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On TV, you may have seen Rose interviewed on “Forever Young TV.”  In September, she discussed The Power of Face Reading.  On the show in early October, she gives a spirited interview about Empowered by Empathy.  This cable show will be broadcast in Maryland and Virginia. Click here for show times.

Mel Gibson, driving drunk--the scandal only began when the actor was caught by police and arrested.  According to the police report, Gibson threatened the arresting deputy.  Gibson’s tirade of anti-Semitism included saying, “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”

Is Gibson really a hater, or was he just miffed at being arrested?

Hollywood watchers have been curious about Mel for longer than that.  His brainchild and mega-hit, “The Passion of the Christ,” has been beloved by some Christians, loathed by others who decry the movie’s violence and anti-Semitism.

Certainly, the controversial performer has come a long way since his first screen hit, Mad Max, where he played an action hero with a heart.  What makes Gibson’s heart tick?  And how has he changed over the years?

When you’re a skilled empath, it’s easy to research such questions-and do it safely.  The world’s millions of empaths have a variety of talents and skill levels, but this is something all empaths have in common: At least one significant, trainable gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be a completely different person.

Empaths suffer, until they’re skilled.  Their pain may not outwardly look as bad as the death scene that Gibson directed, Christ’s slow-mo cruxi-fiction.  An empath’s pain doesn’t show unless the viewer reads auras, but then ouch!  Aurically, a typical unskilled empath is riddled with other people’s pain, much like a carbonated soft drink, where every bubble symbolizes a random bit of fear or pain, confusion or other bit of psychic debris.  Ever count the bubbles in a glass of Coca Cola?  Then you can appreciate the suffering of an unskilled empath.

I wrote “Empowered by Empathy” to change that.  In the new audiobook edition or the tried and trusty paperback, you’ll find a distinctive approach, plus a set of tested techniques.  They help any empath keep his or her lifelong gifts turned OFF most of the time, then turn them ON at will.  What happens when, fully protected, you turn your gifts ON bigger than usual?  That’s what I call an empathic merge.  If you know how, you can read the man in Mel Gibson’s photos below -- read him without going woozy or hateful, simply learning and, afterwards, putting all the information aside.  After you “merge” you emerge as yourself.

PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MEL GIBSON

Did you know that a Portal to Deeper Perception supplements the work I’ve been doing, with classes, sessions and books?  This Online Portal includes loads of blogs plus a forum, all from talented students who welcome your conversation online.

At the Portal, Dawn Kull has kindly offered to open up a discussion about this, reading Mel Gibson at her blog "The Empathic Healer."  So visit her blog to post comments that others can read and enjoy.  (Note: After doing the “Darshan” technique on Mel, be sure to use the First Aid affirmation from Empowered by Empathy.  You want to finish the reading as you, only you, without the slightest smell of Mel.)

For a different perspective, using Deeper Perception, you might explore Mel Gibson via face reading.  And do I ever have good news for you.  At my website, you can find a terrific new Life Progress Face Reading of Mel Gibson, done by one of my Mentoring Students, Lyle Miller.  Even on a physical level, Gibson has changed in ways that are fascinating, and Lyle’s interpretations are fascinating. Check it out here.

GIBSON AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE

Skilled empaths, use these photo links to read before you go into my comments.  I’m interested in what you find, and other empaths will be too.

Gibson in “Mad Max,” 1979

Gibson directing “The Passion of the Christ,”  2004

Gibson photographed by the police, 2006

GIBSON IN MAD MAX, 1979

Doing an empathic merge, here is what I notice most about being Mel, while acting in “Mad Max” nearly 30 years ago.

Physically, there’s a coltish, playful energy -- an endearing sense of humor.  The knack for physical expressiveness is strong, and I’m guessing that this is part of the charm in his performance in this movie.  (The only movie of Gibson’s I’ve actually seen was the delightful film released in 2004, “What Women Want.”)

Emotionally Gibson is tremendously focused.  He isn’t making contact with emotions from others or even his own emotions, but instead aims to project a powerful image that will bring him success.  Ambition is in the forefront.  At the heart, there’s significant coldness.  (To an unusual degree, Gibson lacks the ability to emotionally connect to others.)

Communication shows a similar urgency.  Energetically, Mel screams to be heard.  This is a do-or-die intensity for his career.  The actor projects as much as he can, as loudly as he can.

Sexually -- that’s where Gibson sends out his biggest oomph from anywhere in his aura.  Some degree of sexual chemistry is encoded in him; beyond that, he’s trying with all his might to seem enticing.  Setting an intention to be seductive, why not?

Deeper within, I’m fascinated by the twin themes of sex and power -- clearly here is where Gibson has struggled most, at this point in his life.  Here’s a man who has had to prove himself.  He has worked hard to set himself free from difficulties in his past.  (Good candidate for cutting some cords of attachment to male authority figures, I suspect.)  At the time of this photo, Gibson hasn’t resolved the problems of his past but he is shaping this energy of unresolved conflict to send out a powerful call: Look at Me.

