A Change In Perspective
Consciousness is Very Easy to Understand, If You Believe So
by Lars André, Ph.D.
I was in Borneo on holiday, and I was sleeping alone on the rain forest floor. As I drifted off to sleep, I found myself thinking, “I wonder if a tiger or a snake will come during the night to bite my toes.” But I awoke with the same number of toes as the previous day. In fact, nothing dramatic happened until I stopped at a hotel while waiting to take a canoe trip up river. In the evening the guide came to speak with my group, and the fear he felt showed plainly on his face. The guide told me and my friends to look out the window where we saw that quite a crowd had gathered. The guide said that there was a high risk of civil war because of the recent election. We were told to seek protection in the nearest house if gunfire should erupt. We would leave as soon as possible for a village up river, but the guide warned us to be careful and to not be too fresh with the girls at the village because we were bound for the land of headhunters.
Well, for us it was quite an exciting trip up the river. We had no idea what to expect. After one day of traveling we arrived at the village and were taken to the house of the chief. He appeared to be quite a fierce individual, and the atmosphere was a bit tense. But just then, in came a small child who couldn’t have been more than three or four years old. The child was sobbing, and the fierce headhunter bent down and gently picked up his grandchild. He comforted the child just like any other grandfather would. It then became very clear to me, as my viewpoint shifted, that in the end there is not much difference between us human beings. We all come from the same source.• • • •
I present talks and workshops for leaders and groups. Sometimes I start by lying on the floor in the audience and saying something like, “I see a lot of shoes and socks, and they all look quite different.” As I raise myself up and approach the stage I change my perspective. From shoes, to shirts, to faces and in the end I recognize human beings sitting in front of me. It is the same universe from different perspectives. Being on stage there is a chance to have an overview. From that perspective it is possible to choose experience. On the floor you mostly have the possibility to choose shoes.
Consciousness is very similar. If you take an overview perspective of your own consciousness, it is quite easy to understand. This is the way of Avatar.
Another thing I do in the seminars is to fold a piece of paper. Take a piece of paper. Think of this paper as being you at a point in life when you were more lively. A point in life before you started to think about relationships, mortgages, jobs and so on. Maybe this was during the earlier years of your life. You had access to 100% of yourself, all of your free energy. You had experiences, and you used all your energy and enthusiasm and then you returned back to the calm surface of the paper. Then at some point something happened. You got the message that you did something that was not okay to do. You decided that this was no longer you, and you closed off a part of you, like folding the paper in half. And now there was only half of you left. Once this process starts it continues until there is not much life or energy left. You entangle your self more and more. Maybe you buy a new car fold or get yourself a new wife fold to feel some free energy. But happiness is usually very short. The logical way is to experience and unfold yourself back to where you started. This is ReSurfacing. It’s disentangling yourself from old creations and rising back into awareness.
Once you come back to the open surface of the paper, you will see the pattern from the folding process. This pattern is the pattern of your memories, the pattern of the beliefs that kept you locked in. The pattern is still there. You didn’t lose anything. You recovered something, and now you are free to choose. This is living from your free will.
To resolve whatever you have in your consciousness is not much different from unfolding a piece of entangled paper...if you believe so. Shift your perspective, get an overview of your life and regain the freedom to choose. That is the gift of Avatar.
Lars André, Ph.D., Gothenburg, Sweden
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