Beliefs And Behavior      Beliefs And Behavior            ...2

Beliefs Dictate and Dominate Human Behavior

Spiritual, religious, and philosophic beliefs (or the lack of them)  are and always have always been, the fundamental determining factors in controlling human conduct.     (For the full text, see :   How Beliefs Rule Human Life.°)

One of the most critical and important distinctions 
in determining human conduct is:  
       Are you inside of and an integral part of God,  
         or do you see yourself as being outside and separate from God?   

The Two-Pole  Either/or Choice:     One of the major illusion in most religions is that there are only two possible beliefs about God-- my belief  or atheism.   All other religions --  all other approaches to God -- are discounted as merely myths.    This dual-only belief  is strongly expressed among those who believe in Christianity.   Christian theology is burdened with a huge barge full of ancient, unprovable beliefs about what God is and isn't -- about how to relate to God -- about how to relate to the Earthly environment -- about how to relate to fellow humans.   Anything not part of that presently-accepted theology is considered to be either ungodly atheism or mythology.   This belief is a huge barrier preventing otherwise intelligent people from looking at any of the immense amount of evidence that has come into human awareness in the the past thousand years. 

The Underlying Context:   Even though the Christian Bible clearly indicates that humans are inside God,`  the vast majority of the present-day, Christian tenants and behaviors are based on the underlying belief (the Context)°  that God and man and nature are three separate things  --  that God is out there somewhere -- that man is separate from God -- that both God and man are separate from nature.***3  

Is There Another Way?    YES!   There is another way to honor Christian theology and at the same time:   
        1)   Follow the teachings in Christian Bible and 
        2)   Alter the way most Christians presently  relate to God.  

There is a way to relate to God, to nature and to our fellow humans  that expands Christian thinking.   There is a way that is  just as loving, just as mysterious, just as life-fulfilling as present-day Christianity, and at the same time, is infinitely more functional?   

There is a way to hold Christian values to still relate to and honor God, and at the same time, be in line with what the latest scientific evidence tells us about the nature of man and the nature of the physical universe and our relationship within creation.   

This new way simply alters how humans relate to God.   It is a shift to relating to God from inside God instead of from outside of God.   Such a shift is certainly not atheism.   When the Earth was found to be round, that did eliminate God?   NO!   It merely changed human perspectives of God.   Will relating to God as if one were inside of and an integral part of God eliminate God.   NO!    Will it destroy or threaten Christianity?  NO!  

It will enhance Christianity  and bring it out of the dark ages.   It will  drastically alter our relationship to God, to nature, and to each other.   It will  significantly  alter the human perspectives of God.   And it will also precipitate major changes in human behavior.  

Bible Indicates Inside God      ...

Childhood Programming

Soon after you entered a physical body on planet Earth, you began taking on someone else's definitions of who you are.   In your early years, you took on  a copy of who and what your parents thought they were.    Your beliefs about who and what you are also came from other family members, from whatever religion your parents believed it,  from your schooling, from your community, and from other aspects or your environment during your early childhood.  On top of that you have added definitions based upon your own personal experiences.    

Unless you were one of the rare few who were brought up by self-aware parents, most of the definitions you accepted are either wrong or a distortion of who or what you really are.   Most of the beliefs you accepted as a little child are a product of people living in very limited belief boxes.   Many of your present beliefs originated  at least a thousand ago.   Unless you have done a significant amount of self-assessment, these definitions are intact today pretty much the way you learned them, took them in, and accepted them as a little child.   

Now that you have passed the age of reason, (about seven years old) you are at a point where you can make a choice.   You can continue to believe the dozens of unprovable stories about life --  about who you are -- what you are -- about where you came from -- why you are here on Earth --  about God -- about what happens after your body dies -- and about all kinds of other things.   

Or you can examine the evidence and notice that:

**   Many questions simply defy answers,  ( What is God?)

**   Many other questions have more than one possible answer,  ( Which of these three, mutually exclusive beliefs is true: Christian one-life-ism, reincarnation, or atheism?)  

