Healing Anecdotes

UniquilibriuM: Lunar and Solar Dimensions in Ancient Texts

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:40:11 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) In 2008 while riding the Los Angeles Local Metro Bus, I was approached by a blue-eyed, blond-haired man calling himself "D.J. Mack Boogaloo".

He was attracted to me because I was carrying my guitar, and he made it known that he himself was a musician. According to an online post and what Mack Boogaloo told me, he seems to be on a mission to share the "Evolutionary cosmic insights into the MUSIC, LIGHT and CULTURE of the BLACK DIASPORA (Mother Africa and her offspring!!!) proving that MUSIC CAN CHANGE THE WORLD... literally!"

Check out D.J. Mack Boogaloo on

http://enotone.com/mackboogaloo/AHIGHERCALLTOACTION09-18-11.pdf

and elsewhere on the web.

After some conversation, he suggested that I reference the frequency A = 432 Hz tuning, as a preference to A = 440 Hz. What this means is that when I tune the A note / A string on my guitar, it will vibrate with a frequency of 432-cycles-per-second (cps) or Hertz (Hz), which would be considered "flat" by the usual standards. All of the other notes of course, are also tuned down by 8 Hz. Indeed, several musicians have told me that my guitar sounds flat to them upon hearing it being played.

I learned that there may be health benefits associated with this frequency shift to 432-Hz because it somehow resonated more with nature, being harmonious with life and such. I decided to adopt this tuning method for a few years to determine if there was any noticeable effect on me or anyone who would hear me perform. The added significance of the number 432 only became apparent to me more recently as my research has progressed.

One investigative method I modeled was found in the documentary "Secrets in Plain Sight" created by Scott Onstott and published on YouTube. In this captivating production, Onstott offers "an awe inspiring exploration of great art, architecture, and urban design which skillfully unveils an unlikely intersection of geometry, politics, numerical philosophy, religious mysticism, new physics, music, astronomy, and world history".

View it on

http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/

In a similar regard, but with far more sinister undertones, many parallels and an even deeper plot unfolds through an astonishing book I am currently reading by authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara called "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA". (Revised and Expanded New Edition, 2009.)

"A conspiratorial opus and investigative quest, Dark Mission opens the reader's mind to a surreal hall of mirrors - a world where occult sects masquerade as government agencies, where the mute spheres of the solar system conceal ancient alien artifacts and hyper-dimensional messages that may be critical for our survival. Calling into question the nature of truth and the limits of knowledge, Hoagland and Bara's opus is one of the stranger and more amazing books I have encountered. Read it if you dare."

-Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head and 2012.

Secrets in Plain Sight and Dark Mission suggested to me the intriguing possibilities for decoding of a few puzzles found in Joseph P. Farrell's book, "The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts"; 2007. The book explores the hypothetical possibility that the solar system may have been the stage of an ancient war between highly advanced civilizations, with the technology sufficient to cause entire planets to explode! One of the difficulties in the investigation of this "Exploding Planet Hypothesis", is finding clues to an approximate age or time when this "Cosmic War" occurred.

In chapter 5 of the book on page 105, Farrell proceeds by addressing the age and timing problem through an exploration of the book "Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time" by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechind, 1969. Farrell writes:

"One of the overlooked areas of De Santillana's and Von Dechind's work is the galactic and astronomical-astrological context in which they understand the ancient mythological references to the Deluge, to war, and other apocalyptic imagery. An entry into their discussion is afforded by their remarks on the gigantic war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata: 'The epic states unmistakably that this tremendous war was fought during the interval between the Dvapara and the Kali Yuga.' A significant clue is thus afforded from yet another mythological source as to when it dates its major 'war of the gods in heaven'."

"To see why, a brief summary of Hindu thought on its 'world ages' or 'yugas' is in order. In its most basic form, there are four great 'yugas' or ages. They begin in a 'Golden Age' and each yuga thereafter is an age that is declined from the previous one. Each age is thousands of normal years in length, though each age is of a different length. In order then, these yugas, with their lengths in years, are:

The Satya Yuga: 1,728,000 years
The Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years
The Dvapara Yuga 864,000 years
The Kali Yuga 432,000 years"

If you have not yet noticed, allow me to emphasize that the Kali Yuga in years is 432,000, which is 1,000 times the 432 in Hertz that I tune my guitar to. More significantly, 432,000 is the average, or mean radius of the Sun in miles. That is, if you draw a straight line segment from the exact center of the Sun viewed as a flat 2-dimensional disk or pie, to the perimeter or edge of the disk, it would measure 432,000 miles long. These dimensions of the Sun were impressed upon me thanks to the documentary by Scott Onstott, allowing me to recognize this connection including evidence that the ancient scientists could be familiar with the unit of measurement currently known as the mile

The diameter of the Sun, which is a straight line originating on one side, passing through the center of the disk or pie, and ending on the other side, is exactly twice the length of the radius of 432,000 miles by definition, 2 x 432,000 = 864,000 miles. 864,000 is the length of the Dvapara Yuga in years. My conclusion is that perhaps the yugas will not provide clues to the approximate time these Cosmic Wars were fought, but instead are the very accurate measurements of the Sun, recorded by the ancient authors of the Hindu texts.

The years of the Treta Yuga, 1,296,000, is just the Dvapara Yuga, 864,000, plus 432,000 of the Kali Yuga. Following this, the Satya Yuga is simply the Treta Yuga plus the Kali Yuga which equals 1,728,000. These are all just multiples of 432,000. This by itself is probably just a coincidence, and I might have left it at that, if I did not recognize some other interesting numerical similarities in another ancient text possibly corresponding with astronomical measurements.

The Physics Fact Book: An Encyclopedia of Scientific Essays (online) links to an entry titled "Diameter of the Sun; Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students. This internet resource says of the Sun's Diameter: "The Sun has a diameter of 865,000 miles or 1.3 million kilometers. Its diameter is 109 times the diameter of earth".

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/AmyChan.shtml

Following up on the next potential cosmic connection, I will quote Farrell at length followed by my alternate interpretation, highlighting the dimensions of another familiar cosmic body in our solar-system. On pages 178 and 179 of The Cosmic War, working now with research from author Andrew Collins' 2002 publication "The Gods of Eden: Egypt's Lost Legacy and the Genesis of Civilization", Joseph P. Farrell writes:

"As I outlined above, the mysterious 'Sound Eye' may be a metaphor for the type of electro-acoustic stresses in the medium that form a central component in scalar physics. Collins himself is alive to the possibility that something dangerous may lie far beneath the Giza complex, as the Edfu texts themselves imply: 'What was the... divine power source spoken of in the Edfu texts? Was it still there beneath the limestone bedrock awaiting discovery, or had it been removed and destroyed long ago?' Collins leaves no doubts about the power attributed to it in the texts:

Illustrations of the House of Sokar show a fiery-orange bell shaped omphalos.... This object is placed in direct relationship with both a sacred island... and the mound of creation, suggesting therefore that it was synonymous with the 'embryo', 'seed', 'egg', etc. of the Edfu and Theban creation myths, as well as with the Heliopolitan concept of the benben-stone.
Were we therefore dealing with the presence at the heart of the underworld complex of some kind of enormous sacred stone associated with the potency of cosmic creation? Did it embody the coming together, the crystallization, of the universe's creative power source?

On the basis of what I said earlier regarding the 'Sound Eye' I believe the answer to this is probably yes.

But Collins adduces 'one more tantalizing piece of evidence which hints at the presence of something of extreme magical potency beneath the bedrock of Giza-Rostau.' Spell 1080 of the Heliopolitan Coffin Texts states 'This is the sealed thing which is in darkness, with fire about it, which contains the efflux of Osiris, and it is put in Rostau. It has been hidden since it fell from him, and it is what came down from him onto the desert of sand.' Collins then comments that spell 1080

Points clearly to the fact that this powerful object has been sealed away in total darkness. Yet despite its solitary confinement, Spell 1080 still tells us that it has 'fire about it'; implying that it emits some form of divine fire or radiance, exactly what is stated in the Edfu texts in connection with the nucleus of the underworld complex. That the 'sealed thing' is said to have been 'put in Rostau', where it now lies hidden, seems doubly to confirm that we are dealing with an actual physical object inside an underground world that exists to this day beneath the sands of Giza."

Again, if you have not yet noticed, allow me to emphasize that the number 1080 in "Spell 1080" appears to me to be referring to the radius of the Moon. Our Moon's radius is 1,080 miles.

From what I know of Egyptian mythology, the left eye of the god Horus, who is the son of Isis and Osiris, was represented as the Moon. Thus, the Moon may be what is actually meant by the "Sound Eye" metaphor. Also, the Moon, appearing to be an giant glowing rock in the sky might also be referred to as an "enormous sacred stone".

When it is mentioned that "...the sealed thing which is in darkness, with fire about it, which contains the efflux of Osiris" could be describing the Sun (sealed thing) being sealed or eclipsed by the Moon, and the corona of the Sun appearing as "the efflux of Osiris". Further, the remarks "It has been hidden since it fell from him, and it is what came down from him onto the desert of sand" may be a reference to the Moon setting below the horizon and going to the "underworld" (beneath the sands of Giza) as the Moon eventually does after its travel across the night sky.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lists the following information about the Moon on its nasa.gov website: "The mean diameter of the Moon is 2,159 miles (3,476 km or .27 x Earth diameter)". "It orbits the Earth at an average distance of approximately 240,000 miles (384,000 km)".

http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/moon.html

It is generally accepted that modern astronomers have approximated the radius and diameter of the Moon and Sun pretty accurately. We even have a very simple set of basic arithmetic to check the sizes of these two celestial objects, in relation to the diameters and radii given so far, in addition to their distances relative to the Earth. It just so happens that the Moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun. Conveniently, as far as an eclipse is concerned, the Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon. This may give the appearance of the Sun and Moon being the same size in the sky sometimes.

To see how this lines up, first we calculate the Moon's diameter, which is 2 times the radius given in the Coffin Texts as Spell 1080, we get 2 x 1,080 = 2,160. The Moon's diameter is therefore 2,160 miles. Next, we simply multiply the Moon's diameter of 2,160 by 400, we get 2,160 x 400 = 864,000, which is the diameter of the Sun. Remember also that 864,000 is the number of years given for the Dvapara Yuga from the ancient Hindu Texts, the Mahabharata.

The idea that ancient cultures were highly sophisticated enough to make such incredibly accurate astronomical measurements, has been quite naturally an acceptable idea for me. Most recently this has been demonstrated through the work of Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy, Ph.D. in their book Black Genesis: The PreHistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt; 2011. Elucidating the possible motivation fueling the ingenuity of these pre-historic people, on pages 74 - 75, Buaval and Brophy refer to the "Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958)" who in 1920

"...published his controversial paper that would become a foundation in the science of climate change. The Milankovitch Curve, as his theory is known, was based on an elegant and simple notion: the small, gradual, annual changes in Earth's orbit around the sun as well as the spin of its axis when considered over many thousands of years, will create sizeable recurring cycles, causing the Earth to receive sometimes more, sometimes less light and heat from the sun, which will cause significant climate changes. These changes are the result of three phenomena of Earth's movements: precession, obliquity and eccentricity.

