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Source Code Meditation Hacking Evolution through Higher Brain Activation DR. MICHAEL COTTON Learn to mobilize latent energy in your body and direct it to energize and awaken your higher brain • Provides a simplified step-by-step guided process to the higher-brain activation techniques of Source Code Meditation • Explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life • Reveals how the “brain first” techniques of SCM tune the brain to receive meditation, enabling access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential

The human brain is like a flowing river of potential. Until now, that river has been blocked, barricaded, and diverted by the primitive lower brain. The lower brain hijacks our ability to experience deeper flow and higher transcendent states of consciousness. It also guards against the full expression of the passionate human heart. Source Code Meditation (SCM), with its nine summits of transformation, effortlessly re-routes that lower brain diversion, allowing you to activate latent energy in your body, awaken your higher brain, enlighten your mind, and set your heart on fire to create a new world. With traditional meditation techniques, it often takes decades of practice for hours each day to confer significant changes in the mind and the higher brain. Few of us make it to these rarified states of mind, due to the amount of time and the intensity of focus needed. With “brain first” SCM techniques, you mobilize latent energy in the body and direct it to energize and awaken the higher brain before meditation begins. With the higher brain prepped and tuned, meditation is efficiently received, leading to quantum breakthroughs in higher consciousness without years of practice as well as access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential. Providing a simplified step-by-step guided process to SCM, Dr. Michael Cotton explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life. Distilled from the world’s most comprehensive philosophy, Integral Metatheory, SCM offers not only a way to create the brain state necessary to change the mind, but the crystal clarity needed to use these advanced meditative states to actualize your potential and live your destiny to the fullest. Dr. Michael Cotton, D.C., is a leading theorist in the evolution of consciousness, culture, and the brain. The creator of the Higher Brain Living technique with more than 30 years’ experience in personal and cultural transformation, he holds a doctorate in Chiropractic. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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MEDITATION Hacking Evolution Through Higher Brain Activation

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SOURCE CODE

MEDITATION Hacking Evolution Through Higher Brain Activation

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Contents

Prelude ................................................................................................................................  Miracle in Mexico ..............................................................................................................

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Preface .................................................................................................................................  Midway between the Gods and the Beasts .....................................................

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Introduction ..................................................................................................................  My Story ..................................................................................................................................... The Great Search and Discovery ............................................................................ The Future of Yoga, Meditation and the Human Potential Movement ............................................................................. Do We Really Believe Transformation Is Possible? .................................. Now That the Time Is Right ......................................................................................

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Your Stone Age Brain Is Eating You Alive ....................................................... Why ‘Self-Help’ Seldom Helps .................................................................................. Why Health and Wellness Care Rarely Lead to Health and Wellness ............................................................. The Solution ........................................................................................................................... Activation Energy for Your Higher Brain ...................................................... The Science of the Energy of Transformation and its Pathways ........................................................................................................... Higher Brain Mechanisms and the Energy of Transformation ........................................................................... The Source Code Meditation Base – Creating the Biological Thrive State ............................................................ Let’s Get Started ................................................................................................................... The SCM base ........................................................................................................................

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2. Source Code Meditation - The Brain First Revolution

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The Angel Lobes – An Emerging New Brain ............................................... The Higher Brain and the Emotions That Drive Change ................. The Higher Brain and Higher Order Thoughts ....................................... The Higher Brain and Spiritual Experience ................................................. Acquired Savant Syndrome: Undeniable Evidence for Transformative Brain Potential ....................................... Your New Brain’s Architecture Has Arrived But… ................................... The Silent Area Is About To Roar! ......................................................................... A 21st-Century Renaissance ...................................................................................... Hacking Meditation ........................................................................................................ Learn the SCM Technique ........................................................................................... The 9 Summits of Transformation – Brief Summary ..........................

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A Brief Introduction .......................................................................................................... 96 The 4 Dimensions .............................................................................................................. 98 Mind and Brain, Two Irreducible Perspectives of One Holism ................................................................................. 100 Lower Brain Feedback in 4 Dimensions of Life .......................................... 103

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Soul Awakening .................................................................................................................... Transcendent Awakening ............................................................................................ Unitary State Awakening .......................................................................................... Hacking Enlightenment with SCM and the 9 Summits ....................

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5. Vertical Transformations of Your Brain, Consciousness, Culture .........................................................................................  119 How We Grow ....................................................................................................................... 123 The Proposed Dominant Brain Structures/Physiology ...................... 125

6. What’s Wrong With Where We Are?

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Are We Running Out of Time? ................................................................................. 126 Shadow Elements and Lower Brain Loops .................................................... 129 Epoch 5 and its ‘Cultural Creatives’ – Poised to Transform the World ......................................................................... 131

7. Epoch 6 – The Rise of the New Human

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A Science Fiction Story? ................................................................................................. EPOCH 6 Emergence ..................................................................................................... Signs That You Are Moving into EPOCH 6 ................................................. Hacking Evolution ........................................................................................................... The Thrive DNA of the New Human ................................................................. Sacred ‘WE’ Space ............................................................................................................. Red Velvet Cake (Context as Causative Agent) .......................................... Epoch 6 Ascension .............................................................................................................. Hallmarks of Moving into Epoch 6 Ascension ..........................................

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PART II - Source Code Meditation & The 9 Summits of Transformation ......................................................................................................  165 The 9 Summits of Transformation ...............................................................  SUMMIT 1: Soul Awakening ................................................................................ SUMMIT 2: Transcendent Awakening ........................................................ SUMMIT 3: Unitary Awakening ....................................................................... SUMMIT 4: Your Authentic Self and Your Soul’s Purpose ...... SUMMIT 5: Look up: Promoting the Vertical Trajectory of the Authentic Self ................................................................... SUMMIT 6: Look down: Reclaiming the Spiral of Development ............................................................................................................ SUMMIT 7: Illuminate, Liberate and Trans-Mutate the Shadow into High Brain Fuel ............................................................... SUMMIT 8: Your Life Codes ............................................................................... SUMMIT 9: Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment ....................... The SalutoGenic Thrivestyle of an Architect of EPOCH 6 .....................................................................................................................

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Bibliography ....................................................................................................................... 221 Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................... 230 About the Author ........................................................................................................... 231

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the love of my life, Laura Cotton. Your perfect embodiment of the divine feminine wrapped your love around me and created the sacred space for my life’s purpose to emerge. This book would not have happened without you. Thank you for our lives together my little one.

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Prelude Miracle in Mexico “When you have ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” — SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

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few months ago I was part of a deep and moving experience in a small colonial town in the mountains above Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A long string of synchronicity led a tour guide – whom specializes in visiting ranches and villages untouched by tourism – to contact me and invite me on a trip to connect with locals, see rare petroglyphs and experience an authentic side of Mexico. I accepted, having no idea where this was heading. The tour guide later divulged his larger agenda of assembling a small group of healers to impact the lives that we came across that may be struggling in the remote villages we were going to visit. After a beautiful tour of remote areas containing ancient Aztec petroglyphs we arrived in the 16th century mountain town of El Tuito, Mexico. It was here that Brad knew of a woman that was depressed and struggling and couldn’t sleep due to nightmares. She was estranged from her children and the people of the town despised her because of her ‘meanness’. The small group he had assembled, six of us, together entered her 10’ x 18’ home. An old massage table with no head piece accompanied us on the journey and was set up by our group in the center of the only room in her home. In Spanish, our guide asked her if I could do ‘healing work’ on her. She could hardly maintain enough focus to even comprehend what we were asking but she agreed and lay on the table as the rest of our party sat around the table and held the space. I was filled with a deep sense of awe and wonder at the strangeness of this moment in the mountains of Mexico, with a woman laying on my table that did not speak my language and whom had virtually no context for what was about to happen. That moment brought me very close to, not just the mystery at hand, but ‘the mystery’ of it all. Somehow, all of us in our party had surrendered to an

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unseen force that had led us to this moment in unknown anticipation of what was to be revealed. As she lay face down on the table a few of my words were translated to her in Spanish, I took a moment to acknowledge the sacredness of what was unfolding, and began introducing elements of the Higher Brain Living protocol (The hands-on work that Source Code Meditation is derived from). I introduced information in the form of touch in a unique code designed to liberate subtle energy in her body to her brain… and it did. Within moments her entire body started to ‘breathe itself’ as waves of energy coursed through her, releasing decades of suffering. The rest of the group sat stunned and in reverence for the power of this energy coursing through her body and the deeply sourced truth being revealed in front of our hearts and eyes. After a period of deep and spontaneous dissipation via waves of breath and energy coursing visibly through her body – releasing repressed emotion at each apex of the waves – I turned her onto her back as her heart opened and energy poured into higher structures of her brain. We bore witness as the ‘noise’ left her mind and the aberrant history was purged from her physiology. Somehow an hour and a half passed in what seemed like a moment. She lay still and silent in the absolute peace of the Godhead. Finally, she sat up, energy again started moving in her body, and with the eyes and conviction of someone who has been allowed to see the truth she stated dramatically that she felt energy from her toes to her head and that she had thought that her brain had been dead, and now it was alive. She declared that she was finally free and said that she had been touched by God and that she was “happy, happy, happy”. Every eye in that room was filled with tears and every person there knew that they had witnessed the sacred. U

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I deeply contemplated the significance of that event and the ease and beauty with which it unfolded, reflecting on how it contrasts so sharply with our postmodern predicament and the disenchanted world that that world-view so blindly inhabits. I realized that years of conditioning had made cynicism and nihilism the norm. But they’re not normal. Cynicism is for the lazy and nihilism belongs to those who are lost. To pretend that our rational western materialistic beliefs disclose ultimate reality is just intellectually dishonest. We must transcend the old ways and we must include the best of those old ways too. We don’t want to abandon rational consciousness but on the other side of it we MUST learn to source our truth from something deeper. That something, 12

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dwells within. We have so much conditioning stripping away the wonder, that it has become easy to live a life of quiet desperation. But really, this world is nothing but pure enchantment. We just forgot. Our origin story begins with a universe exploding into being from no-thing 13.8 billion years ago. Dancing quanta were then and are still now, continuously coming from no-where and arriving inexplicably in space and time. An unseen Eros is directing it all towards greater degrees of biological complexity and towards greater degrees of that mystery of all mysteries: consciousness. And just to think, if we’re truly honest, we have no Idea why there is something (anything at all) rather than nothing. It’s all just radically unknowable and reminds me of an Augustine quote, “if you comprehend it, it is not God”. And so it is. In this relative realm of space and time, we are right here, right now and we are evolution becoming self-aware; the entire mystery encoded in our DNA, the entire 13.8 billion years of the cosmic becoming nested in our bodies, and the ever present consciousness that thrust it all forward has donated to us the same ‘being’ that we know absolutely as our personal existence. And there I was, right then in that Mexican mountain town, witnessing one more miracle in the endless stream of miracles. But what does this miracle mean? What is my responsibility for having been shown? What must we do when we have been allowed to see? What powers truly lie inside of us? On February 16th, 2017 in Tuito, Mexico, just a few gentle touches awakened a slumbering intelligence and liberated a lost soul. What indwelling dormant potential still waits our discovery? Who are we really? Where do we go from here?

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Preface Midway between the Gods and the Beasts

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early two thousand years ago in the ancient city of Alexandria the wise philosopher, Plotinus declared: “Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.” I think he got this right and I think modern neuroscience confirms it. We humans have an unconscious primitive lower region of our brain the purpose of which was to ensure our survival in a dangerous, brutal and hostile world. This old part of our brain evolved at a time when the environment was predator rich and although predators are no longer lurking around every rock and tree, this ‘stone age’ brain of ours still functions at an ever-vigilant capacity, and usually without our conscious knowledge or choice. We pay a terrible price for this lower brain dominance in the modern world. The primitive lower brain’s perceptions and reactions arrest our development into higher consciousness and stifle our potential for more creativity, insight and meaningful lives. We are continuously cycled back into a life of familiar (even if negative) thoughts, circumstances, relationships and environments, because to the lower brain, sameness equals safety. In our 21st-century lives these primitive lower brain survival mechanisms are at odds with the potential of our ‘higher selves’ – a potential that lies slumbering in the newly emerged, yet largely dormant, higher brain. The higher human brain seeks creativity, change and growth, but below our conscious threshold the old lower – and still dominant – brain has its grip on our life. The unconscious lower brain reacts to the potential for significant life change (even if positive) as though it were going headlong into the unknown, an unknown that may very well harbor dangerous predators. Thus the lower brain is change adverse and always defaults to what would have kept us safe in a pre-modern, hostile, predator-rich world. Safety, to put it simply, means ‘don’t change what you are doing, because what you are doing has been keeping you alive’. So here we are, poised “midway between the gods and the beasts”, midway between the higher and the lower brain. Stuck. Seeing glimpses of our transcendence and yet always pulled back down into old familiar patterns. Are we destined to live in the lower brain states of fear, sameness, stress, anxiety and

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apathy, merely ‘surviving’? If so, why are we equipped with this largely dormant higher brain? Modern neuroscience informs us that the higher human brain, particularly the ‘prefrontal cortex’ when energized is associated with intuition and insight, elevated emotional states and advanced states of consciousness, and yet, this remarkable part of our brain slumbers. Our higher brain’s potential is largely silent, and as remarkable as that is, it appears as though it isn’t the only thing that slumbers in the human body. Perhaps you have heard of a ‘dormant energy’ in the body? An energy that’s awakening has been the subject of sacred doctrine since time immemorial. This quiescent energy has been at least partially known of for millennia and revered by ancient healing arts and wisdom traditions east and west. Sacred texts inform us that when this energy is activated it flows along hidden pathways in the body, positively impacting health, well-being and expanding consciousness. Imagine what changes await us if this energy were understood in modern scientific terms and could be consistently mobilized and cultivated to become an ‘activation energy’ for the higher brain. What if, bear with me here, this energy source in the body had actually evolved concurrent with the new higher brain structures and was part of a circuit that could bring much needed fuel to evolution’s most advanced accomplishment, the highest reaches of the human brain? What if, however, the arresting pull of the lower brain had never quite loosened its grip enough so that this sublime energy could come ‘on-line’, complete its circuit to the higher brain and bring to life the revolutionary potential locked within the highest aspects of our central nervous systems? This, I believe, is exactly where we are as a species. Now, thousands of years since the first discoveries of these mysterious pathways in the body and the energy they harbor, a code has been cracked. A consistent, repeatable and teachable technique has been discovered and developed that gently cues these pathways in such a way that a release of this latent energy is promoted and astonishingly directs itself to the higher brain, nudging our higher brain awake! Our higher brain, the ‘crown of creation’, having yet to metabolize sufficiently, and yet to awaken fully, can thus begin to fulfill its evolutionary potential. This potential I believe is nothing short of a new beginning for humankind. A transcendence of fear motivated, survival-based living, to be replaced by a fully awake and enlightened new human and culture, forever in a state of conscious evolution. Imagine a world where the lower brain would still be available to protect us if needed, but the brain’s ‘command center’ would shift to the higher more recently

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evolved new brain. This highest part of the brain would awaken in all of humanity and the empowered states then conferred, could be directed towards all areas of life. Could joy, purpose, passion and meaning, become our new baseline in life? Even enlightenment? Could we create heaven on earth? I believe we can. If a ‘significant minority’ of us commit to this shift from the lower stress brain to the higher enlightened brain and we learn the most effective ways to live from this new awakened state, the ultimate result could only be a beautiful new world for all of us. I am on fire with this possibility! Will you join me?

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t was a Monday, seemingly like any other Monday, however on this particular Monday my life was about to be radically and irreversibly altered. On this particular Monday, unbeknownst to me, the beginning of my ‘new life’ was about to be set in motion. Not because of some dramatic external event, just the opposite, my life was about to transform because of something happening inside of my brain. Welding smoke and burning aluminum filled my senses as another ordinary workday was playing out in the same mundane way that most of the other days of my life had played out before. However, before this day would end my life would change forever. Disengaged and daydreaming at work, I had been thinking about partying away the upcoming weekend. I was standing in an industrial shop in the mid-1980s completely checked out from my job and my life, as usual. Another day, just going through the motions, watching the clock, praying the day would end so I could find a way to distract myself from the meaningless life that I had created. My life was full of stress, fear and apathy. I had been kicked out of college – academically ineligible to return after my freshman year – and now I was 26 years old and heading exactly nowhere. Suddenly, everything changed. As I stood, slouched – next to a piece of high-pitched buzzing industrial equipment – in grease-covered old jeans and a T-shirt, a sense of empowerment came over me and I, in that very moment, saw my stunning potential. I stood riveted in the middle of that shop, transfixed by a surge of energy in my body and a deep knowing in my soul. The sights and sounds and smells of my surroundings ground to a halt and everything except my empowered inner feeling and the clear sense of my potential new life disappeared. The harsh welding smoke and grating noise of that steel and aluminum factory, in the middle of the Midwestern United States, vanished within the new atmosphere of my mind, the stunning vision of what was to come; a new life vision crystalized and was all that remained in my consciousness.

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Time stopped, realization flooded my awareness and I was suddenly bursting with confidence. In this moment I knew that I was about to transform my life and there was nothing that could stop me. From this newly empowered place of clarity and knowing I immediately left my job and went back to college. I went from being a college failure with a 0.57 GPA, to an honor roll student taking (and acing) 32-credit hours – twice the normal full time college class load – per semester in undergraduate college. I took on this extreme college class load so that I would be granted acceptance into a professional school as quickly as possible. Once the mandatory undergraduate work was done, I was admitted and completed a fouryear postgraduate doctoral degree in Chiropractic in only three years. I graduated with honors and was on the national deans’ list for academic excellence. This was just the beginning of my new life which is now marked by many professional accomplishments, including owning and operating successful businesses in the wellness and personal development industry, speaking in front of thousands of people, and ultimately – in the early part of the 21st century – I founded and developed Higher Brain Living® and now Source Code Meditation and the 9 Summits of Transformation. I have owned and operated numerous HBL centers, trained and certified hundreds of HBL facilitators and currently direct the Higher Brain Living Institute and the Source Code Meditation world headquarters in Chicago IL. I have traveled the world hosting retreats, speaking, teaching and training, while writing the book you now hold in your hands. What is of particular interest regarding my personal story of transformation is that there wasn’t anything in my past that could have predicted this dramatic upward shift in my life. I went from being a stressed-out anxious medicated kid with chronic migraine headaches to a college dropout (actually I was thrown out, as my grades were too low to continue) to becoming a high achiever almost overnight. There was absolutely nothing about my past that could have predicted such profound change in the direction of my life. So what exactly was going on? Why me? Where did this new direction, this empowered state, this sense of confidence and clarity and knowing come from? I grew up in the lower Midwestern United States and had a good home with caring parents. However, my solid upbringing did not stop me from going through the world dazed, confused and fearful. I had been stumbling through life without any real sense of direction, and then suddenly, I had the clarity and the energy for transformation. What was it that woke me up – and even more importantly – drove me to action and radically transformed my life? The answer to this question, and the desire to help others experience transformative life change, became my life’s passion.

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I want to be clear here; I am not suggesting that I had some sort of full-blown conversion experience or attained an ultimate enlightened state during my epiphany at 26 years of age. What I did experience however was a very radical shift in my brain and consciousness that led to a new life that was almost unrecognizable from my life up to that point. I am still a work in progress, as we all are if we embrace an evolutionary model, but I am very different than I once was, and you can be too. I apply the principles and techniques of Source Code Meditation every day and I continue to grow and evolve. My hope is that my personal evolution, and yours, never ends.

The Great Search and Discovery Thus began my journey into the confusing world of self-development and the human potential movement. Following my transformation at the age of 26, I embarked on a two decades, and more, search to find out what caused transformation to occur in some seemingly lucky individuals but not in most. Most of us, as Henry David Thoreau so painfully reminded us, “live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with their song still in them”. Once the majority of us reach adulthood, any kind of dramatic transformation of our consciousness seems to elude us, even though the desire for liberation exists across cultures and continents in billions of people. Historians, integral theorists and developmental psychologists have researched and articulated the outlines of evolving stages of mind that result in radically new ways to create meaning and interpret the world. Likewise, great sages both east and west have pointed to an ultimate unitary experience of consciousness that plunges one into deep divine rapture. We know the possibility exists for transformation, but until now we were left without a means or mechanism for the masses to attain it, or for that matter to create vertical (evolutionary) and sustainable life change of any kind. We have stumbled in the dark for far too long without an adequate way to catalyze and accomplish this beautiful awakening for humanity. For most of us, being free of the bondage to this world of suffering and separation seems like a dream without any real hope of happening. For the small percentage of individuals that do experience dramatic life improvements and transformations, they usually don’t understand how or why it happened. What hope is there for most of us ever even improving our dayto-day lives, let alone attaining the potential exalted state of oneness, knowing and connection? How could we possibly hope to attain this advanced form of enlightened consciousness reported by the saints and sages both east and west?

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According to yoga and mysticism historian Gopi Krishna, “it is the rarest of rare human beings” that has ever attained this ultimate state of being at any time in history. It seemed as though luck had looked down on some individuals and granted them exaltation. What about the rest of us? The burgeoning new path elucidated in this book points to a new way forward that can create the fertile ground for our awakening. U What I discovered after devoting my life to this search is shocking; there is a ‘missing link’ to personal transformation approaches, and a hidden key that must be turned if positive change of almost any kind is going to gain the necessary momentum to take hold in your life. This ‘missing link’ holds most of us back from even ordinary life improvements such as losing weight, improving relationships or furthering our careers. This ‘missing link’ squelches our joy, flattens our passions and hides us from our life’s purpose. It even diminishes our capacity for deep authentic spirituality and enlightened states of being. What I know now is that the profound change that burst into my life over 25 years ago is just the beginning of what awaits humanity if we are willing to open to a new story and commit to a new movement that promises to disclose a stunning new landscape of possibility. A possibility that is just now starting to emerge and that is pointing to a new vista of human potential. What I came to understand is that the very key to our growth and evolution as individuals and as a world community lies in the energizing of the latent highest potential of our brains. From the most ordinary day-to-day life improvements we seek, such as less stress, and better relationships to the potential for enlightened states of consciousness and transformation; the ‘missing link’ is the same. The ‘missing link’ to personal transformation is the untapped, slumbering highly evolved part of our brain. Source Code Mediation is a key that turns it on. What this book will reveal is not just theory but also a practical new way to turn the key that unlocks your higher brain potential, so that we may ‘wake up’ and use our new brain state to transform our lives. Tragically, the lower primitive stress-producing part of our brain – running its survival programs below our awareness – is hijacking our potential and reinforcing problematic areas of our lives. As we will learn, the lower brain has a primitive biological imperative to keep things the same, because sameness = safety. The concept is simple; when certain areas of your life are not improving, your lower brain is controlling those areas! If stuck areas of your life are going to change, the lower brain has to loosen its grip and the higher brain has to power up. SCM is a key, a new way to energize the untapped higher brain, liberating

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its latent potential so that you can bring an empowered emotional state and elevated consciousness to the areas of our life that you wish to improve. You will soon learn to make this brain shift possible in yourself! There’s even more good news; when enough of us make this shift into the higher brain I am convinced that a point of critical mass will be achieved and positive widespread social change will occur. This collective brain change will disrupt the gridlock in our world and open us to new possibilities for what it means to be fully human. On the website www.sourcecodemeditation.com/demos you can witness demonstrations of the technique taught in this book. You will see the dramatic response in the human body as energy uploads into the higher brain. By the end of this book, and with practice, you will be able to do what you see on these video demonstrations! These will put in perspective the profundity of what you are about to discover. U As this book progresses I am going to take you on the same search that I committed the last two and a half decades of my life to. We will journey deep into the world of human potential and I will show you what I found. We’re going to trace a path that started nearly 5,000 years ago in caves in India. It was here that spiritual adepts were amongst the first to discover a mysterious energy in the human body, devoting their lives to techniques and practices that would awaken this energy. These adepts committed all of their waking hours to the rare possibility of directing this sacred energy into their brains to transform their minds. They had stumbled upon the ‘missing link’ and were experimenting and searching for the key that they believed could end human suffering and deliver us from the despair of our own impending mortality. They isolated themselves from the distractions of society and dedicated themselves to decades of practice in the hopes of mobilizing this mysterious energy and attaining transformations of their consciousness. The ultimate in these sought-after transformations of consciousness were the ‘enlightenment experiences’, a departure from ordinary reality so radical that it left the bewildered seeker with direct and immediate answers to the time immemorial questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What does it all mean? Attaining enlightenment experience felt as if one had been asleep one’s whole life and had just woken from a dream. This enlightened consciousness conferred a sense of oneness, connection and belonging that did not have to be (and could not be) intellectualized or ‘figured out’. This new state simply provided understanding on a deep and profound level beyond the rational mind’s capacity. In

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this state what was directly experienced was a deep sense of being and bliss and a knowing how everything in the universe fitted together with wholeness and meaning. These rare ancient realizers had in effect experienced a new mind with which to know themselves and the cosmos. The legendary orations and sacred writings describing these advanced states of consciousness were so powerful that seekers gave up everything to pursue them. Unfortunately, what I did not find in my intensive search (past and present) and deep inquiry into human potential, were the vehicles, techniques or practices capable of ushering in this higher consciousness for the masses living in modern society. For that matter, I did not find evidence of any practices or techniques that have ever created rapid sustainable transformative change of any kind in large populations of people at any time or place in history. Within all cultures, past and present, there have always been a few rare individuals who plummeted into this new leading edge of enlightenment consciousness. An awakening that was so far beyond the cultural understandings that they often faced severe repercussions for even talking about it. The great realizers are legend, so are the martyrs. From Christ, to Krishna to the Buddha, the message was the same: ‘we can wake up to a new reality’. Those rare individuals that accessed this new awareness reported a direct merging of their individual consciousness with that of the divine. This higher consciousness has yet to fully emerge in an accessible way within the great spiral of human development. But I am convinced, based on new information and developments that our odds today are better than ever. You have probably figured out that the ‘missing link’ to this enlightened state of consciousness, is the same ‘missing link’ that keeps many of us stuck in bad relationships, unfulfilling careers, unhealthy habits and apathetic about our lives. The ‘missing link’ towards enlightenment is of course also the slumbering higher human brain. Due to the slumbering nature of the higher brain and the paralyzing grip of the lower brain, nearly all of the world’s physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual improvement techniques cannot fully deliver their potential for change. Without increased metabolism of the higher brain, synchronized to these personal growth techniques, the technique’s effects are muted and often temporary. In short, the key to this ‘missing link’ must be turned if we are to flourish in body, mind and spirit. I believe SCM turns the key. These ancient adepts provided us with a piece of the puzzle, a piece that we have now taken out of the caves and connected to an understanding of modern neuroscience, Integral Metatheory and set within a cosmic evolutionary context.

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We have filled in the missing pieces to the puzzle of personal and cultural evolution and can map it into our modern lives and through this book make it part of the global commons. SCM is creating consistency and reproducibility to our transformation so the masses may not only improve their day-to-day lives but also pursue the path towards a new liberated way to be and become.

The Future of Yoga, Meditation and the Human Potential Movement “Out of thousands, only one seeks me. And out of thousands who seek me, only one is successful.” — BHAGAVAD GITA

What the personal growth pioneers of the past discovered, eventually led to various techniques and practices now generally classified and categorized within the ‘human potential movement’. Amongst these techniques and practices are the two most popular and enduring: yoga and meditation. Due to the sheer rigor and unrealistic time, energy and commitment it took to become transformed by these techniques in ancient times, they were eventually simplified and diluted to become accessible for the masses. We now have more utilizers without any more realizers. This is not a criticism of these approaches. Put simply these techniques were not historically developed for modern seekers to pursue. They, inevitably, had to be modified for the busy schedules and short attention spans of the modern mind. My concern now is that we have forgotten the ‘why’ of liberation and a radically transformed life. I want to assure you that transformation is possible and SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation is a vehicle that you can use as a complete system but that also doesn’t prohibit what you currently do for your growth and well-being. In fact you will realize new potentials locked away in the things that you have been doing for years. As one example, if you pursue this SCM approach, and also take your yoga classes, you will generate benefits from those yoga classes that you never could have imagined. I have chosen to position SCM as a revolutionary ‘brain first’ meditation technique. However, when we include the 9 Summits of Transformation it could accurately be considered a 21st-century yoga but not a yoga based on asana (postures) as is heavily emphasized in American yoga. Instead SCM and the 9 Summits are reintroducing the intent of ancient yoga as a vehicle for the practitioner to attain full liberation in this lifetime. Part of the genius of early yoga was that

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asana (postures) practice was an early attempt to change physiology, followed by the introduction of meditation, while simultaneously learning how to live and engage the life process in specific ways. In fact, the father of yoga, Pantanjali, included ‘eight limbs’ or components in his yoga model. Asanas were traditionally designed to be a precursor to meditation not a means to an end in and of themselves. Importantly with Source Code Meditation this relationship of physiology and meditation can be reversed. When the brain is prepped and in a thrive state – initiated through SCM – and then a yoga class is pursued, the yoga class leads to much more dramatic and significant outcomes. In fact, one of the remarkable elements of the SCM technique is its ability to amplify the benefits of all other productive human potential promoting techniques. In other words, SCM is not in competition with anything but instead can serve as a hub that enhances everything.

Do We Really Believe Transformation Is Possible? A recent study titled Yoga in America, released by the Yoga Journal in 2016, demonstrated that 36 million people currently practice yoga and that number is projected to rise. The telling parameter in the study was, ‘The top five motivations for practicing yoga,’ by yoga practitioners in America. These were reported as follows.

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1. Flexibility 2. General conditioning 3. Stress relief 4. Improve overall health 5. Physical fitness

Consider the intent of traditional yoga and consider what is missing from the list. Not found on the list of the top five motivations for practicing yoga:

1. Enlightenment 2. Finding one’s life purpose 3. Higher consciousness 4. Evolution 5. Spiritual awakening

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Yes, missing from the list of the top motivations for practicing yoga were: enlightenment, spiritual awakening, finding one’s purpose, higher consciousness, creating a better world, transcendence, self-actualization, or personal evolution! My hope was that the study would find that a majority of students did indeed enter yoga practice with the hope of increasing flexibility or getting in better shape, but through the practice they would then aspire towards awakening, spiritual growth and evolution. Unfortunately this was not the case. What the study also found was the initial motivations didn’t change much even with long time established yoga students. Considering that a personal transformation that led to a union with God was the original aim of yoga, and considering that yoga is currently one of our most popular vehicles for change, does this top five list imply that we have largely given up on the possibility of transformation? Do we even really believe it’s possible anymore? My hope is that this book will restore our faith in the long held belief that we can transcend the confines of our limited awareness and access and grow to new vistas of consciousness and new ways to ‘be and become’ in the world. More recently developed approaches amongst modern life improvement seekers are life coaching and psychotherapy, as well as practices associated with the popular new-age notion that merely ‘thinking’ the right thoughts will lead to the life of our dreams. All of these approaches face the same daunting challenge. Changing your thoughts, goals, strategies or creating affirmations etc…without shifting the brain’s command center from the lower primitive survival brain to the higher thriving brain, will rarely lead to rapid radical real life improvement. Consider this, if your higher brain is not adequately energized and associated with new, positive thoughts, goals, strategies or affirmations, those thoughts, goals, strategies or affirmations cannot be sustained and certainly not driven to right action. New ways of thinking, without being synchronized to new higher brain function, rarely leads to transformation. Thoughts are fleeting and ephemeral until they are anchored to the correct brain state. Life coaching, psychotherapy and positive thinking need to be introduced into your awakened higher brain to convert your new thoughts into new strategy, new experience, new behavior and a new life. Later in this book you will discover that for the first time in history we have a way to associate ‘positive thoughts’ with an energized empowered higher brain state! This book will teach you how to do just that, how to anchor ‘right thoughts’ to the part of the brain that can promote ‘right action’ and convert those thoughts and actions into a new life.

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What all of this seems to mean is that regardless of the technique, discipline or practice, it does not appear that rapid life transformation is occurring in most, nor that the percentage of people experiencing profound spiritual transformation of any kind, or attaining an enlightened state of consciousness has increased significantly since ancient times. Due to the missing higher brain state, many of our new methods remain superficial and our old methods and ancient knowledge did not become sufficiently advanced in a way that accelerated transformation in the modern world. Instead we found ways to take ancient knowledge, make it accessible for the many but with mitigated outcomes. Many techniques help humanity in many ways, but genuine transformation is still all too rare. I am going to introduce a solution that is not only a completely new and unique stand-alone personal growth technique but one that can also accelerate and deepen the effectiveness of the wonderful, already existing techniques, such as yoga, psychotherapy, life coaching, meditation etc. With that said, the adepts of the past were without question on the right track, and their ancient methods and sometimes ascetic practices opened a door that we can step through today. Enlightenment today however, must happen within the context of our modern world. How can we best incorporate all the wisdom of a 5,000-year-old path, create something entirely new, and apply that to our modern lives? What I discovered is that the only way to create a sustainable awakening in the modern world, is to energize the newest most evolved area of the brain, and then use that new brain state to improve the areas of our life that rob our energy and create stress (Stress is a product of the lower primitive brain). Again, it’s simple; energy that is being used for the stress response (by the lower brain) is energy that is NOT being used by the higher enlightened brain.

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Now That the Time Is Right Many of the concepts in this book have previously only been taught in an elite Higher Brain Living® training and certification program. Higher Brain Living® is a technique I developed over a decade ago that requires hands-on facilitation – into the subtle energy pathways of the body – by a trained and certified HBL facilitator. Profound physiological responses and transformative life changes have been observed and reported in thousands of HBL recipients who have pursued the HBL programs administered by these trained and certified HBL facilitators. The outcomes of these programs have been studied (with study design approved by a major academic university) and numerous EEG scans performed demonstrating profound brain and life changes in the participants of HBL programs. 26

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In 2014 and 2016, the University of Iowa in the department of social work approved two separate HBL research studies. This research was designed to assess quality of life changes in Higher Brain Living® recipients participating in HBL programs across the USA. Both studies have completed and both have demonstrated the following changes (see improved categories below) in the HBL recipients. Both studies were rigorously designed and passed university review boards. The second study even had a control group and has been demonstrated to be statistically significant. At the time of this writing the second study is being prepared for publication. Improved categories: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Feel happier Contribute to the happiness of others Less anxiety Improved relationships Feeling competent and capable More life purpose Experience greater meaning in life More enthusiasm Life mastery Ability to solve my life problems Less fear Higher energy Less boredom Progress towards goals Feel respected Increased compassion

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certification program. However, massive change needs to happen in the world soon and we must impact more people if we are to do our part in the creation of our compelling future. SCM and the 9 summits of Transformation were created from over a decade of research and development. At the completion of this book, and with adequate practice, you will have the tools necessary to create a dramatic upward shift in your own brain function and hopefully you will be inspired to discover our programs and retreats here at sourcecodemeditation.com. I believe the key to the next major transformation both personally and globally lies in fully energizing the untapped higher brain and providing a path and a map for new consciousness and a new culture to emerge. Through this system we can directly participate in our own evolutionary unfolding and become the architects of a new age of transformation. We can usher in a world with more care, compassion, and consciousness and create a life of more joy, purpose and passion. U Before we dive in any deeper I would like to clarify my stance on human development. Even though the SCM technique has positioned itself as a brain changing technique, it is so much more than that. I am not a materialist reductionist and do NOT assign ultimate primacy to the brain (more on this understanding in the Integral Metatheory section of this book). Throughout this book I will use the terms ‘produced by’ or ‘generated from’ the higher brain; this simply makes communication easiest. In reality often the term, ‘associated with’ would be more accurate. I am an Integral Metatheorist and SCM, and the 9 Summits of Transformation are integrally informed techniques that promote evolution in ALL areas of life, BUT that take, as the starting point, a powerful change in the brain. In this book I represent the brain very generally. This book is not about brain science but is about the science of transformation of which the brain plays a key role. Secondly, modern brain research is just not clear enough to be overly precise, even if I wanted to be, so generalizations such as ‘lower brain’ and ‘higher brain’ will make our point just fine. I do not reduce reality to any particular dimension (including the brain), however, conversations have to start somewhere and the first step of any technique or discipline has to begin somewhere. We begin then with a flow of energy that wakes up higher brain potential. In my view there is no better place to start than by loosening the grip of the lower brain and taking as our starting point for transformation the dramatic shift to higher brain function that accompanies the SCM technique. This profound

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energy shift into the higher brain provides the requisite physiology and much needed opening for the integral informed 9 Summits of Transformation to be pursued. You will soon learn to create the ‘Source Code Meditation Base (SCMB)’ in yourself and proceed to the brain first meditation that builds onto the SCMB (SCMB + new meditation = SCM). As you develop proficiency with SCM you will simultaneously be reading the ongoing chapters that create the context you will need to begin the 9 Summits of Transformation in Part 2 of this book. Let the context of each chapter sink in as you approach Part 2 where you will bring the context to life! As you read along in Part 1, your daily SCM practice will prep you for greater absorption of the information. Context cannot be separated from experience. In other words any and all experience is contextualized based on what you already know and most of this contextualization is occurring below your conscious threshold. Your experiences are being shaped and molded by the story in your head and the unconscious programming beneath your awareness. Thus context is ‘bio-psychoactive’, it literally shapes and alters your mind and body. Context is sewn into experience, therefore creating the best context provides the best experience. We will cover this ‘power of context’ in more detail later in the book, but for now just know that your understanding of your experience changes your experience, and knowing this requires that we create the best possible understanding.

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lthough this book is first and foremost an introduction to the SCM Technique® and all the wonderful potential available in the higher brain, I want to use this first chapter to point out the deleterious effects of not making the shift to higher brain function. If it is not enough to know that a completely new way of being in the world awaits you in your higher brain, consider that you are currently being eaten alive by your old lower brain! The year was 50,000 B.C.; a Paleolithic woman, alone with her children, steps out of her cave and immediately picks up scent in the wind. There were beautiful wild flowers blanketing the landscape around her as a brilliant red and golden sunrise exploded in the sky. The lake that spread out before her reflected the luminous red and golden sunrise as a million diamonds danced on the rippling water, a sublimely colored display of sacred geometry in motion. The grace of spirit was all around and yet the beauty of this landscape escaped her awareness. Hers was a brain built for survival, not reverence. The scent that she picked up in this pristine beautiful corner of the world was not the sweet, aromatic fragrance of the wildflowers all around her, in fact she didn’t even notice that exquisite sweet smell, because her sense of smell was tuned to notice the scent of predators in her environment. She felt no wonder or gratitude for the beauty all around her; she was being automatically prepared to notice only ‘threats’. Flowers weren’t important, the warring tribes to the east and the saber tooth tigers in the valley below were. Her environment required constant monitoring for danger around her and the constant threat of starvation required that she stay focused on surviving another day by finding food to eat. Fortunately for her, and since there was no other options, the unconscious structures in her primitive brain were always preparing her to do battle with her world. Her life had no real sense of purpose or meaning beyond survival, for in this hostile, predator-rich world, she would be lucky to make it through her third decade of life.

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Fifty thousand years later a 21st-century woman (or man) – maybe you – steps out of her suburban home and the same unconscious primitive part of her brain senses a thousand little tigers and countless warring tribes in her environment. She is also being prepared for survival. Her tigers are different; her tigers are the demands and complexities of the modern world, the plumber she is waiting for – a cell phone tucked between her shoulder and her ear – to fix the dishwasher and relieve her of the dishes piling up in her sink. The late-arriving plumber is sure to make her late to an important work meeting. More tigers, in the form of an angry boss and poor performance review, a consequence of the meeting she is sure to miss. Rushing in traffic she slams on the brakes as yet another tiger cuts her off as she misses her exit. She arrives late hoping the meeting will end before she has to pick up her children at school… worrying about money while ruminating about how she is going to go about making dinner tonight… rushing home with her kids yelling over the radio in her coupe, which is blasting an ominous warning of elevated terrorist alerts, on the evening before she has plans to fly down to Phoenix to visit her sister. Tigers, tigers, and tigers – the lower brain perceives them everywhere – below the conscious threshold we are being prepped for battle, even in our modern lives! The shapes and sizes and actual threats are much different today, yet the Stone Age brain between our ears is the same. Our modern woman is locked into the same survival structures in her brain that the aforementioned Paleolithic woman was. She doesn’t notice the beauty all around her. She feels no wonder and awe for being alive at such an amazing time in the history of our species. She just has to get through the day. No purpose, no meaning, only survival. She doesn’t even realize the staggering improbability of her birth and that it took a billion years of evolution (spirit-in action) to accomplish the exquisite masterpiece, the crown of creation that sits atop her shoulders. Unlike the Paleolithic woman, this 21st-century human has a higher brain designed for transcendence. Newer areas of her brain, that when awakened, can fill her with gratitude and awe and wonder at this marvelous world. However, her new brain is rarely if ever awake because the unconscious lower brain that is trying to unconsciously protect her from falsely perceived danger in her world, is eating her alive! Of particular importance is that even in our modern lives the most basic and usually fear-based human drives (perpetuated by the oldest lowest primitive brain) are often still influencing if not dominating all areas of our lives.

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Unconsciously directing us back into fight, flight, freeze or fornicate, thus coopting – for survival purposes – our beliefs, thoughts and behaviors while creating an internal and external personal and cultural environment that reinforces the dominance of the old lower brain mechanisms. I believe we now have created negative feedback loops between the lower brain and its associated internal and external environments that lead to circular habituation between the lower brain and the life we create as a result of lower brain dominance. In effect the primitive yet powerful fear-based lower brain system predisposes our perspectives, behaviors, relationships and even rational thought processes to be directed towards fear-based survival, and round and round we go. Humanity’s challenges are at least in part due to lower brain dominance and generally speaking the self-help industry has not had a good understanding of, or had many effective tools for changing the physiological component of our thoughts, behaviors and relationship to life. Our rampant addictions to food, sex, power, drugs, alcohol and social media all create lower brain reinforced habituated loops designed to keep our lives the same. The inability to heal physically or change destructive behavior, violence, depression, the degradation of the environment, failing educational and financial systems, the inability to sustain positive life changes, are all signs of a world trapped in the grip of the lower primitive brain. Our personal future as well as the future of humanity is currently locked up in latent higher brain potential.

