Transcript Question Index by Subject

Version: June 11, 2014

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• Dharma
  • Aggregates/Nama/Rupa
    • 100328 When we do the work with rupa and nama, can rupa be things that we see that are material, physical? Or do we just stay with the physical body?
  • Dependent Origination
    • 930114 How does wholesome karma relate to the wheel of dependent origination? Why are volitional formations put after ignorance?
    • 930218 If we have senses will we have contact?
    • 930401 Why do we move to old mind? I think I do that sometimes out of fear of the present. How do we retain freshness when 'now' scares us?
    • 930415 Once you move to negative, do you necessarily move to aversion? What is the difference between aversion and negative sensation?
    • 930422 Does there continue to be the forming of adhering karma while you're learning to be more skillful but still digress occasionally? What if I see the fear and don't react, but there's still someone not reacting? What if I could completely remove fear?
    • 930429 I'm still fighting with dislike, saying 'I shouldn't dislike.' I think this tendency grows out of having been taught to become pure, to get rid of defilements. Talk more about how like/dislike is a manifestation of Pure Mind.
    • 930513 Please talk more about the transition between appreciation and liking. What about when another issue brings you around to that old set of issues again and again? Does it help to look each time at how it arose?
    • 930519 Last week we talked about fear and reactivity. I see myself continually getting caught, getting into a fight with 'being caught,' feeling like a fish caught on a hook. I don't know what to do about it. I'm sure I'm creating more unwholesome karma. I'm stuck.
    • 931013 Can any thought or feeling about something be in the present, rather than being old mind?
    • 000112 Could Aaron speak about conditioned arising as it applies at the level of thought, conscious awareness, and energy, and how all of these move through time in our direct experience?
    • 130324 Can awareness perceive the consciousness that arises when hand touches and sense consciousness arises, or when eye contacts something and sight consciousness arises?
  • Four Noble Truths
    • 080423 How do you avoid getting attached to this bowl, or people or things? How do we apply the Middle Way to balance life and the lessons we learn on the spiritual path?
    • 081021 I have always thought of the Three Poisons of aversion, grasping, and fear as all being fear. Is there a difference?
    • 120502 Suffering is one of the three characteristics, and we're instructed to look at it. But you've said in the past on several different occasions that suffering is optional. Can you speak to that?
  • Four Noble Truths/First Noble Truth
    • 940504 Lately I've been seeing how greatly people suffer, how horrible the things are that happen to people. I feel so much fear because I see no reason why my family and I should be exempt from these horrors. But to overcome this fear requires that I separate myself from these people by saying that those people in some way asked for it. But I know this isn't the skillful way. How to deal with this fear?
  • Four Stages of Enlightenment
    • 060505 Can you talk about the difference between the experience of the Unconditioned for the stream enterer, the once-returner, non-returner, and fully-awakened arahat, in terms of. I realize for the stream enterer, there is no or very little awareness or mindfulness moving into the experience of the Unconditioned, and that begins to shift with the once-returner. Where does it progress from there for the non-returner and fully awakened arahat?//Did the Buddha on the night of his enlightenment go through the stages of once-returner, non-returner, and full arahat during the course of the one night?//What you have been teaching this week with the elements related to. resolving the karmic knots, this sounds like particularly a helpful practice for between the once-returner and non-returner experience
  • Skandhas
    • 080625 The 5 skandhas, are they interrelated? Such as if you work on the body does it also align the other 4?
    • 081021 In my practice, I've been noticing the skandhas as they arise and labeling them, and noticing how often one leads to another. Is that the same thing that you're talking about, with noticing the suffering?
  • Truth/Right View
    • 931027 Is there any truth in this world? Can we say that true and not-true co-exist in this world at the same time? Therefore, truth is just like the flowing water in the river. It does exist, but is changing, disappearing. So, can we say that truth can be relative like a drop of water in this river. And, truth can be absolute like the entire river which is filled by every drop of water. Do you agree, truth, God, spirit are just like this?
    • 000712 When the Buddha taught, he said that what he taught was Truth with a capital T. Why does Aaron not offer this as truth? If it's not truth, what is it?
    • 101014 What is the difference between views and truth?
    • 130324 How is it best to deal with contrary opinions when you can't move off of your spot, because you feel it would be unfair to take their point? A conflict resolution kind of thing. The difference of an opinion where another person won't change their position. I want to solve the problem but feel I will not serve myself, is the best way I can say it. If I agree with the person then I feel like I'm not serving myself. How do I meditate on that?
  • Visudhi Magga: 16 Insight Knowledges
    • 120501 You talked about the Knowledge of Change of Lineage. What does that ease into, the next knowledge?
• Emotions, Difficult
  • Anger
    • 931006 Why is there so much anger in the world?
    • 051116 Is it important to go through the motions of feeling your emotions, like anger?
    • 080618 What is it in myself that sometimes doesn't want to resolve anger? Sort of like, almost as if feeling as a counterbalance to the anger to use it for power, maybe, rather than hold that much tension in my body.
    • 080713 When the anger arises, it's very hot, like a desert wind, and there doesn't seem to be time to do anything with it.
    • 100404 Would you say something about anger and forgiveness?
    • 911218 Jesus experienced a dark night of the soul just as St. John of the Cross did. I seem to be experiencing a modern form of this concept. Can you speak of this?
    • 100327 How can you tell the difference between depression that's emotional and dark night of the soul, or are they connected?
  • Depression/Sadness
    • 000112 I find that I have a lot of sadness. And it basically underlies most of my other feelings, it's like an essence of sadness. It comes and it goes but it's definitely the stream in which my life sort of evolves. I think it has to do with a sense of impermanence and loss. And I'm wondering, I mean, it's not a pleasant feeling but it's always there. Sometimes it's not too bad but sometimes it's really painful.
    • 051102 What is going on when you find yourself depressed and you don't care, you're just apathetic about it, not even motivated to take a walk. What's that all about? What if the things you don't want to do are chores, like housework or taking the garbage out?
    • 070926 I am very hurt from my mother and child relationship. Sometimes it causes me a depression. How can I overcome it right now, because my mother already passed away? I want to know how to heal.
    • 080711 I have depression. I would like to know how to live with it better.
    • 090221 Is there a difference between sorrow and suffering?
    • 100401 Most of my adult life I have experienced cycles of depression that can be very debilitating. Do you have any insight into why I have the cycles, and how I can cope with them in some way?
  • Doubt
    • 931215 How do you deal with doubt? �I am working with intelligent people who don't believe in Aaron's interpretation of reality, and often my own faith gets shaken.
    • 131027 I've been struggling with doubt, which has been very sticky. So in my practice, when it comes up, I start by noticing it and taking my awareness there. But sometimes I just feel like I get stuck there. So I try metta, and I try calling in guidance. And sometimes it loosens up a little bit. But what else could I do? Do I just need to give it time and keep practicing with it?
  • Ego
    • 930218 When there's pain in my dealings with others, the ego tends to protect by not even revealing the emotion such as fear within. What to do?
    • 940504 Why do I get nervous when I do things that are different from my routine?
    • 960207 What is the sense of self? What is self? How do you build up a healthy ego while still letting go of ego? How can I learn to feel better about the self and also be selfless? Who is the larger chooser, and who is actually choosing in day to day experience? And where does the ego or self fit into all of this?
    • 970521 Where does this illusion of ego come from? Is it created by self and is it in error?
    • 040307 The question is about raising children and the role of ego, and the role of non-self in raising children.
    • 040725 I'm wondering if I'm being clear about humility vs. pride, about sharing things in excitement vs. self-aggrandizement. I just don't want to be fooling myself that maybe I'm further along the path than what I'm actually doing in terms of my self-growth.
    • 091122 You used 3 terms, ego, personality, and self. Are they interchangeable, identical?
    • 101024 How do you understand the ego?
    • 130227 I realize self-love is important, but it's a slippery slope. Could you speak to it?
    • 130306 Am I correct in saying there is no ego?
    • 131027 I have questions about how to be a leader in this world and yet not have the ego.
  • Emotions/Heavy Emotions
    • 000517 Did I hear him say that we are never victims but always create our own pain? Because I can't quite accept that.
    • 021113 In the past year and a half, I think, I've got this feeling of just drifting, and cloudiness. And I was wondering how I could pull out of it, what caused it.
    • 081018 How do you make friends with painful emotions and experiences, especially ones that seem to hurt a lot?
    • 100731 Does releasing karma have a lot to do with identifying and releasing what we call negative feelings? Like anger, fear.anything to do with releasing negative feelings. It seems that the releasing is really not only the full healing on all levels, mind, body, emotions, but also the learning or the wisdom that comes from it. There's a growing that comes from the releasing, is that true?
    • 120509 Aaron talked about being angry. What about happy emotions? Do we treat them the same?
  • Fear
    • 940511 How would you suggest we deal with the fear that is arising from the serial rapes in Ann Arbor?
    • 000126 Could Aaron say more about how fear is an expression of the divine?
    • 011114 When we feel an urgent need to do something, how can we distinguish whether this is a fear choice or this is intuition? What can we do to overcome fear?
    • 040218 I will be talking with a person who is scared and angry. I welcome your guidance.
    • 070418 How does Aaron define fear?
    • 070523 Aren't there times when that sense of being closed off or isolated is useful?
    • 111030 Is there anything else that you can say to a person whose heart has not opened or is having difficulty in opening the heart?
    • 120222 I have a tendency sometimes to worry when I'm trying to fall asleep at night. Most recently, I have a friend who has had a psychotic break and I am worried about her and her family. I am aware of the worry and acknowledge it and can create some space around it, at night lying in bed. And then within minutes, it's back again. And I'm worried again. It seems to go on and on, until 3am.
  • Grief
    • 010221 How do we move on from grief after a divorce?
    • 081217 I was struck by your instructing us to work on grief in the same way that you would work on pain.
  • Guilt/Regret
    • 000216 I often think about situations in the past when I wasn't particularly kind, usually to people I've loved. And I find that I carry a great deal of pain and guilt about it. I wonder what Aaron would feel about that.
    • 130227 Can feeling regret be one of those old stories?
  • Hurrying/Urgency/Impatience
    • 000322 How can we live life in a pro-active way without a sense of urgency? What would growth look like if urgency did not accompany it? Is growth possible without a sense of urgency? Do we have to stay on the razor's edge to get the job done? How can one lovingly respond to others' sense of urgency when you are asked to become involved?
    • 111005 Can I be in a hurry without being impatient?
  • Impulse Energy
    • 040915 Why is it that an impulse takes over and I don't have the discipline to control the impulse?
  • Judgment/Self-Acceptance/Self-Judgment
    • 111030 What can we do when we are caught up in the judgment?
  • Loneliness
    • 051210 Why do so many people have to suffer with loneliness?
  • Shame/Remorse
    • 000209 I'm wondering if Aaron can talk about good remorse vs. guilt or bad remorse.