Precession is a gyrating motion of Earth's axis, which causes the planet to wobble like a spinning top, making a complete cycle every twenty-thousand years or so.
Obliquity is the angle of tilt that Earth's axis makes with the plane of its orbit around the sun. This angle moves up an down in a slow cycle of about forty-one thousand years, known as the obliquity of the ecliptic. Today the angle is 23.4 degrees, but, for example, in 5000 BCE it was about 24.1 degrees. Like the precession cycle, astrophysicists today can calculate with a great deal of accuracy exact changes in future or past obliquity.
Eccentricity is the elongatedness (that is the perihelion and aphelion) of Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun, which changes is a complex cycle of about one hundred thousand years.

These three effects--precession, obliquity, and eccentricity--when taken together cause long-term climate change every twenty to twenty-six thousand years--such as, for example, the great ice ages known to have occurred in the distant past."

Even though the notion may have been 'elegant and simple' in retrospect, working out these cycles and applying them to a workable system may be a bit more involved. Even so, the motivational factor for completing this system was apparently greater than any possibly limiting factors involved for a prehistoric people of Nabta Playa in Africa who succeeded in doing so. Discussing this on pages 76 - 77, Bauval and Brophy continue:

"Living all their lives in the open desert under the clear, cloudless sky, the prehistoric people of the Sahara were highly tuned to changes in the position of the celestial bodies, and the evidence at Nabta Playa shows that they were not only aware of the long term motion of precession but also that they must have placed great importance on this stellar cycle, because it seemed to effect the climate of the Sahara and, consequently their ability to survive in this region that depended so much on suitable seasonal wet conditions".

"...the Sahara in Egypt is now generally regarded by paleoanthropologist as one of the crucibles, indeed if not the principle crucible, of civilization.

Is it possible, then, that the ancient megalith builders of Nabta Playa somehow knew that there was a correlation between the cycle of the climate and the cycle of the stars? It may seem to us that this is entirely possible for a people that lived for millennia in a region where the conditions forced them to perform daily and nightly observations of the sun and stars and develop a great knowledge of the celestial cycles and, eventually, incorporate this knowledge into the ceremonial complexes at Nabta Playa".

Emphasizing the potential magnitude of the implications regarding the technological capabilities of the ancient scientists described in Black Genesis, Bauval and Brophy refer to the information gathered directly from several archeological sites including the so-called Nabta Playa Calendar Circle, and computer simulations noting:

"If our conclusions are correct, then the Calendar Circle becomes far more than a snap-shot of a single observation of Orion in the night sky. Instead, it is an elegant and profound device to show the change caused by precession on the stars over vast periods of time. In other words, the Calendar Circle becomes a teaching instrument that demonstrates the precession of the stars. We are not proposing that the Calendar Circle was constructed eighteen thousand years ago but rather that it commemorates two important dates in the precession cycle of Orion--4900 BCE and 16,500 BCE--with the former date being the actual date of its construction and use as indicated by the radiocarbon dating and the latter date being some sort of memorial of an important event, perhaps a beginning in the history of those sub-Saharan herders who came to Nabta Playa in prehistoric times".

Based on the references cite here, I have concluded that it is very possible that ancient and prehistoric people were sufficiently sophisticated astronomers to have obtained accurate measurements of the Sun, Moon, and numerous other components of our Solar System. If so, they probably passed on their masterful reverence for these sacred celestial sciences, to the cultures that came after them, encoded in mystical writings.

What if the Hindu Mahabarata texts are indeed referring to the radius and diameter of the Sun under the pseudonyms of Kali Yuga and Dvapara Yuga respectively? Might it be just as likely that the radius of the Moon has been faithfully recorded in the Egyptian "Coffin Texts" as Spell 1080? Ancient mysticism may have prehistoric, scientific, astronomical-astrological roots, conceived by our sky watching ancestors, who cast their wisdom in massive, stone monuments. The key to decoding them may survive within various mystical texts, in numerics, word of mouth, and the natural cycles of the Earth and stars as they angle their messages through the gateway of the stones.

UniquilibriuM Fire-Snake Rising in the New-Moon Majick

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:33:00 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) Tonight the New Moon rises, at least it does from these coordinates which designate my position on Earth of 34^o, 9' 33"-North and 118^o, 30' 4"-West in Encino, California. Creating my own personalized Self-Hypnosis Exercise, I have decided to integrate a few Divination Tools and accept that which I desire to make up my being without regard to those things I do not desire. In this way I am mentally replacing the old energies or transmuting them, rather than leaving a void which can be filled by default with unwanted habit force energies.

Yesternight, 4-20-2012, is a New Moon as is tonight, which according to my Lunar Sorcery or Moon Majick, signifies the death of old and undesired energies. Yesterday was also a personal numeral-9 day for me, this enhances this energy of laying to rest the unwanted energies of before with this particular numerical and lunar combination.

Tonight being a New Moon is a numeral-1 day for me starting a new cycle, having yesterday as a numeral-9 day. This is also a positive enhancement for what this New Moon may signify as a new beginning that leads into a creative cycle for me as I have chosen to accept such a fertile alignment.

Just like the resonance of Osiris being killed by Seth and then resurrected by Isis, the first part of the New Moon of yesternight represents the death of my inner, undesirable Osiris energies. Tonight's New Moon represents the resurrection of a new, desirable and more powerful inner Osiris by union of the resonance of Isis into the New-Born Horus. Horus is more versatile and adaptable than both Osiris and Isis as he is the combination of both death and life.

As a September born Virgo (Isis), 2nd in natural order of Earth Signs, I may also make the connection that Virgos strive to bring order out of chaos. This is like the New Moon symbology described above as being both death (chaos) and resurrection / life / birth (order). I may accomplish this by the resurrection of my practical, material, adaptable and changeable traits associated with Virgo, ruled by Mercury through intellect, reason and communication.

Through Numerology I am a numeral-5 by birth which suggests an intellectual nature, expressive in writing and speech, being adaptable and enthusiastic. 5 is also represented by the planet Jupiter, the Greek god Zeus and the day Friday, which was the first part of the New Moon on Friday, 4-20-2012. Using my full name, I am guided by the numeral-9 which imparts natural talent, skills and abilities through an inspirational, dynamic, organized and energetic disposition.

I also add to this energetic synthesis the powerful connection of my Fire-Snake designation through Chinese Astrology, having been born between February 18th 1977 and February 6th 1978. According to Chinese Astrology, the Ranking Order of the Snake is 6th, the Season of the Snake is Spring which has recently begun, and the Principle Month of the Snake is May, which is a little over one-week away. Not only is my Fixed-Element Fire, I was also born the year of the Fire-Snake, enhancing the qualities of being intellectual, wise, philosophical, calm and understanding.

This integration of systems has been determined by my self; thus it is my self-determined and personally assigned qualities that I choose to designate for myself. According to my adaptive and synthetic interpretation of these Divination Systems, I am beginning a New Season which is ripe for a fruitful harvest should I align myself with the favorable energies of the times. For whatever evolutionary processes for myself I decide this to mean, like the Kundalini, I am the Fire-Snake rising.

Moon Majick: Infusing Lunar Phases with Numerology as a Self-Hypnosis Tool

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:43:34 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. This is true even when we are not aware that we are hypnotizing ourselves. If we are not aware of, and therefore not using the information that we hypnotize ourselves, we leave ourselves open to being hypnotized against our will. Self-hypnosis is as common as this rhyming set of processes that I've labelled thinking, linking and inking. These are more commonly known by many hypnotists as repetition, association and impression, or the "Laws of Self-Hypnosis".

Self-Hypnosis

Because we spend a lot of our time at different levels of awareness thinking, we are repeating ideas to ourselves. Often these repeated thoughts are linked or associated with physical feelings and / or emotions which inks or impresses the ideas and concepts on our subconscious. Impression on the subconscious is one of the main components that drives the expression of our behavior and is many orders of magnitude more powerful than our will-power alone. This is the meaning of "against our will". Whenever the subconscious goes up against the conscious or will, the subconscious will usually win.

As a fun and interesting Self-Hypnosis Exercise (SHE), I have created my own unique Divination Tool by combining my fascination with the Moon that orbits Earth and mystical-math or Numerology. I have done this as a way to increase my level of self-determinism. What this means is that I am using this tool to ensure that more of my behaviors are based on my own true core beliefs and values, rather than the values and beliefs of others through default. I have decided to call this Lunar Sorcery or Moon-Majick.

Lunar Phases

As you are probably aware, the Moon shows itself to us in many "phases". These phases are caused by the Earth blocking out all of the light or none of the light that the Sun shines upon the surface of the Moon, and the various phases in-between.

The New Moon

The New Moon represents the death and / or rebirth and is when the Sun's light is completely blocked from the Moon and it seems invisible in the night sky. Following the New Moon, the Moon goes through about 14 to 16 phases on its way to becoming a Full Moon.

Wax On (Waxing)

The Moon is said to be "waxing" and represents growth and maturation and is when it is going from a completely dark New Moon on its way to the Full Moon. At first it starts off as a "waxing-crescent" where the Moon is concave or curved in like the letter-C backwards just as this parenthesis ), when the curve is facing to the observer's right. After the last waxing crescent, the Moon hits a distinguishing phase at which it is half-full (50%) resembling a capital letter-D and is called the First Quarter Moon. From the First Quarter it becomes a "waxing gibbous" when the flat side of the D shape begins to become convex, pregnant and rounds out to match the curved side of the D.

The Full Moon

The Full Moon represents full-strength, and the final phase before the cycle of death and dying begins. It is when the Sun's light is completely shinning on the Moon and it is very visible in the night sky. Following the Full Moon, the Moon goes through 14 to 16 phases on its way to becoming a New Moon.

Wax Off (Waning)

The Moon is said to be "waning" and represents fading energy and dying and is when it is going from a completely illuminated Full Moon on its way to the New Moon. At first it starts off as a "waning gibbous" when one side that was round and convex begins to shrink to become flatter. After the last waning gibbous, the Moon hits another half-full (50%) phase resembling a capitol letter-D backwards when the curve i to the observer's left like this parenthesis (, and is called the First Quarter Moon. From the First Quarter it becomes a "waning crescent" when the flat side of the D shape begins to become convex, hollowed and again looks like the letter-C but forward this time when the curve is facing left. After the last waning crescent the Moon is once again at the beginning of its cycle as a completely dark New Moon.

Mystical Math (Numerology)

Numerology is a Divination Tool that assigns characteristics to the numerals one through nine (1-9) when they are reduced to single digits, and sometimes "Master Numerals" 11, 22 and 33. The numerals for each individual person are based on their date of birth and the alpha-numeric values of the letters of their name. Further numerals may be derived from the current year, current month and present day by referencing a person's birth date. Each numeral has a value, frequency or vibrational characteristic that can be used to make predictions about an individuals character or life path.

