Power is the common ingredient within the human experience, and more so, it is the common
ingredient in health, and certainly in the loss of health.
Carolyn Mays, the bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit, holds degrees in journalism
and theology and is widely renowned for her pioneering work as a medical intuitive.
Dr. Mays can scan a patient's body for illness through intuitive means and has a 93% accuracy
rate in diagnosing disease.
Her 14 years of research with Harvard-trained neurosurgeon Dr. Norman Shealy demonstrates
how power and the loss of it directly affects our health.
Thank you.
Thank you for joining me.
It is a pleasure to be with you.
This evening I want to talk to you about the three levels of power associated with health,
how you can use those levels of power to enhance your health as well as your life.
It's my hope that you'll leave here this evening with a sense of genuine empowerment, and I
choose that word deliberately, that you'll feel a sense of I can handle crises in my
life better, I can handle my health better, I'm going to know what to do when I feel power
leaving my system.
I find power to be an intriguing subject.
I think everybody does.
Everybody is intrigued with empowered people when they see them, and you're intrigued with
yourself when you feel that way.
Sometimes you can't get over it, and you're intrigued when you feel without power.
You can't get over that either.
In any event, power is the common ingredient within the human experience, and more so,
it is the common ingredient in health, and certainly in the loss of health.
More than anything else, what I've learned in my work as a medical intuitive is that
what I'm actually reading in your system is whether or not you have an empowerment schedule
inside of you.
Schedule means a timing, your past, your background.
Whether or not you have a sense of empowerment in you at all, and if not, where did your
power go?
Is it in your past?
Is it in your childhood?
Is it in your attitudes?
Something has taken your power.
So when I do a reading in the area of medical intuition, that's exactly what I'm reading.
What is a medical intuitive anyway?
I mean, actually, it's not a profession you're going to find that often.
I'd like to give you a reference point so that you know what I do behind closed doors
with this occupation.
I find it as strange as everybody else does, by the way.
I developed the skill of medical intuition in 1982, and it sort of happened spontaneously.
It wasn't something that I studied.
Nobody can study this, at least not back then, maybe in the future, but certainly not then.
And it started out as sort of a baby skill.
I didn't know what to do with it.
I could care less.
In the meantime, I was a publisher, but it kind of had a mind of its own, and it emerged
more and more.
I sensed the presence of illness in other people, and I didn't know what to do with
it, because I was a publisher.
You don't go up to someone and say, hi there, you're sick.
You know, I mean, you just, you kind of keep it to yourself.
But then in 1984, I went to a conference, and I was invited as a publisher, and yet
while I was there, someone came up to me and said, see that doctor over there?
He studies people who are medically intuitive.
So I thought, why is someone telling me that?
I mean, did I have a sign on me?
Baby medical intuitive.
I mean, come on, right?
So anyway, I went up to him, and I said, can I talk to you?
I mean, I think I'm one of those people, and he does not impress easily, thank God.
But at the time, it intimidated me, and he said, you want any good?
And I said, I don't know.
I don't know.
He says, can you see a brain tumor?
I said, I don't know, maybe.
I have no idea.
And he said, well, you know, I don't need anyone to tell me that somebody else's energy
is off.
I can see that.
He said, if I call, I mean, what?
How do you work?
I said, I don't know.
So I mean, you got to understand, I was a publisher.
And I didn't know.
All I knew is that something was different in me.
And so he said, I'll call you sometime.
And that's how the relationship began.
And he would call, and he would say, you know, I have somebody in my office, and I'm trying
to look for the cause of why they're losing energy in their body, why they're losing power.
This is the language we began to use.
And as I started to scan them, I realized that I was looking at profiles of the human
energy system that were extraordinary.
Not at all the way I thought.
Now I believe that we are involved in an evolutionary pattern of three different levels of power.
And that these levels of power embody, embrace the dynamics going on in our physical body,
that power influences our physical body, our emotional body, our psychological body, our
spiritual body.
Each one of these corners of ourselves, the four quadrants of ourselves, is a power factor.
And we are involved in the management of each one of these.
And that each one is affected by the manner in which we use power.
We are intriguing, shall we say, machines, spiritual machines.
I mean, it sounds like a funny way to put it, but actually it's true.
Because we're so well organized in this area.
Our anatomical system, from an energetic point of view, is as well organized and specific
as our physical one.
We're not randomly put together.
We're well organized, well scripted, and the relationship between our energetic body and
our physical body is intimate and deeply, deeply connected.
A thought form influences our physical body.
Our physical body interacts with our thought forms.
We are one in the same energy system.
So when I do a reading on you, how can I not be reading a profile of your energetic system
which is reflected completely in what goes on in your physical body?
The other thing I want to investigate with you in this evening is the fact that these
three levels of power that I'm going to be introducing to you represent, from my point
of view, the three levels of evolution that all of us need to move through in this dynamic
of what we call spiritual development or consciousness development.
We don't just jump into spirituality as a random process.
The fact is, I really believe it's sort of a well-scripted path in which each of us needs
to experience separate and very well-designed levels of spiritual learning lessons.
We learn through stages, and each of us will go through those stages.
We'll move through a tribal stage.
We'll move through an individual stage.
We'll move through a spiritual, archetypal, symbolic stage, but we will each of us move
through these three levels of power because that is, in fact, the way we are meant to
evolve and meant to evolve together.
The human energy system is comprised of data banks.
In addition to three levels of power, we have data banks.
These data banks contain the information in a very specific logging system about our life.
Do you want to know something?
I don't think there's one thought form that we have that isn't recorded somewhere in our
system.
I don't think there's one thought form that you've ever had or one inspiration that you've
ever had about life that isn't somehow an influence in our biological system.
I think that we are that well-scripted.
I think the power we engage with is that well-organized within ourselves.
Power is what we call energy at the physical level.
It's not just a negotiating force externally, but power is actually energy at the physical
level.
When I'm doing a reading on you, I'm reading the roadmap of how you lose power within the
physical world, how you release your power in terms of the various pathways of your life.
A roadmap is exquisite to call it because you can follow your own roadmap.
You can go back and begin to chart your childhood, your adolescence, your 20s, your 30s, your
40s, and you literally can see the way in which your power has moved out of you like
rivers, like tributaries off the main river.