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So here we are, the 21st-century human, having won countless victories for humanity that have made life better for many, and yet recent research shows that we moderns are not very happy. We are stressed out and overwhelmed in life, we do not feel engaged in our careers, we are lacking deep spiritual meaning, and according to recent end of life research we die full of regret for what we did not do with our life. What about you? Does your life feel stuck? Do you ever feel as though the world is stuck and you’re stuck in it? Do you feel like there is more to life than you currently experience but you’re not sure what it is or how to get it? Perhaps you know what it is that would make your life meaningful but you still spin your 35

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wheels and true fulfillment always eludes you. Does it feel like the demands and complexity of life leave you feeling powerless? Do you see problems in your life and challenges in the world but feel like they are just too big, complex and ‘out of your control’ for you to make a difference? Ever wonder why you start out on a new path, have a good plan, set inspiring goals, but still have areas of your life that don’t improve? Maybe some of these areas do improve for a brief duration but ultimately always return back to the same old patterns? Sound familiar? A great many heart attack sufferers do not change their diet and lifestyle even after a physician has told them in no uncertain terms, ‘If you do not change you will die soon!’ If we don’t change with the motivation of imminent death how can we possibly change just to create a better life, realize our full potential or find our true purpose and give our gifts to the world? Surely as compelling as these things are, they are still less motivating than impending death. So why don’t we change? The challenge is what’s lurking below the conscious threshold, that old lizard brain of ours that does not want to change, even when we logically know change is in our best interest; however, the lower brain just doesn’t work logically. Once the old behaviors get wired in and habituated by the lower brain, they become very difficult to change. Finding your purpose and creating an extraordinary life don’t motivate the lower brain’s unconscious programming. Let’s go back to our Paleolithic woman for a moment. We have already seen how her lower brain dominates her perception of the world. Let’s also look at how her behavior is affected from this survival-based part of her brain. The torrential rain has been falling for days, the floor of her cave collapses and she and her children are left exposed to the elements and the lurking predators below. She must find shelter, perhaps a new cave to call home. She departs the cave and darts into wild lands as her family huddles together in the last remaining stable ground in the very back of the cave they have known as home for nearly a decade. Her instincts carry her north along the ridge of the mountains. Two moons, and many miles later, she finds another cave high enough up the side of the mountain to provide an adequate lookout and safety from the local predators. She climbs in, finds it empty and returns for her family, narrowly avoiding an attack from a hungry sabre-toothed tiger. She gathers her family and they depart, taking great care to avoid the path she was nearly attacked on. Arriving wet, tired and hungry they climb in and sleep. Morning comes, the rain has stopped and they are famished. Having not eaten in days she again leaves the new cave, this time for food to feed herself and her family. She found shelter, now she must find food. It is her first time in

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this new territory, but fortunately her brain is wired to survive. Her instincts guide her to the ridge west of her cave, but they also betray her; a few hundred yards down the ridge two tigers explode out of the underbrush, and she runs, her survival brain changing her physiology, pumping blood to her large muscles and releasing a cascade of chemical reactions all designed to give her the best chance of survival. It works, she narrowly avoids the attack and scurries into her new cave. Finally, the fear-based survival mechanisms in her brain and body go back to a somewhat lower level of alert status, she falls asleep and wakes the next morning desperate for food for herself and her family. She must go out again into unknown territory, but today that territory is less unknown then it was yesterday for she knows the ridge to the west is not safe and her brain has deeply encoded that knowledge and will send her in a different direction for food. Shall she follow the dry creek bed to the west? Might this easy path lead to sustenance? No, not west, her brain registers west as danger. She will avoid the ridge to the west at all cost as the neurological associations are closely linked to the dangerous ridge to the west. How about the open smooth path leading out from her cave? It appears to be easy to navigate and has been used by game animals most probably leading to food or water. She doesn’t even have to think about it, her dominant unconsciousness primitive brain feels like it is risky, and without thought or analysis moves her in another direction. She assesses the path that’s farthest away from the previous predator attack. She ignores several potential paths until she finds one far to the east. The eastern path is not as smooth and more overgrown than the paths she avoided, however it winds far away from the last tiger attack. She takes this path. It is rocky, she bruises her feet but keeps going, no tigers; her feet hurt but she keeps going, she has already made it further then she did before tigers attacked her on the western ridge, thanks to her lower brain. The overgrowth thickens and her body is scraped bloody by the branches, but no tigers – thanks to her lower brain – and she keeps going. Bruised, with aching feet and bloody body she enters the wetlands where the path ends. She sees the clearing on the other side of the swamp that appears to contain fruit trees. She wades through the swamp; chest deep in filth, stinking muck and leeches sticking to her body but she is alive and there are no tigers in the area – success to her lower brain. She climbs out of the swamp and surveys the clearing which appears to be free from predators, she approaches the fruit trees and finds an ample supply – not nearly the variety or abundance of food she had located near her other cave – but she is safe and here she can fulfill one

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of the primary survival mandates: food. She eats quickly and to avoid risk she returns in reverse down the exact same path she came in on. She gets back to the cave and feeds her family – success to her lower brain. The choices our Stone Age woman makes next, when she is hungry again, is most germane to our story and applicable to our modern lives. The same brain regions that led to her survival lurk below the surface of our modern evolved brains. This same lower survival brain is dominant in us moderns even though we have newer higher brain structures. In the end, regardless of our best laid plans or stated desires to change directions the lower brain’s grip proves victorious and we habituate our same old life, because sameness equals safety. Hungry again she leaves the cave for food and with no hesitation her survival brain turns her east. She avoids the ridge to the west and does not even consider several unknown, but potentially better and less painful and demanding paths that could lead to more abundant nourishment and less suffering to her body. She heads straight for the path that has already proven successful, because success to the lower brain means survival, nothing more. She takes the same path, bruises her feet again, scrapes her body bloody, wades through filthy swamp muck and arrives to mediocre nutrition. She returns in reverse the same way, back the same path. A couple of days pass and when she and her family are hungry again, she leaves the cave and as if on autopilot makes her way to the same path… this nearly automatic behavior plays itself out over and over until she dies or crisis (her cave collapsing, predators finding a way in etc.) redirects her. Automatic behavior becomes hard-wired into the brain through a process called ‘myelination’. Everything that happens in your life has a representation in your brain. Specific behaviors in our lives correlate with specific physiology in our brains. Each time we repeat a behavior our brain wraps myelin (white matter) around the nerve fibers that fire when we take that path. Myelin accelerates the propagation of the nerve signal down a particular neurological pathway. Myelin thickens in representative areas of the brain each time we replay the same story in our life. Since our Stone Age woman’s brain has registered safety associated with the path to the east, it continues to direct her down that same path, each time thickening the myelin material and building her brain in such a way that this particular pathway becomes a default, wired into automatically determining her behavior in a perceived hostile world. The important thing to realize is that as this pathway becomes a default setting in the brain it becomes habituated in her life. She will pass by many alternative pathways that may lead to a better life because sameness equals safety. The unknown is risky and now her brain won’t even let her go down another path.

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U I hope by now you see where this is going. We (you and I) have this same survival based brain, now the ‘lower brain’ in us moderns, still trying to create sameness regarding our survival. However, we now have a higher brain that seeks transcendence and liberation. The newly evolved slumbering higher brain provides us the desire for a new life, but that old lower brain has its grip on and continues to habituate our old life. Sameness equals safety. The unknown paths are avoided for the ‘sure thing’– the path that was already established as safe and led to survival – even if merely subsistence, waking up alive, is success to our lower brains. And since this brain is the oldest, and has existed the longest and can’t deal with the complexity of modern living it always reverts back to what it knows has allowed it to wake up alive. Look at your life now, are you happy with your relationships, physical fitness, finances, career? Are you living a life of purpose and meaning? None of this matters to ancient survival brain strategies. Whatever your life looks like now, even if you are miserable, has led to your survival and your lower brain has habituated those life strategies. We may have bursts of passion, or moments of higher brain clarity and visions of changing areas of our life, we may have the best intentions and create great strategies to do exactly that, but alas, that old primitive brain wants your life to remain the same and it cycles you back into your same old life…because…yes you know, sameness equals safety. Below the conscious threshold lurks the sameness generator and it overpowers your less established higher brain and higher potentials. The lower brain is addicted to the struggle, it’s the only territory it knows and feels safe there. There can be no growth, evolution or progress in your life if the lower brain’s grip isn’t loosened. All growth, evolution or progress requires change and the lower brain fears change and will dig in to stop it. What good are most self-help techniques in the face of a million years of survival-based brain function that does not want you to change?

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and energy in the human body, if the lower brain is reacting to the environment defensively, which research demonstrates is happening nearly 24/7 in modern culture. Blood supply is diverted into our defensive systems so we can fight, freeze, or flee in the face of a tiger (even if this tiger is traffic on the freeway). If a tiger is coming, you need larger amounts of blood supply and energy directed to the areas of your body needed to protect you, but this comes at a price. This routing of blood and energy needed to protect you in the short term isn’t available to heal you in the long term if the lower brain response doesn’t dissipate. In addition to blood and energy diverted away from the higher brain it is also diverted away from the digestive system and immune system. Your immune system keeps you alive. It intervenes to keep a simple cold from taking over your body and killing you (as happens in immune-compromised cases such as Aids). Your immune system fights and stops cancerous cells that are growing in your body (we all have cancerous cells inside us, the reason they don’t usually turn into cancer is that a properly functioning immune system finds the early cancer cells and destroys them before they proliferate), and it needs adequate fuel to do so. Even low-grade stress (lower brain mediated) compromises immunity, so it is not difficult to see why health and healing are severely compromised by lower brain stress physiology, or why turning on the higher brain and releasing the stress response also results in increased healing and immunity.

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The primal emotion of the lower brain is fear. All other feelings, responses and manifestations issue forth from this very primal emotion. As the ancient texts of India, the Upanishads aptly state, “Where there is other there is fear.” Therefore everything other than oneself, on a very fundamental level produces fear. Fear is the first emotion of lower brain processing; fear keeps us the same. A fear of everything other allowed us to survive in a hostile environment with many different threats coming from many different directions. The higher brain has “fear-busting” potential, and the shift to that higher command center, reduces fear. If your body is storing energy and directing blood flow into the areas of the body needed to protect you, it cannot be simultaneously “in” the higher brain. Consequently, and one reason that SCM technique is so effective, if you can turn on more of the higher brain, even for a moment, fear must be released. You cannot sustain fear if you connect more fully in the higher brain. The lower brain still remains ready if needed, but is no longer stopping our growth and development by being the dominant mode of relating to the life process. 40

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Anxiety Anxiety is the stress response ‘built up’ without anywhere to go, it is the experience of being in a jungle with a million little tigers all around you; which one do you fight? What direction do you run? They are everywhere and the lower brain cannot process complexity – too many potential threats are out there and a deep sense of anxiousness creeps in. When the lower brain can’t really identify the threat (since it is the demands of modern life and not really a tiger) the energy the lower brain mobilizes to protect you becomes stuck in a feedback loop. It becomes ‘locked into the system’, it doesn’t dissipate by fighting or fleeing (because there is nothing really there to fight or flee from), it remains circulating inside, constantly reinforced by its negative survival-based perception of the environment. This circulating survival response begins to eat us from the inside out and we experience this as anxiety.

Depression Studies now link reduced activity – on the specific area of the higher brain called the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC ) – in people suffering from depression. Additionally, increased alpha waves in the higher frontal brain has been associated with decreased depression and increased creativity. Earlier we discussed the HBL studies that showed decreased depression and anxiety; what we have also found during certain points in the HBL technique through brain mapping using Electroencephalograph (EEG) study, is increased alpha waves in the PFC. This finding was so profound that it led one brain researcher to conclude, “I have never seen so much alpha in the PFC in all the brains I have measured.” She went on to state that the high alpha waves were most probably in association with high levels of dopamine, the naturally occurring feel-good molecule, flooding the higher brain.

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Addiction Addiction affects millions as lower brain physiology keeps us from experiencing the bliss states: joy, connection, passion and purpose that require higher brain physiology. If higher brain physiology is unavailable, and dopamine cannot bind in the dormant PFC, then we seek to fill the missing bliss, joy connection, through any substitute (sex, drugs, alcohol, food, social media etc.) that can create even a temporary rise in dopamine and sense of well-being. Addictions are our substitute gratifications for a lack of purpose and joy in life that become habituated by the lower brain. Many studies have shown a link 41

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between lower brain processing and addiction and I won’t belabor the point here. To break the bad habit, we have to upgrade the physiology and insert the new habit during the higher brain state.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD is a condition that develops following severe trauma. Following the traumatic event, it is as if the person’s brain never resets to where it originally was. Instead it has been rewired to react to a car backfiring as though it were bombs on the battlefield, or the inadvertent touch of a stranger on the subway is perceived as though a rape is occurring. Research has shown that the physiology of PTSD involves a hyperactive amygdala, one of the primary ancient structures of the ‘lower brain’. Through trauma, the lower brain has been conditioned to perceive the world as a threat and remains on high alert even though the previous traumas (rape, war, etc.) are long gone and unlikely to exist in the current environment. This understanding of the brain changes associated with PTSD presents a great starting point for the model I am proposing. I am suggesting that in most all of humanity the lower brain is all too active and we all perceive the world on some level as a threat, simply because the lower primitive brain continues to be locked in and not let energy flow upwards to the evolutionary new brain structures. PTSD is simply a dramatic example of this modern human problem. Potential exists above our current baseline that makes the ‘normal life’ we are living seem just as far away from our potential, as PTSD sufferers are away from what we now call normal. I Interestingly, the shift in center of gravity to the higher brain does not diminish the ability of the lower brain to do its job if our life actually is threated. My belief is that it (lower brain) works more efficiently if it is not being burned out by the constant activation in 21st-century life. It’s our fear that has been required to allow us to evolve – fear of death promotes survival which promotes evolution. Next up for the species is to enter into a post-fear, conscious evolution era. Note that the common denominator for all of these “mental/emotional” disorders – Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, Addiction is… you got it, lower brain processing, stress physiology.

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Burnout As discussed earlier ‘stress’ is the name we give to the lower brain’s response to life. All information from, and experience of, your environment first goes into the lower brain for processing. Because survival is the top priority, this part of the brain needs to know its environment immediately in case there is a threat. 42

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Once a threat (or potential threat) is registered, the lower brain is designed to react very rapidly. It is built to keep you from being eaten. As information from the environment comes in through your senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste), it goes into the lower unconscious primitive brain first. This is an important point, all information that comes into your sensory system is first filtered through the lower primitive brain, even before the higher conscious brain knows anything is out there. This is why you may jump away from a snake only to find a few moments later (when the information makes it up to conscious awareness) that the snake was only a small coiled garden hose. The lower brain doesn’t think or rationalize; it only reacts to protect you. Something out there may want to eat you and you cannot waste precious time uploading all the way to the higher layer of thinking brain (or beyond) to analyze what to do; you must react. Reactivity is how the lower brain processes the world around you. The problem is that our lower brains are not equipped to adapt to the multiple demands and complexities put on it by modern living. So this primitive mechanism quickly goes into overwhelm and never turns off. In modern life the lower brain holds a constant baseline of low level engagement, it never cools off and resets itself after the threat is gone, because it is interpreting all the demands and complexity, that it is not made to deal with, as though they are threats of some kind. Modern life therefore becomes perceived by our brains as an unsafe place to be and we feel the results of this locked-in lower brain physiology as stress. The amygdala and hippocampus are two of the lower brain areas most associated with the stress response. Stress burns out hippocampus (up to 25%) which then does not tell amygdala not to secrete stress hormones. Living in the higher brain does not diminish the appropriate lower brain survival response when it is needed, in fact, this response can be initiated more efficiently when your energy is not being burnt out by low-grade stress responses that are active throughout most of our modern world days. The way we physiologically defend ourselves comes at the expense of our growth and evolution. How much good can psychotherapy or life coaching really do if lurking beneath the surface of the great advice you are given is a Stone Age brain that fears change of any kind? We must change the brain first. How can you take the advice that you receive and use it if the dominant part of your brain does not want to change? You can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic but that won’t solve the problem! Numbing ourselves (through medication) doesn’t change our environment either or get us into the higher brain and doesn’t seem like a good long-term strategy to me.

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SCM was created as a self-administered way to create these powerful higher brain changes. Just imagine what could happen when all who suffer mental emotional problems could not only flood the brain on demand with ‘happy molecules’ but could link that new state to areas of their life in need of change.

The Solution The level of complexity of our modern world has exceeded our dominant biological/cognitive capacities to fully process and create meaning from this complexity. This ‘overload’ further activates the stress brain. The old lower stress brain arrests the energy from going to the prefrontal cortex and other higher brain structures. The old lower reptilian brain is designed to keep you from being eaten by a tiger. In the modern world, that reptilian brain experiences a thousand little tigers daily. Stress decreases healing and clarity and reduces meaning in life by keeping us out of the higher brain. The higher brain does the opposite, it turns on your body’s ability to rejuvenate and feel a sense of inner calm and meaning. That feeling of well-being is meant to be your natural state. However, with all the demands of the modern world, we can’t keep the higher brain turned on, and stress instead becomes our baseline. In fact, at no time in history has this new higher brain ever been fully awakened. Most of humanity’s history has been one of survival; hyper-vigilance in the environment was needed to stay alive long enough to eat and procreate. We are past that point, however, the old reptilian brain is still there processing the world before the higher brain even knows it. The good news is that the higher brain can be awakened in everyone, and the more it is energized, the more the center of gravity shifts from lower brain dominance to the higher brain. We have the architecture, and we are only now finding out how to use it! This is where your future is! A breakthrough with SCM is that this technique leads to increased energy in the higher brain and a reduction of stress as well as a rejuvenation in the body/ mind. As rejuvenation is occurring there is an increase in your body’s ability to receive and use other productive techniques. You can leverage this rejuvenation response and simultaneously introduce other techniques to upgrade any/all systems of the body. This allows us to remedy one of the biggest challenges in the healing arts, self- help and personal development fields. The challenge has always been that a low percentage of people actually attain positive benefit and of those that do the effect is often small and unsustainable. Most of us can relate to this; you see a massage therapist and a week later your muscles are tense again, you go to your

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chiropractor and in a few days you are out of alignment again. You quit taking your high blood pressure medication and quickly your blood pressure increases. You see your psychologist, leave the session clear and focused, but soon old patterns creep back in. You have a session with a life coach, but can’t sustain the motivation, you feel clear during meditation but then… I am not criticizing any of these wonderful methods, but the facts remain that people rarely have profound long-term transformative life changes. SCM can help all of these wonderful methods work much more effectively and sustainably. So how can you make productive experiences stick or hold? Once the higher brain energizes, as you will learn in this book, a variety of productive techniques can be easily received and utilized by your body/mind. While the higher brain is awakened your body and mind are more flexible and reorganizing, the rejuvenation response is active, and stress is releasing. Now is the time to make change! Now introduce, yoga, massage therapy, chiropractic, cranial sacral therapy, energy work, body work, acupressure, or any other effective life-enhancement methods and they will be received and integrated and lead to greater outcomes! Timing is everything. As your higher brain is energized, stress is released, your body is rejuvenated, and you are now ripe for positive change. Introducing any of the abovementioned methods at the time the higher brain is energized leads to quantum change because you have recruited the power and wisdom of your higher brain to metabolize the effects. At the time of higher brain engagement you are not locked in the lower brain resisting change– you are in the process of rejuvenating while these other effective techniques are introduced into your body/mind. U

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Here’s how this breakthrough works and how small amounts of something productive can lead to dramatic quantum improvements. Suppose you had a Westinghouse blender full of water. Imagine that the water in the blender represents your body. In our metaphor, water molecules in the blender = cells in your body. NOW…

pretend that you have a dropper of dark green colored liquid in your hand. NOW…

imagine that this dropper of green liquid is the most potent healing substance in the world. Let’s say this green liquid substance was the nectar of a plant just

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discovered deep in the Amazon rain forest and it is a panacea, a ‘fountain of youth,’ with amazing healing and longevity producing properties, and of course you want to get it into your body. Remember our metaphor, the water in the blender is your body. NOW…

imagine holding the dropper of this miracle green liquid over the turned off blender full of water (your body) and dropping three drops into the blender. Remember the blender is turned off, so, what happens? See it in your mind’s eye, not much happens right?! The miracle green substance slowly settles near the bottom and produces a few small offshoots into the water (your body) but approximately 95% percent of the water is unaffected by the world’s most powerful healing substance. NOW…

let’s repeat the experiment in our minds, only this time right before we squeeze three green drops into the water (your body), we turn the blender on. Before we drop the green substance in, the blender receives energy, begins to change state and sets the water in motion, thus changing the receptivity of the system. Now drop the green healing liquid into the water (cells of your body). What happens now that the blender is energized and receptive? What happens when this small quantity of this miracle substance enters the water (your body)? The small amount of healing substance is dispersed and integrated into every single water molecule! Every cell of your body now contains this most powerful healing substance!

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The outcome of these two experiments is as different as day and night. When the green substance was put into the water in the turned-off blender, that water was largely unaffected. The other blender full of water, however, when energized and turned on, resulted in 100% integration of the powerful substance put into the water. Furthermore, if you turned the blender off and came back in a month and checked, all of this amazing green substance would still be integrated into your entire body (water in blender). Can you see how transformational it is when a system is turned on first? The only difference between virtually nothing happening and a 100% transformation was that one blender was turned on and the other was not. How much of that healing green liquid would we have had to dump into the blender to get 100% integration when it was turned off? 46

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Imagine what happens when you energize your higher brain – stress is released and your body starts to rejuvenate – and then you take a yoga class, or meditate while this rejuvenation response is active in your body. The blender is turned on, a quantum effect is attained, and the transformation is integrated and sustainable. We change the rules of the game of healing and personal growth when we energize the system (higher brain) first! The SCM techniques you will discover in this book bring more energy to the higher brain and a rejuvenation response is initiated in the body. As you learn to energize your higher brain, you can then introduce other powerful methods in body, mind, and spirit that create quantum, sustainable improvements. Once your body is stress-free and upgraded and you have more energy available to your higher brain, SCM techniques can help you use this energized higher brain, to not only upgrade your body, but free your mind and awaken your spirit as well. It all begins by subtle mobilizing energy to awaken your higher brain.

Activation Energy for Your Higher Brain As we now know and will learn in more detail in the following chapter, there are dormant higher brain capacities that must be awakened in humanity. I would now like to turn our attention to the higher brain’s potential energy source, a latent energy in the body. This slumbering energy has been known for thousands of years and referred to by many names. Known as Kundalini or Prana to the ancient yogis of India, Chi and Qi by the Taoist healers and acupuncture practitioners of China, serpent energy to the ancient Egyptians; and some scholars even believe this secret energy is the Holy Ghost referenced in Christian traditions. By whatever name, this internal energy has been utilized in a host of different healing arts and personal and spiritual transformation systems the world over. Nearly all of the disciplines and practices that acknowledged this latent energy knew that it was associated with certain pathways or flows, in the body. As with the energy itself many names have been given and many models of the organization of these pathways have been considered throughout history. A variety of different healing techniques and wisdom traditions have all had their own unique approach and understandings to these pathways and the energy flows they are associated with. Whether referred to as meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, or nadi channels in yoga, it was believed that a latent energy could be awakened in the body and that this energy could create transformative changes in healing and consciousness.

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Could the SalutoGenenic responses that we see consistently with HBL and SCM, be an emergent evolutionary upgrade, a more sophisticated and more highly ordered organic repurposing of that ancient and often mythologized sacred energy? Could this ancient energy, which HBL and SCM taps into, actually be energetic fuel for the brain revealing itself in a new more advanced way? Or is the evolutionary upgrade occurring in the channels in the body to allow for greater ease and sophistication for the same ancient sacred energy to flow through? Or maybe the energy remains the same but the brain’s ability to receive it has evolved. Our brains may be evolving in such a way that it can metabolize more of this sacred energy. Perhaps all three are occurring, through evolution the channels and the energy are reorganizing for greater expression and the brain is upgrading to receive and utilize the energy with greater efficiency. Regardless of the exact mechanism I am convinced that an evolutionary upgrade is occurring and that this upgrade is desperately needed so that billions (instead of only a fortunate few), can access dramatic and transformative changes in their lives fueled by a latent sacred energy destined for their higher brain. It is common for us postmodern world centric seekers to embrace pre-modern philosophies and techniques for transformation, but ironically we often don’t realize that the release or mobilization of this sacred energy was paramount to many (if not most) of these transformative processes. I believe the reason we have so often left out the ‘subtle energy’ component – when we modernize ancient practices – is that no consistent methodologies were ever developed by these ancient practices to quickly and repeatedly mobilize this energy and so it has been easier to ignore it. We simply hadn’t figured out how to consistently mobilize and utilize this energy nor apply its transformative effects within a system relevant to our modern lives. It has been much easier to understand the philosophy and emulate the ancient practices, at times rendering them diluted and superficial without the knowledge to actually mobilize the energy that is required for the philosophy to become lived and the practice to work. In the self-development and spiritual growth market place of our modern and postmodern world this has created a lot of ideas, philosophies and concepts centered on a variety of practices and techniques with very little sustainable transformative effect. SCM has cracked the code to this latent energy source. As our understanding continues to unfold throughout this book, we will see how SCM is based on the most progressive knowledge of 21st-century neuroscience, with roots in ancient wisdom that dates back to yogi mystics 5,000 years ago. SCM is the leading edge of an ancient path. It is transformational and reproducible. The SCM techniques create a clear channel and powerful energy surge

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to the higher brain that opens a gateway to true, lasting, limitless and expansive higher living. Now let’s take a closer look at how two of the more sophisticated pre-modern approaches viewed this sacred energy and its pathways. Long part of the wisdom traditions of many cultures this ‘energy of transformation’ has been known to antiquity the world over. The Taoist masters of China and Yogi adepts of India have given us two (certainly not the only two) of the most comprehensive and detailed studies relating to latent sacred energy (and its channels and flows in the body) purported to heal the body and transform the consciousness of the seeker. Using these two wisdom traditions as examples we can fully honor the geniuses of history, as we further elucidate the uniqueness of the SCM code and protocol.

Taoism and the energy of transformation Taoism originated in China some 2,000 years ago, its originator remains unknown although Zhang Daoling became the founder of the first organized Taoist school of thought. Taoism was one of the most followed religions in China until the communist revolution banned it a few decades ago reducing it to a fraction of its original glory. According to Taoist philosophy, ‘The Tao’, translated, as ‘the Way’ is the essence of all that is. The Tao is the underlying principle and unity of everything. It is the creative principle of the universe that unites all opposites. The Tao is not a substance or a thing but the essence of all substances and all things. It is the source of all creation and the creative act itself. It is beyond words and concepts and therefore cannot be adequately expressed by language alone.

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The Taoists sought to align their lives with this ultimate essence, the goal was to develop one’s life to be in alignment and harmony with the primordial energetic source of all that is…. The Tao. Cultivate the Tao within oneself, and one’s virtue will be perfected. Cultivate it within the household, and one’s virtue will be abundant. Cultivate it within the neighborhood, and one’s virtue will be enduring. Cultivate it within the nation, and one’s virtue will be overflowing. Cultivate it within the entire world, and one’s virtue will be universal. — TAO TE CHING

Taoist masters used many methods to bring a student into harmony with the Tao. Originally Taoist practices focused on what were referred to as ‘external alchemy’. External alchemy techniques introduced external elements into the body to promote transformation of the recipient. Amongst these external alchemy practices were the taking of various herbs and elixirs, which when introduced from outside the body (thus external alchemy) were purported to bring more peace and harmony and longevity to the recipient. As Taoism evolved and their understanding of the sacred energy within the body became more sophisticated Taoist masters turned their focus to ‘internal alchemy’ techniques which were based on the mobilization and cultivation of sacred energy within the body. Taoist internal alchemy methods included the energetic-based healing and personal growth traditions, ‘Chi Gong’ and ‘Tai Chi’, as well as a variety of breathing exercises, meditation/concentration techniques, and practices that sought to retain and sublimate sexual energy (also as we will see, common among yoga philosophies). All of the Taoist ‘internal alchemy’ approaches were designed to gather, store or circulate the secret and sacred energies of the human body. ‘Dantian’ is a Taoist term for focal points within the body believed to store chi energy. According to Taoist masters there are three main Dantians. The one believed to be of most import is the lower Dantian located inside the human body in front of the sacrum (lower region of the spinal column). Of note, the location of the lower Dantian is very close in proximity to the lower point of contact in the SCM approach. The first known detailed description of the lower Dantian is in the 3rd century CE meditation text, ‘Laozi Zhongjing ‘. It was believed and reported that centering one’s thoughts in the lower Dantian led to advanced states of consciousness. One of the most important of Taoist energy mobilization and cultivation

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practices was known as the ‘microcosmic orbit’. The microcosmic orbit involves a number of different meditation techniques and breathing exercises designed to circulate energy up and into the head and then back down the body through chi energy centers. The origins of the microcosmic orbit date far back, at least 3,000-4,000 years. Elements of it can even be found in the 3,000-year-old famous Chinese ‘book of changes’ the I Ching. In learning The microcosmic orbit the student is encouraged to develop deep abdominal breathing into the primary Dantian (energy center that’s approximate in location to the SCM codes (sequence and protocol) lower contact point) to develop heat and pressure in the lower abdomen, called the “Golden Stove”. This breathing and focus on the lower Dantian produces heat energy that stimulates the release of the sacred energy harbored within the energy center, which can then be directed to the head and circulated through the body. My belief is that the energy produced in the form of heat and pressure focused into the primary Dantian – referred to in Taoist sacred texts – created a generalized dispersion of energy in this region, which partially activated the contact point that’s more precisely accessed in the SCM code. These energy-cultivating geniuses provided a base that SCM has been able to enhance with more consistency and specificity as well as provide an application in 21st-century life for its effects. Taoism identified another key area relating to the mobilization of sacred energy and called this spot the ‘jade pillow’ (also known as the ‘upper gate’). This ‘upper gate’ contact point was known to be very hard to access and open and was also referred to as ‘the iron wall’. The jade pillow was thought to control the rising of energy from the spine into the brain. Of note is that this point is almost identical to the upper contact point in the SCM code and through the precision of our technique and protocol this upper gate is very easy to engage thus opening the secret door in the ‘iron wall’ and mobilizing energy to the brain. To open the jade pillow point Taoist masters taught their students various exercises, ‘meditations on the upper gate’ and various neck postures and movements. Again, these were generalized approaches that approximated a specific energy center and sometimes created enough access to mobilize latent energy. It appears as though some of the masters were onto more sophisticated approaches as described in ancient Chinese texts, where three fingers were held into the jade pillow and observable breath changes seen and feelings of inspiration flowed into the recipient. Somewhere along the line development stopped and these beautiful lost arts and their science of transformation never evolved enough to create widespread transformative change in the modern masses.

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Consistent with most of the pre-modern approaches to activating sacred energy, the techniques used by Taoist masters to mobilize energy were often non-specific. Such as breathing and focusing in the area of the lower Dantian to increase heat and pressure, or neck movements to open the upper gate. I believe these techniques create a non-specific contact into the same area that the SCM code accesses with precision. As we will soon see the yogis of India found ways to ‘force the energy up’ through non-specific techniques and this often led to an overload of energy that the body and brain of the recipient was not prepared to metabolize. We seem to have two phenomena showing up in both Taoist and Yoga traditions. Either the energy releases in a gentle and subtle way with limited transformative effects or it releases in a fury occasionally leading to transformative effects but often simply overloading the capacity of the body and brain to metabolize its surge. Again, based on the consistent and repeatable results we see through the SCM protocols, I believe there is a higher degree of specificity of contact into the energy centers AND an evolutionary upgrade occurring within this sacred energy and/or pathways and the brain. This evolutionary upgrade coupled with the precision of the SCM protocol may explain the high degree of consistency and reproducibility of the mobilization and assimilation of energy seen with HBL and now incorporated into SCM. This section was not meant to be a detailed study of Taoist techniques nor philosophy, but instead designed to bring attention to the historical significance that these geniuses provided for the eventual development of the SCM technique. I am also not being critical of the non-specific approaches, contacts or inconsistent outcomes. This is simply how evolution works; these ancient practices provided thousands of years of experimentation, hypothesis and knowledge that led to the breakthroughs of the SCM technique.

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“I stand on the shoulders of giants” — SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Yoga and the energy of transformation In yoga philosophy it was believed that a sleeping serpent energy, Kundalini, also called Shakti and Prana (I will use these terms interchangeably although some of the various yoga schools had nuanced understandings of each one), was coiled at the base of the spine remaining dormant until the seeker had been sufficiently prepared for its awakening through decades of preparatory practice. Once liberated this energy would ascend through all of the energy 52

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centers (Chakras) of the body waking up higher degrees of consciousness as the sacred energy transformed each energy center. After much effort by the seeker and, at times, many challenges the energy traversing the pathways in the body and moving upwards would awaken the higher energy centers in the head and, according to Indian yogic philosophy, a chakra could be awakened that existed just above the head, leading to release from all suffering and a direct realization of ultimate truth. All of the Indian yoga schools believed Prana energy to be associated with breath and oxygen and they developed many techniques to increase and mobilize this energy. One such technique was ‘pranayama’ which consisted of a series of breathing techniques designed to increase and circulate Prana. “They who know the breath of the breath have realized the ancient primordial Brahman” — BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD, 4.4.18

As we will discover soon, spontaneous new breath patterns emerge during SCM sessions. This is a good time to make note of a fundamental difference and the high degree of sophistication of the SCM techniques. The new breath patterns emerging during SCM are NOT a result of the conscious learning of a breathing technique (as is the case with pranayama techniques) – instead, when the revolutionary SCM code is introduced into these energy pathways and energy is mobilized and traverses to the higher brain, emergent new breathing patterns are naturally and automatically initiated due to the feedback response by your brain as it learns to self-energize. In addition to pranayama, meditation techniques and asanas (yoga postures) were developed to move this sacred energy through the body and expand consciousness. After thousands of years of experimentation ancient Yogis discovered two of the most key points, amongst many points, within the subtle energy pathways of the body. One of these points is at the base of the spine and called the Mooladhara chakra. It was believed that the Kundalini energy in the body was coiled and concentrated in this location. The other revered energetic contact point was at the base of the skull and referred to in the Vedas (the oldest religious texts known to humankind) as ‘the mouth of God’. It was believed that in this upper spine location all universal Shakti energy entered the human body. It is important to note here, that although I use anatomical terms to clarify certain locations regarding the body, the energy pathways and contact points are not really thought to belong to the realm of gross

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anatomy. Instead they are part of a subtle anatomy that we have limited language to use towards describing precise location. I am assuming that the diligent reader is now seeing a pattern emerge and a recurring theme between untapped brain potential, latent energy in the body associated with specific pathways and now two consistently recognized points (energy centers) within the pathways that effect this latent energy source. In many of the most sophisticated yoga techniques the two points, one at the top of the spine and the other at the base of the spine, were understood to be crucial to the awakening or mobilization of sacred energy in the body. Yogic meditation techniques required focused intense concentration on these points and the specially designed asanas were meant to position the body in such a way that the energy centers were forced open. On the rare occasion that Kundalini woke up through the utilization of these techniques – and if the practitioner was not adequately prepared through years of rigorous training and lifestyle changes – it often overpowered the body’s physical structure and wreaked havoc in their body, mind and life. Kundalini was hard to awaken and if the recipient was not previously committed to decades of preparation it may not result in desired effects. The SalutoGenic energy promoted through SCM is the upgrade to accomplish what Kundalini could not. SalutoGenic energy carries less amplitude but more specificity and alters the physical structure with less force than Kundalini did. The purposeful mobilization of this refined SalutoGenic energy, gently molds the structure of your body to increase the energy flows to your brain, and your awakened state is gracefully guided into your modern life. Through SCM I believe SalutoGenesis, as the evolution of Kundalini/Prana, can reach the brain in multitudes of people and a new world can be created. Kundalini energy was an evolutionary experiment that did not consummate in widespread human change. SalutoGenic energy is an evolutionary emergence from this primal source that is more organized, better timed, expressed more elegantly, and much easier for the average person to assimilate. In short, SalutoGenic energy and the brain has evolved in such a way that sacred energy flowing in the body to the brain does not usually overwhelm body/mind as Kundalini has been known to do. These Yoga adepts charted a course that we are building on today. Their contributions are without precedent SalutoGenic energy, a hallmark of SCM, does not rise before its time. Once mobilized it traverses the pathways elegantly to fuel your brain. As your brain metabolizes its fuel and you awaken, an accurate map of your life guides you forward as you bring your awakened state to your life. The work you will do and

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the changes you will make, as you progress through this book, will help prepare not only your body a nd brain, but also all other life dimensions for awakening.

The Science of the Energy of Transformation and its Pathways Microfilaments, microtubules, and energy transfer We have learned what the Taoist masters of China and the Yogis of India had to say about this energy of transformation. We have also looked at the possibility that an evolution of this energy is occurring and how it is being leveraged by the highly specific SCM technique. Now let’s see what modern Western science has to say about the energy of transformation and the pathways in the body that support it. In the late 1800s Pierre and Jacques Curie discovered that crystal structures subjected to mechanical pressure emit energy. They called this energy releasing effect ‘piezoelectric’. It was later scientifically established that all crystalline structures exhibit this release of electromagnetic energy (piezoelectric effect) if they are touched, compressed, stretched or loaded in certain ways. In 1988 the Austrian chemist, Friedrich Reinitzer discovered a new phase of matter. Together with the German physicist Otto Lehmann, an expert in crystalline structures, they became convinced that a unique kind of order existed in certain liquids. They referred to it as ‘liquid crystal’. Liquid crystals behave like liquid and matter at the same time. The French theoretical physicist, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was studying ‘superconductors’ – materials that conduct electricity without any resistance and therefore can carry a signal forever without losing energy. In other words, superconductors offer zero electric resistance. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes soon turned his attention to liquid crystals and in 1991 won a Nobel prize for demonstrating analogies between super conductors and liquid crystals. Recently it has become clear that liquid crystals represent much of the substance of living organisms, called ‘biological liquid crystals’, and in fact it has now been demonstrated that the cell membrane of all living organisms are liquid crystal and therefore capable of producing energy release in the form of the piezoelectric effect.

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Dr. James L. Oschman PhD has extensively studied the piezoelectric effect of connective tissue in the human body. Oschman has shown how connective tissue in the human body forms a matrix of crystalline substance extending into and connecting all areas and structures of the human body and brain. Modern science has demonstrated that the energy pathways in the body, known for thousands of years and now accessed in an innovative way by the SCM code, are dense in microfilaments and microtubules, which are the most highly piezoelectric components of connective tissue. So we are now able to clarify a mechanism – that is palatable to western science – through which highly piezoelectric tissue is mechanically loaded through touch or breath in such a way that a piezoelectric effect moves through the liquid crystalline substance of the body and spreads into various tissue destinations. In short, science shows us that when the body is contacted in certain ways and in specific pathways it releases energy. The SCM protocol has cracked a code around the precise direction and depth of gentle pressure within specific crystalline-dense locations of the energy pathways. It is theorized that the specific SCM code introduced into the pathways, through breath, touch and intention, leads to an energy release traveling to the higher brain. With precise gentle loading through contact in a specific unique protocol, the piezoelectric effect to the brain is maximized, waking up its slumbering potential. We can now see that areas of the human body are highly piezoelectric (emit energy when touched in specific ways) and act as superconductors to transmit this energy with zero resistance to specific areas of the human body and brain. Many of the ancient disciplines that acknowledged a latent energy in the body (and beyond) would argue today that this energy is subtler then the piezoelectric effect observed in labs, and is beyond the electromagnetic spectrum recognized by Western science. I believe both are correct, there is a piezoelectric effect occurring and also I believe they are correct that in time we will have instruments to measure a more subtle energy of transformation occurring simultaneously. In the chapter on Enlightenment States we will discuss in more detail energy beyond the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond the physical body. For now, suffice to say that we can put together a credible theory of the energy of transformation and how it flows through pathways in the body, that is consistent with knowledge gained through modern Western science.

