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6:54am 07-12-2019Jenn
- I'm pregnant. What an experience!
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Replied on: 12:10pm 07-12-2019
Dear Jenn,
Congratulations! Enjoy the journey!
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8:42pm 07-08-2019Thuy Khanh
Location (State or Country)
Vietnam-
Dear Stephen,
I went inside the cocoon 2 months ago and I have been doing the Work very seriously. I have read Butterflies Are Free for the 3rd time now and I am re-watching all of the videos and doing all the homework. It's been only a while but I have to tell you, "It works”. I get to see and let go lots of my beliefs, opinions, judgement, fears, and ego layers every day and I have more peace of mind than ever before.
Particularly, I managed to let go of much of my fears around money, especially the belief that "I must be responsible for my money" , and "I have to work to get money" (I have cut down half of my working hours and focus on having more fun and doing the Work). And you know what, just yesterday, I got an unexpected good amount of money coming from a source that I know for sure I am not eligible for.
Stephen, I feel deeply grateful for your tremendous amount of time and effort you put to create such an incredible work and my Infinite I for showing me the way to you. It's really changing my life.
With love and appreciation, -
Replied on: 11:27pm 07-08-2019
Dear Thuy,
It's always great to hear how the Model is working for other people. Congratulations! And you're very welcome.
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12:27am 06-28-2019Thomas Pavlik
Location (State or Country)
WA-
I've been exploring desire lately and decided to check in here with those few words about it. I think my initial blurb about desire a couple of posts down is similar to a quote that is falsely attributed to the one called Buddha. That quote goes like this
A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness.” Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that's Ego, then remove “want,” that's Desire. See now, you are left with only “Happiness”.
A supposedly "real" quote from him is “There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.” From the Dhammapada, verse 39
False and real no longer have much meaning for me. I like both the real quote and the "fake" quote.
Butterflies are Free presents the idea that judgement is limiting but that "waiting with curious anticipation" for what the Infinite I is bringing up next is not limiting.
My initial post about desire was about it getting in the way of curious anticipation.
The idea to wait with "curious anticipation" dawned upon me in a very meaningful way one morning. While lying in bed that day an aggressive virus was giving my self's cranial nerves the once over. The sensation (another valuable term you introduced me to as a non-judgmental alternative to words like "pain") was maybe about like having a piece of rebar driven into one's ear.
Although it didn't start out that way eventually I did drop judgment of the pain and it was then that it could be looked upon as a sort of an object and in that light it was laid bare as without power. It was a thing and although it was not physical and couldn't be picked up, it was understood in a way that it could be examined almost as if it were being handled.
There was just that sensation and one other element, which was a desire for things to be different. The desire for things to be different had been with me since the start of the pain but it was like yin without yang. It was like an overlooked branch on a bonsai, with nothing to balance it. And so I reached out and lopped it off and when it fell there was only curious anticipation left. That curious anticipation had replaced the limited vision for how a self thought things ought to be. In that moment that self was suddenly laid bare as non-existent. The curious anticipation requires no self. It is pure experience.
All of the words about ego and self spoken by internet personalities, channels, prophets, sages, messiahs, and Buddhas were ringing like bells then.
I think maybe you can see why I have such an interest in desire and in the non desire state which is "curious anticipation". It does not seem possible for those two to co-exist. In curious anticipation there is no self present and that is quite an experience.
P.S. I also wrote those bits about the Ark of the Covenant thinking that you or another might find them fun to contemplate. It struck me that a sure-fire way to preserve a message about leaving Plato's cave would be to have it in the hands of those who had no understanding of it. For thousands of years they might interpret it and teach it in ways that promoted limitation and confinement rather than release. Yet that is just how I think the Infinite I arranges things. It is plain that in every walk of life, the fox is put in charge of guarding the hen-house. It is all so preposterous and it is all just so fascinating.
