Comedy of Errors

Comedy of Errors ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

Yesterday I had another unbelievably difficult time with technology. Last week I tried upgrading something that I'd done a month ago, and the results were a mess. So yesterday I tried again, and the morning was very productive. But the afternoon was another comedy of errors.

At some point I realized how hilarious the scenario was. I mean, I teach Consciousness Techniques, which allows you to manifest reality "easily and effortlessly". But trying to create a video and powerpoint took a mountain of effort and hasn't yielded anything worth publishing yet.

Does that mean my work is full of shit? Does it mean that we're not in a huge shift of Consciousness? 

Nah. It means that Consciousness has no ethics about playing the game here on Playground Earth. It means that even when it's all effort, it's all good.

Now, I as my body-personality had a schedule and a deadline for this project. As Consciousness, I didn't. 

When I went through this a month ago, it was equally bizarre. Sometimes the software worked, sometimes it didn't. I ended up using two different devices with three different versions of the program, which sometimes had one ability and then it didn't. And then I create a workaround using something completely different.

I assumed today would be easier, because I did all the things that ultimately worked in the end last time. Except today was kind of the same thing. And I ended up running out of memory on my laptop and deleted a bunch of things that maybe I'm going to need tomorrow when I work on this again.

But all of this is a wonderful metaphor for life as Consciousness in a physical body. The more Consciousness comes into form, the more unexpected things happen. Things show up that shouldn't be there. Things that should work one way, don't. 

It doesn't mean that I've gone backwards in my development. It doesn't mean that I'm operating unconsciously. 

It may mean that I'm in too much effort, that's for sure.

This happens when we thing we're spiritually enlightened. When we think we already know it all. When we expect life to have hierarchies and levels. 

Consciousness relishes all of it, Consciousness inhabits all of it. 

What to do when things like this happen? Don't resist what is. Let it go. Send a parallel self to work on it. Step into a parallel universe where it's already done. Allow reality to reorganize differently. 

And I'm going to sleep on it and see what unfolds tomorrow.

Is There Any Such Thing As Perfect Timing?

Is There Any Such Thing As Perfect Timing? ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb

Today I’m musing about timing. I’ve been having things come into form that have taken ten years to manifest. My first book, originally written in April of 1996, was self published in 2006. I’m getting a handle on money issues that have been around at least that long, if not longer. I’m in a relationship that’s everything I’ve always wanted – and have been consciously praying for and energetically working on manifesting since the early 80’s.

Then I think about manifestations from my earlier years – my two kids were planned pregnancies that occurred without effort, with quick births, yet they had their own timing for being born.

Why do some things happen quickly and some things take forever to show up?

When I was a teenager I lost 50 pounds, simply by charting what I ate, limiting calories, and walking to school and back every day (about 5 or 6 miles). It took most of a year to do this, and was tremendously transformative and empowering.

Buoyed by this experience, I set my sights on a relationship, which took about five months to get the guy to go out with me. It was initially wonderful but then heart breaking.

As I look back over my different life experiences, some consciously manifested, some unconsciously attracted, and there has been a sense of what I used to call Divine Timing in all of it.

“The Universe gives you what you can handle” is one way I used to look at it. You attract what you’re ready for, is another way. I’ve resisted what I thought the Universe was giving me; at times I'd say "it thinks I’m too friggin’ capable".

But now I have a different perspective as Consciousness,  reframing my experience of timing, and also of manifestation.

It's not the Universe giving me anything, it's me as Consciousness creating everything I experience in the physical.

Someone once mentioned that reincarnation didn’t make any sense to them because everything was happening at once. I got the instant understanding that there is no time or space as Consciousness, so from the perspective of Consciousness, all past and future lives are happening ‘at the same time’ this one is. There is no linear link from past to future, it’s not like going up grades in school. And if you can grasp that in Consciousness there is no individuality, then there’s really no one spark of light going through a series of experiences (like grades in school). As aspects of Consciousness we just jump into the pool of life, splash about, and then jump out into the All-That-Is.

As I reconcile it taking me so long to get to where I am at, I realize that it really took no time at all. Each lifetime is just a blink of an eye. And what I’ve accomplished in this one is just a glimmer of the great Spark of all of creation.

As I relax into a perspective of creating as Consciousness, it really doesn’t matter how much or how little I have achieved. It’s all about Creation. It’s all about playfully creating in the physical. I either manifest something, or I don’t. It either happens now, or later, or not. I create this, or I create something else. And I can choose to create happy thoughts, happy experiences, or challenging ones.

When I shift to navigating life as Consciousness, what shows up is bigger than my little mind can imagine.