    • 090829 What balances shame?
  • Unworthiness
    • 940209 Would Aaron tell the murderer that he was worthy?
    • 940216 I have been dealing with self-hatred, one big lesson for me in this lifetime. I want to know what Aaron did when he was confronted with self-hatred in his Earth lifetimes. I believe we all have to experience this: hatred of the human.
    • 940608 I have been looking at the reasons I hold myself back from feeling good about my accomplishments and my abilities. For me, this is connected to feeling like I'm competing with others. Part of this, in turn, is really an old childhood wish to be accepted and valued by my father. My fear that I am not accepted and valued leads me to feel uneasy about competing and tense about feeling proud about my abilities. Would Aaron like to comment?
    • 130227 I realize self-love is important, but it's a slippery slope. Could you speak to it?
• Emotions, Positive
  • Compassion/karuna
    • 010321 If I am committed to non-violence and non-harm, how can I say no to others even when they are rude to me? Could Aaron speak about the sense of connection to spirit, to a strength beyond our human limits, as a part of coming to love and compassion?
    • 011114 Aaron has said we must intervene to prevent harm wherever possible. There seem to be fine lines here between intervention and free will and allowing others to learn from experience.
    • 031120 How can I deepen compassion?
    • 051210 How can you have compassion for people when you feel they are possibly not respecting your space and you are vulnerable yourself and you want to have compassion but you also want to learn how to protect yourself at the same time?
    • 080712 Can you help me with the difference between compassion and empathy?
    • 111005 Sometimes it seems as if loving kindness is simply the answer to everything. Am I just being simplistic?
    • 130323 You said that there was no ground for compassion. Why is it necessary to have ground for compassion? Can you explain a little more the relationship between compassion and wisdom?
  • Ecstasy/Bliss
    • 121006 I wonder about this energy of ecstasy and why it's so elusive. Is it possible that the transition of death could be an ecstatic experience? Does the suffering or fear of suffering come from just not being able to let go? Truly there is pain in death sometimes. There's definitely pain in birth a lot of times for the mother and perhaps for the baby. I have had glimpses that other beings, plants, animals, might sometimes be in a state of ecstasy, that it might be an energy of life. What does Aaron think? Can you experience ecstasy during sex? Are there people who are walking around in a state of ecstasy most of the time because they are so present?
  • Empathy
    • 130410 I'm wondering if empathy is when the elements that are arising in the field are resonating with the elements in my field, or our field?
  • Equanimity/upekka
    • 050406 Can you say more about the assumption that equanimity just exists already?
    • 060805 Are you saying that equanimity cannot arise because it is always there? Is that true of all the Brahma Vaharas?
    • 090221 I wonder if you would talk about equanimity related to big decisions like where to live or work or who to be in relationship with.
    • 140521 What's the difference between equanimity and resignation?
  • Faith
    • 940608 I just read Yogic Scriptures and Other Spiritual Writings. I almost get the feeling that God views us as I would view artificial life. What really is the purpose of withholding so much information and knowledge? It seems gamey. Is it sport? Isn't faith really giving power to someone else? I can't imagine needing so much knowledge if I indeed am the Creator.
  • Forgiveness
    • 901219 Speak to the words atonement and salvation in relationship to Jesus.
    • 940105 A part of me resists being forgiving. I just don't feel particularly forgiving about certain things that have happened in my life. I have understanding as to how certain things could occur the way they did and even feel compassion for the person. Perhaps I am being forgiving and don't realize it. However, there does seem to be a holding back. Is it possible to get more clarification as to what forgiving really is?
    • 940316 What is forgiveness? What does it mean? When we forgive on the relative plane, are we saying that what happened that angered or upset us is okay? Doesn't matter anymore? Why now? Why not when it happened? How did this shift happen? How did the event transform from an unacceptable event into an acceptable event? Was it unacceptable before the forgiveness and now it's acceptable? What's changed? The event remains the same. Our perception/interpretation of the event has changed? How did it change? Why did it change? etc.
    • 940323 I just don't seem to be getting it as it relates to forgiveness. Maybe I'm forgiving and I just don't know it. I feel like I can understand from a cultural and emotional standpoint why people and myself do what we do. I can feel compassion towards other people and myself. The dilemma seems to be that I can feel compassion and anger simultaneously. Is this being truly forgiving?
    • 071027 Aaron, in your last human lifetime, and your teacher who did not try to dig through the mud to his children, how did he forgive himself for closing his heart to them and for not trying to dig through the mud?
  • Gratitude
    • 991117 What is the connection between devotion and gratitude? When I feel very deep gratitude, tears come. I was not sure if there was fear.
  • Happiness
    • 970430 What is happiness? Relate the state of bliss to joy and happiness. How can we tell if it is an escape or if it is not an escape?
  • Joy
    • 080712 I'd like to have more information about how play and joy could expand myself, and also color.
  • Love
    • 940126 What about love? Isn't love an emotion? Is love self? I understand how to let love in and to release love out. Is the source of love God? Is the source of fear and anger God?
    • 940330 On the difference between light, love and energy. Aaron has said that God, or the infinite intelligence, manifests in different universes differently. Sometimes as energy, sometimes as light and sometimes love. How do these things differ? How to they bear upon the stream energy? Is the sub-light body just light? Are they distortions of each other in the order love to light to energy? What is the difference between energy and light? Are they interchangeable?
    • 080618 How does focusing on love help to assist one to be more compassionate, and does it? Sometimes I feel like, can I bypass these emotions if I just focus on love?
    • 080713 I would like to hear your wisdom, how to expand, transform, go from that special love between two people to be able to feel that for everyone, a universal love for everyone, going from interpersonal love to being the love.
    • 130227 I'd like to know about being love and not giving away my power.
    • 140319 What is energy? What makes up energy? Does energy make up the elements of air, water, fire, earth, ether, or do the elements make up energy? How do vibration and frequency come into play?
    • 140319 What happens when I send love energy to my car?
  • Patience
    • 040107 It occurs to me that patience arises out of conditions and is impermanent, but by setting the intention, to a certain extent, are we creating conditions for the patience or the virtue to arise?
  • Wisdom/panna
    • 071027 I also have some situations with my own health and my children that seem to be draining my energy. It's almost as if I had too much compassion, too much of an open heart, and I wonder if it's maybe not balanced with wisdom. So what do you have to say about that?
• Emotions, Working with
  • Antidotes
    • 970205 I have a question about finding the right antidote. Aaron said on a different week that we need to use our intuition if no teacher is there. So tonight after he described mindfulness and bare attention and pure awareness, does bare attention produce the antidote?
  • Balance
    • 131027 I would like to hear about balance. I know as a physical therapist that walking is a perpetual state of falling, but then we catch ourselves as we are taking the next step. How to keep the balance between the mundane and the ultimate with the most ease.
  • Contraction/Habit Energy/Tension/Grasping/Aversion
    • 960530 What wisdom is inherent in clinging, craving. aversion, etc.?
    • 970430 When you're in a somewhat hostile environment on a daily basis, how do you try to stay open and release contraction?
    • 000627 Typically contractions occur in real life circumstances. Can one work with contraction by recalling them? The body can contract equally around pleasant things, yes? Is there a difference in the nature of the contraction?
    • 031029 Non-resistance or acceptance are almost the same as the spaciousness of the Unconditioned and I'm wondering if you can identify what the subtle differences are.
    • 040929 How can we make decisions from a place of noncontraction? What would spaciousness and equanimity look like in this case (political) when the choices being made are so unskillful and the stakes are so incredibly high? What if it's an impulse to do something that's for your good?
    • 041024 I'm aware that when there's any tension in the mind that it's very quickly expressed in the body. Could you give me some guidance on what the significance of this is and good ways to work with it?
    • 050119 The contraction that is caused by banging on the pot is not karmic, whereas the contraction around the contraction is?
    • 050309 I wonder if you can give us some additional thoughts, ideas, what to look for, tools to begin to recognize, particularly the more unconscious or really deep habits, and the reason for them.
    • 070523 How do you take care of resentment? Is it possible to have open energy and closed heart?
    • 071128 I'm confused about what fix-it energy is.
    • 100522 How does one consistently keep the glass clean?
    • 101024 Some beliefs are easy to change and some I just have trouble, changing some early learning beliefs. Do you have suggestions on that, something that I could do?
    • 111022 When I get triggered into a pattern like anger or judgment, I understand that underneath that is pain of some sort, that I need to treat it with kindness. Now, with me it comes to opening my heart. Inevitably it brings tears. So how do I handle the pain when I'm triggered in public?
    • 111102 I'm learning about how to say no without contraction or fear. Could you talk a little about that?//Is a contraction really just the chakras going into imbalance?
    • 120516 Is suppressing alarm in order to find some calm a compassionate thing to do?
  • Creativity
    • 931006 In what way does the expression through art allow for healing to occur?
  • Laying Down the Sword
    • 000112 How do we protect ourselves when the defenses and barriers are down? When we deal with the barriers we put up ourselves, and we feel anger or fear, how do we let it go? Where can we retreat to or how do we have the ability to not put so much focus on it?
    • 051116 What happens when there's freedom?--What happens when you actually put the sword down and hold the awareness? How do you tell the difference between habit energy and the sword? So you could have some residual habit energy unexamined, but have really already put down the sword, right?
  • Milarepa's Demons
    • 121008 I have been working with trying to put my head into the demon's mouth. I have been starting with love and emptiness, inviting the heart to look at the distortion, to touch the distortion with the heart. I sensed separation. What am I doing wrong? I don't think I ever get there. It's hard to perceive the non-duality when I feel pain. I have glimpses of the non-duality, but then the contraction comes back.
  • Presence/Mindfulness
    • 960424 Is it ever okay to withdraw and if not, how do I allow myself to be that open?
  • Psychological Counseling/Psychotherapy
    • 970604 What is a counselor's responsibility when there is the threat of violence between clients?
    • 001004 Psychological counseling and spiritual practice have similarities and some differences in approach. Could Aaron speak about that and how the two can work together in practice? Could Aaron speak about the relationship between a psychological counselor and the person they are working with, as compared to someone giving spiritual direction to someone? If I am working with a psychological counselor who maybe even says the right words about non-duality but in their own heart they really do not believe or live through that, then am I even able to absorb that non-dual understanding?
    • 010221 In the west, so much psychotherapy is focused on creating a healthy self. What can Aaron say about that?
    • 140413 How can I support a patient hearing negative voices? Do I need to take any steps to protect the patient or myself in that situation? What if the situation were such that the physician really could not speak of spirit? Would it be ethical to work with that spirit without telling the patient explicitly?
  • Relationship
    • 931201 Some words on the subject of friendship would be greatly appreciated.//Shouldn't I be totally open with this one who is my partner or spouse?
