How can a person attain enlightenment? The answer is here. This is the first of two steps in the Enlightenment series …

VIDEO BY ALICE

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SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Image: Red Garnet Inclusion in a Diamond,” by Stephen Richardson, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 24 October 2019, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garnet_inclusion_in_diamond.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic …

DESCRIPTION: “Inclusions in diamond such as this garnet provide a window in the the Earth’s deep interior.” …

COMMENT: This red garnet in an uncut diamond reminds me of how yogic breathing techniques can calm the mind, soothe the emotions, and unite the subconscious and conscious minds through the light of Soul Awareness. –Alice B. Clagett

Introduction

This is the first of a two-blog series on Enlightenment. I start off with an explanation of the Incoming Light at times of High Light on Earth. This High Light can cause a person to take more Light into their personal energy field, or to flee from the Light and to acquire more Darkness in their personal energy field.

Why is that? The answer has to do with the way that we react to threat energy.  The way that we react often has to do with automatic conditioning … habit … rather than conscious thinking.

How we react to the novel condition of greater Incoming Light … especially during annual equinoxes and solstices, during astronomical gateways, during geostorms, during Earth-directed solar wind gusts, and during intervals of Solar Maximums … has a very great deal to do with whether we continue on the path to Enlightenment, or whether we retreat to Dark ground perceived as more safe.

My feeling is, the more we bring our subconscious responses to threat energy to the Light of our Awareness, the more likely it is that we will be able to react to threat energy in the way most helpful to our survival.  Will it be fight or flight? Will it be freeze, fawn, or flop?

Do we have the tools at hand to avoid using any of these defense mechanisms? Can we find a way to settle our minds, bodies, and emotions so that we can seek the life-preserving and lifeline-extending benefits of a higher wattage personal energy field? Will we clam up, or will we seek Enlightenment during times of High Light? The next section will explore these questions.

Human Responses to the Prospect of Change: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, or Flop?

“Responses to the Prospect of Change,” by Alice B. Clagett, 16 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: The image contains these words: Responses to the Prospect of Change: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Flop, Fall over dead.

In the past, I have put forth that solar events such as geostorms can cause the fight response (which I term ‘acting out’) or the flight response (generalized anxiety or panic attack, since the threat is not physical). Later I read, and immediately saw the truth of, the notion that there is another possible response to a perceived threat … that is the freeze-and-dissociate response (which, for the sake of simplicity, I term the freeze response) …

Link: “Trauma and the Freeze Response: Good, Bad, or Both? Have You Ever Been So Paralyzed by Fear that You Simply Dissociated from It All?” by Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., 8 July 2015, in Psychology Today …  https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201507/trauma-and-the-freeze-response-good-bad-or-both ..

Later on I found there are three more possible responses to the prospect of change; these are the fawn response, the flop response … and in the most desperate instance, falling over dead due to shock.

When I read about these bodily responses to perceived threats, I was immediately taken back to my youth, out in the countryside, where I saw our family German Shepherd enthusiastically digging up a rabbit burrow, and uncovering a little rabbit inside the burrow. Clearly the rabbit was frozen with fear … It ‘shrank into itself’  … With great concern, I picked it up. It looked to me like the rabbit was paralyzed, unseeing, unfeeling … completely unresponsive.

Looking back to those days, when I found a little wild animal ‘frozen in fear’ back then, in the countryside, I feel it must have been exhibiting the freeze response  …

Image: Freeze Response in a Deer, by Fabrice Florin, 7 July 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deer_staring_into_headlights.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic … DESCRIPTION: “Deer on road at night transfixed, staring into headlights. Mill Valley, Marin Avenue.”

Then sometimes a wild animal would come to its senses, and run away. That was the flight response …

I remember a wounded chipmunk once came back to its senses and bit me. That was the fight response …

Image: “A Dog and a Cat Exhibiting the Fight-or-Flight Response,” by Peretz Partensky, 16 September 2009, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dog_and_cat_showing_fight_or_flight_responses.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic … COMMENT: It is the dog that is exhibiting the flight response, and the cat that is exhibiting the fight response. –Alice B. Clagett

Sometimes a little wild animal would act friendly towards me. This is known as the fawn response.

Image: Fawn Response in a Female Boxer Puppy, by Morten Skovgaard, 25 May 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boxer_puppy_fawn_portrai.jpg … CC BY 2.0 Generic

Sometimes a tiny wild animal would faint when it saw me or my German Shepherd. This is known as the flop response …

Image: Flop Response [Fainting], by Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Stothard_-_Solicitude,_A_Man_Supporting_a_Fainting_Woman_-_B1977.14.5598_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: “Solicitude: A Man Supporting a Fainting Woman.”

And sometimes a small wild animal, especially a baby animal, would simply die in my hand. I guess their hearts just stopped beating out of fear. That is an extreme version of response to a perceived threat … one that I have not seen in human beings.

So then, these are the possible physical responses that wild animals may employ when faced with danger: To fight, to flee, to freeze, to act in a fawning manner, to flop (or faint), or simply to lie down and die. I have seen human beings exhibit all but the last response when faced with great stress.

We Humans Are Beginning to Sense the Angst of Our Body Cells During the Ascension Process

Earth’s Ascension is posited to be happening because of our Solar System’s entry into the Photon Belt … the greater Light of the Pleiades … during the 2012 Shift.

Image: “The Pleiades,” by NASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar Observatory, 1 June 2004, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.png … public domain …  DESCRIPTION: “The Pleiades, an open cluster consisting of approximately 3,000 stars at a distance of 400 light-years (120 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. It is also known as ‘The Seven Sisters’, or the astronomical designations NGC 1432/35 and M45.”

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When the 2012 Shift occurred and the greater Light of the Pleiades began to bless our planet, the Ascension process began on our beloved planet Earth. That is the lore that we Lightworkers, pathfinders, wayshowers and healers have to provide regarding the many changes that are taking place on Earth today.

Our Body Cells and Their Electrical Phone Lines

Image: “Diagram of basic neuron and components,” by Jennifer Walinga, 17 October 2014, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Components_of_neuron.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

COMMENT: It is not just nerve cells or ‘neurons’ that communicate electrically. An online search will confirm that even onion root cells are thought to communicate by means of photons. Lightworkers call this the ‘language of Light’.

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Since 2012, every being on Earth has changed. Not the least of these are the tiny beings we think of as our body cells. Each of us human beings has about 30 trillion of these tiny, helpful beings in our care as we live out our lives on Earth.

Our body cells sing ‘the body electric’ even more clearly than we human beings do. They are intimately attuned to changes in their own electric fields. They communicate with each other with ‘electrical phone lines’. This intercellular ‘Light speak’ is, I feel, essential to their coordination of human bodily function.