And you can see exactly the places that you're still feeding off this river with your precious
life force.
And if you really got into it, I mean, you really got into it and started to measure
how much power was going where, you'd be absolutely shocked when you realize, I've got so much
power to spend each day, and 80%, 70% is going into my history.
It's a phenomenal thing to think about.
All issues of power are biologically connected.
I want you to remember that because it's ordinary for us to separate, to separate issues of
power and then there's our body.
No.
When I'm teaching you this, I'm teaching you a system that is one and the same thing,
one and the same thing.
So when you leave here, when you leave here from now on, when you're walking around the
rest of your life, and you find yourself getting involved in a power struggle or feeling power
less, from now on, you're going to step outside, you're going to say to someone, wait just
a minute here.
I've got to see what's going on in my body.
And when you feel your body shaking at one level or getting one of those colds where
your hands get ice cold because something is draining you, from now on, what you tell
yourself is, power is leaving my body.
How fast is it going?
Where is it going?
To whom is it going?
What's taking it?
So you no longer sit back and say, I'm having just a biological reaction, no, no, no.
From now on, you start telling yourself, I'm losing power.
I'm losing it fast.
I've got to take a deep breath.
I've got to step out of that situation, and I've got to pull my spirit back.
You're going to start working with yourself from a totally different point of view.
I'm going to launch into a description of the human energy system.
I'm going to teach you to think of it the way I now work with it, in three separate
levels.
Each level is an incredibly complex and yet incredibly simple level of consciousness.
The first level is tribal.
Tribal power is that which I call the group mind.
We all begin our evolution in tribal power.
We all begin as part of a group system of thought.
That's what family is.
That's what society is.
When we're born, we're plugged in to this level of life.
We're plugged into these perceptions.
We learn about our ethnic history.
We're plugged into a religion.
We're plugged into a belief about our heritage.
We're plugged into the current trends in the world we live in.
We're plugged into political ideas.
These are all group thought forms.
What does that mean?
Translated.
When you're plugged into group thought forms, you are literally working at the speed of
a group.
You move at the speed of a group.
Your biology moves at the speed of the group, and more importantly, your sense of power
moves at the speed of the group.
What does that mean?
Let's say you wanted to heal something.
You're going to heal at the speed of a group.
Get this one.
You're going to create at the speed of a group.
You have a wonderful creative idea, and then you decide that you are someone who runs your
ideas past a number of people for approval, for empowerment.
You will create at the speed of those group thought forms.
It's absolutely fascinating.
That's tribal power.
Now, let's say you move into individual power, the next level of power.
All power reflects the self.
Now, think about this.
The tribal energy influences, controls, determines.
By the way, you're doing this to others, so let's not put it in the victim like this is
just you.
I can promise you, as I describe this, you're doing this to others.
What you do at the tribal level is you determine who someone can and cannot love.
You determine what is right for someone else and what isn't, because that's the authority
of a tribe.
Then one day, at one point in our lives, we're all going to sit up and say, I don't want
to be controlled by a group anymore.
I want to experience life according to my own choices.
I want to move out of tribal thought forms.
That begins the journey of the self into a different level of perception, the evolution
into individual power.
What you're actually saying is, I want to take responsibility for the quality of thought
forms I have in my head.
I want to take responsibility for the attitudes I plug my spirit into and for the consequences
of those attitudes.
Let me tell you, when you're in group thought form, when you're in the tribe, you're going
to talk like this.
You're going to say, someone said to you, why did you do this?
Why do you think this way?
You'll shift into tribal language immediately.
You won't say, well, I think this way because of this.
You'll shift into tribal.
You'll say, well, I really don't think that way.
That's the way I grew up.
We, they did it to me.
And you'll blend, you'll erase your individuality into your tribal history as if to say, I'm
not responsible.
It's the way I grew up, and therefore, we, the tribe, determined what I see and what
I think.
Whereas, when you are fully standing in the individual level of consciousness, you have
to take full responsibility for every single thing you believe, good, better, and different.
Because you're operating from a very different level of power.
But when you're operating from that level of power, here's the positive side.
Let's say you develop an illness.
The tribe says, this illness can't be healed in a quick period of time.
But somebody who has a strong sense of I can look at the tribal mind and say, well, that
may be true for you, but this is what's true for me.
And you can choose a very different path of healing, and the speed is different.
You can heal it much faster than the speed at which a tribe moves, because you're operating
under a much different thought form.
You've got a higher altitude going.
It's an incredibly different sense of speed.
Now you're going to move to the symbolic level.
At the symbolic level of power, this is the most extraordinary level, because the symbolic
allows you to separate from yourself and look at your life from a much higher point of view,
as though you're observing another life in front of you so that you can learn from it
without that feeling of being threatened, as if you can learn from it as though it was
part of a marvelous spiritual design, a design meant to give you insight and spiritual empowerment.
I want to share a story with you that reflects, in my opinion, these levels of power operating
within one person simultaneously who's trying to understand these three levels.
This is a woman whose name is Julie.
Julie and her husband Raymond had a hemophiliac son.
His name is Barry.
Julie did not come from a strongly spiritual background.
She was not a person who was forever looking for the symbolic meaning or the spiritual
meaning, and she was a pragmatist.
She had a son who she had to watch every single moment of the day, because the slightest thing
could cause horrible bleeding, and she always had to look out for this boy.
And she also saw the limitations of conventional medicine in trying to treat him.
She said that as a mother of a hemophiliac child, you develop a real eye for scanning
a room, seeing if there's a wet floor, any place he can hurt himself, any corner of a
table he can hit, and you learn to guide him, protect him, move things so that the room
is as safe as possible.
She said she and her husband Raymond and Barry were at a restaurant one day, and obviously
she took a look, the place felt safe.
Then what happened after that is Raymond went to pay the bill, she got up, turned around,
and Barry got up from the table and slipped on the floor, and immediately began to wrench
in pain in his knee, the weak knee in him swelled up, and the bleeding began.
When she saw that, her first thought was, of course, I need help, I need a physician,
I need a physician.
She watches her son, and he's going into more and more serious trauma.
Then she has this thought, God help me, and she turns around, and this man says, let me
help you.
She hadn't seen him before.