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Higher Brain Mechanisms and the Energy of Transformation Through the SCM protocol the mobilized energy, we can call it ‘SalutoGenesis’, acting as much needed ‘brain fuel’ increases metabolism in higher brain structures. As this ‘SalutoGenesis’ is received by and builds in the higher brain, the higher brain begins to awaken; remarkably this awakening is followed by spontaneous feedback mechanisms that are new expressions of this ‘SalutoGenesis’. This feedback is self-generated by your higher brain! The spontaneous higher brain feedback initially takes the form of two new and unique ‘SalutoGenesis’ feedback mechanisms. I refer to these new mechanisms as ‘SalutoGenic mechanisms (SalutoGenesis for short)’. SalutoGenesis is a term borrowed from the field of biology, that studies the brain’s potential to create wellness. The words Saluto Genesis or SalutoGenic thus have their origins in the Latin word ‘salud’, a toast to health, well-being and vitality. The first of these mechanisms is a 3-dimensional automatic expansion of your breath. We call this ‘SalutoGenic Breath Expansion’, experienced as though every part of your being is breathing in all directions simultaneously. Like bellows filling with air, seeming to defy the physical limitations of how much air the lungs can actually hold. The 3D auto breath transcends mere lung capacity as it is charging the oxygen with the energy of transformation to be carried and delivered to the higher brain. The second potential mechanism generated by the mobilized energy is felt as an automatic wave like rhythmical breathing. We call this a ‘SalutoGenic Breath Rhythm’, felt as your breath spontaneously cycling through your body with a high degree of organization and rhythmically undulating upwards as the energy-charged breath moves to the brain. In either experience your breath begins to spontaneously move through your body! To be clear, you are NOT consciously learning to breathe in this way, the response is being automatically generated as your higher brain energizes. The experience of either of these SalutoGenic Breathing responses feels as though you are witnessing and experiencing yourself being breathed. As a result of the initial mobilized energy, brought about by precise contacts through the SCM protocol, your brain is effortlessly and automatically generating new mechanisms to efficiently carry more of this sacred energy up the pathways and to itself. As it wakes up it learns how to generate its own fuel source that leads to increased metabolism in the higher brain where much of your latent potential hides. As you progress in SCM and the pathways continue to be cued through the SCM protocol, and your brain continues to generate its own activation energy,

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it is common to feel a third SalutoGenic mechanism spontaneously arise in your body. A large wave-like movement courses through the subtle energy pathways in your body and we call this a ‘SalutoGenic AutoWave’. An ‘autowave’ is a term used in physics and chemistry as well as the life sciences to describe the process through which information is transmitted through living systems. A classic example of an autowave is a nerve impulse. In chemistry it has been shown that these autowaves are present during ‘phase transitions’. A phase transition, according to modern physics and chemistry, is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one state of matter to another. This provides, at the very least, a useful metaphor for the ‘phase transitions’ that occur to SCM clients as the above mentioned SalutoGenic mechanisms move through the human body. This SalutoGenic AutoWave (and quite possibly all three of the SalutoGenic mechanisms) is experienced as the undulation of raw energy (not breath charged with energy) moving up and down the subtle energy pathways. Once the body has been sufficiently prepped and the energy pathways gently traversed by energy-charged breath, this larger more powerful SalutoGenic AutoWave spontaneously moves through your body releasing lower brain junk and clearing your body of stress. The SalutoGenic AutoWave further clears out restriction or bottlenecks within the subtle energy pathways and further opens them for a better flow and greater transfer of energy to the brain. When the SalutoGenic AutoWave moves through you it is experienced as a very powerful and liberating phenomenon. Often times wrought with emotion, as long held stress patterns are released and higher centers of the brain simultaneously come online. I am putting forth the hypothesis that as the subtle energy (or if viewed from a modern science perspective, the piezoelectric effect) moves through the body and energizes the higher brain and the higher brain begins to wake up and selfpromote its own energy source, more traditionally known neuronal communication is also occurring. Electrical impulses are traveling down nerve fibers and crossing synapses thus propagating a new signal through the body and to the brain. It is known that the movement of nerve energy through the human body is transmitted through nerve fibers in the form of a wave. This fact has been scientifically established. Through the SCM techniques this movement of energy is promoted and when enough of this energy starts to further propagate via the spontaneous self-generated feedback mechanisms (SalutoGenic Breath expansion and SalutoGenic Breath Rhythm) it builds in intensity until a point of critical mass is hit and the phenomenon of coherence

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is reached, and synchronization occurs amongst the moving waves of energy. In physics the term ‘energy coherence’ refers to the synchronization of waves of energy they develop ‘in phase’ relationship. This coherent, ‘in phase’, synchronized phenomenon leads to greater efficiency, as in effect they are working together. This coherence or synchronization of these energy waves amplifies their effect and increases the magnitude of their power for transformation. The coherence created through synchronization of the energy waves pulls diverse biological rhythms and other forms of nerve propagation into its field of influence. The coherence of this brain directed energy becomes so strong that a point of critical mass is hit and the coherent wave of energy spreads through the human body and expresses itself on a macro level as the large wave movement (SalutoGenic AutoWave) we see coursing through the body during SCM techniques. The above three SalutoGenic mechanisms are all the ‘classic’ expressions as this energy moves through the human body. It is important to note that there are many potential ways to experience SalutoGenesis and it may not always show up in the classic form. The energy can feel extremely subtle as it moves up pathways, or produce subtle vibrations through the body, or twitching movements in the limbs etc. As you learn SCM and journey through the 9 Summits of Transformation don’t get hung up on what you think it should feel like or the classical definitions described here. Just pay attention for any changes in breathing or energy currents or vibrations; there are many manifestations (beyond the classic definitions above) of SalutoGenesis and they all lead to the same place…a new life. All of the SalutoGenic mechanisms can be consciously neutralized and stopped by you as they arise in your body. But you really won’t want to stop the experience as it feels so natural and liberating. In other words, you are not ‘overtaken’ or lose self-control, however all that is required for it to arise with the SCM technique, is that you don’t resist and simply notice as the energy moves through your body on its way to reducing stress, upgrading your brain and creating a sense of empowerment. Surrender to the higher capacities within you and you will be set free. Before we close this chapter I want to add another piece to our concept of the energy of transformation and the circuit it forms with higher brain. As you will learn in the next chapter, brain function and physiology (exterior perspective) has correlates in consciousness (interior perspective). We want consciousness to evolve in ratio to the evolution of the sacred energy and the evolution of brain function. As brain structures evolve, consciousness evolves and the corollary

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energy that fuels this evolution of brain/consciousness evolves, creating an emergent triune of brain/consciousness/fuel (energy). The evolution of your consciousness can be promoted as energy awakens the higher brain. Higher consciousness Life Altitudes are the meaning-making apparatuses that create context for our experience. And as we will see in later chapters the interpretive matrix provided by Higher Life Altitudes in and of themselves are catalytic agents for the energy of transformation and the higher brain. These Higher Life Altitudes of consciousness (along with enlightenment states of consciousness) are themselves part of the triune and are just as much a part of the catalyzing agent for transformation as the higher brain or the energy for transformation is; they tri-evolve. This book is a manifesto of how to mobilize latent energy and wake up higher brain potentials through a systematic approach that evolves consciousness and creates context around the new experiences, to more aptly apply this transformation to your life and the world. Those of us who are waking up to a higher way of being and becoming in the world must continue to create new context around this unfolding. I also am convinced that the triune complex of SalutoGenic energy, the Higher Brain and Higher Life Altitudes are a requirement for continued transformation and evolutionary progress. We must know that evolution can be meandering, messy and experimental. Once-hopeful evolutionary paths can end suddenly. As we wake up we realize that we are part of the process of evolution. Our choices and actions count, this evolutionary triune of brain/consciousness/fuel needs us to join in the conscious process of its evolution, for we are that. In other words, the conscious promotion of evolution through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation is part of the very evolutionary process. Evolution is waking to itself, in you, through you and as you. There is a sacred energy in the body that I believe is continuous with the energy that first thrust itself forward out of consciousness 13.8 billion years ago. And just as we can trace the matter in our higher brain all the way back to the big bang and we can trace our conscious awareness all the way back to THE consciousness before the big bang, we can trace this subtle energy in the body all the way back to the evolutionary impulse and the awakened force in consciousness that thrust the matter and energy forward into existence, and has wound itself into this shockingly complex magnificent system of gross matter we call our higher brain. There has been an essential element hidden just out of sight. Something that is now coming of age as the brain evolves, an energy source, a fuel for the new

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brain. I believe SalutoGenic energy generated though SCM is the energy of our soul and spirit, gently finding its way to our Higher Brain structures to awaken us into higher consciousness, so that we can turn that consciousness back on the very catalytic process that awakened it, and promote more energy to the brain and bring that to the world and co-create heaven on earth. It’s time to mobilize this subtle energy and awaken your higher brain. The establishment of the Source Code Meditation base followed by Source Code Meditation will create a radical departure from overwhelm and stress and provide a new baseline of higher brain-based physiology and higher mind-hhbased awareness. Cultivating this new baseline will become a daily practice for you as you bring it into the guided 9 Summits of Transformation introduced in Part Two, and evolve in every way known to humankind.

The Source Code Meditation Base – Creating the Biological Thrive State Merging into subtle energy vortexes of the body and mobilizing subtle energy to the higher brain leads to automatic SalutoGenesis flowing through the body as feedback, further awakening your higher brain. This feedback creates a prolonged shift into thrive physiology that can immediately be followed by meditation. Due to the brain first nature of SCM, and the harnessing of the power of the awakened brain, the amount of meditation required to produce profound effects is proportionally much less than with traditional meditation techniques. You will practice forming the meditation base for two weeks before introducing the meditation. Don’t underestimate the power of creating the meditation base alone. Profound stress dissipation, physical healings and dramatic awakenings in brain/mind can occur before you ever leverage this awakened brain response with meditation. After two weeks of practice you should not only be proficient at turning on the higher brain response (forming the meditation base) but also have started noticing changes in how you feel; less stress, more clarity etc. I want you to experience SCM early in this book so that you can begin releasing stress, awakening your higher brain and accessing deeper states of consciousness. We are going to get started with the Source Code Meditation soon. More ‘why’, behind the various components of the SCM technique will be articulated later but I did not want additional explanation regarding the theory and mechanisms of SCM to hold you up from learning to shift your brain/mind right now. The ‘why’ we do what we do will be articulated as we go; however, I want to begin the ‘how’ now.

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You will begin by learning to activate the two key contact points that are ‘subtle energy vortexes (SEV)’, in your body: • an upper subtle energy vortex contact point at the top of the spine, base of the skull area (see FIG 1: Location Upper SEV); • a lower SEV contact point at the bottom of the spine, sacrum/coccyx area (see FIG 2: Location Lower SEV). As discussed earlier, these two contact points have been known for millennia as key entryways into the subtle energy system of the human body. You will use your touch, breath, and intention to merge into these SEV contact points and awaken dormant energy that will flow to your higher brain and activate an automated feedback response of breath/Prana tuning your brain to receive advanced meditation! The act of ‘merging’ into the upper and lower SEV contact points is the key to mastering the Source Code Meditation Base (the higher brain state precursor to the actual meditation).

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What I call merging occurs as touch, breath and intention all converge on the contact point and enter into the SEV in a very specific way. When this merge into the SEV is experienced it feels as though your touch, breath and intention have become one with the SEV. In other words, as you enter the SEV there is a precise moment that occurs in which you cannot tell where your physical touch ends and the vortex within your body begins. This merging or suspending sensation leads to the inability to feel the specific localized point that you are merging into, there is a sense of infinity rather than a localized point in space-time. The merge feels multidimensional and experienced outside of usual space-time boundaries. The subtle energy that will travel to your higher brain mobilizes out of this state. As your touch, breath and intention enter the SEV and create the merge, a release of subtle energy traverses through pathways to your higher brain. The proper and consistent ability to create this merge and thus mobilize subtle energy to you brain, will take some practice to master. The time and energy invested into becoming proficient at establishing the Source Code Meditation Base is an investment into the ‘base’ of your new enlightened life. Before you actually begin applying the merging contacts to yourself, you are going to start with a very mechanical way to learn the precise depth of the touch and timing of breath and intention that are required:

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mouse pad, imagining you are contacting a subtle energy vortex in your body, and as you touch the mouse pad, inhale into and focus your breath and intention into the contact point. Continue pushing down until you just begin to feel the hard surface of the desk below the mouse pad. The feeling you are looking for is that of the gentle downward pressure of your finger pushing into the mouse pad becoming matched by the gentle upward pressure of the mouse pad pushing back. This sensation generally occurs near the point where you can just start to feel the hard desk under the mouse pad. Now take that downward pushing finger and slightly drop your elbows down as you roll your contact finger to begin pointing back, up and out in a 45° angle. In other words you will go into the contact point in a 45° angle and back out with a 45° angle, forming a V with your entry and exit (see FIG 3: Direction Contact Mouse#1). Next, you want to learn to do this quickly, in and out. When you actually do it in your body, the hand position will be different but this mouse pad exercise lets you refine the level of depth and timing of breath on the mouse pad before actually making self-contacts into your SEVs. Do the above in reverse direction (see FIG 4: Direction Contact Mouse#2), and remember your hand positions will feel different when you actually do this on your body.

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The key point to this exercise is for you to feel that perfect spot where you were both going in and coming out at exactly the same time. This is of course a mechanical exercise that forms a crude analogy with what your touch, breath, and intention feel like as they enter into the subtle energy contact points in your body and create the merge effect.

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Although this is not a precise comparison, the practice will help you greatly before actually attempting to make the contacts into your body. This same 45° entry in and 45° exit out (although with a different hand position going into your facedown laying body) will be utilized as you make the actual touch into the contact points of your body. The rudimentary merge experience you feel on the mouse pad will prepare you for the actual merge experience you will feel as you bring your touch, breath and intention into the upper and lower contact point, releasing energy to your brain and thus prepping you for the meditation.

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Every day, multiple times a day, practice the mouse pad merge by holding your finger a couple of inches above the mouse pad pointed in a 45° direction, slowly lower your finger and gently enter the mouse pad as you focus your breath and intention on the inhale into the point you are touching, pushing down at the 45° angle until a sense of merging is felt between your contact finger and the mouse pad. Then, lifting back out in a 45° angle, paying close attention to that perfect point of suspension where you are both entering into and exiting out of the contact at exactly the same time. Alternate both directions in and out in 45° angles as you develop the mechanical skills to approximate the entry direction, depth, exit direction and the timing of your breath and intention to create a merging contact. However, the mouse pad is a passive lifeless structure, your body is not. The real power of the merging contact is what it awakens in your body and brain. Dramatic potential is already inside you, slumbering.

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According to the science of dynamical systems, small positive fluctuations in a chaotic system in the right place and at the right time can catalyze the entire system moving to higher order. Through the mobilization of this subtle energy a ‘pattern interrupt’ occurs in the human body/mind as this subtle energy moves to your higher brain and creates a feedback mechanism of SalutoGenesis flowing through you and facilitating your emergence to a ‘higher order’. This ‘pattern interrupt’ provides an opening that will be leveraged through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation to create new higher levels of organization in body, mind and spirit.

Let’s Get Started As you perform and practice this sacred work you are going to witness miracles that are new to you. You will feel as though what you are doing is magic. I assure you it is not. Do not let this go to your head. You are a vehicle, a conduit for a power that is bigger than you, or me, or any of us. You are setting loose the impulse that contains the power and wisdom of life itself. This process deserves reverence. We are on hallowed ground. Once you have developed a feel for the mouse pad exercise it is time to begin the SCM base and learn to consistently create the merge, and mobilize energy to your higher brain and SalutoGenesis. The SalutoGenesis may feel subtle in you at first, a slight change in breathing, twitching sensations or a mild current of energy, but trust the process…bigger is not better. As you become proficient merging into your own subtle energy vortexes you will feel this SalutoGenesis flowing in you to your higher brain. When SalutoGenesis fully engages it can feel like something is breathing you…new breath patterns and energy flows arise spontaneously. This experience of automated breathing and waves of energy can be stopped by you by merely changing position and willing it to stop. However, the freeing and liberating experience, even if unusual and without past reference, feels natural, deeply rejuvenating and like you have found home.

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The SCM base STEP 1

• Lower SEV merge with touch: Begin lying face down. Locate your upper and lower subtle energy vortexes (SEV). Close your eyes. Contact and merge into your lower SEV (notice hand position on FIG 5: Direction Contact ) by inhaling breath and intending that breath into the lower SEV as you touch quickly in 45° and up and out 45° (see FIG 6: Lower SEV).

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• Following the merge, let your brain, body and breath do whatever they want to do (move, twitch, breath etc.) as you focus attention only on the lower SEV for three complete natural cycles of breath. • Repeat the above 3x, each time following three natural cycles of breath with a deliberate merging contact into the lower SEV. • Awareness on SalutoGenesis: simply notice SalutoGenesis flowing in your body for 10 full cycles. Let it happen. Surrender to it. STEP 2

• Upper SEV merge with touch: Contact and merge into your upper SEV by inhaling breath and intending that breath into the upper SEV as you touch quickly in 45° and up and out 45° (see FIG 7: Upper SEV).

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• Following the merge let your body and breath do whatever they want to do (move, twitch, breathe etc.) as you focus attention only on the upper SEV for three complete natural cycles of breath. • Repeat the above 3x, each time following three natural cycles of breath with a merging contact into the upper SEV. • Awareness on SalutoGenesis: simply notice the SalutoGenesis flowing in your body for 10 full cycles. Let it happen. Surrender to it.

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• Alternating breath-merge: Intend deliberate breath and focus, without physical touch but imagining what the touch feels like (this is breathmerge) into the lower SEV, then observe a complete natural cycle of SalutoGenesis. Now breath-merge into the upper SEV then observe a complete natural cycle of SalutoGenesis. Repeat the above, alternating breath/merge for 5 more cycles. • Awareness on SalutoGenesis: Assume a passive observer position and notice the SalutoGenesis continuing to flow in your body for three full cycles. STEP 4

• Rapid alternating breath-merge: Now breath/merge, alternating between upper and lower subtle energy vortexes. Speed up to twice the natural rhythm of the flowing SalutoGenesis. As your lower SEV is breath/merged lift your pelvis a few inches into the air and envision your lower SEV opening. Then breath/merge into your upper SEV as you tuck your chin while envisioning the opening of your upper SEV, releasing the tucked chin on your exhale. Repeat 5x’s.

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• Awareness on SalutoGenesis: Relax completely following the 5th cycle. Don’t attempt to ‘make’ anything happen, just return to the passive observer position and notice the SalutoGenesis more fully flowing in your body up to your higher brain. Observe it for 40 full cycles allowing any spontaneous movements to occur in your body as it cycles upwards and you feel it into your higher brain. NOTE. You may not feel like subtle energy is actually flowing through pathways but more as if your entire body is vibrating, or that your body is made out of energy or simple subtle changes in your breathing. These are all good signs. STEP 5

• Surrender to archetypal energy flows and movement: Roll onto your back or stand and for 1-5 minutes let the spontaneous energy flows guide you into spontaneous positions or movements of your body (see FIG 8: Auto Expansion). Go with the flow.

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• If your body wants to move in certain ways, let it. If not, just notice SalutoGenesis. Allow any spontaneous movements or postures or hand positions (mudras) to express through you. The flowing SalutoGenesis may move you into spontaneous dance, yoga postures or Tai Chi-like movements. These are primal archetypal patterns that enhance energy flow; let them emerge naturally. Let the intelligence that is now flowing though you, guide you from the inside out.

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NOTE: Once SCM base is learned and you have become proficient at the technique, you may find that you no longer need to make physical contacts in your body. Breath and intention into the SEV’s will be enough to engage SalutoGenesis and it may take as little as five minutes to create the thrive state and be fully prepped for the meditation. NOTE: Don’t get hung up on what the SalutoGenesis feels like; just keep noticing changes in your breathing and changes in energy sensations in your body. It may not feel to you like what I describe, and that is ok. Just notice any breath expansions or rhythms and any currents of energy or even the experience of subtle vibration within your body.

Twice daily for two weeks practice the SCM base, learning to awaken the brain through SalutoGenesis before proceeding to the SCM technique.

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uring the latter part of the twentieth century, esteemed National Institutes of Mental Health researcher, Dr. Paul MacLean, introduced pioneering data that demonstrated that the human brain was composed of interconnected yet discrete layers. Maclean identified these layers as the reptilian complex, the paleo-mammalian complex (limbic system), and the neo-mammalian complex (neo-cortex), viewed as structures sequentially added to the forebrain in the course of evolution. Once biological evolution had produced a new type of brain, which conferred a survival advantage, it was preserved and used throughout a variety of different species. As evolution continued its march forward in time, new additions to the brains of species developed by being built on top of the older, earlier evolved brain layer. Thus brain evolution was a process of transcending and yet including the earlier, less complex ‘brains’. The human brain thus contains the reptilian, mammalian and human brain, with each previous layer nested within the more recent evolutionary development. Millions of years ago the reptilian brain with its primary structure, the basal ganglia, proved to be a capable survival machine. Its fight, flee, feed, and fornicate automatic responses efficiently adapted it to its environment. When mammals emerged on the scene this ‘lizard brain’ was preserved but layered over in the new species. This newer mammal brain was an emotional limbic brain with its dominant structures, the amygdala and hippocampus, layering over the old reptilian brain. This new brain added more depth and complexity to the organism by coloring and anchoring threatening events with emotion; this created a greater repertoire of memory with new and broader ways to sense events or environments associated with past negative experience. As evolution continued its tireless march, early humans eventually emerged with a lizard brain, surrounded by an old mammal brain, surrounded by a cortex; this new brain structure, the human cortex, allowed these early humans the ability to project possible threats into the future and take proactive action. The neo-cortex eventually provided the ability to ‘reason’ one’s way out of harm’s way. Undoubtedly evolution used a myriad of iterations and interim

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structures to produce these three brain areas. However the general model of three distinct layers of brain evolution holds true. It seems that nature does not abandon or eliminate something that works, but instead through evolution, builds higher new structures over the old structures. All of the three layers of the human brain have their own distinct functions and strategies that relate us to the world. Regarding the three layered brain regions Maclean states that each area maintains, “their peculiar types of intelligence”. These three regions are all simultaneously operating in our lives, often in competition and conflict with one another and often below our conscious threshold. Much has been written about the triune brain and its distinct layers of brain evolution. I do not want to belabor this point here as there is an inordinate amount of information on the topic available. I want to simply make the point, at this point, that the evolution of the human brain has been laid down through time, in layers, and that the earlier layers are the most fear based and survival oriented. The early reptilian-like structure of the human brain is driven through fear and aggression towards the basic survival needs of food, sex and shelter. The more recent Limbic (old mammalian brain) although still dominated by survival needs also provides basic emotions and it desires connection and nurturing. As we continue moving outward in the physical layers of the brain, and more recently in evolutionary time, we reach the human cortex: ‘survival’ is still a primary focus of this brain layer but now survival is also gained through abstract reason and intellectual prowess. A point I want to make here is that ‘surviving’ is the primary driver of all three of these distinct brain layers. However, how we ‘survive’– whether fight or flight based, emotional fear responses and relational bonding and nurturing, or rational thought and cooperation – is dependent upon which of the particular brain structures are most dominant in a species, or even in us humans, at any point in our time development.

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The Angel Lobes – An Emerging New Brain In the 1990s Maclean had fully developed his theory on the triune brain and expounded on it in his book, The Triune Brain in Evolution. However, Maclean soon came to realize that there was a ‘4th evolutionary system’ led by evolution’s latest layer, a ‘fourth brain’ called the prefrontal cortex (PFC). He even referred to this part of the human brain as the ‘angel lobes’ and said these brain structures were responsible for our highest human virtues, including compassion, understanding, love, gratitude, and empathy. Based on new research it also appears that the 4th evolutionary system, the PFC is associated with higher intellectual 72

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capacities, as well as purpose, meaning and spiritual experience. I believe these new brain capacities offer higher transcendent potentials and are preparing us to enter an era where merely surviving gives way to purposeful thriving. So little was known about the angel lobes that Dr. Maclean spoke of that many brain scientists referred to this 4th evolutionary brain layer (PFC) as the silent area. This highly evolved new brain was thought to be neuro-psychologically and neurologically ‘silent’ according to many neuroscientists. I am convinced that these neuroscientists are correct and that indeed a great deal of the capabilities contained within the folds and flows of the PFC’s circuitry are in fact silent in most of us. At the very least, there is a reservoir of untapped potential in the higher human brain and the SCM technique is designed to tap into that slumbering potential. In their book Mental Processes and the Brain, authors Jon Driver, Patrick Haggard, Tim Shallice – all at the UCLA institute of cognitive neuroscience – point out the mystery of the human prefrontal cortex. Regarding the anterior PFC they state that until recently virtually nothing about it was known. Princeton brain surgeon Wilder Penfield, referred to the PFC as the ‘uncommitted cortex’. According to Penfield this highly evolved part of the brain is not genetically programmed at birth to serve one specific function but is instead, capable of being used in a number of different purposes. As this book continues to unfold I am going to insist that the PFC is largely raw latent potential ready to be energized and molded into something new and revolutionary. Human development expert, Joseph Chilton Pearce has noted that this highest most evolved part of our brain, the PFC, actually goes through two growth spurts, one early in life and a second as we approach adulthood. Of note, we know from studies in developmental psychology that humans exhibit very little change in psychological growth beyond their early twenties. Beyond our early twenties, we usually live out the rest of our lives with the same world-views, belief systems, values, ethics and cognitive capacity. This is peculiar given the modern scientific fact that our brains are neuroplastic (extremely moldable and pliable) and that our higher more recently evolved brain structures correlate with higher consciousness. It seems as though our brain can be shaped for breakthrough and that we are on the cusp of major transformation, yet we haven’t figured out how to help evolution complete this work in progress. The triune human brain has been dominated by survival motivations and it will only be through the awakening and application of the PFC that we can shift our center of gravity from surviving into thriving. Yet this is not the end of the story. It now appears clear that the mass and matter of the PFC itself is

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associated with higher states and stages of consciousness, but also the PFC is linked into all other layers of the brain. It has a suppressing and amplifying effect on all other brain regions and can become the command center of the entire brain. What’s more, when all these brain structures are brought into service to the PFC and coherence spreads across the brain, a new physiology emerges that opens the door to a new life and a new world.

The Higer Brain and the Emotions That Drive Change Emotional experience is widely believed to be associated with the limbic brain, the old mammalian brain housed just under the cortex and layered on top of the even older reptilian brain. New research – such as that recently published in ‘Psychological bulletin- Emotion, Plasiticity, Context and Regulation: Perspectives from effective Neuroscience’ has shed light on ‘higher level’ emotion and its relationship to the prefrontal cortex. Demonstrating that the positive emotions produced as an organism moves closer to a desired goal, are strongly correlated to increased activity in certain areas of the PFC. We seek goals and passions in life because, at least in part, their attainment provides a future-based promise of an elevated sense of well-being, purpose and meaning. It has been shown that all human action is driven by emotion, so how do we develop the type of emotional state needed to pursue our goals and passions? The attainment of our goals and passions leads to an elevation and upgrade of our emotional state, but how do we derive the actual emotional motivation needed to get there? What if the emotional motivational state we feel when we start the course just isn’t strong enough to overcome all the pitfalls we encounter along the way? What if we start out with motivation but the steps needed to get there are unclear or huge obstacles block the path? Can we create enough energy, sustain enough motivation and map a clear enough path to actually attain those goals? Modern neuroscience informs us that the PFC (the underused and latent part of our brain) is what guides our action and organization towards the acquisition of motivationally significant goals. The PFC isn’t just associated with the advanced emotional state, brought about by the attainment of a goal; it is also the brain region responsible for the actual planning and execution towards the fulfillment of those goals. The PFC seeks change and growth and wants to move towards something better, higher, deeper, more meaningful. That “something better” may be in the form of an improved relationship, healthier body, rewarding career etc…The biological reward we receive for attaining these higher life

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goals is an enhanced emotional state. This sought after enhanced emotional state is inherent in the same part of the brain that must do the seeking! When the PFC is energized it can escape our present life demands and see beyond its current predicament. It can project into the future the goals that must be attained to create that new life. Here we have run into a primary challenge in personal growth; the PFC is both the part of the brain that must energize and direct us towards our goals, as well as that part of the brain that will produce the enhanced emotional experience once we approach or attain our goals. This is a lot to ask of an underused and largely dormant brain region. How do we create the initial motivational emotional state that’s powerful enough, and once created, how do we sustain it long enough to keep us on the path until the actual attainment of the goal produces its own surge of energy and provides for us the feeling we are after? According to Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., a Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, the PFC must be “coaxed into action” and it must be able to ‘imagine’ what we will feel like once we attain the goal. This provides the impetus to pursue the goal before there is any reward. But ‘imagination’ is only so strong and the brain energy associated with it is weak and fleeting. So let’s say that we decided we wanted to go back to college and get our Master’s degree. The “goal” is the master’s degree but what we are also looking for is how we will feel when we achieve that master’s degree. The experience of attaining the goal of the ‘master’s degree’ produces an elated emotional state. We feel confident and purposeful; in another words we are seeking the high-end emotions hidden within the potential of the higher brain. See the paradox here? How do we create the emotional state that is strong enough to sustain the path that we must go down to meet the goals that produce the increased emotional state in the brain, which we desire in the first place? The conundrum of not having a sustainable enough positive brain/emotional state prior to and during the pursuit of our goals inhibits us from actually attaining our goals. Without the brain/emotional change to accompany the path towards our goals we find it difficult to stay on the path, and navigate the obstacles long enough to actually attain our goals and vision. Our compelling future is only an imagined possibility and the brain energy produced by our imagination is rarely enough to guide us to large-scale life change. This is why ‘positive thinking’ has limited returns; it doesn’t often create the necessary brain/emotion state needed to travel the path that ‘positive thoughts’ point down. Here’s the breakthrough; what if you could first energize the PFC and use the associated sense of clarity and confidence to design a clear and accurate map

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of the steps needed to attain your goals? Then learn to boost the empowered emotional state ‘on demand’ while you were on the path to your goals? You could instantly create a higher brain surge that was stronger than the resistance provided by any of the obstacles that showed up while on the path! Instead of having to find and sustain the drive and will-power to move close enough to your goals that the PFC energy and the emotional state finally boosted, you could start your journey with the PFC boost and then use that to power you down the path to your new life. Research shows that pursuing and attaining life goals requires that the organism have some means of representing affect (emotion) in the absence of immediately present rewards and punishments. In other words you must be able to maintain a powerful enough positive emotional state before you reach your goals. This empowered state must be sustained through the multiple steps required to acquire goals or, like most people, you never get there. SCM provides a way to energize the higher brain and feel the empowered state at the beginning as well as when resistance arises. In the SCM system, as you move towards your goals the already energized PFC continues moving you forward, and the closer you get the more the energy surges in your brain and the more empowered you become. The deeper physiology behind this goal-based emotional reward system, are the molecules that bind to receptors in the higher brain producing the cascade of chemical reactions associated with empowered emotion. The brilliant Psychoneuroimmunologist, Candace Pert, has shown us that latent endorphin receptors represent another type of untapped potential in the PFC. Endorphins are a class of molecules called neuropeptides and when active they are known to enhance mood, and create empowered emotional states. Before an endorphin can exert its emotional elevating influence on us it must bind to a receptor, like a lock and key. When the endorphin floats through the higher brain and finds a receptor and binds, an elevation in emotional states of well-being occurs. Until recently it was not known that the PFC contained endorphin/receptor complex that creates these positive states. It appears that at a molecular level the higher brain mechanisms needed to amplify motivation and create empowered emotional states are underutilized in the slumbering PFC. On several occasions, studies done during a session with The HBL Technique (which SCM was derived from) have demonstrated profound flooding of alpha brain waves in the Prefrontal cortex. This is an unusual and amazing finding and most likely represents endorphin flow in the PFC. As the enhanced alpha waves flowed in the higher brain, recipients consistently reported states of well-being

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and empowerment. Along with these powerful alpha waves, fast high-powered beta waves increased in the PFC during these studies. These beta waves have long been associated with focus and the ability to take action. What we are seeing in the brains of these HBL recipients is the type of change in the PFC (alpha waves / endorphin activation) that creates the strong sense of reward (even when things get challenging) needed to stay on the path to our goals, as well as the type of PFC change (fast high frequency beta waves) needed to chart out the map and take the focused action steps needed to arrive. This finding of significantly increased alpha waves overlaying fast high-powered beta waves in the PFC, led 40-year-accomplished brain researcher Dr. Penny Montgomery to state, “I have never seen anything like that in all the brains I have measured.” Through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation, the empowered brain states that are occurring can then be purposefully associated with your life goals and passions providing you with the physiological correlate and the specific life context required to pursue and attain your own life’s goals and passions.

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The ‘positive thinking’ movement has consistently told us that our thoughts are important to our well-being and to the attainment of our goals. Many pop psychology gurus have even gone so far as to claim that all of reality is a product of what we think and that everything that happens to us (good or bad) is due to the quality of our thinking. Although this view is shallow and partial, there is a large seed of truth within it. The quality of our thoughts is important to the quality of our life. The challenge however is that you can’t just ‘think’ your way to better thoughts. Most of our thoughts arise spontaneously based on a variety of variables, including the state of our environment, relationships, emotions and brain physiology not to mention our developmental ‘Life Altitude,’ or current state of consciousness. Attempting to change your thoughts without simultaneously addressing these other variables will lead to the continuation of low quality thoughts arising in your consciousness, at which time, you will need to spend valuable attention dedicated to improving those thoughts. If you are constantly trying to create inspiring positive thoughts but lower quality thoughts continue their incessant spontaneous flow into your consciousness you are fighting an uphill battle. You just can’t think your way to better thoughts. Remember, thoughts arise spontaneously, so how can we get high quality thoughts to arise without effort? 77

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Changes in the state of the brain affect the spontaneous flow of thought. How the brain processes information, the memories accessible to it, the thoughts that arise, depend on the functional state of the brain. According to modern brain research there are “macrostates” of the brain that occur for certain periods of time and are preparatory for specific types of thoughts. Brain macrostates can be quantified and their ‘frequency transformation’ to higher levels can be measured. From these brain macrostates, potentially come brain microstates, which are shorter duration and associated with very specific types of thought. The brain macrostates are windows that open and can produce microstates that have specific types of thought associated with them. I am proposing that SCM creates high-level frequency transformation of these brain macrostates by increasing metabolism in the higher brain so that high-level thought can spontaneously flow and then, through the SCM system, be directed towards the positive enhancement of your environment, relationships, emotions as well as towards elevating your developmental ‘station in life’ and state of consciousness. Thus creating the conditions for high quality thoughts to arise without effort, and without the need to spend valuable attention capital on forcing positive thoughts into awareness that could simply arise spontaneously. In his book, Feeling Good The Science of Well-Being, C. Robert Cloninger describes how words that are ‘alive’ stimulate self-awareness and vivid imagery. I believe that words ‘come alive’ when they represent our deeper purpose and are associated with and anchored to the higher brain. The thoughts become intuitive and opportunity based and point to the thrill of what’s possible. From the energized higher brain, higher order thoughts organically flow with fluidity and coherence. The higher brain state - produced through SCM is in direct association with higher order thoughts. When metabolism increases in the PFC the quality of our thoughts begin to shift. As stated earlier, many variables affect the quality of our thoughts long term and therefore we would want to use spontaneously flowing positive thoughts to change all areas of our life. This integral approach is exactly what the SCM technique promotes by starting with the most available and largest leverage point, the immediate shift from lower to higher brain. Once the higher brain metabolizes there is a concurrent upgrade to the quality of the spontaneous flow of our thoughts arising in our consciousness. Through the practice of SCM, as your brain upgrades, your thoughts upgrade, and along with the associated empowered emotional state, can be brought to all areas of your life through the 9 Summits of Transformation. When you follow

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this system your higher order thoughts begin to contextualize around the specific new life you are creating and your larger life purpose.

The Higher Brain and Spiritual Experience Neurotheology A new field called Neurotheology has been brought in with the current revolution in the neurosciences. Pioneered by Dr. Andrew Newberg, Neurotheology is positioned as a non-reductionist field of study that connects spiritual experience to brain function (however, it appears that the materialist reductionists are now hi-jacking the field…but that’s another story). Dr. Newberg is the director of research at the Jefferson Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine and a physician at Jefferson University Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and nuclear medicine. Based on the preponderance of evidence now linking spiritual states, positive emotional states and higher consciousness to particular brain regions and function, Newberg has championed this new field and written its first textbook Principles of Neurotheology. A key point of Neurotheology is the departure from the mainstream Western material sciences belief that the brain creates consciousness and spiritual experience. According to Newberg there is simply no scientific grounds for this belief. I also agree. Newberg and others have indeed correlated spiritual experience with brain function, however correlation does not equal causation. For instance, if you hold an orange in your hand and ‘perceive it’, certain changes will show up in your brain that can be measured. If you simply imagine an orange in your hand certain measurable brain changes will also show up. So both mental phenomena (imaginary apple) as well as physical phenomena (real apple) both have correlates in the physical brain. And one thing is for sure, most scientists do not conclude that brain changes correlating with the observation of the real apple means that the brain created the apple. Correlation does not equal causation. And so it is with spiritual experience, the fact that the brain has correlates to the experience of the soul or the divine or satori does not mean the brain created the soul or the divine or satori, any more than we could say the brain created the real apple. The fact that the brain changes only tells us that when apples, or souls or satori are experienced in our precious human bodies, there are correlates in our brain. Neurothelogy therefore does not predict that God is real or not real, or that the brain creates consciousness or that the brain is created by consciousness. These measurements merely tell us of correlation. However, enough evidence

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does exist to imply that for us to have profound spiritual experiences, or advanced states of consciousness, or even positive emotional states, very specific areas of our brains must metabolize and must function in certain ways for this experience to take place. What Neurotheology is teaching us is that the brain is intimately correlated with high-end human experience and that the higher capacities of the brain must be able to awaken if we are going to experience and sustain advanced states of being. My point is not to elaborate on all of brain science involving spiritual experience but to simply provide the general understanding that there is ample scientific evidence to suggest that profound spiritual experience, such as the state of enlightenment, as well as virtuous emotional states, including compassion, empathy, freedom, bliss and love are all correlated with higher levels of brain function. I am not going into a detailed analysis of EEG brain waves or FMRI blood flows and how they relate to advanced states of consciousness and spiritual experience. The research is in its infancy and just too nuanced to present in this book. What we do know is that neuroscience is painting a picture of the relationship between spiritual experience and the slumbering regions and muted functions of our brain, including, but not limited to the Angel Lobes. In his 850-page tome, ‘Zen and the Brain’, Neuroscientist James Austin MD, explains how the PFC reconstructs sequences of meaning from ongoing experience. A ‘meaningful life’ is associated with high-level PFC function. Note that findings from the HBL studies conducted through the University of Iowa, showed participants reporting more purpose, meaning and compassion. Very deep and transformative spiritual experience has been a consistent experience of participants on retreat with me, most often brought about by the introduction of contemplative/meditative elements once their higher brain was awakened. Spiritual experience has also been commonly reported in HBL practices by recipients with no inclination towards spiritual growth, yet suddenly, many of them reported deep spiritual experiences that became a hallmark of their lives. It was the consistency of these outcomes that lead to the creation of SCM, so that millions, nay billions, instead of just thousands, could have access to these transformations.

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Acquired Savant Syndrome: Undeniable Evidence for Transformative Brain Potential On a September night in 2002 Jason Padgett left a bar in Tacoma, Washington, and as he stepped outside of the establishment he was attacked, beaten and robbed by two thugs who had followed him out of the bar. Following the assault Jason stumbled to his feet and through the pain and confusion he noticed that the world looked very, very different. Jason was suddenly seeing the world in geometric repeating patterns – deeper dimensions of physical reality. His surroundings were more vivid, even the glowing of the streetlights was amplified. The next morning, still in pain and still confused Jason found that the ability to see into deeper aspects of reality was still with him. The violent brain injury had left Jason with a number of adverse effects including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but it had also left him a mathematical marvel. The superhuman capacities that he discovered immediately after his attack remain with him to this day. Not only can he calculate numbers at a genius level but he also sees fundamental patterns of reality in everything; a secret code underlying the ordering of the world. Jason watches as the water pours from a faucet in crystalline patterns; he sees the intricate mathematical designs hidden in trees and coastlines, he sees sacred geometry and mathematical truths everywhere he looks. With these newfound gifts he has become an award winning artist, drawing the mathematical geometric shapes that he sees. Prior to the head injury Jason was not gifted in mathematics or art. He was just a regular guy going through the motions of his life in Tacoma, Washington and then everything changed.

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Two types of savant syndrome have been identified, congenital (born that way) and acquired (usually following head trauma, as is the case with Jason Padgett). Both groups provide fascinating clues as to the latent potential within the human brain. I will refer to both of these types of savant syndrome, however most of my emphasis will be on ‘acquired savant syndrome’ as this group provides proof of the staggering capacity to tap the latent potential hiding in the adult brain. Partial areas of the brain (often areas of the PFC) that are not awake in most of us, are suddenly turned on in acquired savant syndrome. This partial higher brain activation leads to superhuman capabilities in very specific ‘islands of genius’, most commonly art, music, calendar calculation, mathematics and spatial skills. This list is not exhaustive and prodigious gifts show up in many areas including what has been termed ‘spiritual genius’, 81

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referred to as ‘Prodigious Godly Savants’ in the early Christian Gnostic Gospels. It is important that through this discussion we keep our eye on the big picture; acquired savant syndrome represents another window into the understanding of untapped potential in all of our brains. Although those with acquired savant syndrome have developed remarkable gifts they also usually exhibit deficits in other mental or social abilities (due to the trauma or disease that unlocked the higher potential); they represent the possibility that all of us can ‘crack the code’ and without trauma, develop mental and cognitive processing, as well as other capabilities, that are light years beyond what is considered normal. The prodigious savant, Daniel Tammet, author of Born On a Blue Day, Embracing the Wide Sky and Thinking in Numbers, believes that “savant abilities are not ‘supernatural’ but are ‘an outgrowth’ of natural, instinctive ways of thinking about numbers and words”. He suggests that the brains of savants can, to some extent, be retrained, and that normal brains could be taught to develop some savant abilities. Studies have now suggested (at least in some savants) that the reason for their remarkable capacities is that key areas of the prefrontal cortex have become highly energized and in some cases even the raw material of the PFC has remodeled itself. These findings have been elucidated through sophisticated imaging techniques. Acquired savant syndrome is rare, but a number of cases have been reported and confirmed. Damage to a specific area of the brain, it seems, urges the brain to try and make up for the deficit. Once one part of the brain is shut down there is a surplus of energy – since there are no longer energy requirements of the injured brain area, this energy surplus finds its way to higher dormant potentials within the brain. It may be the case that certain areas of the PFC are damaged or dysfunctional and other areas of the PFC are enhanced or energized in savants. There are undoubtedly other brain areas involved and this will be studied and debated for a long time. What we can say with certainty is that savant syndrome represents staggering potentials in the human brain that have yet to be fully tapped by humanity. What if we could increase energy to the higher brain without trauma? Most savants have unique challenges as well as special gifts. They are utilizing areas of their brains in new and higher ways. But for them to do so other areas of their brain were compromised. A recent theory proposes that injury causes the dying cells to release their neurotransmitters (serotonin and glutamate) – this creates a surge of energy into certain areas of the brain. If the surge of energy arrives in the right area of the brain it unlocks hidden potential. My theory is

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that the general surge of energy to the brain brought about through the Source Code Meditation can be tuned into appropriate brain regions based on engagement through the 9 Summits of Transformation, thus unlocking islands of brain potential needed for specific life advancements. Profound brain upgrades in one area of the brain do not have to be coupled to damage in another area. SCM is a gentle, graceful, safe way to promote profound brain upgrades over time. Our higher brain is desperate for the energy needed to catalyze the fulfillment of its evolutionary potential. Mobilizing the latent energy in the body, an infinite surplus of energy destined for these higher brain structures, can awaken higher brain potential in everyone. As this energy reaches its higher brain destination and the brain begins to wake up, the 9 Summits of Transformation are pursued. Promoting neuroplastic remodeling, within the specific context of the evolving person’s highest drives and most virtuous actions. Conscious evolution.

