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The Source Code Meditation Base
Your Stone Age Brain Is Eating You Alive
Although this book is first and foremost an introduction to the SCM Technique® and all the wonderful potential available in the higher brain, I want to use this first chapter to point out the deleterious effects of not making the shift to higher brain function. If it is not enough to know that a completely new way of being in the world awaits you in your higher brain, consider that you are currently being eaten alive by your old lower brain!
The year was 50,000 B.C.; a Paleolithic woman, alone with her children, steps out of her cave and immediately picks up scent in the wind. There were beautiful wild flowers blanketing the landscape around her as a brilliant red and golden sunrise exploded in the sky. The lake that spread out before her reflected the luminous red and golden sunrise as a million diamonds danced on the rippling water, a sublimely colored display of sacred geometry in motion. The grace of spirit was all around and yet the beauty of this landscape escaped her awareness.
Hers was a brain built for survival, not reverence. The scent that she picked up in this pristine beautiful corner of the world was not the sweet, aromatic fragrance of the wildflowers all around her, in fact she didn’t even notice that exquisite sweet smell, because her sense of smell was tuned to notice the scent of predators in her environment. She felt no wonder or gratitude for the beauty all around her; she was being automatically prepared to notice only ‘threats’. Flowers weren’t important, the warring tribes to the east and the saber tooth tigers in the valley below were. Her environment required constant monitoring for danger around her and the constant threat of starvation required that she stay focused on surviving another day by finding food to eat.
Fortunately for her, and since there was no other options, the unconscious structures in her primitive brain were always preparing her to do battle with her world. Her life had no real sense of purpose or meaning beyond survival, for in this hostile, predator-rich world, she would be lucky to make it through her third decade of life.
Fifty thousand years later a 21st-century woman (or man) – maybe you – steps out of her suburban home and the same unconscious primitive part of her brain senses a thousand little tigers and countless warring tribes in her environment. She is also being prepared for survival. Her tigers are different; her tigers are the demands and complexities of the modern world, the plumber she is waiting for – a cell phone tucked between her shoulder and her ear – to fix the dishwasher and relieve her of the dishes piling up in her sink. The late-arriving plumber is sure to make her late to an important work meeting. More tigers, in the form of an angry boss and poor performance review, a consequence of the meeting she is sure to miss.
Rushing in traffic she slams on the brakes as yet another tiger cuts her off as she misses her exit. She arrives late hoping the meeting will end before she has to pick up her children at school... worrying about money while ruminating about how she is going to go about making dinner tonight... rushing home with her kids yelling over the radio in her coupe, which is blasting an ominous warning of elevated terrorist alerts, on the evening before she has plans to fly down to Phoenix to visit her sister.
Tigers, tigers, and tigers – the lower brain perceives them everywhere – below the conscious threshold we are being prepped for battle, even in our modern lives! The shapes and sizes and actual threats are much different today, yet the Stone Age brain between our ears is the same.
Our modern woman is locked into the same survival structures in her brain that the aforementioned Paleolithic woman was. She doesn’t notice the beauty all around her. She feels no wonder and awe for being alive at such an amazing time in the history of our species. She just has to get through the day. No purpose, no meaning, only survival. She doesn’t even realize the staggering improbability of her birth and that it took billions of years of evolution (spirit in action) to accomplish the exquisite masterpiece, the crown of creation that sits atop her shoulders.
Unlike the Paleolithic woman, this 21st-century human has a higher brain designed for transcendence. Newer areas of her brain, when awakened, can fill her with gratitude and awe and wonder at this marvelous world. However, her new brain is rarely if ever awake because the unconscious lower brain that is trying to unconsciously protect her from falsely perceived danger in her world, is eating her alive!
Of particular importance is that even in our modern lives the most basic and usually fear-based human drives (perpetuated by the oldest lowest primitive brain) are often still influencing if not dominating all areas of our lives. Unconsciously directing us back into fight, flight, freeze or fornicate, thus co-opting – for survival purposes – our beliefs, thoughts and behaviors while creating an internal and external personal and cultural environment that reinforces the dominance of the old lower brain mechanisms.
I believe we now have created negative feedback loops between the lower brain and its associated internal and external environments that lead to circular habituation between the lower brain and the life we create as a result of lower brain dominance. In effect the primitive yet powerful fear-based lower brain system predisposes our perspectives, behaviors, relationships and even rational thought processes to be directed towards fear-based survival, and round and round we go.
Humanity’s challenges are at least in part due to lower brain dominance and generally speaking the self-help industry has not had a good understanding of, or had many effective tools for changing the physiological component of our thoughts, behaviors and relationship to life. Our rampant addictions to food, sex, power, drugs, alcohol and social media all create lower brain reinforced habituated loops designed to keep our lives the same. The inability to heal physically or change destructive behavior, violence, depression, the degradation of the environment, failing educational and financial systems, the inability to sustain positive life changes, are all signs of a world trapped in the grip of the lower primitive brain. Our personal future as well as the future of humanity is currently locked up in latent higher brain potential.
Why ‘Self-Help’ Seldom Helps
Sameness = Safety
So here we are, the 21st-century human, having won countless victories for humanity that have made life better for many, and yet recent research shows that we moderns are not very happy. We are stressed out and overwhelmed in life, we do not feel engaged in our careers, we are lacking deep spiritual meaning, and according to recent end of life research we die full of regret for what we did not do with our life.
What about you? Does your life feel stuck? Do you ever feel as though the world is stuck and you’re stuck in it? Do you feel like there is more to life than you currently experience but you’re not sure what it is or how to get it? Perhaps you know what it is that would make your life meaningful but you still spin your wheels and true fulfillment always eludes you. Does it feel like the demands and complexity of life leave you feeling powerless? Do you see problems in your life and challenges in the world but feel like they are just too big, complex and ‘out of your control’ for you to make a difference?
Ever wonder why you start out on a new path, have a good plan, set inspiring goals, but still have areas of your life that don’t improve? Maybe some of these areas do improve for a brief duration but ultimately always return back to the same old patterns? Sound familiar?
A great many heart attack sufferers do not change their diet and lifestyle even after a physician has told them in no uncertain terms, ‘If you do not change you will die soon!’ If we don’t change with the motivation of imminent death, how can we possibly change just to create a better life, realize our full potential or find our true purpose and give our gifts to the world? Surely as compelling as these things are, they are still less motivating than impending death. So why don’t we change? The challenge is what’s lurking below the conscious threshold, that old lizard brain of ours that does not want to change, even when we logically know that change really is in our best interest; however, the lower brain just doesn’t work logically.
Once the old behaviors get wired in and habituated by the lower brain, they become very difficult to change. Finding your purpose and creating an extraordinary life don’t motivate the lower brain’s unconscious programming.
Let’s go back to our Paleolithic woman for a moment. We have already seen how her lower brain dominates her perception of the world. Let’s also look at how her behavior is affected from this survival-based part of her brain.
The torrential rain has been falling for days, the floor of her cave collapses and she and her children are left exposed to the elements and the lurking predators below. She must find shelter, perhaps a new cave to call home. She departs the cave and darts into wild lands as her family huddles together in the last remaining stable ground in the very back of the cave they have known as home for nearly a decade. Her instincts carry her north along the ridge of the mountains. Two moons, and many miles later, she finds another cave high enough up the side of the mountain to provide an adequate lookout and safety from the local predators. She climbs in, finds it empty and returns for her family, narrowly avoiding an attack from a hungry sabre-toothed tiger. She gathers her family and they depart, taking great care to avoid the path she was nearly attacked on. Arriving wet, tired and hungry they climb in and sleep.
Morning comes, the rain has stopped and they are famished. Having not eaten in days she again leaves the new cave, this time for food to feed herself and her family. She found shelter, now she must find food. It is her first time in this new territory, but fortunately her brain is wired to survive. Her instincts guide her to the ridge west of her cave, but they also betray her; a few hundred yards down the ridge two tigers explode out of the underbrush, and she runs, her survival brain changing her physiology, pumping blood to her large muscles and releasing a cascade of chemical reactions all designed to give her the best chance of survival. It works, she narrowly avoids the attack and scurries into her new cave.
Finally, the fear-based survival mechanisms in her brain and body go back to a somewhat lower level of alert status, she falls asleep and wakes the next morning desperate for food for herself and her family. She must go out again into unknown territory, but today that territory is less unknown then it was yesterday for she knows the ridge to the west is not safe and her brain has deeply encoded that knowledge and will send her in a different direction for food.