He comes over, he wraps a tourniquet around Barry's leg, puts his hand on there, the swelling
begins to go down.
Now this whole time, Julie's watching her son, and when she gets up to turn around to
thank him, he's gone.
Not only is he gone, she didn't even see him walk out of the restaurant.
Now you could say to yourself, well, she obviously was focused on her boy for so long that he
had time to walk out.
No, as she tells the story, she literally turned to thank him right after his hand was
on his knee, and he was gone.
Now she doesn't necessarily draw the conclusion that that was an angel, that that was something
that happened from a much higher point of power, because her own consciousness had detached
from the physical world of what could and could not happen, the tribal world of reality,
and entered into that higher notion that from the symbolic spiritual view anything can happen.
But that's exactly what happened.
She had detached from the power of that level of consciousness, and had entered that transcendent
level that said I can access any level of power if I need to, to change physical form,
to heal my body, to heal my life, to look for guidance.
You'll always operate on these three levels of power.
We'll always take physical data, and then we'll run it through our emotional energy,
and then we'll run it through the spiritual.
This is the way we're designed for this.
We'll always search for the meaning of everything.
When we come back, I'm going to discuss in greater detail the nature of the three levels
of power.
I'm going to take you into, more deeply, into your body, and into how you can use these
levels of power in a more practical way.
Thanks.
Well, the next important thing you want to learn about this type of power, about three
levels of power operating in you simultaneously, is what does this mean to you personally?
How would it change your life?
How would it make an impact?
The first thing you want to realize is that these three levels of consciousness operating
behind your eye means you're no longer five-sensory.
You're not a five-sensory being.
And quite frankly, it's kind of interesting, because as we prepare to enter the next millennium,
it's becoming obvious to a lot of us that we're not five-sensory.
We have emotional senses.
We have mental senses.
We have intuitive senses.
We have color sensory.
We have all kinds of sensory systems.
But as you redefine your schemata of power, it's going to become more and more natural
for you to realize you're perceiving things more than with five senses.
In fact, that's going to seem almost primitive, absolutely almost primitive.
So that's number one.
And as you learn that you are multi-sensory, you're going to expand what that can do for
you, how you gather data.
It's going to change your entire relationship with what you call reality.
Now, when you think of power, I want you to hold in your mind that power is life force,
power is prana, power is grace.
Any words you'd like to use.
I like grace, because I've come to believe that power is also conscious.
It's not just an electricity that floats through the air.
It's a conscious source of energy.
And you draw to yourself the quality of power that, if you will, matches your own consciousness.
If you're feeling positive, loving thoughts, I'm telling you, that's the kind of power
you're going to draw to yourself, and that's not a coincidence.
Like indeed attracts like.
If you focus on negative, that's the kind of power you're going to draw to yourself.
Not because you're being punished, shall we say, but rather it's because that's the quality
of power you want to digest into your system.
And it feeds on itself, and it gives you depressing thoughts.
Not because you're supposed to have depressing thoughts, but it's because that's the only
kind of power you can sense in yourself.
And that's why it comes to your system in that way.
Now, as you work with yourself, I'm going to give you an image, because this image is
something that you can use any time, any place, and actually, as you get used to this image,
you're going to find that using this is a perfect way to sense whether power's leaving
your system or coming into your system.
Imagine that you have a hundred circuits of energy coming in through the top of your head.
And each circuit is an energy unit, like an electrical wire.
And at this energy, these circuits come into your body, they come through your system,
and they fuel.
They fuel your cell tissue.
They fuel your blood.
They fuel every organ in your body.
And they fuel your thoughts.
They fuel your creativity.
They fuel everything that is your life.
They fuel your environment, everything you do, everything you are.
Absolutely everything.
When we are fully in charge of these circuits, when we're present, we have these circuits
in present time.
Our body thrives, our creativity thrives, we feel like we're on top of the world.
But when we are investing these circuits into things that are negative, thoughts that are
negative, memories that are negative, we're losing power.
Now, I want you to pay attention to this image.
When I do a reading on you, what I do is I get your name and your age and literally I'm
going to take you into your data banks now so you know exactly the kind of energy, what
I look for in you, because this is how I discern how much power you have, what you're doing
with that, how strong it is, what it looks like.
When I get your name and age, we're going to go through it, I see energy coming in through
your system and then I see what your energy is invested in and how much of your energy
goes into those investments.
And this is the order in which you invest and these are the parts of the body that you're
going to draw your power from because you're going to keep this in mind.
You have 100 circuits coming in.
What if you're investing 140 circuits a day?
What if you're going into energetic debt?
What does that mean?
What that means is you're going to take a loan on energy from someplace and as a rule,
you're going to take it from your cell tissue.
You're going to pull extra energy out of your cell tissue that you're supposed to use for
the maintenance of your cell tissue and you're going to invest it into the management of
memories you should long ago have let evaporate or relationships you should long ago have
released.
But you're financing, if you will, the debt of your life with the life of your life.
Now connect that dot here, okay?
So this is how, and these are your data banks and this is the material you have on that
so you know exactly what goes where.
You want to think of the eight data banks in your, I call them data banks in other traditions,
they might be called chakras or they might be called lotus centers.
I use data banks because I like the image it gets, it gives you.
It's a very technical system.
I mean you want to have a sense that it holds every thought form.
It contains every attitude.
This is not a vague system.
It is a highly involved computer.
Just look at this.
Do you think we could create this computerized, highly technical world if in fact we didn't
have some pattern of that within us?
That's the way our own system operates.
Now your first data bank, you're sitting on it, right?
And in that one, as I was beginning to describe earlier, if I'm doing a reading on you, this
is where I find out what your history is, what your biology is, what your sense of family
is, your tribe, everything your family told you, everything that you absorbed from your
culture.
How many of you have the sense that it's better to be thin than not thin?
And I mean skinny thin than not thin.
Okay, okay, we got that.
And do you get that notion from the outside tribe?
It's determining your weight.
I just want you to connect that.
Which means what?
It means a part of your circuits are leaving that part of your body and connecting to a
tribal thought form, which is determining your weight, which determines how you feel
about yourself and your weight, which determines what you eat.
You're sitting in a restaurant.
You think it's just you?
You've got a whole tribe sitting there ordering your lunch.