The characteristics of the numerals are listed here very generally as follows:

Masculinity, creativity, leadership, starting new things. (Positron)
Feminine, receptivity, cooperation, teamwork. (Negatron)
Sensuality, sexuality, talkative, life of the party. (Gamma-ray)
Hard work, stability, loyalty.
Freedom, spontaneity, gifted with words, sudden change.
Humanity, sophistication, peacemaking.
Intuitive, discerning, psychic.
Power, money, fame.
Completion and resonates with characteristics of 1 through 8.

Moon Majick (Lunar Sorcery)

Tonight, April 6th 2012 from where I am in Tarzana, Southern California, I can see a Full Moon. Using the birthday September 17th 1977, we add 9+1+7+1+9+7+7 to get 41 and then 4+1=5. So this life path would be 5. Next to get this birthday's personal year, you add the birth-day and month, plus the last birthday for this date that has passed. For example September 17th 2011 would be 9+1+7+2+0+1+1=21 and then 2+1=3. Then add the number of the month of April which is 4; 3+4=7. Finally the day which is the 6th; 7+6=13 and then 1+3=4.

So here we have the Life Path as 5; the current year as 3; the current month as 7 and the present day as 4 during a Full Moon.

I simply choose to interpret this as meaning that each of these numerals are at their purest, strongest or FULLEST expression because they concur with the Full Moon. This would mean that the person with this birthday can get the maximum benefit of all of the good qualities that these associated numerical characteristics represent. It would be especially effective to focus on the characteristics of the numeral-4 which are hard work, stability and loyalty since it is on the day of the Full Moon. The vibration of 4 would be the dominant characteristic so that this person would get the greatest benefit from focusing on their work.

While the Moon is waning, you can use this to fade out the energy of any negative habits by allowing them to be blocked out by the shadow of the good and desirable habits and the grounding energy of the Earth. Once the Moon reaches the New Moon you can completely block out the bad habits and energy with the desirable energy and characteristics and completely block out and symbolically extinguish and bury those energies you don't want.

While the Moon is waxing, you can use this to light up or illuminate all of the positive and desirable energies, while burning out the unwanted energies and habits. In this way you take the old dead energy of the bad habits and transmute or change them into better and positive form. Once the Moon reaches the Full Moon you can fully illuminate and focus on all that is good and bright and fully celebrate the great things in life.

Practicing the art and science of observing the phases of the Moon and making calculations to determine your specific daily numerals, you are impressing yourself with ideas and concepts unique to yourself and are aligned with the cosmos. This adds a sense of self determinism to your daily activities and gets you involved with the planning of your daily endeavors.

In fact, to fully determine what you want and make it the ultimate self determining, self-hypnosis tool, you can assign any values or characteristics to the numerals and even the phases of the moon that you wish. Perhaps by starting off with the values suggested, you can then become familiar with them and then change them to match your unique wants and needs. By actively participating in the divining, planning or predicting of your life path, you are empowering your subconscious mind to work for your will, rather than against your will.

UniquilibriuM: Inception. Extraction. Deception.

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:10:11 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) A motion picture was released not too long ago with the title "Inception". Being a lucid dreamer I found the film quite fascinating and reminiscent of my own dream adventures. The movie gave me the feeling that it was very well researched and the team involved in communicating the ideas, were well informed about the dream environment and what a lucid dreamer could potentially experience. I watched the movie at the theatre and even purchased a copy which I have viewed repeatedly.

I certainly understand that it is a work of fiction meant to entertain, and I was very entertained indeed. I enjoy my ability to suspend my disbelief and totally become involved with the cinematic experience. Because of my understanding and desire to enjoy myself, I do not expect that many aspects of the films I watch will be too much like reality. But with all the similarities that Inception has with my personal oneironautic adventures, and the apparently extensive research that went into its creation, one aspect of the story really bothered me very much.

One of the points that the film made clear to me about the plot was how much more difficult an "inception" would be to execute than an "extraction". That is, it was put forward that it is much more difficult to plant an idea in another person's mind and have them believe it to be their own, than it would be to get information from within a person's mind. All this was proposed in the context of the dream world.

If we take this idea from the realm of dreams and apply it to our waking world of psychology, the levels of difficulty would be reversed. In this context of being awake, if one were to say that it is more difficult to execute an inception than an extraction, in my understanding this is ridiculously false, and would definitely fit the idea of fiction. But even in the dream-world, from what I know as an experienced lucid dreamer and hypnotist, it is still easier to incept than it s to extract. One example of this, is that people often dream about their day's events and variations of this, but find it difficult to remember their dreams in order to tell them to someone else.

Because of the way the plot of the movie was presented, I have used it as a foundation for me to take the opportunity to make a few points clear about the concepts of INCEPTION and EXTRACTION and their realistic application with regard to the human mind. I am doing this not only because I greatly enjoy recording my ideas, but also because I feel it is important for people to be clear about these concepts. As a professional belief system enhancer and clinical hypnotist, I am more than prepared to present this analysis.

INCEPTION.

Despite what the movie Inception proposed as part of its plot, the inception of an idea into a person's thoughts and which they believes is their own is very easy to do. In fact, it is done every day through the seemingly innocent media of advertising. Inception or planting of ideas happens every day in classrooms of all kinds from pre-school through graduate-school. Inception is successfully applied by parents, siblings, friends, books, music, television and... MOVIES! Indeed, every single day, you, me, and practically everyone else accepts information through our multiple senses that we then believe are our very own original cognitions.

Inception is in all ways just another form of suggestion or hypnosis. Just as all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis, the ideas must first be accepted by us on some level in order for us to act it out behaviorally. All of the decisions that we make and the resulting behaviors we act out are all based on ideas that we find acceptable. And because we are thinking certain thoughts and have a personality made up of our overall belief systems, we certainly are operating from a foundation of ideas that we have once accepted and have integrated into who we are.

Additional evidence that inception is continually part of our psychology and often against our best judgement, is the fact that we choose behaviors on a regular basis that oppose our good health. Almost every single idea that we act upon was once before not part of our psychology. This means that we had to accept the idea at some point and allow it to be readily accessible.

If you accept the idea that it is difficult to plant ideas in your mind that you will believe are your own, you have been fooled. Indeed most of us have been fooled about this idea and are never taught about these concepts. One pandemic inception about hypnosis is the idea that it is some sort of circus act, or that only sinister villain types and vampires use to seduce people in harmful ways. We are led to believe that hypnosis is some secret science that can not be understood, is incredibly dangerous and has no usefulness except perhaps to have people make fools of themselves on stage.

The reality is that hypnosis is simply a name given to a model of how human beings make use of suggestions and act on them behaviorally.

EXTRACTION.

Accessing information from a person's mind, or an extraction, is as simple as observing their behavior. There is emotional behavior, verbal behavior and physical behavior. The degree of control one has of their emotions or how they respond to stress is one way of extracting information. The way a person expresses themselves and how they use language is another way to read the thoughts of another person. And of course they movements and gestures a person make the state of their physical body and health are also very revealing ways to extract information from another person's mind.

There are very effective ways to understand how different people are acting out the various instructions they have been exposed to. In hypnosis, if you want to know how effective a post-hypnotic suggestion is operating, you may apply specific methods to determine this. The first step is to deliver the suggestion along with the appropriate associations used for stimulating the suggestion. shortly after this, in the same session or event, you test the suggestion by applying the associated stimulus. After testing a few times you would be able to asses how well the suggestion has taken effect. Following up regularly you can reenforce the suggestion and make sure it is still operating.

Inception is basically implanting a suggestion and extraction is basically interpreting a behavior or set of actions. Both inception and extraction can be used to help or hinder a person. The most useful form of inception in my opinion is to make people aware of the models describing the theorized mechanisms of these concepts. The most useful form of extraction is to me only that which allows you to make use of the information in a loving way.

On the other hand, the worst kind of inception to me is that which is done without the knowledge of others and only for personal gain without regard to others well being. Accordingly, the worst kind of extraction is that which is used to take advantage of others by taking their self-determinism.

It is not difficult for humans to have information installed into us as if we were hard drives accepting software programs. The real problem is not supplying people with the instruction manual of how to operate their systems. When we are left without knowing how to make use of our subconscious minds and thoughts constructively, we are left at the mercy of those who do. One of the first steps to taking control of your mind is knowing that you learn information easily. It is up to each of us to individually decide what information we will fully accept and operate from as behavior.

This is the ultimate form of personal responsibility. What we feed our minds drives our speech. What we speak not only feeds back to our thoughts but spreads ideas to the minds of others. And ideas are what drive the actions and behaviors of the people of this world and ultimately our collective reality.

HypnoAthletics: Possible GeoPhysical and Hypnotic Influences on Observed Correlations in Astrology

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:51:57 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) Astrology has been a Divination Tool used for thousands of years by many cultures around the world. It is a system that claims to predict an individual's personality characteristics and life events. Astrology bases its predictions on the positions of the Sun, Moon and other planetary objects at the time a person is born. These predictions about a person's life divined through Astrology, are most likely based on collecting observations of personality traits associated with the time of birth.

I thought it would be interesting to look into what Astrology's predictions might have to do with a unique combination of the intensity of sunlight, temperature, latitude either north of, south of, or on the equator and whether it is day or night when one is born. It is no far stretch of the imagination to think that seasonal changes and variations in sunlight may have significant effects on personality and behavior. In fact, there is a diagnosis that can be made of certain individuals called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is more commonly experienced by women than men and in areas that have longer winters and less yearly sunlight. In addition to this, behavioral, physical and mental changes have been studied in response to changes in environmental light and darkness, biological clocks and circadian rhythms in the science of chronobiology.

As you may know, the Sun is a star. The word Astro- is related to the Greek word Aster which means star. In the context of my hypothesis then, this study is still Astrology in the most literal sense of the word, because I am studying the effects of a star, our Sun, and its effects on human behavior. The suffix -ology being a branch of knowledge, study or science.

Another major component of this project is hypnosis or the study of the hypnotic power of suggestion. As a clinical hypnotist I have been researching and applying the power of suggestion to resolve many problems that I am presented with. Hypnotic suggestions have proven to be very powerful influencers of belief systems and human behavior.

GeoPhysics

There are several different natural cycles that influence the weather on Earth. Here, I will do my best to understand and then summarize my comprehension, to get an idea of a few mechanisms involved in determining the changes we experience through our planet's diverse climates.

The word Geo comes from the word Gaia, which is a Greek word for Earth, and the word physics is also Greek from the word physikos, which means pertaining to nature. These words certainly have earlier origins than Greek, I am just limiting the etymological or source research of the words to avoid a discussion that will lead us too far off the main point. Geophysics is a broad ranging subject. However, I will be narrowing the focus of geophysics to Earth's natural environment in space and its relationship with the Sun specifically.

For purposes of organization and study, Astronomers use a Pole Star, the North Star, or Polaris, which our North Pole is conveniently pointing to in modern times. The South Pole is exactly opposite the North Pole. This is used as a guide in charting the position of Earth in its space environment and for celestial navigation. Because of this polar orientation, the Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees towards the Sun at the North Pole. As if there was actually a pole running through the it at this point, the Earth spins like a top fixed on this axis of rotation as it orbits the Sun.