The body cells are very, very conservative. Any little prospect of change throws them into a tizzy. Being flooded with ramped-up photonic Light during a Solar Event is one such stimulus, and one that humankind is beginning to be aware of due to the fact that we are slowly but surely becoming clairly EMF-sensitive because of the changes in the Incoming Light since the 2012 Shift.

As we humans become more gifted with clair abilities such as clairaudience, clairvoyance, and EMF sensitivity (which is to say, Light sensitivity), we begin to notice the angst felt by our trillions of body cells when changes occur in Earth’s magnetosphere.

Changes in Earth’s magnetosphere are, in the main, the result of Solar events such as geostorms and solar winds. These events occur most frequently during Solar Maximums such as that which we are now experiencing here on Earth.

As the Solar activity during Solar Maximums …

Image: “Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun,” by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 31 August 2012, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Generic … DESCRIPTION: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth’s magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. Pictured here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Cropped … COMMENT: It is usually the case that images of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupting from the lefthand side of NASA images of the Sun do not result in geostorms on Earth. The CMEs that have Earth-directed components, in my experience, are those on the righthand side of the NASA images of the Sun, especially those near or just beyond the righthand edge of the NASA images.

… and the changes in our planet’s Light caused by annual Solar events such as the solstices and equinoxes …

Image: “Two equinoxes are shown as the intersection of the ecliptic and celestial Ecuador, and the solstice’s times of the year in which the Sun reaches its maximum southern or northern position (ENGLISH),” by Divad, 1 June 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Equinoxes-solstice_EN.svg … public domain

… engulf and transform our planet, often without our conscious Awareness, our bodies will go into fight, flight, freeze, fawn or flop mode. Why is that?

Here is one reason that is often overlooked: Our body cells sense these Solar events as disruptions in their mutual ‘Light speak’. It is their feeling that all is not right in their world during magnetospheric fluctuations that greatly amps up our human fight, flight, freeze, fawn or flop response during post-Shift Solar events.

Now that humankind is clairly gifted, our sense of our body cells’ angst at these times can make our own response to these events 30 trillion times more intense – or thereabouts!

More Information

I looked up online the difference between Light and electricity and read that Light is just electricity that goes along a line or wire.

If body cells can communicate despite a glass barrier, as described in the below-cited scientific article, then that must be cellular language of Light, I suppose.

Then if Light is travelling along the ‘axon’ or ‘arm’ of a cell, maybe it had best be termed ‘electricity’.

Link: “Cellular Communication Through Light,” by Daniel Fels, 1 April 2009, in Pub Med.gov … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19340303/ … PLoS One. 2009;4(4):e5086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005086. Epub 2009 Apr 1 ..

Solar Maximums and Solar Events Bless Us with Many Ascension Gifts

Here in this earthly realm of Duality, Solar Maximums and Solar events have their pluses as well as their minuses. We may be feeling stressed out during these times, without being able to put a finger on the why and wherefore of it. But the temporary changes in our electric fields during these events herald our transformation to a state of being that we Lightworkers term the New Human. Here is just a little about how this transformation is taking place …

One of our subtle bodies is the body of Light …

Image: “Body of Light,” composite drawing adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 19 April 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0 … CREDIT: Adapted from Image: “How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold the Achievements of Galahad, by Arthur Rackham, 191, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sangreal.jpg … public domain … COMMENT: Pre-Raphaelite art at this time often represented contemporary interest in the ‘spirit body’, ‘aura’ or ‘body of light’.

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Saturation of this subtle body with the Incoming Light is all for the good, as the amped up Light is said to instruct our DNA on how to unfold from the 2-strand ramped-down mode that keeps our physical bodies functional during the Great Ages of Darkness to the full 12-strand state we can enjoy during the current Age of Light. That is the Lightworker lore.

The Great Ages of Darkness are said to last 10,500 very long years; and the Ages of Light are said to last 2,000 years …

Link: “The Photon Belt: The Coming of a New Age,” from Burlington News … https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/esp_cinturon_fotones_6.htm …

The most recent Great Age of Darkness is said to have ended in December 2012, and so now our DNA is thought to be unfurling once again …

Image: DNA, by Madprime, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_chemical_structure.svg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: “Chemical structure of DNA, with colored label identifying the four bases as well as the phosphate and deoxyribose components of the backbone.”

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Expansion of our DNA is, I feel, a great gift to humankind. It is a gift that is sought after by many during the Great Ages of Darkness, with nearly no success. But during this Great Age of Light, this gift is available to everyone on Earth. I speak with confidence, even though science has not yet stepped up to the plate in this regard. That is because I myself have felt, within my own energy field, the miracles that occur during Light upgrades.

Here are some of the good things that can occur as the Incoming Light unfurls our DNA …

We begin to access our Ascension benefits. For more on this, see my blog category: Ascension benefits

Another good thing that can happen as our DNA unfurls is that we can access the secrets of physical regeneration. For more on this, go to Judy Satori’s website “Ascension Library” … https://www.ascensionlibrary.org/ … and search for the word: Regeneration

Another good thing is that we can access the many new clair abilities. I found online a well-thought-out list by Emily Matweow to do with the new clairs …

Link: “‘Meet the Clairs’ – 10 Kinds of Intuition – December 2019: Clair Refers to Our Physical and Intuitive Senses,” by Emily Matweow … http://www.okinhealth.com/articles/10-clairsenses-intuition-emily-matweow ..

Last but not least, we can be transformed from a plodding-along condition of being bound down within a particular time-space continuum to the dimensional and temporal freedom we will enjoy as multidimensional and multitemporal beings …

Image: “First Summer,” by Heinrich Vogeler, 1902, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrich_Vogeler_Erster_Sommer_1902.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: I like this image as a symbolic representation of our transformation to a New Human during Ascension. It is as if we lose our darker, earlier physical form and become bright with Light, like the little child in the image. –Alice B. Clagett

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For more on multidimensionality and multitemporality , see my blog categories and their subcategories: Dimensions – multidimensionality – veils  … and …  Timelines – multitemporality ..

Summary

To be concise, our wonderful new Ascension gifts depend upon expansion of our DNA during post-Shift Solar events, especially during Solar Maximums such as that which we are now experiencing here on Earth.

However, the kicking in of the fight, flight, freeze, fawn or flop responses, which are based on animal survival mechanisms, is causing some uncomfortable effects during the DNA amp-up process.

I have noticed a few more drawbacks to the process of change upon which humankind has so recently embarked. These will be discussed in the next subsection.