PSS- I carried boulders weighing probably a hundred pounds up and down the slope where I live today. I carried bags of cement and hammered away at the soil with picks. It started with the putting up a cord of wood beginning at 7am and wound down with placement of a new main beam under the sub-floor here. Recent posts by this thing that goes around calling itself "I" and "Tom" have indicated a lot of physical change, and there indeed has been a lot. But a non-I is has been watching with curious anticipation and in that time this body grows in physical strength and stamina. -
Replied on: 11:58am 06-28-2019
Dear Tom,
A very sincere thanks for taking the time to go into much greater detail about your experience with "desire." Your story is fascinating, but also very enlightening. And you're right.... "curious anticipation" in its purest form has no desire attached to it, otherwise you would be "anticipating" a specific outcome and simply wondering when it was going to show up.
I also want to thank you for allowing me to stop resisting the fox guarding the hen-house. "Preposterous" is not the way I would describe it.... maybe "fucking insane." But you're right, that's the way things are, and being fascinated is a lot more fun than being frustrated.
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12:01pm 06-27-2019Tom
Location (State or Country)
WA-
I doubt anyone has read and listened to the Butterflies are Free book, or heard the Holographic Universe series more times than me. If a global collapse occurred I could pass on a substantial amount of it to the priesthood, including the bits on desire. Of course, as has happened with other religions, the priesthood would both preserve and carry the message through time while simultaneously completely missing the point. I'm convinced that this is the true nature of the Ark of the Covenant. What more secure way to preserve the message through time than for those who violently oppose it to adopt it as their own?
Your work has played a major role in my exploration of desire. As is the case with Jesus, I think that the sayings of Siddhartha on various subjects, including desire, have been changed over time and that one has to look deeply (just as in the bible) to discover the orator's intent for one's self.
I've been playing with preference and desire quite a lot since January, when I experienced something akin to a stroke. There have been a few times where I have let go of my desires, not because I see a problem with them, but because I was able to let go of them for a time. These instances coincided with new paradigms of physical self (pain, physically different ability, etc.) . It seemed that a sort of dissolution of my self occurred at those times and it was so surprisingly different and had such free feeling to it that I felt light as if buoyed by scaly Lepidoptera wings. So it had me very thankful for my changed physical state which would appear to other as disaster and calamity.
I suspect that the gifts my Infinite I provides will often appear to be disasters to outside observers. It makes the whole affair like belonging to a secret club and the Tom Sawyer in me just loves it. -
Replied on: 12:59pm 06-27-2019
Dear Tom,
Thank you for this. I will say, however, that I'm not totally clear on the point you're trying to make. Are you taking issue with my writings on "desire" in the book? Are you expanding on them? Are you clarifying them, or suggesting that there is another way to look at desire from your experience?
It sounds like you might be saying that letting go of desire itself has produced a very beneficial effect for you - going one step further than I did.
So please feel totally free to be completely honest and don't hold anything back that might benefit my readers (and myself). I do not claim to be the final authority on "desire" and am very open to hearing more from your own experience.
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1:35pm 06-26-2019Tom
Location (State or Country)
WA- It isn't ever desire that gives me the feeling that I am cut off from the Tao, it is the false self that arises through desire which does that.
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Replied on: 4:35pm 06-26-2019
Dear Tom,
A quote from my book.... "The truth is there is nothing “wrong” with desires and no reason to resist them or try to live without them. We are free to desire anything and everything we want. Our desires make life interesting and exciting. The problem only starts when we become attached to having those desires fulfilled. In other words, you cannot be attached to realizing or achieving your desires, so that whether you realize or achieve your desires or not has no effect on your happiness or state of mind. It is not the desire that needs to be detached from; it’s the attachment to its fulfillment."
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11:37am 06-25-2019lynn
Location (State or Country)
uk- How do you feel about diets to bring up healing, like raw vegan and dealing with detoxing of body and also mind? Meat and dairy and sugar covers the real self. etc. thoughts please.