Imagine an enormous sphere surrounding an area using Earth's orbit as its diameter made of movie screen material, this is known as the celestial sphere. The shadow that the Earth would eclipse out along its path of orbit around the Sun is known as the ecliptic. Since the Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees from the ecliptic, its equator is also, and if a beam were shining out from this onto the giant movie screen sphere it would trace out a path called the celestial equator. The equinoxes would be when the Sun is at the point where these two paths meet at 23.5 degrees from the North and South Poles on the celestial sphere opposite each other, while the solstices would be when the Sun is along the celestial equator on East and West opposites of Earth's equator, relative to the poles.

Summer and Winter Solstice

In late June on the day of the summer solstice, Earth's northern hemisphere is angled or inclined towards the Sun which is at its farthest point in north during the year. Because of this, the sunlight shines almost straight down at northern latitudes. This can be thought of like the ground being hit by the sunlight at a 95 to 100 degree angle. In the southern hemisphere, the sunlight is more dispersed because it strikes the ground at a much wider angle. This could be imagined as an angle of 145 to 150 degrees.

In late December on the day of the winter solstice, Earth's northern hemisphere is angled or inclined away from the Sun which is at its farthest point south during the year. Because of this, the sunlight is dispersed because it strikes the ground at a wide angle, just like it was for the southern hemisphere during summer solstice. In the southern hemisphere, the sunlight shines almost straight down, just like it was for the northern hemisphere during summer solstice. The major causes of weather changes are due to the Sun moving through the solstices and their mid-points, the equinoxes.

Equinox

When spring begins, approximately March 20th the length of day and night is approximately equal and it is known as the Vernal Equinox. In the northern hemisphere, this marks a mid-point between the dispersed sunlight of the winter solstice around December 22nd and the approaching period of more direct, straight down sunlight of the summer solstice around June 22nd.

When autumn begins around September 22nd marking the mid-point between the June 22nd summer solstice and the upcoming winter solstice on December 22nd, it is known as the Autumnal Equinox. It is at this point once again, that the length of night and day are approximately the same.

Perihelion and Aphelion

The orbit of the Earth is not perfectly circular. It is slightly elliptical so that two sides are a bit closer together than the other two sides perpendicular to it. This moves the perfect circle you could imagine it being to something slightly more oval, though not very noticeably. When the Earth is about 1.7 times closer to the Sun than usual around January 3rd, it is said to be at perihelion. Around July 5th when the Earth is about 1.7 times further from the Sun than usual, it is said to be at aphelion. Even though the distance measurably changes, it is said that this does not significantly affect the seasons. Even so, the intensity of sunlight does vary, which might become important in this analysis.

Circadian Rhythms, SAD and Epigenetics

In the geophysics summary above, I have outlined the mechanisms that cause the changes in seasons and for the variations in intensity of sunlight striking the Earth and all who live here. Understanding a little bit about circadian rhythms and perhaps epigenetics may offer some insight into how a person's personality might be effected by the time of year they were born. In chronobiology, it has been observed that the sleep-awake cycles, body temperature, genetic expression, release of hormones and other biochemicals, are significantly affected by changes in the intensity of light. Circadian rhythms roughly follow a twenty-four hour cycle.

Being born under conditions having low sunlight, a person may not have a very upbeat or energetic personality. This is because their biology would have adapted to the low energy coming from the Sun and promoted a condition favorable to conservation. Since this is the case, they would not experience highs and lows as severely or noticeably as someone born under conditions having high amounts of the Sun's energy. This could be compared to the hibernation cycles of some organisms who conserve energy by dramatically slowing down their metabolism and energy consumption during the winter. The depression or lethargy is somewhat like our bodies hibernating for the winter and is not perceived as beneficial, but instead as a handicap since we can not go to sleep for months at a time. If we did this, perhaps it would be a coma. Instead we just have to stay awake more often than our bodies would like and deal with it.

In addition, heritable changes affecting genetic markers passed on to someone from their parents but that have not changed the actual genes, known as epigenetics may also be responsible. This could vary depending upon the conditions under which the parents were born and if they were unconsciously or genetically driven to seek an environment favorable to their own genetic predisposition for their own optimal sunlight needs. It is also worth noting that people with darker skin will be more affected by less sunlight because of the melanin content of their skin cells. Higher amounts of sunlight are needed for darker skinned people in order to optimize their health through sunlight stimulated biological mechanisms. One example is the process by which your body synthesizes Vitamin-D with cholesterol sulfate.

Over time, the light cycles causing changes in genetic and hormonal expression through circadian rhythm would become somewhat more programmed over the long term as an epigenetic adaptation. In the short term, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) would be experienced but not necessarily have time to lay down an epigenetic pattern because the spring and summer months would be recurring again soon. The depressive moods and feelings of SAD are most probably experienced by those whose biological processes are adapted to being driven by high sunlight levels. In this case during the winter months, their bodies would not readily increase their metabolic rate in time to deal with the decreased amount of energy from the Sun.

Signs and Seasons

By analyzing this summarized list of characteristics below often attributed to the Zodiac Signs, it is obvious to me at least, that the characteristics are based on the cycles of the seasons. With Spring having attributes of birth and beginnings, through Summer being growth, development and maturity. Then comes Autumn with characteristics of transformation and change, through Winter being death, completion and seed formation for the new cycle. But do these traits as far as a human being's personality is concerned, have anything to do with varying intensities of the Sun's light?

On Vernal Equinox around March 20th, the sign for Aries makes its turn on the Zodiac.

Aries=Start of new cycles, vitality, enthusiasm, birth;

Taurus=Taking form, embodiment, down to earth, steadiness;

Gemini=Curiosity, learning, cleverness, 1st communication.

On Summer Solstice around June 22nd, the sign for Cancer makes its turn on the Zodiac.

Cancer=Nurturing, bonding, roots, emotions;

Leo=becoming, development, entering ego,

Virgo=Individual, adaptable, perfecting, functional, practical.

On Autumnal Equinox around September 22nd the sign for Libra makes its turn on the Zodiac.

Libra=Partnership, interdependence, harmony, social;

Scorpio=Change, ego-death, breaking free, transformation;

Sagittarius=Expansion, enlightenment, abstract, theoretical

On Winter Solstice around December 22nd the sign for Capricorn makes its turn on the Zodiac.

Capricorn=Certainty, authority, reality, disciplined;

Aquarius=idealistic, unorthodox, utopian, dogmatic

Pisces=Surrender, sacrifice, dissolving, seed formation

Climate Driven Subconscious Conditioning as Hypnotic Programming

An interesting idea to me is that perhaps due to the changes in the environment, a person born during a certain season would somehow develop personality traits that fit the weather patterns. Are the seasons inherently built into our psychology? More specifically, is it because the weather has these traits, that a Spring baby really develops a vital and enthusiastic personality? Do Summer babies really have a focus on bonding, putting down roots and maturity? Do the Autumn born tend to be more harmonious and social? And do Winter births make for surrendering, authoritative and utopian types?

I have spoken to a lot of people who are convinced that Astrology accurately describes who they are. I also know of some others who do not think this way, while many others are uncertain. There are also those who have explored the descriptions of their particular birth times through Chinese Astrology and Numerology and discovered quite conflicting personality descriptions.

The fact that different geographic locations have varying sunlight, weather and climate conditions could be one way of explaining the conflicting Astrological interpretations of corresponding dates from different cultures. Because of different climates, the local religions, customs and philosophies would ultimately have been influenced by the wildlife and vegetation present. Different animals with characteristics assigned to them would make up the varying zoos or Zodiacs that were pictured in patterns of stars in the sky. Through careful observation, Astrologers would have accurately perceived patterns of behavior that corresponded with children being born during certain times of the year. Of course a culture located north of the equator would have made different observations than another culture south of the equator, even though the time of year is the same.

Over time, these observations would become part of the folklore and a more permanent part of the culture. As cultures expanded and became more global due to better transportation, Astrological interpretations would be shared and integrated. Some ideas would be accepted while others would conflict and be rejected. As it usually happens, many areas would tend to have a genetic majority. This group would then tend to have similar needs and responses regarding sun exposure. These ideas would not necessarily fit someone who migrated from another area with different genetic requirements.

Overall, the established traditions would not just give way to new interpretations easily. This is because humans are easily programmed or hypnotically influenced for good or for ill. If this were understood by more people, perhaps negative habits, conditioning and other unfavorable hypnotic influences could be corrected when necessary. Unfortunately, this is not the case and many old ideas and traditions remain simply because they are ancient and traditional. What was once a science based on careful observation may have soon become an outdated dogma, unsuitable for continued, successful application and accurate prediction of characteristics.

But that would be just pure, reductionist science speaking if I let it go at that. The problem with all I have just written is that it is inaccurate according to my experience. I have checked various sources for my Western Astrology sign as Virgo and found it to be accurate. The same goes for my Chinese Astrology sign as a Fire-Snake as well as for my number-5 life-path in Numerology. The very interesting thing, if you check out all three of these for yourself as far as my Virgo, Fire-Snake and number-5 go, they are all remarkably similar.

I would have thought it was because I was just being optimistic and overly accepting to find some answers for direction in my life at one time. However, the personal experiences and predictions I have made using those three systems, as well as the downfalls I have experienced when not following the advice of these Divination Tools, have convinced me that there is more to them. I have found that this is not merely due to expectation or hypnotic suggestion because I have usually checked the signs and numbers after many incidents and events I have considered significant.

I am not one to just blindly accept anything at face value for long. When I have done so it was as an experiment to see how useful something is, as I have with many different philosophies in the past. As soon as I find something is not quite right or I am being misled, I withdraw and move on. Astrology and many other divination Tools may not be perfect, but they are indeed not just pseudo-sciences that anyone should easily dismiss because it does not fit the prevailing dogma of so-called scientific rationale.

Indeed, we should find a way to take anything useful and fill our lives with that, instead of being at the mercy of anything and feeling powerless. Personality traits and characteristics might have to do with a combination of these things. But what is the point to just accept the effects of the stars, moons, planets, astronomy or astrology or anything outside of ourselves as the final answer? It is probably more effective that we do our best to change our own stars and be the masters of our own fate.

UniquilibriuM: Heuristic Philology; S.E.E.; 3rd-I; S3; A.N.D.; S.M.D.

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:22:28 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) I have coined and defined the term Heuristic Philology to mean Personal Development through the Love of Learning. I have come to understand that one of the primary keys to revolutionary creativity and progressive education is to be sufficiently motivated by joyful curiosity to learn. I find that joyful curiosity, or heuristic philology is even more important than the technical understanding of any one subject or specialty by itself.

Because of my ongoing interest in the power of language and communication, acronyms and single letter abbreviations have been wonderful compliments to maintaining consistent motivation through joyful curiosity for me. These concepts are as usual adopted from my contact with varying systems and my very personal adaptations of them. I consistently reframe my subjective experience in this way as a means to better understand myself even if no one else does.