Ascension Symptoms, Astral Chatter, Acting Out, the Glom Effect, and Mass Hysteria

Image: “Cloisters Apocalypse,” by an anonymous Medieval artist, circa 1330, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloisters_Apocalypse_-_Dragon_wages_war.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: The many-headed dragon might be said to represent (among other things) the Ascension drawbacks we must skillfully dispense with, sidestep, or overcome as we are transformed by the Light of New Life on New Earth. –by Alice B. Clagett

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Introduction

This section describes some of the drawbacks of the Ascension process. For instance …

• During the Ascension process, people may experience what Lightworkers term ‘Ascension symptoms’.
• During periods of noospheric dissonance, those among us who are now clairvoyant are likely to hear what I term negatively aspected ‘astral chatter’.
• This astral chatter can goad people to acts of violence. This is not just something for telepaths to look out for and to avoid, but also it is a concern for people who only subconsciously sense the circulating thought forms of this world. I term this ‘acting out’.
• Because of what I have dubbed the ‘glom effect’, astral stories well up in the collective subconscious and find expression as collectively experienced violent daydreams and night dreams.
• The glom effect can lead … and in fact has led … to incidents of mass hysteria or ‘mass psychogenic illness’, often on a small scale, but sometimes on a scale that is grand indeed. Perusal of the newspaper headlines since the 2012 Shift provides a ‘heads up’ as to the mass hysterical incidents we need to sidestep in order to be safe during these times of change.

There is more on each of these drawbacks of the Ascension process below …

Ascension Symptoms

Discerning people have noted a host of physical, mental and emotional ‘Ascension symptoms’ …

Image: “Ascension Symptoms,” by Alice B. Clagett, 15 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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… including, among others, a stressed-out feeling; insomnia, or else sleeping for a long time; vivid or violent dreams; loss of appetite, or else greater desire to eat; aches and pains; ultra-heightened physical senses; emotional ups and downs; memory loss; intolerance for the ordinary; a feeling of not belonging; the experience of being outcast; wanting to ‘go home’; and time and space ‘skips and skids’.

Most of the items on the list are from a wonderful blog put together by Cedar Rivers in the early days of the Shift, and still available online today …

Link: “Ascension Upgrades – From Homo Sapien to Homo Luminous,” by Cedar Rivers … https://www.cedar-rivers.com/articles/consciousness-spirituality/70-ascension-symptoms-from-homo-sapien-to-homo-luminous.html .. 

At this moment it might be good to highlight the last four items on the Ascension symptoms list. These are intolerance for the ordinary, a feeling of not belonging, the experience of being outcast, wanting to ‘go home’, and the temporal and dimensional ‘skips and skids’ that occur as we begin to wield our mighty new multidimensional and multitemporal Ascensioneer skills.

This image, I feel, provides a clue about how to hold these feelings in a context that is uplifting and which offers a way out of feelings of social isolation during these difficult times. My thoughts on the relevance of the painting are in the Comments below …

Image: “A Eunuch’s Dream,” by Jean Lecomte du Nouy, 1874, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Lecomte_du_Nou%C3%BF_-_A_Eunuch%27s_Dream_-_1991.173_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg … public domain …

COMMENTS: I know the gender of the person in the painting is opposite of mine, but nevertheless this image reminds me of a feeling I have had during the Ascension process, that I may never again enjoy what I learned in childhood was the norm for humankind; that Ascension is bringing about a realignment of spiritual bonding not so much with our Earth families … not so much with a spouse and with our children … as with our Ascension teams that relate to us on a spiritual level.

Unlike the eunuch in the painting, we may still have our Earth families, or we may have the prospect of having a real-life Earth family. But the love that we feel for them flows, with the help of the Angelic Realm, through our Spirits to that vast realm of God consciousness, and back again into those we love. –Alice B. Clagett

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In my own writings, I use the terms ‘Ascension benefits’ and ‘Ascension symptoms’ for some of the good and bad things I have been experiencing post-Shift. For more on these, search my blog categories: Ascension benefits  … and …  Ascension symptoms

Noospheric Dissonance and Astral Chatter

Image: “Noosphere,” by Maksim Sokolov, 4 July 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noosphere_by_Philip_Beesley.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … DESCRIPTION: “Image made at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto” …

COMMENT: To me, this looks like what I term ‘noospheric dissonance’. –Alice B. Clagett

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I have found that there are post-Shift issues with astral chatter (super-sensitization to telepathy, both human and non-human). Some people are aware of these issues; others are just awakening to Awareness of these issues; and quite a few people are experiencing the symptoms, but as yet only on a subconscious level.

The topic of astral chatter is more fully discussed in this blog …

Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and on 18 June 2022 through October 2022 …   https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y … Search for “11. Astrogeophysical Gateway Events Proffer Ascension Gifts from the Laniakea Supercluster” … Look for the subsection “The Obstacle During Gateway Events Is Negative Astral Chatter.”

Acting Out

Because for many people on Earth today there is subconscious turmoil going on, there can be a feeling of being ‘goaded’ into ‘acting out’ of astral stories and of collectively subconsciously produced vivid waking dreams. To find out more about this, see my blog category: Acting out …

Image: “The Strangled Woman,” by Paul Cezanne, between 1875 and 1876, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cezanne_-_Die_erw%C3%BCrgte_Frau.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: If the astral airs prove true, murder of a wife or girlfriend is an important form of ‘acting out’ to look out for and to avoid during the Ascension process. When in doubt, just get out of physical reach! Or so it is often said. This is especially good advice during the ups and downs of Ascension. –Alice B. Clagett

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The Glom Effect

There is a phenomenon that I term the ‘glom effect’ …

Image: “Balinese Stone Carvings Found in Ubud,” by Jordy Meow, 10 August 2010, in  Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balinese_Stone_Carvings.jpg … CC BY 3.0 Unported …

COMMENT: This seems to me to be a good representation of the daydreaming and night-dreaming astral phenomenon I dub the ‘glom effect’. –Alice B. Clagett

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Briefly, it seems to me that the glom effect takes place when groups of people daydream together, or when they have dreams together while sleeping. I say this because, as a telepath, on the astral plane I often hear people glomming together in their daydreams and in their nightly dreams.

This glomming of thought forms seems to be a unique feature of Earth life. It appears to me, from my telepathic observations of gloms, that these gloms help communities of human beings adhere together and resolve problems that arise in the communities …

Image: “The Halt in the Desert,” by Richard Dadd, circa 1845, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The-halt-in-the-desert-richard-dadd.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: Possibly because of the nighttime setting and the peaceful feeling of the scene, this image reminds me of how dream gloms help a community to resolve conflicts and to strengthen tribal bonds. –Alice B. Clagett

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How this may occur appears to me to be through the action of the people’s superconscious minds on their subconscious and unconscious minds while the people are in a dream state.

Most people are as yet unable to take it on faith that they have a superconscious mind, but the healing and restorative effect of people daydreaming and night-dreaming together implies that such a mind exists …

Image: “The Judgment of Solomon,” by William Blake, between circa 1799 and circa 1800, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake_-_The_Judgment_of_Solomon.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: Red-robed King Solomon is resolving a dispute between two women as to which is the mother of a toddler. King Solomon seems to me to represent the superconscious mind, which I feel brings about a healing and restorative effect on people through daydreams and night dreaming.