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Replied on: 3:12pm 06-25-2019
Dear Lynn,
I've been raw, I've been vegan, I've fasted, I'm currently Keto. I also went for a year eating only what excited me - and I gained 100 pounds. For me the body is the most difficult part of the hologram to deal with. I have gotten really pissed at my Infinite I for designing such a high-maintenance vehicle. Why shouldn't we be able to eat whatever excites us, including sugar and meat and dairy? But it doesn't work that way. It works more like a car that requires the right fuel to work at optimum efficiency. Either that or I just don't do it right. And I do believe it boils down to belief systems again. So be very careful that you don't trap yourself with belief systems that say "this" or "that" is "wrong" to eat.
But when I look around and see some people who can literally eat anything and not get sick or gain weight, I have to conclude that my Infinite I created me in this particular body, and it's my job to figure this body's optimum fuel and take care of it. Now, that fuel can be different for everyone, so you can't get dogmatic about what "anyone else should or shouldn't eat."
Basically, it's the same old story... we're dealt a hand of cards and our job is to figure out how to play them the best possible way, not try to change the cards or bitch about the lousy dealer.
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9:54pm 06-17-2019Thuy Khanh
Location (State or Country)
SVietnam-
Dear Stephen,
I read your view on FB about corporal punishment as a cause to school shootings. Based on my understanding of the Human Game Model, this is just another hologram created by my Infinite I and finding the cause (in this case, the cause of school shootings) is just a distraction from doing the Work. I guess what you, as a butterfly, are doing is entirely from your inner excitement. Is it true that as a beginner to the Model, I shouldn't judge school shootings as being wrong and try to figure out the solution (because everything is part of the script) and focus on doing the Work instead?
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Replied on: 12:11am 06-18-2019
Dear Thuy,
You are exactly right, and I congratulate you for your perception. As butterflies, we are free to play any game that excites us. It might seem on the surface that the game I am currently choosing is very judgmental. I can assure you it is not. I am not judging those who inflict corporal punishment on their children to be "wrong" by any means. I am simply trying to point out the ramifications of making those violent choices with children. I find it to be a fascinating game to see whether I can make a difference and affect the existing hologram.
There are many games like this available to butterflies. For example, a butterfly might choose to be active in the whole climate change issue, or civil rights issues, or such. It's not like a butterfly has to sit on their hands and do nothing, ignoring their true excitement to take part in current events.
The key is not being judgmental while playing the game, and not being attached to any particular outcome. However, while in the cocoon and for newly "hatched" butterflies, this is slippery slope to walk. I don't suggest it, but rather as you say, don't "judge school shootings as being wrong and try to figure out the solution (because everything is part of the script) and focus on doing the Work instead?"
Doing the work is what will bring you the freedom to play these kind of games in an entirely different way when you are finally flying free.
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12:01pm 06-14-2019Niloo Soleimani
Location (State or Country)
CA-
Hi Stephen,
The video links to 4 and 5 on your website do not work. when I click on the link to go to YouTube, it says they are not available. Please host these videos on your website (instead of YouTube) so they cannot deleted. Thank you,
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Replied on: 2:59pm 06-14-2019
Dear Niloo,
Thanks for pointing out that the Part 5 link was not updated. It has been now. Part 4 has never been available on YouTube, but you can find the correct link to GoogleDrive on my webpage. In addition, all videos are available to stream or download from holographicuniverseworkshops.com
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5:22pm 06-10-2019Blackswan777
Location (State or Country)
Indonesia-
Hallo sir
im from indonesia. English is not my everyday language, so i hope you can understand what im trying to say
i just finish watching all your five video workshop series "Holographic Universe" and beginning to read your ebook "butterflies are free to fly"
before i found your video series, i already read Gregg Braden's book "The Divine Matrix". In that book, Braden also talks about holographic universe and Braden wrote about cancer cured in just 3 minutes.