Shall she follow the dry creek bed to the west? Might this easy path lead to sustenance? No, not west, her brain registers west as danger. She will avoid the creek bed to the west at all cost as the neurological associations are closely linked to the dangerous ridge to the west. How about the open smooth path leading out from her cave? It appears to be easy to navigate and has been used by game animals most probably leading to food or water. She doesn’t even have to think about it, her dominant unconsciousness primitive brain feels like it is risky, and without thought or analysis moves her in another direction. She assesses the path that’s farthest away from the previous predator attack. She ignores several potential paths until she finds one far to the east. The eastern path is not as smooth and more overgrown than the paths she avoided, however it winds far away from the last tiger attack. She takes this path. It is rocky, she bruises her feet but keeps going, no tigers; her feet hurt but she keeps going, she has already made it further then she did before tigers attacked her on the western ridge, thanks to her lower brain.
The overgrowth thickens and her body is scraped bloody by the branches, but no tigers – thanks to her lower brain – and she keeps going. Bruised, with aching feet and bloody body she enters the wetlands where the path ends. She sees the clearing on the other side of the swamp that appears to contain fruit trees. She wades through the swamp; chest deep in filth, stinking muck and leeches sticking to her body but she is alive and there are no tigers in the area – success to her lower brain. She climbs out of the swamp and surveys the clearing which appears to be free from predators, she approaches the fruit trees and finds an ample supply – not nearly the variety or abundance of food she had located near her other cave – but she is safe and here she can fulfill one of the primary survival mandates: food. She eats quickly and to avoid risk she returns in reverse down the exact same path she came in on. She gets back to the cave and feeds her family – success to her lower brain.
The choices our Stone Age woman makes next, when she is hungry again, is most germane to our story and applicable to our modern lives. The same brain regions that led to her survival lurk below the surface of our modern evolved brains. This same lower survival brain is dominant in us moderns even though we have newer higher brain structures. In the end, regardless of our best laid plans or stated desires to change directions the lower brain’s grip proves victorious and we habituate our same old life, because sameness equals safety.
Hungry again she leaves the cave for food and with no hesitation her survival brain turns her east. She avoids the ridge to the west and does not even consider several unknown, but potentially better and less painful and demanding paths that could lead to more abundant nourishment and less suffering to her body. She heads straight for the path that has already proven successful, because success to the lower brain means survival, nothing more. She takes the same path, bruises her feet again, scrapes her body bloody, wades through filthy swamp muck and arrives to mediocre nutrition. She returns in reverse the same way, back the same path. A couple of days pass and when she and her family are hungry again, she leaves the cave and as if on autopilot makes her way to the same path... this nearly automatic behavior plays itself out over and over until she dies or crisis (her cave collapsing, predators finding a way in, etc.) redirects her.
Automatic behavior becomes hard-wired into the brain through a process called ‘myelination’. Everything that happens in your life has a representation in your brain. Specific behaviors in our lives correlate with specific physiology in our brains. Each time we repeat a behavior our brain wraps myelin (white matter) around the nerve fibers that fire when we take that path. Myelin accelerates the propagation of the nerve signal down a particular neurological pathway. Myelin thickens in representative areas of the brain each time we replay the same story in our life. Since our Stone Age woman’s brain has registered safety associated with the path to the east, it continues to direct her down that same path, each time thickening the myelin material and building her brain in such a way that this particular pathway becomes a default, wired into automatically determining her behavior in a perceived hostile world. The important thing to realize is that as this pathway becomes a default setting in the brain it becomes habituated in her life. She will pass by many alternative pathways that may lead to a better life because sameness equals safety. The unknown is risky and now her brain won’t even let her go down another path.
I hope by now you see where this is going. We (you and I) have this same survival based brain, now the ‘lower brain’ in us moderns, still trying to create sameness regarding our survival. However, we now have a higher brain that seeks transcendence and liberation. The newly evolved slumbering higher brain provides us the desire for a new life, but that old lower brain has its grip on and continues to habituate our old life. Sameness equals safety. The unknown paths are avoided for the ‘sure thing’–the path that was already established as safe and led to survival – even if merely subsistence, waking up alive, is success to our lower brains. And since this brain is the oldest, and has existed the longest and can’t deal with the complexity of modern living it always reverts back to what it knows has allowed it to wake up alive.
Look at your life now, are you happy with your relationships, physical fitness, finances, career? Are you living a life of purpose and meaning? None of this matters to ancient survival brain strategies. Whatever your life looks like now, even if you are miserable, has led to your survival and your lower brain has habituated those life strategies. We may have bursts of passion, or moments of higher brain clarity and visions of changing areas of our life, we may have the best intentions and create great strategies to do exactly that, but alas, that old primitive brain wants your life to remain the same and it cycles you back into your same old life...because...yes you know, sameness equals safety.
Below the conscious threshold lurks the sameness generator and it overpowers your less established higher brain and higher potentials. The lower brain is addicted to the struggle, it’s the only territory it knows and feels safe there. There can be no growth, evolution or progress in your life if the lower brain’s grip isn’t loosened. All growth, evolution or progress requires change and the lower brain fears change and will dig in to stop it.
What good are most self-help techniques in the face of a million years of survival-based brain function that does not want you to change?
Why Health and Wellness Care Rarely Lead to Health and Wellness
According to research up to 90% of all medical doctors' visits are associated with stress. Stress and stress hormones (mediated through the old brain) have now been demonstrated to be associated with every major symptom, condition, or disease, including the major killers: heart disease and cancer. The blood flow and energy required to fuel the defensive systems in your body, which ‘protect you from a predator’ must come from somewhere. There is generally a finite amount of blood and energy in the human body if the lower brain is reacting to the environment defensively, which research demonstrates is happening nearly 24/7 in modern culture. Blood supply is diverted into our defensive systems so we can fight, freeze, or flee in the face of a tiger (even if this tiger is traffic on the freeway). If a tiger is coming, you need larger amounts of blood supply and energy directed to the areas of your body needed to protect you, but this comes at a price.
This routing of blood and energy needed to protect you in the short term isn’t available to heal you in the long term if the lower brain response doesn’t dissipate. In addition to blood and energy diverted away from the higher brain it is also diverted away from the digestive system and immune system. Your immune system keeps you alive. It intervenes to keep a simple cold from taking over your body and killing you (as happens in immune-compromised cases such as Aids).
Your immune system fights and stops cancerous cells that are growing in your body (we all have cancerous cells inside us, the reason they don’t usually turn into cancer is that a properly functioning immune system finds the early cancer cells and destroys them before they proliferate), and it needs adequate fuel to do so. Even low-grade stress (lower brain mediated) compromises immunity, so it is not difficult to see why health and healing are severely compromised by lower brain stress physiology, or why turning on the higher brain and releasing the stress response also results in increased healing and immunity.
Fear, the baseline emotion of the lower brain
The primal emotion of the lower brain is fear. All other feelings, responses and manifestations issue forth from this very primal emotion. As the ancient texts of India, the Upanishads aptly state, “Where there is other there is fear.” Therefore everything other than oneself, on a very fundamental level produces fear. Fear is the first emotion of lower brain processing; fear keeps us the same. A fear of everything other allowed us to survive in a hostile environment with many different threats coming from many different directions.
The higher brain has “fear-busting” potential, and the shift to that higher command center, reduces fear. If your body is storing energy and directing blood flow into the areas of the body needed to protect you, it cannot be simultaneously “in” the higher brain. Consequently, and one reason that SCM technique is so effective, if you can turn on more of the higher brain, even for a moment, fear must be released. You cannot sustain fear if you connect more fully in the higher brain. The lower brain still remains ready if needed, but is no longer stopping our growth and development by being the dominant mode of relating to the life process.
Anxiety
Anxiety is the stress response ‘built up’ without anywhere to go, it is the experience of being in a jungle with a million little tigers all around you; which one do you fight? What direction do you run? They are everywhere and the lower brain cannot process complexity – too many potential threats are out there and a deep sense of anxiousness creeps in.
When the lower brain can’t really identify the threat (since it is the demands of modern life and not really a tiger) the energy the lower brain mobilizes to protect you becomes stuck in a feedback loop. It becomes ‘locked into the system’, it doesn’t dissipate by fighting or fleeing (because there is nothing really there to fight or flee from), it remains circulating inside, constantly reinforced by its negative survival-based perception of the environment. This circulating survival response begins to eat us from the inside out and we experience this as anxiety.