I mean you've got to figure this out because that's exactly what's happening.
This part of your body also connects the energy as to whether or not you need to work with
a group.
Some of us are tribal by nature.
We need to have group contact, and this is the part of us that says I function better
in a group.
What kind of people are that?
Corporate people, military people, they like that group energy.
Your second data bank is in your hip, sexual genital area, and lower back.
What have you got there?
This is where you have all your financial data.
Isn't that fun?
Your financial data is in your lower back.
It's in your hip area.
You think it's in the bank and you're wrong.
This is also the center that talks about one-to-one power with another person.
This is the center that has your issues of control.
Are any of you controlling?
No, I didn't think so.
I could tell on your faces.
No control in this audience.
This is this part of your body.
I want you to know something.
When you're in a controlling dynamic, this is not a private matter.
If you could see energy, you'd see it's an absolute public exchange of energy between
people.
You would see your energy leaving your body and grabbing onto that other person and in
turn that person with you.
I don't care if that person's on the other side of the world and you hear, if you have
that kind of relationship, I promise you, you get up in the morning, you're getting
dressed and in the morning what you're doing is blasting that person with some of your
energy and I don't care where you are.
It's just the way energy works.
This is also the part of your body that has to do with creativity, isn't that interesting?
But it's logical because this is the part of your body that biologically creates.
So this is your creativity center and we do associate creativity and finances.
It's a very interesting part of the body.
Now I'm just giving you that as the beginning part, but there's much more.
So this is the kind of power.
The third center, which is your solar plexus.
This has to do with your sense of self-esteem, how you like yourself, whether or not you
have a feeling that you like the way you look, you like your presentation, whether or not
you feel highly criticized, highly uncomfortable with other people.
This is that part of your body.
Now while I'm just skimming the top as they say, I want you to note one thing.
These three power centers have one thing in common.
They're all focused on your external world.
This is your external power base and they're all focused in that direction.
Now the next level has this.
It has to do with your heart, your heart center.
And your heart center is an internal sense.
Now you've gone from external power to internal.
This is your sense of love, your sense of charity, your sense of compassion, your sense
of the other side, jealousy.
Any of you ever felt jealous?
I didn't think so.
I can tell that kind of group, right, but when, and if you know anybody who has, this
is what happens.
The energy leaves your heart and it attaches to that person and you are left with a burning
sensation in your heart because jealousy burns.
And that's how this feels, okay?
It is a fire in your heart.
It's a fire in your chest.
This is also the center of forgiveness.
This is the center of what I call the eye of the needle, this part of your body, right?
Your throat.
Here's another level of power, but this, like, like the others, everything that I'm talking
about in this, in this middle level of power is internal.
This is your willpower.
This is your center of choice.
This is how you release power.
What's so intriguing about this one is that this power, if you are losing a lot of power
from the first level, that is to say a lot of your sense of self is controlled by groups
and external dynamics like that, controlled by people who have money and you don't, therefore
you're in that kind of dynamic.
I'm going to tell you something.
This part of you, your energy, your will, you hand it right over to them and you say
to them, here, you manage my will because you don't have enough will to do that.
And I'm going to tell you the likelihood that you'll become an addict skyrockets, whether
that addict is to food or to alcohol or to some other substance or to peculiar control
patterns, you will be an addict because the only kind of power you can manage is the shadow
side because you've given your true side to another person.
Okay?
The next level.
And that's your mental level, your sense of reality.
This is a very different kind of power as well.
This is the power you have to see clearly, to see reality through how you want to see
reality.
Now, the first level of power that we experience, we're going to call tribal power, and tribal
as you know, as I called it rather, is allowing a group situation to tell you what is real
and what is not real.
But what you need to understand is that when you're in that level of group power, the group
is making choices for you and in that choice, continuing upward, is the choice of what reality
is.
Now, let's imagine this.
Let's say that you've had a wonderful experience.
Let's say you've had a vision.
That's fun.
That's popular these days.
You've had a vision.
You've seen an angel.
You're walking home.
There's Juan the angel.
You and the angel go out to lunch.
You chit chat.
You go home and you announce to the tribe, I've just had lunch with an angel.
What'd you do today?
And your tribe decides that because angel is not an experience they've had, you didn't
have it.
Now, unless you've got that kind of backbone where you can stand your ground and you say,
look, I know what I experienced.
You know where you live.
I know where I live.
And that's it.
I mean, it may not be real for you, but it is for me.
You're going to lose that experience because you're going to give the group that power
to discern what is real for you.
This is that part of reality.
This is a powerful center of reality.
Why?
Let's transfer to illness.
What if I said to you, you can heal this illness.
You can heal that illness.
So you go back to a tribe and you say, you know what?
This person is encouraging me that I can heal the so-called unhealable illness.
And this group says, oh no, you can't show me the records.
And you'll say, oh no, I can't.
Who's going to win, you or them?
You've got to have an incredible sense of internal power to beat the tribal structure
of external power.
Let's go to the seventh.
That's your grace bank account.
I love that level of power.
This is where you store your prayers.
This is where you store your positive thoughts.
This is where you store your beautiful attitudes about life.
Those attitudes are like, I want you to think of attitudes that are seeds that harvest returns
and that you put those returns in your system and those returns produce.
They produce energy.
That energy goes into your body.
Not just that.
I want to tell you something about grace.
It's an amazing substance.
You can transfer grace to another person when you see them in a weakened situation.
Send a unit of grace to them.
Say, if I have an abundance in this account, zap it over to them.
And if you don't think that that's powerful, I want you to think again.
You have no idea, none, about how powerful that is.
So I want you to think that every single time you have a positive thought or you say a prayer,
you literally are putting gorgeous energy into the seventh chakra.
Then there's your eighth.
For several years as a medical intuitive, I had no idea there was an eighth chakra.
And then as I did more and more readings, I came to realize there is.
What is in your eighth chakra?
I love this part of the body.
This is where I get your contract.
The agreements you made before you incarnated are in this part of your body.
And when I pull those, what I see and how I see it is in your archetypal pattern.
The agreements you made are manifested in archetypal design.
Some people have the archetype, for example, the warrior, the hero.
Altogether, each of us has a pattern of 12 archetypes that formulate the lessons we've
agreed to live through that manage our spiritual maturity.