Your New Brain’s Architecture Has Arrived But… Evolution’s latest addition gently whispers from the depths behind your eyes. Waiting patiently for its opportunity to emerge and liberate its potential into a world that so desperately needs it. The new science of neuroplasticity has incontrovertibly proved that our brain is not a static predetermined structure. Until the late 20th century the belief of conventional neuroscience was that we were born with a genetically predetermined brain. Once our brain was hard wired in at adulthood, the only change in the brain was the continued loss of brain material (neurons), which dies off and cannot be replaced as we age. The last two decades have ushered in a revolution in brain science demonstrating that the old model, which represented a static hard-wired brain with irreplaceable neurons dying off daily, could not have been more wrong. It is now known that the neurons that we have in adulthood rewire themselves on a moment-tomoment basis through a process called neuroplastic remodeling. In fact our demands, desires and lifestyle influence and ultimately determine how our brain reorganizes itself into new form and function to serve our unique life better. The various areas of our brains are engaged in competition to see what gets hard-wired in, based on where we put our attention. To further this neuroscience revolution it has also been proven that new brain neurons grow throughout adulthood via a process called neurogenesis. Neurogenesis, which means ‘the birth of neurons’, is the process by which new neurons are created from neural stem cells and progenitor cells. Neurogenesis has recently been demonstrated to occur in the adult brain throughout a lifetime

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thus upsetting the belief – long held by neuroscientists – that the brain does not regenerate. This complete reversal of neuroscience dogma shows us just why we must keep an open mind about our current scientific beliefs and orthodoxy of all kinds. Now that we know that our brains rewire and remodel moment-to-moment based on our environment, our thoughts, our beliefs etc., it is hard to argue against the idea that latent evolutionary potential does not lay dormant in the higher human brain. The new neuroscience, in fact, assures us that it does. This new picture of neuroscience demands that we look at the higher brain as pure potentiality, raw material that requires additional energy to wake it up so that it can be directed to remodel itself into a new way to experience and respond to its world. I like to think of this neuroplastic remodeling of the existing brain material as ‘Functional Evolution (FE)’. Functional Evolution involves a new level of function that is derived from preexisting form. It appears that the raw form (the PFC) has existed for some time, but new function associated with this higher brain has not yet fully appeared. Evolution, whether in form or as we are discussing, in function, often has a gestation period. That is, latent tendencies start to boil beneath the surface before a full-blown emergence (something new and novel) happens. A picture is developing of how dormant, already existing brain material can be energized and remodeled, as well as the stimulation of brand new material (neurogenic derived neurons) being created in the brain to be shaped and molded into something new and transformational.

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If things go right, and we take up the torch in the 21st century, I am convinced that we can usher in a new way of being and becoming in the world. When enough of us make this shift a ‘morphogenic field’, associated with this new stage of consciousness, develops, strengthens and exerts its magnetic pull on the culture, making this new way of being and becoming much more accessible to the many. And as we shall learn, this timeless, radical transformation in consciousness is itself going to evolve, through us. This new consciousness (not yet emerged on a mass scale) may well be the solution to the global crisis that we currently face. SCM is a movement and this movement is for you if you are not content with an ordinary life, if you have become increasingly uncomfortable with the status quo of your culture, if you have had enough going through the motions and if 84

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you want to create your legacy. It’s for you, if you want more, more of everything that is good and true and beautiful. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation is for creating an extraordinary life. It’s about big visions and bold action and it’s about raising the consciousness of the human race. Are you in? NOW…

Close your eyes and remember the best day of your life. Imagine back to a time when you felt the most alive. If you can’t remember the best day, just remember a really awesome day from your past. Think of a time when nothing could have ruined your day. You were in the moment, present, feeling utterly alive and in tune with the world around you. Maybe you were getting married or just received a job promotion, or you were completing some project, or artwork, or you were having your first child. Maybe you donated your time to a community service event, or helped someone in need. Perhaps it was the fulfillment of some big dream you had, or a deep spiritual experience of timelessness or transcendence. Go on... feel it… that feeling of empowerment and joy and even invincibility. In that moment you were unstoppable… feel that for a moment… let that feeling sink in. NOW…

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What if you could have that feeling for longer intervals? What if you could have that feeling every day? What if that feeling of empowerment could become your new baseline? What if you could walk into any situation and instantly be in that place of invincibility? What if you could access a state of consciousness where you knew for a fact that you were an eternal indestructible being at your very core, and that literally nothing could harm you? How would your life be different? What would it look like?

Through SCM, you will stretch that interval of well-being until you have permanent and immediate access to joy, empowerment, and transcendence, every day of your life. You are going to learn to energize the higher part of the brain that is associated with these higher states of well-being. What researchers are now telling us is that your brain (your higher brain) has mechanisms in it that are designed to produce confidence, empowerment and well-being. Take a moment now and think of the top five things that you want in your life that you don’t have. I promise you that every one of those dreams is only attainable if you can loosen the grip of the lower brain in those areas of your life and turn and bring the higher brain to bear on those areas you want to improve. 85

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A 21st-Century Renaissance Much of our world today is fractured and disconnected; American culture is scared, alienated and fragmented. They are… we are… often doing little more with our life than just going through the motions. Life for many has become a meaningless neurotic existence of trying to survive another day. We may on occasion catch a glimpse of something that moves us; a sunset, a beautiful piece of music, an aroma that reminds us of better times… or… we may catch a glimpse of something beyond us, when we gaze into a star-filled sky, walk alone in nature or experience a brief connection with another person that is deeper than ordinary. We may at times feel a spiritual longing… a deep knowing that there is more than we have, and more to life than we are experiencing in the daily grind. For most of us, these sublime feelings of a deeper more meaningful life are rare, accidental occurrences, if they occur at all. Doom and gloom, apathy, procrastination, and mediocrity rule the day. Hopelessness and fear are the messages we are inundated with, reinforced by the the news channels, newspapers, radio and Internet. Our cultural story has become anemic and cynical. We are conditioned to believe that an extraordinary life is the dream of idealists… the dream of children who refuse to grow up and refuse to accept that life is nothing more than a meaningless grind. This fearful cynical worldview is reinforced by a very primitive part of our brains… the old lower survival brain. The lower brain seeks “sameness” because sameness equals safety. Our lower brain is programmed to return night after night to the same dark damp cave if this behavior has kept us from being attacked or eaten in the past. Likewise, in the modern world, we will return to the same meaningless job, same old house, same bad relationship etc… if these things are familiar. The lower brain returns to them because sameness = safety to the lower brain. We MUST counter the lower brain reaction that is occurring in us. If ever there was a time for SCM it is now! We are longing for connection and longing for depth of experience. We long for passion and purpose, for standing for something greater than just our personal happiness. We long for the promise of the Higher New Human Brain. SCM and its ability to shift you from lower brain to the higher brain is the solution to a life gone stale. According to the historian Paul Tillich, the Renaissance occurred because of the passion and commitment of less than 1,000 people. Those 500-1000 passionate people thrust humanity out of the dark ages and into a new era! Don’t accept mediocrity! Your life counts – you make a difference!

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Humanity has two options; to stay fixed in the lower survival brain and perceive the world as a place to struggle and fight or instead upload into the new Higher Brain structures that we have been given and create a new life, a new culture and a brave new world. Your Higher Brain connection and its associated experiences of passion, commitment, knowledge, purpose, and drive can be a catalyst for planetary change. Don’t play small! The ability to convert temporary states into permanent traits requires that the new Higher Brain become energized and can create and sustain your life’s passions and dreams. SCM promotes this. All change is transient until it is anchored to your energized Higher Brain. Einstein said, “You can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created the problem in the first place.”

Hacking Meditation “As far as EEG goes a recording is considered valid for a year, meaning it shouldn’t change much, but what I’ve found and others, is that the EEG changes significantly within 20 minutes of the first Higher Brain Living® session.”

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The human brain is like a rushing river of potential. Until now, that river has been blocked, barricaded and diverted by the primitive lower brain. This lower brain diversion hijacks our ability to experience deeper flow and higher transcendent states of consciousness. It also guards against the full expression of the passionate human heart. Source Code Meditation (SCM) is effortlessly rerouting that lower brain diversion — setting humanity free. As valuable as traditional meditation techniques can be, they have very real limitations. Most meditation techniques attempt to use the mind to change the mind. This is like, if I may borrow an old folk saying, asking the fox to guard the hen house. Traditional meditation techniques, given enough time and with enough cultivated awareness or intense focus may lead to significant metabolic bursts in the physical higher brain. These brain awakenings are associated with elevated states of consciousness. If these changes ever materialize from ‘mind only’ based meditation practice, they allow easier future access, and greater sustainability of the desired advanced meditative states of consciousness. However, few of us make it to these rarified states of mind, because few of us can stay on the path long enough and with enough focus or attention required 87

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for the ‘mind only’ based meditation practices to create the requisite changes in the brain. The amount of time and focus required to change the brain in this way, by “using the mind to change the mind” is entirely too arduous for most of us modern humans. Dropping out of society, living in a cave and spending hours every day studying the workings of our mind is just not an option. Source Code Meditation is different. I mean really different. There has been a breakthrough, a hack if you will and I am going to teach it to you in this book. Consider this. What if it were possible to mobilize latent energy in the body, direct it in a way that energized the higher brain first, immediately before meditation and only after the higher brain was awakened, then introduce a powerful new meditation technique? Traditional meditation approaches require us to ‘put the cart before the horse’ by directing us to meditate without the higher brain being prepped and tuned to receive the ‘meditation’. Now, imagine if you could (indeed if the world could) increase the metabolism in the higher brain centers (that we know years of intensive meditation leads to) within minutes and then during this advanced brain state introduce meditation? Changing the brain before meditation changes the rules of the game, and leads to quantum breakthroughs in higher consciousness. But there’s more, much more. Once you discover how to first energize your higher brain and access deep flow states and transcendent states of consciousness, what are you going to do with that new potential? Who are you going to become and how? Another challenge with most meditation techniques is the lack of direction or integral understanding regarding, ‘what comes next’. If higher states of consciousness are ever actually experienced, how do you engage your modern life from there? With most meditation techniques, if one was committed (and maybe even lucky) enough to ever access deeper and higher meditative states, how were you to live from that new awareness? Source Code Meditation (SCM) offers us not just a way to create the brain state necessary to change the mind, but the 9 summits of Transformation provides the integral map and the crystal clarity as to how to use these advanced meditative states to actualize your potential and live your destiny. The 9 Summits of Transformation are used in conjunction with SCM to direct the SCM awakened brain/mind state into a journey that I believe to be the most complete and comprehensive self-development process on the planet. In the book Excellence through Mind-Brain Development, authors Hurang and Travis, state that all meditations explore inner consciousness, but differ in

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procedures, brain patterns, and effects. They go on to group meditation in three major categories. I will loosely summarize the three categories below and add some of my own thoughts and ideas to them. 1. Focused attention meditation. This involves the voluntarily focusing of attention on a chosen object. This object of attention can be either interior based thoughts and emotions, or physical body parts or breath. Examples given are Zen meditation, Compassion meditation or Vipassana meditation. This ‘object of attention’ based meditation has been shown on EEG (instrument to measure brain waves) to produce gamma waves in the 30 to 50 Hz range. 2. Open Monitoring Meditation. Meditations in this category involve passive observation of objects of attention. These objects can be inner thoughts, emotions, or again physical body parts or breath. Open monitoring meditation techniques are described as a non-reactive monitoring of the content of experience from moment to moment. Mindfulness meditation is the classic example of this style. Theta brain waves in the 6 to 8 Hz range have been observed.

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3. Automatic self-transcending meditation. This type of meditation involves attention that is awake and turned within, usually on a mantra. A mantra being a simple sound or string of words that has no meaning or sometimes a deep hidden meaning repeated over and over again through the course of the meditation. Examples of this meditation would be Transcendental Meditation  ™ and ACEM meditation. This style of meditation produces alpha waves in that 6-8 Hz range.

All of the above meditation techniques require either the cultivation of awareness or focused concentration. I maintain that even in the case of Number 3 (mantra-based meditation) a type of focused (concentration) attention is required to state a mantra throughout an entire meditation sitting. The point being that concentration or focus or maintaining awareness to what’s arising etc., all require the transcendence of lower brain stress physiology and the activation of higher brain structures. Thus increasing higher brain function immediately prior to any of these meditations would greatly increase their effectiveness, as fighting against a physiological stress state (the baseline for most modern human brains) takes much greater commitment. 89

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Source Code Meditation is a brain first revolutionary new 4th meditation category. The SCM energized higher brain tunes itself, on demand, based on what is suggested or introduced to the awakened brain during the course of the SCM + 9 Summits of Transformation practice. As SCM energizes your higher brain, stress dissipates out of your ‘survive-brain’, furthering the shift into your higher ‘thrive-brain’. Your ‘thrive-brain’ is more flexible and responsive to change and as you sequentially progress through SCM and The 9 Summits of Transformation your higher brain can quickly and efficiently tune itself to access the full spectrum of brain wave states. As you follow the protocol– based on which of the 9 Summits you are working in – the brain wave pattern needed to harness the outcomes associated with that particular Summit are elicited through the introduction of specially designed contemplations, meditations, mantras, positive thoughts etc., that tune the awakened flexible brain towards self-discovery, transcendence, unitary states, right actions etc. Energizing the higher brain first is a ‘meditation hack’. SCM starts with establishing the base of flowing subtle energy to the brain. Energizing the higher brain in this way dissipates the stress response and preps the brain to receive meditation. Once the brain has been sufficiently prepped the meditation can begin. Changing the brain before meditation changes the rules of the game. Higher brain potential when accessed FIRST, unlocks meditative potential not realized even in long-term consistent meditators, and opens the door to enlightened states of consciousness and purpose-fueled new ways to live. A hallmark of most meditative practices is focused concentration, and through modern neuroscience we now understand that the ability to concentrate or maintain continuous awareness of something involves activation of the higher centers of the brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex. So traditional meditation, through the act of prolonged concentration or attending to what’s arising, moment to moment, eventually creates changes in the brain. The challenge here is that since the higher part of the brain, from an evolutionary perspective is not very active, it is hard to sustain the concentration (which is a product of the higher part of the brain) long enough or with enough focus to actually activate that part of the brain. So we have a paradox, the part of the brain that sustained concentration activates is the same part of the brain required to sustain concentration. Traditional meditation can feel like we are fighting a losing battle. The solution, and what SCM provides is the ability to energize the

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part of the brain needed for focused concentration first, before you actually ask your mind to concentrate. This hacks the meditation process. Another ‘meditation hack’ of SCM is the ability to take as your ‘object of meditation’ the SCM promoted flowing subtle energy (SalutoGenesis) to the brain. Once the energy begins to flow, you learn to focus and concentrate on THAT flowing subtle energy as it energizes your brain. SCM uses focused attention to amplify the very flowing energy to the brain that is awakening the brain in the first place. Many traditional meditation techniques require you to direct your focused concentration on some type of ‘object of meditation’, be that object a flickering candle flame, a mantra or an arising thought or feeling. SCM uses this same technique AFTER your higher brain is energized but directs you to take as your ‘object of meditation’ the actual subtle energy that you mobilized in your body to awaken your higher brain in the first place. Here’s why this is revolutionary; the act of engaging in high degrees of focused concentration – now more efficient because your higher brain was first engaged – in and of itself, creates a flow of energy. Focused attention (concentrated consciousness) is not passive but has an active energetic component; this has even been established in quantum physics. So when you take your consciousness, your awareness, and you focus it and you concentrate and you intend it and direct it in a particular way, or at a particular thing, that focused concentrated consciousness has a force. Where attention goes, energy flows. The British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has even demonstrated statistically that people and animals know when they are being stared at from behind. Because ‘staring’ is the act of maintaining focused attention and there is an energy directed from that, that actually makes the person being stared at turn around, having ‘felt’ something. So if you take your force of concentration and direct that force through focused attention at the flowing subtle energy that you mobilized in your body, and which is in and of itself providing you the ability for focused attention – by awakening the higher brain – you are in effect energizing and increasing the flow of this subtle energy to the higher brain by providing it with more energy through your focused concentration directed into it! This creates a three-way dynamic feedback loop between the subtle energy that is waking up the part of your brain that promotes greater focused concentration (which itself increases higher brain activation) and then directing that concentration into the subtle energy and amplifying its flow to the higher brain. SCM creates a 3-part feedback between your concentrated focused intended awareness/energy, the SalutoGenesis and your higher brain. Each element, the focused intention, the SalutoGenesis and your higher brain are a dynamic

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feedback mechanism, each element of the system amplifying the other, in a continuous cycle. A perpetual energy/awakening organic system within you.

Learn the SCM Technique Learn one step of meditation at a time until you memorize and can put all 4 steps together. After performing the SCM base, given in Chapter 1, begin SCM below: Set a timer for 25 minutes to provide time for both your SCM base as well as the meditation below. Allow 10 minutes minimum for the actual meditation. More is better. STEP 1: 2-3 MINUTE

• Sit in seated meditation: keep your spine upright as if being pulled upwards from the top of the head. Bring your attention inwards toward the flowing SalutoGenesis in your body.

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• Lower SEV breath-merge: Breath/merge (first learned in step 3 of the SCM base) (see FIG: ?) into lower subtle energy vortex in the natural organic rhythm of the SalutoGenesis, coordinating the timing of the breath/merge to enter at the exact point that the flowing SalutoGenesis cycles through your body to the lower point. When the lower merge occurs on inhale feel the top of the pelvis tilt forward as SalutoGenesis draws up the pathways near the spine to the higher brain and then, on exhale, flows back down the front of the spine. Repeat this 3x’s. • Upper SEV breath-merge: As the SalutoGenesis continues to flow and reaches the upper subtle energy vortex, tuck your chin down gently, opening your upper subtle energy vortex, coordinating the timing of the breath/merge to enter at the exact point that the flowing SalutoGenesis naturally cycles to the upper subtle energy vortex. Release your tucked chin on the exhale as it flows back down the front of the spine cycling back around and back up the spine pathways again. Repeat this 3x’s. • Awareness on SalutoGenesis: Observe the spontaneous SalutoGenesis as it flows through you for 10 cycles.

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STEP 2: 2-4 MINUTES (count 100 cycles)

• Count 100 cycles of SalutoGenesis as the object of meditation: Take as your ‘object of meditation’ the flowing SalutoGenesis. Notice how your awareness is effortlessly drawn into the SalutoGenic response. Notice that there is an attraction to the subtle energy currents and spontaneous breath. Notice that you are drawn into it like it is your dearly beloved. Feel the SalutoGenesis ’s irresistible pull on your consciousness. Feel yourself being drawn to the gentle current of flowing energy. Feel your awareness flowing into the flowing subtle energy going to your higher brain. Like a black hole bending light into its center, feel your awareness effortlessly pulled to the SalutoGenesis. If thoughts or feelings or sensations distract you from the Saluto­ Genesis just turn your attention back to it and feel yourself drawn back in. Over and over and over again, let your awareness merge with what it is aware of as energy flows to your higher brain. NOTE. You may not feel as though subtle energy is actually flowing through pathways but more as if your entire body is vibrating, or that your body is made out of energy; that is a good sign, just keep directing your closed eyes towards whatever SalutoGenic response you feel.. You may notice the breath and energy flows becoming very subtle, this is a good sign; as you enter deep states of consciousness it can feel as if your breath suspends.

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• Move focus away from SalutoGenesis and onto your third eye/higher brain: Keep your spine upright as if being pulled upwards from the top of the head. Hold any large spontaneous body movements still but allow any spontaneous mudras to arise in your hands throughout the duration of the meditation. Gently roll your closed eyes to forehead (third eye, PFC) and place your tongue on the roof of mouth behind your teeth. Let everything else go except the new object of meditation, your higher brain or any image of light or pattern just beyond your higher brain. The SalutoGenesis will be drawn to this new object as you put all attention on the higher brain. Keep returning to that same point with your attention.

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• Notice new perceptions: Open your eyes slowly, noticing your surroundings. Notice the heightened quality of your sensations, emotions, thoughts and feelings. Feel for the inherent bliss that dwells within you. Look around and notice the luster and beauty in everything that arises. • Throughout your day breath/merge, alternating into the lower and upper subtle energy vortexes and noticing the SalutoGenesis that follows. Twice daily follow the SCM base with this Meditation.

The 9 Summits of Transformation – Brief Summary Below is a quick tour through the 9 summits. As you develop proficiency with your SCM practice, continue reading and creating the bio-psycho active context that prepares you to bring SCM into the 9 Summits of Transformation in Part 2. In Part 2 you will leverage the meditation changes into all areas of life. SCM shifts brain states and provides you access to advanced states of consciousness. This ability to create this shift can be cultivated for a lifetime and should be a daily practice. The 9 Summits help you take all you gain from your SCM practice and use those gains – of advanced brain physiology and higher consciousness – to transform all areas of your life. To progress through the 9 Summits of Transformation is to experience a fully liberated state of ‘being’ and an evolutionary state of ‘becoming’ as you fully engage the life process. Each of the summits provide a ‘map and means’ to awaken and transform yourself within each of these implicit areas of human growth and evolution. The SCM induced higher states are the key to effective transformation for each summit’s higher human potential objective. The higher brain/mind states create the opening to unlock the potential of each summit, thorough awakened discovery and empowered action and execution within the life process. Beginning now you will learn Source Code Meditation, start a daily practice, continue reading part one of this book to provide the bio-psycho active context needed to pursue the 9 Summits, which will be experienced in Part Two of this book. After completing the first round of the 9 summits you will spiral upwards into summit one again. The 9 summits spiral upward and never complete as

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each summit can be approached again (next time through the spiral) with more awareness, depth and capacity, each time creating greater degrees of transformation within each summit. THE 9 SUMMITS OF TR ANSFORMATION ARE:

• SUMMIT 1 : Soul Awakening • SUMMIT 2 : Transcendent Awakening • SUMMIT 3 : Unitary Awakening • SUMMIT 4 : Your Authentic Self and your Soul’s purpose • SUMMIT 5 : Look up. Promoting the Vertical Trajectory of the AS. • SUMMIT 6 : Look down. Reclaiming the Spiral of Development. • SUMMIT 7 : Illuminate, Liberate and Transmutate the Shadow into high brain fuel. • SUMMIT 8 : Your Life Codes • SUMMIT 9 : Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment • The ThriveStyle of an Architect of Epoch 6 • Cycle back to summit 1

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In summary:

1. You have untapped higher brain potential. 2. You have latent energy in your body. 3. This latent energy may have evolved with the Higher Brain to provide energy for its awakening. 4. Due to lower brain dominance this energy source and the higher brain have not completed their circuit and therefore the higher brain and its energy source are not fully connected. 5. SCM awakens the latent energy in your body so that it can flow to its destination, the higher brain. Thus connecting the circuit and cuing the higher brain to create feedback to further its own awakening. 6. As your ongoing awakening occurs the 9 Summits of Transformation guide you forward, bringing this awakened brain/mind state to all areas of life.

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hat happens if you have no map to guide you? Dr. Jan Souman, of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, studied what happens to people without a map to guide them. He discovered that when people were lost in the woods or wandering the desert without a map or compass they would wind up walking in circles, and would find themselves right back where they started. Dr. Souman informs us that even if you think you are walking in a straight line, you will actually be walking in circles. I want you to create the most accurate map possible for your life, so the vehicle (higher brain) you are supercharging knows where to go.

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In the midst of my own ongoing transformation it was the genius of American philosopher Ken Wilber that accelerated my life’s work. Wilber’s life work provided the orienting map called ‘Integral Metatheory’ or ‘AQAL’ that I use to ensure a holistic approach for the transformational technologies that I create. About 15 years ago I read Wilber’s – at that time – magnum opus, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality and like a laser beam of knowing and understanding, it shot directly into my mind, integrating the last decade of revelations I had had around neuroscience, consciousness, energy and human transformation. Suddenly all of my insights fitted together in a cohesive framework that allowed me to not only codify but to iterate and advance my life’s work at a much more rapid rate. I am forever grateful for the work of this towering genius and I consider myself an ‘Integral Metatheorist’. Integral Metatheory (IMT) is a theory of everything. A framework that is the result of looking carefully at the enduring truths and consistent patterns within all the ways we see and making sense of our philosophy, spirituality, healing, and indeed all of reality. IMP is, in a word, well ‘integral’, leaving nothing out, and yet never prioritizing partial truths – be they healing systems, religions or meditation techniques for that matter – at the expense of the greater whole. My belief 96

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now is that if any practice or technique is not informed by some version of an integral framework, the odds are overwhelming that the practice or technique will have arrested outcomes at some point and there will be diminishing returns for the amount of time invested. Integral Metatheory posits the importance of several different key vectors of what it means to be human. These vectors are ‘States of consciousness’, ‘Life Altitudes of consciousness’, ‘Dimensions (quadrants)’, ‘types’ and ‘lines’ of development. For our purposes and in my opinion, the first three listed here – states, altitudes and dimensions – are the most important to SCM and to your evolution. I will introduce the 4 dimensions and how they relate to SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation, in this chapter. The following chapter (4) will introduce states of consciousness, particularly ‘enlightenment states’ in relation to SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation. Chapter 7 will introduce Life Altitudes, also called ‘structures of consciousness’, and their correlation with proposed brain physiology. I will only mention ‘types and lines’ briefly here and you will be able to infer how this is important to your own growth through this process. Types, refers to the type of person you are, such as your gender or personality type. Types are generally thought not to change over time; we take our specific type with us as we grow vertically through stages of development (Life Altitudes) or access higher enlightenment states. I am not suggesting that types or typologies are not important, as they can lead to greater understanding about oneself, I am simply suggesting that within the confines of this book I do not want to go into great detail regarding types or lines as it is not needed here. There are many wonderful resources on the subject and many techniques such as the Enneagram or MyersBriggs that deal with the topic. ‘Lines of development’, are the multiple streams or intelligences that each of us possess. So when we talk about higher Life Altitudes, multiple lines or streams of intelligence are involved and we can be higher in some lines and lower in others. For our purposes taking a view from 50,000 feet and looking at where your center of gravity is located, i.e. what Life Altitude that you source your identity, world-view, values etc,. from, is what’s most important. For more detailed and nuanced understanding regarding Integral Metatheory I suggest you read everything Ken Wilber has written; that’s around 25 books and should keep you busy for a while if you want to dive deeper into IMT philosophy. I wanted to provide a very brief introduction to IMT, as this will help you see and understand why SCM was developed as it was, and understand some basics around how and why the 9 Summits unfold as they do. I am deliberately avoiding

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the hyper-intellectualization that IMT and IMT philosophers are known for, as that is not the point here. We just want to know enough to provide adequate context for the amazing awakenings that will result by following SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation. For now I want to provide a brief tour through a very important and life changing understanding of IMT, the ‘4 dimensions’ or what Wilber calls the 4-qaudrants.

The 4 Dimensions The key point is this: your life arises within a minimum of four major perspectives that I call ‘dimensions’. All four of these dimensions or areas must be taken into account and advanced if you are to live life fully and fearlessly. These 4 dimensions all arise together and are all areas of your life that are interrelated and affect one another, often without your awareness of this. THESE 4 DIMENSIONS ARE:

1. Mind/Consciousness 2. Body/Brain 3. Relationships/Culture 4. Environment/Systems

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Or to simplify: Mind, Body, Relationships and Environment.

Wilber has identified these four irreducible dimensions of human life. These four areas of life are Body, Mind, Relationships and Environment and Wilbur has demonstrated that any philosophy, healing art, personal growth technique etc., that does not take all of these 4 major areas into account is a fragmented and partial system. A version of this 4-D integral mapping system is implicit to SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation. The new higher brain state synchronized with an integral map of these 4 areas accelerates life transformation in real time in the modern world. When the higher brain is energized and directed toward all 4 dimensions we create comprehensive and sustainable life transformations. If these 4 dimensions are not freed up together and moving forward together your growth at some point will be arrested.

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When you do take all of these areas into account and promote growth in all 4 Dimensions, something extraordinary happens; a quantum response in life transformation results! 1+1+1+1= 100! Quantum Life Transformation is the objective of the SCM System.

Mind and Brain, Two Irreducible Perspectives of One Holism To gain deeper understanding of the 4 dimensions let’s start by examining an old debate that involves the upper two of the four dimensions that are recognized by IMT as fundamental and irreducible elements of your life. This will provide an understanding of how these two dimensions are sewn into the fabric of who you are. With that understanding we can layer in the lower two dimensions (with much less detail) which are simply the ‘plurals’ to each of the upper two dimensions. All 4 dimensions are sewn together, all irreducible and all separate, yet intimately connected and arising as one. Let’s start; your brain is not your mind; your mind is not your brain. Now would be a good time to clear up any confusion around terminology regarding the ‘mind (non-physical / subjective / consciousness)’ and the ‘brain (physical / objective / matter / energy)’. This understanding will be important as we continue discussing advanced brain states and advanced states of consciousness. Mind and Brain are not the same thing, although they are in direct relationship to one another. One does not cause the other. It is a mistake to believe the brain creates the mind, and a mistake of equal proportions to believe the mind creates the brain. Mind and Brain are the interior and exterior of a single holism. The interior and exterior of this single holism exerts influence across both of these dimensions, however neither ‘causes’ the other and neither can be reduced to the other. Modern Western neuroscience tends to reduce all states of mind/ consciousness to brain function and many Eastern contemplative traditions tend to reduce all of physical reality (including the brain) as a creation of mind/ consciousness. Both of these views are dualistic and partial and, therefore, from a higherlevel understanding both views are ultimately wrong. Mind and matter are associated and correlated but not reducible. They are two sides of a single ‘coin’ of reality arising together. They are connected to each other but neither is causing or creating the other. Known as the “mind-body paradox” this relationship between brain and mind is not paradoxical if we can think holistically; the old philosophical conundrum was to reduce one to the other thus creating an endless debate around

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which came first and which caused the other. The new integral understating is that mind and brain arise together as two perspectives of a single whole, both influencing the other and neither reducible to its corollary. Since the inner consciousness and outer brain arise as one, a profound change in the brain would correspond with a profound change in consciousness and vice versa. U It is this understanding that allows us to see how meditation for instance, can change the brain – any change in one dimension will create corollary changes in the other, however this does not happen in ‘one to one’ ratios. Meditation takes as its starting point the interior dimension, of ‘mind/consciousness’ and its introspective techniques lead to changes in this mind/consciousness dimension. As changes in the non-physical ‘states of mind/consciousness’ occur, changes in the physical brain also occur. With enough meditation and for a long enough period of time, the corollary brain changes can become profound. The challenge with meditation, however, is its low power effect and lack of integrality. The amplitude of effect is small and therefore takes long periods of time and extreme focus to create big changes. Its ‘one dimensional’ nature of only focusing on the interior dimension means that the level of intensity, in the meditation practice, must be immense to shift the fleeting states of higher consciousness experience into more permanent traits by creating adequate changes in the brain. When both the interior and exterior (mind and brain) are shifted together, as with the SCM technique, these two dimensions feedback into each other through resonance, a self-reinforcing dynamic, each strengthening the other. The spine-tingling ‘aha’ moment that occurred for me in my study of human transformation was when I discovered that the ‘brain’ side of the equation had been ignored (mostly because it was unknown) for thousands of years! As contemplative and meditative techniques were developing, East and West, the brain and its function and relationship to higher consciousness were left out of the picture. The contemplative practices in the West and meditative techniques in the East, had for thousands of years canonized and dogmatized their ‘interior based’ methods. The understanding that the physical brain was in relationship to all of the desired changes these contemplatives sought, was not known until modern science only recently disclosed this truth. Therefore the ‘brain’ has been a missing link for the thousands of years transformative practices have been developing. I believe that some of the early yoga adepts had an intuitive understanding that ‘physiology and the physical body’ was an important part of the equation,

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but with no real understanding of brain function or its relationship to advanced states of consciousness there was a limitation to this development. The lack of knowledge regarding the direct relationship between higher consciousness/ mind states and higher brain/physiology states did not allow for the development of techniques that could increase higher brain function directly, or even the ability to add the higher brain potential to the equation and supercharge already existing transformative techniques. The higher brain and its potential are a ‘missing link’ in transformational approaches and still to this day are lagging way behind in the mindfulness, self-help and personal growth industries. A revolution of the SCM technique is that it takes as its starting point the exterior or ‘Brain’ dimension. The change in brain function elicited through this technique is not subtle. Profound changes are created quickly in the exterior (brain) dimension that resonates through the associated interior (mind/consciousness) dimension, thus simultaneously creating positive shifts in ‘mind/ consciousness’. Since SCM is an integral evolutionary holistic system – even as it promotes profound brain changes – it does not ‘end’ with the brain. In fact it begins there, with the powerful shift to the higher brain, a shift that creates an opening for a powerful change to occur in the ‘mind’, as well as an opening to change all areas of one’s life. With SCM and the 9 Summits the shift to higher brain function is quickly leveraged by specially designed components (inherit in the SCM and the 9 Summits) that are introduced to further enhance the corollary changes in ‘Mind’. In addition, these amazing changes to the brain and consciousness of the recipient are applied to one’s life through a highly sophisticated yet user-friendly mapping system, based in part on an IMT modeling of reality. Having a powerful starting point – energy surge in the higher brain – synchronized with elements of the technique designed to accentuate the evolution in all dimensions and areas of one’s life while navigating the world with a 21st-century map of reality, while the higher brain is energized, leads to rapid transformation.

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Changes in brain state must quickly be met with changes in all 4Ds to convert the temporary states into permanent traits Another challenge with meditation that is resolved through the 9 Summits of Transformation is that there is little understanding about how to apply any benefits of meditation to modern life and the complexities of the world we live in.

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Lower Brain Feedback in 4 Dimensions of Life If we acknowledge that the 4 dimensions are fundamental and interconnected, we quickly see the evolutionary conundrum of a dominant primitive lower brain (upper right body/brain dimension) that must have associations resonating with it in all other dimensions. Lower brain dominance has a complex of associated Mind/Body/Relationship/Environment dynamics and since the 4Ds are multidirectional, all the lower brain representations in mind, body, relationships or environment can act as triggers to engage/energize the lower brain even further. Within the lower brain resonating 4Ds-specific triggers such as alcohol, the “thought that I am overwhelmed”, negative environments, friends that don’t support us, credit card collectors calling, patterns of hollow sexual relationships, family dynamics that show up, old friends, recurring thoughts, money issues, etc., all act to further engage or re-engage the lower brain. It is not just the lower brain that arrests your growth, but the complex of triggers in all 4Ds, sustained by lower brain physiology. Just changing the brain is not enough because the triggers are part of the complex and need energetically disconnecting from your lower brain. Since all sentient beings have all 4 Dimensions that arise together, when the lower brain is dominant, the lower level 4D reality arises with it. This creates reiterating negative feedback loops through the 4Ds that becomes self-reinforcing: each dimension sustains the others, all further energizing the lower brain as the physiology that holds it all together. The 4D representations need deconstructing, as we will do in Summit 7 and a new map of your Higher Brain’s potential will be constructed in Summit 8. Shifting into higher brain states is the beginning not the end. The higher brain states must be brought to bear on all of life, and that is exactly what happens through the 9 Summits of Transformation. This is why the complete and holistic nature of the journey through the 9 Summits is important. Just shifting into a higher brain state is not enough, you must disrupt the entire 4-dimensional complex and follow that with the creation of higher brain representations in mind, body, relationships and environment. Learning how to navigate your 4 dimensions from higher brain physiology becomes an exhilarating experience as you create a compelling future. To create a more detailed understanding of the interplay of all 4 Dimensions of life we will use the example of someone dealing with a health challenge. In this example we will introduce the lower 2 dimensions (relationships/Culture and Environment/Systems). Keep in mind during this example based on ‘holistic healing,’ that SCM is about so much more than simply healing and that this 4D

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approach must be applied even if we are already “healed” but still wish to grow, evolve or transform in any way. Consider the following facts: recent medical research demonstrates that a good predictor of chronic disabling back or neck pain in a man is job dissatisfaction and financial concerns. This may seem counter-intuitive as both job dissatisfaction and financial concerns are located in the “Environment” Dimension (see Fig: 9), not in the area where the problems become manifest (the “Body” Dimension). The symptoms show up in the physical body as pain although the primary “hot spot” is not in the “Body” dimension as one might presume. Therefore treating or fixing the body will not lead to resolution and certainly not evolution. For a woman, a good predictor of chronic disabling back or neck pain is relationship problems (lower left dimension). Therefore, treating or fixing the body will not lead to resolution and certainly not evolution, as the primary causative agent (relationship) has been left unresolved. That is, the primary problem is actually located in the “Relationship” Dimension even though the apparent problem shows up again as symptoms in the “Body” dimension. What was always thought to be the primary problem of chronic disabling neck and back pain in both men and women were certain types of bad parts in the body, i.e., disc herniation or bulges, arthritis, etc. However, now we know that those ‘bad parts’, according to the research, have very low predictability as to whether or how you will develop chronic pain and disability. In fact, not only was there more to the story than the bad part, but it wasn’t even primary. These other dimensions were actually more important to the development of physical problems than the bad parts in the body were. You simply cannot predict, based on any single dimension, what the primary problem is. Here is a simple example of how all four dimensions play out in life: Take for instance a woman that we will call Renee. Renee suffers from chronic migraine headaches and she therefore pursues ‘treatment’ to fix it. A typical approach would be to treat her migraines with drugs, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, or herbs, depending upon the professional she chose to help her. But is any of this really helping her if the primary problem is not actually her aching head? Here again I want to reiterate that the SCM and 9 Summits are designed for life transformation in all dimensions, but this ‘healing’ example makes a point as to the interplay of all four dimensions. So let’s say Renee decides to pursue the SCM and 9 Summits of Transformation path and learns to awaken her brain/ mind and progresses through The 9 Summits of Transformations. Using specific

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9 Summit techniques she clearly identifies the status of all 4 dimensions of her life. She revealed, through a guided process that in her “Body” Dimension she has tight muscles, in her “Mind” dimension she has low self-esteem and negative thoughts. In her “Relationship” dimension she has a bad marriage and a verbally abusive husband. In her “Environment” dimension she works at a dead end job that she resents. All four dimensions of her life flow into one another. Critical thoughts (Mind) cause tight muscles and constricted blood vessels (Body), while demeaning relationships (Relationships) cause negative thoughts (Mind), which cause poor job performance (Environment) and a decreased likelihood of promotion, etc. All four Dimensions are implicit to her life and must be liberated together. Treating only her body would be a disaster for Renee, as it would not address the underlying issues causing her symptoms. The pain in her body is a wake-up call to pay attention and make changes. Often change is needed in an area (dimension) that does not appear to be the most symptomatic. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation do not require that you identify a ‘primary’ cause for anything, it just requires that you have awareness to the state of all your four dimensions and provides you with the tools to use your higher brain/mind state to bring about positive change in all dimensions of your life. When this happens, not only does healing occur, but also, bound-up life energy is freed from stuck dimensions and can drive your growth and evolution towards self-actualization and self- transcendence. Since SCM is about growth and transformation we would not seek to give Renee her old life back, for her old life is how she got to where she is currently, it is how she ended up with migraine headaches to begin with. We want to help her use her symptoms as a sign that change is needed and facilitate her transformation in all four Dimensions so she can create her new life. Another example of how this 4D approach plays out in the healing process was elucidated recently in a peer-reviewed article titled “Integral Skepticism in Medicine.” It has long been known that the Japanese, while living in Japan, have low rates of heart disease, but upon migrating to the United States they develop the same high rates of heart disease as Americans. It was presumed that the increase in heart disease was related to the high saturated fat, and decrease in fresh vegetables and seafood, typical of the American diet. However upon closer examination, it was determined that the greatest cause of the increase in heart disease was due to the decrease in cultural connections. Their “relationships” eroded and created symptoms in the “Body” Dimension. Now let’s take this a step further; we all know that good nutrition nurtures

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us. But do we know that a hallmark of stress physiology produced by the lower brain adversely affects our digestion. Since blood flow and energy is directed away from the digestive system, so that the lower brain can use that blood and energy to promote survival behaviors, the digestive system is severely compromised. So what happens to our organic foods and high-priced high-quality supplements? Since the digestive system is compromised the ability to assimilate the nutritional benefits of high quality foods and supplements is also compromised. If we consider our lives in four dimensions perhaps the lower brain stress response is accentuated due to the constant sense of hopelessness we feel in the upper left dimension, and perhaps this hopelessness is related to the dead-end job we feel stuck in, in the lower right dimension. In this scenario, simply improving the quality of our food and supplements may not have much impact until we change the dead-end job, which upgrades the quality of our thoughts, which down-regulates the stress being produced by the lower brain in the upper right dimension. Growth in any dimension can be slowed or completely stopped by an imbalance (conscious or unconscious) in any other dimension. As you progress through the 9 Summits you will liberate all 4 dimensions so your continued growth and evolution is not sabotaged by an imbalance hiding in any of your 4 dimensions. Due to the evolutionary conundrum of the human brain and its lower survival based grip, it plays a key role in the state of all your life dimensions. All 4 dimensions are irreducible but not all techniques are equivalent on their impact in any particular dimension. The large magnitude of power shifting from lower brain to higher brain in the upper right dimensions creates the ‘space’ for dramatic life changes.