The combined efforts of the superconscious minds of many people as they glom together on the astral plane while dreaming, I feel, result in ‘smoothing of troubled waters’ and restoration of tribal consciousness in groups of people. –Alice B. Clagett

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In a famous quote in his play “Macbeth,” Shakespeare referred to “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, / The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, / Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”

If the meter or rhythm of the passage were to have allowed it, I feel he might have substituted ‘the superconscious mind’ for the word ‘sleep’. Then I would have completely agreed with him. It is, I feel, the superconscious mind, acting upon our energy fields while we sleep, that directs our life’s play, healing the wounds of yesterday, and readying us for each new day.

For the psychiatrists and psychologists among my readers, here is a thought: Might it not be that Jung’s concept of self-actualization presupposes the existence of a superconscious mind in each of us? I feel this to be true, and my telepathic observations of the glom effect that occurs in other people while they dream together support my understanding that all people’s minds include a guiding, healing, and restorative superconscious mind as well … though, truth to tell, it seems that very few people are aware of this …

Image: “A Measure of Dreams,” by Arthur Bowen Davies, circa 1908, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Measure_of_Dreams_MET_ap09.72.4.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: This painting represents, I feel, the restorative power of dreams. May it not be that the source of this restorative power is what I term the superconscious mind? Deep in my heart, I feel this to be true. –Alice B. Clagett

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To find out more about this effect, see my blog category: Glom effect …

Mass Hysteria: Shared Vivid Waking Dreams

Image: “Dance at Molenbeek,” by Pieter Breughel the Younger (1564-1638), unknown date, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dance_at_Molenbeek.jpg … public domain … 

DESCRIPTION: “A depiction of dancing mania, on the pilgrimage of epileptics to the church at Molenbeek” … “Dancing plagues of the Middle Ages are thought to have been caused by mass hysteria.”

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As many have said, Earth is the school of Duality. Where great benefits are to be had, there may be great drawbacks as well. I have described above these post-Shift phenomena: What is termed by others ‘noospheric dissonance’ and what I term ‘astral chatter’; ‘acting out’; and the ‘glom effect’.

These are factors in what might be termed ‘shared vivid waking dreams’ that seem to have been rising to the Awareness of many people since the 2012 Shift. It seems to me that these ‘shared vivid waking dreams’ might be akin to what psychologists and psychiatrists term ‘mass hysteria’ or ‘mass psychogenic illness’. Sometimes these shared vivid waking dreams are simply suffered through on the astral plane by a group of people. Other times emotional momentum builds up on the astral plane, and one or two people … or maybe many people … ‘act out’ on the physical plane some aspect of the ‘shared vivid waking dreams’ …

Government-Localized Mass Hysteria – Russian Invasion of the Ukraine. One such instance of mass hysteria, I feel, is Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine in February 2022. I feel certain that this incursion had to do with Ascension symptoms experienced by Russian leaders, who, by God’s grace, seem to me now, as of this writing in September 2022, to be stepping back from that aggressive stance.

What a price has been paid, in terms of human suffering, in this instance of a ‘shared vivid waking dream’ to do with soldierly honor and willingness to suffer for one’s country! Is it not so?

Image: “Dream of Polish Volunteers in French Trenches,” by Jan Styke, before 1925, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dream_of_Polish_volunteers_in_French_army_1914.JPG … public domain

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Global Mass Hysteria – Panic Response to the COVID Pandemic. Here is what I feel to be another instance of mass hysteria: I feel certain that my discerning readers have noticed great masses of people … including those who make the laws in government … exhibiting this or that stress response to the COVID pandemic of March 2020. Like all the people on Earth today, some of our lawmakers responded to the COVID pandemic by fighting, or by fleeing, or through the freeze, fawn, or flop responses.

I noticed only the other day, in mid-September 2022, that those who make the laws for my California county have finally snapped out of the freeze response and repealed a clearly illegal tenant eviction protection law that has been in place since near the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

I also feel a case could be made for the COVID pandemic globally as an instance of mass hysteria egged on by catastrophic media reports …

Image: “Poem of the Soul – The Nightmare,” by Louis Janmot, 1854, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_poeme_de_lAme-08-Louis_Janmot-MBA_Lyon-IMG_0491.jpg … public domain …

COMMENT: This haunting image reminds me of the mass hysteria that characterized the 2020 COVID epidemic. Death was after everyone, or so it seemed. Is it not so? –Alice B. Clagett

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Medium-Sized Town Mass Hysteria – Upwelling of Rape Energy. In the last Solar Maximum I noticed a similar case of mass hysteria as noospheric threads of rape energy (both animal and human) cleared in a medium-sized Western town …

Conclusion

Image: “Unconscious of Danger,” by Seymour Joseph Guy, 1865, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seymour_Joseph_Guy_-_Unconscious_of_Danger_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg … public domain

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In the instance of the Western town, I was able to change locations and escape the mass hysteria. But in the current Solar Maximum, and what with the goading of mass media, the COVID mass hysteria has been a global event.

To what destination may an awakened human being flee, in such an instance? How can the awakened human being fight everyone on the globe? What good are the freeze, fawn or flop responses to the awakened human during such a global catastrophe? They are very little use at all, I feel.

During instances of mass hysteria to do with the Ascension process … during Solar events post-Shift, such as the solstices, equinoxes and gateways … and especially now, during the geostorms and solar wind gusts of the Solar Maximum … I feel it would be good to avoid the fight or flight and freeze, fawn or flop responses.

If we become aware that we are responding aggressively to everyday situations, or if we are overly anxious, or if we just feel like withdrawing and hiding from it all, there are very simple remedies, which have to do with the breath and the ancient science of yoga (which is to say, the yoking of our energy fields with the Universe and with God). The why, the ‘wherefore’, and the ‘how-to’ are coming up next …

The Human Personal Energy Field: Power Currents and Energy Centers

In this section I have picked and chosen those yogic and Lightworker techniques that help me to attain ‘neutral mind’. I have added an overlay of understanding that I feel helps synthesize the teachings of those who channel Ascension lore with the ancient esoteric teachings. Insofar as possible, I have dovetailed in what information I could glean from psychology, psychiatry, and human biology. Then where it seems the Creative Commons and public domain images available online might be more simply depicted, I have devised and added new images for my readers’ perusal.

Let’s begin at the beginning: The human personal energy field has within it power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) and energy centers (chakras).

