.  We are connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family, right here, right now.  Those of you who are reading this blog, we are brothers and sisters on this planet here to make this world a better place.  In this moment, we are perfect, we are whole, we are beautiful, and we are magnificent. 

Our left hemisphere is very different.  It thinks linearly and methodically.  Our left hemisphere is all about the past, and all about the future.  It’s designed to take this enormous collage called the present moment, and it starts to pick out details, lots of details, it then categorizes and organizes all that information, and then associates it with everything in the past we've ever learned, and projects into the future all of our possibilities.  Our left hemisphere thinks in language.  It’s our on-going brain chatter that connects our internal world with our external world.  It’s that little voice that reminds you of things to do, but more importantly, it tells you who you are.  It tells me, ‘I am’.  As soon as my left hemisphere says ‘I am’, it separates me, you, us, from the energy flow around us and keeps me separate from you; and you from me.  This is the portion of the brain Jill lost on the morning of her stroke.

She woke up to a pounding pain over her left eye.  It was this caustic pain, like when you eat too much ice cream, and it would grip her then release her, and then it would grip her again, and release her.  She noticed it, but she didn't think too much of it at the time.  She ended up jumping on to her cardio-glider; it’s this full body exercise machine.  As Jill was working out on this, she noticed that her hands looked like primitive claws grasping onto the bar.  It was as though her consciousness had shifted away from her normal perception of reality where she was a person on the machine having this experience, to some esoteric space where she was witnessing herself having this experience.  Jill walked across the living room floor and she noticed everything in her body had slowed way down.  Every step was rigid and very deliberate; there was no fluidity to her movement.  There was a constriction in her area of perception so she was only focused on her internal systems.

Jill attempted to get into the shower and she ended up losing her balance and was propped up against the wall.  As she looked down at her arm, she realized she could no longer define the boundaries of her body, where she began and where she ended, because the molecules and atoms in her arms blended with the molecules and atoms of the wall.  All Jill could detect was this energy.  Energy was all around her.  She tried to figure out what was going on.  The chatter in her left hemisphere suddenly went silent.  She was captivated by the energy around her, and because she could no longer identify with the boundaries of her body, she felt this enormous and expansive feeling.  She felt at one with all the energy around her, and she felt it was beautiful.

Jill’s left brain comes back on and tells her she’s got a problem.  But then she drifted back into this beautiful energy and expansive consciousness.  It was just too beautiful there.  Now, imagine if you can what it would be like to be totally disconnected to the brain chatter that connects you to the external world.  This is what it felt like: all stress and concerns, traumas, relationships, problems, issues connected to the external world were gone.  This is the freedom she felt.  She felt lighter in her body and felt this incredible sense of peace.  Just imagine what it would be like to let go of a lifetime of emotional baggage!  This is what Jill felt like – it was euphoria!

Her left brain comes back on and says she needs to get help.  Jill starts walking around the apartment attempting to get ready for work.  And she keeps asking herself, ‘Can I drive? Can I drive? Can I drive?’, and just then, her right arm went totally paralyzed by her side.  Suddenly she realized she was having a stroke.  So the next thing her brain says to do is ‘This is so cool!  How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brains from the inside out?!’

Jill then tries to call work to get some help.  She remembers she has a business card in her office with her numbers on it.  She goes into her office and pulls out a stack of business cards, and even though she knows she could see clearly in her mind’s eye what her business card looked like, she couldn't tell if what she was looking at was her card or not because all she could see were pixels.  All the pixels of the pictures, words, background and numbers were blended together.  Then Jill would wait for what she described as a wave of clarity, and in that moment she could reattach to her normal reality and then she could tell which card was hers or not.  It took Jill 45 minutes to get down one inch inside the stack of cards to find hers. 