Depression
Studies now link reduced activity – on the specific area of the higher brain called the prefrontal cortex (PFC ) – in people suffering from depression. Additionally, increased alpha waves in the higher frontal brain have been associated with decreased depression and increased creativity. Earlier we discussed the HBL studies that showed decreased depression and anxiety; what we have also found during certain points in the HBL technique through brain mapping using Electroencephalograph (EEG) study, is increased alpha waves in the PFC.
This finding was so profound that it led one brain researcher to conclude, “I have never seen so much alpha in the PFC in all the brains I have measured.” She went on to state that the high alpha waves were most probably in association with high levels of dopamine, the naturally occurring feel-good molecule, flooding the higher brain.
Addiction
Addiction affects millions as lower brain physiology keeps us from experiencing the bliss states: joy, connection, passion and purpose that require higher brain physiology. If higher brain physiology is unavailable, and dopamine cannot bind in the dormant PFC, then we seek to fill the missing bliss, joy connection, through any substitute (sex, drugs, alcohol, food, social media etc.) that can create even a temporary rise in dopamine and sense of well-being.
Addictions are our substitute gratifications for a lack of purpose and joy in life that become habituated by the lower brain. Many studies have shown a link between lower brain processing and addiction and I won’t belabor the point here. To break the bad habit, we have to upgrade the physiology and insert the new habit during the higher brain state.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a condition that develops following severe trauma. Following the traumatic event, it is as if the person’s brain never resets to where it originally was. Instead it has been rewired to react to a car backfiring as though it were bombs on the battlefield, or the inadvertent touch of a stranger on the subway is perceived as though a rape is occurring. Research has shown that the physiology of PTSD involves a hyperactive amygdala, one of the primary ancient structures of the ‘lower brain’.
Through trauma, the lower brain has been conditioned to perceive the world as a threat and remains on high alert even though the previous traumas (rape, war, etc.) are long gone and unlikely to exist in the current environment. This understanding of the brain changes associated with PTSD presents a great starting point for the model I am proposing. I am suggesting that in most all of humanity the lower brain is all too active and we all perceive the world on some level as a threat, simply because the lower primitive brain continues to be locked in and not let energy flow upwards to the evolutionary new brain structures. PTSD is simply a dramatic example of this modern human problem. Potential exists above our current baseline that makes the ‘normal life’ we are living seem just as far away from our potential, as PTSD sufferers are away from what we now call normal.I
Interestingly, the shift in center of gravity to the higher brain does not diminish the ability of the lower brain to do its job if our life actually is threatened. My belief is that it (lower brain) works more efficiently if it is not being burned out by the constant activation in 21st-century life. It’s our fear that has been required to allow us to evolve – fear of death promotes survival which promotes evolution. Next up for the species is to enter into a post-fear, conscious evolution era.
Note that the common denominator for all of these “mental/emotional” disorders – anxiety, PTSD, depression, addiction – is... you got it, lower brain processing, stress physiology.
Burnout
As discussed earlier ‘stress’ is the name we give to the lower brain’s response to life. All information from, and experience of, your environment first goes into the lower brain for processing. Because survival is the top priority, this part of the brain needs to know its environment immediately in case there is a threat. Once a threat (or potential threat) is registered, the lower brain is designed to react very rapidly. It is built to keep you from being eaten. As information from the environment comes in through your senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste), it goes into the lower unconscious primitive brain first. This is an important point, all information that comes into your sensory system is first filtered through the lower primitive brain, even before the higher conscious brain knows anything is out there.
This is why you may jump away from a snake only to find a few moments later (when the information makes it up to conscious awareness) that the snake was only a small coiled garden hose. The lower brain doesn’t think or rationalize; it only reacts to protect you. Something out there may want to eat you and you cannot waste precious time uploading all the way to the higher layer of thinking brain (or beyond) to analyze what to do; you must react. Reactivity is how the lower brain processes the world around you.
The problem is that our lower brains are not equipped to adapt to the multiple demands and complexities put on it by modern living. So this primitive mechanism quickly goes into overwhelm and never turns off. In modern life the lower brain holds a constant baseline of low level engagement, it never cools off and resets itself after the threat is gone, because it is interpreting all the demands and complexity, that it is not made to deal with, as though they are threats of some kind. Modern life therefore becomes perceived by our brains as an unsafe place to be and we feel the results of this locked-in lower brain physiology as stress.
The amygdala and hippocampus are two of the lower brain areas most associated with the stress response. Stress burns out the hippocampus (up to 25%) which then does not tell amygdala not to secrete stress hormones.
Living in the higher brain does not diminish the appropriate lower brain survival response when it is needed, in fact, this response can be initiated more efficiently when your energy is not being burnt out by low-grade stress responses that are active throughout most of our modern world days. The way we physiologically defend ourselves comes at the expense of our growth and evolution.
How much good can psychotherapy or life coaching really do if lurking beneath the surface of the great advice you are given is a Stone Age brain that fears change of any kind? We must change the brain first. How can you take the advice that you receive and use it if the dominant part of your brain does not want to change? You can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic but that won’t solve the problem! Numbing ourselves (through medication) doesn’t change our environment either or get us into the higher brain and doesn’t seem like a good long-term strategy to me.
SCM was created as a self-administered way to create these powerful higher brain changes. Just imagine what could happen when all who suffer mental emotional problems could not only flood the brain on demand with ‘happy molecules’ but could link that new state to areas of their life in need of change.
The Solution
The level of complexity of our modern world has exceeded our dominant biological/cognitive capacities to fully process and create meaning from this complexity. This ‘overload’ further activates the stress brain. The old lower stress brain arrests the energy from going to the prefrontal cortex and other higher brain structures. The old lower reptilian brain is designed to keep you from being eaten by a tiger. In the modern world, that reptilian brain experiences a thousand little tigers daily. Stress decreases healing and clarity and reduces meaning in life by keeping us out of the higher brain.
The higher brain does the opposite, it turns on your body’s ability to rejuvenate and feel a sense of inner calm and meaning. That feeling of well-being is meant to be your natural state. However, with all the demands of the modern world, we can’t keep the higher brain turned on, and stress instead becomes our baseline. In fact, at no time in history has this new higher brain ever been fully awakened. Most of humanity’s history has been one of survival; hypervigilance in the environment was needed to stay alive long enough to eat and procreate.
We are past that point, however, the old reptilian brain is still there processing the world before the higher brain even knows it. The good news is that the higher brain can be awakened in everyone, and the more it is energized, the more the center of gravity shifts from lower brain dominance to the higher brain. We have the architecture, and we are only now finding out how to use it! This is where your future is!
A breakthrough with SCM is that this technique leads to increased energy in the higher brain and a reduction of stress as well as a rejuvenation in the body/mind. As rejuvenation is occurring there is an increase in your body’s ability to receive and use other productive techniques. You can leverage this rejuvenation response and simultaneously introduce other techniques to upgrade any/all systems of the body.
This allows us to remedy one of the biggest challenges in the healing arts, self- help and personal development fields. The challenge has always been that a low percentage of people actually attain positive benefit and of those that do the effect is often small and unsustainable. Most of us can relate to this; you see a massage therapist and a week later your muscles are tense again, you go to your chiropractor and in a few days you are out of alignment again. You quit taking your high blood pressure medication and quickly your blood pressure increases. You see your psychologist, leave the session clear and focused, but soon old patterns creep back in. You have a session with a life coach, but can’t sustain the motivation, you feel clear during meditation but then...
I am not criticizing any of these wonderful methods, but the facts remain that people rarely have profound long-term transformative life changes. SCM can help all of these wonderful methods work much more effectively and sustainably. So how can you make productive experiences stick or hold? Once the higher brain energizes, as you will learn in this book, a variety of productive techniques can be easily received and utilized by your body/mind.
While the higher brain is awakened your body and mind are more flexible and reorganizing, the rejuvenation response is active, and stress is releasing. Now is the time to make change! Now introduce, yoga, massage therapy, chiropractic, cranial sacral therapy, energy work, body work, acupressure, or any other effective life-enhancement methods and they will be received and integrated and lead to greater outcomes! Timing is everything.
As your higher brain is energized, stress is released, your body is rejuvenated, and you are now ripe for positive change. Introducing any of the above-mentioned methods at the time the higher brain is energized leads to quantum change because you have recruited the power and wisdom of your higher brain to metabolize the effects. At the time of higher brain engagement you are not locked in the lower brain resisting change–you are in the process of rejuvenating while these other effective techniques are introduced into your body/mind.
Here’s how this breakthrough works and how small amounts of something productive can lead to dramatic quantum improvements.
Suppose you had a Westinghouse blender full of water. Imagine that the water in the blender represents your body. In our metaphor, water molecules in the blender = cells in your body.