**   Many other questions have evidence regarding them that make the present-day  answers seem like Alice in Wonderland fairytales.   (God is a superhuman being living in the sky.   He intentionally created you and every other human being inherently evil.  He murdered his son to to fix his mistake.° )   

Changing false and dysfunctional beliefs is where knowing and properly applying the the technology of prayer (Theta Healing)  can be extremely useful.   You can tap into Creator's perspective, Creator's understanding and Creators definitions of all those things you presently believe to be "The Truth."   For example, many people believe that you have to be poor to be close to God -- that you can't have an abundance of money and be close to God at the same time.    This is a false belief and it is extremely dysfunctional.    Via the technology of prayer, (as expressed by Theta Healing) you can release this false belief very quickly.

As another example, many people believe that they are outside of God -- that God and man and nature are three separate things  --  that God is out there somewhere -- that man is separate from God -- that both God and man are separate from nature  -- that God is a superhuman-being living somewhere in the sky.   The overwhelming scientific and circumstantial  evidence points to the conclusion that this is a false belief.   It's refuted numerous times in the Christian Bible.` and yet is this belief dominates the lives of millions of people.   Again, via the technology of prayer, (as expressed by Theta Healing)  you can release this false belief very quickly.  

This leads to the next question:  If I am not an inherently evil sinner, separate from God , separate  form nature, and separate from my neighbor -- if I don't need to grovel in the mud and beg an angry, fickle, vindictive superhuman in the clouds for favors, "Who and what am I?"   and   "How do I relate to The Creator of All  That Is?"

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Who and What Am I?

I am a 
multi-dimensional being 
experiencing life in a physical body on planet Earth.

    And so are you.   
The only difference between us 
is that I know it, and you probably don't.

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We as humans live in and are constantly experiencing both the physical world and the non-physical world at the same time.   Because our minds are focused primarily on the physical portion of reality, we tend to forget about and discount the non-physical portions of our lives.   Here are some examples.

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Emotions:   How do you feel, emotionally?  Basically, you either  feel good or you feel bad.   Feelings are not physical.   Tactile sensations are physical, but feelings are not.  Where is Love?  Where is inspiration?  Where is compassion?   None of these are physical.   Neither are anger, fear, and doubt.  

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The Voice Within:   What is that voice that you hear incessantly talking in your head?   It may be just talking or it may be telling do this, don't do that?  That voice is not physical.   

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Thoughts Are First Cause:   If you want to "be, do, or have" something, what always comes first?  --  A thought.   Thoughts are not physical.    Everything in your physical life starts in the non-physical world of thought.  Here it is in Christian biblical terms:  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." (John 1:1)   Sit quietly for a few minutes, and think about what that passage means.

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Where's Your Mind:   Scientists have thoroughly examined every aspect of the human physical body looking for the human mind.   No physical evidence has ever been found.    Is your personal consciousness a function of your physical body, or is your physical body a function of your non-physical consciousness?   Then the question is:  "What and where is your  mind?"   It's not physical.  

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You Are a Multi-Dimensional Being:   So, the truth is that you naturally and normally function in the non-physical world as well as in the physical world.   You are, by your very nature, a multi-dimensional being.   

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Our job, as Theta Transformation Facilitators,  is to show you how to become more fluent in operating in both the physical world and the non physical world at the same time.   
We'll show you the technology of prayer.   
We'll show you the technology of connecting to God.   
We'll show you the technology of co-creating with God.   
We'll show you how to put "The Secret" **1       into action in your life.  

Before you can connect to God, you'll need to examine some of your beliefs about what God is and isn't and how He/She/It functions.  Well begin in the sections below with some of the distinctions between the physical and the non-physical aspects of reality.   Readers might also be interested in these essays:

Do You Believe in God°  
Universal Spirituality°  
Spiritual Awareness°   
Distinguishing between Religion and Spirituality°

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Inside-Outside          Inside-Outside       ...  3

The invisible part of reality has a very distinct set of attributes that are quite different from the attributes of physical reality.  Some of the more obvious differences  are described below. 