Now I'm going to give you another model to hold in your head about degrees of power and
how to think of them.
Tribal power can be thought of as eau de toilette because that's all it's worth in one sense
in terms of the distance.
You need a lot of it to get anything done.
When you move into individual power, it's more like cologne.
It can work.
It can't work all day.
But it can work for the afternoon, maybe a couple hours in the morning.
But when you move into symbolic power, when you're really at a high altitude and you're
able to step out of yourself and begin to look at something from a transcendent point
of view, you're dealing with perfume.
You're dealing with a sense of power that goes the distance.
And that's how you want to look at everything.
When you look at anything in your life, you want to see it from the tribal level, the
individual, and the symbolic.
You want to put those three lenses in front of you and use each one to interpret every
situation in your life.
And then you have an incredible spectrum of power.
I'll tell you a story about one man who manages to use these three levels of power in the
most extraordinary way.
When he was growing up, and he was 9, 10, and 11 years old, he fell into a tragic situation
in which he became the victim of child abuse, very serious child abuse, because of an unusual
situation that developed in his house.
And for three years, he was abused very severely by a gentleman.
But the reason why his family would not accept this, that they didn't want to hear it, is
because in exchange for this abusive relationship, Ted was given money, and his family needed
money.
And it wasn't that his family didn't love him, but they needed that money.
There were a lot of other children, and it was a necessity.
So when he would tell his family, this man is hurting me, this man is molesting me, this
man is beating me up, they didn't believe him.
They didn't want to believe him.
By the time Ted was 16, 17 years old, he was in bad shape.
He had been betrayed by the very system that should have protected him.
He dropped out of school, he became an alcoholic, and he became a serious alcoholic.
We're talking big time.
By the time he was 19, he was almost dysfunctional, and he began a type of in and out of rehab
centers and situations like that.
But his alcoholism became one of those really mad types of alcoholism, where when he drank,
he would totally lose control of himself.
He would begin to hallucinate, and it was ferocious.
Then he decided to turn to a counselor.
He thought, if I don't get out of this, I'm going to die.
I will kill myself.
What inspired him still remains a mystery, but nevertheless, he was inspired.
He goes to this counselor, this counselor said, you're going to need help getting out
of this.
You have to go back through a drug rehab situation again.
So he did, and while he was going through that, he was determined not to reenter his
life in such a way that he interpreted those experiences from the same level.
He didn't want to do that.
He did not want that to take his power from his soul again at all.
So he worked, and he worked, and he worked with a therapist to pull himself out so that
he could symbolically look at his life.
How did he do that?
He saw this perpetrator as no longer someone who harmed him, but that he was watching an
experience in which a young boy was harmed by a man.
He could watch it from a distance, and as he watched it from a distance, he could feel
himself pulling his spirit back slowly and slowly and slowly.
As he did that, he then turned to the family, but he didn't see them as his own family
anymore.
He defined them as a family in a desperate situation trying to feed four other children
who in fact were going hungry.
As he began to piece together this very different model, his spirit started to come back, and
started to come back more and more and more because he could detach from it in a symbolic
way.
And the more he could do that, the more he could see the role he was playing by protecting
his family and bringing them food.
Now, he saw himself through the martyr archetype because that's exactly what he was living.
From a symbolic level and archetypal level, he was living the martyr drama.
And he knew that if he continued to see himself as having sacrificed himself, martyred himself,
and he believed that archetypal journey, he in fact would end up martyred at the hands
of alcohol.
But instead, he decided to turn around because what happens after, if you look at an archetypal
experience of the martyr, from a positive point of view, the martyr becomes resurrected.
It becomes a journey of the return to life, very similar to the way one could think of
Gandhi as martyred.
But was he really martyred?
Yes, from one point of view, but in fact from another, he became so empowered.
And how did he become empowered, but as a symbol, a symbol for everybody who feels downtrodden
to in fact rise above that state of martyrdom?
It's a very powerful journey that this man was on.
And now, now he's somebody who absolutely inspires everybody else.
He works with people.
He shares his story.
Not enough.
I can't tell you how sweet this story is.
It's rather that he shares his story as a way to say, it's possible, it's possible.
When we come back, I'll talk about how to apply this model of healing to your health
and your healing and how to make the most of it when you're facing crises that deal
with your own body.
Now we're going to take the subject of the three levels of power and we're going to apply
it to your health because this is where you're going to get maximum benefit out of it.
It's one thing to shuffle around reality and think about power.
It's another thing to get some practical use out of understanding what three levels of
power mean in terms of your own biology.
Let's start with jumping into the perception that we create our own reality.
This is a perception that was dropped in to, let's use this term, the global brain in the
1960s.
It totally has turned the world upside down, at least the world of consciousness.
It's a brand new thought.
We create our own reality.
From that thought, enormous things have spun, enormous things, not the least of which has
been the holistic health movement.
It inspired this notion that if we create our own reality, what are we going to do with
that thought form?
It's like a brand new toy that we have to take around the planet.
We took it into our biology and thought, if we create our own reality, how can we take
that thought and merge it with illnesses that we've never been able to influence before
in a very different way?
If we create our own reality, what does that mean?
What is going on behind our eyes?
What is this thing called consciousness?
We turned around and we began to look behind our eyes and we began to plunge in to this
warehouse of attitudes that we have and this warehouse of memories and this warehouse of
belief patterns that we used to think were private, but they're not.
Not only are they not private, they're not silent.
They're incredibly loud and they're incredibly powerful.
They're loud to your physical body.
Not knowing what your beliefs are or knowing what your beliefs are and not managing them
well, particularly if they're negative, are going to have incredible consequences on your
body and indeed you're going to be influencing the health of your body.
Now, what I've observed in my workshops and in my lectures is that when people hold on
to this notion that we create reality, some day that's going to be 100% true, but it's
not today.
Today it's more of an inspiration, far more than it is a truth.
And how you know that is this, how many of you can sit here this evening and if I started
to play the kind of music that most annoyed you, coupled with cooking something where
its fragrance most offended you.
And then I found out a whole lot of other things that drove you right up the wall and
I said, okay, now order yourself to tune out and meditate.
How many of you would succeed?
Squat, right?