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pretend that you have a dropper of dark green colored liquid in your hand.
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imagine that this dropper of green liquid is the most potent healing substance in the world. Let’s say this green liquid substance was the nectar of a plant just discovered deep in the Amazon rain forest and it is a panacea, a ‘fountain of youth,’ with amazing healing and longevity producing properties, and of course you want to get it into your body. Remember our metaphor, the water in the blender is your body.
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imagine holding the dropper of this miracle green liquid over the turned off blender full of water (your body) and dropping three drops into the blender. Remember the blender is turned off, so, what happens? See it in your mind’s eye, not much happens right?! The miracle green substance slowly settles near the bottom and produces a few small offshoots into the water (your body) but approximately 95% percent of the water is unaffected by the world’s most powerful healing substance.
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let’s repeat the experiment in our minds, only this time right before we squeeze three green drops into the water (your body), we turn the blender on. Before we drop the green substance in, the blender receives energy, begins to change state and sets the water in motion, thus changing the receptivity of the system. Now drop the green healing liquid into the water (cells of your body). What happens now that the blender is energized and receptive? What happens when this small quantity of this miracle substance enters the water (your body)? The small amount of healing substance is dispersed and integrated into every single water molecule! Every cell of your body now contains this most powerful healing substance!
The outcome of these two experiments is as different as day and night. When the green substance was put into the water in the turned-off blender, that water was largely unaffected. The other blender full of water, however, when energized and turned on, resulted in 100% integration of the powerful substance put into the water. Furthermore, if you turned the blender off and came back in a month and checked, all of this amazing green substance would still be integrated into your entire body (water in blender).
Can you see how transformational it is when a system is turned on first? The only difference between virtually nothing happening and a 100% transformation was that one blender was turned on and the other was not. How much of that healing green liquid would we have had to dump into the blender to get 100% integration when it was turned off?
Imagine what happens when you energize your higher brain – stress is released and your body starts to rejuvenate – and then you take a yoga class, or meditate while this rejuvenation response is active in your body. The blender is turned on, a quantum effect is attained, and the transformation is integrated and sustainable. We change the rules of the game of healing and personal growth when we energize the system (higher brain) first! The SCM techniques you will discover in this book bring more energy to the higher brain and a rejuvenation response is initiated in the body. As you learn to energize your higher brain, you can then introduce other powerful methods in body, mind, and spirit that create quantum, sustainable improvements.
Once your body is stress-free and upgraded and you have more energy available to your higher brain, SCM techniques can help you use this energized higher brain, to not only upgrade your body, but free your mind and awaken your spirit as well. It all begins by subtly mobilizing energy to awaken your higher brain.
Activation Energy for Your Higher Brain
As we now know and will learn in more detail in the following chapter, there are dormant higher brain capacities that must be awakened in humanity. I would now like to turn our attention to the higher brain’s potential energy source, a latent energy in the body. This slumbering energy has been known for thousands of years and referred to by many names. Known as Kundalini or Prana to the ancient Yogis of India, Chi and Qi by the Taoist healers and acupuncture practitioners of China, serpent energy to the ancient Egyptians; and some scholars even believe this secret energy is the Holy Ghost referenced in Christian traditions. By whatever name, this internal energy has been utilized in a host of different healing arts and personal and spiritual transformation systems the world over.
Nearly all of the disciplines and practices that acknowledged this latent energy knew that it was associated with certain pathways, or flows, in the body. As with the energy itself many names have been given and many models of the organization of these pathways have been considered throughout history. A variety of different healing techniques and wisdom traditions have all had their own unique approaches and understandings of these pathways and the energy flows they are associated with.
Whether referred to as meridians in traditional Chinese medicine, or nadi channels in yoga, it was believed that a latent energy could be awakened in the body and that this energy could create transformative changes in healing and consciousness.
Could the SalutoGenenic responses that we see consistently with HBL and SCM, be an emergent evolutionary upgrade, a more sophisticated and more highly ordered organic repurposing of that ancient and often mythologized sacred energy? Could this ancient energy, which HBL and SCM taps into, actually be energetic fuel for the brain revealing itself in a new more advanced way? Or is the evolutionary upgrade occurring in the channels in the body to allow for greater ease and sophistication for the same ancient sacred energy to flow through? Or maybe the energy remains the same but the brain’s ability to receive it has evolved.
Our brain may be evolving in such a way that it can metabolize more of this sacred energy. Perhaps all three are occurring; through evolution the channels and the energy are reorganizing for greater expression and the brain is upgrading to receive and utilize the energy with greater efficiency. Regardless of the exact mechanism I am convinced that an evolutionary upgrade is occurring and that this upgrade is desperately needed so that billions (instead of only a fortunate few) can access dramatic and transformative changes in their lives fueled by a latent sacred energy destined for their higher brain.
It is common for us postmodern world centric seekers to embrace pre-modern philosophies and techniques for transformation, but ironically we often don’t realize that the release or mobilization of this sacred energy was paramount to many (if not most) of these transformative processes. I believe the reason we have so often left out the ‘subtle energy’ component – when we modernize ancient practices – is that no consistent methodologies were ever developed by these ancient practices to quickly and repeatedly mobilize this energy and so it has been easier to ignore it. We simply hadn’t figured out how to consistently mobilize and utilize this energy nor apply its transformative effects within a system relevant to our modern lives. It has been much easier to understand the philosophy and emulate the ancient practices, at times rendering them diluted and superficial without the knowledge to actually mobilize the energy that is required for the philosophy to become lived and the practice to work. In the self-development and spiritual growth market place of our modern and postmodern world this has created a lot of ideas, philosophies and concepts centered on a variety of practices and techniques with very little sustainable transformative effect.
SCM has cracked the code to this latent energy source. As our understanding continues to unfold throughout this book, we will see how SCM is based on the most progressive knowledge of 21st-century neuroscience, with roots in ancient wisdom that dates back to Yogi mystics 5,000 years ago.
SCM is the leading edge of an ancient path. It is transformational and reproducible. The SCM techniques create a clear channel and powerful energy surge to the higher brain that opens a gateway to true, lasting, limitless and expansive higher living. Now let’s take a closer look at how two of the more sophisticated pre-modern approaches viewed this sacred energy and its pathways.
Long part of the wisdom traditions of many cultures this ‘energy of transformation’ has been known to antiquity the world over. The Taoist masters of China and Yogi adepts of India have given us two (certainly not the only two) of the most comprehensive and detailed studies relating to latent sacred energy (and its channels and flows in the body) purported to heal the body and transform the consciousness of the seeker. Using these two wisdom traditions as examples we can fully honor the geniuses of history, as we further elucidate the uniqueness of the SCM code and protocol.
Taoism and the energy of transformation
Taoism originated in China some 2,000 years ago. Its originator remains unknown although Zhang Daoling became the founder of the first organized Taoist school of thought. Taoism was one of the most followed religions in China until the communist revolution banned it a few decades ago reducing it to a fraction of its original glory.
According to Taoist philosophy, ‘The Tao’, translated, as ‘the Way’ is the essence of all that is. The Tao is the underlying principle and unity of everything. It is the creative principle of the universe that unites all opposites. The Tao is not a substance or a thing but the essence of all substances and all things. It is the source of all creation and the creative act itself. It is beyond words and concepts and therefore cannot be adequately expressed by language alone.
“The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source...”
— TAO TE CHING - LAO-TZU
The Taoists sought to align their lives with this ultimate essence; the goal was to develop one’s life to be in alignment and harmony with the primordial energetic source of all that is.... the Tao.
“Cultivate the Tao within oneself, and one’s virtue will be perfected.
Cultivate it within the household, and one’s virtue will be abundant.
Cultivate it within the neighborhood, and one’s virtue will be enduring.
Cultivate it within the nation, and one’s virtue will be overflowing.
Cultivate it within the entire world, and one’s virtue will be universal.”
— TAO TE CHING
Taoist masters used many methods to bring a student into harmony with the Tao. Originally Taoist practices focused on what were referred to as ‘external alchemy’. External alchemy techniques introduced external elements into the body to promote transformation of the recipient. Amongst these external alchemy practices were the taking of various herbs and elixirs, which when introduced from outside the body (thus external alchemy) were purported to bring more peace and harmony and longevity to the recipient.
As Taoism evolved and their understanding of the sacred energy within the body became more sophisticated, Taoist masters turned their focus to ‘internal alchemy’ techniques which were based on the mobilization and cultivation of sacred energy within the body.