    • 940112 When Aaron says not to be a doormat, (even) when you're rejected, I'm a little confused there. Do you open yourself again to that person? And, once rejected, and the pain that's there, how do you manage that?
    • 940302 In the workplace, people are giving other people a hard time. How can this become positive catalyst rather than a pain in the neck?
    • 940504 Sometimes people are rude and discourteous to me at work. Why does this bother me? What can be done about it?
    • 940525 How can I deal with this conflict and pain in my relationship?
    • 970521 I would like some comments on the relationship I have been in this past year. Is it worthwhile to continue this?
    • 001025 After a previous session I was left with an increasing sense of not being heard by Aaron.
    • 010214 If you love someone and care deeply for them and see ways in which they could enhance their lives, how do you convey those suggestions? How do you offer your suggestions while still respecting that person's necessity to live his or her own life?// Why is it that the people we love the most are the hardest to accept?
    • 010321 I have a question about my family relationship. What is not softening my wife's heart? And what will happen down the road with my wife and my two children? In the context of tonight, how do you deal with slander, anger, and compassion?
    • 021113 I'm going through a divorce and I'm wondering how to handle this process as far as, we're finding peace and yet I still have hope that we can still make it through someday when he is able to face some of his feelings. How to handle my feelings, to give any hope to us.
    • 030517 I hear that nothing is separate, and everything is interconnected. But I wonder, in relationships or related to all of our relationships, who am I responsible for? Am I responsible for others? Or am I only responsible for myself? I guess I get confused between the idea of selfishness and selflessness.//When anybody is contradictory and doesn't go the way we'd like them to go, and we feel that we need to go as a group, how do we deal with that in a skillful way?
    • 040723 I'm staying with a family this weekend that has many, many problems. Drugs, alcohol, money, emotional problems, and they want me to help them. What should I say to them?
    • 041024 How to relate to crime victim? And I would love to hear you speak of how we can relate more appropriately to the abuser.
    • 051019 Do children co-create how their parents react to them?
    • 051026 I live with 3 other people right now and I love two very much. But I have a hard time dealing with the third person. He brings up a lot of frustration for me. He's very needy. I usually deal with it by leaving the situation. I want to know how to deal with it in a loving way.
    • 051221 I am having trouble communicating with a very important person to me. Can you help me find a path to start reconnecting?
    • 080618 What is the best way to handle a visit to a perceived disapproving father?
    • 080712 I have many close friends and family members in my life that are not on the same path that I am. And I struggle with moving away from them and trying to integrate them.
    • 080713 I want to know about karma having to do with my family. I have suffered an enormous amount of rejection from my family and extended family, so much so and for so little reason that I feel it must have some larger meaning than just in this life.
    • 100509 How do I stop worrying about my adult children?
    • 110914 I'm wondering how to respond to people who only know anger, that's their only response. How do I deal with that, if it's a next door neighbor?
    • 130324 How is it best to deal with contrary opinions when you can't move off of your spot, because you feel it would be unfair to take their point? A conflict resolution kind of thing. The difference of an opinion where another person won't change their position. I want to solve the problem but feel I will not serve myself, is the best way I can say it. If I agree with the person then I feel like I'm not serving myself. How do I meditate on that?
    • 131016 I have a question about bullying. This issue seems to go very deep in our society, our relationships, and so forth. Even in the most recent example of potential government shutdown, there seems to be bullying involved in unilateral or multilateral decision-making that leaves out the person or persons affected. I wonder if you could talk more to that.
    • 131211 How can you empower others without taking their power, and not be immersed by their suffering?
    • 140319 When a loved one is directing anger at you, can you describe the difference between lovingly redirecting that anger back to them and walking away.
  • Seven Branch Prayer/Four Empowerments
    • 940406 I try Aaron's four-step release process, but I find that my releasing is usually a desire to get rid of something uncomfortable. Is what Aaron means by release really a willingness to not hold on anymore and release is not an act of conscious will? Is this the essence of Aaron's message here, that we no longer need the old mind patterns?
    • 040723 When we get to the step of the habit and recognize the condition causing the habit, which one are we supposed to find balance for, the habit or the condition?
  • Sexuality
    • 940525 Why do I lose the sense of spiritual connection when I move into a deep sense of physical arousal? So many of you ask me, how can I bring this together? How can I experience physical arousal and orgasm and, simultaneously, maintain that sense of deep spiritual connection?
  • Trainings
    • 051210 You talked about the levels of training and levels of being this morning. How do you know where you are and where you should go to learn to move forward?
    • 120130 Are the Essene skills/trainings lost? Can we regain them?
    • 130331 You talked about the healing part, rejuvenating the body, keeping the body young. I want to know if it's going to be revealed, at some point.
  • Working with Emotions
    • 930929 Why do I sabotage feeling good? Why is it so unsafe/frightening/scary/hard to feel good?
• Energy and Healing
  • 4 Bodies
    • 011114 Do our souls age? Can the spirit be damaged or broken?
  • Acupuncture
    • 940525 Is it useful or advisable to work with mudras with an acupuncturist, i.e. giving the acupuncturist the charts of mudras and asking that needles be placed in those specific points? Is it more useful to insert a needle than just to touch at that point wherever it may be?Should it be combined in any way?
  • Boundaries
    • 931201 I'm wondering about one's ability to move within one's own boundaries regardless of others' boundaries. To move outside of your own boundaries regardless of others' boundaries?
    • 940126 What would be your thought as to the best procedure for dealing with people whom I so dearly love but who refuse to accept that I have the right to chose my own path?
  • Breathwork
    • 000503 What does Aaron see is the group energy that goes on at a Breathwork session? And how is that a part of the process?
  • Casa/Brazil
    • 060315 How does the picture carry the energy of the person(to the Casa)? It's just a photograph, a piece of paper. How does it carry the energy? How can they see what's wrong with the person by looking at the picture?
    • 080712 What really happens when they insert forceps into the nose?
    • 120128 Here I know entities are working on me. But how do I find out or become sensitive to what they're actually doing? Do you know what they did? What can I do to help the entities in their work?//Do the entities sometimes give their messages to me and my guides as well through dreams or intuition and/or synchronicities or other forms of conveyance?// Sometimes I experience the Current as being very vibrant, kind of electric, and other times I experience it as being deeply peaceful. What is that about?
    • 140201 If Aaron's energy is coming from the highest intention, and the entities energy is also coming from the highest intention, how much chance is there that his full energy would be doing harm to the work that the entities are doing?
  • Chakras/Meridians
    • 970423 We are working with chakras and other energy centers. What is it we sense when we are describing these as closed?
    • 040609 As we sit in this chakra light practice, the process brings our body into alignment and brings whatever color is needed to whatever part of our body is inviting it? So, in fact, different colors arise for different people. What is the white light, it's not a chakra? Don't the colors more or less indicate vibration?
    • 041201 It's easy for me to understand when I fall into instability in the first chakra. I can note what's going on and understand what's going on and the reasons why from past experience. What I find difficult is realizing some sort of stability for that first chakra.//Is it important to be able to access the different energies from different chakras, and to be able to move through them in various situations?
    • 050406 Is it okay to focus on the rebirth of a chakra rather than a quality?
    • 091122 What is the pathway of the mental body's arisings to a person's consciousness? Is it through the chakras?
    • 100729 Having read several methods of tuning your chakra by various authors, some of which have no resemblance to each other, is there something other than either a syllable or a tone, or is it an intention, that makes the chakra open or spread apart?//Can you describe the back chakras, and is there a different in function between the front and the rear, back? What do both of you recommend for fully opening the back chakras?
    • 100730 What's your perspective on guidance and support coming in through the back chakras?
    • 120130 How can we best tell where we have chakra blockages?
    • 120425 Last week we worked with chakras. How do you know if and where you have energy blockages? When you feel a chakra is closed or blocked or has some debris in it, do you see the color as a darker shade?
  • Co-Creating
    • 001213 Is having average or appropriate health insurance inviting health conditions or is that considered wise planning?
    • 080924 I'm currently looking for a new job and I feel torn between doing what I can to create a new world or doing something less exciting with people--with more people, maybe with higher consciousness. Is what you do, or who you do with it, more important?
    • 100217 Can you talk about Haiti? How we co-created that situation and what we are learning from it?//You were talking about us being co-creators and being able to manifest. Could you refresh our memories on how do we tell the difference between co-creating and grasping?
  • Crystals
    • 090828 Are diamonds crystals and do they have this energy? Can you explain all crystal is intelligent?
    • 090829 How do we live with our crystals day to day? What about the electromagnetic field from computers and things like that, is that detrimental to the crystals? Do you wear your crystal or carry it? I have on my shirt in this little string pouch. Do you wear yours or carry it in your pocket?
    • 140209 Aaron chose a crystal for me, saying it was good for my energy. I'm not real sure what that means, of my energy.
  • Diet/Food/Purification
    • 040218 How does a vegetarian diet relate to our connection to the mind/body/spirit/emotional bodies? I would assume that both vegetables and meats are fairly low vibration, and so how do we find suitable food?
    • 060910 I understand that through balancing the elements and other energy practices one can release karma. Could you explain how taking these supplements are different or complimentary to that? There is concern that the enhanced healing through the use of supplements and massage is only available for those who have the financial ability to buy them. Could you speak to that?
    • 090520 What are your feelings about the yogic traditions? In practicing yoga?
    • 090829 Are there certain words you say for when you're taking in food?
    • 130324 What can we do to raise the vibration of our tap water?
  • Distortion
    • 040218 If there is a distortion, how do you know which of the 4 bodies carries the distortion, and how do you know which issue you intended to work on?
  • Elements/Element Balancing
    • 050424 What element is linked to the emotional state of fear? And how can you work with that emotional state through the elements?
    • 050425 Regarding the element practice and using the elements as a tool to assist with balancing, is it recommended when needed during meditation as well as at other times?
    • 050608 We have talked a lot about anger and the elements. Where does fear fit with the elements? I find myself being afraid much more often than angry. Is each element balanced by itself? Is that the purpose of living, to learn how to balance--is that what Buddhism teaches?
    • 060503 Does consciousness contain the 4 elements or is it the fifth element, space? When we're doing the element practice, is it okay to have the eyes open? Or closed?
    • 100325 I have a question about balancing the elements. It seems like we're not supposed to do anything, but they can't just balance themselves.
    • 100328 Can you speak more about letting the imbalanced body slide into the balanced one?//What is the purpose of doing both relative and absolute balancing, is it to do the relative when we can't do the absolute, or is it important to just do both?//Is there a spillover from balancing the elements to balancing and opening the chakras?//I did not understand how to bring balance through the elements just through intention/attention.//Can you describe how you balance the elements from an absolute perspective?
    • 100425 I think we talked about antidotes before? Are there antidotes to over-expression of the elements? Like water or fire?