Synesthetic Mnemonic Device (SMD)

Anything that can help support my recollection and free-association faculties is always welcome. As such, I have even labeled these acronyms and abbreviations that I use as multi-sensory memory tools or preferably, Synesthetic Mnemonic Devices. This is because words are symbols for my thoughts and are deeply connected to all of my different physical senses. As you may notice, SMD is itself one of these tools.

Alpha-Numeric Digitology (AND)

I have called the study (-ology) and creation of SMDs Alpha-Numeric Digitology. Alpha-Numerics and the science of Numerology also play an important role in sustaining my joyful curiosity. I especially like to use groups of three (3) symbols or digits as letters (alpha) and numbers (numerics) wherever possible, but this is not overly emphasized or necessary.

Subjective Experiential Education (S.E.E.)

One of our most readily available, inspiring and plentiful sources of information is our very own personal experience. It is this Mine of Mind that I call Subjective Experiential Education. When we are mindful and paying close attention to our thoughts and actions within our ongoing experiences, we may learn and understand a great deal about ourselves and the world around us. Knowing about ourselves is one of the simplest and most effective ways to learn about others and everything else.

Scientists and professionals of all trades and industries contribute to and subscribe to various journals relevant to their craft as a supplement to their ongoing education and experience. In a manner consistent with this practice, we too might decide to use journaling and writing of our daily experiences to enhance our personal understanding. By keeping a journal, we reenforce our memory and simultaneously record our activities that may perhaps be shared with others. By journaling as accurately as possible, we create an archive that we can review and integrate with our current endeavors. In this way we may learn from our mistakes and build upon ideas that may not have yet realized their full potential.

Independently Integrated Intelligence (3rd-I)

Our subjective thoughts are those of our own and are filtered by our individual perspective. As we are mindfully exercising our will, we can keep these personal experiences mostly independent from excess influence of the opinions of others and the imposing influences of the world around us. In this way we practice thinking for ourselves and being clear thinkers. At the same time, it is important for us to also include or carefully integrate the ideas and perspectives of others when it is useful and beneficial. When we do this I believe we are the most intelligent, by finding a unique-equilibrium (as I say UniquilibriuM), or optimum balance between our own private outlook and the shared experience of others. This is like having a 3rd-eye or ultimate foresight and efficient ability to make constructive decisions. Indeed this is why I have called it 3rd-I for Independently Integrated Intelligence.

Synaptic Syntax Sequencing (S3)

For me the best route to Personal Development is through the Love of Learning or Heuristic Philology. The ultimate teacher and classroom is my own Subjective Experiential Education (SEE). To organize my experience and to enhance my learning I use Alpha-Numeric Digitology (AND) to formulate Synesthetic Mnemonic Devices (SMDs) as multi-sensory memory tools. This is in practice a conditioning of the synaptic relationships in my nervous system through the the dynamics of personally formulated patterns of language, or syntax, which then proceeds to elicit an ordered set or sequence of desired results - a Synaptic Syntax Sequencing.

Having the goal to become my personal best has inspired a very eccentric and beautiful sense of creative purpose within me. With a fantastic blend of science and philosophy, I have been able to develop very useful personal strategies for myself for creating enjoyable maps to navigate happily through my life experiences. Blending pragmatism with fantasy I daily embark on a progressive journey that not only serves me, but helps to benefit all whom it effects.

Mystical Math: Numerology and the Commutative Law

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:03:28 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) Numerology is known as a Divination Tool. Divination tools like Tarot and Astrology are tools that supposedly allows one to decode and receive messages and information from the Divine, God, Gods or from the natural workings of the Universe. It is believed that this information can guide you throughout your life and for making certain decisions. In Numerology, the rationale is that every numeral from one (1) through nine (9) resonates with its very own characteristic vibration.

Some Numerologists say that there are only 9 true or core numerals, 1 though 9 and sometimes Master Numbers 11, 22 and 33. This is because in Numerology all numerals are usually simplified or reduced to a single digit. Therefore, after 9, all of the numerals start the cycle again with 1. You observe this cycle at 10 because 1+0=1; with 11 the 1+1=2, at 12 the 1+2=3 and so on. It is said that because of this recycling of a short list of only 9 core numerals, perhaps Numerology is one of the simplest Divination tools to learn and work with.

It is just one of many ways we humans can divine or reveal the wisdom of the Universe or Creator(s) by accessing the information manifested through numerals associated with our lives and world. I have personally experienced some very interesting synchronicities or meaningful coincidences with numerals both before and since being formally initiated into the science of Numerology.

Numbers and Numerals

In case you want to be really technical about definitions, a numeral is the actual digit or symbol that represents the number, while a number is the actual quantity or amount of something. Most folks however, do not use this distinction and it is probably not going to make much of a difference communicating your ideas through Numerology in most circumstances.

The characteristics of the numerals are listed here very generally as follows:

Masculinity, creativity, leadership, starting new things. (Positron)
Feminine, receptivity, cooperation, teamwork. (Negatron)
Sensuality, sexuality, talkative, life of the party. (Gamma-ray)
Hard work, stability, loyalty.
Freedom, spontaneity, gifted with words, sudden change.
Humanity, sophistication, peacemaking.
Intuitive, discerning, psychic.
Power, money, fame.
Completion and resonates with characteristics of 1 through 8.

As I stated before, the list is very general. I adopted and adapted it roughly from Numerology for Beginners by Gerie Bauer. I first read the book back in 2006 when a friend suggested I was already a Numerologist. This is because I would consistently use the Commutative Law of Addition to simplify groups and long strings of numerals and the alpha-numeric values of letters to single digits. Since then I have ben using Numerology as a fun self-hypnosis tool for myself and clients.

Other qualities of numbers could be

Pioneering, independent, attaining, individual
Adaptable, considerate, partnering, mediating
Expressive, verbose, social, artistic, festive
Foundation, order, service, steady progress, pushing limits
Expansiveness, visionary, adventurous, constructive use of freedom
Responsible, protective, nurturing, group-oriented, balanced, sympathetic
Analytical, understanding, knowledgeable, aware, studious, meditative
Practical workings, status conscious, materialistic
Versatile, selfless, creative expression, charitable

In the Commutative Law of Addition, as with Multiplication, it does not change the sum or product of the equation, regardless of what order you make the calculation. Therefore, the Commutative Property or Law states that

a + b = b + a

a x b = b x a

For example when I simplified my address I lived at at the time containing the numbers 18433, I would add 1+8+4+3+3=19. Then I would add 1+9=10, then 1+0=1. The final sum of 1 has the characteristics of masculinity, creativity, leadership and starting new things. It would not change the sum if I added 4+3+1+8+3, the sum would still be 19, then 10 then 1 when simplified.

For someone's birthday on September 17th, 1977, I know that September is the 9th month. Therefore, I add 9 + 17 + 1977= 2003. 2 + 0 + 0 + 3 = 5. The characteristic vibration of a 5 is freedom, spontaneity, gifted with words, sudden change. This would be the so-called Life-Path numeral for this September birthday. Some people call this the Destiny Number.

However, I usually refer to the Destiny Number as the Numeral derived by the alpha-numerics of a person's name. In alpha-numerics, each letter in a given alphabet has a numeral value. A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on. You could also do this for the name of an organization or any name for that matter. An example would be a company call Fox. F=6 because it is the 6th letter of the alphabet; O=6 because it is # 15 and 1+5=6; and X=6 because it is #24 and 2+4=6. So our Fox would be 6+6+6=18, then 1+8=9. It would mean that Fox has the resonance of completion and characteristics of 1 through 8 also.

Fantastic Numeral Nine (9)

The number 9 has many very fun properties. When you add 9 to any of the numbers 1 - 8, you will always come back to the number 1 - 8 that you have added to 9. For example, 9 + 1 =10 and 1+0=1; 9 + 2 = 11 and 1+1=2; 9 + 3 = 12 and 1+2=3 and so on.

Also, when multiplying 9 by any other numeral, you will always come back to 9 by reducing the product with addition. 9 x 2 = 18 and 1+8=9; 9 x 3 = 27 and 2+7=9; 9 x 4 = 36 and 3+6=9. Since multiplication is really just the operation of repeated addition, it also obeys the Commutative Law.

There are many more ways to divine information or play with number. You can determine the characteristic numeral vibration for each person's year, month and day. Numerology is an interesting Divination Tool whether you use it as a compliment to guiding your life or just as a fun arithmetic game to exercise your mind.

UniquilibriuM: MetaPhysical Worlds of HypnoAthletics

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:06:59 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) Metaphysicists and Metaphysicians often make use of metaphors or models of our realms of existence. These are analogous to locations or realms of being. One particular trinity that I find useful is the Underworld - Middle World - Upper World hierarchy. As with almost anything that comes through my experience, I have adopted this concept and adapted it to suit my personal preferences and hypothesis.

Understand that these are just psychological constructs that I use to assist with navigating my cognitive processes and may have nothing whatsoever to do with anyone else's reality. I find these ideas quite useful in applying therapeutic-imagery tools, lucid dreaming and other self-hypnosis modalities.

UnderWorld

I consider the Underworld to be all planets, stars, asteroids, meteors, comets and other solid, physical terrestrial, plasmic and aquatic bodies. This is the realm of all living, organic and biological beings, even those we do not know of or understand. Of course this includes us humans. The Underworld is limited to distinct locations of these physical objects.

Middle World

The Middle World I consider to be the space between all of the Underworld, where you can travel from one Underworld to the next in space-ships and rockets. Depending on what the state of Dark-Energy and Dark Matter are, they may perhaps fall into this category. It is simply the medium through which we Underworld beings travel to reach other Underworlds. The Middle World is always present around the Underworld.

Upper Worlds

The Upper Worlds are many and are the non-physical realms of consciousness, the spirit or soul, Angels, Demons, Gods and Devils. This may include the Astral Plane, the Bardo (Tibetan), Heaven, Hell, Nirvana, Paradise, Purgatory or any thing of the like. The Upper World is transcendent and omnipresent, being in, through, and around all things in the Underworld and Middle World.

These concepts are not only personally comforting and effective for manipulating my thoughts to consistently achieve the results I desire for myself. I am also able to fit these into therapeutic modalities that I use with clients as an underlying framework to better understand their own world-views.

Contacting S.P.A.C.E. on H.A.L.O. - Delta Experiments

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:26:25 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) Lucid Dreaming and Astral-Projection are exciting subjects that I frequently explore. Indeed, I experience lucid dreams almost every night. As an experiment, I have developed conceptual organizations when I am exploring these largely uncharted realms of consciousness. The majority of all my daily and nightly experiences are in fact experiments to me. Creating and applying these concepts provides me with useful, experimental tools for self-empowerment and personal-development, while exploring many different aspects of my consciousness.