Taoist internal alchemy methods included the energetic-based healing and personal growth traditions, ‘Chi Gong’ and ‘Tai Chi’, as well as a variety of breathing exercises, meditation/concentration techniques, and practices that sought to retain and sublimate sexual energy (also as we will see, common among yoga philosophies). All of the Taoist ‘internal alchemy’ approaches were designed to gather, store or circulate the secret and sacred energies of the human body.
‘Dantian’ is a Taoist term for focal points within the body believed to store chi energy. According to Taoist masters there are three main Dantians. The one believed to be of most import is the lower Dantian located inside the human body in front of the sacrum (lower region of the spinal column). The location of the lower Dantian is very close to the lower point of contact in the SCM approach. The first known detailed description of the lower Dantian is in the 3rd century CE meditation text, ‘Laozi Zhongjing ‘. It was believed and reported that centering one’s thoughts in the lower Dantian led to advanced states of consciousness.
One of the most important of Taoist energy mobilization and cultivation practices was known as the ‘microcosmic orbit’. The microcosmic orbit involves a number of different meditation techniques and breathing exercises designed to circulate energy up and into the head and then back down the body through chi energy centers. The origins of the microcosmic orbit date far back, at least 3,000-4,000 years. Elements of it can even be found in the 3,000-year-old famous Chinese ‘book of changes’ the I Ching. In learning The microcosmic orbit the student is encouraged to develop deep abdominal breathing into the primary Dantian (energy center that’s approximate in location to the SCM codes (sequence and protocol) lower contact point) to develop heat and pressure in the lower abdomen, called the “Golden Stove”. This breathing and focus on the lower Dantian produces heat energy that stimulates the release of the sacred energy harbored within the energy center, which can then be directed to the head and circulated through the body.
My belief is that the energy produced in the form of heat and pressure focused into the primary Dantian – referred to in Taoist sacred texts – created a generalized dispersion of energy in this region, which partially activated the contact point that’s more precisely accessed in the SCM code. These energy-cultivating geniuses provided a base that SCM has been able to enhance with more consistency and specificity as well as provide an application in 21st-century life for its effects.
Taoism identified another key area relating to the mobilization of sacred energy and called this spot the ‘jade pillow’ (also known as the ‘upper gate’). This ‘upper gate’ contact point was known to be very hard to access and open and was also referred to as ‘the iron wall’. The jade pillow was thought to control the rising of energy from the spine into the brain. Of note is that this point is almost identical to the upper contact point in the SCM code and through the precision of our technique and protocol this upper gate is very easy to engage thus opening the secret door in the ‘iron wall’ and mobilizing energy to the brain.
To open the jade pillow point Taoist masters taught their students various exercises, ‘meditations on the upper gate’ and various neck postures and movements. Again, these were generalized approaches that approximated a specific energy center and sometimes created enough access to mobilize latent energy. It appears as though some of the masters were onto more sophisticated approaches as described in ancient Chinese texts, where three fingers were held into the jade pillow and observable breath changes seen and feelings of inspiration flowed into the recipient.
Somewhere along the line development stopped and these beautiful lost arts and their science of transformation never evolved enough to create widespread transformative change in the modern masses.
Consistent with most of the pre-modern approaches to activating sacred energy, the techniques used by Taoist masters to mobilize energy were often non-specific. Such as breathing and focusing in the area of the lower Dantian to increase heat and pressure, or neck movements to open the upper gate. I believe these techniques create a non-specific contact into the same area that the SCM code accesses with precision. As we will soon see the Yogis of India found ways to ‘force the energy up’ through non-specific techniques and this often led to an overload of energy that the body and brain of the recipient was not prepared to metabolize. We seem to have two phenomena showing up in both Taoist and Yoga traditions. Either the energy releases in a gentle and subtle way with limited transformative effects or it releases in a fury occasionally leading to transformative effects but often simply overloading the capacity of the body and brain to metabolize its surge.
Again, based on the consistent and repeatable results we see through the SCM protocols, I believe there is a higher degree of specificity of contact into the energy centers AND an evolutionary upgrade occurring within this sacred energy and/or pathways and the brain. This evolutionary upgrade coupled with the precision of the SCM protocol may explain the high degree of consistency and reproducibility of the mobilization and assimilation of energy seen with HBL and now incorporated into SCM.
This section was not meant to be a detailed study of Taoist techniques nor philosophy, but instead designed to bring attention to the historical significance that these geniuses provided for the eventual development of the SCM technique. I am also not being critical of the non-specific approaches, contacts or inconsistent outcomes. This is simply how evolution works; these ancient practices provided thousands of years of experimentation, hypothesis and knowledge that led to the breakthroughs of the SCM technique.
“I stand on the shoulders of giants.”
— SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Yoga and the energy of transformation
In yoga philosophy it was believed that a sleeping serpent energy, Kundalini, also called Shakti and Prana (I will use these terms interchangeably although some of the various yoga schools had nuanced understandings of each one), was coiled at the base of the spine remaining dormant until the seeker had been sufficiently prepared for its awakening through decades of preparatory practice. Once liberated this energy would ascend through all of the energy centers (chakras) of the body waking up higher degrees of consciousness as the sacred energy transformed each energy center. After much effort by the seeker and, at times, many challenges the energy traversing the pathways in the body and moving upwards would awaken the higher energy centers in the head and, according to Indian yogic philosophy, a chakra could be awakened that existed just above the head, leading to release from all suffering and a direct realization of ultimate truth.
All of the Indian yoga schools believed Prana energy to be associated with breath and oxygen and they developed many techniques to increase and mobilize this energy. One such technique was ‘pranayama’ which consisted of a series of breathing techniques designed to increase and circulate Prana.
“They who know the breath of the breath have realized the ancient primordial Brahman.”
— BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD, 4.4.18
As we will discover soon, spontaneous new breath patterns emerge during SCM sessions. This is a good time to make note of a fundamental difference and the high degree of sophistication of the SCM techniques. The new breath patterns emerging during SCM are NOT a result of the conscious learning of a breathing technique (as is the case with pranayama techniques) – instead, when the revolutionary SCM code is introduced into these energy pathways and energy is mobilized and traverses to the higher brain, emergent new breathing patterns are naturally and automatically initiated due to the feedback response by your brain as it learns to self-energize.
In addition to pranayama, meditation techniques and asanas (yoga postures) were developed to move this sacred energy through the body and expand consciousness. After thousands of years of experimentation ancient Yogis discovered two of the most key points, amongst many points, within the subtle energy pathways of the body. One of these points is at the base of the spine and called the Mooladhara chakra. It was believed that the Kundalini energy in the body was coiled and concentrated in this location. The other revered energetic contact point was at the base of the skull and referred to in the Vedas (the oldest religious texts known to humankind) as ‘the mouth of God’.
It was believed that in this upper spine location all universal Shakti energy entered the human body. It is important to note here, that although I use anatomical terms to clarify certain locations regarding the body, the energy pathways and contact points are not really thought to belong to the realm of gross anatomy. Instead they are part of a subtle anatomy that we have limited language to use towards describing precise location.
I am assuming that the diligent reader is now seeing a pattern emerge and a recurring theme between untapped brain potential, latent energy in the body associated with specific pathways and now two consistently recognized points (energy centers) within the pathways that effect this latent energy source. In many of the most sophisticated yoga techniques the two points, one at the top of the spine and the other at the base of the spine, were understood to be crucial to the awakening or mobilization of sacred energy in the body.
Yogic meditation techniques required focused intense concentration on these points and the specially designed asanas were meant to position the body in such a way that the energy centers were forced open.
On the rare occasion that Kundalini woke up through the utilization of these techniques – and if the practitioner was not adequately prepared through years of rigorous training and lifestyle changes – it often overpowered the body’s physical structure and wreaked havoc in their body, mind and life.
Kundalini was hard to awaken and if the recipient was not previously committed to decades of preparation it may not result in desired effects. The Saluto-Genic energy promoted through SCM is the upgrade to accomplish what Kundalini could not. SalutoGenic energy carries less amplitude but more specificity and alters the physical structure with less force than Kundalini did. The purposeful mobilization of this refined SalutoGenic energy, gently molds the structure of your body to increase the energy flows to your brain, and your awakened state is gracefully guided into your modern life. Through SCM I believe SalutoGenesis, as the evolution of Kundalini/Prana, can reach the brain in multitudes of people and a new world can be created.