    • 100730 What is the relationship between balancing the elements and balancing the chakras?//It's confusing; for instance, the base chakra earth has a different color associated with it than the element.//When you work with the elements to balance them, do you first try and balance the elements in relation to each other or do you try to balance each element within itself? Which do you start with?//How do you blend the work with the elements with vipassana practice?
    • 100730 Is there a relationship between what we're studying with using the elements and a person's astrological chart? Such as primary placements and the 12 houses?//When I think, I concentrate and I realize that there's contraction there. Is that an imbalance of the elements? And how do the elements relate to contraction?//I'm experiencing being tired a lot and have been for several years. Is that low fire? And how would I deal with that?
    • 100801 The work with the elements I've been doing, it seems almost magical. Is this all just a form of suggestion?//I'm wondering if you can perceive space without having the other elements in balance, or do the 4 elements have to be in balance before the 5th element is able to be worked with?
    • 130630 What is the relationship of kyo/jitsu in the body and observing the elements in our bodies?
    • 131113 Chemistry as we know it is simply all the various chemical elements, all the elements that create the earth: gas, mineral, and so forth. At one point do these basic elements become conscious?
  • Energy Field
    • 931027 Is the astral body the same or different than the light body?
    • 931110 Aaron spoke tonight using the terms 'energy' and 'light' quite often. When I was in college I studied physics, where energy and light have specific meanings. Does Aaron mean those conventional meanings when he uses the terms 'energy' and 'light'? What is energy with a capital 'E'? How can there be an unwrinkled light body which perceives itself as separate from the source? Does it perceive itself as separate if it's unwrinkled? At the level at which the light body is perceived as unwrinkled, is there a self to perceive it? When the awareness moves into this sense of self, at that point must the light body become wrinkled? In other words, is our identity . does it come from the wrinkles or does it precede the wrinkles? The unwrinkled self exists only in ultimate reality then?
    • 940216 Is there such a thing as cars having their own will? My car, which was given to me after my grandma died, has been in three accidents, including today when it was hit in the driveway after my neighbor's car rolled down the hill and hit mine. (Clearing the energy field of an inanimate object)
    • 940309 Are light bodies energy centers in the body? What is energy and what has it to do with that energy definition as ability to work? Aaron has talked about there being a template for each of the four bodies. Which responds to the energy vibrations, the bodies themselves or the light body templates? When we have low physical energy or are ill, is that an indication that our four bodies are not in harmony? How do the light bodies relate to chakras?
    • 940406 One analogy is the wrinkled sub-light body. Aaron said a few weeks ago that we reach up and wrinkle it. Then he introduced the analogy of the mirror on the sub-light body. Are the wrinkles and the mirror the same thing? When we are reflecting the light back up, how do we clean off the mirror? How does that work? How are all the wrinkles of the paper related?
    • 940511 Is it possible to be too open to another person? Can that person take energy from you? Or, can you transfer your energy to another person voluntarily? Does a person's energy field ever become depleted or only contracted?
    • 940615 Does expressing emotion outwardly effect our energy in itself, as opposed to just sitting with and watching the emotion in a calm way? Is it always better to open?
    • 040324 When tracing distortion through levels, should I just stay with this specific recent (injury)incident or go back to earlier in the habit?
    • 040414 I find it easier for me to simply offer the energy to the entire being and let the energy go where it is needed. Is Aaron saying that I should also try to focus on the distorted area as well?
    • 051210 Is it possible to receive too much energy into your home and into your body and feel like you can't control it?
    • 140319 What is energy? What makes up energy? Does energy make up the elements of air, water, fire, earth, ether, or do the elements make up energy? How do vibration and frequency come into play?
  • Healing/Remembering Wholeness/Pain
    • 931006 What purpose does physical pain serve?
    • 940330 What is the way to work with pain?
    • 940518 I try to treat the physical pain by relaxing my muscles, let my energy expand, and allow the emotional pain in. However, I have only limited success in relieving the physical pain. Also, I tend to avoid medication. Can Aaron suggest other ways to work with physical pain?
    • 940525 How does surgery on the physical body affect the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies? Does surgery put wrinkles in light body?
    • 000503 Does Aaron have more that he could say about pain?
    • 011115 Can you give me an area to dwell on with my questioning and my reflections that might help me understand the purpose of this injury and this process? What am I supposed to learn from this? Where can I dwell to learn the answer?
    • 041024 I would love to hear Jeshua speak about the power of energy and love in bringing health into people's lives, the way human bodies hold tension and disease, and the way energy moves through release, that pattern. The way mind of the person being present can affect that. The way a person can affect that with their own mind.
    • 051210 I wanted to know the difference between pain and suffering. Would you then say that suffering is the rejection of pain and of love? So what I am understanding is by accepting the pain, it's softening our suffering. So if we can accept our pain that eases the suffering? How do we heal the pain?//At the Casa I know there is a difference between healing and being cured. Why do some people get seemingly healed and some people not?//Can we learn without the pain, does there always have to be the pain for the growth?//Aaron told me that I should ask what I am supposed to do in relation to my illness. Who should I ask? I think Aaron meant spirit, someone spiritual, or an entity.
    • 090325 What health and longevity tips can you give me?
    • 090406 Can someone's quality of life be not worth living?
    • 090829 Is it necessary to clear that karmic path? Sometimes I feel like just this lifetime is enough to work on!//How perfect does that faith need to be?//When working with the illness of the physical body, one holds the perfect template in mind. But when desiring to heal something of the emotional body, in order to embrace one's power, what is the perfect that is held?
    • 100328 You said that today Barbara could go to the place of no pain. But is it no pain or is it the place where there's no contraction around the pain?//How does her experience of Jesus differ from the leaving of the body of sexually abused children?//If one leaves the body during trauma to the body, is there a cellular memory in the bodies that then has to be dealt with or released?//I have always left without knowledge of the leaving so then I have karma with those experiences?
    • 100401 I wonder if you had any suggestions about things that might help me sleep.
    • 100426 Where does energy fit into this?//Because of the laws of physics, doesn't it take time for the molecules to rearrange themselves?//How do we get the higher vibration?
    • 100509 What can you tell me about my daughter's autoimmune illness?
    • 101027 How do you know that an illness has a purpose or how do you know that maybe its purpose is to be healed? How is it or why is it that certain illnesses are present in a family or genetic lineage?
    • 120318 Do I need to experience pain? Are there people who come into incarnation who begin to pay attention from the very beginning, and don't experience the suffering, and actually in fact change the world anyway, with compassion and surrender and love?
    • 120417 I had a year of three medical heart procedures, where my heart is actually opened, and I wonder what that means for me as I have been told that I should think bigger than I normally think. I wonder if you have any guidance for me.
    • 120417 For us healers, how do we help those in medicine begin to remember the true meaning of healing?
    • 120504 Could you talk more about our role in working with that healing energy, whether it's feeling our bodies or our spirits? How do we go about working with that energy in skillful ways? I'm thinking of people we know who are suffering in some way. Can we play any role in helping to enable them to experience some of the healing energy that we've experienced through the entities? Why wouldn't I want these entities to be with me all the time?
    • 120606 Is it true that he who is aware of pain does not have pain? Like he who is aware of an emotion.
    • 120609 I hurt my back on a machine at the gym. What I've learned is the empathy with people who are in pain. But I would like to fix it.
    • 121008 Is the ever-perfect template the same for everyone?
  • Karma/Karmic Knots
    • 060502 When there is a contraction, do you bring light and space to the contraction or is the light and space inside the contraction? Is the light and space synonymous with Divine Love?
    • 060503 Will we see karmic knots in our mind's eye?
    • 060805 Would these knots be like sankharas?
  • Kayas
    • 100731 What is the relationship between the akashic field and dharmakaya, and what is the relationship between the elements and dharmakaya?//Is the unconditioned expression of the elements sambhogakaya as well as an expression of the dharmakaya?
  • Kundalini
    • 110914 Would Aaron explain more about the kundalini energy that he mentioned earlier when he was talking about being able to rest stably in awareness and to use tools?
  • Kyo/Jitsu
    • 031029 Can both kyo and jitsu energy be both positive and negative?
    • 130630 What is the relationship of kyo/jitsu in the body and observing the elements in our bodies?
  • Manifestation/Intention
    • 940427 You stated, 'The most concise way I can say it is that you think it and then you manifest it into physical reality.' Would you elaborate on this process, particularly the thinking part of the process? You were talking about manifestation in terms of two people's energy. What about manifestation in terms of healing, or in terms of Machaelle Small Wright and her pile of manure? In the Bible it says if we have faith we can remove mountains. I always took that quite literally. I know that. And that is the level of faith which it takes to manifest some things, like moving mountains. Or healing. I am particularly interested in how it relates to miraculous healing. I don't need the answer tonight.
    • 000126 Does intention ever move fully past self-intention to become a force of pure awareness? What is this higher level of intention? How can we articulate it? How does the power of intention create?
    • 031217 He said that we cannot manifest instantaneously on this earth at this time. Could he clarify that?
    • 040310 Isn't intention a kind of grasping from the self?
    • 041117 I've had some major changes in my life. I feel that my career is over in Michigan and relocation possibly to Florida. Can you give me some advice, please?//Is there a time when visualization is just another way of expressing egoic, ego likes and dislikes, so it may not support one's deeper nature?
    • 060920 I'm at an age where I might retire. I'm wondering if I should retire, and if I retire, how I might best use my time.
    • 100731 When you make an intention, how long does it last? Do you visualize in any way what the highest good of all beings means?
    • 120305 Our highest intention is to learn and grow but the human also wants to be comfortable. So sometimes it seems like there's a discrepancy. Is it possible for both of those?
    • 120521 A question about intention. Is that just saying what you'd like, or is there something more to it? Visualizing it? Are there certain intentions that are more likely to be honored?
  • Mudras
    • 091119 Are these mudra points the same as acupuncture points? One of the times that you and I talked, Barbara was tired, the body was tired, and you put your right palm on the third eye to energize the body. Is that a type of mudra practice? Can we use crystals with this mudra meditation? Can this heal physical illness?
    • 091121 I had the sense of angelic presences, and I wonder if the mudra, does the mudra invite their assistance?
  • Push Arms
    • 130629 If I don't react in any way, am I validating their angry actions? How do we respond to this?
  • Sound Toning/Chanting
    • 091122 When I tested my pitch against a tuning fork, I was off. Can you talk a little bit about that? How exact does it have to be? Do I sing to the specific area or do I sing to the skin in general? If you pass over a chakra that's not responding, and finish, and then come back to it, then do you just stop at that one or do the ones above it? I'm a little confused about the purpose of chakra toning. You said it can't resolve karmic issues, it only reveals them. Is that the purpose? If so, could you say more about that?
    • 100729 I'm confused about using toning with opening the chakras, if we should use the tuning forks or just be more casual?
