Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of The 5 Levels of Attachment and The Mastery of Self, followed his Mesoamerican grandmother’s passion as a healer.  “She passed away in 2008 and is still the spiritual head of this family,” he recounts. His journey began as her apprentice, translating her teachings into English. When he reached his mid-20s his father intensified his training and instructed him to find his way out, go home, and master death by becoming life. After experiencing a rite of passage through ceremony, his assemblage point [energy] shifted, and he realized “there is no such thing as faking it until you make it. Your truth is always with you.” Facing the difficult truth that he wasn’t the person he'd been pretending to be his entire life, he needed to start anew.  "You cannot bring your distortion into that [channeler] world." So, at the age of 27, he began and do the real work required to become a true healer and channeler. “My greatest teachers are my kids, my wife, my family, ...the barista at the coffee shop. Life. Every consequence. Everything has something to teach you. The thing is, you have to get your self out of the way to hear it.”

Toltec wisdom is about healing with spirit, and Toltec practitioners serve as an extension of the divine Mother Earth. The fire within is there to protect us from ourselves. Follow that fire. The Toltec of today has evolved as the world has evolved—kept alive not with blind faith repeating traditional beliefs, but by how the world is dreaming right now. There are many challenges to unlearn. Toltec is an ancient common sense where you know the truth. It's an autopsy on the illusion of today. Don Jose speaks of two types of consciousness: personal consciousness—a personal dream—and impersonal consciousness. A field of interaction includes all life on Earth and all life in the cosmos. “We have the ultimate respect for the ultimate dance of detachment, which dances with the angel of death in the music of life. And from this point, we live with gratitude, not with a fear to hold on and miss everything that is around us.”

Expanding on Consciousness' guiding principle is integrity—the same guiding principle of the Monroe Institute and our guests. We have an incredible line-up in Season 3 including Rupert Sheldrake, Dr. Raymond Moody, Geneen Haugen, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., Dr. Bruce Greyson, and many more "truth tellers and explorers." We are seeing an emerging pattern in our conversations so far, of interconnectedness and synchronicity. There's more to consciousness than the personal narrative. Once an explorer experiences that revelation, an expansion begins which opens the gate to synchronicity as a beacon or intuitive map, letting you know you're on the right path.

The Hero's Journey. The evolution of humanity not just on an individual level yet it is deeply personal. There was a time when we were in our own private Garden of Eden, our Mother's womb. "We have been sent from this place of Oneness and we are always making decisions. Consciousness means we now have choice and that's a responsibility." Everything is a subjective experience of an objective reality. On one level of reality. On another level, everything is reality. "Imagination becomes reality when we bring it into manifestation." Using meditation to realign. The body and psyche are self-regulating systems There is a consciousness there that will realign and naturally come back into balance. "I look at the biographical material unique to each human being and link the cosmological and dream work." Break up the ground and till it to plant new seeds of possibility.

There is a schism of sorts between the mechanistic clinical psychotherapy and the Jungian approach. Jungian Therapy is a lens through which we look at the world in the search for meaning and wholeness, individuation. Jungian brings in that archetype eye. “CG Jung refers to archetypes as a mode of thought present in the unconscious. A universal pattern of energy and how it manifests.” Archetypes are living energy that is ubiquitous and symbols are likely to change depending on the humanity searching for a connection to that archetype. Dream work is a gateway to active imagination. “These are your own images. Dreams are giving us information.” The dream messenger is bringing us information.  When we don’t write down our dreams then the dream messenger will leave.”  Dream work, astrology and imagination and thought through that realm we are drawing down all that energy and creating something. It’s a psycho-spiritual process.

Author and scientist Dr. Shamini Jain discusses her book “Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health” and evidence of energy healing. The power of the Psyche and new discoveries in subtle energy and Biofield healing. “The psyche is a powerful part of Psychoneuroimmunology research.” Exploring the realm of emotion and its relationship with health. Gratitude, Nondual Awareness from the spiritual to the physical. “It’s about perspective, we’re a system and seeing effects on multiple levels.” Psychoneuroimmunology it's consciousness applied—a space where science and spirituality meet.

Self-actualization is a function of consciousness where the inner-self is recognized and expressed in one's life. When conducting a pea plant experiment to test associative learning, Dr. Gagliano used a classical conditioning experiment similar to the "Pavlovian Dog" experiment to reveal the pea plant was capable of projecting into the future, imagining dinner. "I was doing a process called the Deitas, a deep plant meditation, and during that time I was literally dictated this experiment. I found myself writing down notes in my diary and realized, oh my god, this is an experiment. The plants gave me details about everything." You'll never look at your house plants the same again.

We're all part of this greater consciousness. How does that extend to nature? Initially interested in plant communication Dr. Gagliano discovers that plants are aware and behave in ways we never imagined. Plants are capable of memory, stimulus response, learning experience and awareness of environment. "I can certainly tell you that Mimosa Pudica can remember for at least a month." Is a brain critical for any form of cognition? "We have evidence to the contrary. I feel it's a very superficial take on what's happening. No it [cognition] doesn't arise from any brain or neuron. It is the brain and neuron who are informed by cognition."

The Universe comes to know itself through our being. “I think the unification of physics and the unification of science and spirituality may both be possible.” Consciousness informs the body/mind complex. The physical and non-physical which exist within the same frame work. “Consciousness is beyond classical physics it exists in a reality which is purely quantum. …A quantum system that is in a pure state is conscious of its state. That’s the definition of consciousness.” So how does free will effect probability? “Free will is the ultimate cause of reality. …Consciousness allows you to understand. Free will is what allows you to choose based on the understanding of reality and what you want.”

Free will is a choice, a direction of conscious decision. “Consciousness has to be from the beginning. It has the exact same properties of experiences, the privacy and the indefiniteness are the exact same properties of the pure quantum state [system].” With an infinity of possibilities. Theories are using math to make predictions. The math must be deterministic and in deterministic. Quantum Physics simply describes the probability of events not the events themselves. “A special Quantum System is private because it cannot be copied. Quantum information cannot be copied so it has the same characteristics of an inner experience because my inner experience "Qualia" can only be known to me.” The symbolic expression of Qualia takes form in meaning to symbols and symbols to meaning.