There are three main power currents in the human personal energy field. Depicted below is the first of these, the sushumna, through which flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The sushumna is shown as a column of white Light that runs vertically along the spine …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 1: Sushumna,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. Depicted is the first of these, the sushumna, through which flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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Along the central vertical power current are the main energy centers or ‘chakras’ of the human energy field. In the image below, personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the person’s torso) are depicted as spheres of Light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 2: Sushumna and Personal Chakras,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. Depicted is the first of these, the sushumna, through which flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine. Personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the torso) are depicted as spheres of light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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You can find out more about the chakras as they were explained to me long ago in the article “The Chakra System” by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) …

Link: “The Chakra System,” by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) … https://www.3ho.org/article/the-chakra-system/ ..

See also my blog category: Chakras … and its subcategories.

The next image symbolically portrays a detail of the third-eye point (the 6th chakra or ‘ajna’) and the crown chakra (the 7th chakra or ‘many-petaled lotus’). The indigo sphere of Light at the level of the eyebrows (or slightly higher) represents the third-eye point. The violet sphere of Light at the top of the head represents the crown chakra.

These two are related to the pituitary gland and the pineal gland, respectively, which are located quite close together in the human brain. In the image, I represent their close association as the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus flower itself that is In the image symbolically represents the crown chakra …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 3: Sushumna and Personal Chakras with Third-Eye Point and Crown Chakra Detail,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. Depicted is the first of these, the sushumna, through which flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine. Personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the torso) are depicted as spheres of light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The indigo sphere of light at the level of the eyebrows (or slightly higher) represents the third-eye point (the 6th chakra or ‘ajna’). The violet sphere of light at the top of the head represents the crown chakra (the 7th chakra or ‘many-petaled lotus’). These two are related to the pituitary gland and the pineal gland, which are located quite close together in the human brain. I represent their close association in the drawing as the stem of the lotus flower … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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Pictured next is the second of the three main energy currents of the human personal energy field, the ida, which is shown as a wavy white line of Light originating at the left side of the base of the spine (which is to say, on the right side of the image as viewed by my reader).

The cooling and relaxing energy of the ida courses upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (the 6th chakra). This energy flows through the left nostril and affects the right hemisphere of the brain, which is related to intuition, imagination, and creativity …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 4: Ida, Sushumna, and Personal Chakras with Third-Eye Point and Crown Chakra Detail,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. Depicted are two of these, the sushumna and the ida. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine. Through the sushumna flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The ida is shown as a wavy white line of light originating at the left side of the base of the spine, coursing upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (6th chakra). The cooling and relaxing energy of the ida courses through the left nostril. Personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the torso) are depicted as spheres of light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The indigo sphere of light at the level of the eyebrows (or slightly higher) represents the third-eye point (the 6th chakra or ‘ajna’). The violet sphere of light at the top of the head represents the crown chakra (the 7th chakra or ‘many-petaled lotus’). These two are related to the pituitary gland and the pineal gland, which are located quite close together in the human brain. I represent their close association in the drawing as the stem of the lotus flower … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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This next image shows the third of the three main energy currents of the human personal energy field, the pingala, which is shown as a wavy tawny-colored line of Light originating at the right side of the base of the spine (which is to say, on the left side of the image as viewed by my reader).

The warming and invigorating energy of the pingala courses upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (the 6th chakra). This energy flows through the right nostril and affects the left hemisphere of the brain, which is related to analytical, logical, and scientific ways of thinking …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 5: Pingala, Sushumna, and Personal Chakras with Third-Eye Point and Crown Chakra Detail,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. Depicted are two of these, the sushumna and the pingala. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine. Through the sushumna flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The pingala is shown as a wavy tawny-colored line of light originating at the right side of the base of the spine, coursing upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (6th chakra). The warming and invigorating energy of the pingala courses through the right nostril. Personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the torso) are depicted as spheres of light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The indigo sphere of light at the level of the eyebrows (or slightly higher) represents the third-eye point (the 6th chakra or ‘ajna’). The violet sphere of light at the top of the head represents the crown chakra (the 7th chakra or ‘many-petaled lotus’). These two are related to the pituitary gland and the pineal gland, which are located quite close together in the human brain. I represent their close association in the drawing as the stem of the lotus flower … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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The Sushumna, the Ida and the Pingala

All three main power currents of the human personal energy field, along with the main power centers, are depicted in the below image …

Image Markup: “Human Personal Energy Field 6: Ida, Pingala, Sushumna, and Personal Chakras with Third-Eye Point and Crown Chakra Detail,” by Alice B. Clagett, 10 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Woman standing, facing forward. There are three main power currents (‘nerve currents’ or ‘nadis’) in the human personal energy field. These are the ida, the pingala, and the sushumna. The sushumna is shown as a column of white light that runs vertically along the spine. Through the sushumna flows the central vertical power current or ‘kundalini’ of the human energy field. The ida is shown as a wavy white line of light originating at the left side of the base of the spine, coursing upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (6^th chakra). The cooling and relaxing energy of the ida courses through the left nostril. The pingala is shown as a wavy tawny-colored line of light originating at the right side of the base of the spine, coursing upward through the chakras to the third-eye point (6^th chakra). The warming and invigorating energy of the pingala courses through the right nostril. Personal chakras 1 through 7 (those within the torso) are depicted as spheres of light. The colors, from lowest to highest, are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The indigo sphere of light at the level of the eyebrows (or slightly higher) represents the third-eye point (the 6^th chakra or ‘ajna’). The violet sphere of light at the top of the head represents the crown chakra (the 7^th chakra or ‘many-petaled lotus’). These two are related to the pituitary gland and the pineal gland, which are located quite close together in the human brain. I represent their close association in the drawing as the stem of the lotus flower … CREDITS: Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

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About the Sushumna

As mentioned above, the sushumna is the central channel through which the central vertical power current (the ‘kundalini’ energy) is able to rise after the energies of the ida and the pingala are evenly balanced.

Entwined with the energy of the sushumna are the power currents termed the ida and the pingala. These two energies have qualities very different, each from the other.

Qualities of the Ida

The energy of the ida, which is stimulated by left-nostril breathing, is associated with …

• the moon, the feminine side of our personalities
• the color white
• comfort, coolness, and nurturing
• control of mental processes
• the right side of the brain, and intuitive, imaginative, and creative thought
• the parasympathetic nervous system, which relaxes the body; this relaxing quality may, I feel, be a factor in manifestation of the freeze, fawn, and flop responses

Qualities of the Pingala

The energy of the pingala, which is stimulated by right-nostril breathing, is associated with …

• the sun, the masculine side of our personalities
• the color red
• tawniness, warmth, stimulation
• control of vital somatic processes
• the left side of the brain, and analytical, logical, and scientific thought
• and the sympathetic nervous system, which activates the fight-or-flight response

More Information

Link: “Nadi (yoga),” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga) … Search for the term: Three channels (nadis)

How the Subconscious Mind and the Autonomic Nervous System Relate to the Ida and the Pingala

Here is an image of the autonomic nervous system (the ANS) …

Image: “Anatomy of the Innervation of the Autonomic Nervous System, Whose Branches Are the Sympathetic (Red) and the Parasympathetic (Blue) Nervous Systems, by Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897). Plate 839, before 1858, from “Anatomy of the Human Body,” by Henry Gray, revised by Warren H. Lewis, 1918 … in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray839.png … public domain ..