In the meantime, her hemorrhage is getting bigger.  Jill didn't understand numbers, or the telephone, but that was the only plan she had.  She put the phone pad and her card next to each other and she starts matching the shapes of the squiggles of the phone card to the squiggles on the phone pad.  However, she would drift back out into la-la land, and then she would come back and not remember which numbers she had dialed.  This went on for a while.  Eventually the whole number gets dialed, and her colleague gets on the phone and all she hears is this ‘woof woof woof’ on the other end, similar to the sound the teacher would make in the Charlie Brown cartoons.  And she thought to herself, ‘he sounds like a golden retriever.’  What Jill didn't know was that she couldn't speak or understand language until she tried.  Her colleague fortunately figured out she needed help and called the paramedics. 

On her way to the hospital in the ambulance, Jill curled up into a little fetal ball – like a balloon that had just a little bit of air – and she felt her energy lift and felt her spirit surrender.  In that moment, Jill knew she was no longer the choreographer of her life, and either the doctors would rescue her body and give her a second chance at life, or this was her moment of transition.

When she woke up later that afternoon, Jill was shocked to discover she was still alive.  When she felt her spirit surrender, Jill had said goodbye to her life.  Her mind was suspended between two very opposite planes of reality.  With stimulation coming in through her sensory systems, it felt like pure pain, light burned her brain, and sounds were so loud and chaotic she couldn't pick out a voice from the background noise.  Jill wanted to escape.  At the same time, because she couldn't identify her body in space, she felt enormous, expansive.  Her spirit soared free in a silent euphoria.  She found nirvana. 

Jill remembered thinking there was no way she could squeeze this enormousness of herself back into her tiny little body.  But then she realized, ‘I’m still alive, I’m still alive!  And I have found nirvana!  And if I am still alive then everyone who is alive can find nirvana.’  She pictured a world of beautiful, loving, peaceful, compassionate people who knew they could come to this plane at any time.  They could purposely choose to step to the right of their left hemispheres and find this peace.  Then she thought to herself, ‘what a tremendous gift this experience could be, what a stroke of insight this could be to how we live our lives.’  And it was this insight that motivated Jill to recover.

2 ½ weeks later, the surgeons removed a blood clot the size of a golf ball pushing up against her language centers.  It took Jill over 8 years to completely recover.

What were Jill’s insights from her experience?  Jill discovered as a consequence of her stroke that we are the life force power of the universe with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds.  And we get to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be in this world.  We can step into the consciousness of the right hemisphere where we are, you are, I am, the life force power of the universe.  The life force power of 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up our form, at one with all that is.  Or, we can choose to step into the consciousness of our left hemisphere – a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, I separate from you, and you separate from me.  These are the worlds inside of us.   Now which would you choose?  Which do you choose? And when?

Jill Bolte Taylor says at the very end she believes the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be. 

This, I believe, is definitely an idea worth spreading.

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Charlie Pacello is a PTSD, Depression, and Healing Trauma Recovery Expert and Life Coach, a former US Air Force Lieutenant, and creator of the program, 'Lt. Pacello's Life Training Program.'  He can be reached by visiting his website at www.charliepacello.com

Letting Go of the Things that no Longer Serve You

We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress, and suffering.  Instead of letting them go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress-free and happy, we cling on to the memories and events of our past.  Well, you can change that, starting right now, today.  You are going to learn how to identify those things that no longer serve you and give them up, which will begin the process for you to embrace the change. 

Ready?  Here you go.  These are the tools for you to implement in your own life, right now, which will accelerate the process of letting go of your past. 

  1 . Give up your need to always be right.  There’s so many of us who just can’t stand the idea of being wrong, wanting to always be right, even at the expense of ending relationships that are causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others.  It’s just not worth it.  Whenever you feel the urgent need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question:  “Would I rather be right?  Or would I rather be kind?”  This comes from Wayne Dyer.  Now what difference will that make?  Or is your ego really that big? 