Kundalini energy was an evolutionary experiment that did not consummate in widespread human change. SalutoGenic energy is an evolutionary emergence from this primal source that is more organized, better timed, expressed more elegantly, and much easier for the average person to assimilate. In short, Saluto-Genic energy and the brain have evolved in such a way that sacred energy flowing in the body to the brain does not usually overwhelm body/mind as Kundalini has been known to do. These Yoga adepts charted a course that we are building on today. Their contributions are without precedent
SalutoGenic energy, a hallmark of SCM, does not rise before its time. Once mobilized it traverses the pathways elegantly to fuel your brain. As your brain metabolizes its fuel and you awaken, an accurate map of your life guides you forward as you bring your awakened state to your life. The work you will do and the changes you will make, as you progress through this book, will help prepare not only your body and brain, but also all other life dimensions for awakening.
The Science of the Energy of Transformation and its Pathways
Microfilaments, microtubules, and energy transfer
We have learned what the Taoist masters of China and the Yogis of India had to say about this energy of transformation. We have also looked at the possibility that an evolution of this energy is occurring and how it is being leveraged by the highly specific SCM technique. Now let’s see what modern Western science has to say about the energy of transformation and the pathways in the body that support it.
In the late 1800s Pierre and Jacques Curie discovered that crystal structures subjected to mechanical pressure emit energy. They called this energy releasing effect ‘piezoelectric’. It was later scientifically established that all crystalline structures exhibit this release of electromagnetic energy (piezoelectric effect) if they are touched, compressed, stretched or loaded in certain ways.
In 1988 the Austrian chemist, Friedrich Reinitzer discovered a new phase of matter. Together with the German physicist Otto Lehmann, an expert in crystalline structures, they became convinced that a unique kind of order existed in certain liquids. They referred to it as ‘liquid crystal’. Liquid crystals behave like liquid and matter at the same time. The French theoretical physicist, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was studying ‘superconductors’ – materials that conduct electricity without any resistance and therefore can carry a signal forever without losing energy. In other words, superconductors offer zero electric resistance. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes soon turned his attention to liquid crystals and in 1991 won a Nobel prize for demonstrating analogies between superconductors and liquid crystals.
Recently it has become clear that liquid crystals represent much of the substance of living organisms, called ‘biological liquid crystals’, and in fact it has now been demonstrated that the cell membrane of all living organisms are liquid crystal and therefore capable of producing energy release in the form of the piezoelectric effect.
Biological liquid crystals
According to researchers Facada and Yasuda, when pressure is applied to the collagen of the connective tissue matrix in living organisms it creates ‘streaming potentials’ of energy.
Dr. James L. Oschman PhD has extensively studied the piezoelectric effect of connective tissue in the human body. Oschman has shown how connective tissue in the human body forms a matrix of crystalline substance extending into and connecting all areas and structures of the human body and brain.
Modern science has demonstrated that the energy pathways in the body, known for thousands of years and now accessed in an innovative way by the SCM code, are dense in microfilaments and microtubules, which are the most highly piezoelectric components of connective tissue. So we are now able to clarify a mechanism – that is palatable to Western science – through which highly piezoelectric tissue is mechanically loaded through touch or breath in such a way that a piezoelectric effect moves through the liquid crystalline substance of the body and spreads into various tissue destinations. In short, science shows us that when the body is contacted in certain ways and in specific pathways it releases energy.
The SCM protocol has cracked a code around the precise direction and depth of gentle pressure within specific crystalline-dense locations of the energy pathways.
It is theorized that the specific SCM code introduced into the pathways, through breath, touch and intention, leads to an energy release traveling to the higher brain. With precise gentle loading through contact in a specific unique protocol, the piezoelectric effect to the brain is maximized, waking up its slumbering potential.
We can now see that areas of the human body are highly piezoelectric (emit energy when touched in specific ways) and act as superconductors to transmit this energy with zero resistance to specific areas of the human body and brain.
Many of the ancient disciplines that acknowledged a latent energy in the body (and beyond) would argue today that this energy is subtler then the piezoelectric effect observed in labs, and is beyond the electromagnetic spectrum recognized by Western science. I believe both are correct, there is a piezoelectric effect occurring and also I believe they are correct that in time we will have instruments to measure a more subtle energy of transformation occurring simultaneously.
In the chapter on Enlightenment States we will discuss in more detail energy beyond the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond the physical body. For now, suffice to say that we can put together a credible theory of the energy of transformation and how it flows through pathways in the body, that is consistent with knowledge gained through modern Western science.
Higher Brain Mechanisms and the Energy of Transformation
Through the SCM protocol the mobilized energy, we can call it ‘SalutoGenesis’, acting as much needed ‘brain fuel’, increases metabolism in higher brain structures. As this ‘SalutoGenesis’ is received by and builds in the higher brain, the higher brain begins to awaken; remarkably this awakening is followed by spontaneous feedback mechanisms that are new expressions of this ‘SalutoGenesis’. This feedback is self-generated by your higher brain! The spontaneous higher brain feedback initially takes the form of two new and unique ‘SalutoGenesis’ feedback mechanisms. I refer to these new mechanisms as ‘SalutoGenic mechanisms (SalutoGenesis for short)’. SalutoGenesis is a term borrowed from the field of biology, that studies the brain’s potential to create wellness. The words Saluto Genesis or SalutoGenic thus have their origins in the Latin word ‘salud’, a toast to health, well-being and vitality.
The first of these mechanisms is a 3-dimensional automatic expansion of your breath. We call this ‘SalutoGenic Breath Expansion’, experienced as though every part of your being is breathing in all directions simultaneously. Like bellows filling with air, seeming to defy the physical limitations of how much air the lungs can actually hold. The 3D auto breath transcends mere lung capacity as it is charging the oxygen with the energy of transformation to be carried and delivered to the higher brain. The second potential mechanism generated by the mobilized energy is felt as an automatic wave like rhythmical breathing. We call this a ‘SalutoGenic Breath Rhythm’, felt as your breath spontaneously cycling through your body with a high degree of organization and rhythmically undulating upwards as the energy-charged breath moves to the brain.
In either experience your breath begins to spontaneously move through your body! To be clear, you are NOT consciously learning to breathe in this way, the response is being automatically generated as your higher brain energizes. The experience of either of these SalutoGenic Breathing responses feels as though you are witnessing and experiencing yourself being breathed. As a result of the initial mobilized energy, brought about by precise contacts through the SCM protocol, your brain is effortlessly and automatically generating new mechanisms to efficiently carry more of this sacred energy up the pathways and to itself. As it wakes up it learns how to generate its own fuel source that leads to increased metabolism in the higher brain where much of your latent potential hides.
As you progress in SCM and the pathways continue to be cued through the SCM protocol, and your brain continues to generate its own activation energy, it is common to feel a third SalutoGenic mechanism spontaneously arise in your body. A large wave-like movement courses through the subtle energy pathways in your body and we call this a ‘SalutoGenic AutoWave’. An ‘autowave’ is a term used in physics and chemistry as well as the life sciences to describe the process through which information is transmitted through living systems. A classic example of an autowave is a nerve impulse.
In chemistry it has been shown that these autowaves are present during ‘phase transitions’. A phase transition, according to modern physics and chemistry, is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one state of matter to another. This provides, at the very least, a useful metaphor for the ‘phase transitions’ that occur to SCM clients as the above mentioned SalutoGenic mechanisms move through the human body.
This SalutoGenic AutoWave (and quite possibly all three of the SalutoGenic mechanisms) is experienced as the undulation of raw energy (not breath charged with energy) moving up and down the subtle energy pathways. Once the body has been sufficiently prepped and the energy pathways gently traversed by energy-charged breath, this larger more powerful SalutoGenic AutoWave spontaneously moves through your body releasing lower brain junk and clearing your body of stress.
The SalutoGenic AutoWave further clears out restriction or bottlenecks within the subtle energy pathways and further opens them for a better flow and greater transfer of energy to the brain. When the SalutoGenic AutoWave moves through you it is experienced as a very powerful and liberating phenomenon. Often times wrought with emotion, as long held stress patterns are released and higher centers of the brain simultaneously come online.
I am putting forth the hypothesis that as the subtle energy (or if viewed from a modern science perspective, the piezoelectric effect) moves through the body and energizes the higher brain and the higher brain begins to wake up and self-promote its own energy source, more traditionally known neuronal communication is also occurring. Electrical impulses are traveling down nerve fibers and crossing synapses thus propagating a new signal through the body and to the brain. It is known that the movement of nerve energy through the human body is transmitted through nerve fibers in the form of a wave.