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SCM leverages your higher brain awakenings to increase awareness to all 4 dimensions of your life and locate the precise ways so that more growth can occur in those 4 dimensions. Does the lower brain have its grip on your life? Do any of these areas hold you back: your career, relationships, environment, thoughts, behaviors, self-confidence, health, energy levels? If so, these stuck areas must change if you are to free up the energy needed for your growth and evolution towards higher consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “When you’re starving God can only appear to you as bread.” Gandhi understood that it was very difficult to be spiritually realized if you couldn’t put food on your table. What Gandhi aptly saw was that 106

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you have to rise up and fulfill basic survival needs before you can be spiritually fulfilled. During times of starvation all of our energy resources go to the part of our brain designed for survival first and foremost…not finding God. Through most of humanity’s two million years on planet earth we have routinely faced starvation and predators, and the lower brain has locked in and habituated automatic unconscious survival strategies, no matter what the environment. However, these unconscious lower brain strategies are currently playing out in the lives of us moderns in new ways. Most of us are not literally starving (at least probably not those reading this book), but we are ‘starving’ in other areas of our life. Ironically the mis-match between the lower brain survival strategies and the demands and complexity of the modern world is what is creating this starvation in other areas of life. For many of us moderns we have conquered the first level basic human needs (freedom from predators, ample food, available shelter etc.) that the lower brain’s perceptions and behaviors were required for. It seems, however, that conquering these very basic human needs did NOT coincide with an equivalent reduction in lower brain unconscious dominance, probably because it has been locked in for so long in an hostile environment. In other words the modern word has changed dramatically and so has the human brain (evolution of the new brain structures) but the old lower brain has not loosened its grip enough for the new high brain to create radically new perceptions and behaviors. Instead, the lower primitive brain continues its influence in all areas of modern life, leading to unfulfilled relationships, careers, inner experience, health, finances, etc. This creates self-referential feedback loops between our lower brains, and the lower brain-created areas of our life, both reinforcing one another. We must now break the cycle and destabilize the feedback loop between the lower brain and the unfulfilled areas of our life. I am insisting that we must free up the energy (habituated by the lower primitive stress brain) in the major areas of our lives if we hope to evolve and lead a deeply spiritual, fully awakened and meaningful life. If we don’t free up these areas of our lives we won’t have the energy resources available to create a ‘fiercely authentic life’ and we won’t become the solution to the changes we wish to see in the world. The really exciting part of the process is that as you are developing the ability through SCM to turn on your Higher Brain, like flipping the switch on a turbo charger, then you can engage and transform anything in any dimension of your life.

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Can you imagine how powerful it would be for your healing, well-being or growth, if you were to increase your awareness to know how all these 4 dimensions were playing out in your life? And imagine if your 4D imbalances were brought out of the shadows and you had the resources immediately available to create rapid change in those imbalances? Through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation that’s exactly what you will do. The whole of these 4 Dimensions of your life is greater than the sum of their parts. When you turn on the Higher Brain and engage all four dimensions, your life transformations are out of proportion to the amount of time and energy invested. This is Quantum change! The fastest way to a new life is to turn on the Higher Brain and address all 4 dimensions. Promoting evolution in 4D creates a non-linear dynamic. 1+1+1+1=100! Turn on the higher brain and engage Mind + Body + Relationships + Environment = Extraordinary new life! The 9 Summits of Transformation have a revolutionary method called that helps you to quickly identify imbalances in the 4 dimensions of your life that may be holding you back from creating abundance. Once these imbalances are located, the 9 Summits of Transformation introduce ‘The Codes’ which connect your goals and passions directly to that feeling of well-being, flow and confidence produced through the awakening of your higher brain. This creates an advanced brain/mind state that is contextualized towards the changes you wish to make. You will learn to approach life from the energized higher brain and quickly and immediately change any problematic area of your life. You will be able to approach and act on your goals and passions from an internal sense of empowerment. Through these techniques you CAN create the life of your dreams. Soon all you will have to do is think of your goals or objectives and the higher brain/mind state needed to actually make those changes will awaken. You will be capable of connecting the feeling of well-being and invincibility (the one you remembered earlier) with the specific goals and outcomes you desire in your life. In time, all you will have to do is think about those outcomes and your higher brain will be activated. Your goals and passions will no longer be just fleeting ideas, but will become embodied. Your higher brain will help sustain your thoughts and convert them to action. How different would life be if just thinking about your passions or goals produced an internal feeling that you could take on the world and nothing

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could stop you? You will change your brain in the way needed to drive that empowered feeling into empowered sustainable action. As you begin making positive changes in the 4 Dimensions of your life, your Higher Brain connection will deepen! The positive changes that you make in your Mind, Body, Relationships, and Environment act as a catalyzing agent to further your Higher Brain connection and help you advance faster! Conversely, failing to use and act upon your 4D world through the Higher Brain connection will flat-line your response. You are learning to awaken your higher brain function to use it and when you do you are rewarded with new and deeper higher brain potentials that can be used to promote higher new levels of your evolution in all dimensions. This creates an endless upward spiral of Higher Brain response leading to positive life changes which further promotes a deeper and more powerful Higher Brain, response that can be used to advance your life in higher ways, with ever increasing depth and evolution as you follow the upward spiraling 9 Summits throughout the course of your lifetime.

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our ordinary everyday consciousness is a particular ‘state’ of consciousness. However it is not the only state of consciousness available to you. You have been in a dream state during sleep, possibly a drunk state after consuming too many adult beverages, a euphoric state from falling in love or having a child etc. ‘States’ can be accessed or experienced from any of the Life Altitudes (addressed in more detail later). Based on the appropriate conditions one can experience temporary states of consciousness from any level or altitude of psychological/ spiritual development. However there is also a sequential unfolding of states of consciousness that provide a shift in our very self-identity. Source Code Meditation and the 9 Summits of Transformation provide the tools to cultivate this sequential unfolding of higher shifts in our self-identity. These enlightenment states, or sequential shifts in inner experience, progress beyond ordinary everyday consciousness – where your Self is identified with the material realm and feels exclusively identified with your mind and body. This everyday ordinary experience is called the gross state or ego self-identity. This ego self-identity is how most people experience the world most of the time. However, the esoteric branches of the great wisdom traditions have a long history and cartography of a sequential unfolding and shifting of self-identity into higher and deeper states of consciousness. These states of enlightened consciousness unfold as shifts in self-identity from ego to soul to spirit (Transcendent Self) to Non-Dual (Unitary). It is important to note that through cultivation and development into these higher states one includes, but no longer exclusively identifies with, the previous self-identity once it is transcended. In other words the ego doesn’t disappear when we find our soul, it just takes a back seat and the soul doesn’t disappear when we find we are absolute spirit. A good way to understand these shifts in identity, until they are experienced directly, is to understand how that which is aware in you becomes more expansive. The observer in you, that which is aware, loosens its exclusive identity with how it sees the world, dis-identifies itself with that smaller more constricted

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self-identity and steps into a deeper wider self-identity, that feels more real than the previous self. Each of these enlightenment states of consciousness have advanced physiologic correlates in the higher brain as well as subtle energy or ‘energy body’ correlates. So, of particular import, is to understand that to experience any of these advanced states of enlightenment consciousness and ultimately shift our self-identity we must be able to shift our brain physiology accordingly. Of particular importance is to not get too caught up in the ‘maps’ I am providing. The SalutoGenic mechanisms, the spheres of subtle energy around your body, the Enlightenment states (State of consciousness) Life Altitudes and Epochs of consciousness and culture we will discover in more detail later in this book, have all been laid out for you in a neat sequential unfolding. And this sequential unfolding model is accurate, however in real life it is far from a neat linear process. What we are really concerned with here is our center of gravity. As you grow you may hit peak states at any time, you may also reach into higher Life Altitudes and pull down certain experiences from those higher altitudes of consciousness. Therefore we want to hold the map loosely, but also recognize what we learned in the last chapter; when we have no map or a bad map we end up lost, confused and walking in circles. The map may seem linear and sequential and not precisely representative of the territory of life, but there is still much value in its inherent truths, if we hold it loosely, realize that evolution is often messy and development is never linear. Maps create context, context is bio-psychoactive, the better the context, the better the experience and the less time we spend wandering lost in the wilderness. As you progress through the 9 Summits, you will reach beyond where you are (wherever that happens to be) into higher states and Life Altitudes. These temporary experiences will help pull you forward as you spiral upwards though the 9 Summits; each time through the spiral creating deeper experience and deeper understanding.

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Soul Awakening “Time is of the soul” — SAINT AUGUSTINE

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awareness and that which it is aware of. You no longer ‘react’ to life’s circumstances, you find that you have a space to reflect and then make a choice. Your subjective awareness as your self-identify has released itself, can take a view from 50,000 feet. You begin to notice that something in you is aware of your body, your mind and the material world and there is a sense that that something is in relationship to the body, but is also transcendent to the body. There is also a sense that although your self- identity is still within the stream of time, that time that you are within, is unending. You know that although your body/mind may someday drop, the subject that has been released will carry on forever in time. The soul experiences its body as filled with light and energy; your personality, still present, is filled with visions and luminosity. This is a selfidentification with your soul and your soul is eternal.

The Physiology of your Soul Subtle energy pathways in the body become more open to carry energy to the brain. There is a reduction in stress hormones in the body and increased metabolism of higher centers of the brain, with a flooding of alpha waves into the prefrontal cortex. Please note that some of the proposed physiology is at least in part speculative as it is based on limited evidence. I believe however, with confidence, we can state that higher brain physiology correlates with enlightenment states of consciousness, although we cannot offer complete confidence in exactly what that physiology looks like. We are still in the early stages of the mapping of higher physiology and higher states of consciousness. This is one of the major projects that I am directing at the Higher Brain Living Institute and Source Code Meditation world headquarters in Chicago Il.

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The Energy of your Soul According to the world wisdom traditions, and consistent with my experience, all states of consciousness have an associated body of energy. The ordinary waking state has an energy body or field associated with it that is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This ‘bio-field’ has actually been measured emanating beyond the physical human body. The Enlightenment states of consciousness have an energy body or field associated with them that is beyond the electromagnetic spectrum. As you first progress through the 9 Summits you will learn to recognize and cultivate these higher energies. In Integral Metatheory, ‘energy’ is located within the upper right dimension and therefore can have an influence on consciousness in the upper left dimension. 112

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As you awaken these enlightenment states through the 9 Summits you will increase your awareness to their energy fields and engage that energy in a way that further promotes the awakening of the associated enlightenment states. This energy exists within and around your physical body in concentric nested spheres. It is also the same energy that flows through the pathways to your brain. The subtle energy body supports the Soul State and this subtle energy is the first energy to awaken with SCM and flow through your body and to your brain. Of note, many of the world wisdom traditions believe that when your physical body dies, your subtle body transmigrates to a new body carrying your soul essence with it to be born again. Time is of the soul, because the soul goes on in time.

Transcendent Awakening The next shift in self-identify moves from an exclusive relationship with your personal Soul to a higher identify with your Transcendent Self. The Transcendent Self is known as the eternal, immortal witness to all that arises. The recognition of your Transcendent Self as an absolute freedom from death, decay and destruction is experienced. The Transcendent Self provides access to pure peace – free of time, space and conditioned reality. Your Transcendent Self is eternal; it wasn’t born and therefore cannot die. The realization that you are timeless, in fact immortal, changes everything. Awakening to the Transcendent Self is the ultimate in freedom; it’s the knowing of a spaciousness that dwells within you where you will always be free and always at peace regardless of circumstances or events in your earthly existence. This knowing is nothing short of absolute liberation from death. A pure primal consciousness exists deep within you, has been here all along and will continue to exist forever. It is the awareness behind the form. It is the stillness deep in our being that the entire world arises out of. It is the infinite field of consciousness that everything, including our bodies and minds, are arising within. Ultimate consciousness is not infinite in the sense that it goes on forever in time as is the relationship with time to the soul. The Transcendent Self never even enters the stream of time. Pure awareness is at the core of your being and your Transcendent Self, is prior to time, before time and outside of time. It is an infinite field of consciousness; who you are when you are stripped free of all your stories. The way in which we have been taught to distinguish ‘self’ from ‘other’, is that ‘other’ can be witnessed as something or someone outside of ourselves. You can at

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this very moment witness the clouds in the sky, therefore you are not the clouds… you can witness the people around you, therefore you are not those people. And….you can witness your body right now…therefore you are not your body. The Witness cannot be the “thing” witnessed. Since you can witness your thoughts you are not your mind. So who is this witness? What do you really mean every time you say, “I AM” and before you say anything else? When you say “I AM”, to what are you referring? “I” is generally associated with your mind, and your thoughts about who you are. For instance, “I” am a mother, a father, I am a spiritual seeker, I am a victim, a teacher, doctor, an artist or I am unemployed. However, that “I” in you is none of those things. That “I” is a subject, those ‘things’ that follow it are objects. If your “I” is contemplated and followed to its ultimate source, something amazing is revealed. This “I” that you refer to is not your body and it is not your mind and it is not your soul. For your “I” right now, at this very moment, can witness your body… it can also witness your mind and it can witness your soul. Your pure “I” is pure consciousness: the formless dimension. Your “I” therefore is the ultimate witness and your “AM” is the experience of being or existence inherent in your witnessing “I”. The witness dwells within you as your “I AM”. Your pure eternal “I AM” (pure consciousness, pure being) is pure spirit by any other name. No matter the circumstances of the moment, “I AM” carries through…through all times, dates, experiences…because “I AM” is not of this world of time, dates and experiences. Pure consciousness and being is transcendent and yet forms the core of your being. Remember, your Soul as self-identify is a state of eternal consciousness, connected to your personality, in relationship to your body and existing within the stream of time. Your Transcended Self is the great unborn, undying infinite impersonal consciousness. It is THE consciousness, the consciousness that existed before the universe was born and now shines through you. We spend most of our lives clinging to the past; whether through pleasant memories we long for, or unpleasant memories that keep us feeling like a victim. We also project our lives into the future. “Tomorrow I am going to do this”, “I can’t wait for my vacation next month”, “I am anxious about this job that I need to get done, etc.” From the view of the Transcendent Self, both past and future are illusions, so why cling to them? The past is a memory, the future only an expectation. There is no reality for the past and the future except what exists at this very moment. The past and the future right ‘now’ are arising in your Transcendent Self. This ‘now’ that I refer to is not a moment that passes in time. It is The Witness to all those present moments that pass in time. The eternal ‘now’,

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your “I AM” is prior to time. It is the empty space, your original face that all space and time appear within. The pure consciousness of your Transcendent Self permeates every moment of your existence and is so obvious you don’t notice. Just like fish don’t notice they’re in water. All the things you think you are, father, sister, artist, musician, realtor, etc., are fundamentally who you are not! And failure to recognize this will forever create suffering through the exclusive identification with that which is temporary instead of that which is eternal within you. Science tells us that prior to the Big Bang, no space or time or objects existed. What was there? “I AM” was there ever present, that same feeling of consciousness and being-ness that you feel right now. “I AM” is your sanctuary. “I AM” is sacred. “I AM” is unshakable. The Transcendent State of pure “I AM” knows only peace and freedom. From Christ to Krishna to Lao Tzu to the Buddha, this connection with pure spirit was experiential; through SCM and the 9 Summits we wish to also cultivate this relationship to that which is fully liberated within us.

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Subtle energy pathways in the body become more refined and efficient at carrying energy to the brain. There is an increase in metabolism of higher centers of the brain with high beta and gamma waves in the left prefrontal cortex and increased coherence spreading across the brain.

The Energy of your Transcendent Self Causal/Unitary energy: The Transcendent Self state of Self-identity is supported by the Causal/Unitary energy body. The Transcendent State and the Unitary State share the Causal/Unitary body of energy. These states in fact are very closely linked, as the Transcendent Self integrates with all of manifestation in the Unitary State. This energy field’s sphere around the human body may be infinite and may explain the apparent propagation of information that is not believed to be carried by electromagnetic forces. Such as, university studies showing that a change in one person’s brain waves can have changes on another person’s brain waves without any known physical contact between them.

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leads to a liberation from suffering in the manifest existence – pure emptiness, pure peace, unborn and undying, untouched by the world. The Unitary State Awakening, also called Unitary Enlightenment is the next sequential unfolding of these enlightenment states. In Unitary Enlightenment, the Transcendental Self, the light of pure consciousness pours itself into the world and infuses with material form as it unites with all objects of manifestation. When your timeless eternal consciousness, the Transcendent Self, is followed to its ultimate source and witnesses all that is arising within it, it (YOU) also recognizes that the Transcendent Self is not separate from all that arises, in fact it IS all that arises, and all that arises is being liberated AS this eternal consciousness. Ultimately your Transcendent Self – the pure subject, primal awareness – pours itself into all the objects arising in the manifest world. The next spiritual progression, therefore, is the ‘Non-Dual’ pouring out of your Transcendent Self into all that is arising moment to moment: consciousness and form, Subject and Object join in Unitary Enlightenment. You find that the witness, your Transcendent Self is not only outside of all that arises but also on the inside of all that arises, inseparable and indivisible. Subject and Object become fully integrated. An object has no meaning without a subject to witness it and a subject has no meaning without being set apart from an object. Subjects and objects are thus seen through as part of one holism. The Transcendent Self unites with the world of form in the Unitary State. The Unitary State leads to an enchantment of the world and a felt sense of unconditional love. The mundane becomes mysterious and compelling. Life becomes revelation. There is little need for conspiracy theories or chasing UFOs to escape the ordinary, for the ordinary has been revealed to be the mystery of all mysteries, the fact that anything exists at all is felt as a miracle. Your very existence is just as improbable as any alien spaceship. You watch the world arise in divine perfection, simultaneously free and yet lacking nothing. Your heart beats as the world heart.

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The Physiology of the Unitary State Subtle energy pathways in the body become increasingly more refined and efficient at carrying energy to the brain. There is an increase in metabolism of higher centers of the brain with gamma waves in coherence across the entire brain and a full heart opening. Recent discoveries have shown that your heart is also a brain! The human heart has historically been associated with love and compassion and is now 116

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known to be a center of neurological tissue. This Higher Heart physiology is not associated with transcendence. It instead correlates with imminence, grounding and embodiment. Agape, or ‘love’ is the domain of the Higher Heart – and much of this advanced heart physiology is dormant potential, like the slumbering Higher Brain. In advanced Buddhist practice the Bodhisattva vow goes beyond enlightenment into the Higher Heart. Enlightenment is freedom, but the Bodhisattva cannot rest until all sentient beings are free. This perspective of unconditional love and compassion is heart based. ‘Heart’ is not just a metaphor, but a powerful physiological structure that transcends the pumping of blood to the body. Just as we have discovered much more potential in the human brain, we are also recognizing higher potential in the human heart. Your Higher Heart must further open and integrate with your Higher Brain to create the physiology for Unitary Enlightenment. The deeper shift away from a lower brain center of gravity to the Higher Brain and the experience of the Transcendent Self leads to a reduction in fear (as you know, fear is a product of the lower survival brain). The lower brain instincts of having to protect the status quo and experience life as a struggle continue being transcended as Higher Brain functioning provides the physiological opening for the Higher Heart to emerge. The reduction in fear through Higher Brain functioning can now be replaced by unconditional love through Higher Heart functioning. The shift from lower brain to Higher Brain is required to open up and tap the collective wisdom of humanity, which is encoded in the heart. The Higher Heart and its integration with the Higher Brain and associated Transcendent Self is a hallmark of Unitary Enlightenment.

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The Energy of the Unitary State Causal/Unitary energy: The Unitary State is supported by the Causal/Unitary body of energy. This potentially infinite energy field forms the substance that flows through the body and energy pathways when experiencing Unitary Enlightenment. The experience of Unitary Enlightenment provides greater access to this infinite field of energy. As you progress in SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation the subtle energy vortexes that you have been engaging become more open. As this opening occurs they become more exquisitely available for this Causal/Unitary energy to pour itself into the subtle energy vortexes and through the pathways. During Unitary Enlightenment you become a receiver for this source energy that furthers your awakening.

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Hacking Enlightenment with SCM and the 9 Summits SCM provides the missing link for those seeking enlightenment. During the first three summits the cultivation of ‘enlightenment states’ are prioritized. Transformation energy is brought to the higher brain and followed by the introduction of innovative enlightenment state-inducing contemplative/meditative/selfinquiry techniques, timed and introduced while your higher brain is activated and primed to receive them. The higher structures in the brain serve many purposes and are related to many types of experience. A large part of this experience is determined by what is specifically being asked of your brain while its higher centers are awakened. The energized, evolving, awakening higher brain, tunes into what is introduced while the awakening is happening. As enlightenment state-inducing contemplations are introduced to your brain during active SalutoGenesis, the energized, evolving, neuro-plastically pliable brain reaches towards the deeper suggestions until it harmonizes into a deep spiritual experience. During these Summits, the spiritual centers of the brain (Upper Right Dimension) are engaged and profound meditative/contemplative/self-inquiry techniques are introduced into your mind/consciousness (Upper Left Dimension). The profound spiritual states produced in your practice can be brought to your relationships/community (Lower Left) and environment (Lower Right) as you move through the 9 Summits. As the spiritual centers of your brain Awaken and these 9 Summit techniques (specially designed meditative/contemplative/self-inquiry) are introduced, your consciousness (UL) expands until you step beyond four-dimensional reality and become all-encompassing oneness…as you become your Transcendent Self and then integrate with all of existence within the Unitary State. Advanced meditative/contemplative techniques introduced during active advanced brain states = rapid and profound spiritual awakenings.

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hile on my all-intensive journey into the furthest reaches of human potential I discovered a treasure trove of writings and research regarding the development of human consciousness (different from the enlightenment ‘states’ described previously). I devoured the great writings of ‘evolution of consciousness’ theorists and researchers: Wilber, Aurobindo, De Chardin, Maslow, Wade, Graves, Cook-Grueter, Beck, Kegan, Gebser and many others. I uncovered eloquent theories describing, and research confirming, the evolution of discrete stages of human consciousness. In addition to the potential to plunge into ultimate exalted ‘enlightenment states’ (referred to earlier), research has confirmed a more sequential wave-stagelike unfolding, leading to new developmental altitudes or Life Altitudes. This sequential unfolding of consciousness has been occurring in humanity for at least one hundred thousand years. It appears that we humans can evolve vertically to higher Life Altitudes, with each developmental altitude providing the interpretative framework for how we see the world, relate to each other and even how we relate to and interpret spiritual experience, including these higher ultimate states of consciousness discussed in chapter 4. In other words, we can grow to new contextual frame works and worldviews that prepare us and orient us to higher exalted states of consciousness. The ultimate enlightenment states of consciousness can be accessed and filtered from any of these vertically arranged Life Altitudes; transforming the person in a somewhat unique way based on whatever particular Life Altitude that they were situated within. SCM seeks to promote growth through greater access to the enlightenment states – which if conditions are right can be experienced at least temporally from any altitude – but also to promote your vertical evolution to higher Life Altitudes. In other words, when it comes to your growth and evolution, let’s go for it all! This vertically directed unfolding has occurred in consciousness throughout history in both individuals and cultures. Each unfolding of this great spectrum of consciousness produces greater degrees of awareness, love, compassion and

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meaning. From each of these vertically arranged Life Altitudes we can access enlightenment states of consciousness, thus leading to the evolution of a more sophisticated and mature way to interpret and live from direct and immediate spiritual experience. The brilliant philosopher and evolution of human culture researcher, Jean Gebser identified 4 altitudes (Life Altitudes) of the evolution of consciousness and culture (large groups of people at discrete Life Altitudes, expressing their common world views and values). At least 4 times before and over the last one hundred thousand years human culture has gone through 4 major upward seismic shifts in how we have seen, understood and behaved in the world. Gebser called these major shifts ‘Epochs’ and he was convinced that the next Epoch, the 5th Epoch would radically change life, as we know it. Many researchers today have elucidated another Epoch that was not the radical seismic shift predicted but still appears to be a stage above Geber’s 4th Epoch. This most recent Epoch 5 has been called ‘postmodern pluralism’, it marks the leading edge today, and is where most of the readers of this book will find their center of gravity. However the seismic shift that Gebser predicted, appears to be set to follow this postmodern stage. I believe you and I can be part of this potential revolution in consciousness and culture. According to Gebser, and many others, this potential new Epoch will likely be a dramatic, holistic stage of consciousness, greater than the sum of all previous stages! This newly emergent stage (the 6th Epochal Life Altitude) will radically transform the landscape of what it means to be fully human and will not only lead to a new consciousness but also lead to new educational systems, political systems, modes of business, and a complete reorienting of our place in the cosmos. Beyond this I believe the 6th Epoch is just the beginning, and in many ways, is the transitional structure that allows for rapid vertical evolution beyond Epoch 7. The vertically arranged new Epoch 6 Life Altitude, would become the metabolizing agent for the direct experience of the enlightenment ‘states’ of consciousness, which can not only be interpreted in a new, deeper and more meaningful way, but metabolized permanently into this new altitude. As Epoch 6 matures and becomes ‘lived’ by the new human and new culture, these enlightenment state experiences can become integrated into one’s being, becoming more ‘permanent trait’ than just ‘temporary state’; a merging of the highest states with the highest Life Altitude until the distinction becomes unnecessary. Since consciousness and the brain arise as one irreducible yet connected dynamic, there would be a unique signature of brain physiology and function

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that was correlated with the advanced consciousness and culture of Epoch 6. Can we start awakening that now? That is an objective of SCM. I am suggesting that these evolving vertically arranged stages (Life Altitudes) of consciousness, as well as the ultimate enlightenment ‘states’ of consciousness, are associated with the biological evolution of various brain structures (including the recently scientifically confirmed ‘brain in our heart’). As we pursue higher states and Life Altitudes of consciousness, we must enact higher layers of brain evolution. They arise as irreducibly related aspects of each other, an unfolding brain/consciousness dynamic. As the higher brain awakens and establishes the full shift out of survival mode and into a new way to thrive, another brain center, ‘the heart’ – confirmed by neuroscience to be neurologically rich – opens. The higher brain and higher heart can then align with each other creating a powerful new physiological response. The resonant pull of these two powerful and integrated biological structures begins to integrate the left and right brain and reconfigure all of the evolutionary brain layers into an emergent whole. Not just transcending previous layers of the brain but transforming them into the service of the higher brain/higher heart dynamic. Simultaneously all of the previous altitudes of consciousness, correlated with these integrating brain layers, integrate. The previous stages of consciousness are all seamlessly integrated into a whole, creating a new consciousness greater than the sum of the parts. This combines all the power and wisdom of a hundred thousand years of the evolution of the brain, culture and consciousness into a unified emergent whole. I am convinced that the awakening of the dormant part of the higher human brain and higher heart, the synchronization of left and right brain hemispheres subsequent and the integration of the oft-competing lower brain structures, into the service of the higher, is the ‘physiology’ of this new awakening. Those of us on this path determined to free our brains from the outmoded constraints of primitive survival mechanisms, upload energy into higher brain structures, and consciously evolve, will be the creators of a new culture, the Architects of Epoch 6. On the following pages you find quick representation of the last 100,000 years of human consciousness evolution. The chart on page 125 shows the proposed brain structures associated with each epochal shift in consciousness and culture. Many developmental theorists believe that there is a slightly different trajectory between the evolution of individual consciousness and the evolution of culture (shared group consciousness). However, since our purpose is not an overly detailed understanding of these concepts I will consider the evolution

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of individual consciousness and that of culture to be the same. They are linked close enough to make the points we need to make. A very important understanding is that evolution works by transcending and including. If you’ll recall from our earlier chapter on the evolution of the brain, it evolved in discrete layers. Each layer transcending and including the next as evolution moved forward in time. And so it is with consciousness and culture, as they relate to brain physiology, each of the Life Altitudes below should include their predecessor. As one moves up to a higher altitude and new world view one does not abandon the enduring features and necessary elements of the junior station in life. As Plotinus stated, “development is in envelopment”. This ‘transcend and include’ dynamic is very important to understand, because as the new altitude and its new world view begins to be acquired there can be a tendency to reject the previous altitude entirely. So as we grow and evolve it is necessary to throw out those earlier elements of evolution that no longer serve us, and we want to include or integrate into our higher altitude those necessary and enduring building blocks from the previous altitude. In fact, in many ways, we contain within our current Life Altitude the entire 100,000 years of human evolution. Below you will see the evolutionary trajectory of the Life Altitudes, starting at the bottom of the chart and going up. Listed for each epochal shift are the key features of that Life Altitude; also listed are the approximate times in history when they were most prevalent from a cultural perspective. A hallmark of this evolutionary unfolding, and journey up the spiral of development, is the ability to take greater and greater perspectives and extend more care and compassion. A general directionality from egocentric to ethnocentric to world-centric to eco-centric has occurred through this 100,000 year evolution of consciousness and culture. Most of the readers of this book will find that they source their values from Epoch 5 and hold eco-centric perspectives. That is, they not only extend care and compassion to all of humanity, but from a universalistic perspective care about the environment and all of its inhabitants. This has been the leading edge for the last 50 years. The chart on page 125 will offer the proposed brain structure most associated with each level of consciousness. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation provides a way to access the higher physiology as an opening for the emergence of the higher consciousness. This ability to access dormant higher physiology has been a missing link in our ability to access greater degrees of our consciousness.

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How We Grow The Evolution of the Epochs (Life Altitudes) of Consciousness: EPOCH 5: Pluralistic, Postmodern

Defining features: • Eco-centric values • Egalitarian • Equal rights • Environmental movement • Caring For All • Began in 1800s • Stable in the 1960s

EPOCH 4: Achievement, Modern

Defining features: • World-Centric • Modern Values • Achievement • Rational • Scientific • Materialistic • Material success • Began in the 1700s

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EPOCH 3: Traditional, Mythic Literal

Defining features: • Ethnocentric • Absolutistic • Traditional values • Conformity to the group • Authority based • Needs Structure • Disciplined • Obeys Rules • Began 3000 BCE

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EPOCH 2: Power, Egocentric

Defining features: • Egocentric • Aggressive • Dictators • Power driven • Self-protective • My way or the Highway • Began 5,000-10,000 BCE

EPOCH 1: Magical, Egocentric

Defining features: • Egocentric • Ritualistic tribes • Pre-rational • Emotionally driven • Animistic • Superstition • Magical thinking • Began 50,000 BC

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THE FIRST HUMANS: Instinctual, Archaic

Defining features: • Survival • Food • Sex • Shelter • Protection

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The Proposed Dominant Brain Structures/Physiology With the evolution of Epochs (Life Altitudes) of Consciousness. E ARLY PFC EPOCH 5: Pluralistic, Postmodern

NEO - CORTE X EPOCH 4: Achievement, Modern

E ARLY CORTE X EPOCH 3: Traditional, Mythic Literal

HIGHER EMOTIONAL BR AIN EPOCH 2: Power, Egocentric

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EPOCH 1: Magical, Egocentric

REPTILIAN BR AIN THE FIRST HUMANS: Instinctual, Archaic

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What’s Wrong With Where We Are? Are We Running Out of Time?

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hen I began developing SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation I wanted to focus entirely on our compelling future – not the complex problems threatening our survival. A primary tenet of SCM and the 9 Summits is the perspective that problems always show up coupled to opportunities. Problems always provide us with opportunities to evolve. My inclination is to take a positive outlook on our future; after all, things have generally gotten better over the span of the 5 Epochs. I think we should be optimistic; however, this optimism for the future must become a catalyst for bold action and not become a form of denial. The perfect storm is brewing for global catastrophe…or for a beautiful new wave of human potential. Which path will we walk? That depends on what we do now. It would be irresponsible not to bring to light some of the glaring issues facing us now and the urgency with which dramatic change has to come about. The current unbalanced and competing Life Altitudes of pre-modern, modern and postmodern consciousness (Epochs 3, 4 and 5) – along with the shadow elements deep in our unconscious minds, habituated by our lower brains – are producing many of the problems that could lead to our destruction. We all know the challenges: climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, new infectious diseases, disappearing water supply, pollution, overpopulation, poverty, government gridlock, etc. The shadow elements of our minds coupled with the lower primitive survival-based human brain create destructive patterns of thought and behavior. As we now know, the lower primitive survival brain does not want to change. If we don’t take bold action now, we may still survive. A small percentage of our species probably would live through any type of global catastrophe and start over. The question is, do we want to wait for catastrophe and hope for the best? Or can we quickly gather the wisdom to advance our brains and consciousness and change directions without crisis? Do you have a sense that the species may be in trouble? That we could be running out of time and that our way of living is unsustainable?

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Do you feel it in your own life? Overwhelmed? Not sure why you are doing what you are doing? Not enough time? You may even feel deep down that the life you are living is unsustainable. The level of complexity in our world has exceeded our physiological as well as our current cognitive capacity and this overload further activates the lower stress brain. I have come to the unshakable conclusion that changes need to happen fast; I have been feeling it deeply. It seems as though we have all been in one massive case of denial. Our world today is made up mostly of the latest three Life Altitudes to emerge in evolution, traditional (Epoch 3), modern (Epoch 4) and postmodern (Epoch 5). Not everyone has grown to Epoch 5 and that is OK. Healthy representations of all the lower Life Altitudes form building blocks for the higher Life Altitudes to rest on. Development is envelopment. However, most concerning at this point in history is that all three of these Life Altitudes currently have deep pathological elements in them. Of particular concern is the dysfunction that appears to be growing within Epoch 5, as it is the leading edge that is called on to make the seismic shift. From one perspective that is how we would expect it to be as evolution follows pathology, chaos and the inability to navigate current life conditions. The problem is that we need to make the leap now, as the stakes of the game have never been this high; we need to help evolution across this chasm. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation are positioned to be part of the ushering in of the new world. As mentioned earlier, the stages of development (Life Altitudes) are building blocks of the mind…you cannot skip them, just as molecules become cells and cells become organisms…you cannot skip the earlier altitudes of consciousness. Since the evolution of consciousness and culture – at least so far – is catalyzed by growing to the point where it sees and feels what’s ‘wrong’ with its current perspective. As a precursor to evolution, life conditions present themselves that cannot be solved from the current level of consciousness (Life Altitude). This mis-match between life conditions and the resources in consciousness available to navigate those life conditions can lead to a new emergence. However evolution can be messy, and as the transcendence to a new level occurs there is a tendency to reject, not just the outmoded elements of the previous altitude, but to reject all of it, thus negating important building blocks of the emerging new Life Altitude. When cultures evolve they most always lose or reject something that needs recapturing. This transcend and reject pathology, now appears to have deeply imbedded itself in the leading edge Epoch 5 Life Altitude. This could spell much trouble for the potential leap into Epoch 6.

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The pathologies now hijacking the gifts of our leading edge Epoch 5 occurred, because we transcended, yet didn’t always include. This led us to throw out many of the enduring truths and building blocks of Epoch 3 and 4. Many of us that now source our values and identity from the egalitarian nature of Epoch 5 went too far and started to see ‘equality’ to mean, ‘I get to do whatever I want to do and nobody can tell me not to’, which in reality is regression to the egocentric nature of Epoch 2. It was a quick sleight of hand that led our narcissism to masquerade as postmodern values. You can see it around you if you look closely. This is what happens when we rightfully dislike Epoch 3’s ethnocentrism and extreme dominating authoritarian tendency, but fail to see its good elements, of healthy responsibility and accountability: we allow the ugly outmoded elements of even earlier Life Altitudes to creep in. We threw out the baby with that bathwater and jettisoned the structure and discipline and personal responsibility that are healthy features of Epoch 3. And what about Epoch 4? It is easy to see the materialistic achievement orientation of Epoch 4 as creating income inequality and environmental destruction (which are very real issues from the pathology of this altitude) and we then negate all forms of needed progress, success and evolutionary drive, and slip back to regressive, irrational narcissistic tendencies that are starting to dominate what should be our leading edge Epoch 5. This failure to integrate Epoch 3 and 4 leads to a lack of drive, a lack of critical thought, a lack of accountability and a lack of discipline. Due to this repression we see within our higher Epoch 5 Life Altitude an over­extension of rights and the underextension of responsibility. All hierarchy is despised, not understanding that there are healthy and unhealthy versions of hierarchy. Unhealthy versions dominate and repress people, healthy versions, such as a ‘holarchy’, which honors as it transcends, and includes what came before….like a molecule does with an atom and a cell does with a molecule. This is also how the Epochs should unfold. Our disdain for ALL hierarchy leaves us paralyzed in consensus. Unable to move past complexity and gridlock we allow apathy and nihilism to set into our lives. We must reclaim the enduring features of lower Life Altitudes and move into the radical new orientation of Epoch 6.

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During our work in the upcoming 9 Summits we will reclaim the enduring truth and features of our previous worldviews so that we can then create the foundation for the next seismic shift in consciousness and culture to occur through us.

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We now can either await the arrival of the next Epoch and run the risk of being too late, or we can, for the first time in the 13.8 billion-year history of the earth and 4.5 billion-year history of life, through a high degree of consciousness and intuition, participate and promote the very evolutionary process that created us! The attitude that somehow our global problems will just work out because they always have, didn’t work for the Mayans, Babylonians, Romans or Khmer. These once-advanced thriving civilizations are all dust today. In fact, not only are most previous civilizations gone, 99.9% of all the species that have ever roamed the earth and sea are now extinct.

Shadow Elements and Lower Brain Loops I mentioned above a pathological tendency to transcend and negate, instead of transcending and including the positive features of previous Epochs. The 9 Summits will help you reintegrate these enduring positive features to form a healthy foundation as you seek to grow beyond your current Life Altitude. I now want to turn our attention to how specific negations or repressions during the course of a life-time become ‘shadow elements’ that hide out in our unconscious and wreak havoc on our lives, arresting our ability to healthily grow into higher Life Altitudes. Below the conscious threshold these shadow elements influence our lives and cry out for acknowledgment in very damaging ways. The shadow produces symptoms in mind or body or spirit to get our attention, it cries out as it expresses itself through our negative behaviors, bad habits, addictions and avoidances. All this adverse energy expenditure is because something hiding inside of us is cut off from our higher potential. Through my decades of work in personal transformation I have come to see this shadow element as a huge problem, and one that has not been well understood or dealt with. Psychologists have long known that alienation of parts of our psychological being frequently occurred during development. What are not as well-known are the biological/physiological elements of this fragmented self-alienation. Alienation and repression occur during development as an outcome of transcending one Life Altitude for the next, without integration of all appropriate aspects of the previous level. In addition, the inability to consciously process and integrate certain key life events and experiences also lead to ‘shadow elements’. This happens when the lower brain attempts to process information or experiences that are beyond its rudimentary survival strategies and fear-based associated consciousness. The lower brain simply cannot adapt to information or experience that is

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incongruent with its limited repertoire of options. Through the lower brain we do not have the neurological flexibility to deal with all of modern life’s demands, complexities and incongruences. Often what we are exposed to through a lifetime is not effectively dealt with and undigested experiences become imprinted by the amygdala and hippocampus (our lower mammalian brain) and habituated by the basal ganglia (our lizard brain). Later, as new life experience comes into your lower brain, as it unconsciously does, it is being colored or filtered by this stuck energy. The repressed shadow energy stays below the surface and yet often seeks to express itself (but without higher brain awareness) in unconscious and unhealthy ways. The stuck energy of the shadow creates and plays out both psychological, as well as physiological dissonance. This dissonance from the repressed shadow energy is unsustainable and will express itself through symptoms. Our shadows require us to exert enormous amounts of energy that burn us out as we attempt to pursue healthy lifestyles and virtuous lives. The shadow often hijacks our best intentions and can halt our progress on the spiritual path. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation create peak states in your brain, and consciousness that equips you to locate and resolve the shadow energy dynamics. The shadow’s resolution depends on your ability to generate awareness of it through higher brain/higher consciousness states where it, the shadow, can be floated into an empowered change-oriented state and the shadow energy used to fuel your growth and evolution as it is integrated! Much has been written about the ‘shadow’ or repressed unconscious and I don’t want to belabor the point here. My main focus is on how those ‘shadow elements’ or un-metabolized repressions are in a loop with lower brain physiology, and how to change that dynamic and set us free. Integral Metatheory would insist on the acknowledgement of this relationship between the upper left dimension of mind/consciousness (even repressed consciousness) and its linkage to the upper right dimension of body/brain. The ‘lower’ repressed unconscious shadow is in a continuous reinforcing feedback loop with lower brain physiology and until that loop is destabilized it is very challenging to integrate the repression. The 9 Summits provide a way to discover your shadow elements, destabilize the lower brain loop through SalutoGenic mechanisms, and bring the shadows into higher brain physiology where they can be metabolized, integrated and even used as fuel for growth.

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Epoch 5 and its ‘Cultural Creatives’ – Poised to Transform the World At the beginning of the 21st century the sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson, identified a group of people that they coined ‘cultural creatives’. Today these cultural creatives are over 80 million strong in the USA and many times that number worldwide. If you are reading this book there is a strong probability that you are one of them and identify with the values and worldview of this group. The cultural creatives make up a large portion of what we are calling the 5th Epoch of consciousness and culture and are the likely candidates to make the leap up and create the next Epoch.