I found his video in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPahLakP_Q For me that is awesome, and then i found you
(i notice you have big difference with Braden's work. Braden thinks that we can consciously co-creating hologram)
so my question is:
can everyone do that kind of miracle cure if our mind believe it ? Or ...we can do that only if our "Infinity I" wants us to experience it and download it from The Field for us?
there's so much i want to ask you dear sir, but thats it for now. thank you for your time -
Replied on: 7:23pm 06-10-2019
Dear Blackswan,
Greg Braden and I would give you two very different answers to your questions, as I'm sure you have guessed. My answer is the one most people don't want to hear. As you put it, "we can do that only if our 'Infinity I' wants us to experience it and download it from The Field for us?"
It would be so nice to be able to say, "Anyone/everyone can perform their own miracles and heal their own cancer," but then what do you tell the person who is doing and saying "all the right things" and meditating and eating only organic food and on and on and on, and there's no miracle and they still die. The ones who do heal themselves, it's not a "miracle." It was their Infinite I who, for some reason we probably will never know, created their healing hologram.
Now, that being said, a Player always has the free will to choose their reaction/response. And sometimes those choices CAN influence their Infinite I in creating future experiences. But one of those choices HAS to be, "I will think or do or say these things, not because I am attached to them creating a miracle healing, but because that's what excites me anyway, without attachment to the outcome." And the peace of mind that attitude creates may well lead to a healing hologram from your Infinite I after all.
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4:35am 06-10-2019Thuy
Location (State or Country)
Vietnam-
Dear Stephen,
Is there a conflict between "follow your inner excitement" and "say YES to each and every experience you have"?. If someone invites me to a party and I don't feel excited at all, will I accept or reject his invitation? Many thanks! Thuy -
Replied on: 8:28am 06-10-2019
Dear Thuy,
Yes, there's a conflict. Here's how it is explained in the movie "Yes Man"....
“So the whole ‘Yes’ thing is all bullshit?”
“No, you just don’t know how to use it, that’s all.”
“Yeh, I do. Say ‘Yes’ to everything – real tough to grasp.”
“No, that’s not the point. Well, maybe at first it is, but that’s just to open you up to it, to get you started. Then you’re saying ‘Yes,’ not because you have to, or because a covenant tells you to, but because you know in your heart that you want to.”
So in the beginning, it's advisable to say Yes to everything that comes your way (including the party you don't feel excited about), because most people are not in tune with their true excitement to know it when it's there. After a while you will be able to discern what is truly your excitement and what is your resistance, and you can start choosing your excitement more accurately. After all, it is better to err on the side of saying Yes to your Infinite I's creations for you than follow what you think is your excitement, but really isn't.
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7:51am 06-08-2019Jennifer
Location (State or Country)
Texas-
"TheSubtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck" is good. There is audio on YouTube.
It is helping let go of the desire for acceptance is the role of my scout and his/your acceptance of my progress in theprocess. I am also better able to lessons from others.
Waiting on the words tho come to paper is still hard but wow, I appreciate the calm effective journey. -
Replied on: 1:05pm 06-08-2019
Dear Jennifer,
All in all, an interesting book. Thanks for the tip...
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12:12am 06-03-2019Terry Hayden
Location (State or Country)
Vegas-
Awesome
I’m in
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Replied on: 10:54am 06-03-2019
Dear Terry,
Great! Just don't let what happens in Vegas stay in Vegas. Take it with you wherever you go, and tell others about The Model. Thanks.
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4:59pm 05-22-2019Randall C Scott
Location (State or Country)
CA- One's cocoon is a formative time. We can forget what we learn there. Dreaming will help you remember.
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Replied on: 5:42pm 05-22-2019
Dear Randall,
I'm glad someone found a good use for dreams!
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2:05pm 05-22-2019Angie
Location (State or Country)
Texas-
I have finished BL last night and the ending was perfect. Your reply: perfect. The channels I subscribe to also gave me perfect messages today.