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The autonomic nervous system, I feel, is associated with the subconscious mind, known in esoteric lore as the lower mental body and sometimes referred to in my work as the ‘gut brain’ …

Link: “Autonomic Nervous System,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system .. 

According to modern medical lore, the autonomic nervous system has two branches; these are the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system.

The action of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems is ‘opposite’ or ‘antagonistic’. That is to say, they have opposing effects. These effects may be likened, respectively, to the qualities of the ida and the pingala power currents that entwine along the sushumna.

The parasympathetic nervous system is said to be associated with the ‘freeze-and-dissociate’, ‘rest and digest’ and ‘feed and breed’ functions of the subconscious mind. Thus, I feel, it is related to the ida energy of yogic lore.

The sympathetic nervous system is said to be associated with the fight-or-flight response of the subconscious mind. Thus, I feel, it is related to the pingala energy of yogic lore.

As mentioned earlier, the ida is associated with breathing through the left nostril; and the pingala is associated with breathing through the right nostril. Thus I find, in my personal yogic practice, that stimulation of the ida through left-nostril breathing will stimulate the freeze response of the parasympathetic nervous system. I feel it may also factor into the fawn response and the flop response to a perceived threat.

Contrarily, stimulation of the pingala through right-nostril breathing, I find, will stimulate the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.

If you find this to be true (as did I), then you will have at hand a means of changing up your response to solstice and equinoctial energies, gateway events, and geostorms: By consciously breathing through the left nostril only, you can move out of the fight-or-flight response, and into the freeze response. (There will be more on left-nostril breathing and right-nostril breathing below.)

Our human breath naturally alternates between the left nostril and the right nostril during the day. A small scientific study has reported the interval for coursing of the breath through one nostril as being about 2 hours while waking and about 4 and a half hours while sleeping …

Link: “Measuring and Characterizing the Human Nasal Cycle,” by Roni Kahana-Zweig, Maya Geva-Sagiv, Aharon Weissbrod, Lavi Secundo, Nachum Soroker, and Noam Sobel, 6 October 2014, at National Library of Medicine (NIH) …PLoS One, 2016, 11(10):  e0162918 … https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053491/ ..

The alternation of the breath from nostril to nostril is nature’s way of balancing the energies of the ida and the pingala as they course along the spine.

Rather than wait that long to attain a balance of ida and pingala, we can consciously switch from left nostril breathing to right nostril breathing, and back again. This technique, which is called ‘alternate nostril breathing’, I find to be a sure way to deal with solstice and equinoctial energies, gateway events, and geostorms. More on alternate nostril breathing (and the companion technique known as ‘Long Deep Breathing’) below.

How to Inhibit the Fight-or-Flight and Freeze-Fawn-or-Flop Responses Through Yogic Breath

Putting it all together, we can consciously change the operation of the autonomic nervous system … and the subconscious mind … by practicing left-nostril or right-nostril breathing.

Left-Nostril Breathing inhibits the Fight-or-Flight Response

Left-nostril breathing has a calming, relaxing effect. It is easily practiced, even by a novice to the science of yoga.

While first learning left-nostril breathing, use the thumb of the right hand to close off the right nostril. The mouth is also closed. This forces the breath through the left nostril. The other fingers of the right hand are pointed up, like antennae.

Image Markup: “Left Nostril Breathing,” by Alice B. Clagett, 17 June 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Frontal self-portrait, head and shoulders. Thumb of right hand is blocking right nostril. Fingers of right hand are together, and extended upward. On left side of the image are the words: “Right Side of Body and Right Hand.” On the right side of the image are the words “Left Side of Body.”

After awhile, I found it was possible to switch to left-nostril breathing by simply placing my Awareness on the left nostril, and feeling the breath there … the hand pose was no longer needed.

Right-Nostril Breathing inhibits the Freeze, Fawn, and Flop Responses

Right-nostril breathing has an energizing effect. Thus it inhibits the freeze response, and also, I feel, the fawn response and the flop response. It is practiced like this …

While first learning right-nostril breathing, use the thumb of the left hand to close off the left nostril. The mouth is also closed. This forces the breath through the right nostril. The other fingers of the left hand are pointed up, like antennae.

Image Markup: “Right Nostril Breathing,” by Alice B. Clagett, 17 June 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Frontal self-portrait, head and shoulders. Thumb of left hand is blocking left nostril. Fingers of left hand are together, and extended upward. On left side of the image are the words: “Right Side of Body.” On the right side of the image are the words “Left Side of Body and Left Hand.”

In time, I found, it is possible to switch to right-nostril breathing by simply placing the Awareness on the right nostril, and feeling the breath there … the hand pose will no longer be needed.

Long Deep Breathing Creates the Yogic State of ‘Neutral Mind’

Image: “Long Deep Breathing,” self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 22 April 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Sitting with a straight spine, slowly fill the lungs up with air as if pouring water into a vase. Then exhale completely. Continue …

COMMENT: My hands are raised to show how the lungs feel full of air. While meditating, it is fine to leave your hands, palms up, on your knees. Some yoga groups do long deep breathing with hands in ‘gyan mudra’, whose description can be found online.

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The fight-or-flight response and the freeze, fawn, or flop responses can be suppressed through the yogic technique known as Long Deep Breathing. When the breath becomes long and deep, the feeling of the person facing stressful events becomes less involved in the outcome. The person becomes the neutral witness of the events that are unfolding. This is the yogic state known as ‘neutral mind’.

For details on this technique, see this article by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) …

Link: “Long Deep Breathing” by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) … https://www.3ho.org/practice-open-new/long-deep-breathing/ ..

For more on neutral mind, see my blog category: Neutral mind – stillness – witnessing – compassion 

How to Achieve Unity of Mind or ‘One Mind’

The Somatic Nervous System

Image: “Somatic Nervous System,” by Isa.tomanelli, 28 May 2015, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Somatic_Nervous_System_Image.svg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

DESCRIPTION: 1. (Brain) Precentral gyrus: the origin of nerve signals initiating movement. 2. (Cross Section of Spinal Cord) Corticospinal tract: Mediator of message from brain to skeletal muscles. 3. Axon: the messenger cell that carries the command to contract muscles. 4. Neuromuscular junction: the messenger axon cell tells muscle cells to contract at this intersection.

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We human beings have several different nervous systems. As mentioned above, we have the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, which are branches of the autonomic nervous system.