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Inside or Outside:   You'll notice that there is a viewing perspective of either being inside of something or outside of it.  For example imagine you are inside your home.   Now imagine you are outside of it.   Are you inside or outside of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, et cetera?   Are you inside or outside of the United States,  Canada, England, et cetera?   Are you inside or outside of your physical body?   Are you inside or outside of God?

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Inside or Outside of God:    Nowhere is this inside / outside distinction more important than in regards to one's religious beliefs.   Are you inside and an integral part of God, or do you see yourself as outside and separate from God?   Although the Christian Bible clearly indicates that humans are inside God,`  the vast majority of Christian churches teach that humans are outside of God.   In Judaism, one can find both the inside believers and the outside believers , and Islam is clearly an outside of God religion.   The Eastern Religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, and those who adhere to the principles of the present-day Universal Spirituality° movement believe that humans are inside of God -- that humans are an integral part of God.   

Hinduism: Although Hinduism worships many Gods, underneath they believe that at their core, everyone is part of God.

Buddhism   Buddhists believe that they are not their physical bodies -- that they are an eternal, non-physical consciousness.  They do not define what this non physical "whatever-it-is"  is.  

Universal Spirituality:  Literally millions of people have realized they, themselves, have a direct connection to the source of Creation and that the church intermediaries, although excellent for creating community, ° are not necessary to connect to God.  (References:   Martin Luther°    and Matthew 6:5-6°  in the Christian Bible)   

The work of people like Wayne Dyer (The Power of Intention)  Neil Donald Walsh (Conversations with God)  Esther and Jerry Hicks (the Abraham books and tapes) and dozens of others are challenging the established beliefs about connecting to an external God.   Popular videos such as "What the Bleep Do We Know" and "The Secret" are also challenging traditional, god-out-there beliefs.   For a detailed study of this perspective, readers are directed to the page titled:  Universal Spirituality°   

The outside-of-God  beliefs lead to some very dysfunctional behaviors   

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Where Is Heaven:    Again the inside/outside perspectives give vastly different answers to this question.   According to the Christians leaders ( who believe that they are outside of God)  heaven is in the Firmament, above the clouds where the birds fly.   They know that's true because it's written in Genesis of the Christian Bible.    When the Earth was flat, heaven may actually have been where the writers of the Bible said it was.    

But now that the Earth has become round and scientists regularly send rockets right through where heaven was reported to be, God has apparently moved heaven to some other place because, today,  nobody seems to be able to find it anywhere above the clouds, or even below the clouds, or in the clouds.   See the section below, titled:    Where Is God?`   

According to those who believe that they are inside God/Creator, heaven is NOT a physical place.   It's a state of being  --  a joyful, blissful, happy state of being.   It's is part of non-physical reality.

The same principles apply to Satan and his place of eternal damnation that was reported  to be beneath your feet.   The inside / outside perspectives give vastly different answers to question about the nature and location of hell.   Do any of you still believe that there a super-powerful, super-evil character living in a "fiery furnace" somewhere beneath the crust of the Earth?   

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Competition Versus Cooperation:   The outside-of-God perspective promotes separation, scarcity, and competition.   The outside-of-God people tend to play life the same way football players play football -- constantly at odds with those who are not on their side, fighting in an endless win/lose war, while glorifying and making heroes of the most aggressive and the most violent.   There's never enough.   In order for me to have, someone else must do without.  

The inside-of-God people are much more likely to play life the way members of an orchestra play music.°   The goal of each orchestra member is to function in mutual cooperation with every other member and create of a product that benefits everyone.  In the case of an orchestra, the product is beautiful music which can be a blessing for a hundred people or a hundred million people.   Regardless of how many people hear the music, there is no significant difference or cost to those in the orchestra, itself.   There are no losers.    Which way are you playing?   

