Synopsis
Imagine for a moment that your consciousness could leave your brain. What could you learn and discover? What could you accomplish if your mind could travel wherever you focused it, to understand anything you desire, directly, from the inside out? How would your relationships improve? What would the world look like if we could all understand one another on such an intimate level? What if you were told that that your consciousness not only can leave your brain, but that it already does, and that we are all immersed in a telepathic experience of the world, though few of us realize it? In Consciousness Becomes You, the authors share personal stories, grounded conversation, and scientific research to explain that part of our minds, the connected mind, is connected to everyone and everything. Beginning with how we already experience this connection in life, the book explores how this connection functions, its uses, and the myriad of ways we all already receive and share telepathic information.
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About the Author
Angie Aristone is a Conscious Living Coach, Psychic-Medium and Animal Telepath. Angie holds degrees in Anthropology and Visual Arts. Her partner, Rod Alan holds degrees in Chemistry and Biophysics. Married for over 20 years, they have learned first hand what it means to live in telepathic connection with one another and the wider world. They live in London, Canada with their three teenage sons.
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Consciousness Becomes You
By Angie Aristone, Roderick AlanJohn Hunt Publishing Ltd.
Copyright © 2015 Angie Aristone and Roderick Alan
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ISBN: 978-1-78535-133-4All rights reserved.
Contents
Part I – Unlearning,
Preface,
Introduction,
Leaving the Dark Ages,
A No Brainer,
Fear, Magic and a Second Level of Reality,
Thinking Outside of the Brain,
The Synergetic Effect,
What Words Can't Express,
Part II – The Connected Mind,
The Survivor Mind – A Toolbox for Physical Reality,
The Connected Mind,
It's About Time – All Mushed Up,
Subtle Realities – Whose Thought Is It Anyway?,
Playing in Subtle Reality ... Spontaneous Knowing and Telepathic Networks,
Tours of (Personal) Subtle Reality,
Win-Win-Win Changes Everything,
Epilogue – Telepathic Conversations,
Notes,
CHAPTER 1
Leaving the Dark Ages
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
~ Arthur C. Clarke's Laws of Prediction
For the first 15 years of my career, I referred to myself as a psychic-medium, purely out of forced practicality. The term never really captured the fullness of the work I did and, given the choice, I would much rather have avoided all the baggage that came with the label. Most people have let go of thinking of fortune-telling, curses, séances, woo-woo moments, ghosts and spirits when the term psychic-medium comes up, but stereotypes and irrational fears endure. People still tend to freak out when they find out what I do for a living, sometimes in fear, sometimes in arrogant disbelief. I spend a lot of time dispelling myths and calming irrational fears about being psychic; time that I think could be better spent talking about what we can do with psychic abilities, or actually doing something useful with them.
I now introduce myself as a conscious living coach, the best term I can come up with to explain what I actually do with my psychic abilities: help people to bring consciousness to every area of their lives to solve problems and live happier, more enjoyable and accomplished lives. I also prefer the term telepath over psychic-medium. Telepathy is simply defined as mind to mind, or consciousness to consciousness communication. Mediumship is a form of telepathy, along with intuition, clairvoyance, animal communication, remote viewing, remote healing, and a range of other psychic abilities and phenomena. It's all the same ability, applied in slightly different ways.
I think of telepathy as a skill with broad applications rather than a mystical ability to turn to in secret, when everything else has failed. Used openly with skill and purpose, telepathy is a technology that can be applied to every area of human endeavor with tremendous individual and collective benefits. Contrary to popular desire, psychic abilities and telepathy don't work well for picking lottery numbers or winning horses. Telepathy isn't consistently useful when competition for personal gain at the expense of others is the aim. Predicting the future to avoid negative and unintended consequences does work well, but the true power and potential of telepathy lies in co-creating the future, not predicting it. Telepathy is far better suited, and exponentially more powerful, when it is used openly, to facilitate cooperation and creativity. The real promise and power of telepathy is in its astounding ability to orchestrate and facilitate all sorts of cooperative relationships, interactions, adaptations and transformations.
To appreciate the sophistication and genius telepathy offers in this regard, we have to look to the miracle of nature. If you look closely, you will notice that everything in nature from schooling fish, to migrating birds, to spawning salmon, to pollinating bees, to the cells in our bodies, functions through a sort of telepathic connection. Anyone who has spent time in nature, or studied it scientifically, is left with a sense of appreciation for the astounding intelligence that appears to orchestrate the natural world. Nature knows when it's time: when it is time to grow, to hibernate, to migrate, to reproduce, and when it's time to die. Trees know when and how to grow, how to harvest sunlight and how to work with bacteria to get nutrients from the soil. Your body knows how to move, grow, breathe and work with bacteria in your gut to digest food. Animals know where to travel to find food, or dig dens, even in a changing world, sometimes as if they know the future: digging dens high on riverbanks to avoid once in a decade spring floods or collectively seeking shelter hours before severe weather or earthquakes.
