Deeper Perception Made Effortless

Only you can decide how much you are willing to trust when doing techniques for Deeper Perception. But sometimes a teacher can remind you to “Let Go and Let God.” And then, if you’re willing to take the hint, wonders can happen.

This was brought home to me yesterday. My first weekend workshop in Tokyo was ending. As usual, we made a ceremony of it. I would present the certificate of completion for each graduate. He or she would come to the front of the room, receive the paper, and speak to the group about any major Aha!s from the workshop.

This ceremony is always my favorite part. The very active, vocal students are so articulate, expressing how they have grown. While the quieter students finally divulge what has been going on with them.

For Aura Reading, Level I, in Tokyo this fall, our group’s theme was effortlessness. Paraphrasing as best I remember:

• “Used to be, every time I closed my eyes to do a technique, I would start struggling, trying to control my mind. I didn’t even know I was doing it, this had become such a habit. Now I know how to stop doing it.”
• “I never used to pay attention to myself before. I didn’t really know how. My biggest Aha! from this workshop was finding out about myself — how interesting it is to explore my own self, and how easy it is to do.”
• “Either I’m doing a technique or I’m not. It can be simple to act like a regular human being, and not constantly have to be striving for more and more and more spiritual experience.”

All spiritual experience can be easy

All we need do is allow. Okay, techniques for aura reading can be useful as well. Concepts about the nature of consciousness can help us, too.

Once you get it, you own the basic Aha! forever:

Your consciousness shifts totally easily, moving at the speed of thought, with great access to power, love, and light. And the easier you allow the process to be, the better you’ll do.

Recently at this blog, we have been having conversations around smoking pot. As you may know, I strongly recommend using your spiritual consciousness as is, rather than mucking up the nervous system with recreational chemicals. Smoking pot creates a kind of effortless shift in consciousness, too. But personal choice is not involved, other than the choice to get stoned. Instead, one’s consciousness is chemically assisted — grabbed, really — into an astral-level high.

Learning how easy it can be to move consciousness on your own is one of the great Aha!s in life. So subtle! And making you so resourceful for everything that you do!

Back at my workshop here in Tokyo

We started off with a bunch of skeptics, many course participants who doubted themselves and their ability to become good aura readers. Early on, I told them, “If any of you are worrying about whether or not you’ll succed at this workshop, I have news for you. I expect every one of you to do great at aura reading. If you just use the techniques that I teach, you’ll be totally successful.”

Actually, that’s exactly what happened. One participant had vivid breakthrough experiences of the Divine. With the others, that will come later, because accessing the level of auras brings entry to the Celestial and Spiritual realms. But for now there were perceptions at the level of aura, first experiences with putting That into language, and a growing coordination between the subtle and communicating in one’s own personal voice.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it, travelling so far and so long, leaving behind so much that is dear to me. (And much that is just plain comfortable.)

But being with these sweet, hardworking people in my VOICE workshop, what a delight it was to help them learn how to become sweet, fulfilled people, aura readers who could do one technique at a time and be downright sloppy with it, then succeed so beautifully.

Something I never mentioned before in a workshop

Every workshop that I co-create is different and, for me, totally spontaneous. Certain techniques will be given but otherwise I’m in a kind of sacred dance with the particular people there. What will come out of my mouth?  It’s as surprising to me as to them.

This particular group needed extra support for spontaneous experience. So they pulled out of me some ideas I had never mentioned, or thought about, before. I’d like to give the gist of this here, in case it is useful to any of you Blog-Buddies.

Sometimes a new aura reader feels such pressure to be precise and accurate. Even though that pressure is entirely self-inflicted (and optional), the need can be so great. Personally, I suspect this pressure is a main contributor to the prevalent Myth about Auras. As described at length in my how-to book Aura Reading Through All Your Senses, this kindergarten-level simplification about auras has the idea that “Auras are colors. Every color has the same meaning. Every aura reader receives the same information.”

And isn’t that comforting, for someone who needs to be so very sure!

But the kind of aura reading I teach is a kind that can ripen through time, where you are perpetually making discoveries and deepening your experience… integrating your human connection to the insights. What can help a person feel safe, finding language for those most subtle experiences?

I remembered how, back in high school, somehow, I acquired a book with poems by Basho, a great Japanese mystic. Really, I have no idea how this book found me. (Similar to my acquiring a book about Meister Eckhart later, while in college.)

Basho’s poems were so typically Japanese, with hints and nuances and fill-in-the-blanks. I loved that so much. Basho showed me by example that we have the right to pursue the ineffable and understand it the best we can. Every bit of the learning can be a delight… and be good enough.

Ancient Japanese culture is rife with showing the intersection of everyday human life with silence and deep mystery. That’s what I love most about this country even now. Think of those landscape paintings — because surely you’ve seen some — with mist and mountain and fading in-and-out, what is seen and not seen, while your heart goes “Ah” with a kind of longing.

And, of course, you can surrender to knowing as much as you can, and letting go of the rest.

Sure, you can dare to be sloppy

How delicious, not to have to be precise! What a revelation that, with aura reading, you can let a technique give you structure and then simply flow in the knowledge that comes. Trust it and you just might bring some of that big, singing silence into your human conversation.

That’s why my motto when teaching is “Be sloppy.” (The longer version is “Be sloppy about everything but integrity.”)

For the whole field of aura reading, for all Deeper Perception, my wish is that people recognize that easy + honest + using techniques that work will bring great results.

No, aura reading does not have to mean showing off, or status games about “I see four levels, in full color. What do you see?”

Aura reading doesn’t have to mean psychic readings or making the one big, flashy statement that explains “the meaning of your life.”

Instead, to me at any rate, aura reading is a way to know yourself deeper and help others based on accessing greater wisdom. And, yes, aura reading can allow you to play a better game of peekaboo with God.