Time after time cooperation has proven to be far superior to fighting, destroying and killing, and yet,  destruction is glorified and is the focus of the vast majority of the mass media.   Many Christian leaders teach that destruction is good because it means the end of the world is at hand and they (the true believers) will soon be in heaven with Jesus and God.  The outside-of-God, Islamic extremists are promoting mass destruction of anything and everything that is not in perfect alignment with their beliefs.

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Violence:   When you look at the propensity for violence, you'll become aware still another significant difference.  You'll notice that the outside-of-God religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, all have a long and bloody history.  Are you aware that  Buddhism (an inside-of-God religion) is the only major religion that has never started a war.   The vast majority of those who practice Universal Spirituality.°  also oppose wars and violence.   

From outside-of-God, war makes perfect sense to the winners.  About fifty percent of all human resources are directed at producing or using tools of war, death and destruction.  And a significant portion of the remaining fifty percent is either destroyed or used to defend against the destroyers. 

From inside-of-God, war is like your left hand declaring that it's going to destroy your right hand.   Both sides are part of the same universal body.  

For example, just imagine what could have been done with the four trillion dollars that Bush and company have wasted, murdering people and destroying property in Iraq and Afghanistan.   And compared to the trillions more that have been wasted on wars over the past one hundred years, the Iraq dollars are just a drop in the bucket.

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Our Earthly environment:   Caring for our irreplaceable, Earthly Environment is still another area where there's a vast difference between the inside-of-God and the outside-of-God perspectives.   Traditional Christianity, in direct denial of the Christian Bible, (Ecclesiastes 3:19)   has, for centuries, promoted the belief that man and nature are separate.   They proclaimed themselves separate from both God and nature and that the Earth was merely a temporary stopping place for good Christians who are on there way to heaven.  From this perspective, what happens to the Earth is irrelevant.    "Subdue and conquer" the Earth has been a long-held belief.   As a result, the Earth has all-too-often been treated with the same care and respect given to a disposable diaper.   

Make-believe-born-again Bush and his multi-millionaire, Christian-talking, atheist-acting friends are spearheading reckless, irreversible, environmental destruction in the name of The Great God Money.°   A person who already has millions of dollars has to be literally insane or stupid to the Nth degree to sell one's own grandchildren for a few dollars more.  

In stark contrast, those who hold the inside-of-God perspective are much more likely to view the Earth a Sacred Mother, to be honored and respected.   The people who believe themselves to be part of God and part of Nature are spearheading the movement to reverse Global Climate Change.°   

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One Life or Many:   Another important distinction is which of the three possible assumption of life a person believes in.   Readers are directed to an overview of  Life's Three Fundamental Human Assumptions:   Christian One-Life-ism,   Reincarnation,   and Atheism.°     Believers in Christian one-life-ism believe that they are outside of God, and believers in atheism deny the existence of a Creator.   There is no evidence to support either of these beliefs.    

Those who acknowledge their intimacy with God are much more likely to have examined the physical and circumstantial evidence that strongly supports the belief in reincarnation and equally as strongly rebukes other two possibilities.  

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Separation or Unity:  Most people do not consciously participate in their own destruction.   Unfortunately, many people have been programmed to  mechanically and unconsciously participate in their own destruction.   The classic example of this is the Christian doctrine of "original sin."   It's one to the most destructive beliefs in the entire world.   It's second only in it's destructive power to the belief in jihad by radical Islam.   Both of these beliefs and their resultant destruction are a products of believing one's self to be separate from God and separate from their fellow humans.

Those who  perceive themselves as inside of God are much more likely to understand that everyone and everything is part of a single unified whole.   "What you do onto the least of mine you do onto me." (Matthew 25:40)   

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Am I My brother's Keeper?   The outside-of-God People have made up all kinds of rules about how other people  should live their lives.   Rule after rule.  Law after law  -- all designed to protect themselves from their fears --  fears  of pain and deprivation, which by the way, are mostly  function of their self-imposed separation from God, separation from nature, and separation from their fellow humans.  They have in essence, become their brother's jailers.   