Just as an aquanaut is an explorer of the waters and an astronaut is an explorer of the cosmos; an oneironaut (own-eye-row-nawt) is an explorer of dreams - particularly when they are lucid dreams. H.A.L.O. - Delta is my HypnoAthletics Lucid Oneironautics Division. This concept provides a framework that is analogous to organizations in waking reality. For example, I like to imagine it as my dream-world version of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Of course there are a lot of differences. In dreams I can manipulate or control the "physics" of my environment in radical ways. I am also a bit more "militant". While HALO-Delta is a Research and Development branch of my dream concept, I have created a more militarized concept. This is known as S.P.A.C.E., the Sentience Protection Agency & Cosmic Embassy.

With S.P.A.C.E., I integrate concepts that I make use of when I am awake such as KappaGuerra, which I have created to mean "The Only War to Wage is Within". It is a martial-art based on the very flashy, acro-gymnastic art form of African-Capoeira, which is a lot of fun to play with in dreams. KappaGuerra is developed using Martial-Arts Science Technology Engineering & Research (M.A.S.T.E.R.), which makes use of wrestling and boxing as well. Through this, I make it a very comprehensive movement system, that provides an infinite repertoire of manoeuvres far beyond combat applications alone.

I also include a dream-conceived technology that I call T.E.M.P.E.R.A.T.U.R.E - G.U.N.. This acronym stands for Thermal Electro-Magnetic Pulse Endo-Reactive Amplified Turbine Undulating Radiation Emitted & Guided Utilizing Neurology. Also known as T-Gun, it is a thought-activated tool that transforms into whatever device I require. It is a non-lethal weapon, that allows me to dominate my dream-scape and any aggressive characters without "killing" them. This is because I subscribe to the hypothesis that my dream characters, are aspects of myself.

More importantly however, is the fact that for me, my dreams sometimes advance into Astral-Projection, or Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs). On most of the occasions when this has happened, it has not been pleasant. Because of this, I have militarized my personal, psychological experiences to empower myself. This way, I have been able to transmute nightmarish experiences into amazing fantasy adventures. By integrating the empowered and militarized aspects of HALO-Delta, I am sending the message to any potential, harmful entities, that I and my dream companions will not be bullied. This effectively sets up a calm state of mind that is prepared for whatever may come.

Another interesting and very hypothetical use of HALO-Delta, is in the experimentation and practice of shared dreams. I have been able to verify that I have been "seen" in several other people's dreams, as well as having visitations from others. This has been accomplished by myself and another person both intending this, or me visiting their dreams without first telling them as a "blind". Then when someone says "Hakeem, I had this really interesting dream the other night, and you were in it...", I have a potential confirmation of my visit and interaction.

Overall, these thought experiments carried out in my dream-states have proven to be very valuable to me. Not only do I have a great deal of fun, I also learn a lot about myself, often extracting new information and discovering interesting perspectives about existing data.

My signature is Love Understanding Compassion Kindness (L.U.C.K.) as often as possible. Perhaps now, I will have many more interactive dream-adventures with others, who would like to make contact with S.P.A.C.E. on future HALO-Delta Experiments. GodKnight!

From Zero to Googol

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:19:00 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) When analyzing numbers, there are many that trail far off to the left and right of the decimal point. Zero, or the idea of nothing is interesting by itself. Contemplating infinity is just as interesting. No matter how many zeros or whatever number is added to the end of a string of numbers, infinity is never reached. This unattainable infinitude is fascinating. Even so, it is helpful to have labels to put things in perspective. Here is a list of numbers from zero (0) to googol for one to marvel. At the thousand mark, the numbers are all multiplied by 1,000 in the positive and the negative.

0 = Zero

10 = Ten 1-zero

100 = One hundred; 2-zeros; 10²

1,000 = One thousand; 3-zeros; 10³

1,000,000 = One million; 6-zeros; 10⁶

1,000,000,000 = One billion; 9-zeros; 10⁹

1,000,000,000,000 = One trillion; 12-zeros; 10¹²

1,000,000,000,000,000 = One quadrillion; 15-zeros; 10¹⁵

1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One quintillion; 18-zeros; 10¹⁸

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One sextillion; 21-zeros; 10²¹

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One septillion; 24-zeros; 10²⁴

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One octillion; 27-zeros; 10²⁷

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One nonillion; 30-zeros; 10³⁰

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = One decillion; 33-zeros; 10³³

A decillion-decillion is a one (1) followed by 66-zeros; 10⁶⁶

A decillion-decillion-decillion is a one (1) followed by 99-zeros; 10⁹⁹

Multiply the last line of a One (1) followed by 99-zeros by 10 and you have a Googol; 10¹⁰⁰

When the zeros are to the left of the decimal followed by 1

0.1 Tenth ; 1/10

0.01 Hundredth; 1/100; 10^-2

0.001 Thousandth; 1/1,000; 10^-3

0.000001 Millionth; 1/1,000,000; 10^-6

0.000000001 Billionth; 1/1,000,000,000; 10^-9

0.000000000001 Trillionth; 1/1,000,000,000,000; 10^-12

0.000000000000001 Quadrillionth; 1/1,000,000,000,000,000; 10^-15

0.000000000000000001 Quintillionth; 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000; 10^-18

0.000000000000000000001 Sextillionth; 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; 10^-21

0.000000000000000000000001 Septillionth; 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; 10^-24

0.000000000000000000000000001 Octillionth; 10^-27

0.000000000000000000000000000001 Nonillionth; 10^-30

0.000000000000000000000000000000001 Decillionth; 10^-33

A Decillionth of a decillionth is 0. followed by 66-zeros and 1; 10^-66

A Decillionth of a decillionth of a decillionth is 0. followed by 99-zeros and 1; 10^-99

Multiply 0. followed by 99-zeros and 1 by 10 and you can perhaps call this a googolianth; 10^-100

HypnoAthletics EpiGenetic Engineering

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:05:39 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) There is a lot of debate in the scientific and the lay (non-scientific) community regarding the role that genetics plays in a person's development. In general, one side of the debate seems to believe in disempowering themselves and attributing all of their short-comings and other people's achievements, on their genetic make-up. On the other side, there are those who believe that all of ones failures or successes are only due to their personal dedication to pursuing goals through dedication and persistence. Reliance on the genetics only hypothesis could be called nature, while reliance on the self could be called nurture.

So is it nature or nurture? Perhaps the advice of Maimonides (1138-1204), who amongst other things, was an accomplished physician who wrote about several diseases and their cures is relevant. Maimonides writes "The upright path is the middle path of all qualities known to man. This is the path which is equally distant from the two extremes, not being too close to either side." This is also the sentiment of certain Buddhist teachings. The Middle Way in Buddhism is a path of moderation between self-mortification and sensual indulgence that leads to liberation.

The way this can be practically applied is in the fact that we are born with our genetic make-up, and there is nothing we can readily do about that; and we can also cultivate a discipline in how we moderate our daily activities in order to optimize our physical and mental health. The middle path is to work between our inherited traits and our learned traits or behavior. This optimization is basically an individually balanced combination of healthy nutrition based on whole foods, intelligently planned exercise founded on high-intensity interval training, and adequate rest and sleep built on our personal biological needs. It is this synthesis of Healthy Living activities that I like to call HypnoAthletics EpiGenetic Engineering.

EpiGenetic Engineering is not something only for PhDs in Biochemistry or Professors of HypnoAthletics. Indeed, you too can and should be your own EpiGenetic Engineer. In fact, you have already been an EpiGenetic Engineer all of your life. However, if you have been experiencing any difficulties or challenges with your health, including unwanted body fat, low energy levels, inadequate sleep or other issues, it may be because you have not been following the EpiGenetic Engineering methods that will promote the best of health that you can experience.

Simply stated, Epigenetic Engineering is the stimulation of changes in gene expression that do not involve modifications in the DNA sequence that may also be inherited by your children. You may take advantage of these changes in gene expression and adaptation to achieve the results you desire.

EpiGenetic Engineering Methods: Physical and ~~Mental~~ Exercise

Physical Exercise all by itself benefits many of your body's organ systems. One of the benefits of exercise is that it stimulates the genetic expression of several proteins that promote good health. When you exercise, your skeletal muscles may have less of the molecule -CH3, the methyl-group. When this genetic marker is lessened, it stimulates gene expression that helps your muscles adapt to exercise.

Physical exercise promotes neurogenesis, or the growth of new neurons and brain cells from stem-cells. These new neurons are primarily motor-neurons that are necessary for proper movement of those skeletal muscles you are exercising. This in turn enhances neuro-motor functional activity. Also, some new neurons may develop to support your heart or cardiac muscles as an adaptation to support increased cardiac output. The same goes for the muscles in your lungs or respiratory system.

In cooperation with your respiratory system, your muscles use glucose, aka sugar as a main fuel source and therefore, exercise improves the sensitivity of insulin receptors on cells so that it may use the sugars for energy. The added benefit of stimulating insulin receptivity is the release of insulin from your pancreas. Insulin removes glucose from your blood and moves it into muscle to be used as energy. The excess glucose is then stored in the muscles and liver as glycogen to be stored for later use. If your pancreas does not release insulin, or your cells are not sensitive to insulin, the excess sugar in your blood becomes poisonous to your organs. This may be due to Type I or Type II Diabetes which are both improved with exercise.

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, exercise increases the beneficial human growth hormone (HGH), decreases body fat, helps firm your skin, improves muscle tone, increases energy and libido or sex-drive, and increases your overall fitness.

For more info:

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/03/23/interval-training-and-metabolism.aspx

Dr. Mercola also suggests that some forms of exercise are more beneficial than others. I agree with his assessment and also recommend high intensity interval training as the most effective way to improve overall health and fitness. My method is similar to Dr. Mercola's and is a main component of EpiGenetic Engineering. It is called "Optimum-Nine". Optimum-Nine focuses on high intensity bursts of exercise for 45-seconds with 90-seconds of rest in between for 9-sets total.

Optimum-Nine is based on Numerology, the F.I.T.T.E. outline from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), Dr. Mercola's Peak-8, and my personal experience of the benefits of high intensity interval training earned from years of playing Capoeira. In Numerology 9 is the number of completeness or the end of a cycle. F.I.T.T.E. is an acronym for Frequency. Intensity. Time. Type. and Enjoyment. Capoeira is an art-form that synthesizes a game, a dance and a martial-art all into one. Capoeira involves lots of high intensity intervals of explosive activity.

EpiGenetic Engineering Methods: ~~Physical~~ and Mental Exercise

It is challenging to decide whether to place mental exercise before or after physical, so this being after physical should be no indication that it is less important than the physical. In fact, it may be more important, but since the two compliment each other and lead to a healthy cycle, I will leave it up to you to decide which to begin practicing first.

Exercising Your Mind

Motivation is a primary factor to begin any type of activity. Therefore, you must seek ways to sufficiently motivate yourself into action. One of the ways I maintain a high level of motivation is by creating original ideas and synthesizing others by adopting and adapting methods from other that I find useful. By definition, this is a form of self-hypnosis, which is very therapeutic when properly applied. This is why, for example, I formulate these terms like HypnoAthletics, EpiGenetic Engineering, UniquilibriuM, KappaGuerra and others. It inspires me by way of a sense of accomplishment that I am creating something new, altering or improving upon something already in use.