And we have another nervous system that is under voluntary control, and which allows us to consciously control our body movements. This is the somatic nervous system (the SNS) …

Link: “Somatic Nervous System,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_nervous_system .. 

Just as the autonomic nervous system is associated with what is known in esoteric lore as the lower mental body, the somatic nervous system is associated with what is known in esoteric lore as the higher mental body. In my own work, I term these the subconscious mind or ‘gut brain’ and the conscious mind, respectively.

We can use the bodily movements under our conscious control … those innervated by the somatic nervous system … to influence the nerves of the autonomic nervous system, which control the fight-or-flight response and the freeze-fawn-or-flop responses.

This voluntary control of our involuntary muscles is set forth in ancient yogic lore. Another way to look at the yogic breathing techniques, otherwise known as pranayam … is this: We can use yogic breathing to bring the subconscious mind under the influence of the conscious mind.

The next few subsections offer simple, time-honored yogic breathing techniques that allow us to yoke the subconscious mind to the conscious mind.

Alternate Nostril Breathing Links the Subconscious Mind to the Conscious Mind

Alternate nostril breathing is a yogic technique that brings the ida and the pingala to the Light of Awareness. In terms of physiology, alternate nostril breathing links or hooks the autonomic nervous system to the somatic nervous system. In terms of esoteric lore, alternate nostril breathing unites the subtle bodies termed the lower mental body and the higher mental body.  In my own parlance, alternate nostril breathing brings the subconscious mind under the control of the conscious mind.

Here are the steps to take in order to practice alternate nostril breathing …

1. First, use the right hand to block off the right nostril. The fingers of the right hand are held up, like antennae. (See the image “Alternate Nostril Breathing: Step 1” below.) Inhale long and deep through the left nostril.

Image Markup: “Alternate Nostril Breathing: Step 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 17 June 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Frontal self-portrait, head and shoulders. Thumb of right hand is blocking right nostril. Fingers of right hand are together, and extended upward. On left side of the image are the words: “Right Side of Body and Right Hand. Right Nostril Is Blocked.” On the right side of the image are the words “Left Side of Body.”

1. Release the block on the right nostril, Use the ring finger or index finger of the right hand to block the left nostril. (See the image ‘”Alternate Nostril Breathing: Step 2″ below.) Exhale long and deep through the right nostril.

Image Markup: “Alternate Nostril Breathing: Step 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 17 June 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com …

DESCRIPTION: Frontal self-portrait, head and shoulders. Ring finger of right hand is blocking left nostril. Fingers of right hand are as together as possible, and extended upward at a 45-degree angle. On left side of the image are the words: “Right Side of Body and Right Hand.” On the right side of the image are the words “Left Side of Body. Left Nostril is Blocked.”

1. Keeping the same finger and hand position, inhale long and deep through the right nostril.

2. Then switch back to the finger position shown in step 1, and exhale long and deep through the left nostril.

Begin again at Step 1, and continue with this alternate nostril breath for a few minutes, but stop at any time if you begin to feel uncomfortable; and of course, only try the practice on your medical doctor’s advice.

More Information. There is a good description of alternate nostril breathing by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) here …

Link: “Nostril Breathing,” by Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) … https://www.3ho.org/practice-open-new/nostril-breathing/ ..

See also these blogs of mine …

Link: “Unified Mind: Integrating the Lower Mental Body into the Higher Mental Body,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 6 September 2016; published on 7 September 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-64E ..

Link: “Tummy Talk: Uniting the Mind and Healing Soul Wounding,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 23 March 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-74T ..

Even Nostril Breathing Unites the Brain Hemispheres So That We Can Experience Cosmic Mind

‘Even nostril breathing’ is a state where the breath flows evenly through both nostrils, uniting the ida and pingala, and uniting the right and left hemispheres of the brain. The result is what has been called ‘Cosmic Mind’ or ‘Universal Mind’. This was a form of Enlightenment available to human beings before the Ascension process that began on Earth in the year 2012.

All the yogic breathing techniques or pranayama, as they were called in ancient India, are described in this article by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, who is a master of the Himalayan tradition …

Link: “Breathing Practices and Pranayama in Yoga,” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati … https://swamij.com/breath.htm … Search for the term: Balancing Breathing

These breathing practices or pranayama help establish evenness of breath, and also to establish unification of the subconscious and the conscious mind. Yoga poses, mudras and mantras, and yoga sets or kriyas that combine these techniques can be practiced to achieve the same effect, but with somewhat more difficulty in terms of technique.

A kriya that I like because of its effectiveness and simplicity is ‘Sat Kriya’. It was my first 90-day kriya assignment by my yoga teacher when I began to learn kundalini yoga many years ago.  More about Sat Kriya will be coming up in this blog …

Link: “Enlightenment II: Raising the Kundalini to Unify All Four Minds of the New Human,” by Alice B. Clagett, written in April 2014, published on 15 June 2016; revised on 4 October 2022 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5yX ..

So Hum Mantra – A Technique for Evenness of Breath. ‘Soham’ means “That I Am.” By ‘that’ is meant He [or She, or ‘Father-Mother-God’], the Supreme One who dwells beyond time and space. So I have read. For more on the mantra, see …

Link: “Soham (Sanskrit),” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_(Sanskrit) ..

Here is the So Hum (also termed ‘Soham’) Mantra technique recommended by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, a swami of the Himalayan tradition, as a very good aid in establishing evenness of breath …

Imagine the sound Sooooooo when inhaling, and the sound Hummmmmm when exhaling. This mantra can be practiced all day long.

Practicing the So Hum Mantra is suggested by Swami Bharati in this article, which also has a discussion of the flow of ida and pingala energy …

Link: “Kundalini Awakening 2) Prana Is Made to Flow in Ida and Pingala,” by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati … https://swamij.com/kundalini-awakening-2.htm … Search for the term: Soham mantra

Image Markup: “So Hum Meditation: So on Inhale,” adaptation by Alice B. Clagett, 4 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Peacock, East Park, Hull, by Paul Lakin, 15 August 2012, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peacock,_East_Park,_Hull_-_panoramio.jpg … CC BY 3.0 Unported …

COMMENT: This image of a peacock displaying its feathers reminds me of the way that my energy field feels when I inhale and imagine the sound ‘Sooooooo’ while visualizing energy flowing up my spine. My energy field feels vibrantly full.

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Some sources suggest that a person visualize energy flowing up the spine while imagining the sound Sooooooo and inhaling; and then that a person visualize energy flowing down the spine while imagining the sound Hummmmmm and exhaling.

I like this idea very much, as it seems to me that it will even out the ascending and descending forces in the spine.

According to my teachings, the subconscious mind is situated in the lower half of the human torso; and the conscious mind is situated in the upper half of the human torso. Thus a person may sense both the subconscious and the conscious minds and their related chakras with each act of inhaling and exhaling.