The Inside-of-God people tend to be far more tolerant and allowing.   They are far more likely to understand and practice The Universal Law of Allowing.°

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Stealing Versus Creating:   Stealing only makes sense in the contest of separation from God.   When one realizes his/her intimate connection to Creator and one's capacity to intentionally create in one's own reality, stealing becomes not only unnecessary, it proves itself to be self-destructive.

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Victim Consciousness --  Self-created Realty:   People who perceive themselves to being outside of God  tend to play victim consciousness.   If they are religiously inclined, they'll likely pray in the format of begging God for favors.

Those who perceive themselves to be inside God are more likely to study the laws of the universe° and consciously and intentionally apply them.   They'll likely perceive their lives as self created.

Distinguishing Physical Non Physical            Distinguishing Physical Non Physical       ...  3

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What does the evidence tell us?    Regarding being inside or outside of God, the provable physical evidence, one's own inner senses, and the overwhelming circumstantial evidence all point to the conclusion that humans are inside God -- that humans are an  integral part of God -- that humans are not their physical bodies.   

The latest scientific evidence tells us that there is no such thing as physical matter that everything is energy, and that energy is controlled by consciousness.   Neither energy or consciousness are physical.  

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Space / Up / down:   When experiencing the non-physical part of reality, gravity disappears and so does the concept of up and down,  north and south,  East and west.   When you are  in the non-physical reality,  the space between here and there also disappears.

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Time:  The same applies to time.   In the physical world, time is required to get from here to there.     In  the non-physical world, hear and there  are same "place," except that  (in the non-physical world)  there really is no "place."   And with no place, no space between here and there, and no distinction between here and there,  time disappears.   In the non-physical world  --  a  minute from now, an hour ago,  next week Tuesday, a month from now, 1776,  2001 -- none of the time-based concepts has any meaning.   

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Here and Now:   While in the physical world, there's another thing about space and time  that we tend to forget, and that  is:  No matter what the clock or the calendar say, it's always "now."   No matter where you are, it's always "Here."     "Being here and now" is a function of the non-physical world of consciousness.   

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Shape & Form:   While in the physical world, everything has a fixed and pre-determined shape and form.   The normal, healthy,  human body has a basic, predetermined form and behavior pattern.   There is relatively little you can do to change any of that.  You can do  some window dressing and make some alterations, but beyond that, the structure is fixed and unchangeable.   In the non-physical world,  the world of spirit,  form is a matter of choice.

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The Veil:   You'll soon learn that the so-called veil between dimensions is made up entirely of beliefs.    When you let go of the beliefs that keep the veil in place, it simply disappears.   You are already aware of some of what's on  the other side of that so-called Veil  -- feelings --  love, inspiration, and compassion -- anger, fear, and doubt.

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Light and Vision:   In the world of spirit, everything is it's own light.   Viewing is NOT a matter of seeing light reflect off an object.   Vision is 360 degrees and not confined to one, single direction at a time. **2` 

Doer or Observer:   You'll also begin to notice that sometimes you are the doer and sometimes you are the observer ?   For example, when you imagine something like a sexual fantasy or having a new car, are you watching the action or are you part of the action?

Time and distance loose their meaning.   In the world of spirit, to get from here to there you simply be/see/feel yourself there and you are there.   It's all a matter of consciousness.   

If you want to get from here to there in the physical world, an action is required, and when you get to "over there,"   "there"  is no longer "over there."  It has magically become "here."   and what used to be "here" is now "over there," where "here" used to be.  No matter where you go, where ever you are is always "here."  

Perhaps this sounds a bit confusing.  Think of it this way.   If "over there" where "here," then both "here" and "there" would both disappear, as would the space between "here"  and "there."  