It is also motivating that what I am creating may be shared with others who might benefit from my eccentricities. In this way I am giving back to a world and people who have given me so much all of my life, especially the love and support I get from my family and friends. Being motivated effects the subconscious mind which in turn, enhances our success in self-improvement. The goal of self-hypnosis and hypnotherapy is in fact, to replace or change unproductive thought processes into more useful or productive thinking by accessing the subconscious mind.

Anything that attempts to change or control behavior in this way may be defined as hypnosis. Hypnosis then may be used for good or bad as it is just a natural process that must be directed. Just like the physical component of EpiGenetic Engineering, you have been practicing it all of your life. If it is the case that you are not achieving the results you desire, then you have most likely been using hypnosis in a way that is unhealthy.

This is because all hypnosis is in actuality self-hypnosis. The so-called "Laws of Self-Hypnosis" are Repetition, Association and Impression. Those thoughts that you repeat to yourself and others become associated as reality and thereby impress themselves on your behavior. You can either direct it, or let yourself be directed by it. Usually when you allow this natural process to direct you, it does not tend to produce favorable results because most of the information we are surrounded by is not as healthy as you would like or expect it to be.

By focusing your thoughts on and immersing yourself in healthy and productive concepts and ideas, you may actually stimulate neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells, just as with physical activity. This is especially true if you are imagining yourself performing athletic movements and exercise. I like to call this Synaptic Syntax Sequencing (S3) which is stimulated by the practice of what I call 3rd-I, or Independent Integrated Intelligence. These are just more of my concepts that help to motivate me towards self improvement. The more creative and fulfilling life experiences you can find or make to inspire you to improved health, the better off you will be.

OrthoMolecular Nutrition

The quality of your food will definitely effect the quality of your life. One of the most effective ways to be a master EpiGenetic Engineer is to seek ways to discipline yourself to be a healthy eater. By eating more whole, unprocessed, or minimally processed foods that are responsibly produced; our health will be dramatically improved. You may or may not see immediate results from changing the way you eat, but over time, usually two to six months, you will experience life-changing benefits. the food that we eat can have positive or negative effects on the way we exercise, think and sleep.

Rest and Sleep

Finally, but not least of all is rest and sleep. Getting adequate amounts of sleep for your personal needs may help improve your sensitivity to insulin, but perhaps by way of a different mechanism. It also helps to increase your level of a hormone called leptin, which helps you to feel satisfied after eating. When leptin levels are reduced, you may feel more hungry, even if you have had enough to eat. This may contribute to overeating, especially sugary foods that over-burden your carbohydrate metabolizing systems.

To be an effective EpiGenetic Engineer who achieves the best results you desire requires discipline. As you may notice, all of the components are interactive with each other. exercise helps you get better sleep, proper sleep improves your metabolism, healthy eating improve your ability to think and so on. Whatever area you decide to begin with does not matter as long as you begin to progressively realize the results you are seeking, which I am assuming is the most optimum physical and mental health possible for you.

By seeking the middle path and balancing your inherited genetics traits with your learned traits or behavior, you soon may become a master EpiGenetic Engineer and experience the greatest health and fitness possible for you.

The HypnoAthletics Healthy Living and Self-Defense Revolution

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:35:51 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) I have spent many dedicated and disciplined years of study, practice and teaching the various elements of Healthy Living and Self-Defense. Because of this, I am increasingly more aware of how being healthy, in body and mind, is very truly the definition of wealth.

I understand this because even though I am not dripping gold coins and Benjamins ($100.00 bills), I am generally very content and satisfied with my being. Most of my time is spent in joyfully exploring thoughts and activities related to nutrition as biochemistry and physics as martial-arts. Not because I am obligated by anyone or organization to do so, but because I am curious and enjoy it. There are many other methods and activities I am involved with, but nutrition and martial-arts research and application are the main focus of the majority of my time.

Every day people are seeking something more to their lives. Something they feel is missing that when obtained will make them happier and more complete. Perhaps a lost part of themselves, or something yet undiscovered. I do not believe people will ever find what they are looking for unless it is physical and mental health that they focus on. True wealth is great health of mind, body and spirit. That is, you will be the most joyful, happy, content and fulfilled as you move towards those thoughts and actions that generate and sustain the optimum functioning of your body and the ultimate environment for your mind.

I naturally look very good in my clothes without having to spend a fortune because of the functional form my body has maintained. I am not constantly searching for some object to purchase or some gizmo to possess that will satisfy me. I don't have to cover up with make-up or other accessories to be attractive, because my outstanding health is captivating. This is not bragging or putting anyone else down. This is simply my truth as I happily and respectfully understand it.

I have been around "friends" who love to smoke, drink, stay up late "partying" and abusing their bodies, minds and dignity in all kinds of creative ways. I have even participated in these events. But I very quickly lose interest in this behavior because it just leads to an unfulfilling cycle, over and over again. And just to recapture the "excitement" of it all, the process has to be repeated, and there is nothing useful to be gained from this that I have found. Addiction. It is just not for me.

A party to me is gathering some beautiful, healthy people, putting on some music, using the rhythm to inspire some acro-gymnastic, martial-arts frenzy, and finish off with some clean water, tea or coffee, organic veggies and responsibly produced Mexican food. I might have a different idea of party than you do.

Instead, I find a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction by writing articles, lyrics and poems, composing, recording and publishing music, practicing yoga, capoeira, boxing, wrestling, sprinting, walking outdoors, meditating, eating delicious, healthy food, sleeping and lucid dreaming. And as an added benefit, I get to share these experiences with like-minded, progressive thinkers and activity partners; my true friends. life would not be complete without sharing good things with good people. This is a short list. I am pretty sure that I am not missing out on anything in life.

I have heard a saying that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". I sure do know that this is the truth. Unfortunately, this is not the thinking of most other mortals who share the Earth with me. Too often, preventable challenges develop into severely debilitating diseases. And it is not simply that people are just over-eating and being lazy; only that most folks are not progressively and independently thinking about their over-all health. This is especially true when it comes to the quality of nutrition that people are consuming.

The way I understand it, many emotional, personal, psychological, social, economic, and other relationship issues with ourselves and others may be remedied by exploring the many different ways of optimizing the health of the physical body. You might think that pharmaceutical companies, research scientists and most medical doctors are already doing this, but you would be DEAD WRONG. What I understand to be more effective is using food for fuel and building material, and activity for exercise and recreation.

I have been fortunate enough through many years of disciplined practice, to have a very personal understanding that eating healthy food, exercising moderately and regularly and getting plenty of sleep, has kept me in a very happy and generally content state of being. I also know that it has saved me thousands of dollars in medical expenses. I do not frequently get colds and flu, except about every 3 to 4 years, I heal very quickly from sports-related injuries, I am usually in a good mood, and I am always gainfully employed with some task that is fulfilling and fascinating to me.

I do not drive my car and ride the bus to get around most of the time because I am rarely in a rush to be anywhere. I do not own a television and have not for years and do not miss it. I do not listen to the radio or read newspapers. I do not even have a bed, instead I sleep in a sleeping bag on a concrete floor with lots of comfortable pillows. And I sleep very, very well, in quiet peace and luxurious contentment. So much wonderful sleep, that I have the luxury to explore lucid-dreaming almost every single night.

My personal belongings are clothes, musical instruments and lots of books and other reading and writing materials, my phone and a laptop. That is pretty much it. A lot of people would be miserable with the minimum possessions that I claim. But since by default I have my mental clarity and peace traveling around with a healthy and highly functioning physical body, I am virtually worry free and quite fulfilled.

It may be no surprise to most however, that it took me a bit of reflection to come to this conclusion because I had to change my thinking to become more aware. A gradual, revolutionary process. But I love cliches, and one that I have put to good use is the one that says to "count your blessings". Counting my blessings has been a practice I have been employing for years also, because it is simple like me. It also has remarkable and profound benefits. It took me many years just to count all of my blessings. I have been writing them down. I have realized with enormous GRATITUDE that my blessing are primarily the result of healthy living.

This is The HypnoAthletics Healthy Living and Self-Defense Revolution. It is a personal philosophy that has been working very well for a long time. It is evolving and improving. It is not perfect, and of course I do not claim that I am. What I do understand is that I am much better off being happy and content because I am healthy, rather than being afraid and worrying for my possessions, and being uncomfortable in my body. It is a revolution that I will continue to share for the benefit of all whom it effects.

Turning Pressure into Prosperity with Jim Allen

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:12:00 GMT

Denying pressure is a mistake - overcoming pressure is joy and freedom! With Co-Hosts Chandi Devi and Hakeem Alexander, Jim Allen will clarify the 7 specific types of pressure we face in life and how to transform that pressure through "deliberate practices" - one of which is jumping for joy!

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For 30 years, Jim Allen has taught thousands of kids and adults how to walk tall, achieve natural health, develop loving relationships, and create a higher quality of living. As a coach and healer, Jim is certified in martial-arts, qigong therapy and energy medicine and integrates the spiritual power of prayer to clear away unconscious negativity and false programming in order to experience peace and freedom.

Sleep Awareness Week: HypnoAthletics Projecting the Astral body

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:20:38 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) I have adventured in many so-called "Astral-Projections" or "Out-of-Body Experiences" (OBEs). If you had the opportunity to read my article on lucid dreaming, you may remember that my lucid dreams started as spontaneous occurrences. That is, I did not will them or want them to happen. This is because I had no idea that there was anything different about dreams than being awake or lucid within them. Not knowing that I was dreaming has always been an alien concept to me.

In the same way, my journeys with astral-projection began. However, there are some major differences that I will be communicating in this writing, as well as the similarities. One of the main differences is that, only four out of every one-hundred OBEs that I can remember, have I had some control of the experience. The control that I did have was very weak and limited compared to the control that I am able to exercise when lucid dreaming.

Upon retrospective analysis, or dwelling on past OBEs, I have come to the conclusion that they have only occurred while I was in poor health due to malnutrition. It seems that for some reason, I have only been able to project my astral-body when my blood sugar is out of its optimum. This may seem strange to some Metaphysicians, but my out-of-body experiences have only happened because of a change in my physical condition, rather than from some prescribed techniques or methods to achieve the effect.

In my Sleep Awareness Week article "Orthomolecular HypnoAthletics", posted on March 7th, 2012, I wrote: "I experienced the negative effects of unhealthy eating choices including: defects in carbohydrate metabolism, hypoglycemia, which led to, pre-diabetic, keto-acidosis, that promoted diminished kidney function and pain, insomnia, sleep-paralysis accompanied by sleep-apnea, irritability, lethargy, cognitive decline, depression, inability to focus and concentrate, memory impairment, paranoia and delusions, as a short list."

It has been under the very specific circumstances of sleep-paralysis accompanied by sleep-apnea, that I have had the majority, if not all of my OBEs. Because of these circumstances, it is easy to dismiss these experiences as symptoms of neurological impairment. I will fully agree that the unhealthy eating contributed to some type of unhealthy physical condition of the brain that caused changes in my mental experience. However, because of several circumstances concurrent with these experiences, I must insist that out-of-body experiences are a fact of being as described by many spiritualists and other like minded persons.