    • 120621 Can you talk about your experience with chanting, and how you feel that chanting adds to the vipassana practice? Is your intention with chanting like that to call in the energy of that being or that aspect? With Humi (overtone) chanting, what effect does the natural overtone have on the subtle bodies?
    • 130628 Going into the akashic field, are these sequences of sound emerging from the field in a way that is accessible to us? For practical purposes of helping people to open to make sound, is it important to actually vocalize the sound? Or can one imagine the sound internally? In your lifetime as Jeshua, did you use sound personally in your meditation? Did you have a specific series of sounds? How does the sound of nada relate to this? Can it heal? I have usually done sound healing from an intuitive place. I could not tell you what note I am making. Relating that to the akashic field, would one have an intention, and could they use sound to help connect to the place in the akashic field where the distortion can be released? Like a bridge.
    • 130803 I wondered about listening by way of headphones or stereo versus the tuning fork right on the chakra. I have been practicing with the tones to open up the chakras. I don't know if I'm doing this in a good way or a bad way, but when I sing a note, I want to hear it resonate in my skull. Is that helpful in finding the right one for the chakra? How did the Essenes use sound toning?
    • 131026 When we were toning together, or when you were just giving us exercises, when I might work alone, it (might) be very, very different. So could you speak to when I might be working with sound by myself?
  • Vibration
    • 050512 What if I have more than one purpose or my purposes interfere? I want to hold high vibration for the planet and I also have a partner going through a lot of negative times. I can stay centered and hold compassion with him but it brings me down more, I can't hold that higher vibration.
    • 051102 I get affected by cloudy, dark days, and oftentimes I'm not even aware that my energy is low, and what I need or can do to raise my energy. I can just spend the whole day with this low energy and non-productive time. Do you have some good suggestions how to change that?
    • 140204 Some people have an easy time seeing spirit, hearing spirit, feeling vibration and/in stones and things like that. Those who do not have an easy time, is that because they have not raised their vibration, or because it is their past, or because of something else?
    • 140319 What happens when I send love energy to my car?
    • 140406 What are vibrations?
• Guidance
  • Aaron
    • 900321 Aaron, are you fully evolved? Why are you here?
    • 900730 In the framework of the Buddhist cosmology, what plane of existence are you on?
    • 931117 Do you have the name Aaron for our benefit? Do beings on your plane have names?
    • 000112 Would Aaron like to come back and experience other new things?
    • 000126 I'm curious whether Aaron is a separate self similar to the way an incarnate being seems to be a separate self.
    • 051026 If you were going to dress up for our Halloween celebration, what would you dress up as?
    • 080618 Are you still learning, yourself?
    • 080626 Where is Aaron when Aaron's not in Barbara?
    • 080710 I'm curious, when you came to Barbara originally, how did you know to come to her? What was the cue you got?
    • 081029 Can you see our guides?
    • 081217 How are you feeling these days?
    • 090406 Can Aaron see the future?//What can you tell us about your level of consciousness or your experience when you're not here right now?//Is Aaron then on another planet or in another dimension?//Would you, Aaron, also call yourself a ghost?
    • 100403 Aaron, can you speak to what life is like there? Are you an individual or a collective? And what is the purpose of existence on your plane?//I'm wondering if Aaron was to address a group of people who spoke a different language, if Aaron is able to access that language from his past lives, and would he be able to go through Barbara or would he need another medium.
    • 130803 Do you see and experience the sunset, wherever you're at, on the other side?
    • 140319 Do you meditate, still?
  • Affirmations
    • 940427 How does the way prayer works relate to personal affirmations? It would seem to me that affirmations could be made either in a contracted way or with an openness where the prayer or affirmation could be quite specific but with the appendage, 'or whatever is for my highest good.'
  • Ariel
    • 120502 Who is Ariel? You said you don't speak English. What is your preferred language? What do you do to support the Earth?//How will we know when we're in 4th density?
  • Astrology
    • 940216 Why are we born under the same sign over and over? What is the significance of this? Of what significance is being born on the cusp? What does Aaron have to say about numerology? What about the transits, the movement of the planets since our birth and the relationship of that movement to the planets' positions in our birth charts?
    • 050525 Could one come into a sign with the intention of having that sign balance one's predisposition, actually help one to balance, instead of merely identifying the predisposition?
  • Buddha/Buddhism
    • 900730 Where do you see the Buddha in your vision of enlightenment?
    • 970507 Are Aaron's talks on effort meditation and wisdom part of the traditional boddhi?
    • 001004 I'm wondering what Aaron has to say about Tibetan deities, daikinis and so forth. I read about them and I don't know how that fits with Theravadin path that has no deities or theology.//Back to some theoretical questions. Theravadans have heaven realms, the lower ones involving refined sense pleasures. Tibetans have pure land realms and the realms of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. All of these beings, where do they fit, if at all in Aaron's density cosmology?//My question was, how do we look at the heavenly realms? How do we come to reliable information?//Why is there so much interest in Tibetan Buddhism in today's world? Is it more appropriate for westerners?
    • 001220 Was the being that was the Buddha, did he come back as Jesus?
    • 050305 Was the Buddha a god? Was he considered to be a divine being?
    • 080423 Because the Buddha was human, he could only have certain level of understanding of reality. I mean, he can't understand, I don't know, more than a human is capable of.
  • Channeling
    • 970604 What is the best way for a channeler to avoid negative or ignorant spirit influences and how can I discern helpful from harmful spirits?
    • 011114 s Barbara the first person you've talked through. If not, how many others prior to Barbara? Did the other people/channelers also share your wisdom with people? Do you currently channel through another person besides Barbara? Do you know why there are not more people like yourself who speak through people?
    • 050406 Where are you when Aaron is in the body?
    • 051210 When Barbara goes out and Aaron comes in she mentioned the protection against something that could come in and that dark side. What is that and why would it want to come in?//Could you tell us more about yourself? At the Casa there are those who perform surgery because they have that skill. Is there a particular skill that you have that has brought you to this work?
    • 071219 Where does Barbara go when she vacates the body?
    • 080626 I would like to know how Barbara felt when Aaron first appeared. What did Aaron feel like to Barbara?
    • 090829 In light of what Barbara was saying about the dialogue she has with you before you incorporate, and the amount of mindfulness that is exercised in that, how do you maintain, how can you do it so many times so mindfully, and how can she do it so mindfully?
    • 090829 First, why is it that a very dark energy would feel similar to Aaron's energy? And how can you tell the difference and what do we do with the dark energies?
    • 111216 When did you start channeling Aaron, and how did it come about? Were you in a meditation at the time? Were you asking for someone to channel for you? Is language a barrier in channeling Q'uo, or does Q'uo channel in English? Can spirits not talk to each other without humans? Do they communicate without human intervention? The entities that you channel, do they have organizational structure, do they belong to any association? I wanted to find out from Carla how she met Q'uo.
    • 120130 How can we best support Barbara?
    • 120130 Some mediums can connect with departed people. Can that happen if they reincarnate?
    • 120219 When Aaron is incorporated, where is your consciousness? Are you in a higher vibrational dimension? Can you hear what is being said? Also, what does linear time feel to you then? Is it the same length of time we perceive here?
    • 120502 If what's manifest out of the akashic field matches the vibration of our intentions, and our intentions are for the highest good, does that mean negativity does not come through? You don't have to challenge what comes through? Can you describe in general what phenomenon it is that you challenge? Today in my meditation I was somewhat agitated throughout the entirety of it. Towards the end, something came up which was very comforting. And I immediately identified it as my higher self. Was it necessary to challenge it?
    • 140406 I'm wondering about being a clear channel. Do you think it's possible to do healing work while you're simultaneously working on your own negative patterns?
  • Christ/Jeshua/Christianity/Essenes
    • 900321 What is the Holy Ghost?
    • 901219 Aaron, you say on the night that Jesus was born, there was light that seemed to be coming from the Earth and music. What is your understanding of this now, not as a seven year old boy, but the way you see it from your present perspective?//How did Jesus deal with his very human anger? How did he release it so that it didn't cause him dis-ease? Or did he never have to deal with anger because of his constant spiritual grounding?//I know it's taught that Jesus died for our sins, for our salvation. What does that mean? Can you explain that?//Would Aaron discuss the initiation or training that Jesus went through in this incarnation to become the Christ?
    • 911218 Christians accept Jesus as a higher being and Jews do not. Have Christians moved to a plane beyond Jews?//To me, it seems that Jesus' painful death was somewhat in vain since those who learned the lesson did regardless, and yet many in his name killed, raped, etc. and so did not learn it.//What can you tell us about Jesus' training in the mystery schools?//What was the date and time of Jesus birth?//When did you first learn of the death of Jesus? At the time, what significance did you assign to his death? When, after Jesus' death, did you first learn that his followers continued to meet and preserve his teachings? Did you ever join them?
    • 911219 Did Jesus evolve through the Earth plane? I am wondering also about the idea that Jesus came to this hemisphere and taught also. Was Jesus called Jesus back in that lifetime when you knew him, or was he called by another name?
    • 941221 Aaron said, Jesus, said that at the highest level of being, there was never anything taken. Could Aaron speak to that? Are you saying it's okay for him to steal?//He said that it would not have been wrong to kill the animal and use it for warmth. That seems like, somehow, the life of a human is more important than another life. Can Aaron talk about that?//Why did you feel Jesus would not have stopped a storm?
    • 951220 What other incarnations did Jesus have that we might know? Was the birth of Jesus actually a virgin birth, and if so, why? Should we worship Jesus as the Son of God or just as an enlightened teacher?
    • 971217 Was Jesus/Jeshua ever angry?
    • 981216 Did Jesus in that lifetime come into contact with disciples of the Buddha? Could Aaron speak to that and how it impacted Jesus?
    • 991215 I wonder if Aaron has any thoughts about other ways of calling to Jesus, of connecting to that divine nature in the one who is still Jesus, which I understand is also simply calling to our own divine nature. I'm asking for Aaron's words.
    • 001213 I wanted to ask what would Jesus have done if the mother had not died, if she might have been saveable? What if he had come upon a human mother and infant, the human mother with a broken leg, would he have saved her? I am curious about the statement that letting the mother goat die was in the natural order of things. I agree with that, but if so, then if it was a human and Jesus did use special power to heal then is that somehow interfering with the natural order of things? How can you heal one animal by killing another to feed to it?
    • 011212 Did Jesus have to go through all the reincarnations that Aaron did? They want to know about Mary and what she's doing now. Are there multiple levels of the energy we call Mary?
    • 020101 Can you speak of the meaning of the eucharist, this taking of the bread and wine, the Body and Blood of Christ?
    • 040725 I more or less critique religious programs on Sunday mornings, but one minister I do enjoy and yet he will talk about Satan and the devil and your returning, Jeshua; are they gleaning this from an area of the Bible?