You might also note the strange coincidence that the word "there"  has "here" inside of it, already.   And the word "nowhere" is made up of "now here," which is is commonly stated as "here and now."

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Size :   Size is another dimension that we tend to ignore.   We'll share more about that in the section below titled:  Where Is God?` 

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Oh that's nothing.   It's just your imagination.   You may slough off all this non-physical stuff as  mere imagination -- as something not real.   Here's another secret that isn't really a secret:   Consciousness appears to be the primary attribute of beings in the non-physical portion of reality, and imagination is the primary tool of consciousness.   Imagination appears to be the only thing that is actually real.   For example, science has proven that there is no such thing a physical matter.   Everything physical is energy held in a specific form by consciousness.  

But then, imagination may not be real, either.  We may be just imagining it.   Put that in you imaginary pipe and pretend to smoke it!

Where Is God? 

 Where In the Physical Universe Do We Go to Find God?     

Everywhere, Anywhere, and Nowhere!   Some say go to a religious building.   Jesus in the Christian Bible said, go into your closet and pray in secret.  (Matthew 6:5-6)   The Eastern religions say that there is a connection point in the center of you heart called the "God Point."    

The people who view God from the perspective that one is outside of God, tend to point up and say, "God is up there, in heaven."   When the Earth was considered to be flat, like a three-layered cake, with heaven and God above and Satan and hell below, that perspective made sense.    

But it makes no sense at all to point "up" and say there's where heaven is while standing on the surface of a large spinning ball, (the Earth) that is also spiraling around  a still larger spinning ball, (the sun)   that is circling somewhere around the universe, which is spiraling around . . .  et cetera . . . .    No two people pointing up are ever point in the same direction.   Not only that, the point from which the pointing-up is done is constantly changing.   

All the pointing up is a function of the belief that God and Heaven are external aspects of an objective, physical reality.   There is absolutely no evidence to support such a conclusion.  

Because The Source of Creation is in the non-physical aspect of reality,  asking where in the physical universe does one go to connect to God is like looking for New York City in you closet.   It's like asking the tooth fairy where the Easter Bunny is.   The non-physical cannot be found in the physical.   Then what is the answer?

 Where in the physical universe do we go to connect to God?    The evidence points in the direction of using human consciousness to connect to Creator/God consciousness.   Mystics, yogis, inventors, and the world's most eminent scientist, tell us that the point between waking consciousness and sleep is the connection point.   

Theta brain waves are the physical keys that unlock the door into the non-physical world.   The human dream state takes one into the non-physical world -- the world  of God, the world of Spirit.   While dreaming one's brain wave pattern is slowed to the level called theta -- four to  seven cycles per second.   (While awake and functioning in the physical world, the brain is most strongly functioning at the beta level --  between fourteen and twenty-eight cycles per second.)

So the question is how to reach the dream state while staying awake.   The evidence tells us that this is possible by intentionally getting one's mind functioning strongly in the brain wave state called theta.   (The brain actually functions at all levels all the time.  The differences in awareness are a function which brain waves are dominant at any given time.)

Theta Healing / Theta Transformation is at the top of the ladder in the world of "The science of Consciousness."   Theta Healing / Theta Transformation is, in essence,  the technology of prayer.°    It teaches people how to  intentionally enter the an altered state of consciousness, and what to do when one gets there.  (Actually there is no "there" there.  "There" is a metaphor for a state of consciousness.)  

One  expands his/her consciousness to a degree so big that he/she connects to (become aware that he/she is part of)  that plane of existence where everything and nothing exists at the same time.   This is the plane of Creation - of Creator - where anything and everything are possibilities -- possibilities controlled and directed by consciousness.   At that level of awareness, human consciousness is blended with God consciousness.   For an excellent description of this, readers are directed to the book, "Autobiography of a Yogi," by Parmahansa Yogananda.  

One can also reach this same plane of Creation by imagining one's self getting smaller and smaller until one  "steps outside" of physical reality.

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