My hypothesis is that somehow the physiological changes created from poor nutrition, tune my sensory channels to a parallel reality that is just as real, but invisible under biological circumstances that are healthy for me. This is equivalent to a television channel as normal perception, or good health, and then getting interference from other concurrent programs when in poor health. The channels are always there, but I am not always tuned in because I am normally in good health.

The ideas about astral projection or OBEs that I have come across mostly agree that in the astral world, it is basically an exact replica, reflection, or mirror image of the physical world, at least in architecture, structure and form. For example, when I have "walked" through a hallway in my house in my astral body, the same Bruce Lee poster hung on the wall, and my cat's scratching tower and all other objects remain in the same positions as when I am in my physical body.

Another interesting feature of my OBEs has been that a lucid dream with themes of conflict and terror almost always precede the the projection. It usually begins with some person or entity that I am struggling with more than I would be in lucid dreams where I generally dominate my circumstances and opponents. Instead, before I have an astral projection, I do not have the upper hand when suddenly, I am overcome with an overwhelming terror, physical body paralysis and difficulty or inability to breathe. As I struggle to move, usually to sit up or lift an arm or leg, I realize a great tension, as if powerful rubber cords are attached to every atom of my physical being.

If I am only able to turn my astral head, I realize that I see two arms, one of my physical body, paralyzed and still, while my astral arm frantically struggles to be free. Other times I completely sit upright, only to look down to see my lifeless physical body remaining still. When I have this experience, I have usually been stunned enough to quit fighting and let the rubber cords take over and slam me back into my physical body as I jerk and twitch into an awake state, glad to be able to move and breathe freely.

Quite a few other times however, I have looked around my room, or whatever room I am in, visited neighbors homes, and even projected out into deep space, only to come crashing back down in an instant. I can not say that the majority of my astral projections have had a pleasant start, and many have been down-right terrifying! Indeed though, they have all been quite fascinating regardless of how the were initiated.

Since I have mostly corrected what I understand to have been blood-sugar problems, I have only had one or two experiences like this in over a year. This is quite a relief because I was accustomed to having at least two or more each night! Before I made these dietary adjustments, I did learn some very useful coping skills that helped to make the astral projections more pleasant and useful for exploration, rather than trying to free myself from suffocation and paralysis.

The two main skills I learned were deep breathing in and relaxation; followed by conscious projection - in that order. I chose breathing first because it was obvious to me before I ever heard the term sleep-apnea, as it may be to you, that breathing is very important. It was not necessary for me to be completely in control of my emotions, only enough to be able to focus on inhaling. Perhaps it would be useful to know that this is a really good first step to overcome sleep-related breathing difficulties. I concentrated all of my initial efforts on breathing in.

This is because when I usually became conscious while in this paralyzed state, it became apparent to me that I was always out-of-breath, and so it seemed reasonable to focus on reclaiming a bit of oxygen. Once I was able to manage this, a combination of the morale victory of getting in a breath or two, and the physical relief were enough to bring me to step two - relaxation.

I would automatically begin to relax knowing that with a little effort, I would be able to breathe and that I was not going to end up having a heart attack, brain-dead in bed or some other oxygen-deprivation induced injury. It may be no surprise to you that frightening thoughts invade one's mind who is abruptly awakened to being suffocated and immobilized. Soon after I had a few victories of inhaling and relaxing under my belt, I was then able to consciously project and do a little exploring.

Most of the explorations consisted of simply being aware of what my physical body was doing and what "hallucinations" if any were present. The hallucinations took on a few distinct forms. These were being restrained in my bed by demons or evil-spirits who would either basically rape me and / or ask me to join the forces of Satan. Other times there were aliens or extra-terrestrials who would restrain me and perform genetic breeding experiments, either in bed or abduct me to do so elsewhere. I have never had a pleasant entity visit me under circumstances where I was immobilized and suffocating.

My exploration of astral projection as a more controlled phase of my experience is not in its very beginning stages. For now I have to figure out how to view these other realms without being unhealthy or weak. I do realize that physiological changes affecting my brain and therefore my cognitive experience have a great deal to do with these scenarios of OBEs and astral projection. However, I am not convinced in any way that they are merely "hallucination" produced from an overactive imagination.

I have good reasons to believe that other people have significantly similar experiences from books I have read and interviews I have conducted. This is a subject I will continue to explore and investigate. I will be sharing the results of my findings very soon. In fact, I already have a great deal of information compiled. Enough has been revealed for now.

Sleep Awareness Week: HypnoAthletics Lucid Oneironautics Division (HALO-Delta)

hakeem@hypnoathletics.com (Hakeem Alexander) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:04:31 GMT

By Hakeem Alexander

(Exercising Your Mind) As long as I can remember, I have been participating in lucid dreams. I had no concept that there existed any other type of dreams except for the ones I was having in which I had partial control over the content and proceedings of the dream environment. I assumed that my experiences were similar to everyone else's dream experiences. Therefore, I did not consider it a special circumstance that one had to develope. I readily enjoyed these experiences almost every night - and I still do!

"The trees are taller where the land is earlier;

And if the trees are taller where a (K)night has fallen,

There, I do not carry my lamp."

This little piece of prose or poem came to me, word-for-word, many years ago in one of my lucid dreams. I am not fully aware of what it means, but I find it fascinating that I have been able to actually read, remember and write out some information I experienced in a dream. To me, this is a clue that the dream world may be a resource that contains a wealth of knowledge for profound and powerful personal development and evolution; or at the least, a retreat for exciting recreation and exploration.

Once again, I did not always consider my experiences to be significant; but when I began to research the topic, the implications were made apparent. The motivation for looking further into the matter of lucid dreams was because when I would relate the dream stories to people, they appeared surprised and even disbelieved that I recalled my nightly dreams. They were even more shocked that I was telling them that I could control many aspects and features of the dreams.

Lucid dreaming has been for me, a virtual-reality platform for many years. Most of the time, I defy the known laws of physics with ease and live as a Super-Human within the expanses of my dreaming mind. When I am dreaming, my abilities are driven by a very powerful and accurate form of what paranormal researchers would call Psycho-Kinesis, or PK., if they were being demonstrated in the "real-world" when I am "awake".

Using my P.K., I am able to fly, manifest various objects, move things around in whatever way and to wherever I wish, change the form of myself and other objects and people, become invisible, have incredible strength, visit other planets, galaxies and worlds of all kinds, and a very long list of other exciting abilities that are not always available to me when not dreaming. Just imagine any comic-book, movie or video-game character with extraordinary abilities and you will have a pretty good idea of some of the possibilities available in the realm of lucid-dreams.

HypnoAthletics Lucid Oneironautics Division (HALO-Delta)

As a professional Hypnotist, I learned that the Greek God of Sleep is called Hypnos. Later, I learned that Hypnos has a son called Oneiros, who is the God of Dreams. Just as an Astronaut is an explorer of the stars, an Oneironaut is an explorer of dreams. Thus, I have established a working concept to explore my dream adventures called HALO-Delta to organize my observations and research. I would like to share my personal methods and techniques for becoming aware that I am dreaming, as well as those procedures I have discovered to gain some measure of control when I am lucid.

Sufficient Time to Sleep

One of the main ingredients to launching a lucid dream experience was having plenty of time to stay in bed and or sleep undisturbed in order to allow the experience to play itself out. I am not likely to have lucid dreams if I am not able to have at least six hours of sleep or more.

The Law of Attraction Promotes Total Recall

My first lucid dream experiences were spontaneous, meaning that there was no effort on my part that I was aware of, to create these experiences. However, I do recall that when I got carried away by the excitement and anticipation of having lucid dreams, they became much more frequent and vivid.

So my next advice to share would be to have an enthusiastic intention to at first be able to remember your dreams. In this way you would be using what some Metaphysicists call "The Law of Attraction" to manifest "Total Recall' of your dreams. Just tell yourself silently or out-loud that you will realize that you are dreaming throughout the day and / or just as you are drifting off to sleep and you will be well on your way to the first step - dream recall.

Lucidity and Plasticity

It may happen, as it is not uncommon, that you will begin to remember your dreams without too much effort after just the first intention! While this is exciting, it may not always happen. Remain encouraged and enthusiastic and you will eventually begin to remember your dreams more frequently and easily. Once you have got the recall part more consistently, you will then be more able to be aware, or lucid, which immediately comes before plasticity, which is the ability to control or change certain aspects of your self or dream environment at will.

This is actually as simple as it is. Remain in bed or asleep long enough to continue dreaming, practice dream recall with enthusiastic intention, and then become aware that you are dreaming and begin making changes by using your thoughts and desires. |For me this has worked quite well because it is simple. There has been no more to it and I have never bothered to explore very many other techniques or methods since I have no problems with initiating lucid dream experiences almost every night that I dream.

The fact is that everybody dreams even if they don't remember that they do. The key is to come to this understanding and then take advantage of this awareness and create the conditions in which you are able to explore your own mind in productive or constructive ways. One of the ways I put this "ability" to good use is by learning and / or rehearsing various abilities and scenarios in my dreaming mind. I also create art, invent devices, extract information and store data or memories.

I have the understanding that there is a virtually unlimited potential through practicing lucid dreaming and I have barely scratched the surface. having these experiences in themselves have helped me to enjoy sleeping more while being productive, while at the same time benefitting from a good night's sleep on a consistent basis.

Nightmares and Dark Terrors - Harmless Illusions

Although I have had my fair share of scary experiences in the dream world, I have obviously lived to tell the tales of my adventures again and again. at first when I believed in the power of ghosts and other super-natural boogey-men that might do me harm, certain images in my dreams were quite frightening. However, as time passed and I continually awoke unharmed, I became empowered by creating my own dream organizations and recruiting imaginary companions to form an invincible force within my dreaming mind.

While I am sure that there may be some susceptible individuals who might be psychologically scarred by any given experiences that occur in the realm of dreams, I have personally never experienced any physical harm, nor have I been afflicted with any lasting mental damage, In fact the reverse is true. Because of my dream experiences, I have decreased my levels of confusion and stress in the waking world, thereby improving my physical health. I have also become more confident and empowered in psycho-spiritual and social ways that have improved my overall mental capacity and health.

Absolute Power

I have stated several times that I have the ability to control or change certain aspects of the dream environment at will. What I would like to emphasize however, is that I have not ever exercised absolute power and control over everything. I do not even desire to be able to do this. Somehow I feel that this would defeat the purpose of evolving. Many times, even though I make courageous attempts, I am not able to read or remember certain parts of the dream, and certainly not every detail is observed. What I have achieved is the ability to have a very great deal of control of my emotions and almost all aspects of the dream world that I am experiencing.

I always know that I will be O.K. and that I am on a great adventure, exploring, learning and evolving through the very wonderful, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing environments and scenarios that I find myself in. It is all just a very fun virtual-reality platform that I enjoy very frequently. Perhaps you will find this information useful and begin an exciting adventure of your own, that will continue to provide you with great pleasure and insight for many dreams to come!