    • 041023 Did the form (an image of Jeshua) that you projected into artist Glenda Green's studio have some historical reference and some accuracy to it, or was it a form that was to serve a current purpose?
    • 041023 Where did the Essenes come from? Who were they? Where did they disappear to? And what language did you (Jeshua) speak with Aaron in that time?
    • 041111 Aaron spoke of transmuting fear through living a life of love. Is this the kernel of truth that the early church fathers twisted into the teaching that only Jeshua takes away the sins of the world when really it is the Christ of each of us that does this?//I'm wondering what is the foundation or the beginnings, what is the meaning of that particular group of letters? (Christos)//Can you share with us about the crucifixion demonstration, and the resurrection, what they meant to you in terms of our whole evolution of consciousness?
    • 041222 Did the entity known as Jeshua have previous incarnations? How about subsequent ones? Is that which is known as Christ consciousness of a greater vibrational quality than that of 6th density?
    • 051221 When would He choose to do a miracle? For what reason? Was Jesus fun? Did you play games? Was Jesus funny?
    • 061220 What did Jeshua look like when He was a young boy? How closely do the quotes in the New Testament reflect what was actually said at the time? Did Jeshua ever have children? Did He actually die on the cross? What happened to His children? Did He eat meat or hunt?
    • 071219 Was Jeshua wealthy?//Is the hell realm self-inflicted?//I was wondering why God was referred to as father and not mother or both.
    • 080326 Was Jesus Christ put to death by others?
    • 081018 Is there anything you can say about your teachers or how you came to learn what you learned? I know you mentioned obviously learning from each other, and others in your community; how did that come about? How did that learning occur?//What does it mean that Jesus died on the cross for my sins? And did you actually die on that cross?
    • 081217 How long did you stay with Jeshua in that lifetime?
    • 090325 Aaron, you said that in your lifetime as Aaron you lived to be over 500 years old. How did you do this? You've said both Jesus and the Essenes taught purification techniques. What were these?
    • 100328 What is Jesus' explanation of why he was crucified?
    • 101024 (Q's to Jeshua)Could you tell us what historical input you had into the Koran? To what extent did the crucifixion literally occur? Obviously it was hugely symbolic. I've heard stories of your surviving the event and going to France. And I was wondering to what extent there's truth there. Did you have an opportunity to go beyond this planet, and do you know other civilizations?
    • 110424 I thought you said that Jeshua had suffered on the cross and it didn't seem quite right from what I had heard before.//What happened to the body after the resurrection?//Can you speak about the role of Mary Magdalene and the partners of the disciples, the women partners, in this?//Do we know of Jesus' teachings after the resurrection?
    • 111218 Jesus was crucified, but did that kill him? Did he live more years on earth after this crucifixion? Was he married to Mary Magdalene? Do any of the pictures of Jeshua come close to what he really looked like?
    • 111221 With all the teachings of Jesus at the time of love and compassion, and miracles he did not claim were his but God's, where did the masses go wrong? Did you live with Jeshua and Mary (Magdalene) after his resurrection? There is question even today whether Jesus had any brothers or sisters. Can you address that? How many children did Jeshua have, and did they continue to live in the Essene community? How much of the New Testament is fact?
    • 120130 I seem to have a very strong affinity with Francis of Assisi, and I know that he is revered here. Can you tell us a story about that? Does he incorporate and do healings here at the Casa?
    • 120215 The Christian martyrs and saints are known for their self-imposed suffering as a sort of expression of their devotion to divinity, and that's not emphasized today. Is that an example of progression of the ages, the times?
    • 121205 Can you tell us something about Mary Magdalene? I have read in some of the other stories that Jesus often prayed silently. Were there times when he also prayed verbally with a group? Did he ever speak about going to the east, like Asia, to learn meditation? Did Jeshua speak of the Mother as he spoke of the Father?
    • 130803 How did the Essenes use sound toning?
    • 131211 Please describe what happened to Mary Magdalene and Jeshua after resurrection, where they traveled. Was the crucifixion necessary?
  • Dreams
    • 931013 How does body position on awakening relate to recalling dreams?
    • 931027 Suppose you are involved in a painful issue with your two children, one of whom is male and one is female. When you dream about them are you really dreaming at a symbolic level or are you dreaming about the children?
    • 931103 I don't dream. I just fall asleep and wake up.
    • 081029 I'm curious about the dream states. What can we learn from our dreams?
    • 090520 Is lucid dreaming a special kind of consciousness?
  • Guidance/Guides/Higher Self
    • 920512 A psychic told a friend that a guardian angel snatched her soul to protect it when, as a child, she was abused by her father, can Aaron comment.
    • 931117 Can you tell me my spirit guides' names? Who are my guides?
    • 970604 If we can gain guidance, feeling, and creative insight from spirit guides, what do they gain from relationship with us? How do we screen our spirit friends before inviting them into our homes? Do we rely solely on gatekeepers?
    • 011115 What is the purpose of a guide when we can tune into our higher self? What is the difference between a guide and our higher self?
    • 011128 I have a question about guides. Sometimes in my writings I wonder if I'm breaking through to a guide or that it's just my higher consciousness, a higher self, an intuitive self?
    • 011212 Is it possible for a positively polarized 4th density being to offer messages of fear-based instruction, but do it with a genuine intention to help?
    • 080624 Are our guides enlightened?
    • 080625 Does everyone have a guide, somebody dedicated to you?
    • 080626 I wonder about spirit guides, what they do and how I can hear them.
    • 080711 I believe in spirit guides. I want to know how to best work with my spirit guides.
    • 080713 I want to know how to access my guide.
    • 081029 I was just wondering, could you channel yourself through anybody else in here, or is it just through Barbara?//Did Aaron choose Barbara or did Barbara choose Aaron? Is that something that is decided before you come into this life?//So how do you know if you're supposed to be channeling somebody if you don't see them?
    • 090225 I would like to know if you can help me, if there's a way of becoming more aware of my guides, my spirit guides.
    • 090827 There's a part of me that's afraid my spirit guides aren't going to show up. Is that possible? You keep talking as if it's going to happen for all of us.
    • 090830 I can't communicate with you because your vibration is too high. Is that correct?//Can guides work in pairs? I have the feeling of both male and female working together.//How do I know that the guidance I'm receiving is not an aspect of ego or some other, some part of mind?
    • 090916 Would you elaborate on the relationship between working with guides and listening to one's higher self?
    • 091122 I'm thinking that my higher self, which is the part of me that loves me unconditionally and is all-wise, is the same as my guide. What's your view about that? What can you say about working with our spirit animals in a similar vein?
    • 091216 I have a question about the angels. You said there are always angels. It wasn't something special. tell us a little more about that.//Do the same angelic guides make a commitment of sorts to be with you through your entire lifetime, or do they come and go as you may need them?
    • 101027 Am I understanding my guides accurately? What can I do to understand them better?
    • 110330 How do you know when to rely on yourself internally and when to ask for help from spirit? When is it giving up on one's own power to ask spirit for help?
    • 111005 Is it possible to have negative guides? Do we all have access to loving guidance?
    • 111130 Can our guides read our minds?
    • 120504 You mentioned guides plural, more than one guide. Does each of us have more than one guide?
    • 121007 Is there communication between the different entities that channel (in the world) today? Barbara channels Aaron. I know another group of entities called Abraham, and then there are other channels. Are they talking to each other?
    • 130804 Is it a singular guide that comes in, or a group coming in? Does it matter? The energy, when it came forth, of course you had already guided us to ask for the most positive things to come forth. But it felt so positive and light. Can negative energy feel that way? I have decided that the best way to take care of myself since I don't know how to tell how the entity answers my challenge, I just simply don't invite entities in. So I come a group like this where I feel protection provided to experience a little more. But when I'm by myself, I hold the door closed.
    • 140319 Are you saying guidance from our higher self or from the higher realms never comes in the form of a warning?
    • 140406 What are the names of my guides? I know my guides are trying to talk to me but I can't understand. Is there anything in particular that they want to tell me right now? As we learn from our guides, to our guides ever learn from us?
  • Masters/Avatars/Divine Mother/Masculine/Feminine
    • 900730 What is a Bodhisattva? What keeps a spirit plane teacher on the spirit plane rather than invisible(moving on in density)?
    • 911218 Were there other teachers on the level of Jesus and the Buddha? Is there one incarnate today?
    • 940302 I am assuming, but not sure, is Mother Meera's method devotional rather than what we're doing? Does she recommend a path of devotion rather than vipassana meditation?
    • 991110 What is the Divine Mother? Are there many incarnations of this mother? Is there a difference between the Divine Mother and the Father? If we are all expressions of the One, how can there be a difference between Mother and Father? How do these Mothers work? Are they connected in a conscious way or not? If there is a Divine Mother can we say there is also a Divine Father? And what about the image of Mother Earth, is that an aspect of the Divine Mother? Every single one of us is a divine being. We have a higher self which is part of all that is. How does Ammachi or Amma or Maharishi or Jesus differ? Is it simply in their understanding as incarnation? Some divine presences experience some extended periods of illness, fever, unconsciousness, sometime early in their lives, and when this is over their energy is changed so greatly they seem to have new powers or sensitivities. I am thinking of Ma Meara and Krishnamurti.
  • Power Animals
    • 120425 Can you give a brief description of what a power animal is?
  • Religion/Spiritualities
    • 940126 How can it be that such a vast portion of humanity can believe these things? How could they ever believe such teachings in the first place? Isn't it hard enough just enduring Earth life without having negative and false teachings and concepts instilled in us at birth? It seems such a gross injustice. How did the truth ever get distorted in the first place? What can we do to correct it, especially with ones own family?
    • 940216 Do agnostic people want spiritual answers?
    • 940525 Can the lifestyle of a monk or the sanctuary of a monastery be a shortcut? If we can eliminate much of the gross external stimuli, can't we accelerate and deepen our practice?
    • 991117 How did we get so separated from and hostile to the idea and experience of spiritual reality, as for example in scientific materialism and political materialism?
    • 100326 Since Aaron is 6th density, could he merge with some of the dzogchen masters who attained light body and then know what they know and teach us from that?//My book notes that the Bon tradition goes back 17,000 years and that these traditions were disseminated to other planets throughout the universe and galaxy. Is this a transmission through the Lemurians and Atlanteans?//Are you the only one who is teaching this sort of interfaith spirituality?
    • 100730 We usually don't talk about ritual, and to me, I haven't connected strongly with ritual in the past. I'm assuming it's another tool, but can you put this in perspective?
  • Shamanic Journeying
    • 090829 When we do our journeys at home, is it okay for our animals like our cats to be in the room with us?
    • 130928 Are the paddlers sort of transmuting discordant energies with the stroking of the paddles? Should they intend for that? Can we drum and hold the group vision and hold a personal vision all at the same time? If you're holding a group vision for the world, is that what you mean by group vision? If your wish is for something for the whole earth, but you also need something with yourself, do you work on healing yourself first, so that you then can do the healing for earth? I'm wondering if this is similar to crystal baths
  • Spiritism
    • 110429 Is what you are teaching now consistent with the spiritism literature, such as Nosso Lar?