Who are We? According to Ray, Core Cultural Creatives have both person-centered and green values, are seriously concerned with psychology, self-actualization and selfexpression, and like the foreign and exotic. They enjoy mastering new ideas and are socially concerned, advocate women’s issues and are strong advocates of ecological sustainability. Green Cultural Creatives have values centered on the environment and social concerns from a secular view, with average interest in spirituality, psychology or person-centered values. In addition to having an eco-centric (ECOcentric, as in care for all sentient beings not EGOcentric) perspective and inclusive value system, if you are amongst this group (particularly the core cultural creatives) you are also likely either a practitioner of or recipient of alternative medicine, yoga, meditation, new thought or some type of self-help technique or non-denominational spiritual practice. And after years of pursuing these approaches I will bet that you are frustrated, because your life is not like you thought it would be. Something is still missing. Many victories have been won by the cultural creatives: equal rights, awareness to environmental issues, honoring of other cultures etc… But something else has happened…the movement has now gone flat. There is no consistent vehicle or effective leadership to carry this movement forward. How can we take the inclusive values of this group (our group) and provide the ‘activation energy’ needed to overcome our inertia? How can we fully align these beautiful values with the evolutionary impulse – the universal principle that has been called “spirit in action” – that drive to create and change and emerge in an upward vertical direction? How can we simultaneously preserve equality, the environment and at the same time promote growth? How can we honor past traditions but never compromise our need to evolve and go beyond? Let us reach back down and pull up

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into our being the building blocks of earlier Life Altitudes and take a solid foundation forward as we emerge into the radical awakening of Epoch 6. I believe SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation are a way forward. I believe we can change, and I believe that ultimately what’s best for the world in the long run is also what’s best for us (our highest selves) as individuals in the short run. We need to align ourselves with our compelling future. That future is at least in part already available within your slumbering higher brain. The path to a new world need not be perilous and overwhelming, but instead can be rewarding and joy filled. It simply requires that we live from our greatest potential. There is a way. The pursuit of our own self-actualization must be prioritized and to do so we must engage our higher brain and higher heart. This is how we find meaning. This pursuit of authentic joy by all of us at the leading edge can be the catalyst for widespread social change. Yes, global crisis is a real possibility but so is seismic positive global transformation. We must wake up now, find our essence and commit to a life of excellence. Doing our unique part and giving our special personal gifts creates a life on purpose. Enough lives lived from higher capacities – showing up on purpose – leads to new cultures and large-scale change. SCM and the 9 Summits help us discover our essence, our Highest Self, as an evolving unitary being – and helps clarify what our purpose in this body, at this time on this planet, actually is. When we are in alignment with our highest potential (and the Higher Brain/Higher Heart is leading the way) we are fulfilled and live a Fearlessly Authentic and Enlightened Life. In this higher way of living and being, what’s best for the personal you, is in perfect alignment with what’s best for everyone else in the world. In the next chapter we are going to get a feel for the contours of this newly emerging world view, a world view that is not yet fully articulated and not yet fully created. The creators of this next Epoch will be the cultural creatives who are ready to make the leap. Are you one of them? I believe if you have gotten this far into this book you are. For this aim I am going to consider everything above Epoch 5 as Epoch 6. Many evolution of consciousness theorists consider what I am calling Life Altitudes 1 and 2 (or Epochs 1 and 2) to really be stratifications within one major epochal shift. Likewise, many consider what we are calling Epochs 4 and 5 to be one major epochal shift and that postmodernity is simply the upper reaches of the modern Epoch. I believe when we are considering what is still an emerging world view or world views we need not create too many demarcations or we run the risk of losing potency in the dissection. So I am going to handle Epoch 6 in

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the same way that many evolution of consciousness theorists refer to Epochs 4 and 5, as one seismic shift. Truth be told we could probably create sub-stratas and further divide all of our previous epochal shifts but that would minimize the point of stepping back, taking the view from 50,000 feet and seeing where the large seismic shifts in consciousness and culture occurred, and rest assured, there have been times of large seismic shifts in consciousness and culture. The coming Epoch 6 appears to be a seismic shift that is greater than the sum of all previous Epochs combined. I am not going to make an attempt at articulating an Epoch 7 but I will subdivide Epoch 6 into a phase one and phase two that I will call ‘emergence’ and ‘ascension’. I want to consider both phases as Epoch 6 because my intuition is once we emerge into the new atmosphere of Epoch 6 a sort of scaffolding in consciousness is created that allows for our very rapid ascent and the way we see future Epochs changes radically.

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Epoch 6 – The Rise of the New Human A Science Fiction Story?

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eina swooned towards the upward pull of a universal energy. A trans-personal, trans-biological energy had engaged her, entered her, elevated her mind and swept across her body. Her body and mind felt fluid and filled with light. The energy soon began its synchronizing effect with the rhythms of her heart. Her heart thrust open as energy poured into it and coupled itself to her own life energy. This coupling effect created a reverberating circuit between her heart’s energy and the universal energy. With each cycle of this circuit, energy was thrust forward from her heart emanating back out to again combine with the source energy. She was synchronizing with, while adding her unique energy signature to, the collective dynamic of the energetic field produced by thousands of new beings co-creating the new way. She stood transfixed, feet firmly planted on the ground, eyes to the heavens, chest opened upwards. Her heart was filling with love, her mind with light, and her soul with truth. She was stunned by the realization that she was entangled with every being on her planet and could never again be alone, although she was, in that moment in space and time, alone. Minutes passed that felt like lifetimes and yet part of her was plunged into a timeless eternal NOW that contained no date or duration and was witnessing, but not entering, the passage of time. The grip of synchronized energy fields slowly dissipated. She was released, but she was changed. Zeina had done her work and she had just experienced a punctuated shift into the pure ‘ground of being’, a ground of being that was the source of all matter and manifestation, energy and information in the world. She recognized that absolute ground of being as her very own consciousness, which was not only the passive observer of all that was, but her consciousness was simultaneously set ‘in motion’ in the relative world that was being observed. She was not only in a state of pure ‘being’ but also radical ‘becoming’. She was part of a new movement in the symphony of human history and there was no going back for Zeina, ever.

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The year was 2121 and a new day was dawning. A new era was rapidly approaching as the collective consciousness of the leading edge of humanity was bursting free of the restraints of pure reason into an expansive new meta-mind. Humanity was ascending to a new summit of awareness; a unitary, evolutionary, enlightened new culture was being birthed. Revolution was in the air. A groundswell was occurring as vast waves of people were going through the change and seeing a new world through new eyes. They were awake, aware and thriving in all aspects of their lives. This new shift in consciousness brought with it a beautiful new meaningful world. In some strange way even the paradoxes, inconsistencies and apparent randomness of life now made sense. On a deeper level, beyond reason, above the intellect and out past the ordinary conditioned mind was a new understanding. This new awareness revealed through the new human, a direct unshakeable knowledge that everything was just as it should be and heading towards greater and greater perfection. The material world of buildings and bridges, flowers and trees, of inorganic matter and evolving species were all so brilliant and beautiful now. All of manifestation was rife with color, brilliant color everywhere. Everything that this new human observed seemed to ‘turn to gold’. Sights, scents, sounds, touches and tastes were more vivid than imaginable, and yet the world was also bestowed with meaning beyond and above what the senses could by themselves affirm. This evolving new human experienced an affirmation of truth in their consciousness that was direct and immediate. The new human had become a conduit for the source of ‘all that is’ to express itself through. Universal energy and information flowed through this new being as if she were an open circuit. This flow of energy and information provided the fuel that was taken into oneself and used to purposefully drive evolutionary change. Zeina was born while this new age of transformation was just getting started. She had grown up in the new paradigm, she knew, as her leading edge community knew, that evolution was the driving impulse of her own consciousness. She understood evolution to be a cosmic and deeply spiritual process that was shot through the world of form at every scale and it was felt deeply in her very being. To Zeina and her people, evolution had become synonymous with ‘spirit in action’ and this world-creating process was emanating from her own depths. She was infinitely powerful and she knew this came with a huge responsibility. She, and those like her, who were awake enough to know, charged themselves with the uncompromising responsibility of creating a new future, a heaven on earth.

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Zeina’s people knew their very own consciousness as the ground of all being that the universe first burst from 13.8 billion years ago and through cosmic evolution has been churning out miracles ever since. The new evolving human’s life was intimately informed by this primal ‘ground of all being’, the pure consciousness that is simultaneously still, serene, peaceful and perfect. And yet this new human was, paradoxically to the old conditioned mind – but clear to the new meta-mind – also in an ever-changing constant motion of upward striving, as each tomorrow is replaced with a new today through a relentless unfolding of evolutionary emergence, producing ever-greater depth and meaning in the world. Darwinian evolution, ‘survival of the fittest’, had long ago given way to a more integral understanding of evolution. Darwinian evolution was fragmented, partial and most relevant only to a now bygone era. To this new human, evolution was known to be bigger, deeper, purposeful, a cosmic process emanating from eternal consciousness and being, the ground. This ground of being, thrust its energy forward as evolution and started the universe from what was once considered by scientists to be ‘no-thing’. A creative act of blaze and glory (once known as the ‘big bang’) was thrust forward and started winding up. The original soup of fiery matter and energy was repurposed through billions of years of purposeful experimentation until in miracle fashion, it created a shimmering planet in a far-off galaxy. This new planet was perfectly positioned with a set of highly improbable initial conditions that set the stage for life and sentience to emerge in the great cosmic scheme of becoming. These precisely tuned initial conditions on and around this little blue planet Earth, allowed for the next ‘big bang’ as LIFE burst free from insentient matter and started winding itself up into ever-greater wholeness. This new emergence of ‘life’ in the cosmos relied heavily upon co-operation to ensure its survival long enough that it could again thrust itself forward into the unknown, in its relentless drive to adapt and grow. The new human identified herself directly with the 13.8 billion-year process that had created her. Her new consciousness could peer all the way back to her origins as the ground of all being, and know that she was indeed the leading edge of an unbroken multi-billion-year stream of upward momentum. The staggering understanding that changed the evolutionary ‘rules of the game’ was that she now could consciously promote evolution by energizing and reorganizing the once listless higher structures of grey matter behind her forehead and waking up higher consciousness. She could self-generate higher

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new patterns of increasing brain complexity that were associated with an enlightened mind. These new potentials needed only to be nudged into existence. The architecture for radical change was already seated in her brain, although its potential and the new level of consciousness it brought with it were only now being cultivated. It had been known that the human brain’s most recent evolutionary advancement had been stifled for generations. Long ago there had occurred an evolutionary leap in new brain form, which until recently had not yet turned into new brain function. The architecture and raw material of the higher brain had been laid down long ago through evolution, and the potential for massive transformation currently boiled beneath the surface. Her higher brain and its correlating higher consciousness allowed her to make choices as an agent of cosmic evolution. She knew she was not other to the process that had created her and this elevated awareness came with a moral imperative. She must promote and accelerate the very evolutionary process that she was. Therefore, ‘evolutionarily directed conscious choice’, which had become a new mechanism of evolution, was born in her, through her and as her. These new people being in possession of the knowledge that the highest aspects of the human brain were dormant and associated with higher consciousness, performed decades of experimentation that led to an organic technological breakthrough that accelerated the remodeling of the brain and elevated consciousness. In the latter part of the 21st century it had become known that the energization and reorganization of certain higher brain structures could be accomplished through a new technique that promoted the mobilization of a once secret energy source in the human body. An energy source that, through this new technique, found its way to the higher brain, providing the energy needed for the new brain to wake up and remodel itself and its world into something ever greater. This new human had ‘hacked’ evolution and was consciously evolving himself towards ever-greater perfection. The delivery system, the new technique and technology that promoted this new ‘energy to the higher brain’ had become a movement that was sweeping the world. Through this new technique, information and energy was self-introduced, via a specific new code, into the latent subtle energy pathways of the human body. When this new code was precisely introduced with touch, breath, and intention, waves of sacred subtle energy were released, coursing through the recipient and finding the way to the dormant, latent evolutionary potential of the higher brain. Practitioners of the new discipline were rapidly being trained

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as this new movement grew. The influence of the new discipline was gaining momentum at quantum speed, spreading its influence throughout the world. Gatherings were organized to amplify the effects, not only for oneself but for the benefit of humankind. At these gatherings stories of a new world were shared and group practice of the new system that had led to the large-scale awakening of the higher brain and higher consciousness in humanity was experienced. These gatherings of the new Avant-garde were catalytic hubs spurring on the new movement; it was a time of epochal change, humanity had found a way to rapidly accelerate their own evolution. Over time, the practitioners of this new discipline had developed permanent access to the higher brain and could instantaneously engage it and promote an accompanying sense of empowerment and enlightened consciousness. Having permanent access to the liberating potential of the new brain they re-charted the contours of reality. What they discovered led to a new meaning-making map, a map that when navigated from the higher brain perspective accelerated growth and evolution. Through the conscious navigation of the new map of the new territory this new map eventually became a permanent installation into the architecture of the higher brain and became downloaded into the interior labyrinth of the mind. The new map and its new contours of reality became the default pathways that reduced life’s complexity and accelerated the journey towards one’s highest truth. With the continued navigation of this new map via new brain/mind strategies, the new human’s genetic expression was changing. The new human’s DNA was being driven to upgrade and it was reflectively emerging new outputs based on higher level needs. This new genetic expression eventually became encoded in the new human’s biological software and ‘the new genetics’ became transferred generationally. The new DNA expressions created the building blocks of raw material required by the new humans as they assembled a new future. What had begun as a few thousand ‘pioneers’, accessing temporary higher brain states and learning to live a new way, had now become a revolution that was converting these fleeting states into the permanent traits of a new civilization, a civilization committed to increasing its physiology and consciousness for the purpose of consciously evolving, always pointing towards a heaven on earth. By the early part of the 22nd century, critical mass had been reached as vast portions of the population were liberated into this new way of being and becoming. The fear that had haunted humankind for so many millennia, the fear of death and disease, of living without making a difference, of unworthiness and of

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being alone had disappeared. The walking, talking bundles of neurotic fears and behaviors that humanity had once been identified with were now transformed through this new mind. Existential fears were a remnant of the past, the days of rumination and denial about one’s own mortality had nearly ended for this new wave of people, for they had discovered eternity within themselves. These newly awakened people knew that the past was but a memory and the future only an expectation and both past and future only existed in this very moment. It was this very moment, this present moment, this ‘now’ moment that held the answer to all of their species’ greatest questions and they had molded their brain in such a way that the timeless ‘now’ could be immediately known, while infusing and informing the evolving manifest time-bound realm of existence. The light of pure consciousness was shining through the world of bodies and buildings, jobs and careers, relationships and nature. As this evolutionary brain state, new-enlightened consciousness and burgeoning new culture were gaining momentum, an associated field of subtle energy was emerging. This subtle energetic field was beyond the electromagnetic spectrum and exerted influence beyond space and time, as an ‘action at a distance’ that was faster than the speed of light. This new field of energy was associated, in a non-Newtonian way, with new consciousness, new culture and the new brain. The newly emergent energetic field, brain, consciousness and culture arose as one reality, irreducible to one another and yet connected in a greater integral whole. This new field of subtle energy was being laid down in manifestation by all those ascenders who were attaining higher consciousness and living from this perspective. As more people grew into higher consciousness this great new field grew stronger, became more stable and provided a strong magnetic-like pull, issuing a call for the rest of humanity (still trapped in the old way) to rise up. The strengthening and stabilization of this new energy field made the ascent to higher consciousness easier. A self-reinforcing dynamic, as every new person that energized and remodeled their brain woke up and gathered together as a new culture, the field grew stronger. Waves of unfolding consciousness grew as billions of imprisoned minds were breaking through the atmosphere of reason, and into the deep space of ever-present awareness and all lit up with the thrill of conscious evolution.

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It’s not science fiction! The above “science fiction story” as I am sure you have figured out by now is NOT science fiction! This fictional future scenario is neither fiction nor future. This Sci-Fi story is emerging now, in real time and Source Code Meditation and the 9 Summits are a part of this emerging new world.

EPOCH 6 Emergence Fully Awakened PFC + HEART EPOCH 6: Integral Holistic

Defining features: • Universalistic • Integral • Self-Actualization • Insight and Intuition • Systems thinking • Holistic • Flexible • Holds Multiple Perspectives • Sees relative reality as co-created • Depth Spirituality • Horizontal + Vertical orientation

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The first signs of light from the new dawn is now appearing on the horizon, as the early waves of cultural creativeness are cutting a path into the unknown territory of Epoch 6. A variety of developmental researchers are starting to note a small percentage of people experiencing the world in a new way. The Harvard developmental psychologist Dr. Suzanne Cook-Grueter has found through her research that becoming aware of how reality is constructed is a hallmark of this emerging new stage. This new Life Altitude leads to the awareness that we are part of the creative process of reality, and that reality is moldable. You see reality as systemically and holistically linked together and context dependent. A certain merging of mind-stuff and matter co-creates reality. The world is interconnected and interdependent, not a collection of isolated parts bumping into each other. Spiral Dynamics (and Dr. Clare Graves who provided the base research that spiral dynamics was built upon) considers this next Life Altitude to be ‘second tier’ and states that it is a greater leap forward than the 140

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combination of all of the previous Life Altitudes combined. The magnitude of the seismic shift into the Epoch 6 Life Altitude is in part due to the fact that, for the first time in history, a consciousness has emerged that can see, understand and honor the 13.8 billion years of evolution and the entire hundred thousand year history of human cultural and consciousness evolution. Your ‘relative self’ is the part of you that you navigate in this world of space and time with, as contrasted to your Transcendent Self, that is eternal and free of space and time. As your relative self begins to evolve towards Epoch 6 I refer to the relative self as the ‘Authentic Self’. We could say at earlier Life Altitudes, this same relative self is what is commonly called the ‘ego’ but as the ego selfactualizes into Epoch 6 it becomes the Authentic Self and starts to recognize its vertical directionality and importance to the evolutionary process. The Authentic Self’s drive is to self-actualize, to move vertically. To not just translate better and become more healthy and happier wherever you are but to transform vertically into a new world view. The new territory that it seeks is Epoch 6. Epoch 6 reaches down with love and compassion and re-captures Epochs 0, 1, 2, 3 4 and 5 into its being. When the entire spiral of development is transcended and included in this next emergence the whole becomes much greater than the sum of its parts. The Authentic Self strives to create a world where everyone can exist and feel meaningful wherever they happen to be, as long as it is healthy, at any point in their evolution. Epoch 6 is the first truly all encompassing, all-embracing level of development. An architect of Epoch 6 knows itself as a ‘Holon’ (to borrow a term from Arthur Koestler), a complete autonomous evolving being and yet simultaneously a part of a greater whole. It also knows the power of its presence and intention to create change in those around it, and in fact those distant to it. You don’t end at your skin, your thoughts don’t stay inside your head, your heart and brain energy become entangled with those around you. You have a Kosmic (I use the term Kosmic with a ‘K’ as the ancient Greeks did, to refer to all of both inner and outer reality, not just the outer reality commonly expressed as Cosmos) responsibility to SHOW UP in integrity. What you are ‘transmitting’ drives the evolutionary impulse. Disillusioned with the superficiality of much of the spirituality of Epoch 5, the Authentic Self seeks deep and genuine spirituality. SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation are designed to provide this spiritual depth as the journey into new territory ensues. The vertically arranged Epoch 6 altitude of consciousness can become the scaffolding for the direct experience of the enlightenment states we read about earlier. These enlightenment states can now be interpreted

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and acted from in a new deeper and more meaningful way. In Epoch 6 the Authentic Self integrates the Soul State as permanent trait while gaining greater access to peak State experiences of transcendence and unity. The Authentic Self becomes the vehicle of the soul’s journey in the world of space and time and matter and manifestation and your soul is enriched by that journey. Knowing deeply its soul and having glimpsed absolute freedom in the transcendent state, existential fear it knows not. This allows the heart to open for the entire world. Since Higher Consciousness/Higher Heart/Higher Brain arise as one irreducible but connected dynamic, there is a unique signature of brain/heart/physiology/function, which correlates with the consciousness and culture of Epoch 6. As the Higher Brain awakens and establishes the full shift out of survival mode and into a new way to thrive, that other brain center, ‘the heart’, confirmed by neuroscience to be neurologically rich, opens. The opening of Higher Brain and Higher Heart become more permanent traits than the temporary state experience of earlier openings corresponding to Unitary Enlightenment. This allows greater synchronization of the Higher Brain, Higher Heart dynamic. Over time the powerful resonant pull of these two powerful and integrated biological structures begins to reconfigure all of the evolutionary brain layers into an emergent whole, prepping the way for Epoch 6. Those of us on the path to free our brains from outmoded primitive survival mechanisms, who are now uploading energy into Higher Brain structures and consciously evolving, will be the creators of this new culture, the Architects of Epoch 6. I have articulated below two separate phases within Epoch 6; Epoch 6 Emergence and Epoch 6 Ascension. Due to the evolutionary perspective of Epoch 6, when a significant minority enters into this new Life Altitude and starts living it, the rate of evolution will accelerate and we will start to experience a rapid vertical accent. For that reason, even though Epoch 6 is shown to have two phases that highlight early and late development, we really need to consider the two phases (Epoch 6 Emergence and Epoch 6 Ascension) as one potential dynamic, as the rapid vertical movement at this level of development is more ‘process’ than actually stabilizing at any Life Altitude. Technological innovation has gone vertical now and therefore consciousness must catch up fast. What happens next depends on whose hands that technology lands in. The dissemination and distribution of advanced technologies are landing in the hands of those not developed enough to use it wisely. With the exponential growth of technology, which has gone vertical, the innovations are happening too fast and cannot be controlled. Too much

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of humanity is dominated by the lower brain. The trajectory of technology requires that we must create the right conditions, for human consciousness and physiology to catch up quickly. Those of us at the leading edge have to create this change in ourselves and create communities that forge the path; we must be the architects of a new age of transformation.

Signs That You Are Moving into EPOCH 6 1. Intuition and Insight, ‘trans-rational’ new modes of knowing in Epoch 6 In Epoch 4 and 5 rational thought became our primary mental modality. Extremely useful for our survival, it got us to this point in history but it doesn’t appear: it alone, will take us much farther. It’s time to transcend (and include) rational thinking and enter deeper and higher modes of knowing that are slumbering in the Higher Brain. The level of complexity in our modern world has exceeded the ability to create meaning and find solutions through rational thought alone. Science is making it clear that to thrive in the face of complexity, we need energy in the pre-frontal cortex (PFC), and we need to go higher and forward in the brain not lower and backward. The Epoch 6 mind does not lose access to logic and rationality, it transcends and includes it. Rational thought will continue to activate when appropriate. Insight and intuition are not ‘anti-rational’ they are ‘trans-rational’; allowing us to see deeper into reality. They are not confined to ‘either-/or thinking’, but rather, can instantly recognize patterns and interlinking relationships spanning both horizontally in space and vertically in time. Higher Brain insight and intuition jump ahead to reveal the simplicity on the other side of complexity. They make visible elegant solutions by revealing a proactive, potential future. Source Code Meditation creates the activation energy to the Higher Brain so that it can remain in the preparatory state for insight longer, thus leading to more frequent bursts of insight. Science has shown that our brains are most likely to produce a breakthrough when they are producing alpha waves. Alpha waves have been measured surging in recipients while receiving Higher Brain Living® , (which SCM was derived from) sessions. In Epoch 6 the Higher Brain circuitry and pathways needed to produce insight become primary and replace analytical rational thought as the primary mode of knowing and relating to one’s life.

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2. Transforming Challenges into Opportunities Problems become the catalyst for transformation, rendering the concept of a problem obsolete. Transformation occurs through what would previously, at a lower Life Altitude, have been defined as a ‘problem’. In effect the solutions to problems on one level of existence define the new higher level of existence. Therefore the ‘problem’ arrives with its solution. If no ‘problem’ existed, then no solutions exist and no growth could occur. Epoch 6 turns all challenges into opportunities. As you mature in Epoch 6 the very idea of a ‘problem’ is meaningless. 3. New behaviors Doing things that are good for us feel good to do. James Austin in his book, Zen and the Brain, discusses how the medial PFC (part of the Higher Brain) helps engage the motoric aspects of motivational drive. Motivation now becomes action and is unconsciously and automatically integrated into life. This phenomenon requires less energy and frees the Higher Brain to grow beyond its current state...forever. Our unconscious brain is not necessarily all lower brain – we can experience Higher Brain unconscious processing and automated action too. In fact, once we consciously create new patterns of living, it can become relegated to unconscious behavior, which frees up more brain energy.

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4. Heightened Perception When the lower brain is dominant, its safety mechanism filters and dulls our experience. Beauty, vividness and intensity (of nonthreatening stimuli) is not prioritized, so that threats seem to stand out. When the Higher Brain is dominant in the Authentic Self of Epoch 6, the world takes on a luster, a glow, a beauty; that has been there all along, but is now obvious. 5. Confidence Confidence emerges, the sort of non-ego-based fearlessness that isn’t dependent on anyone or anything. You stop personalizing events and see them as patterns playing out in a larger context. You realize that people do not do things ‘to you’ because of who you are, but instead act according to who they are. The petty personal drama drops away and you feel invincible. Driven by a deeper meaning and not ruled by the lower brain, you engage in life with gusto. You realize that there really isn’t anything to fear and you can go boldly into the world.

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6. No personal drama and zero sign of victimhood Feeling limitless power, all claims to victimhood vanish. The ‘blame’ inherent in Epoch 5 can never be leveled at one’s own life in Epoch 6. When we see the world from this larger perspective we don’t see other people doing things to us and we don’t see our life conditions repressing us: we have unlimited power for conscious choice and conscious change. We don’t deny the repression pathological lower altitudes have created, nor do we deny that there are victims of those creations. We simply do not see ourselves as part of the oppressed or victims of anything. The Authentic Self doesn’t blame and takes full responsibility for his/her life. 7. Joy Joy and well-being are catalyzed by Higher Brain energy accessed in Epoch 6 by your Authentic Self. Research on the part of HBL that SCM was derived from has shown profound shifts to alpha waves in the pre-frontal cortex. Higher production of alpha waves is associated with increased dopamine levels in the brain, which heightens our sense of joy.

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8. Purpose The shift from lower brain dominance to the Higher Brain, AND the Awakening of your Authentic Self into Epoch 6 leads to a path of purpose. We move towards experiences that make us feel whole, creative and in service instead of moving away from things that scare us. Sadly, for those who do not make the momentous leap to Epoch 6, the number one regret at the end of life, according to research performed by palliative nurse Bonnie Blare, was the wish to have had the courage to live a life true to oneself, not the life others expected. 9. Creativity The unlocking of creativity is a product of the Authentic Self being in alignment with the evolutionary impulse. The production of novelty through creative advance is a defining feature of evolution. As the Authentic Self emerges into Epoch 6 the ecstatic urge to ‘create’ becomes driving life force.

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10. Meaningful Relationships You step into deeper, more transparent ways to engage in relationships. Relationships promote evolution. And you’ll seek out only those that create win-win dynamics. At this level of development, it becomes impossible to remain in a relationship that stifles your own becoming. 1 1. Synchronicity and Psychic Capacities The emergence of psychic abilities, synchronicity, lucid dreaming, telepathic powers, premonitions and trans-rational modes of knowing are frequently reported.

I want to provide you with a real life example of synchronicity emerging in realtime, right now. I chose to spend my last few days completing this book in a cabin in the woods with no Internet and most of the time, no cell signal. This experience, I was sure, would keep me in my flow state and be to my advantage with the remaining time I had before the manuscript was due to the publisher. The downside was that I had no access to the Internet for any research purposes and no access to my library. As I left my home in Chicago to come to the woods I grabbed a few books. Towards the end of one day of writing it occurred to me that this section on synchronicity and psychic capacities was empty; I hadn’t yet written anything. As stated earlier this is not a book about brain physiology and was never intended to be a highly referenced science book of any kind. Instead, this is the book that’s been inside of me for a very long time and based on my personal experience of working with thousands of people, and on intuitive leaps that have come through me. With that said, I am a fan of science and do my best to create solid theoretical constructs around my experiences and intuitions. So one night, after dinner alone in the woods at the dining room table realizing that I had yet to write anything on this subject, I grabbed the book nearest to me and randomly opened it to a page. The book was ‘Sacred Pathways, The Brain’s Role In Religious And Mystic Experience’, by neuroscientist Todd Murphy. The chapter I randomly opened to was titled, Psychic Skills, an entire chapter on clairvoyance, telepathy, remote viewing and a number of PSI skills that have been confirmed through science. Dr. Murphy went on to elucidate proposed mechanisms, regarding fields of energy that transmit information, that seemingly some people develop capacities to access. An example is the research done in what he calls ‘brain to brain communication’ or what is commonly called ‘telepathy’. Murphy proposes that

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this telepathic communication is happening from brain to brain through electromagnetic energy fields. I went to bed that night with the chapter percolating, and awoke early to find that I had one bar of cell signal – I clicked on my phone and the first thing that I saw was a Facebook post with a link to a documentary about ‘quantum biology’. The documentary provided theory from the quantum biological perspectives underlying psychic capacities in human beings. I watched a few minutes of the documentary, made a couple of notes and settled into my ritual of morning reading before I began my day’s writing. I make it a point to read every morning a few pages before I begin my daily Source Code Meditation practice. Another one of the books I had brought with me from my home and had just begun to read, was the new book by Grant Maxwell called ‘The Dynamics of Transformation, Tracing An Emerging Worldview’. The first few pages I read, discussed ‘time’ as a dimension of reality that expands when humanity emerges into this next worldview (that I am calling Epoch 6). The theory is that the reason we feel trapped within a linear unfolding of time is because we are only able to experience a fraction of that dimension. The other three dimensions of space, we feel as though we can move much more freely within, but time we are trapped within. This brought me into contemplation on an earlier theory by Jean Gebser (previously mentioned) and his belief that each one of the seismic epochal shifts of human consciousness and culture, unlocked more dimensionality. For instance, the cave paintings produced by pre-modern humans in magical/ Power Epochs are two-dimensional because this altitude of consciousness can only see and relate to two dimensions! The depth perspective of the third dimension does not emerge until later Epochs emerge. Maxwell is proposing that this fourth dimension of time is just now being unlocked and we are currently experiencing only a small portion of its potential. This helps explain how quantum physics seems to defy our common experience of time. This got me thinking about an experience I had in my 20s when I went through my initial waking up process. I was lying in bed one night and had an intuition, a vision of ‘time’ existing all at once, as opposed to a linear one-directional process. But my constrained consciousness could only experience time in a linear forward-flowing way. The image that popped into my head that night was one of moving a penlight across the pages of a book while reading in the dark. As each word is illuminated by the penlight there is an experience of a linear flow in time of what you are aware of, ie., the words on the page unfold in

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a linear sequence. But if you take that penlight and move it back further away from the page it illuminates the entire page and you find that all of the words already existed. You lose the constrained partial reality of each word appearing in a linear fashion within a forward flow. I saw this as a metaphor for our current relationship to time. This understanding helps to explain some of the research currently showing up regarding premonition (the ability to perceive future events). Of note, within many of the more robust theories on premonition the idea of free will still exists. In other words, what is being seen in premonitions, is the probabilistic outcome that exist in one future scenario that would have unfolded without the willful intervention and causative agency of a self-aware human. The main point to this ramble was simply to illustrate an example of synchronicity. Within a 12-hour span, three (two books and a video) significant events all showed up at exactly the time I needed them. I believe I was co-creating my reality and in fact I expect these synchronicities to occur. One of the things I am sure, is that as this new Epoch 6 emerges, synchronicity becomes a way of life. It simply is how the world is disclosed to you and it is sewn into the fabric of the reality of an Architect of Epoch 6.

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I am going to use the rest of this chapter to build up the context that we will need to discuss Epoch 6 Ascension. Darwinian biological evolution is a messy and inexact process, it requires inordinate amounts of trial and error, fits and starts, erasing its mistakes and starting over. Evolution tries many paths at once in the bloody and brutal march towards its once secret agenda. The reductionist materialist scientists tell us that biological evolution occurs through ‘chance’ and ‘random mutation’. Through this process random mutation results in a new trait that confers a greater survival advantage on the organism and so is ‘selected’ by nature to be passed on to offspring and used again. This view of biological evolution is true but partial; biological evolution has also been shown to use co-operation as a means of advancing its agenda. Ironically, if we look closely we see that even this limited view of biological evolution implies purpose. The fact that organisms want to survive at all can only mean that there is a ‘purpose’ built into natural selection through random mutation. Why should nature select something that leads to greater survival? Why does nature want to survive at all? Is it trying going somewhere? If we look more closely we will see that evolution is actually a purposeful process that overcomes ‘randomness’. 148

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It selects random mutations; that create a better adapted (less random), creature with purpose (even if from a myopic reductionist view we only see that purpose as survival) overcoming ‘randomness’. Evolution is, trying to go somewhere. Random mutation with natural selection is one of evolution’s old operational programs; it captures what occurs accidentally and purposefully creates greater degrees of wholeness, organization and consciousness. In July 2014, the prestigious journal, Nature, disclosed a 150-million-year old fossil and research study of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx. Archaeopteryx curiously had long feathers from head to foot. That same month, National Geographic, reported on the journal Nature’s study, stating that, according to the Nature studies senior author, Oliver Rauhut of Germany’s Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, the new Archaeopteryx fossil gives scientists a glimpse into the evolution of flight. The significance of this fossil finding and study is that we now have evidence of a certain form (feathered limbs) containing the latent potential for flight. Flight was a new form of Functional (already existing anatomical forms used in novel new transformative ways) Evolution. The feathered limbs (early wings) of the early bird-like dinosaurs existed for a very long time without being used for flight. At some point, from this raw material (feathers) an emergent new function of flight burst into the world. Was the ‘purpose’ of flight already encoded into the early-feathered wings and this new function percolating beneath the surface? Undoubtedly there were many early species with ‘feathered’ limbs/wings that went extinct because they never fulfilled the full purpose of the radical new function of flight! What did it take to create that first nudge into the air? What was the first stimulus that shifted an already existing form into new function and created a transcendent new way for these creatures to be in the world? With the obvious potential for flight already existing in the feathered proto-wings, you can almost imagine a gentle nudge that woke up the latent potential hidden within the form of the feathered limb. A nudge, a gentle surge of energy that caused a gentle flap until the full potential of these feathered limbs ‘woke up’ and began to create their own feedback, organically taking over on their own until they were airborne, soaring high above the rest of the world, learning to navigate a brand new territory. Enter the New Human of Epoch 6 whom knows that evolution is going somewhere, who can see the patterns of transcendence and inclusion, who internalizes the 13.8 billion year march towards increased organization of the brain and increased states of consciousness, who knows that she and her species

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are transitional beings and that this knowledge and the actions that issue forth from her ARE a new mechanism of evolution. Her conscious choice can ‘hack’ the old evolutionary, messy and often brutal ‘natural selection through random mutation’ mechanism. Evolution has laid down the raw material in the higher brain and through the savant, meditating monk and yogi adept, we are seeing the beginnings of a reorganization of this raw material. The SCM movement is picking up the torch and consciously leading evolution forward towards the good, the true and the beautiful. Our higher brains are our new wings, waiting to be nudged into flight. New potentials are boiling beneath the surface of humanity, percolating in our brains, waiting to be thrust into wakefulness. These potentials are working to the surface as we pursue SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation, consciously engaging that which is already trying to naturally emerge. Gently mobilizing energy towards the higher brain centers as emergent mechanisms of the higher brain create their own feedback, further awakening dormant potential. SCM leads to spontaneously generated, highly organized waves of breath and energy coursing through the human body. These waves of breath and energy metabolize the higher brain and rejuvenate the body/mind. As this higher brain directed feedback builds, stress is spontaneously cleared from the body further opening the pathways for the free flow of energy to the higher brain. These new potentials for higher consciousness are slumbering under the surface of our higher brain like the potential for flight once slumbered in the first primitive feathered limbed birds. It is our time to fly.

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A new field called epigenetics (which means beyond genetics) has scientifically disproved much of the prevailing model and belief that DNA is the major factor in health and well-being. Leading edge researchers are concluding that your DNA is not your destiny. Within each of us is the capacity to select and then reselect different genetic responses based on our current and ever changing relationship to the environment. Science has also now shown, that we all contain genetic material that can be used to rewrite DNA. The Conscious Evolution of Epoch 6 changes the expression of our genes though conscious choice. SCM not only facilitates rapid reorganization and rejuvenation of your body, but also improves your relationship to your environment. Research now demonstrates that new perceptions of the environment are proven to positively influence whether “good genes” or “bad genes” are activated. 150

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Conventional wisdom about the role that our genes play has been wrong for decades. How liberating is it to know that you are not captive to your DNA? And it gets even better; we now know that epigenetic changes can be passed on generationally. Wow! This is evolution occurring in very non-Darwinian terms. If you are living from your higher brain, which is what SCM promotes, and you experience the world with gratitude, joy, and empowerment as the 9 Summits of Transformation promote, you flip off the switches of unhealthy genes and flip on the switches of healthy genes. Scientists now know, as fact, that how you relate to your environment throughout a lifetime can change which genes are turned on. Evolution is much more than Darwin realized and much more than the ‘orthodox Western scientist’ or the ‘new atheist’ will admit. Natural selection cannot even explain how the information on the DNA molecule got there to begin with. DNA is the most complex molecule on the planet and there was no way for that information to land there, before life had emerged to put it there.

Sacred ‘WE’ Space We have talked about relationships, of which culture, is a large relationship, as sharing inner experience. When we are in a relationship we have a resonance in consciousness with that person or those people we are in relationship with. We somehow miraculously can enter into each other’s consciousness and create mutual understanding. This mutual understanding, or inner resonance, is amplified in larger groups. If we look at the altitudes of consciousness and their cultural Epochs, we find large groups of people resonating with similar values, ethics, morals and world views. They share a common consciousness; their inner experience resonates as one. This inner We Space also has an energetic element. In fact all inner experience or consciousness has an energetic component associated with it. Just as we talked about the enlightenment states having corresponding bodies of energy, these We spaces have a corresponding energy. This energy, both within the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as subtle in nature, also resonates between people in groups of people. Cultivating and amplifying this group, resonating in energy, amplifies the group inner experience, which in turn amplifies the inner experience of the individual within the group. Therefore creating community, not just disembodied as in social media groups, but live, in person, is the essential to the growth and development of an architect of Epoch 6. Research has now demonstrated that the electromagnetic field produced by the human heart can be measured up to 15 feet away. As the higher brain shift opens the higher heart, the higher heart becomes a strong resonating

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structure that synchronizes with others in the WE space to help hold them into its advanced physiological expressions. And this, as we know, impacts our inner states and inner experience. Studies mentioned earlier have shown that changes in brain waves can create changes in another person’s brainwave at a distance. These resonating fields of gross, subtle and casual energy impact people in community. And since evolution appears to have a direction and a purpose, it is designed to leverage the coherence of the group energy dynamic for the individual’s own evolution. Therefore, in a community setting, as some members of the group are first experiencing these higher altitudes and more advanced physiology, their heightened and coherent energy output pulls others into this advanced field and further catalyzes growth in the group. As enough people within the community make the shift to higher brain/higher consciousness a point of critical mass is hit, a tipping point occurs and the field is so powerful and so coherent that it quickly catalyzes the rest of humanity’s ascent into Epoch 6. I have long hosted retreats designed to leverage this sacred WE space. The power that’s created within the group dynamic is astonishing. My hope is that someday this is available to the entire world.

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It has been shown in a number of studies that something is holding things together and propagating information in ways that defy conventional physics. As I wrote earlier, the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has a theory of ‘formative causation’ based on fields of subtle energy he calls morphic fields, that exert morphic resonance and strengthen the field as the field grows. As more people or any part of nature develop new behaviors, or new consciousness, the morphic field strengthens. Sheldrake tells a story of how for generations milk men left bottles of milk on the porches of their clients with no problem until a certain type of bird figured out how to remove the lid and when this happened the ability of other birds of this same type spread faster than any known communication channels or information could have carried them. As more of these birds learned to remove the milk top and drink the milk this skill spread rapidly to other areas that had the same type of birds, faster than the speed of light and with no known mode or information propagation. Without going into the details – I am not an expert – regarding morphic fields, the point for our purposes is that their appears to be some kind of information transfer that happens across distance that defies conventional communication 152

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routes, and as more people (or other elements of nature) experience new behaviors or new consciousness, or new physiology this field effect strengthens and pulls those around them towards this greater potential. So as we move through SCM and the 9 Summits and create new physiology our open coherent hearts and energized higher brains create resonance that impacts those around us. As a SalutoGenic breath moves though our body it strengthens a field that increases the probability of others experiencing it more quickly and powerfully. As we awaken to higher states and then altitudes of consciousness we are laying down grooves in morphic fields that pull others into higher states and then higher altitudes of consciousness. This field effect can be leveraged in groups and the architects of Epoch 6 knows that the WE space, that space between people, is not empty but is full of causative information and energy and that WE space can be, and must be, consciously cultivated as growth occurs exponentially within a group dynamic. The amplifying effect between the members is driven by the organic orientation of evolution to entrain to and resonate with the more evolutionary advanced physiology, consciousness and energy in its environment and beyond. There is no substitute for a community meeting each other in mutual resonance specifically designed to create resonant relationships that catalyze rapid evolution.