This fact has been scientifically established. Through the SCM techniques this movement of energy is promoted and when enough of this energy starts to further propagate via the spontaneous self-generated feedback mechanisms (SalutoGenic Breath Expansion and SalutoGenic Breath Rhythm) it builds in intensity until a point of critical mass is hit and the phenomenon of coherence is reached, and synchronization occurs amongst the moving waves of energy. In physics the term ‘energy coherence’ refers to the synchronization of waves of energy they develop ‘in phase’ relationship. This coherent, ‘in phase’, synchronized phenomenon leads to greater efficiency, as in effect they are working together.
This coherence or synchronization of these energy waves amplifies their effect and increases the magnitude of their power for transformation. The coherence created through synchronization of the energy waves pulls diverse biological rhythms and other forms of nerve propagation into its field of influence. The coherence of this brain directed energy becomes so strong that a point of critical mass is hit and the coherent wave of energy spreads through the human body and expresses itself on a macro level as the large wave movement (SalutoGenic AutoWave) we see coursing through the body during SCM techniques.
The above three SalutoGenic mechanisms are all the ‘classic’ expressions as this energy moves through the human body. It is important to note that there are many potential ways to experience SalutoGenesis and it may not always show up in the classic form. The energy can feel extremely subtle as it moves up pathways, or produce subtle vibrations through the body, or twitching movements in the limbs, for example.
As you learn SCM and journey through the 9 Summits of Transformation don’t get hung up on what you think it should feel like or the classical definitions described here. Just pay attention for any changes in breathing or energy currents or vibrations; there are many manifestations (beyond the classic definitions above) of SalutoGenesis and they all lead to the same place...a new life.
All of the SalutoGenic mechanisms can be consciously neutralized and stopped by you as they arise in your body. But you really won’t want to stop the experience as it feels so natural and liberating. In other words, you are not ‘overtaken’ or lose self-control, however all that is required for it to arise with the SCM technique, is that you don’t resist and simply notice as the energy moves through your body on its way to reducing stress, upgrading your brain and creating a sense of empowerment. Surrender to the higher capacities within you and you will be set free.
Before we close this chapter I want to add another piece to our concept of the energy of transformation and the circuit it forms with higher brain. As you will learn in the next chapter, brain function and physiology (exterior perspective) has correlates in consciousness (interior perspective). We want consciousness to evolve in ratio to the evolution of the sacred energy and the evolution of brain function. As brain structures evolve, consciousness evolves and the corollary energy that fuels this evolution of brain/consciousness evolves, creating an emergent triune of brain/consciousness/fuel (energy).
The evolution of your consciousness can be promoted as energy awakens the higher brain. Higher consciousness Life Altitudes are the meaning-making apparatuses that create context for our experience. And as we will see in later chapters the interpretive matrix provided by Higher Life Altitudes in and of themselves are catalytic agents for the energy of transformation and the higher brain. These Higher Life Altitudes of consciousness (along with enlightenment states of consciousness) are themselves part of the triune and are just as much a part of the catalyzing agent for transformation as the higher brain or the energy for transformation is; they tri-evolve.
This book is a manifesto of how to mobilize latent energy and wake up higher brain potentials through a systematic approach that evolves consciousness and creates context around the new experiences, to more aptly apply this transformation to your life and the world. Those of us who are waking up to a higher way of being and becoming in the world must continue to create new context around this unfolding. I also am convinced that the triune complex of Saluto-Genic energy, the Higher Brain and Higher Life Altitudes are a requirement for continued transformation and evolutionary progress.
We must know that evolution can be meandering, messy and experimental. Once-hopeful evolutionary paths can end suddenly. As we wake up we realize that we are part of the process of evolution. Our choices and actions count, this evolutionary triune of brain/consciousness/fuel needs us to join in the conscious process of its evolution, for we are that. In other words, the conscious promotion of evolution through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation is part of the very evolutionary process. Evolution is waking to itself, in you, through you and as you.
There is a sacred energy in the body that I believe is continuous with the energy that first thrust itself forward out of consciousness 13.8 billion years ago. And just as we can trace the matter in our higher brain all the way back to the big bang and we can trace our conscious awareness all the way back to THE consciousness before the big bang, we can trace this subtle energy in the body all the way back to the evolutionary impulse, the awakened force in consciousness that thrust the matter and energy forward into existence, and has wound itself into this shockingly complex magnificent system of gross matter we call our higher brain.
There has been an essential element hidden just out of sight. Something that is now coming of age as the brain evolves, an energy source, a fuel for the new brain. I believe SalutoGenic energy generated though SCM is the energy of our soul and spirit, gently finding its way to our Higher Brain structures to awaken us into higher consciousness, so that we can turn that consciousness back on the very catalytic process that awakened it, and promote more energy to the brain and bring that to the world and co-create heaven on earth.
It’s time to mobilize this subtle energy and awaken your higher brain. The establishment of the Source Code Meditation base followed by Source Code Meditation will create a radical departure from overwhelm and stress and provide a new baseline of higher brain-based physiology and higher mind-based awareness. Cultivating this new baseline will become a daily practice for you as you bring it into the guided 9 Summits of Transformation introduced in Part Two, and evolve in every way known to humankind.
The Source Code Meditation Base – Creating the Biological Thrive State
Merging into subtle energy vortexes of the body and mobilizing subtle energy to the higher brain leads to automatic SalutoGenesis flowing through the body as feedback, further awakening your higher brain. This feedback creates a prolonged shift into thrive physiology that can immediately be followed by meditation.
Due to the brain first nature of SCM, and the harnessing of the power of the awakened brain, the amount of meditation required to produce profound effects is proportionally much less than with traditional meditation techniques. You will practice forming the meditation base for two weeks before introducing the meditation. Don’t underestimate the power of creating the meditation base alone. Profound stress dissipation, physical healings and dramatic awakenings in brain/mind can occur before you ever leverage this awakened brain response with meditation. After two weeks of practice you should not only be proficient at turning on the higher brain response (forming the meditation base) but also have started noticing changes in how you feel; less stress, more clarity etc.
I want you to experience SCM early in this book so that you can begin releasing stress, awakening your higher brain and accessing deeper states of consciousness. We are going to get started with the Source Code Meditation soon. More ‘why’, behind the various components of the SCM technique will be articulated later but I did not want additional explanation regarding the theory and mechanisms of SCM to hold you up from learning to shift your brain/mind right now. The ‘why’ we do what we do will be articulated as we go; however, I want to begin the ‘how’ now.
You will begin by learning to activate the two key contact points that are ‘subtle energy vortexes (SEV)’, in your body:
- an upper subtle energy vortex contact point at the top of the spine, just below the base of the skull (see FIG 1: below)
- a lower SEV contact point at the bottom of the spine, midsacrum/coccyx area (see FIG 2, next page).
As discussed earlier, these two contact points have been known for millennia as key entryways into the subtle energy system of the human body. You will use your touch, breath, and intention to merge into these SEV contact points and awaken dormant energy that will flow to your higher brain and activate an automated feedback response of breath/Prana tuning your brain to receive advanced meditation! The act of ‘merging’ into the upper and lower SEV contact points is the key to mastering the Source Code Meditation Base (the higher brain state precursor to the actual meditation).
FIG 1: Location of the Upper Subtle Energy Vortex (SEV)
FIG 2: Location of the Lower Subtle Energy Vortex (SEV)
What I call merging occurs as touch, breath and intention all converge on the contact point and enter into the SEV in a very specific way. When this merge into the SEV is experienced it feels as though your touch, breath and intention have become one with the SEV. In other words, as you enter the SEV there is a precise moment that occurs in which you cannot tell where your physical touch ends and the vortex within your body begins.
This merging or suspending sensation leads to the inability to feel the specific localized point that you are merging into, there is a sense of infinity rather than a localized point in space-time. The merge feels multidimensional and experienced outside of usual space-time boundaries. The subtle energy that will travel to your higher brain mobilizes out of this state. As your touch, breath and intention enter the SEV and create the merge, a release of subtle energy traverses through pathways to your higher brain.
The proper and consistent ability to create this merge and thus mobilize subtle energy to your brain, will take some practice to master. The time and energy invested into becoming proficient at establishing the Source Code Meditation Base is an investment into the ‘base’ of your new enlightened life.
Before you actually begin applying the merging contacts to yourself, you are going to start with a very mechanical way to learn the precise depth of the touch and timing of breath and intention that are required:
Start by taking a typical computer mouse pad and place it on a hard surface such as a desktop. Next take one of your index fingers and hold it at a 45° angle a couple of inches above the mouse pad. Now bring your finger down into that mouse pad, imagining you are contacting a subtle energy vortex in your body, and as you touch the mouse pad, inhale into and focus your breath and intention into the contact point.