Now, I want you to take a look at that because what you're looking at is that in order for
you to quote, create your own reality, you have to have a whole lot of external dynamics
in place before you can relax.
That's not creating your reality.
Creating your reality ought to be this, that no matter where I go, the outside doesn't
have influence over me.
It can't pull my power out of me.
But the way we define it is I create my own reality externally and then that calms me
internally and it should be the other way around.
You hear what I'm saying?
It's got to be the reverse.
You can't say, well first as soon as I get the world in order, then I'll create my internal
reality.
It's got to be exactly the opposite.
It's the opposite dynamic we want and that's where the journey begins.
That's when you jump behind your eyes and you begin to say, how can I accomplish plugging
into this extraordinary thought that I create reality, that I can influence what happens
to my biological tissue, that I can have some kind of illness in my body, close my eyes,
take a deep breath and give a command that says, I want this cell tissue repaired.
You know, years ago, I was doing a workshop in Denmark and this was for 61 people with
AIDS, 60 of whom smoked.
It actually was like doing a workshop in an ashtray but anyway, the number of people as
I watched this audience and saw in their faces how much they wanted to heal, I knew the majority
of them, if not all of them, weren't going to make it and it wasn't from intuitive sight.
It was simply watching the management of their power and how they manage their power and
I spotted this one woman and I continually refer to her as a girl because she was so
tiny but she was a woman.
She was about this big and her side was bashed in and the reason her side was bashed in was
because she had been beaten up.
She was HIV positive and rapidly moving toward AIDS and I was talking about just simply the
physical things that you need to do to enhance your immune system and I talked about the
need to quit smoking.
During a break, she came up to me and she said, oh, but Carlene, what if I only smoked
two cigarettes a day?
And I looked at her and I knew that if I had the cure for AIDS in my left hand and a cigarette
in my right and I said to her, pick one, her mind would say, oh, I'll take the cure for
AIDS, but all her energy, the circuits I talked to you about earlier, those 100 circuits of
power would wrap themselves around this cigarette and that one cigarette would have the authority
to call the shots on her immune system and determine the fact that she had chosen death
over life.
Now that's incredible because you think, oh, the rational mind wouldn't do this nonsense.
The rational mind has no authority over a disempowered being.
And when I look at, again, I'm going to return to this notion that we create our own reality.
I've seen and I've been around people who really know how to do this.
By the way, I'm not one of them.
I'm in the observational mode here, but where I've witnessed this is very definitely within
mystical traditions, within people who have worked at this for years if not decades.
And these are people who can focus their minds and can focus their spirits in such a way
that they can close their eyes and talk to their body and give it a command that says,
repair yourself.
I want my power back and the body responds because the spirit responds, because the will
is centered, because the heart is intact, the heart energy, because one's power is in
one's body.
How do you accomplish this?
How do you do such a thing?
And in fact, when you do it, can you do it, can you apply this kind of power to the management
of something other than your body?
What about your environment?
What about your finances?
Yes, you can.
How do you do it?
First thing that you do is take a very strong look at your own definition of power, your
absolute own definition of power.
And then you transfer it over to your health because that's the place where you want to
understand it the most.
When you look at illness as a matter of loss of power, it's going to make a lot more sense
to you.
It's totally going to make more sense to you.
Now let's take a look just so I can give you a profile of what this is.
Every part of your body responds to a certain quality of power, like this.
When you lose, when you have struggles over financial power, you're not going to hurt
your elbow and you're not going to give yourself an earache.
What's going to happen is you're going to lose a lot of energy around your sexual organs,
your hips, and your lower back.
Those are the areas of your body that are vulnerable to issues of power.
And when I say issues of power, I'm not referring to just the kind where you feel like you don't
have enough money.
You can have as much money as Bill Gates.
And this can be the part of your body that is, in fact, very sensitive to it.
What if you had an issue with controlling people, as we brought up earlier?
Because I think that's a common thing.
Control issues, again, cause you to lose power in, again, the abdominal part of your body,
the colon area.
Now think about this.
Have you ever been in a situation where you have literally been in a power play and you've
been in that power play long enough?
I mean, the one I mentioned earlier was kind of a fun example, but let's say you're really
in one.
This is tight.
You're at work and you're trying to fight for territory.
The part of your body that's going to pay the price for that, if it goes too long, will
be this part of your body, the colon area.
The rest of your body will certainly take the effect, but the primary place of loss
will be there.
What about issues of responsibility?
We all deal with issues of responsibility.
The part of your body that absorbs those issues is the pancreas.
The pancreas corresponds to what if you're struggling with responsibility issues in terms
of the extremes.
Now I'm going to emphasize something, it's got to be extreme.
You either have an extreme sense of wanting no responsibility for yourself or an extreme
sense of wanting responsibility and feeling you're responsible for everybody.
Extremes in this issue are going to cause the pancreas to become a little wavery.
It can produce diabetes.
It can produce hypoglycemia, but you will primarily affect the pancreas.
Let me say, of course, that there are other causes of illness.
There's genetics.
There's environmental.
What I'm talking about now is when genetics are not involved and when environmental are
not involved, what is involved?
You've got to look toward attitudes and you've got to look toward spiritual, and even when
genetics are involved, you still have a factor of consciousness.
But when genetics are involved, even then, you have to look toward a factor of consciousness
because there's no such thing as any situation you're ever going to be in where consciousness
is not a factor.
So having said that, I want to talk to you about the many ways there are to lose power
so you have a reference point in your mind in terms of when you're dealing with a tribal
loss of power in your body, when you're dealing with an individual loss, and when you're operating
through symbolic power.
The way you can identify tribal power is it's the sort of power in which a group has authority
over you.
What does that look like?
You know what that looks like.
You know what that feels like.
The challenge is, can you challenge it?
Let me tell you a story that illustrates exactly the dynamics of tribal power at its best.
And keep in mind that one of the earmarks of tribal power is initiation.
You can't get into a tribe without initiation.
Think of what the Marines put, remember that story about what the Marines put people through?
Look at fraternities, look at corporations.
Every single group has its form of initiation to see if you'll come into the power, into
the tribe, and give some of your precious life circuits over to the tribe in order to
allow the tribe to manage your life force.