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Red Velvet Cake (Context as Causative Agent) You need no belief to begin this process, but once you feel the SalutoGenesis and have proper context, you will believe and that will be another source of fuel. As a kid growing up I never liked chocolate cake. My favorite cake was always strawberry or vanilla. Although as an adult I never really liked cake of any kind, I really couldn’t stand chocolate. A few times, in adulthood, chocolate cake was served as birthday cake in a social situation and I felt obliged to have a small piece, and each time my dislike was reinforced. Then a few years ago I was served ‘red velvet’ cake at a birthday party. That I liked. It tasted like a creamy, luxurious, super-rich version of my favorite strawberry cake. Again although not much of a cake eater, I would always declare red velvet far and away my favorite cake. Until, that is, one day when I was at my mom’s house over the Christmas holiday, we were standing in the kitchen when I noticed a red velvet cake on the counter, and I said, “That’s my favorite!”, and my mom said, “Michael, I thought you didn’t like chocolate cake?” "I don't," I said, "but I really love red velvet." Mom says, “Red velvet cake is chocolate cake with red 153

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food coloring in it!” NO! It can’t be. I immediately searched Google for recipes…. uhmm, yep, every recipe, chocolate cake with red food coloring. Ugh. I have for many years understood and taught about the power of context and yet a simple change in context had changed a cake from my least favorite to my most favorite back to my least favorite in the course of an hour. In that moment I had an even deeper revelation into the stunning power of context. I realized that everything in our lives is co-created through context, that is, what we already know about things changes how we perceive them and this goes even deeper than it seems on the surface. The context I held around the cake actually does change how it tastes to me. My taste buds respond differently and my brain pathways are different depending on which context I hold around the same experience. Literally. This is not breaking information, we have known for a while now that context changes experience. For instance, a study demonstrated that the price of a bottle wine will change the taste of it to sophisticated wine drinkers. Wine connoisseurs will rate the same wine put in a different bottle with a lower price differently. And to be sure we don’t miss the point here, the wine actually does taste different when the context is different (cheaper price and different bottle). Different areas of the brain will light up during testing depending on which context is active. If they believe the wine is an expensive coveted vintage year, the brain will taste it differently and reflect this in its patterns, and the opposite is also true. We know the placebo effect is a real thing; if you believe a treatment will work, your body physiologically changes. This power of context, of your relationship to the experience co-creates the actual experience. The revelation I had confronting that red velvet cake was just how pervasive this is in our lives…literally everything is arising within context. You cannot have experience without contextualizing it. Everything you already know, or believe (largely shaped by your culture), all co-create your experience. So if all experience is contextualized and molded then we start to see context as active agent, with causative powers affecting all aspects of the life process. Context is bio/psychoactive. A very potent observation in Integral Metatheory is the articulation of the pre/trans fallacy. It has shown that much of what the new age movement has adopted in terms of mediums, psychics, astrologers, and a myriad of healing and growth techniques that seem to defy possibilities granted by modern science, are returns to primitive magical thinking, not progressions to trans-rational truths (although there may be trans-rational versions of all of these approaches). The pre/trans fallacy asserts that trans-rational truths and pre-rational nonsense are both ‘non-rational’ and can be confused by the untrained eye. Wilber has

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pointed out, and I agree, that much of what came about through the new age and new thought movements are simply regressions to pre-rational magical thinking NOT trans-rational insight or intuition etc. This distinction can be extremely important and needs to always be considered when we are faced with extraordinary claims. I will stretch my theories well past what the orthodoxy is comfortable with but I am always willing to open them to scientific investigation. I wonder, however, how this picture changes our understanding of these pre-rational Epochs when we introduce the stunning causative power of context into the picture. Was the entire pre-rational world just living in a magical prerational state, promoting things that weren’t working or prescribing things with no effect? Were the miracles of Christ and others merely wishful thinking? Did magic/mythic believers embellish these events OR, were the performers of these miracles actual ‘intention’ (which we have already seen: intention as a causative agent, ie: staring at someone can make them turn around) so strong, that when coupled with the unquestioning belief of their (context) culture, miracles really did happen? Perhaps over time the lack of belief in miracles, healing waters, sacred spaces etc, have created the opposite effect and rendered them largely inert. The morphic fields that support and amplify these old ways have lost their power from many generations of non-believers. This adds new light to the originator of quantum theory, Max Plank’s statement, “old paradigms die when the believers in old paradigms die”…as the believers die the morphic field weakens. Today, the same intentions coupled to the cynical rational mind might produce a different outcome. Culture is our greatest context generator and cultures are operating at a developmental center of gravity that will unconsciously – through its hidden meaningmaking filters – provide context for all your experience. The reason for this illustration on the causative power of context is that one of the things I am sure of, is that the Architects of Epoch 6 understand that context is sewn into the fabric of experience and context/experience arises as one inseparable phenomenon. You cannot choose to not have context; you can only choose the type of context you wish to filter your experience with. You create outcomes for other people through the context you create, whether you play small or step up – karma either way, no passive observers, nowhere to hide. In Epoch 6 this creating context becomes a conscious process. You will learn to bend your reality towards your compelling future as you learn to consciously contextualize the life process in ways that create potent bio / psycho­ active upgrades.

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Epoch 6 Ascension Fully Awakened PFC + Whole Brain + Higher Heart + New DNA Expression EPOCH 6:

Defining Features: • Kosmocentric • Driven to create heaven on earth • Values all of the created and uncreated • Sees all matter as ‘awake’ • Sees all energy as ‘living’ • Direct Identification with supreme spirit • Sees the world as process • Exist simultaneously in and out of time • One with the entire Kosmos (inside and outside)

The great 20th century sage Sri Aurobindo, was amongst the very first to create a cartography of consciousness that represents what I am referring to as Epoch 6. With detailed analysis he elucidated several discrete Altitudes of Life that he called Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive mind, Overmind and Supermind. Aurobindo’s contribution has been enormous, his ‘complete works’ total 37 volumes of soaring spiritual brilliance. As one Amazon reviewer said of his Magnum Opus, ‘The Life Divine’, “it is hard to believe this came from the mind of a human being”. My debt to Aurobindo, both for his impact on my own personal growth as well as aiding my understanding of higher consciousness, is great. Wilber has in part used Aurobindo’s model as a base for constructing his own sequential unfolding for what I call Epoch 6 Ascension. I will borrow from the models of both of these towering geniuses as I add my own insights into not only this higher altitude of consciousness but also the often neglected theories regarding the new physiology that must accompany this new consciousness. Here again, my goal is not to lay out an academic dissertation on these higher Life Altitudes, but instead to offer what context we need to move towards them through the 9 Summits of Transformation journey. The story of Epoch 6 is still being written so we are going to hold it loosely and not put too fine of a point on things. In fact the authors of this story that’s just now being written are you and I. We have talked about the five major epochal shifts in consciousness and how these Epochs are associated with biological layers of evolution in the brain.

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Ranging from reptilian brain to the old mammalian emotional brain to the early cortex, the neo-cortex and the PFC, then the PFC + heart of Epoch 6 emergence is not only associated with this higher altitude but also, as we discussed earlier, with ‘Unitary Enlightenment State’. So in Epoch 6 emergence we develop the higher physiology to experience the highest state (Unitary) and highest (so far) to emerge life altitude. This new state + new altitude +new physiology provides the jumping off point into the unknown territory of Epoch 6 Ascension. In Epoch 6 Ascension instead of the higher heart synchronized with the higher brain structures simply “transcending” the lower brain structures/layers, this new dynamic in physiology begins to transform them. All of the lower structures of the brain now come into service of the higher. This is seen on EEG evaluation as high degrees of ‘coherence’ across the brain, with high energy levels in the higher structures. This heightened “transcend and include and synchronize“ dynamic in the brain, creates an emergent property in our physiology that aligns all of our cells and all of our DNA within a resonating field of emergent new holistic physiology. The ‘whole’ of our cells becomes radically greater than the sum of their parts. This emergent new physiology has a resonating effect on other people, pulling them into its field and catalyzing transformation within those within its communities. As the Epoch 6 altitude blossoms and the new physiology couples to the unitary state of consciousness, that unitary state of consciousness couples its absolute being-ness to a radical evolutionary becoming. We don’t just witness and become with our body, mind and thoughts but we also transform them. We bring the pure state of enlightened being into the world of becoming and do not escape from the manifest realm but help it evolve. We bring the light of pure consciousness to the evolving cosmos and create heaven on earth. We realize that we ARE this consciousness, right now, direct and immediate.
Our consciousness is one and identical with the pure consciousness that existed before the world burst into existence some 13.8 billion years ago. We know that our consciousness is THAT consciousness but we also know that we simultaneously ARE THE evolutionary process itself, that started winding dead matter up at the beginning of the universe. We are now the same process waking up enough (our brain is expanding in such a way) to look all the way back at its origins and see THE pure primal consciousness staring back. Spirit, Consciousness, God is seeing itself through you, as you open a gateway to a new world. We are a mechanism that the evolutionary process is using to find its way forward. We are ‘that’ and we also have a significant part to play in this next

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unfolding. In Epoch 6 the Transcendent Self, experienced directly as consciousness, being and bliss is united with the world of form in the Unitary State. This Unitary Enlightenment becomes taken up and fully metabolized in the evolutionary orientation of Epoch 6. This higher state of Unity, and the newly emerging higher altitude, merge and render the differentiation between states and altitudes obsolete. The higher state, having integrated all other states, and the highest altitude having integrated all previous altitudes, become one, and that ‘one’ is set in radical vertical upwards evolutionary motion experiencing absolute perfection within every one of its new creations. There is a conscious imperative to know oneself fully as a divinized new human. The ‘light of consciousness’ pours into the world as Transcendent Self and world of form become one as Unitary Enlightenment is set in vertical motion – quintessentially free and unmoving while simultaneously in a state of radical emergent becoming with the evolving Cosmos. Your choices from this level of awareness determine what direction evolution goes, your life is bestowed with Kosmic meaning. You perfect the finite through your participation in the evolutionary process, towards the good, the true and the beautiful.

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The spirituality of the new human of Epoch 6, I am calling Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment. Truth be told, it might be a little contrived to create a section about ‘the spirituality of the new human’ as all of life becomes a deeply spiritual experience at this altitude. There is not everyday life versus the spiritual life, they are one and the same and it is easy to see the deep spiritual implications of everything I have written about Epoch 6 so far. ‘Epoch 6’ and ‘Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment’ are really synonyms. Here, I am going to simply provide a little more understanding of how this looks through a spiritual lens. Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment occurs in Epoch 6 when the Authentic Self, with its integrated forward-facing inner soul grows through Epoch 6 emergence and couples the Unitary State to a radical evolutionary becoming, and fully ingrates that new being and becoming as a way of life. Modern cosmology and physics trace the world's origin back 13.8 billion years. The scientific story goes something like this: First there was nothing and then from nothing came an explosion. A Big Bang and a soup of matter and energy burst forward, along with the simultaneous creation of ‘time and space’. Over the next 13.8 billion years this fiery, exploding undifferentiated matter/energy soup mysteriously organized itself in such a way as to become alive, and as life 158

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continued evolving in more complex forms, the consciousness within these life forms became more complex and ‘awake’. Now let’s take a moment and contemplate this process. That point that physics and cosmology saw as nothing, couldn’t really have been nothing, right? Something doesn’t come from nothing, zero is supposed to equal zero, yes? ‘Zero’ shouldn’t in any way equate to the evolution of a universe. So what existed prior to space, time, matter, energy and manifestation? What was there all along…eternally? It was of course infinite being and consciousness, pure existence as the Transcendent Self. The same Transcendent Self that now looks through your eyes and hears with your ears. The same consciousness that permeates all existence, percolates with potential and swirls with possibilities. It’s the same background state within you right now. And it’s that inner well-spring of creativity waiting to emerge as something new through you. Your own individuated consciousness has evolved to the point where you are awake. And once you are awake, you are responsible for your choices. Your choices from this high state of wakefulness are now new mechanisms in evolution. YOU are how spirit liberates itself from the realm of potentiality into the manifest realm of the finite world. This world where we live, breathe and work, is in time. You have a finite amount of time to create a life well lived. By living fully, you will leave your body without regret, leaving a legacy of first grooves for a new stage – a new cortex, consciousness and culture. YOU are all that we’ve been waiting for. Evolution (spirit in action) is becoming aware of itself through you. If you understand this, your life can never be the same. And from this understanding we must choose what’s next! YOU are a shining beacon of hope for all those that lived and loved and labored before you. You are the promise to all those souls that will come after you. And you are right now, in this body, on this planet, during this lifetime, essential to and responsible for the direction of this evolutionary principle. For 14 billion years, evolution has climbed and climbed upwards – and at this very moment has created a sentient being that possesses awareness with the free will to actively participate in the continued unfolding of ALL. Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment in its totality is the energizing, molding and integration of new human physiology that is in dynamic relationship with the Authentic Self/Soul Essence. It is one with the Transcendent Self while in a conscious state of vertical becoming. In the classical enlightenment state we are plunged into the timeless eternal nature of who we are – the formless dimension – The Transcendental Self. This state allowed the great realizers to, in effect,

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transcend the manifest realm of the body and the world. In some cases these realizers even considered the realm of body, earth and cosmos to be illusions. In this classical enlightenment state, you become the Witness to all that is arising – including our own body, mind and thoughts. In this state you are truly free. In Unitary Enlightenment, consciousness was found not to be separate from form. In this state, all form becomes infused with consciousness – matter and manifestation are not separate from the Transcendent Self. In Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment the two previous realizations are found to be just the beginning of what can become when higher physiology integrates with higher states of enlightenment and higher Life Altitudes. In Epoch 6, the Authentic Self/Soul Essence fully remembers its 13.8 billion-year-long evolutionary nature – and this evolutionary nature is infused with and inseparable from the pure consciousness of the Transcendent Self while the higher physiology continues to evolve. Your life becomes a drive to create, as a direct manifestation of God’s will. Let thy will be done. You have the simultaneous experience of being unmoved and unaffected by the entire world of form as your peaceful Transcendent Self – while in a state of radical BECOMING as you create the new world. You are a conduit of light! Your life counts! Do not play small.

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“The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use.” — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the

Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

The purpose-driven choices and actions of Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment are new mechanisms in the evolutionary process. In Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment the ‘doer and the deed’ become ONE. In Evolutionary Unitary Enlightenment, evolution is viewed as a large dynamic process, in which Darwinian random mutation is only one of many tool(s) that evolution (spirit in action) uses, to create more complex forms of matter like, Higher Brain/Higher Heart/integrated brain structure and awakened states and Life Altitudes of consciousness and culture. Whether or not evolution is purposefully directed, I believe, is self-evident, at least once humans appeared. When we emerged and felt purpose, then purpose became part of the cosmos – and a driver of evolution. The evolutionary impulse is felt as the urge to ‘do something’. The drive to take action precedes actions taken. This desire to do and become has been a fundamental element of the cosmos. Since the Transcendent Self first mobilized 160

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the evolutionary impulse to manifest space/time, matter and energy, all of evolution has been driven to become, advance and create. In Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment this impulse comes out of hiding and becomes consciously directed towards right action, always promoting more evolution. All areas of our life must improve so our energy for good is unleashed. An Architect of Epoch 6 has transformed their personal drama and simply doesn’t have time to indulge anything that is not in alignment with spiritual evolution. An Architect of Epoch 6 is a leader, a Change Agent representing the ‘new way’. Being and becoming are equal manifestation of spirit and are integrated in an upwardly moving evolutionary direction. As an Architect of Epoch 6 there is nowhere to hide, your awareness is too great and all shadows must come into the light to be transmuted into opportunity. All choices carry consequences and even ‘not choosing’ is seen as a choice that carries karma. You must ‘show up’. If not you, who? If not now, when? Don’t ever forget that you are who you are because of the pain and suffering and growth and evolution, and striving, and climbing, and clawing of countless billions before you. As those on the leading edge of every new emergent revolution had to do, we will have to develop higher structures that lay down deep new pathways in our brain and morphic resonance, so strong, that those coming behind us will have little more to do than wake-up in the morning to fulfill the first few stages of the great holarchy of being. The evolutionary impulse that was the first movement forward some 13.8 billion years ago – when nothing became something – is the same urgent impulse that expresses itself in you as drive, motivation, desire and shows up now in your body, mind and spirit. As you ‘become’ in the world, you must do. Authentic action is a fundamental element of the life of an Architect of Epoch 6. Persistent authentic action leads to myelination of the brain pathways that represent this authentic action. Myelination is a physiological process that leads to a thickening and quickening of the white matter in the brain that propagates the neuro-physiological signals that represent a behavior. This increases the probability of authentic action becoming a default and of elevated temporary states becoming permanent traits. Through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation you will have pushed back and made ‘object’ of your body, mind and soul, and all of the cosmos. All that remains then, is pure subjectivity, but in the final release all objects are seen as arising ‘within’ pure subjectivity, pure consciousness, the Transcendent Self. Nothing in fact can really ever be ‘outside’ of the Transcendent Self as it goes on forever in all directions and was prior to all manifestation. Manifestation

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issued forth from the Transcendent Self and therefore cannot really be separate from it. This perspective ends the split between Subject and Object, or Knower and Known. Reality is comprised of one indivisible whole. In a Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment the awareness of your eternal nature does not provide an escape from your life in space and time. You don’t avoid the world of form…indeed you liberate the world of form. You embrace it without fear because at your core you are eternal. Through evolution we are waking up and 13.8 billion years later discovering who we really are...and who we really are is the promise to all that evolutionary tension and struggle… to be gifted with the staggering fortune to be alive at this moment where we are becoming aware of our deepest truths and where we really came from, and to ache with the joy of being given a life with so much meaning…to fully comprehend the sacred nature of this, with most surety, must result in dropping to our knees in in holy reverence, not as ‘My will’ but ‘Thy will’ must be done, and at the deepest recesses of my being, recognizing the ‘Father and I are One’. And this is not blasphemy because I was birthed from the Godhead 13.8 billion years ago and “I AM” that. The Architect of Epoch 6 see into reality both forward and backward. She sees herself moving forward (becoming) in space and time as the leading edge of evolution and knows that she is responsible for the future. She is brave and bold in the world because she has looked back 13 .8 billion years to the Godhead, her formless dimension, and found unshakable peace and eternity. She has found her Transcendent Self looking back at her...in her, and as her. Her reality integrates into a seamless whole incorporating 13.8 billion years of evolution as a single process – a process that her Transcendent Self is awake to, and that she is alive to – in her, and as her, and through her. The experience of the Transcendent Self united with your Authentic Self/Soul Essence, united with the entire world of manifestation set within a meta-evolutionary context is the hallmark of Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment. The following experiences and capacities emerge and can be cultivated throughout a lifetime.

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Hallmarks of Moving into Epoch 6 Ascension You will see some crossover below with Epoch 6 emergence, as it becomes scaffolding for the ascension. An Architect of Epoch 6 sees life from ‘50,000 feet’, and defines her life as the leading edge of a 13.8 billion-year process and becomes responsible for the process. • This new consciousness does not see itself as separate, nor does it see the world as a series of linear singular events or occasions. It sees important connections holistically and links horizontally across networks, as well as seeing vertically the past, present and future of every occasion. An Architect of Epoch 6 knows that each event, each occasion, each experience, each choice has consequences that extend horizontally and vertically in time. And you begin to process the world this way.

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• Spirit liberates through you. You are determining the direction of humanity from conscious choices as a new mechanism of evolution that is none other than spirit in action in you. • An Architect of Epoch 6 must behave as though our thoughts, actions and energy are forging pathways that will influence future humanity. • The new consciousness of the Architects of Epoch 6 handles the complexity of our world by moving forward not back; noticing important connections, not the noise. • An Architect of Epoch 6 has discovered and integrated the eternal nature (backwards in time until no time) of the Transcendent Self and the self-actualization in time of the Authentic Self/Soul Essence and situates themself within a meta-evolutionary context as their life becomes an example of this eternal unmovable presence of the Transcendent Self and simultaneously the leading edge of 13.8 billion years of evolution expressed in time.

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• Architects of Epoch 6 position their lives to always be in alignment with this glorious blossoming at the leading edge so that, eventually, widespread social change occurs in educational systems, political systems, corporations, financial institutions, religious institutions… all global sectors along with widespread planetary elevations of consciousness.

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ome are content to live their lives while sleeping; but SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation is designed for those who are beginning to awaken. The SCM community is driven by a hunger to know ourselves deeply; and to transcend mundane existence. We long to be released from the status quo, the state Thoreau so painfully describes as living “… a life of quiet desperation and (going) to the grave with our song still in us”. So we seek to fully awaken, and find within ourselves that which will always endure. We seek for an unchanging peace within, a peace that’s ever present when everything else crumbles and passes. Truth be told, we long to know God. Not God as an idea, not God as an abstract concept or a set of doctrines or dictates. We are not looking – not anymore, for the mythic god of the past. Our seeking has matured beyond ‘the great grandfather in the sky’. We want to know truth; immediately, directly, verifiably, a truth that we can experience both transcendently and immanently. We want to find God and to feel God and to know God, beyond us but also in us and as us and through us as absolute spirit. We ache to experience a resonance that – once stripped free of dogma – is at the core of all of the world’s wisdom traditions. Beyond the myths and the cultural conditioning, past the codifications and contradictions; deeper, much deeper than the surface of any and all religions, there is one truth. This truth that has been declared for millennia, by great sages and sacred texts, is that you can awaken to the realization that at your core, you are one and identical with all that you seek. And so it is. In fact, God dwells within you as the unconditioned ground of being – the freedom and fullness of your Transcendent Self – your absolute ‘Being, Consciousness and Bliss’. God exists as the fundamental condition of your very existence, and the truth of this existence is that you existed prior to this life and prior to the birth of the universe and prior to all of space and time. The truth you seek, and that which does the seeking, are ultimately the same. This radical truth, undeniable to the awakened, is, ‘Thou art That’. Your SCM practice and the pages preceding this section have been preparing you for this path.

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SUMMIT 8 FOR 2 WEEKS: Your Life Codes

SUMMIT 9 FOR 2 WEEKS: Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment The SalutoGenic evolutionary Thrivestyle of Epoch 6 Cycle back to SUMMIT 1

As you journey through the Summits it is important not to hold things too tightly. I hope this is a lifetime path for you. You may feel as though you struggle in one particular Summit. You may not understand the entire context, or think you didn’t do it properly, or not feel the outcomes you were expecting. As stated before, evolution is a non-linear process, so will your journey be. I can assure you that you are getting more than you know as pieces of it are sticking and settling within you, and changing you, and over time this effect will become dramatic. Your second time through the 9-Summit spiral, any area that you feel ‘stuck in’ or ‘inadequate at’ will most likely shift and create radical transformation in that area. After the first time through all 9 Summits, you may cycle back to one, or choose which Summit is most needed; the second time into the Summits does not have to proceed in a linear progression. Just keep

smiling and keep doing the work and please make sure you stay connected to our community. Each Summit will have a ‘discovery’ (pre-meditation) component followed by the actual Summit-appropriate meditation.

SUMMIT 1 FOR 2 WEEKS: Soul Awakening

In the book Zen and the Brain, James Austin, MD, explains the novel experience of a Zen koan, and how the koan method requires years of contemplation before a potential shift in consciousness occurs. Eventually the Zen practitioner may have a shift in consciousness…a temporary ‘awakening’. In this highly technical and more than 850-page-tome, Dr. Austin informs us as to what part of the Higher Brain lights up and changes when this awakening is happening. Conversely, the SCM Technique prioritizes a flow of latent energy to the Higher Brain – creating the necessary conditions for contemplative techniques to exert change with much less effort. Below is a brief summary of the experience sought, the physiological change anticipated and the technique that leverages the physiological change to create the experience.

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• Experience/Knowledge: Releases the ‘Observer’ from their exclusive identification with the gross realm and to the experience as a soul essence. The soul feels in relationship to the body but not bound to the body. The soul feels still part of time but without beginning or end in time. • Physiology: Increased metabolism of higher spiritual centers of the brain. • Technique: Tuning the engaged Higher Brain towards the soul with contemplative/meditative/self-inquiry techniques introduced into this advanced Higher Brain physiology and carried through the system and to the brain via SalutoGenic breath/waves.

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1 . SCM Soul Awakening Discovery Pre-Meditation Perform SCM base: now while in this Higher Brain state contemplate deeply the below: • Objectify your ego self/personality and notice something more primary in you, notice what is aware, feel your ‘subject’ release from your mind and physical body. Feel your subject release into the light, luminosity of your soul and feel it as immortal in time. • Feel the subtle body of energy surround your physical body and feel your awareness associated with this subtle field of energy. • Now, also notice that your subtle field of soul energy is also concentrated within your physical body as SalutoGenesis. Feel your awareness inside of this SalutoGenic energy. Feel your awareness on the inside of your SalutoGenic breath and/or energy as your indwelling soul. • Consider your physical body – since the time that you can remember it – see the different incarnations of that body as it changed over the years, watch it flow through its organic physical changes in time. See yourself as child, then a teen, then an adult, now at whatever age you currently are and now imagine what you will appear like in a decade, another decade, another decade until the body is no longer animated by the life force and see your subtle soul energy release as your body dies, as it, and your inner soul essence liberate from the body.

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• Now see the subtle soul energy body complex come back into your physical body through the upper and lower SEVs – like a particle becoming a wave as it is observed and diffuses into every cell of the body, animating and bringing to life with new vigor, your body and mind. See your soul as Awareness within the SalutoGenesis, as it radiates its energy and awareness into all cells of the body. • Know that when the body/mind finally drops your soul will carry on its eternal journey, ultimately and evolutionarily in time. Acquiring virtue and wisdom as it transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime. Leaving a legacy and fulfilling destiny with each new beginning. And in this life your soul work is not yet done.

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Go immediately to the Soul Awakening Meditation below

2. Perform the Soul Awakening Meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 4-8 minutes: Turn back to observing SalutoGenesis as it flows through your body. Notice that there is awareness inside of the flowing breath and energy radiating light and luminosity throughout you. See your soul as the dynamic of subtle energy + inner awareness + light and luminosity. • As you leave the meditation and move through the world, look at the world from the vantage point of your soul. Notice the ‘subject released’ from reactivity. Your soul is free to choose. • Notice any flow states, intuition, insight, trans-rational knowing, psychic capacities, synchronicities that show up throughout your day. Write them down in your journal.

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SUMMIT 2 FOR 2 WEEKS: Transcendent Awakening

Experience/Knowledge: The Transcendent Self known as the eternal, immortal witness to all that arises. The recognition of your Transcendent Self as absolute freedom from death, decay and destruction is experienced. The Transcendent Self provides access to the pure peace — free of time, space and conditioned reality.

• Physiology: Increased metabolism of higher spiritual centers of the brain. • Technique: Tuning the engaged Higher Brain towards the Transcendent Self with contemplative/meditative/self-inquiry techniques introduced into this advanced Higher Brain physiology and carried through the system and to the brain via SalutoGenic breath/waves. When “I AM”-based Interior Techniques of SCM and the 9 Summits are introduced to a properly tuned brain (during SalutoGenesis) large-scale energy changes in higher spiritual centers of the brain light up on EEG brain scans. Introducing the Interior Technique (contemplation) below during active SalutoGenesis and Higher Brain activity promotes a deeper experience of the

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contemplation. As the interior experience deepens, this further deepens the Higher Brain connection and thus creates feedback between the interior and exterior components of this spiritual state. Through the transcendent state awakening, you will trace the ‘ray of the divine’, or Soul back to its source – the timeless, space-less, Transcendent Self. It is here that pure consciousness beyond personality comes forth. Your Transcendent Self was never born and cannot die. The relationship between Soul Essence and Transcendent Self provides ultimate peace and freedom.

1 . SCM Transcendent Awakening Discovery Pre-Meditation Perform SCM base: now while in this Higher Brain state contemplate deeply the below: • Now let go of the need to do anything and notice how something in you is free of all thoughts, emotions and sensations. In fact it is free of time altogether, it is aware of time and yet prior to time and exists outside of time. • Feel the causal/unitary energy body of your Transcendent Self surround your physical body and surround your subtle body as an infinite field of energy. Now feel your awareness as infinite, associated with this infinite field of causal/unitary energy.

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• Now also notice your causal/unitary body of energy is concentrated within your physical body as a more refined SalutoGenesis. Feel your awareness inside of this refined SalutoGenic energy. Feel your awareness on the inside of your SalutoGenic breath and energy, your indwelling witness to all that arises. • Now see the causal/unitary energy body descend into your physical body through the upper and lower SEVs – like a particle becoming a wave as it is observed and diffuses into every cell of the body, animating and bringing to life with new vigor your body and mind. See your causal/unitary energy field as SalutoGenesis that is aware on the inside, as it radiates its energy and awareness into all cells of the body. • Notice that your Observer can be observed. Something in you is prior even to your Soul – Notice the Noticer – this is Your Transcendent Self (the Witness) which wasn’t born, therefore cannot die.

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• Now feel your physical body. Do you have a physical body? Then if you have a body it is not “you”, for you possess it. Who is it that has your body? You are not your body; it is an object outside of you. Who are you? Science informs us that most of your physical body has been turned over and renewed over the last couple of months. Every single cell in your body is different now than it was two years ago. • What part of you is exactly the same now as it was before? What part never changes? That within you that has never changed is your Transcendent Self —which at this and every moment witnesses your body, as an object outside of itself. That Witness is who you really are and have always been. Your body was born and will stay for a while and die. But the Witness of that body has been here for all of eternity, unchanging. – Pause –

• Now feel your breath. Who is doing the feeling? Who is watching the breath at this very moment? Now feel your emotional state. Are you happy? Sad? Frustrated? Who is it that feels these things? Who is aware? That which is aware of sadness cannot be sad. Who is feeling now? Who is witnessing your body, breath and emotions? Who are you?

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• Are you the thinker of these thoughts? Are you your mind? Actually, you can look at your mind. Watch as thoughts come and go, don’t attach to them — just see them. Who is it watching your thoughts. Those thoughts are floating by outside of you. Your thoughts are an object arising in a vast field of awareness…arising within pure consciousness. So who are you? The Witness of the mind cannot be the mind! Who is watching the mind? Who are you? Your mind and your body are objects arising in the space of your Transcendent Self. – Pause –

• Many times over your body has come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million thoughts have come and gone. What is the one thing that has never come or never gone? Your unborn and undying

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Transcendent Self which never even enters the stream of time. It is, you are, consciousness beyond time — presence above time – eternal and unending. The Ultimate Subject to all objects in the manifest world is none other than your very self. You are that pure consciousness. Make the statements below 15 times, pausing after each time to feel energy go to the Higher Brain where your Transcendent Self is experienced. Notice who is noticing…

• I HAVE a body so I cannot ultimately be that body. I am aware of my emotions; therefore I am not my emotions. I see my mind as thoughts that I can witness as things; therefore, I am NOT those things – I am aware of my body, my mind and my emotions – and that which is aware of something cannot be that something. I must be greater. • I am always already the Transcendent Self that knows only the freedom and fullness of consciousness, being and bliss.

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I AM. I AM. I AM…

2. Perform the Transcendent Awakening Meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 2-4 minutes, with eyes closed and gently gazing to the Higher Brain/3rd eye, repeat IAM, IAM, IAM…. Over and over, keeping all attention on the sound ‘I AM’. • 2 - 4minutes; notice all thoughts emotions and sensations. Passively let them originate in consciousness and ultimately disappear back into consciousness. Notice that consciousness is not an object and has no boundaries. Rest in that spacious clearing of your Transcendent Self. • Throughout your day notice that the observer of your thoughts, emotions and sensations is completely free and liberated from your thoughts, emotions and sensations, and yet simultaneously holding the thoughts, emotions and sensations in a loving embrace. Rest in that observer. Be pure consciousness, aware of, yet inside of all that arises and yet affected by none. Abide as eternal, ever-present, peaceful, free and unconditioned

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pure consciousness. As you see the world from your Transcendent Self, feel your emotional state turn to bliss.

SUMMIT 3 FOR 2 WEEKS: Unitary Awakening

• Experience/Knowledge: The Transcendental Self, that light of pure consciousness pours itself into the world and infuses with material form. It becomes one with the world and united with all objects of manifestation. • Physiology: Higher Brain + Heart opening, integrate as a new physiology. • Technique: Tuning the Higher Brain towards the Transcendent Self with specially designed contemplations on consciousness and form. These specific ‘non-dualistic’ contemplations create a new spiritual context within the activated Higher Brain/Higher Heart state, which leads to an experience of oneness.

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Awakening Two promotes a deeper knowledge/experience of your Transcendental Self first experienced in Awakening One. It is important to understand that spiritual development must transcend and yet include previous Awakenings. Therefore there is no limit to the depth and subsequent integration of each Awakening. This is a lifetime journey.

1. SCM Unitary Awakening Discovery Pre-Meditation Perform SCM base: now while in this Higher Brain state contemplate deeply the below: • Now let go of the need to do anything and notice how something in you is free of all thoughts, emotions and sensations and yet simultaneously, that something in you resides within all thoughts, emotions and sensations. • Feel the causal/unitary energy body of the Unitary State surround your physical body and surround your subtle body uniting all energy as one integrated field. Now feel your awareness as infinite and yet immanent in everything that arises.

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• Now also notice that causal/unitary body of energy concentrated within your physical body and uniting all energies as refined SalutoGenesis. Feel your awareness inside of this refined SalutoGenic energy. Feel your awareness integrated with the SalutoGenic energy and breath flowing through you. • Now see the causal/unitary energy body pouring into your physical body through the upper and lower SEVs – integrating all energies and all consciousness. • Release your concentration and relax your focus, completely. Instead take a passive observer position. Simply be aware now, without judgment, of anything and everything that arises within your witnessing awareness. Notice that you are not what you observe. If thoughts arise, without judgment or attachment witness thoughts. If emotions arise, without judgment or attachment witness emotions. If sounds arise, without judgment or attachment witness sounds. If sensations arise, without judgment or attachment witness sensations. Notice that the objects of your awareness are NOT you, for YOU are the one that is aware. Witness all that arises without being pulled into what you are witnessing. Objects, be they thoughts, feelings, sensations sounds or emotions can never affect the freedom of the space in which they arise. That space is your own awareness.

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• Open your eyes and read the words below. Contemplate them deeply. Feel them into your being. • Let the story of your life arise in your awareness. Whose story is it anyway? The Watcher of the story cannot be the one who is “in” the story. Every problem that you’ve ever experienced was simply a case of mistaken identity. Travel back in your history. See yourself last week…what part of you is the same now as it was then? The conscious feeling of “I AM”—that simple feeling of being hasn’t changed in the last week. Go back to last year — and the year before — something in you now is the same. Remember yourself as child. What you dreamed of is different, what you believed in has changed, your body has morphed into a new structure, every cell in your body has been replaced from—but something remains — what is it? When you say

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“I”, it is the same “I” yet everything else is different. This “I” that you refer to does not exist in time, it does not have form, yet it was there from your beginning. Even before “your” beginning in time. This “I” was ever present – it was the same “I” that looked through your parent’s eyes, and their parent’s eyes. It was present when the first humans roamed the plains of Africa. It watched as the first life forms arose on the planet. It was “you”. It was the consciousness that was ever-present — the same consciousness that hears (understands) these words now — the same consciousness that wasn’t born and cannot die. Keep moving back, past cosmic explosions, stars newly forming, past the Big Bang – what we see today happened billions of years ago in time. But something formless witnesses now and witnessed then – only now it looks through your eyes, hears with your ears and feels through your hands. The same thing that remains unchanged in you since you were a child was also there at the beginning of space and time. Now that something, which is really NO-thing, is the ever-present background of your life. “I AM” is the same today as it was last year and will be the same tomorrow. You are passing back into that from which you came. Open your eyes and notice the Transcendental Self as pure subject uniting with its object of observation. Notice the Seer and the seen become part of one indivisible whole. Notice this merging until there is no true separation between the Transcendent Self and everything that arises in the world.

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• Make the statements below and pause to feel energy flow to the Higher Brain and Open Heart. • I HAVE a body so I cannot ultimately be that body. I am aware of my emotions; therefore I am not my emotions. I see my mind as thoughts that I can witness as things; therefore, I am NOT those things – I am aware of my body, my mind and my emotions – and that which is aware of something cannot be that something. I must be greater. I am always already the Transcendent Self that knows only the freedom and fullness of consciousness, being and bliss. – Pause –

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• And as such, I am my body, my mind and my emotions. The world arises in me and as me, inseparable and indivisible. My heart is the world’s heart. I am beyond and yet I am everything. • I AM. I AM. I AM… 2. Perform the Unitary Awakening meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 1-2 minutes; with eyes closed and gently gazing to the Higher Brain/3rd eye, repeat IAM, IAM, IAM…. • 1-2 minutes: Repeat, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” Over and over, keep repeating, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” • 1-2 minutes. Notice your body, emotions, thoughts and sensations arising. Watch them from the outside as the observer. Now bring the observer to the inside of any emotions, thoughts and sensations that are arising. Notice consciousness dwelling within all that it is aware of. Now notice that as consciousness is on the outside and then inside of all that arises you feel bliss. Your ground state is bliss. Notice this constant condition of bliss no matter what is arising.

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• Gently open your eyes and notice the inherent light, beauty and perfection in everything arising within your own infinite awareness. Notice that your own awareness is not only outside as the observer but is also on the inside of all that arises. Look around you now and experience that union of your consciousness and all that it witnesses. • Throughout your day notice that your own consciousness, the witness, is not only outside of, but also on the inside of all the objects that it witnesses. In fact, your own awareness is simultaneously free from, and yet one with, everything arising. Your consciousness and ALL objects are united. The observer and the observed arise together. Notice now that whatever arises is filled with the light of your very consciousness, transformed by it, liberated by it. The seer and the seen arise together, liberate together and dance together, in a perfect sacred union.

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SUMMIT 4 FOR 2 WEEKS: Your Authentic Self and Your Soul’s Purpose

We cultivate the three enlightenment states first because the relationships to these deep states provide a sense of absolute freedom and confidence to your Authentic Self. Your Soul and Authentic Self exist in a dynamic self-reinforcing feedback. Your Authentic Self is the soul’s vehicle in space and time. Your Authentic Self expresses your Soul’s purpose and in so doing will likely encounter obstacles – until in time your perspective has shifted to see obstacles as only opportunities. Having a relationship to your Soul Essence is imperative. The solution to obstacles is not to ignore or resist them, but to realize they’ve been put in your path to be faced fully and overcome. You must learn to trust your deeper dimensions and release your need to know and control. Soon you’ll see that every experience is divinely guided to expand your knowledge and grow your soul. The Transcendent and Unitary States are needed by the Authentic Self to provide access to peace beyond conditions. These states provide an absolute freedom from whatever is arising in space and time. The Authentic Self selfactualizes in the world of space and time and in this relative realm things don’t always go exactly like we planned. Therefore having access to those parts of your Self (Transcendent and Unitary States), that are forever free and unconditioned, are needed for the heroic journey of the Authentic Self, expressing its Soul’s purpose through the world of space and time. The Authentic Self is the soul made manifest in the world. Following your bliss, defining your purpose, finding what moves you in this everyday world is what Summit 4 is all about. But here’s the rub, you’re going to encounter obstacles while following that bliss. The solution is not to ignore or to despise or to distract yourself from those obstacles, but to realize it’s the obstacles that have been put in front of you that you must overcome to show the world you’re serious. Your Authentic Self begins to look at these things that you don’t like, as opportunities to grow. The Authentic Self that exists in space and time, gets up in the morning, goes to work, loves its family, and takes out the garbage. Your Authentic Self arises in the manifest world of space and time and must express itself in the world. It is represented in physical form by a shift from a lower brain center of gravity to the Higher Brain. This is a shift away from having to protect oneself and view life as a struggle. “Just surviving” is replaced by “thriving”; the experience of purpose and passion, a compulsion to create and a desire to make ourselves and the world better. We become stripped of our cultural conditioning and live a fearlessly authentic life.

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1. SCM Authentic Self: Soul Purpose Discovery Pre-Meditation • Set aside about 30 minutes to complete Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery. You want to move through it quickly with intuition and insight and not get into the ‘thinking’ brain. • Perform SCM base; now while in this Higher Brain begin the ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery’, by stating answers to each of the 12 questions (below) out loud to yourself (one at a time) and write whatever answers flood into your awareness. Do NOT analyze them. You will use a revolutionary method to test your answers for accuracy later. Simply let flow (by writing) 3 or 4 answers for each question. 2. Your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery I feel happiest when A)  B)  C)  D) 

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I want to be known for A)  B)  C)  D)  I feel love when I A)  B)  C)  D)  I lose track of time when I A)  B)  C)  D) 

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I would like to become a better A)  B)  C)  D)  I am at my best when I A)  B)  C)  D)  I am the most creative while A)  B)  C)  D) 

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I feel inspired when A)  B)  C)  D) 

I would like to make the world better by A)  B)  C)  D)  I can be of greater service by A)  B)  C)  D) 

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I feel passionate about A)  B)  C)  D)  My gifts are A)  B)  C)  D)  Following the completion of your ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery’ you will now test your statements by noting the amplification of SalutoGenesis (Higher Brain response of breath/energy/movement) in your body when you reintroduce each statement and answers above. Circle the answers (A, B, C or D) to each question that produces the greatest SalutoGenic response. This is such a profound part of your journey. You can access deep trans-rational truths by ‘feeding’ your soul the question and letting it provide the answer in the form of heightened SalutoGenic response. Your soul registers the deep truth of the statement by the amplification of breath and energy within you. These SalutoGenic affirmations are trans-rational modes of knowing through intuition and insight. They bypass the paralysis by analysis of circular rational thinking and get right to the truth of the matter. You are learning to source truth from deeper dimensions of your being.