I know I am supposed to 'kill you' but all I really want to do is give you a huge hug haha I hope I see you on the road. I have been trying to relax but I really do wish for another Butterflies book someday :) I will check in soon. -
Replied on: 5:41pm 05-22-2019
Dear Angie,
We'll see. I'm not sure the next Butterflies book will come from me! Right now my excitement goes in another direction, after 8 years of learning how to live as a butterfly. But it could come back to Butterflies very quickly one day, and I wrote the last book (Free to Fly) in 6 weeks (after years of research). So one never knows.
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1:21pm 05-21-2019Angie
Location (State or Country)
Texas-
Its been awhile. I am just going to assume I may need to do much more work than I (ahem, more like my Ego) had anticipated.
I really cannot express how much I appreciate your work. This book has led me to other books I know I need in this process, I don't know if I would've been introduced to them without you.410 I am working on reading Tom Campbell's book My Big Toe, The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, and even Robert Shienfeld's Busting Loose. I didn't think I wanted to bother with BL, but I feel like I needed to. It turns out I was judging him hard last year while I was signed up for his emails and later unsubscribed. Boy, was I terribly wrong.
I have been testing the model and quite honestly you have yet to be *wrong* for me. I am continuing to do the work but most times writing the stuff out is very uncomfortable so I give up. I will work on that too, lots of hidden fears. Even attempting to post here has brought out feelings of discomfort followed by hitting the backspace bar and aborting all.
I am looking forward to finding out who I really am and finally being able to live in complete authenticity. That is something I felt about you from the very beginning, again I just cannot show my appreciation enough, although I am reminded of the story you told of your ex wife and how you could never ever really pay her or the others back.
Checking in is all, and to anyone who is struggling out there with all of this: be gentle with yourself. You will have a lot of help along the way. Some of us need it more than others and I will gladly accept all of the help from the amazing teachers I am finding along this path. It is dark at times and very winding but there really is no turning back now.
Stephen, I have a question about dreams. I know you addressed them in the book but just wanted to know if you have any personal experience with dreams that have helped you confront fears or gave you insight that assisted you in your awake state? I know I have to have my own experience. Lately my dreams are vivid and I can remember more than I used to, something that hasn't happened since childhood. Reoccurring- well dreams all around fascinate me and repetitive ones lead me to believe there is something more to them. I believe Tom talks about dreams being another data stream. Also I am having trouble meditating- could this be my Infinite I communicating to me through dreams for now instead? I am trying my best to not rush things but apart from dreams and numbers (which very funnily enough to me, math is NOT my strong point) I cannot help but really want to remove whatever is blocking me from meditation and dive in.
Hope my ramble wasn't too much :) -
Replied on: 5:46pm 05-21-2019
Dear Angie,
I will take things in reverse order...
Why are you trying to force yourself to meditate? Do you have some belief system that says you SHOULD be meditating? Could be that this is not the time for you to be meditating at all. Personally, I don't meditate, per se. More like a constant walking meditation, if anything. Maybe your Infinite I is trying to get you to give it up, not do more of it.
Dreams... the experience I have had lately is waking up from "dreaming" about some specific wording in my next book. (Relax, it's not about 'butterflies' at all. It's about finding a real solution to our seemingly endless school shootings, which is NOT more gun control.) In fact, just a night or two ago I woke up at 3 AM with a major change in how I was saying something in the video I am making with the book, and had to get up and turn my computer back on. But in general, if I don't see a clear meaning or clear application for something I dreamt, I forget it. I refuse to go chasing after some obscure symbolism looking for "an answer" to a question I didn't even know I had in the waking state.
There are quite a few people I can never find the words to express how much I appreciate them. One that keeps popping up is my high-school sweetheart, whose love kept me sane during an insane childhood. One of my best friends died a couple weeks ago, whom I greatly appreciated. Fortunately, I was able to tell him so before he took off. So I wouldn't worry about trying to show your appreciation "enough." After all, don't they say "it's the thought that counts."