• Incarnation
  • Angels in Earthsuits
    • 040722 I'm confused. In the beginning, you had mentioned that we are not here to be perfect. Later, you had mentioned that everything is perfect. May I have more clarity?
    • 080713 I have still quite an aversion to being a human being.
  • Children(Indigo/Crystal/Education)
    • 120417 We say that now is a time of change in our world. What are the best lessons that I can teach my little children?
    • 120609 Is there a way for us to help younger people before they get into these repetitive limiting experiences?
  • Distorted States(Alzheimer's,Autism,Mental Illness,Substance Abuse)
    • 970423 I am wondering about when a person has an addiction like a drug addiction, how is it in terms of negative energy. Can they be possessed in the way Aaron talked about? The fact that they have an addiction, does that show that they are used over and over by negative energy?
    • 990929 Is it common that people on drugs or medications experience a thinner veil, but it can be a distorted thinner veil?
    • 000510 With manic-depressive, is there a way to work with the underlying causes that gave rise to the predicament in a way that is in accord with dhamma and allows a reasonable level of functioning in the world?
    • 040722 With Alzheimer's, it looks to me like there's a big disconnect between the soul and the personality, the body, the mind, the feelings. Does the soul abandon the person in Alzheimer's? And if it does, what is the purpose of the suffering the body and mind and feelings go through? I don't understand the relationship. Was Alzheimer's always around, even 2000 years ago, or is it new?
    • 040725 Why is it that these days in time and space, so many people are developing Alzheimer's disease? I think that in bigger reality there is no suffering of that person with Alzheimer's disease, but the suffering appears very bad to me in the world of time and space. So is the suffering as great as it looks when the mind is gone, or during that time is that somehow taken care of by the soul?
    • 080626 I am curious about whether you feel there are mental illness diseases on this plane.
    • 111002 What is the healing for mental illness?
    • 120318 Why are autistic children here?
    • 120501 I keep getting feelings and perspective that remind me of the past, the far away past, when I took hallucinogenic mushrooms. It feels what me call surreal, but is more real. Is that the akashic field, that we are looking to be aware of?
    • 120621 In this country there has been a rise in the number of children who manifest autism. What are we to learn from this? I would like suggestions on how to better care for and communicate with these children so that we can evolve together.
  • DNA Changes
    • 090829 If I'm correct about this, during that period of change, when DNA changes are taking place, there's a lot of vulnerability. Can you talk more about that? How does the medical world deal with finding different DNA? Indigo children have the different DNA? Is this urban legend?
  • Feminine/Masculine/Gender
    • 041111 Aaron was talking about male/female and we are coming into a time when we're balancing male and female energies. Where did this come from originally, this duality? Is it something only on the earth plane or is it universal across all creation and all creatures? And why these specific characteristics for each? Is there a story about the origin of this? And as we move into 4th density on earth and we are more balanced, how is that going to change the tool of this duality. Is it still going to be as useful, this masculine and feminine in the future?
    • 120621 How is it that some entities are male and some are female? Or how do they identify as male or female? Are we really in our soul or our spirit bodies androgynous, even when we're in human form?
  • Incarnation
    • 900730 Do you see birth and then birth again as a constantly evolving process of deepening wisdom?
    • 911218 Why, from the spirit plane where all is peaceful, if I don't have to move back to this plane, why would I do so?
    • 940323 Aaron said that we are never given a situation where we can't learn. What about babies who are abused and die? Is there learning on the astral plane after they die?
    • 010221 Aaron spoke about addressing people's concerns and accessing past life information. Is this generally useful?
    • 011031 What of us gets reborn?
    • 060920 Was I ever an artist in a past life?
    • 080711 Can we elaborate on past lives--well maybe my past lives, and how I can learn from that now?
    • 080712 I've wondered about past lives and have had a recent experience of one, but I've wondered how much that matters. And when you just said when you heal something now it reaches back and heals past lives, too, then I wonder about all that and is it important to know about that. If you heal something in this life, does it heal the wounds in the past life?
    • 100509 Is it helpful for me to work on past life memories for myself and with my clients? Do we carry with us from our past lives knowledge that would inform us of our purpose here for this one? I've had the experience of experiencing two lives in the same time period and I wondered if it was possible to enter the same time period twice.
    • 120215 Does our personality come back with us in a new incarnation, or is that always changing?
    • 131026 I may have asked you, about my true self, higher self. Could it be more than one entity spirit? Could I be more than one in myself? Has my self always been reincarnated as the same entity? Could I have been parts of other souls?
    • 131113 Can you go into any details as to how much free will we're allowed in working out our next incarnation?
    • 140319 If we're already perfect, why incarnate? If we are not already perfect, why can't we learn in our true form? Why incarnate here? Can't we learn the same lessons there without appearing on Earth?
  • Karma
    • 930114 Is it only unwholesome karma that leads to rebirth? How does wholesome karma relate to the wheel of dependent origination?
    • 930128 You have said that one need not be completely beyond ego to graduate from third density, yet this latest channeling seems to imply that one would need to be beyond ego to escape the birth and death cycle. Can you explain?
    • 930211 When third density beings are practicing wholesome but adhering karma, and non-adhering karma, is it likely that there will be some shifting back and forth between the two?
    • 931027 Can you speak of grace as it relates to karma?
    • 931124 Aaron has said we don't lose lessons previously learned, however a certain person was probably not a murderer before, so if we choose abusive parents it would seem we risk sinking into unskillful behavior. Can you comment on that? When we make plans with someone who will parent us, do we know in advance they are going to be abusive? What puzzles me is that we like to think that we are getting closer to the light with each incarnation, but it seems that it's quite possible to regress. I think Aaron understands what I'm concerned about.
    • 940323 If I did a thoughtless act or deed in a previous lifetime, does the punishment fit the crime? It seems like a pernicious and evil response when I just didn't know any better. You must admit everybody's pain seems awfully real, so why create the illusion? Again, what lessons can be that important that we make children suffer? We know karma isn't punishment, per se, however, it sure seems that way. Why? Aaron says that all things happen simultaneously. If that's the case how can we benefit by past mistakes, if there is no past and everything is happening at once? Why do we have 'earth karma'? Can we learn the lesson on some other plane? Why do we have to come back?
    • 940406 When we drop our identifications of self, that would cancel karma? Does it have to be so tedious? Can we just cut through-- Shabang!? Aaron was saying that karma was illusion on the ultimate plane, but it's not illusion on the relative plane. That's the part that still confuses me. It seems like it should be real or not.
    • 000517 Balancing karma can seem like a kind of accounting and a kind of mechanical process. I think it probably is not like that. Could Aaron speak about that please? So at times there must be a balancing and rebalancing and rebalancing and other times just one balance and it is complete? So after looking at the ultimate reality aspects and one still finds a little stickiness, that can be an indicator that somewhere in there, somebody is still getting involved?
    • 040317 Aaron said that he was as responsible for his friend's death as the person who killed his friend because he did not stop the man when he could have. At what point is one responsible for not stopping another in their actions that result in karma? If you are with someone who means harm to self and you do not stop it, from fear, then am I understanding Aaron that the person who did not act due to fear is equally responsible?
    • 051210 Can you define or describe the nature of karma and can we resolve it in this lifetime?
    • 070926 My concern, my worry, my fear is that if everything is viewed as having a karmic origin, it seems like it gives humans an excuse to not take action to remedy injustice.//Can any act of mine create negative karma for someone else? How can we talk about bad karma/good karma when there is no good or evil, no duality, but just karma?
    • 080626 Is karma true with everything we do? Can one have negative karma unwholesome, and still become enlightened? In the Christian traditions, especially Catholic, there is forgiveness of sins. It is said that we are forgiven because Jesus died on the cross. So where does forgiveness fit with karma? I do kill mosquitoes. And I'm so sorry when I do it but I do it. And I set traps for little mice and kill them. Can I just forgive myself, or what? If a person has a negative thought of intention but does not carry out the action, is there unwholesome karma? What if you are married to someone who acts unwholesomely?
    • 080711 How does karma end?
    • 100328 How important is it to know the story that led to the creation of karma, especially from past lives?
    • 100508 Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between our individual calling energy and the Earth itself, the geography? Is there some alignment where someone's journey brings them to a different place geographically for this evolution?
    • 100730 You mentioned releasing karma and clearing karma. You spoke of releasing. Can you say a bit about clearing?
    • 100730 What happens if you don't balance the karma but just release it? How do you know when your karma is balanced?
    • 100731 I attended a couple of workshops with Jean Houston. We did several exercises where we healed our ancestors going back in time. What do you think of that?
    • 101110 When one is contemplating choosing to express the fullness of one's self, please explain or elaborate on the process of balancing karma.
    • 101113 Can past life conditioning be partially responsible for the intensity of anxiety over a present life situation?
    • 110429 When a human is resting in 6th density, when they have let go of their identification temporarily, does that have any effect on the human's karma, just the resting?
    • 120222 One of my intentions was to have the entities help release karma associated with a physical problem. Would they help release it but I still need to balance it? Or is it all done?// The idea of balancing karma versus releasing it, could you just explain a little bit more about the difference?// Are our karmas linked? Is there something I can do for my daughter?// I have a series of problems with my eyes that have been getting worse, and I will probably need surgery later this spring. I've been beginning to look at what this might mean, and what karma might be involved in this. Can you give me any insight with that?// When there's karma from a previous life, there's no need to know what that was all about?
    • 120305 What is the difference between karma and habitual tendency?
    • 120318 Two parties are locked in some kind of karmic struggle. One person resolves things emotionally on his or her end, the other person does not. What do they do at that point?
    • 120414 What is karma? How does it work? What releases and balances karma? What does this have to do with our vipassana practice?
    • 131027 Please talk about having permission from others, either consciously or energetically, to work energetically. What about if a person senses that another being has an attachment, negative thought form or entity that is influencing negatively? What about a child? What about precepts #1 and #2, that we read at the retreat? 'Do not allow others to harm another or kill another.'
  • Kayas
    • 031001 The example of water falling off the roof, where in that is sambhogakaya? How would I distinguish between feelings of the dharmakaya and the sambhogakaya in normal life? So sambhogakaya equals abiding?
    • 071114 What is it we're calling Divine, God, Unconditioned or Dhamma or whatever we want to name it?
  • Life Plan
    • 931124 Aaron has said we don't lose lessons previously learned, however a certain person was probably not a murderer before, so if we choose abusive parents it would seem we risk sinking into unskillful behavior. Can you comment on that? When we make plans with someone who will parent us, do we know in advance they are going to be abusive? What puzzles me is that we like to think that we are getting closer to the light with each incarnation, but it seems that it's quite possible to regress. I think Aaron understands what I'm concerned about.