You know, if I snap my fingers and you could see this energetically, you couldn't believe
what we look like in tribal situations.
But anyway, I stop at the 7-Eleven and I walk in there.
It's 11 o'clock at night.
It's hot.
I want a nice tea.
I'm paying for it.
I look over and I see this girl.
She's 14, 15 years old, and she has, you know, those rings on her nose and this thing.
And I said, why did you do that to yourself?
And she looked at me and she didn't expect anyone to say anything.
She said, and I said, I asked you a question.
I want an answer.
Why did you do that to yourself?
And she looked at me and of course, you know, I flipped her around and I said, I'm a teacher.
Stand up to me and answer that question.
And she said, because I like it.
I said, you like this?
Why do you like this?
I said, do you have parents?
Do they like you?
Right?
And so she points to this other person.
He's on the floor.
He's got a bullet here, a couple of things here.
And I said, why did you do that to yourself?
And he's just standing there and I got the two of them standing there.
I turned to pay for my iced tea and then this guy looks at me.
His baseball cap's on backwards.
His hair's coming through the top of his head.
He's got earrings everywhere.
And he says to me, are you from another planet?
Right?
Anyway, next thing you know, I'm outside with a whole group of them and they're standing
in front of me and I said, well, would you guys explain to me why you're doing this?
Now remember, they're a tribe.
And they have to do something cocky to see whether or not I can handle their tribal energy.
So they throw me a funny answer and this one, and the tribal leader, you can see which one
was the tribal leader.
He comes forward and he says, we did it, I did it because I had a plastic duck in my
bathroom.
Now if I had said, and walked away, but I didn't, I said, yeah, I understand that I've seen
ducks like that.
The next thing you know, I'm in the tribe.
And they were telling me about why they did it and this, that, and the other and I told
them there were cultures that would move, that would ornament their body this way for
spiritual reasons, to which this kid said, we don't believe in religion.
I said, I didn't say religion.
I said, spirituality.
And he says, well, we don't believe in that.
I said, you would if I taught you.
And then I watched them change into, as if they said, give us that power.
I saw it in their faces.
It was incredible.
So that's how you know that nature of tribal power.
You can feel that in yourself.
You can feel that level of tribal authority and you can feel when you're losing it and
you feel when you want it.
Let's move on into what is individual power.
How do you know when you are operating from that schemata within yourself?
You know when the tribes have power over you.
How do you know when it's your time to take it back?
You know because your group life becomes unsettled.
You know because you don't fit in anymore.
You know because you feel so dissatisfied at that level of life.
You can't seem to move on and you have to move on with yourself.
And then you know that even when you, and then you take on spiritual problems.
For what reason was I born?
What am I doing here?
Your questions get more sophisticated and the only way you can begin to resolve them
is to hit the high altitude spiritually.
You need a more sophisticated way of thinking.
But here comes the challenge.
How do you make that maneuvering into health?
How do you maneuver into that quality of power so you can make contact with it?
The strongest and most dynamic way of getting your power out of tribal energy and into yourself
and empowering yourself is to get your energy in present time.
Is absolutely to focus all of your power as much as you can, as fast as you can, as deeply
as you can into present time.
How do you do that?
You do this.
You stand inside of yourself as though you were fully an individual.
You look back on your childhood and you identify all the power you have going into your past.
And any single place that you're still holding onto will be, I promise you, some place you
have to forgive.
And then you get on with the business of forgiveness.
You won't like it.
Nobody ever likes to forgive.
It's just one of those things.
It's like medicine.
But you have to take it.
You have to do it.
Every time you do it, you find yourself pulling yourself back into present time.
It's not easy to do this, but it is the way of empowering.
It is the way where you feel that level of tribal authority sort of detaching from you
and that level of strength coming into you that says, I can choose what I want to believe
in.
Nobody determines that.
I can choose what I'm attached to.
Nobody determines that.
I can choose what kind of power I want to interact with in this life.
Nobody determines that.
Let me give you two stories that reflect exactly the subject that we're dealing with.
One is the story of this woman.
I did a reading on her.
She had a very damaged leg.
And yet, the doctor, I mean, she exhibited a lot of pain in her leg, but there was no
known illness to it.
She began to get more and more weak and unable to move.
By the time I got my hands on her, I'm scanning her.
And I couldn't find a physical illness, but I sure found an emotional one.
And that's that she had just parted in a relationship with this man, and she did not want to break
it off with him.
And so I said, this whole dysfunction has to do with the ending of this relationship.
It does not.
I said, yes, it does, and I want you to think about this.
And I walked her through the fact that as soon as this man parted, that this pain began.
But I kept getting the impression that there was a severe inadequacy between the two of
them, and that it was on her part, and I said, did you feel an inadequacy, perhaps sexually,
perhaps?
I did not.
And I said, OK.
I did not.
Now, is that a tone you believe?
But she eventually said that her challenge with him was that he wanted to marry a very
wealthy woman, and she wasn't that.
And so he, because he didn't want to work.
I like this kind of situation.
You know, it's got a nice ring to it.
But anyway, she began to feel very helpless, very weak.
She couldn't work.
She couldn't make a marriage work with him, make a partnership work with him.
And he began to pull away, and instantly she got crippled.
You couldn't see it, but she did.
And what would he do?
He'd come and visit her every day and make sure she had food, did this.
Do you think she had any reason to heal?
Have you got any at me, right?
She gave him all of her power, and I said, what are you going to do about this?
I said, I'll tell you one thing you can do.
Move out of the place.
Don't see him again.
Go live with somebody.
Go live with a friend.
Go live with a family member.
But cut that off and get your power back.
I can't do that.
I said, well, what else are you going to do?
I'll go to a different doctor.
You think that's going to help?
No.
I said, do you want to heal?
No, because I won't see him.
And this is how the dynamic went.
And I can't tell you how many times I've seen situations like that.
But let me give you the other side of it.
I was involved with a man who asked me, I don't mean involved.
I mean, I had to do a reading with this man.
I was involved as an intuitive.
And when I did this reading, I was dealing with someone who had a terrible heart condition.
I mean, he really was struggling.
And as I read his energy, I said to him, I'm reading two different people simultaneously.
There's a person you are and the person you want to be.
I said, what's going on here?
I said, have you been having dreams and desires to follow your heart?