Regarding religion, Gibson is known as a devout Catholic.  How does his spiritual experience shape up?  It’s lovely, his inner connection to Source.  At this time in his life, Mel Gibson really does call on God to help him.

As for the related topic of connection to soul, unfortunately this connection isn’t doing so well.  The man may be having his breakthrough moment as a movie star, but he’s not doing what really thrills him in life, not even one hour’s worth per day.  In that regard, he’s not different from 299 out of 300 people you’ll find anywhere.

Funny and sexy, troubled but trying, what will Mel Gibson become after he achieves his dream, becoming a big-league movie star?

Mel, the Public Christian

You can’t go more public with your religious beliefs than making a movie about them.  Is it courage or showing off, commercial shrewdness or a touch of lunacy?  In this photo, Mel Gibson is directing the 2004 movie, “The Passion of the Christ.”  Let’s move empathically into his side of the picture and explore what it is like to be Mel Gibson at that moment.

After an empathy merge, power is clearly the main emphasis for Gibson right now.  He adores giving direction.  Finally, he’s taking command, not taking orders from somebody else.  Gibson feels confident, sure of his vision.  I can’t overstate how good it feels to him, being in charge.  I hear the word “Payback” especially loudly, as in “I’ll show all those people who bossed me around in the past.  I’m the boss now.”

In his intellect, there’s a similar assuredness.  Most notably, I notice a dynamic that, in Let Today Be a Holiday, I call “Broccoli in the Meat Keeper.”  You could liken databanks in the aura to compartments built into a refrigerator.  Your fridge has places designed to hold foods at different temperature, so ideally broccoli goes in the veggie keeper, cold-cuts in the meat keeper, ice cream in the freezer, etc.  Sometimes an aura goes out of whack, comparable to having a big stalk of broccoli squished into the flat little meat keeper or having your ice cream melt because it’s stored in the place designed to hold eggs.

In Gibson, religious certainty has been stored in his intellect.  Besides the misplaced location of his religious energy, intense certainty at his third eye is a tip-off that there’s a problem.  Authentic spiritual energy moves in a state of flow (as it used to for Gibson back in 1979).  Once that sacred flow with God clumps into zealotry about God, the Divine connection becomes about as lively as a stuffed deer head on a cabin wall.

At Director Mel’s aura, what is lively?  Well, there’s an overwhelming delight at his intellect that “Finally, I can have things my way.”

Emotionally, he’s still disconnected.  Simple, direct feelings are seldom experienced.  While directing, Gibson deals instead with thought forms about emotions.  It’s as if he has substituted a deck of cards for personal feelings.  Here, in this photo, he’s doing the equivalent of holding out the ace of diamonds, with all the emotions that are supposed to be in the picture.  He directs actor Jim Caviezel to be that idealized construct, that picture.

For movie-making, thought forms aren’t bad.  Powerful thought forms are always projected in movies, whether hateful stereotypes, cartoonish portraits, or (in a good flick) some nuanced and inspiring images that link directly to the best in the human collective unconscious.

Thought forms can be transmitted through artistry, where a director or actor fathoms human emotion, shapes it, then amplifies it.  That’s what Gibson is trying to do.  By contrast, I remember doing empathic merges with Peter Jackson, documentaries about his making The Lord of the Rings.  Jackson brought talent for shaping thought forms but this supplemented the perceptions of a huge connection to his human heart.  Jackson’s soul was singing, as was his spirit.  Gibson’s experience here is, to put it most charitably, very focused just on sending out the message, the thought forms.

DRINKING, PERCEIVED THROUGH EMPATHIC MERGE

After his DUI arrest this summer, Gibson admitted publicly that he has struggled for years with alcoholism.  So let’s investigate that component of being Mel in our three photos.

Physically, how does Mel feel at the time he’s directing “The Passion of The Christ”?  Very much in control, he’s also very much about control.  The rock-solid strength that Gibson projects here has a curious extra component, related to drinking.

During his life at the time of the “Mad Max” photo, I find some effects of drinking but not much struggle.  It feels to me like a guy having big binges, but afterwards he uses his reserves of youthful energy to rebalance quickly.  Within him, there’s no struggle, no fear that alcohol is a problem.

By the time he’s directing “Passion,” however, drink has developed as a theme in Gibson’s personal drama.  To call it “Struggle” would be an understatement.  Alcohol lives right at his core.  Here’s what I mean: Mel has one identity when sober, another when drunk.  In the photo here, where he’s working, Mel’s sober identity prevails.  But always in the background, there are whispers from his drunk’s identity, as if directing the director.  Directing him where?  Toward cruelty, even sadism.