Image Markup: “So Hum Meditation: Hum on Exhale,” adaptation by Alice B. Clagett, 4 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Peacock Feather,” by Gausanchennai, 1 September 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_peacock_feathers.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … DESCRIPTION: “Normally the feathers of all birds on earth are found to be good and especially the feathers of peacock are found to be in different colors and designs and they provide a beautiful look.” …

COMMENT: This image of a single peacock feather reminds me of the way that my energy field feels when I exhale and imagine the sound Hummmmmm while visualizing energy flowing down my spine. My energy field feels smaller, but sparkling and exceedingly beautiful.

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Sidebar: How to Modify the So Hum Meditation During Times of High Light So As to Unite All Four Minds

I feel it might be possible, now that the Ascension process is taking place, to change the So Hum meditation a little so as to unite all four minds.

According to my teachings, the unconscious mind is situated below the human torso, and the superconscious mind is situated above the human torso. I find I am more likely to sense these two extremes of my energy field during times that we Lightworkers term ‘High Light’. I think of ‘High Light’ as the type of Light in which Earth is bathed during Solar events such as solstices, equinoxes and gateways, and during geostorms and influxes of Solar winds to Earth, which are most likely to occur during Solar Maximums.

When the Earth’s magnetosphere is excited and expanded, then my personal energy field is also excited and expanded. This state of energetic expansion offers me a chance to unite all four minds and to clear and transform their related energies. In the case of the unconscious mind, the related energies are very, very dense. In the case of the superconscious mind, the energies are very, very refined.

So then, putting it all together, during these special times of energetic influx to our planet, I might change up the So Hum Meditation like this …

I might visualize energy welling up from a place far, far below my feet, then coursing up my spine and far up into the sky as I imagine the sound Sooooooo and as I inhale …

Image Markup 44: “So Hum Meditation During High Light: So on Inhale, E, adaptation and compilation by Alice B. Clagett, 21 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Peacock, East Park, Hull, by Paul Lakin, 15 August 2012, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peacock,_East_Park,_Hull_-_panoramio.jpg … CC BY 3.0 Unported. Image: “Woman with Ringlets, Standing [adapted],” by William Mulready, 1824, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Mulready_-_Woman_with_Ringlets,_Standing_-_B1977.14.5086_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg … public domain

COMMENT: Notice that the central vertical power current (through which the kundalini energy rises) is perceived to be much longer, both above and below the human torso, during times of High Light. I posit that by practicing the So Hum Meditation during these times, we can unite our 2 minds that are related to the human body … the subconscious and the conscious minds … with our 2 minds that are beneath and above our human body … the unconscious and the superconscious mind. Thus all 4 minds of the New Human can be united in times of High Light.

It seems to me that the human energy field greatly expands, like the display of the peacock feathers in this image, as the breath is inhaled during the So Hum meditation.

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Then I might visualize energy flowing back down, from far up in the sky, then down through my spine, and then coursing on down to a place far, far below my feet while I imagine the sound Hummmmmm and as I exhale.

Image Markup 50: “So Hum Meditation During High Light: Hum on Exhale, F, adaptation and compilation by Alice B. Clagett, 21 September 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Peacock Feather,” by Gausanchennai, 1 September 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_peacock_feathers.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … DESCRIPTION: “Normally the feathers of all birds on earth are found to be good and especially the feathers of peacock are found to be in different colors and designs and they provide a beautiful look.”

COMMENT: Notice that the central vertical power current (through which the kundalini energy rises) is perceived to be much longer, both above and below the human torso, during times of High Light. I posit that by practicing the So Hum Meditation during these times, we can unite our 2 minds that are related to the human body … the subconscious and the conscious minds … with our 2 minds that are beneath and above our human body … the unconscious and the superconscious mind. Thus all 4 minds of the New Human can be united in times of High Light.

It seems to me that the human energy field greatly contracts, to the size of the single peacock feather in the heart of the person in this image, as the breath is exhaled during the So Hum meditation.

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There will be more in the second and final video in this Enlightenmenet series on uniting all four minds. You can find that here …

Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and on 18 June 2022 through October 2022 …   https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y ..

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More Information. See also these blogs of mine …

Link: “Meditation to Balance the Hemispheres of the Brain,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 28 May 2015; published on 30 May 2015; revised … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-6OL ..

Link: “Uniting the Left and Right Hemispheres of the Brain,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 17 April 2013; revised … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-6wo ..

Link: “Unified Mind and the Importance of the Arts in Childhood Education,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 14 September 2016; published on 19 September 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-6a7 ..

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Summary

By practicing these breathing techniques, one can unite the subconscious mind with the conscious mind, and one can also unite the hemispheres of the brain. The result is a state of mental unity that lays the foundation for the mystical experience known as Enlightenment.

But what about the unconscious mind and the superconscious mind, as discussed in section 10 of this blog …

Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and on 18 June 2022 through October 2022 …   https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y ..

How can these two minds be brought to the Light of Awareness? One answer is in the blog now concluded; That is, to do So Hum Meditation during times of High Light.

But what about times when the Light is not high? How can we unite all 4 minds then? How can we experience enlightenment all the days of our lives? The answer is the second and final blog of the Enlightenment series …

Link: “Enlightenment II: Raising the Kundalini to Unify All Four Minds of the New Human,” by Alice B. Clagett, written in April 2014, published on 15 June 2016; revised on 4 October 2022 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5yX ..

Credits

I learned about the power currents, energy centers, and locks of the human personal energy field through Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization (3HO) … https://www.3ho.org/ … Then while practicing kundalini yoga daily for 10 years, I became familiar with sensing these power currents and energy centers within my body, and with utilizing the yogic locks and the 3HO yoga kriyas to raise the kundalini.

The nostril breathing techniques (‘pranayama’, or breathing techniques) are well known in yogic lore. I practiced especially the pranayama of 3HO, but have also utilized the teachings of Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati, Judy Satori, Peggy Black, and others of the great Ascensioneers, LIghtworkers, wayshowers, and healers recommended at the link below …

Link: “Blogroll – Ascension Resources,” referrals by Alice B. Clagett, updated 20 May 2022 … https://wp.me/P2Rkym-bXi ..

Note that the information on the sushumna, the ida and the pingala are ancient yogic lore, and not my personal notions. Because I practiced kundalini yoga daily for 10 years I became familiar with these energy currents, and I can attest to the truth of the ancient lore.

In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars

Written and published on 17 June 2016; revised on 19 September 2022; revised on 4 October 2022

This blog has been revised and added to … Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and on 18 June 2022 through October 2022 …   https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y ..

The second and final blog in the Enlightenment series is here … Link: “Enlightenment II: Raising the Kundalini to Unify All Four Minds of the New Human,” by Alice B. Clagett, written in April 2014, published on 15 June 2016; revised on 4 October 2022 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5yX ..

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