And I said, live a totally different kind of life.
And he was someone who was a very responsible man, a very kind man, a family man.
But he most definitely wanted a very different life for himself.
He had images of himself living in Montana, living in one of those wonderful little ranch
houses, living a very different kind of life.
He was in a real struggle with this.
And I said, how much do you want to heal?
How much do you really want to heal?
Do you just want to settle your heart?
Do you really want to get down to a healthy life?
What kind of power do you really want?
And he said, I want all the power I can get in the right way.
Because what I was asking him is, do you want external power in medicine or do you want
internal?
Which one do you want?
And he said, give me the internal.
And I said, well, then you need to pay attention to what is obvious.
A path is opening to you and you have to follow your heart.
He did.
And his health totally recovered.
It recovered in a beautiful way.
He got his power back.
Now, these two stories, I think, are worth keeping in mind because they fully illustrate
the difference between releasing tribal power and not being able to empower yourself individually
or being able to do that and getting your entire physical power and emotional power
and spiritual power back.
When we return, I want to talk to you about, now that you've got your power back, what
are you going to do with it?
How do you maintain it?
How will it change your life in terms of focusing your attention on it?
Now I want to talk to you about the three levels of power and how you apply it to the
dynamic of choice because this is where you're going to find it particularly useful.
Certainly I do.
Remember, the choice is a power that lies in your fifth center.
Why?
Because this is your willpower.
And when you make a choice, what you're actually doing, and I want to remind you of that, is
that you're releasing your power to a target.
That target can be a person.
That target can be a thought.
That target can be an attitude.
It can be a memory.
But what you're actually doing is you're releasing your power to a target and you're merging
it with that energy, that perception.
You have to learn to be conscious of that because you don't even realize how much and
in so many ways you give your power away in an ordinary day.
First thing you want to be conscious of is to take conscious action when you're making
choices.
Review.
Review every choice you're going to make, at least in the beginning.
Pay attention.
Do I really want to choose this?
Do I really want to send my power into that?
Do I really want to lose my temper over this?
Is this worth it?
And put it in the right perspective.
If I make this choice, it's going to cost me cell tissue.
Now you put the consequence of that against the choice you're making.
And you think to yourself, if I lose my energy, my temper over not getting a parking space,
it might cost me 2,000, 5,000, 10,000 cell tissues.
You want that?
Put it in that perspective because that's really what you're dealing with.
You've got to learn to hold the attitude that that's not a big enough problem for me to
lose my power over.
I'm not doing that.
And that in and of itself draws more and more power to you.
The second thing you want to do is become incredibly, incredibly aware of the wise investment
of your power on an everyday basis.
Wise investment of power means what is going to bring back the greatest returns into your
energy system.
And not only that, into your life, into your ability to be creative.
Remember power finances your creativity.
Not only that, I want you to hold something in your mind.
If you have a creative idea, a wonderfully creative idea, all of a sudden you're sitting
around and you think to yourself, I'd like to start this business.
Remember businesses, creativity requires energy, requires power.
You can have a million ideas.
You don't have the power.
It's useless.
You can have one good idea, if you've got the power you can create anything.
So remember, pay attention to those mathematics.
This is what you want to invest your power in.
One is honor.
You want to invest your power in your own personal sense of honor.
I can't begin to tell you how important honor is in terms of the overall energy of your
life and in your body.
One of the things I learned when I was writing Anatomy is that without a sense of honor,
the body's going to find it a real challenge to heal.
The second thing, invest your energy, invest your power in the learning and practicing
forgiveness.
This is one of the richest gifts you can give yourself.
Forgiveness quite frankly is the most selfish thing you can do because it's the greatest
thing you can do for yourself.
The third, invest your energy, invest your power in faith.
Faith needs faith.
You can't live without faith because life is a mystery and it will always be a mystery.
Don't invest your energy in solving your mysteries.
Invest it in learning to roll with your mysteries because you will never solve your mysteries.
It's as simple as that.
Give it up.
Done.
Pull your energy out of that and move into, I'm never going to solve this.
Show me how to live with it.
That's how you invest it.
Give up the need to know why things happen as they do.
Invest your energy in positive attitudes.
Pay attention to how you are thinking, how you are feeling, how you look at life.
Invest it in an appreciation for your own life, an appreciation for the fact that you
are alive.
How many times have you walked down the street and just said to yourself, I like my life.
This isn't bad.
So you've had a bad day in earth school, so what?
Invest your energy in trying to stay above things.
I want to share a story with you.
Maybe it's my favorite story of all my entire professional career because I personally have
found it to be the most inspiring.
I had a woman when I was in England, one of my workshops, and she tells me the story and
told me the story and I wanted her to tell me the story again and again.
She was in a car accident.
She had a near-death experience.
She was smashed and in that car accident she found herself hovering over her car, looking
at her smashed body and her destroyed car all over the street and in that state she
could actually hear the responses of the people in the cars behind her and she could hear
the people saying, this is just what I need, a car accident, I'll never get out of here.
I'm going to be late for work, I need this kind of wretched response, right?
But from this fifth car she's looking at this and this light shoots out of the car, shoots
back down into her body and she's observing this and she thinks to herself, I wonder what's
going on there, boom, instantly she's in the car and she's sitting next to this woman who's
praying for her.
She doesn't know who this woman is and she's listening to this woman sending her prayers
saying God help this person.
I don't know who she is but she needs prayers, God help this person.
Remember what I told you earlier, the seventh center is your grace bank account.
What she was saying is if I have anything left, if I have anything there, give it to
her, she needs it more than me.
This woman in her out of body, near death state looks at this woman with such gratitude
and then she hears this voice that says come on, we have to take you back into your body,
it's not your time.
Before she goes back into her body she gets the license plate number.
After she recovers from her accident she looks this woman up and she shows up on her front
porch with a bouquet of flowers and says thank you for the prayers when I needed them most.
Thank you for the power you gave me to come back to my life.
I'm going to leave you with the thought that the power you have inside of you, inside of
your spirit is in fact the power of creation itself.
When you think of being alive, when you think of your life, think of that power.
Become conscious, learn to use it wisely, not just for your own body and for your own
sake but bear in mind it's probably the greatest gift we can give each other.
Thank you.