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3. Checking the ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery’ Statements with SalutoGenesis • Set aside about 30 minutes to complete checking the Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Discovery. You want to move through it quickly with intuition and insight and not get into the ‘thinking’ brain. • Perform SCM base again – Sit up and state each of the statements followed by each of the answers (The statement, then A answer, then the statement again and B answer, then the statement again and C answer, then statement again and D answer), one at a time, pausing and feeling the response

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in your body. Simply note, without judging, which one produces the greatest SalutoGenic response. When you say statements A, B, C, and D, which one causes the greatest surge of breath, movement, or energy? This is an affirmation by your Soul. – Go through each series of questions. Circle the answer/s (A, B, C, or D) that produces the greatest SalutoGenic feedback, for each one of the statements. If two or more answers produce a SalutoGenic response similar in strength you can circle all. Assessing all the questions should only take 10 minutes once you sit up and begin. The process goes quickly because you are bypassing the thinking, ruminating brain and going deeper to the intuitive Higher Brain. Once you have bypassed the “thinking, ruminating” part of the brain to get to deeper modes of knowing… trust it! Don’t edit! 4. Creating The Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra • Set aside about 1 hour to complete your ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra’. While in this higher brain state you will weave the above questions and the SalutoGenesis affirmed answers into a very short paragraph. The questions and the affirmed answers are the raw content that is to become the song of your soul. You are going to set the words to music so to speak, or another way to say it is take the truth statements and turn them into your soul’s poem. Take some paper/your journal and write down the questions and answers you have gathered, refining them in four ‘takes’ until you have created your final mantra. You are to weave the raw content into a cohesive statement that rolls off your tongue as truth. Work all the affirmed answers in the soul song until you arrive at the final take, the Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra, that you can write down below.

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5. Perform SCM base now and begin creating your ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra’. Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra Final Take    

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     During the Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Meditation below you will first access the Unitary State (which transcends and includes the Transcendent State and the Soul State), and pour that Unitary state into our Authentic Self, Soul Purpose. As we know, these awakened enlightenment states and their eternal and timeless truths are necessary ‘ground states’ for the Authentic Self to have access to a peaceful refuge as it goes on the soul’s journey in the world of matter and manifestation.

6. Perform the Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 1-2 minutes; with eyes closed and gently gazing to the Higher Brain/3rd eye, repeat I AM, I AM, I AM….

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• 1-2 minutes; repeat, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” Over and over, keep repeating, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” • 1-2 minutes; state your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose mantra. Over and over again…state your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose mantra. • Open your eyes, state your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra one time, feel that produce a surge of breathe and energy in your body and then visualize it being just as you said it was. Say it. Feel it. See it. • Throughout your day state your, ‘Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra’; it is now anchored to Higher Brain physiology and the Unitary State of consciousness. Once you’ve awakened and acknowledge the potential and the deeper aspects of your being as central to and consolidated with your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra, you’ll understand that there’s no other way to live but with courage and integrity.

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If you choose to act without integrity – and not honor or act from the truth within your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra – you’ll notice the effects. You may be faced with anxiety, depression or a disease that requires you to discontinue certain behaviors and realign. Your highest knowing wants your attention and demands that you address what really matters. When you try to hide at this level, your suffering may be intense until you surrender to your inner calling. At this level of evolution, all of this is bigger than you are. You may experience a ‘dark night of the soul’ (your lower brain never goes away and can dig its heels in at any time). The key is to recognize the discontent as a transition point that can act as fuel to catalyze more growth and evolution within you, through you and as you. This is a hero’s journey.

SUMMIT 5 FOR 2 WEEKS: Look up: Promoting the Vertical Trajectory of the Authentic Self

1. SCM Vertical growth Discovery Pre-Meditation • Perform SCM base; now while in this Higher Brain state contemplate deeply the following:

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• See yourself as an infant at the archaic level of the Epochs below, unconsciously valuing food and safety and in a fusion state with your environment. Next, consciously walk yourself through your own growth as you moved up through the Epochs, integrating all of the enduring features listed below. Try to remember the times in your life that each vertically arranged Epoch best described you. Think back through the years as 4 or 5 times before you climbed to a higher altitude of consciousness. See yourself taking the journey, each step up from Epoch 1 to 2 to 3 to 4, a new altitude, until here you are now at Epoch 5 as a cultural creative. Deeply honoring other cultures, rightfully demanding justice for everyone, concerned for the environment and all of its inhabitants. • This has been quite a journey. Honor it. Acknowledge the profound world-centric consciousness that forms the core of your value system. Your journey is a journey that took the species 100,000 years to accomplish; you have taken it in one lifetime. You are the leading edge. And now…. it is time to leap.

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Look up at Epoch 6 Emergence and Ascent; feel those defining features. See yourself taking your world-centric postmodern values with you as you step up another rung on the ladder and integrate all of the key features of Epoch 6 into your being. Feel that evolutionary drive to become, to grow, to create, to self-actualize in a new higher way. EPOCH 6: Ascension

Key Features: • Kosmocentric • Driven to create heaven on earth • Values all of the created and uncreated • Sees all matter as ‘awake’ • Sees all energy as ‘living’ • Direct Identification with supreme spirit • Sees the world as process • Exists simultaneously in and out of time • One with the entire Kosmos (inside and outside)

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EPOCH 6: Emergence

Key Features: • Universalistic • Self-actualization • Insight and intuition • Systems thinking inclined • Holistic • Flexible • Holds multiple perspectives • Sees relative reality as co-created • Depth • Horizontal + Vertical orientation • Visionary

EPOCH 5: Pluralistic, Postmodern (You are here? Look Up)

Key Features: • Eco-centric to include all sentient beings • Postmodern values • Egalitarian • Equal rights

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• All cultures have valid truths • Care about the environment • Caring for all • Multi-cultural EPOCH 4: Achievement, Modern

Key Features: • World-centric • Modern values • Achievement • Rational • Autonomy • Conscientious • Scientific • Fiscal responsibility EPOCH 3: Traditional, Mythic Literal

Key Features: • Personal responsibility • Accountability • Structured life • Disciplined life

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EPOCH 2: Power, Egocentric

Key Features: • Confidence • Self-assertiveness EPOCH 1: Magical, Egocentric

Key Features: • Lives in an enchanted world • In touch with emotions • Deep relationship with nature • Strong family bonds THE FIRST HUMANS: Instinctual, Archaic

Key Features: • Survival

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• Food • Healthy sex drive • Shelter • Protection Perform the Vertical Growth in the Spiral of Development Meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then:

• Open your eyes and notice the Epochs above. See yourself standing just above Epoch 5 and looking up. See the glimmers of the new world of Epoch 6 emergence and ascension shimmering, almost within reach. Your Authentic Self is your vehicle and your soul’s purpose is its fuel. Time to leap now. • State your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra, feel the power in that. See it lifting you toward Epoch 6. Say it, feel it, see it. • Stand now and let your shoulders fall back as your heart rises up, and state the mantra of Epoch 6. “I have enveloped the entire vertical spiral into my being. I contain the entire cosmos in my body. My consciousness is one with the godhead. I see how reality is constructed. I see how everything is connected. I prioritize my own evolution. I prioritize the world’s evolution. I am a process. I have depth. I am 13.8 billion years old and I am going somewhere. I continue to move vertically. I am creating the conditions for heaven on earth.” Say it, feel it, see it.

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Feel yourself being pulled up into higher Life Altitudes. Epoch 6.

SUMMIT 6 FOR 2 WEEKS: Look down: Reclaiming the Spiral of Development

Since you are committed to enveloping the entire spiral, we want each altitude to be whole and healthy as you include all the lower Epochs. Any previous failure to transcend AND include, fully disrupts the spiral. Because evolution can be messy, this inevitably happens to us all. Assuming the reader is a cultural creative at Epoch 5, integrating the first 4 Epochs is the single greatest way to create a healthy Epoch 5 that is required for the jump to Epoch 6. You must establish a healthy foundation. As you reach

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up you must reach back down and integrate. We don’t want to ignore our problems, we want to find them and fix them once we have Higher Brain capacities to make the changes needed. These next two Summits require that you uncover areas where you failed to integrate, and areas of shadow elements. From a Higher Brain perspective these are NOT ‘problems’ but instead are opportunities to catalyze more growth. You are going to mine the energy from these ‘failures to integrate’ your shadows and use that energy as fuel for your higher brain. Perform SCM base; now while in this Higher Brain state contemplate deeply the following: • Look at the following page at the listed ‘hallmarks’, while in this Higher Brain state., while in this Higher Brain state, at the listed ‘hallmarks’. You will see the most common hallmarks of the failure to integrate at each particular level. There may be more but for now let’s concentrate on the hallmarks. The classic hallmarks elements (ie: food, sex, power, discipline, money etc.) of each Epoch, are listed above the space to write.

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• If you have ‘failure to integrate’ with any of the hallmarks, write down what its healthy manifestation would look like. Dig in and look deeply from your current higher state, you have the physiology to change what you find quickly, and you will use your empowered physiology during the upcoming meditation. • You are not looking for a problem, you are only noting the ‘failure to integrate’ a hallmark of each Epoch so that it can be integrated into your being and catalyze more growth. An Epoch 3 example of healthy expression: “I take full responsibility for the disciplined structured life that is necessary to fulfill my purpose in the world.” An Epoch 4 example of healthy expression: “I am fiscally abundant and can use that abundance to pursue my purpose and make the world a better place.”

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EPOCH ZERO

Failure to integrate hallmark = challenges regarding: Food Write what a healthy expression of this Epoch would look like to you:

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Failure to integrate hallmark = challenges regarding: Sex Write what a healthy expression of this Epoch would look like to you.

  

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Failure to integrate hallmark = challenges regarding: Power, Self Confidence Write what a healthy expression of this Epoch would look like to you:

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EPOCH THREE

Failure to integrate hallmark = challenges regarding: Fitting In, Discipline, Accountability Write what a healthy expression of this Epoch would look like to you:

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Failure to integrate hallmark = challenges regarding: Money, Achievement, Autonomy Write what a healthy expression of this Epoch would look like to you:



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     Now that you have scanned and written the healthy expression of each ‘failure to integrate’ hallmark of each Epoch, look at the ‘key features’ list below (while in your Higher Brain state) for each Epoch. Notice if there are any ‘failure to integrate’ dynamics with any of the enduring features. Have you become too mired in new age magical thinking? Do you need to reclaim your relationship to rational thought in Epoch 4? Is your emotional and sexual life out of balance? Do you need to integrate your healthy Epoch 2?

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If you discover areas within yourself where you failed to integrate and have missing key features from any of the lower Epochs, also write down the healthy expression of that key feature above as you did for the hallmarks. EPOCH 5: Pluralistic, Postmodern

Key Features: • World-centric to include all sentient beings • Postmodern Values • Egalitarian • Equal Rights • All cultures have valid truths • Care about the Environment • Caring for all • Multi-cultural YOU ARE HERE. Look down EPOCH 4: Achievement, Modern

Key Features: • World-centric • Modern values • Achievement • Rational • Autonomy • Conscientious • Scientific • Fiscal responsibility

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EPOCH 3: Traditional, Mythic Literal

Key Features: • Personal responsibility • Accountability • Structured life • Disciplined life EPOCH 2: Power, Egocentric

Key Features: • Confidence • Self-assertiveness

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EPOCH 1: Magical, Egocentric

Key Features: • Lives in an enchanted world • In touch with emotions • Deep relationship with nature • Strong family bonds • Healthy sex drive

EPOCH ZERO: The First Humans: Instinctual, Archaic

Key Features: • Survival • Food • Shelter • Protection Perform the ‘Look down’. Reclaiming the spiral of development meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then:

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• 2-4 minutes: open your eyes and while deep in the Higher Brain state look at your list of healthy expressions for each Epoch. Start at Epoch Zero and read each healthy expression once while ‘seeing’ the healthy expression take hold within you, and feel that particular Epoch becoming strong and resonant as the missing key features are established in your spiral base. Notice how SalutoGenesis responds with breath, and energy flows, as this healthy Epoch becomes integrated into your being. Repeat 7 times (say it, feel it, see it). Do this for each of the 4 lower Epochs. • 2-4 minutes: Now close your eyes again and gently gaze towards your Higher Brain/3rd eye. Feel the health of the entire spiral integrating into your body/mind as SalutoGenesis carries it to your Higher Brain. • Feel and see the solid foundation supporting the journey of your Authentic Self into Epoch 6. • Open your eyes and go into the world a Change Agent.

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SUMMIT 7 FOR 2 WEEKS: Illuminate, Liberate and Trans-Mutate ​ the Shadow into High Brain Fuel

“We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.” — DENG MING-DAO…

Do you own it or does it own you? Your Authentic Self is off the launch pad…we want to add fuel to its ascent by transmuting your Shadow elements into fuel. This shadow as psychological repression becomes locked in an unconscious loop of shadow/lower brain energy. The shadow becomes buried deep in our unconscious and anchored to lower brain physiology. Once the shadow is hidden our newly awakened Higher Brain/higher consciousness may not find it, to feel it, face it and deal with it with its higher strategies. Locating the shadow during the active energized Higher Brain state, which is coupled to the consciousness of absolute peace, dwelling within as your Transcendent Self, provides not only an upgraded sophisticated evolving brain with increased capacity but also a spacious opening in consciousness for the shadow to surface within and become metabolized. It is widely believed that all humans have repressed ‘shadow energy’ buried deep within them. Our ‘shadows’ are maintained below the conscious threshold by primitive lower brain mechanisms. Previous life events and circumstances that were unconsciously processed or contextualized in ways incompatible with the psychological and physiological processing systems, at the time of experience, could not always be reconciled. The shadow must now be integrated through Higher Brain states and SalutoGenic mechanisms. The unresolved areas of our life resulted in incomplete development (often at a young age). These incompatible parts of us then become locked into unconscious lower brain patterns. We often have no awareness of when or how this repression occurs, as parts of us were split off from the developing personality and remained hidden. If not fully brought into awareness and processed by Higher Brain strategies the shadow remains repressed and anchored to the survival based lower brain, and rears its ugly head in unconscious ways throughout a lifetime. It is my experience that these shadow areas can be one of the greatest detriments to our spiritual progress.

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Summit 7 and its transmutation of the shadow into fuel is utilized at this key time to remove the final obstacles to your liberation. It was necessary that you progressed through the first 6 Summits to now mine and utilize shadow energy. It is your Higher Brain/Higher Heart physiology and your Transcendent Self’s consciousness, that can shift the shadow into its liberated power for transformation. The repressed shadow - once released from the grip of the lower brain and brought into Higher Brain/Higher Heart physiology and the full light of fearless awareness of your Transcendent Self – cannot maintain its illusion of separateness and cannot oppose the evolutionary currents of SalutoGenesis. Summit 7 shifts the shadow into the light of awareness and transmutes the darkness into light, you won’t simply eliminate the shadow, you will convert it into opportunity. Once the shadow enters the awareness of the Transcendent Self it is objectified within the fearless state of pure witnessing awareness. It is not attached to, but witnessed as conscious intention flows from the Transcendent Self, and directs the ‘shadow as object’ into the stream of flowing SalutoGenesis as it is converted to neutral raw energy flowing to the Higher Brain as fuel.

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Illuminate, liberate and Trans-mutate the Shadow into High Brain Fuel Pre-Meditation. • Perform SCM base

• Now while in this Higher Brain state, perform the 4D Shadow Scan below. Locate the stuck or challenging areas in each of the 4 dimensions. Each dimension may have stuck and challenging areas that are signs of shadows crying for attention and needing integration. These four parameters; challenges or stuck areas, avoidance or attraction, disowned or denied or repressed, and competing narrative, are all connected to lower brain physiology and will be resolved in the next meditation through Higher Brain physiology. So let’s begin bringing the shadows into Higher Brain awareness so we can use them as fuel for growth during the upcoming meditation. Begin by reading the description of the 5 shadow parameters below and then noting how they are playing out in your life by filling in the blanks below for each dimension.

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The Five Shadow Parameters • My Mind Shadow – list the parameters (Challenges/Stuck areas, Origin/ History, Avoidance/Attraction etc.) • My Body Shadow – again list parameters • My Relationship Shadow – again list parameters • My Environment Shadow – again list parameters Challenges/Stuck Areas – Write down any challenges you currently experience for each dimension. Do you struggle with your thoughts in the mind dimension? Do you have weight issues for low energy in the body dimension? Has the relationship with your significant other gone flat? Are you having a hard time finding a significant other? What about your environment; do you like where you live? Does it stimulate your creativity? Is your career path rewarding and meaningful? Origin/History – Did the challenge/stuck area begin at a certain point in time? Was it related to a particular event? Was something that happened incompatible with ‘how you thought things were supposed to be’? Did someone do something to you? Were you bullied or made fun of? Did your father say you would never amount to anything? Did your mother say you weren’t good enough or pretty enough? Did your marriage fail? Did you lose your business? Not promoted? Sometimes during the higher brain state these memories come up so they can be processed. Write them down.

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Avoidance/Attraction – Does the challenge have a hyper avoidance or hyper attraction associated with it? Write down what it looks and feels like to be avoiding or attracted. Are you avoiding intimacy? Are you hyper attractive to sex? Write down the challenges in each dimension where you are hyper avoiding or hyper attracted. Disowned/Denied/Projected – What have you disowned or denied about yourself? This can most easily be found by what you project onto other people. What do you most admire in someone? What is it about them? Usually the opposite is how you unconsciously feel about yourself? Who do you most despise? What is it about them? Could the opposite be true in you? Competing Narrative – A competing narrative is a hidden underlying fear of growing or creating greater success in some area of life. For instance, I may complain and worry that the state of my financial situation never seems to

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change no matter what I do. My surface narrative is that I dislike my financial situation and want it to change so that I can have fiscal abundance. However my underlying competing shadow narrative is that I’m really safe with the ‘sameness’ of the financial condition I have currently created. Unconsciously creating that sameness produces safety because I know the territory of being broke and I know how to deal with it. Actually creating financial abundance will create demands on me and require things of me that I don’t really believe I’m up to it. What would I do with financial abundance? How would I invest it? Who would manage it? I don’t know anything about stocks and bonds… the competing narrative actually feels more risky to the lower brain because it is an unknown. Now the invitation is to ponder these different aspects of the shadow with regard to your own life and write them down. Use your journal, a piece of paper or your computer; it's important that you have a visual record in order to work with them more efficiently.

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1. Limiting Beliefs

7. Body

2. Emotions

8. Posture

3. Fears

9. Genetics

4. Religious Beliefs

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11. Habits

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18. Clubs, Teams, Organization

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19. Family Dynamic

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Illuminate, liberate and trans-mutate the Shadow into High Brain Fuel Meditation by: • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then:

• Open your eyes and in this Higher Brain state, look at your 4D Shadow Scan starting with the Mind. Read all 5-shadow parameters for the mind dimension, aloud to yourself. • Close your eyes now and let the shadow complex of the mind dimension, with its challenges or stuck areas, origin or history, avoidances or attractions, disowned, or denied or repressed parts, and the competing narrative, float into your awareness during this Higher Brain state. Watch it without judgment from the Higher Brain state. The important core components of it will jump into awareness. You don’t need to see or remember it all. • Feel the emotion or sensations that are associated as those core components jump into awareness. Notice that the core components of the shadow have a tone or texture or feeling: what do they feel like? Don’t think about it…just notice the underlying feeling tone and texture. Notice that what you are feeling is really just an ‘energy’. A shadow energy that has been in resonance and sustained by your lower brain. Feel that energy in your body. Don’t judge it.

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• In this Higher Brain state, SalutoGenesis has released that shadow energy from the lower brain that sustains it. Now your shadows are just free-floating clouds of energy arising in the awareness of the conscious observer. It is now only energy, and energy is not inherently good or bad. Observe it as energy. There is no more ‘story’, just a cloud of energy that you can re-purpose and use as an ‘activation energy’ to further fuel the already flowing SalutoGenesis to the Higher Brain. • Now see the clouds of energy arise and gently, intentionally, guide them with your awareness into the current of flowing SalutoGenesis heading for your brain. These clouds of energy are now more fuel for your transformation.

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• Again, watch the contents of your mind arise, see those contents as energy, hold that energy in your consciousness and usher it into the flow of SalutoGenesis to your brain for more transformation. • As the shadow is freed, its compacted, bound, unconscious energy is freed thus freeing greater consciousness from the unconscious, and as the freed energy is burned as fuel for the brain, consciousness awakens further from the super-conscious centers of brain being energized. • The shadow energy has just become a wormhole into greater consciousness. • Repeat this for each of the 4 dimensions of your 4D Shadow Scan.

SUMMIT 8 FOR 2 WEEKS: Your Life Codes

The doer becomes the deed almost as an afterthought

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In an earlier chapter on Integral Metatheory we illustrated how all four dimensions are tied together and reinforce one another. We used ‘healing’ as an easy way to illustrate the often hidden relationship between all four dimensions of life. In Summit 7 we located shadow in all four dimensions and used shadow energy as fuel for our growth. Your shadow energy has loosened its grip, the rocket is off the launch pad and your Authentic Self is moving vertically towards Epoch 6. Now you will consciously liberate your Authentic Self in all 4 dimensions and set all 4 in rapid vertical motion. You will determine what a liberated evolving representation of each dimension looks and feels like, and the actionable steps needed to create evolution in all four dimensions of your new life. In Summit 7, through SalutoGenesis, you disrupted the self-reinforcing feedback response between lower brain physiology and its expression in all 4 dimensions of your life. You found the shadow energy and converted it to fuel for your brain. You will now take your continuously awakening Higher Brain into Summit 8 and your SCM Life Scan. The SCM Life Scan is used as a means to reflect all four dimensions (mind, body, relationships, environment) back to the newly energized Higher Brain, and ‘see’ and ‘feel’ each of the 4 dimensions from a point of higher level congruence with your Authentic Self. Then in the Higher

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Brain state, your will discover the key ‘right action’ of your Authentic self that can bring about this evolution in each dimension. The right actions coupled to the higher dimensional representations are condensed into ‘Life Codes’. Life codes contain the ‘action required to create the outcome desired’ in each of the 4 dimensions that your Authentic Self is navigating on, in its vertical accent. During the Summit 8 meditation your will associate your Life Codes with the awakened Higher Brain response. Then as you go forward in the world, and recite your Life Codes, the Higher Brain state will become contextualized around the ‘actions required to create the outcome desired’. This allows you to create evolutionary change in each dimension. You want all 4 dimensions evolving in your life as one, consistent with the wakeful, powerful, joyful, integrity of your Authentic Self. You are going to fall in love with your life over and over again. Of particular import here is to understand that there may be times that the evolution of that next dimensions seems so big and overwhelming that even as you engage the Higher Brain you sense resistance, the old lower brain still wants to rear its ugly head and put the brakes on. Remember the 9 Summits are a process spiral, not a perfectly linear unfolding. The ability to have awareness to the lower brain’s attempted coup, means that your Higher Brain is still dominant. Simply acknowledge the lower brain’s tricks and do what needs to be done any way. Each new evolution and revolution upwards through the spiral of your development can create a temporary sense of resistance in any dimension. As you continue to practice SCM and pursue the 9 Summits you learn to just smile at the lower brain’s attempt to hijack your higher life and you simply use your Life Codes to create a greater burst of Higher Brain energy, and you take the action you need to take anyway. When this happens something remarkable happens; that commitment to change and the action taken begins to myelinate the pathways in your Higher Brain, that correspond with the action required and the outcome desired. You use the peak brain/mind states + right action to create new structures in your brain. Over time, what started out feeling like it may have required the ‘will’ to act, becomes what I call the ‘choiceless choice’. It simultaneously feels as though you are making a conscious willful choice, and at the same time, like you have no choice because this is your destiny. Your destiny becomes hardwired into your brain and becomes the myelinated default pathways you use to navigate through your higher life, spiraling up each time through the 9 Summits. You mold your brain to the life you want to create!

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE: if you do not take the action your growth can stop.

Why would you continue to evolve if you are not using what you have already been given? We are built for evolution, and once the Higher Brain is energized we must always seek growth, or we will sense that we are flat-lining, even if we have come miles ahead, from where we started. The feeling of being ‘stuck’ or frustrated is the call to grow more. The ”evolutionary tension” signals us that development is imminent. As you flow through this Summit you will not only be able to energize your Higher Brain and attain higher consciousness, but also your will learn to create this thrive brain/mind state while you are, simultaneously, associating specific new positive thoughts, goals, actions and intentions. The shift in brain dominance to the Higher Brain region and its associated empowered states of consciousness can be connected to and used to drive forward the specific changes desired in your life. In effect you replace lower brain physiology – associated with the areas of your life that are stuck – with the higher growth-seeking region of your brain. This context-specific empowered brain state can then be directed at your goals and aspirations leading you into a consciously evolving lifestyle in all 4 dimensions. From the Higher Brain state you can develop the awareness as to what exactly needs to change and the clarity as to how that change can manifest. Your newly empowered brain state can then be brought to bear on the specific areas of life that you seek progress in, thereby creating real and lasting transformation. The rules of the game change when a shift from lower brain dominance to the Higher Brain begins. Stress is released, consciousness expands, emotions are elevated, positive thoughts flow, bad genes are turned off and good genes are turned on. While in the Higher Brain state everything just works better, including the simultaneous utilization of other growth-promoting techniques and practices (ie., exercise, psychotherapy, yoga, etc.). Clarity beyond complexity is a hallmark of Higher Brain perception and you will develop a keen awareness as to what lifestyle changes and additional techniques or practices would serve your growth the best, as the Higher Brain state is engaged and you are on the path to a more meaningful and significant life.

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It has been said, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. That’s because intentions do not become real until they are anchored to Higher Brain physiology.

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Life Codes Pre-meditation • Perform SCM base • While in the Higher Brain state write down below, the outcome that you desire within your ‘mind dimension’. You are in the trans-rational capacities of your brain, let your intuition and insight guide you. Just purge onto the paper the higher outcome of that dimension. Don’t worry about ‘how’ you are going to get there or that you have tried to make changes in the past and failed….just simply write down what the dimension would look like from the perspective of your Authentic Self. • Now make a list of action steps that you would need to take to attain the outcome required. • Do the above for all four dimensions • Now beginning again with your mind dimensions write down 1-3 words – in the space provided at the bottom of the dimension – that best describes the most key aspect or most key action of the action required and 1-3 words that best describes the most key aspect of the outcome desired.

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The 1-3 word action required and the 1-3 word outcome desired are ‘Life Codes’, that will be further anchored to Higher Brain physiology during the Life Codes meditation. The context of all that you wrote down in the 4D Life Scan, regarding the full outcome desired, and all the full action required, are embedded in the Life Codes. So the Life Codes have the full context of the action required to create the outcome desired embedded in them for high level representations of each of your 4 Dimensions. As the Life Codes becomes deeply associated with Higher Brain physiology in the Life Code Meditation, that high level context becomes anchored into the actual physiology needed to make it happen. As the relationship between the Life Codes and Higher Brain physiology deepens, you will be able to state the code when approaching specific areas of your dimensions that you are trying to evolve in. Stating the Life Code will then create an upload of energy into your Higher Brain, along with its empowered state of consciousness, all contextualized around the specific area you are trying to change! As you take action and make change from this Higher Brain state, on a neurochemical level, adenosine is released and stimulates the production of myelin which wraps itself around these pathways in your brain making them flow faster and more efficiently towards your higher life.

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Life Codes Meditation • 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 1 minute: Open your eyes and look at the entire Mind Scan, let it flow into your awakened brain state and be carried through you with SalutoGenesis. Put full attention on this mind scan and feel it integrate into your being. • 1 minute: Now look at the Mind Code. Say it out loud over and over. • 1 minute: Close your eyes and gently gaze upwards towards your Higher Brain, put your tongue behind your teeth on the roof of your mouth, let your hands assume any mudra that arises. Repeat your Mind Code over and over again in this Higher Brain state. Put all of your attention on the code as it couples to SalutoGenesis and travels to your Higher Brain. • 1 minute: Now feel the surge of energy this Code produces and see it being just like you said it was. Say it. Feel it. See it.

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• Do the same above for each of your four dimensions • Each day repeat your Life Codes multiple times and feel the surge of energy flow to your brain. As you approach the specific dimension that you want to change, state the Life Code that represents that dimension and feel the empowered state contextualized to the change you want to make…and take the action required to create the outcome desired.

You have been given this gift of Higher Brain function to use it and when you do you are rewarded with new and deeper Higher Brain potential that can be used to promote higher new levels of your evolution. This creates an endless upward spiral of Higher Brain response leading to positive life changes, which further promotes a deeper and more powerful Higher Brain response that can be used to advance your life in higher ways with ever-increasing depth and evolution throughout the course of your lifetime.

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SUMMIT 9 FOR 2 WEEKS: Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment

Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment

• Experience/Knowledge: During this Awakening, you recognize your evolving nature and begin to unfold and expand. The ‘light of consciousness’ pours into form as Transcendent Self – and your experience of the world no longer feels separate. You become a co-creator, one with the evolving cosmos. The Unitary State has become one with the radically evolving Authentic Self as it lives in Epoch 6. • Technique: Energizing the Higher Brain and aligning it back 13.8 billion years to the Big Bang. This zero-point leads directly to the timeless Transcendent Self. Finally, you’ll launch forward to the present as ‘spirit in action’, as you step into pure, divine, evolutionary and awakened consciousness. • Physiology: Synchronization of the open Higher Heart and the fearless Higher Brain spiritual state creates such a powerful energy dynamic that a new physiology emerges. Through sympathetic resonance, all (lower and higher) brain structures, organs, cells, DNA, energy fields and energy pathways of the body integrate.

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Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Pre-Meditation

• Perform SCM Base • Lie on your back and read the words below as you join me on a 13.8 billionyear journey and let’s get a glimpse of who you really are. Read the words slowly and deeply contemplate them, let the words and what they point to become coupled to the SalutoGenesis flowing in your body. • Here is the story of the universe according to modern physics and cosmology. First there was nothing—and then in one creative act, emergence—a Big Bang and a world came into being. How is this possible? Zero plus zero is supposed to equal zero…but it didn’t. From nothing came something. The ‘laws of physics’ came into existence which cosmologists tell us are so precise, if any of at least a dozen initial conditions were even a fraction

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of a degree different, the universe could not have come into form. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Eight billion years prior to the appearance of the first life form on the planet, evolution was already unfolding in insentient matter. So from this sheet of space/time comes matter/energy soup—and something (I believe the evolutionary impulse) that is inexplicably stirring this soup of matter and energy into greater degrees of organization; quarks then protons (the same protons are in your body today), then atoms, then molecules...Then…this inert matter spiraled into our earth about 4.5 billion years ago… and another Big Bang—the emergence of life—something completely new was created out of supposedly dead, inert, purposeless matter. Every atom in your body is composed of the protons that appeared mysteriously from nothing 13.8 billion years ago. Dying stars, billions of years ago produced many of the elements in your body today (calcium in your bones and iron in your blood came from a star)… The material from stars wound itself into molecules, and 3.5 billion years ago, life appeared in the form of single-celled organisms. But the evolutionary impulse didn’t rest. Five hundred million years ago, complex life forms appeared and then six million years ago hominids…and two million years ago the first humans and 100,000 years ago modern humans...and now you!

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• Now reverse direction; go backward to where that evolutionary impulse thrust itself into existence. What was there before the Big Bang? You were! Formless dimension, pure consciousness—what’s left when we strip away all matter and energy. And consciousness is eternal. Not eternal in the sense that it goes on forever…oh no, much more eternal than that. The world’s wisdom traditions tell us that consciousness never even enters the stream of time…remember…space and time had a beginning. But what was before that? Pure primal, eternal consciousness. Unchanging, uncreated, unborn and undying that never entered the stream of time. The same consciousness in you hearing these words right now. You are that—The Transcendent Self. This is the only place you can ever know peace, because the finite you is going to rot, decay and die. But your Transcendent Self, the core of your very being wasn’t born, can’t die and cannot be hurt; because there is absolutely nothing to hurt. Knowing this is how you become free. In the final release, the pure primal radiant consciousness ( you at your core) of the Transcendent Self—the subject to all objects in the universe—must pour itself/yourself into the manifest world through

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you. Now, this radiant light of consciousness joins in oneness with your evolving Authentic Self, world and life process. • Sit up with chest out and shoulders back. Perform your EPOCH 6 Unitary Evolutionary Discovery technique. Answer the questions below in this awakened state, do not think or analyze just let it flow. This flow state should feel like the pen in your hand has a life all of its own, as the deep truth within you comes to the surface and converts deep transpersonal truths into the medium of ink on paper… let it flow now. 1. I am most alive to the evolutionary impulse when I? A) B) C) D)

   

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5. I feel like an architect of Epoch 6 when? A) B) C) D)

   

6. My life has become defined by? A) B) C) D)

   

Following the completion of your ‘EPOCH 6 Unitary Evolutionary Discovery’ you will now test your statements by noting the amplification of SalutoGenesis, (Higher Brain response of breath/energy/movement) in your body when you reintroduce each statement and answer above. Circle the answers (A, B, C or D) to each question that produces the greatest SalutoGenic response. This is such a profound part of your journey. You can access deep trans-rational truths by ‘feeding’ your soul the question and letting it provide the answer in the form of heightened SalutoGenic response. Your soul and spirit registers the deep truth of the statement by the amplification of breath and energy within you. These SalutoGenic affirmations are trans-rational modes of knowing through intuition and insight. They bypass the paralysis by analysis of circular rational thinking and get right to the truth of the matter. You are learning to source truth from deeper dimensions of your being.

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Checking The EPOCH 6 Unitary Evolutionary Discovery Statements With Salutogenesis

• Set aside about 30 minutes to complete checking the Unitary Evolutionary Discovery statement. You want to move through it quickly with intuition and insight and not get into the ‘thinking’ brain. • Perform SCM base again 1. Sit up and state each of the statements followed by each of the answers (The statement then A, answer, then the statement again and B, answer, then the statement again and C, answer, then statement again and D answer), one at a time, pausing and feeling the response in your body. Simply note, without judging, which one produces the greatest SalutoGenic response. When you say statements A, B, C, and D, which one causes the greatest surge of breath, movement, or energy? This is an affirmation by your Soul and Spirit.

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2. Go through each series of questions. Circle the answer/s (A, B, C, or D) that produces the greatest SalutoGenic feedback, for each one of the statements. Assessing all the questions should only take 10 minutes once you sit up and begin. The process goes quickly because you are bypassing the thinking, ruminating brain and going deeper to the intuitive Higher Brain. Once you have bypassed the “thinking, ruminating” part of the brain to get to deeper modes of knowing… trust it! Don’t edit! Creating The Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Mantra (UEEM)

• Set aside about 1 hour to complete my ‘Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Mantra’. Feel free, anytime, to again perform the SCM base. While in this Awakened state you will weave the above questions and the SalutoGenesis affirmed answers into a very short paragraph. The questions and the affirmed answers are the raw content that is to become the song of your soul. You are going to set the words to music so to speak, or another way to say it is take the truth statements and turn it into your soul’s poem. Take some paper / your journal and write down the answers you have gathered, refining them in four steps until you have created

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your final paragraph. Over four ‘takes’, you are to weave the raw content into a cohesive statement that rolls off your tongue as truth. Work all the affirmed answers in the soul song until you arrive at the final take, which you might want to write down here. Perform SCM base now, and begin creating your ‘Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Mantra’. UEEM Final Take

   

During the Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment meditation below you will first access the Unitary State (which transcends and includes the Transcendent State and the Soul State), and pour that Unitary state into our Authentic Self, Soul’s purpose. As we know, these awakened enlightenment states and their eternal and timeless truths are necessary ‘ground states’ for the Authentic Self to have access to a peaceful refuge as it goes on the soul’s journey in the world of matter and manifestation. Your Authentic Self is emerging into Epoch 6 and creating heaven on earth.

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Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Meditation

• 10 minutes: Perform SCM and then: • 1-2 minutes: with eyes closed and gently gazing to the Higher Brain/3rd eye, repeat I AM, IAM, IAM…. • 1-2 minutes: repeat, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” Over and over, keep repeating, “I am beyond and yet I am everything.” • 1-2 minutes: open your eyes and state “I am” followed by your Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Mantra. Over and over… • 1-2 minutes: close your eyes and, feel, as Causal/Unitary energy floods into your body.

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• Open your eyes and find that your life arises in a synchronous flow and all of life is the objective of meditative awareness, and all objects are one with the consciousness that observes them, and all life is meditation and all meditation is life and all life is in a state of becoming.

The SalutoGenic Thrivestyle of an Architect of EPOCH 6 Using SalutoGenesis to test for your thrivestyle: You created your Authentic Self, Soul Purpose Mantra and your Unitary Evolutionary Enlightenment Mantra by engaging SalutoGenesis and then feeding specific questions into the active SalutoGenic response. Information (in the form of potential answers to the questions) then arose in your awareness. You then fed this information back into the active Higher Brain SalutoGenic response and were rewarded with deep transpersonal truths, validated by further amplification of SalutoGenesis! As you further embody and live as an Architect of Epoch 6, ‘SalutoGenic knowing’ becomes a way of life. You will begin to notice this new communication system – between you and your environment – guiding you. In Evolutionary Unitary Enlightenment you are seamlessly ‘one’ with all that arises and SalutoGenesis provides a feedback loop between you and your world. You can perform the SCM base and then notice how the SalutoGenic affect is amplified as you eat certain foods, pursue certain personal growth activities or choose certain new routines. Your Lifestyle derived through SalutoGenic testing is called a ‘Thrivestyle’ and it is a hallmark of how Architects of Epoch 6 spontaneously adapt and adjust their habits and practices as they ever evolve. As you progress on your path, your SalutoGenesis will respond without having been ‘set up’ through performing the SCM base first. The SalutoGenic response can become so refined that it serves as a primary director in your life. You learn to notice how certain people, places, choices and opportunities activate and amplify SalutoGenesis, and thus derive deep information to be used in all of your decisions in life. You connect to the world ‘out there’ with the world ‘in here’ so that they become a seamless whole. SalutoGenesis becomes a linking and integrating mechanism between you the personal being and YOU the cosmic process. The Transcendental Self creates oneness with all that arises in consciousness. SalutoGenesis creates an energetic oneness with all that arises in the world of form.

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t has been said that no man (or woman) is an island, and for those of us steeped in Integral Metatheory, this is a truth that is sewn into the fabric of reality. There is a sacred WE. Nothing gets done alone, this book was built upon the genius of so many philosophers, sages, scientists and human potential movement pioneers that provided a long path for me to leverage. Felt most deeply and graciously was the support I received from friends and family and so many of you who have found your way into the movement. I don’t have room to name you all but here is a good start: Craig Polsfuss, Alison Oooms, Marty Clemons, Dr. Steve Giron, Sarah Williamson, Lissa Langer, Dr. Tracy Brinkman, Laura Cotton, my family and all my friends. Thank you. I would also like to acknowledge the following for their early support of this project: Amos Snider, Anne Ferguson, Barbara Fox-Cooper, Brian Mogren, Cathi Hampson, Dan Hostetler, Donna L Obdyke, Fernanda Delgado, Gina Piccioni, Gini Newcomb, Helena Dworkiewicz, Julie Paull, Kesha Engel, Klaus Ruhl, Lauloa Grace, Laura Landau, Lauren Joyce, Linda Pitsoulis, LizBeth Peter, Marc Nelson, Martha Blake, Mary Sue Palazzari, Meredith Lyon, Mike Traynor, Nekane De Leniz, Nicole Baltes, Oscar Giron, Saundra Stepp, Stacey Harestad, Tamara Veotsch, Teresa Scheondorf, Tamara Voetsch, Veronica Sanchez, Vickie Nordquist, Yaahya Baker.

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ollowing a radical shift in the direction of his life, Dr. Michael Cotton devoted the next 25 years to studying human potential. His life’s work has focused on the creation of organic human technologies that liberate subtle energy in the body and awaken the brain. Michael is an Integral Metatheorist and uses the integral framework to support all of his creations. Michael, is a leading theorist in the evolution of consciousness, culture, and the brain. The creator of the Higher Brain Living technique and Source Code Meditation, with nearly three decades of experience in personal and cultural transformation, he holds a doctorate in Chiropractic. He lives in Chicago Illinois, with his wife Laura, where he owns and operates the Higher Brain Living Institute and the Source Code Meditation World Headquarters.

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Source Code Meditation Hacking Evolution through Higher Brain Activation DR. MICHAEL COTTON Learn to mobilize latent energy in your body and direct it to energize and awaken your higher brain • Provides a simplified step-by-step guided process to the higher-brain activation techniques of Source Code Meditation • Explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life • Reveals how the “brain first” techniques of SCM tune the brain to receive meditation, enabling access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential

The human brain is like a flowing river of potential. Until now, that river has been blocked, barricaded, and diverted by the primitive lower brain. The lower brain hijacks our ability to experience deeper flow and higher transcendent states of consciousness. It also guards against the full expression of the passionate human heart. Source Code Meditation (SCM), with its nine summits of transformation, effortlessly re-routes that lower brain diversion, allowing you to activate latent energy in your body, awaken your higher brain, enlighten your mind, and set your heart on fire to create a new world. With traditional meditation techniques, it often takes decades of practice for hours each day to confer significant changes in the mind and the higher brain. Few of us make it to these rarified states of mind, due to the amount of time and the intensity of focus needed. With “brain first” SCM techniques, you mobilize latent energy in the body and direct it to energize and awaken the higher brain before meditation begins. With the higher brain prepped and tuned, meditation is efficiently received, leading to quantum breakthroughs in higher consciousness without years of practice as well as access to deep flow states, transcendent states of consciousness, and higher brain potential. Providing a simplified step-by-step guided process to SCM, Dr. Michael Cotton explains how to shift energy out of the lower “survive” brain into the higher “thrive” brain to bring confidence, clarity, and empowerment for transformative change in all areas of life. Distilled from the world’s most comprehensive philosophy, Integral Metatheory, SCM offers not only a way to create the brain state necessary to change the mind, but the crystal clarity needed to use these advanced meditative states to actualize your potential and live your destiny to the fullest. Dr. Michael Cotton, D.C., is a leading theorist in the evolution of consciousness, culture, and the brain. The creator of the Higher Brain Living technique with more than 30 years’ experience in personal and cultural transformation, he holds a doctorate in Chiropractic. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Findhorn Press • ISBN 978-1-84409-747-0 • $16.99 (CAN $21.50) Paper Also available as an ebook • 240 pages, 6 x 9 Includes 26 black-and-white illustrations Rights: World • Spirituality/Mediation

April 2018

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