Spiritually, Gibson no longer benefits from a lovely innocent connection to God.  Instead, he shows the blacked-out, closed-off pattern common to religious zealots.  Gibson’s version leaves him feeling like a miserable lost sinner… yet someone who can be redeemed by Christ.  In this context, making this movie would be a very personal component. It is Gibson’s own offering to hasten his own redemption.

What does an empathic merge reveal about Gibson’s expression at the level of soul?  Little has changed here.  He’s still not doing what really brings joy to his soul.  In this regard, Mel differs from most successful actors and directors, standout performers of all kinds.  Usually the star is absolutely thrilled to be doing his thing, with a meant-to-be joy, a core-level exuberance.

Not so with Mel.  Merging with him, I feel that professionally, he’s often tormented by doubt, as if he were a phony -- admittedly a lucky one, since nobody’s on to him yet.  As a performer with mixed emotions about his career path, Gibson would just be doing the best he can, muddling through as most people do -- only with an extra gift from the angels, a karmic boost if you will, so that his work receives a wide audience.

Newbies who research what thrills the soul often assume that there should be a clear connection between doing what thrills you, deep down, and becoming rich and famous.  Not so.  When your work or life thrills your soul, it awakens inner qualities like fulfillment, peace and delight at being alive.  And the very process of joy shows at the high heart chakra.

Mel Gibson, in the photo from the set of “Passion,” could be a poster child for No Soul Thrill.  Yes, you could consider that photo an warning to spiritual seekers.  Merge with Gibson or just read his aura and you’ll find a fascinating irony: how it feels to be rich, famous and successful on the outside, yet tormented on the inside.  But the following Gibson photo portrays something even harsher.

DRUNK’S IDENTITY

The incident started as a citation for drunk driving.  Damage to Mel Gibson’s reputation grew from there.  He wasn’t just unmasked as a drunk.  He blew his cover.  Anti-Semitism was no longer a rumor but a fact.

So say the newspapers and blogs.  But will deeper perception show this to be true?  And what are the human nuances?  Let’s do an empathic merge with Gibson at the time of this photo.  (Recommended for very skilled empaths only, because this is very unpleasant.)

Being drunk, Gibson’s entire body, face, personality, feelings are all at a fuzzy distance, as if the man has become a puppet with no control over his puppeteer.

So who would be in charge?

That would be Mel’s drunk’s identity, which I referred to earlier.  With the progress of his disease, this identity has become increasingly real, energetically.  At times like this, while Gibson is drunk, that identity takes him over completely.

So doing this empathic merge is more difficult, more multi-layered than the kind you would typically do with the “Darshan” technique from “Empowered by Empathy.” You may notice that merging with Gibson is hard.  Where is he, within this astral grayness?  Once you find him, ironically, the man’s way of being is simpler than normal.

Rage fills him, as a person.  Old patterns of injustice dominate his power circuitry.

At the heart, I find one of the most compelling aspects of Gibson’s drunk’s identity.  He is pure victim, an innocent lamb being falsely accused.  No wonder his eyes are so rounded. “Who me?  Why hurt me?  Innocent me!”

Sexually, victim energy is now the key to his appeal.   “Love this bad boy.”

Altogether not much more is active in Gibson now than this: Wounded innocence and rage.

Gibson’s famous words of anti-Semitism have clear meaning in the context of rage and drunk’s identity.  Alcohol is famous for loosening the tongue, but it won’t put new words in a mouth.  With Mel’s drunk’s identity uppermost, one would expect to hear words about his innocence, plus his blaming a conspiracy responsible for his suffering.  Of course there must be a victimizer, right? If Gibson hadn’t decided to blame Jews for all his problems, he’d find some other group to blame.

COLLECTIVE UNMASKING

Mel Gibson’s public unmasking fits right into today’s strange political world.  U.S. Senator George Allen suffered a “Macaca moment” against an Indian-American that instantly became a term for letting prejudice slip out.

Hatred motivates terrorists and anti-terrorists, both. Sometimes the hatred is masked, sometimes not.

More than any other time in my lifetime -- Yours too? -- hatred is set loose in auras and faces; masks of civility are torn or removed altogether.

But don’t let this frighten you.  Political hatreds have existed for eons, hidden beneath the surface of life.  And how can they be released unless first they are consciously acknowledged, in all their ugliness.

The question is how to keep balanced during such a time?  Do empathic merges with people who inspire you!  Grab Darshan daily.

It’s also tremendously important to spend some time each day connecting up with your spiritual source.  Use any technique you like, but do something.  Steep yourself in the Highest. Then pray for the world, or your favorite pieces of it.

Deeper than the surface of life, and deeper even than hidden hatreds, we can always go to the source of love, of truth, of peace.  Beneath all masks, all illusions, each of us can find an experience of safety, a “sober identity” brimming with joyful innocence.