This knowing, instinctual and collective intelligence we see throughout the natural world cannot be found or fully explained by the DNA, brain function or the intelligence of individual organisms. There is something more going on, something bigger, something that looks a lot like a vast collective intelligence coordinating and orchestrating the miracle of nature, the beautiful and immeasurably complex dance of symbiotic, competitive, and synergistic relationships we see at every level of the natural world. Though we can often glimpse this intelligence at work, we can't explain how it works through physical-material means. The deep interconnectedness we see everywhere in nature functions through an invisible connection that can't be sampled, measured or seen under a microscope. The connection is nonphysical: a sort of telepathic connection.
Telepathy is universal to all nature, as well as the human experience. I now teach the concept of natural telepathy rather than law of attraction, karma or destiny because at the heart of all of these concepts is a universal and natural telepathic connection. When we tune into and consciously use our own natural telepathy, we can tap into the same extraordinary collective intelligence that orchestrates the miracle of nature to guide and inspire our own lives. In doing so, we can create wildly fulfilling, joyful and abundant lives for ourselves, to the benefit of one another and the rest of the planet: a perspective I like to refer to as win-win-win, or collective synergy.
If we can get over our collective fear and embrace what is a natural human ability and, really, our first language, telepathy might even help us accomplish results on a global level that few of us can even dream of now, without negative and unintended consequences that harm others and the planet. As with other soft technologies such as language, the telephone, or the Internet, the promise and power of telepathy as a technology will only be realized when many people begin using it consciously and cooperatively. Few people dreamt of, let alone predicted, the far-reaching ways that the Internet and wireless technologies have transformed lives around the globe. The next wave of revolutionary technology might have less to do with little black boxes and more to do with how we collectively use and navigate our own consciousness.
Sadly, even though the reality of telepathy is a broadly proven scientific fact of public record, many people still can't get past their own skepticism and the question of whether psychic abilities are real or not. It's natural to be skeptical, but more natural, I think, to be curious, and to follow your curiosity. Those who do embrace the reality of these abilities often can't get past the awe or amazement that these abilities arouse when experienced firsthand, are stuck in wonder and proving the existence of these abilities, and don't do anything productive with these abilities. Collectively, we can't even get to the interesting questions, like, "What can we do with telepathy?" or "How much could telepathy improve our lives and collective fate?"
I've done my best in recent years to distance myself from any talk of spirits, ghosts or the paranormal, as well as the words such as 'psychic-medium', because the fear these words arouse distracts from the real magic and benefits of telepathy. That said, I still spend a lot of time talking to dead people (I prefer the term dead people to spirit or disincarnate – it's less spooky – dead people are just people, without physical bodies). I've learned a lot talking to dead people over the years, and I think the key to understanding how consciousness functions happens to lie in the answer to a question people ask a lot: "What's it like to be dead?". So even though this is a book about consciousness and telepathy, "What's it like to be dead?" is where we have to start.
Although the question comes up a lot, people tend to avoid the real question, and the real answer, by asking something like: "What's it like on the other side?" as if death is a vacation destination. Death is an uncomfortable subject that people tend to avoid, to their detriment. When we get comfortable with the question of death, a huge range of fears and anxieties often disappear from our lives. It's a very important question, and I spent years taking every opportunity I could to ask dead people the question directly. For a long time, the bizarre range of seemingly evasive stories I received made it seem as if the question was not an important one. In fact, most dead people I asked the question of didn't answer at all, as if nothing was the answer.
Of course, talking to dead people isn't like having an ordinary conversation. They communicate without words. They show me images and share perspectives and feelings with me. If you've ever played charades or Pictionary, you can imagine some of the challenges of my job. I have had lots of dead people show me pictures that might be construed as something like heaven. A three year old who died after being struck by a car once showed me that, when he wasn't visiting his living siblings in the playroom of their new home, he went to school. The school he showed me was outside in the grass, which was blue, and there were lots of bunnies hopping around. There were other kids there, and he liked his teacher a lot. More than a few men I've talked to have shown me images of themselves fishing, or golfing 'on the other side' in stunning landscapes, but for the most part, dead people don't share a lot of specific information on the subject.
Communication challenges aside, I realize in hindsight that the stories dead people show me aren't evasive at all, rather the stories are the answer, but not the kind of answer we're used to. You have to put a lot of stories and pieces together to get the kind of answer living people want. Dead people don't give the types of answer we're used to, I think, because their minds simply don't work the way our earthly thinking minds do. Many of the things that we are so deathly concerned with while alive don't even register as something to think or talk about when you're dead. Rather than what it's like on the other side, or what they do when they're not talking to me, most of the dead people I talk to simply want to connect with their loved ones, let them know that they're alright, reminisce and maybe help them heal something so they can make their time here on earth their highest quality experience. In fact, the first thing all dead people almost universally share with their loved ones is "I'm good" by sharing images of themselves smiling, youthful, vital, strong, healthy and happy, which is probably really the best indication of what it's like to be dead.