   2.   Give up you need for control.  Be willing to give up your need to control everything that happens around you whether they are situations, events, people, and it doesn't matter who they may be – workers, co-workers, strangers, your loved ones – just allow them to be.  Allow everyone and everything to be just exactly as it is and just watch how much better you are going to feel.  “By letting it go, it all gets done.  The world is won by those who let it go.  When you try and try, the world is beyond winning.”  –Lao Tzu 

   3.  Give up on blame.  Give up your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel.  Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life. 

   4.  Give up on your self-defeating talk.  Now this is a big one.  How many people are hurting themselves right now because of their negative, polluted, and repetitive self-defeating mindset?  Here’s a rule of thumb.  Don’t believe anything you mind tells you, especially if its negative, and self-defeating.  You are way better than that.  Eckart Tolle says, “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly.  Used wrongly, however, and it becomes very destructive.”

   5.   Give up your limiting beliefs.  About what you can or can’t do.  About what is possible or impossible.  From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place.  Spread your wings, and you fly.  “A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.” – Elly Roselle

   6.    Give up your complaining.  Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many things in your life – people, situations, events that make you very unhappy, sad, and depressed.  Nobody can make you unhappy.  No situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to.  It’s not the situations that trigger those feelings in you but how you choose to look at it.  Never, ever underestimate the power of positive thinking. 

    7.  Give up the luxury of criticism.  Give up your need to criticize things, people, or events that are different from you.  Were all different and we are all the same.  We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and be understood and understand.  We all want something, and something is wished by all.

    8.  Give up your need to impress others.  Stop trying so hard to be something that you are not just to make other people like you.  It doesn't work that way.  The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you are not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

    9.  Give up your resistance to change.  Change is good.  Change helps you move from A to B.  Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives around you.  Follow your bliss.  Embrace change.  Don’t resist it.  One of my favorite authors is Joseph Campbell and he writes, “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

   10.    Give up on labels.  Stop labeling those things, people, or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, just a little, little by little.  Miracles only work when the mind is open.  Wayne Dyer says, “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”

   11.    Give up on your fears.  Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist!  You created it, I created it, it’s all in our minds.  Correct the inside, and everything else is going to fall into place. 

    12.    Give up your excuses.  Take your excuses and send them packing and tell them they are fired.  You don’t need them anymore.  Lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use.  Instead of growing and working on improving our lives we get stuck.  We lie to ourselves.  We use all kinds of excuses.  Excuses which are 99.9% of the time are not even real.

    13.   Give up the past.  Here’s a big one.  I know, I know, it’s hard.  Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening.  But you have to take in to consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have.  The past you are longing for – it’s gone.  The past that you were dreaming about was ignored by you when you were in the present.  So, let’s stop deluding ourselves.  Be present in everything you do and enjoy your life.  All of life is a journey, it’s not a destination.  Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the Now.

     14.   Give up attachment.  This concept is a hard one to grasp, and I have to tell you it was for me too.  It still is.  But it’s not impossible.  You get better and better at it with time and practice.  The moment you detach from all things (this doesn't mean you give up your love for them, because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another.  Attachment comes from a place of fear while love, real love, is pure, its kind, and selfless.  Its peaceful, where there is love, there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist.)  You become very peaceful, so kind, so tolerant, so serene.  You will get to a place where eventually you will be able to understand all things without even trying.  It’s a state beyond words.

      15.   Give up living your life to other people’s expectations.  Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live.  They live their lives according to what other people think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their enemies, teachers, their government and the media thinks is best for them.  They ignore their inner voice, their inner calling.  They are so busy pleasing everybody else with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their own lives.  They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need, and eventually they forget about themselves.  You have one life – you've got this one, right now – you must live it, you must own it, and especially, don’t allow other people’s opinions to distract you from your path.

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Charlie Pacello is a PTSD, Depression, and Healing Trauma Recovery Expert and Life Coach, a former US Air Force Lieutenant, and creator of the program, 'Lt. Pacello's Life Training Program.'  He can be reached by visiting his website at www.charliepacello.com