Continue pushing down until you just begin to feel the hard surface of the desk below the mouse pad. The feeling you are looking for is that of the gentle downward pressure of your finger pushing into the mouse pad becoming matched by the gentle upward pressure of the mouse pad pushing back. This sensation generally occurs near the point where you can just start to feel the hard desk under the mouse pad.
Now take that downward pushing finger and slightly drop your elbows down as you roll your contact finger to begin pointing back, up and out in a 45° angle. In other words you will go into the contact point in a 45° angle and back out with a 45° angle, forming a V with your entry and exit (see FIG 3 below).
Next, you want to learn to do this quickly, in and out. When you actually do it in your body, the hand position will be different but this mouse pad exercise lets you refine the level of depth and timing of breath on the mouse pad before actually making self-contacts into your SEVs.
Do the above in reverse direction (see FIG 4, next page) and remember your hand positions will feel different when you actually do this on your body.
The key point to this exercise is for you to feel that perfect spot where you were both going in and coming out at exactly the same time. This is of course a mechanical exercise that forms a crude analogy with what your touch, breath, and intention feel like as they enter into the subtle energy contact points in your body and create the merge effect.
FIG 3: First direction of merging contact on mouse pad
FIG 4: Reverse direction of merging contact on mouse pad
Although this is not a precise comparison, the practice will help you greatly before actually attempting to make the contacts into your body. This same 45° entry in and 45° exit out (although with a different hand position going into your body lying face-down) will be utilized as you make the actual touch into the contact points of your body.
The rudimentary merge experience you feel on the mouse pad will prepare you for the actual merge experience you will feel as you bring your touch, breath and intention into the upper and lower contact point, releasing energy to your brain and thus prepping you for the meditation.
Every day, multiple times a day, practice the mouse pad merge by holding your finger a couple of inches above the mouse pad pointed in a 45° direction, slowly lower your finger and gently enter the mouse pad as you focus your breath and intention on the inhale into the point you are touching, pushing down at the 45° angle until a sense of merging is felt between your contact finger and the mouse pad. Then, lifting back out in a 45° angle, paying close attention to that perfect point of suspension where you are both entering into and exiting out of the contact at exactly the same time.
Alternate both directions in and out in 45° angles as you develop the mechanical skills to approximate the entry direction, depth, exit direction and the timing of your breath and intention to create a merging contact. However, the mouse pad is a passive lifeless structure, your body is not. The real power of the merging contact is what it awakens in your body and brain. Dramatic potential is already inside you, slumbering.
According to the science of dynamical systems, small positive fluctuations in a chaotic system in the right place and at the right time can catalyze the entire system moving to higher order. Through the mobilization of this subtle energy a ‘pattern interrupt’ occurs in the human body/mind as this subtle energy moves to your higher brain and creates a feedback mechanism of SalutoGenesis flowing through you and facilitating your emergence to a ‘higher order’. This ‘pattern interrupt’ provides an opening that will be leveraged through SCM and the 9 Summits of Transformation to create new higher levels of organization in body, mind and spirit.
Let’s Get Started
As you perform and practice this sacred work you are going to witness miracles that are new to you. You will feel as though what you are doing is magic. I assure you it is not. Do not let this go to your head. You are a vehicle, a conduit for a power that is bigger than you, or me, or any of us. You are setting loose the impulse that contains the power and wisdom of life itself. This process deserves reverence. We are on hallowed ground.
Once you have developed a feel for the mouse pad exercise it is time to begin the SCM base and learn to consistently create the merge, and mobilize energy to your higher brain and experience SalutoGenesis.
The SalutoGenesis may feel subtle in you at first, a slight change in breathing, twitching sensations or a mild current of energy, but trust the process...bigger is not better. As you become proficient merging into your own subtle energy vortexes you will feel this SalutoGenesis flowing in you to your higher brain.
When SalutoGenesis fully engages it can feel like something is breathing you...new breath patterns and energy flows arise spontaneously. This experience of automated breathing and waves of energy can be stopped by you by merely changing position and willing it to stop. However, the freeing and liberating experience, even if unusual and without past reference, feels natural, deeply rejuvenating and like you have found home.
The SCM Base
STEP 1
- Lower SEV merge with touch: Begin lying face-down. Locate your upper and lower subtle energy vortexes (SEV). Close your eyes. Contact and merge into your lower SEV (notice hand position on FIG 5 below) by inhaling breath and intending that breath into the lower SEV as you touch quickly in 45° and up and out 45° (see FIG 6 below).
FIG 5: In/out direction of the lower merging contact
FIG 6: Lower merging contact with activated SalutoGenesis
NOTE: if you cannot comfortably reach the area to contact you can still create the response by using breath and intention only, imagining the contact going in as you learned to do it on the mouse pad.
- Following the merge, let your brain, body and breath do whatever they want to do (move, twitch, breath etc.) as you focus attention only on the lower SEV for three complete natural cycles of breath.
- Repeat the above 3x, each time following three natural cycles of breath with a deliberate merging contact into the lower SEV.
- Awareness on SalutoGenesis: simply notice SalutoGenesis flowing in your body for 10 full cycles. Let it happen. Surrender to it.
STEP 2
- Upper SEV merge with touch: Contact and merge into your upper SEV by inhaling breath and intending that breath into the upper SEV as you touch quickly in 45° and up and out 45° (see FIG 7 below).
FIG 7: In/out direction of upper SEV merging contact with SalutoGenesis
- Following the merge let your body and breath do whatever they want to do (move, twitch, breathe etc.) as you focus attention only on the upper SEV for three complete natural cycles of breath.
- Repeat the above 3x, each time following three natural cycles of breath with a merging contact into the upper SEV.
- Awareness on SalutoGenesis: simply notice the SalutoGenesis flowing in your body for 10 full cycles. Let it happen. Surrender to it.
STEP 3
- Alternating breath-merge: Intend deliberate breath and focus, without physical touch but imagining what the touch feels like (this is breath-merge) into the lower SEV, then observe a complete natural cycle of SalutoGenesis. Now breath-merge into the upper SEV then observe a complete natural cycle of SalutoGenesis. Repeat the above, alternating breath-merge for 5 more cycles.
- Awareness on SalutoGenesis: Assume a passive observer position and notice the SalutoGenesis continuing to flow in your body for three full cycles.
STEP 4
- Rapid alternating breath-merge: Now breath-merge, alternating between upper and lower subtle energy vortexes. Speed up to twice the natural rhythm of the flowing SalutoGenesis. As your lower SEV is breath-merged lift your pelvis a few inches into the air and envision your lower SEV opening. Then breath-merge into your upper SEV as you tuck your chin while envisioning the opening of your upper SEV, releasing the tucked chin on your exhale. Repeat 5x.
- Awareness on SalutoGenesis: Relax completely following the 5th cycle. Don’t attempt to ‘make’ anything happen, just return to the passive observer position and notice the SalutoGenesis more fully flowing in your body up to your higher brain. Observe it for 40 full cycles allowing any spontaneous movements to occur in your body as it cycles upwards and you feel it into your higher brain.
NOTE. You may not feel like subtle energy is actually flowing through path-ways but more as if your entire body is vibrating, or that your body is made out of energy or simple subtle changes in your breathing. These are all good signs.
STEP 5
- Surrender to archetypal energy flows and movement: Roll onto your back or stand and for 1-5 minutes let the spontaneous energy flows guide you into spontaneous positions or movements of your body (see FIG 8, next page). Go with the flow.
FIG 8: Auto-expansion of chest and lifting of heart during SalutoGenesis
- If your body wants to move in certain ways, let it. If not, just notice SalutoGenesis. Allow any spontaneous movements or postures or hand positions (mudras) to express through you. The flowing SalutoGenesis may move you into spontaneous dance, yoga postures or Tai Chi-like movements. These are primal archetypal patterns that enhance energy flow; let them emerge naturally. Let the intelligence that is now flowing though you, guide you from the inside out.
NOTE: Once SCM base is learned and you have become proficient at the technique, you may find that you no longer need to make physical contacts in your body. Breath and intention into the SEV’s will be enough to engage SalutoGenesis and it may take as little as five minutes to create the thrive state and be fully prepped for the meditation.
NOTE: Don’t get hung up on what the SalutoGenesis feels like; just keep noticing changes in your breathing and changes in energy sensations in your body. It may not feel to you like what I describe, and that is ok. Just notice any breath expansions or rhythms and any currents of energy or even the experience of subtle vibration within your body.
Twice daily for two weeks practice the SCM base, learning to awaken the brain through SalutoGenesis before proceeding to the SCM technique.