Dead people also love to talk about what they loved in life, and it's even easier for them to communicate about an interest if it's also an interest of mine. If I share an interest with a dead person, we share a vocabulary, both sensory and verbal, and the passion and emotions they share with me are heightened, which can make for some entertaining exchanges. For example, I love to cook, which means that anyone who comes through who also loved to cook in life can, and will, show me foods they used to make, how they made them, and sometimes the ingredients. Sometimes they share who's making a favorite dish now, which ingredients are being left out, what new ingredients are being added, and sometimes even all the ways the recipe has since been mangled by the new cooks, all so I can rib living family members. Maybe it's partly because I love to cook so much, or possibly just that food is what brings family together most often, but I spend a lot of time talking food with dead people.
Sometimes dead people share what they've learned since their death. They often come through with a completely clean, objective retelling of the facts of their life, often taking full responsibility for their life, and for some, even owning up to things they would never have owned up to in life. I once even had the very strange experience of having a conversation with a dead mobster who had killed a lot of people. It was already happening before we realized who he was. I didn't feel any danger or any kind of threat. He wasn't evil or unpleasant, he just shared the facts of his life. That was all. No muss, no fuss.
What I want to make really clear is that the dead people I talk to are still people with fully intact personalities, preferences, likes, dislikes, memories and some, though not all, emotions. They're very much like normal people to talk to, except they communicate through thoughts that mimic sensory information rather than words, and are never in a bad mood (with two notable though rare exceptions). Their personalities, quirks and habits come through loud and clear. The less I get in the way, the clearer the personality of whomever I'm talking to comes through. Dead people reference and communicate with the same quirks, mannerisms, memories and preferences they had in life. The only thing they have left behind, other than their body, seems to be the part of their mind that created stress, anger, worry, hate and fear while they were on earth. Turns out we have a lot to learn from the dead.
I do need to take a moment to talk about the two exceptions to the universal beneficence of dead people. Most dead people report experiencing death as an instant relief from physical and emotional pain, as well as from negative or impaired thinking. Alzheimer's patients report their minds functioning perfectly upon death, and having spent protracted periods outside of their bodies during the latter stages of their disease. People who have died of cancer and other such progressive illnesses also report popping in and out of their bodies as they transitioned towards physical death, especially when heavily medicated or in pain. Car crash victims who passed instantly often show images of the crash scene from inside the car and then from about ten feet above looking down. Sometimes they imply a popping sensation before they tell me "... and then I was out ... it wasn't that bad."
I've never met a murder victim who had any interest in helping police catch their killer, let alone seeking justice or vengeance. Every murder victim I've met has encouraged their family and friends to focus on their life, on good times together and on connection, not on a brief moment of tragedy. From their perspective, they can see and understand how everything works itself out, seeing justice and karma from a much higher perspective than we do. Even the most innocent victims of heinous crimes, like a young local girl, who was abducted and murdered by someone she knew, who I've talked to a number of times, doesn't want to talk about her killer. Murder victims want to visit and enjoy their time and connection with the people they loved in life, and often encourage living family members to let go of anger and the desire to catch or punish their killers.
A few dead people, however, do seem to need some time to let go of their earthly minds' thinking patterns. For example, a distant neighbor of mine's father once showed up in my driveway as I was leaving my house. He was panic-stricken and distraught. He had been murdered only hours before, just a few kilometers from my home, and was so deep in his feelings of panic and fear about the fight he was just in, that his focus kept him attached to his physical life. As I talked to him though, helping him notice that he was okay, even though he didn't have a physical body anymore, his state shifted. He became less demanding and fearful, and softened both emotionally and energetically. It only took a few minutes for him to calm down and go on his way. Quite a few people seem to need a few days, usually the time between their death and their funeral, to acclimate to their new state, and many still behave as if they have a physical body during that time, getting around by riding in cars, buses, or by walking for example.
I have also had the experience of speaking with dead people who were addicts or narcissists in life, deeply focused in anger and drama, whose negative focus continued for a short time after their deaths. I have done follow-up sessions with a few of these people over the course of several years following their deaths and I've noticed that, in every case, these people become more and more accountable, apologetic, wise and lovely as time passes, allowing their living families to reconcile, forgive and come to terms with how they were in life, as well as see how far they've come after their deaths.
I cringe to bring up the second exception to the universal beneficence of dead people because of the stigma and fear associated with it. Still, I must responsibly address the entities I call the loveless: the negative dead people who won't, or can't, let go of their earthly focus and accompanying negative emotions, sometimes referred to as earthbound spirits. Such people, who do not seem to have any loving connections, or perhaps the capacity to love, can show up while working in altered states, particularly when there's a negative focus like investigating murders, or paranormal phenomena.
(Continues...)
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