And when you add the awareness of Parallel Universes into the mix, you realize that you as Consciousness are simultaneously experiencing other possibilities within this storyline. There's a parallel self that has experienced success earlier in life, there's a parallel self that is already experiencing whatever I want to create right now.

Whatever you want to create, it already exists, you just need to step into the Universe where you already have it.

It becomes a much more fun way to experience life. And I can welcome all these wonderful things coming into my life and enjoy my time with them Now. Which is really the only time there is.

Revised 2017, original post from 2009 

Parallel Universes part deux

(c)2010 Joan Newcomb

In Jean Huston's book, 'The Possible Human', she tells about a time when she knew she would die.  It was a pervasive feeling, going on for several months.  Then one evening she and her father were on the way to a dinner where she was to speak, and narrowly missed being in the middle of a multi-car pileup on the freeway.  For the rest of the evening, and through the next day, she felt like a parallel self had actually been in the accident.  She could feel the sensations from the other experience.

Every time we turn left instead of right, decide to do one thing but not the other, a parallel self splits off in the other direction.  If you can imagine how many millions, even billions of times you've done that in your life, that's how many parallel universes there are behind you.  And there are that many, even more, ahead of you.  And that's just in this dimension.

What's comforting (and exciting) about this is that there are no mistakes.  You did stay in San Franscisco instead of moving to Seattle in 1981.  You pursued your dream of becoming an actress instead of giving it up.  You didn't turn down that proposal of marriage (to a future founder of Microsoft).  You kept the child you gave up for adoption.  You had different parents.  You had different siblings.  There are infinite possibilities out there and an aspect of you is living every one.

I use Parallel Universes in different ways in my Matrix Energetics practice.  I 'two point' a parallel universe to 'download' an experience that would be useful in present time.  For instance, in healing a cat I 'two-pointed' a parallel universe where cats live to be 110.  It helped the feline live to be 20 (what is that, in cat years?).  Someone had an abusive childhood, we two-point to a parallel universe where it didn't happen.  It doesn't invalidate the experience they had in this current reality, but it helps them not continue to be scarred by it.

I also invented a Parallel Universe technique for getting unstuck.  Imagine in front of you there are numerous doors, all leading to different parallel universes.  Use your hand to feel them and notice which one feels stuck or dark - it's usually the one right in front of you, indicating the direction you're currently going.  Feel around for a door that opens easily, feels light or bright.  Step through it, and you've changed your reality.

I came up with this at a Matrix seminar that I'd been working at.  It was the end of an intense weekend and I was checking out of the hotel.  I was going to have to contest a charge on my bill, and in the space I was in, there was no way they were going to take it off.  I realized that there was a parallel universe where the outcome was different, so I began, as unobtrusively as I could, to step in different places.  The first place didn't feel right, nor did the second, but when I stepped to the side, a new hotel employee came out from the back and immediately called me over.  It turned out to be the front desk manager, who was the one person empowered to reverse the charges!

This technique reminds me of changing lanes on the freeway.  If you stay in one lane the entire trip, you may get bogged down in traffic.  A simple lane change or two gets you there faster (and more stress-free)!

A way I use parallel universes now, in order to shift the state I'm in, is to imagine I'm walking through a series of doors.  Think of the beginning of the old TV show 'Get Smart'.  I've done this when I'm working at East West.  It's about a two-hour commute from where I live, by ferry and I-5, and some days after fighting traffic, I really need to shift my state.  After parking my car, I imagine doors opening and closing as I walk towards the bookshop, and by the time I go in, things have completely changed!  (I will also do this while driving, imagining that I'm driving through the doors, and it can change the traffic as well).

The series of doors is helpful when you need to make incremental shifts to get to where you want to be.

Even though I have a vague intention for things to shift, I don't try to get more specific than that.  Otherwise you're trying to control, manipulate or fix your reality, which creates effort and stops things from happening.  Just noticing which door is brighter or moves more easily, or just imaging a series of doors opening and closing, leaves room for infinite possibilities to occur.

It also doesn't work to imagine doors opening and closing for someone else (or to someone else).  I mention this to all the clients who want me to help improve or change their spouses or children!  However, *you* changing yourself has a ripple effect into your life, and others can transform simply because your energy has changed.

As we're going into the holidays, you may find these techniques useful to play with.  You can shift your visit with your relatives by stepping into a parallel universe where everyone likes eachother.  Or you may find, by shifting your state, the key people who irritate you don't show up for the family events!  If you worry you'll be experiencing a less-than-abundant Christmas, step through a series of doors towards a different reality.

Try any or all of these techniques over the next week and see what happens!