    • 060920 I was wondering if when we reincarnate, we are drawn energetically to our parents or is it a conscious choice?
    • 080625 I am an identical twin. I was wondering, when a person decides to reincarnate, with twins is it just happenstance who you're born with?
    • 090406 When we die and before we're incarnated again, where are we?//Can you tell me what agreements I made before entering on this level?
    • 120318 Can a soul plan be rewritten?//What are the social consequences of this belief? If each person believes this is true for themselves and others, why would it be appropriate to interfere in others' paths? Why would we work to eliminate poverty or war or domestic violence or drug addiction? Is inequality across class, race, sex, gender, age, etc, to be accepted due to the lesser person needing to experience victimization? What are the social organizing principles that flow from this belief?
    • 120609 Many of us question our divine purpose, so to speak, on Earth. Perhaps guidance?
    • 131113 Can you go into any details as to how much free will we're allowed in working out our next incarnation?
    • 140319 Do pre-birth humans ever plan to take on all the opportunities for growth that they can, but then realize that they have gotten themselves in over their head, and they do not have enough spiritual growth to be able to handle the circumstances they were certain they could handle?
  • Stages/States of Consciousness
    • 041201 If we're using the analogy of the creature starting on the floor of the ocean, if we're born as a land creature, we may still enjoy swimming. Are we stable in that consciousness without having gone through the evolution in this lifetime?
    • 050921 Can you give an example of the etheric template from everyday life? Have an experience in it in everyday life?
    • 080924 Could you say more about your understanding of old souls and new souls?//Is there a way that you can energetically or through prayer, help the people in the middle understand?
    • 110424 Could you describe what vision logic means and what the end of vision logic means?//What is the basic difference between Christ and Buddha consciousness and non-dual consciousness?
    • 120417 What is some advice that you can give about going from understanding to actual decisions about life changes, career, relationships, that sort of thing? Specifically about making decisions about one's life.
    • 120502 What level or stage of consciousness were you in when you were liberated? When you say non-dual consciousness, is that the same non-dual consciousness that begins with the fourth training?
  • Veil of Incarnation
    • 911218 Why does this veil of forgetting fall into place? Why am I not given clear seeing of who I am? When I take incarnation, why do I need to lose that?
    • 990929 What is the purpose of the veil? What happens if you get stuck into the belief that you are simply this body and mind and emotions and do not penetrate through to a deeper being at all? Is total clarity possible?
    • 080625 Does forgetting happen at conception?
• Incarnation: Cosmos
  • Animals/Nature
    • 940105 What is the most skillful way to deal with the moths in the house?//If I kill the mice what degree of karma does that create?
    • 941221 He said that it would not have been wrong to kill the animal and use it for warmth. That seems like, somehow, the life of a human is more important than another life. Can Aaron talk about that?//Why did you feel Jesus would not have stopped a storm?
    • 000216 How do we support rather than hinder our companion animals in their journey?
    • 040317 I have a sick cat with diabetes. I would appreciate information related to caring for sick animals and information about euthanizing, putting to sleep.
    • 041117 How do I get rid of the mice in my house without killing them? I tried talking to them. Nothing works.
    • 050512 Would you say that animals do not have any ego personality such as human beings have developed?
    • 090325 Do you have any insight into the question of animal suffering?
    • 100328 Can a close relationship with a pet balance the chakras?
    • 140416 Can you speak about Findhorn and how they co-created with nature?
  • Astral Plane/Astral Projection
    • 931020 I'm interested in learning about different levels of light body: the physical body, the astral body, the etheric body. How do those bodies relate to astral projection and no-self?//When astral projection, why am I limiting myself and staying close to my body?
    • 940525 Do we hear colors on the spirit plane? Are the senses are experienced together in this way?
    • 120609 What is it like on the other side in between lives? So there is no penalty or judgment on the other side?
  • Birth/Light Conception/Abortion
    • 110421 As a sentient being, where then does the physical manifestation arise and the blending with spirit?
  • Death/Dying/Transition/Bardo
    • 900321 How can we make a smooth transition from the human plane to the spiritual plane?
    • 970115 Is there life after death?
    • 970402 What does it mean to commit suicide?//Do souls go to the place they created in their minds, or do they get an awakening?
    • 990929 How does morphine affect conscious dying? Does life experience teach you how to die?
    • 991027 In general where does the non-physical aspect of the person go after death? Is there such a place like a gray in-between place where lost or confused spirits are because they have unresolved issues or simply they just do not know what to do? And also, can we humans hold the deceased person back from their journey because we are not able to fully let go? When a being is in the bardo state or limbo state, can they still clearly communicate with humans, or is that ability compromised while they are in transition? So if someone has reincarnated, can we still communicate with the essence of who we knew them as? Have my brother and sister been let go enough that they are now in their next life experience?
    • 000119 I'd like to ask for any guidance on how human beings cope with death.
    • 001025 Today I went to a polarity session. The therapist told me that my father, who died the last day of May, is seeming to be, she feels, possibly pulling on me. If that is so, I'm not really certain as to what is my appropriate response to that?
    • 060116 We talked about the film, the veil, touching the Ever-Perfect. When we cross over, when we leave this body, do we penetrate, and go right through?
    • 060805 How is trekchod/pure awareness practice used at the time of death? How might the sequence of events at death likely be different for someone who had a strong vipassana practice in life but had not practiced the things Aaron is teaching this weekend?
    • 070607 There is frequently this kind of tension in working with someone who is not ready to expect dying; as a healer, to work with people who see death as a failure, which I do not see. Death is just a transition from this life to another life. But there is a lot of negativity around I failed. I would love to hear you speak to this dynamic. I personally work to hold their wholeness in my mind and heart. And that has little to do with the physical body dying or not dying. Could you comment?
    • 080713 What would be our most skillful practice for honoring those loved ones who have passed on to the other side?//When loved ones have passed away, is it possible to heal those relationships karmically?
    • 081118 So when we die, where does the energy and light go?
    • 090225 I work regularly for people who are dying and I wonder what particular things people need at that time to bring a presence that is useful and beneficial at the time of death.
    • 100328 I'm wondering if he is accurate when he talks about the hell of the lower astral plane where there are vicious, treacherous people, and the purgatories which are places like hospitals for people who have suicided or experienced traumatic deaths.
    • 100509 I would like to ask you about death and dying, the human experience of that. My mother is in her dying process and that's very challenging for me.
    • 101110 Could you say something about the transition of death. What happens in the first two weeks after death?
    • 110421 I think the Buddha scriptures say at the exact moment of death, when we unbind from our human physical bodies, there's a great opportunity to.expand, evolve, as a being. And then, what should we do at the moment of death, to do this?
    • 110429 How do the bardo states relate to all of this?//Can he say just a few more words about working with hungry ghosts in this lifetime?
    • 110914 What is the best way to help someone and serve someone who may be transitioning into death?
    • 111005 What is the bardo?
    • 120130 What happens right before you die, and where do you go after you die?
    • 120215 I would like to know what happens when we pass and are on the other side.
    • 120318 When someone chooses suicide, is that an example of them not being willing to do whatever it takes to heal and to see the situation that causes them to have such feelings of hopelessness and transform that into love?
    • 121006 I wonder about this energy of ecstasy and why it's so elusive. Is it possible that the transition of death could be an ecstatic experience? Does the suffering or fear of suffering come from just not being able to let go? Truly there is pain in death sometimes. There's definitely pain in birth a lot of times for the mother and perhaps for the baby. I have had glimpses that other beings, plants, animals, might sometimes be in a state of ecstasy, that it might be an energy of life. What does Aaron think? Can you experience ecstasy during sex? Are there people who are walking around in a state of ecstasy most of the time because they are so present?
    • 121008 We were with (a loved one) when she died. She died about one month ago. Is there anything we can do to support her now?
    • 130227 I have much sadness over the loss of my beloved last year by suicide. I understand our pre-birth agreements. I understand his earthly reasons for the suicide. I long to know my soul's intention, what for me to learn from this, so as not to waste this opportunity that we have been given.
    • 130323 How does heaven look? There are many spiritual practices. Do they come together on the other side? As human, will we still connect to loved ones after physical death? How can we best support people who are dying? Are there things one can say to them to comfort them or help their transition, and help them end up in a better place? Before a person dies, are there things one should say to help them transition more easily? I thought that in some of the realms after death there is pain, or what feels like pain.
    • 131120 So when we die, we drop the body and everything with it. But does awareness go with us?
  • Densities
    • 920407 I just wondered how sixth density beings without an emotional body could worry?
    • 940126 About the illusion of linear time, he gave examples of the relationship between one lifetime and another. Is what he told us also true for the various densities we move through? In other words, are we ultimately experiencing sixth density and, say, third density simultaneously?
    • 961204 Does a human have to come to complete equanimity with emotion to enter 4th density?
    • 000216 Maybe Aaron can tell us a little more about the 2nd density experience. I am thinking about my cat, who seems to have a strong sense of self! So I am wondering if she is typical or if maybe I am not really understanding what she is here for.
    • 030517 He said one is never enlightened. I wondered if he could say more about that.
    • 040722 Did I understand, in order to get to that 4th density we must own all our emotions or as he said, the equanimity of emotions. But also I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the first 3, mineral/gas, vegetable/ animal, and human; I know they're all life but are they different vibrations? Why do we put a level on them? So are you using the words dimension and density as the same thing?
    • 080326 What is your understanding of the distinction between the divine within and God, sort of the essence of the whole universe?//I feel a reluctance to give up my individual identity and surrender to God or divine energy.
    • 080624 Is our ultimate destiny to become one with that 8th density light? Are you there? The only thing that's keeping you from joining the 8th density is the need to relieve suffering here.?
    • 080712 You spoke about how our consciousness is moving into a higher level of awareness, into the 4th and 5th dimension. And I am aware that I move in and out of those dimensions. My challenge is bringing that sense of oneness into the third dimension.
    • 081119 Is human existence lower than your existence?// What would a need for human form look like?
    • 101110 When the humans on this earthly plane become enlightened, to they go to 4th density or do they get to the Infinite Intelligence or Infinite Creator? What really happens? When a person like the Buddha gets enlightened, and they leave their body and die, do they get to 4th density or do they get to the Infinite?
    • 110421 How can beings be in 4th and 5th density still have negative polarity?//If a being, spirit, is entering into 1st density as a rock, for example, is it that the spirit energy manifests as the rock, or does a part of the spirit energy drop into the rock and later leave when it has experienced.?//I've read about animals having group souls. Some of what Aaron has said about our pets, some of our pets being 3rd density, which I assume means individual souls. I have some confusion about what animals have.
    • 120621 We've discussed human evolution, human beings. I'm wonder about the consciousnesses of animals and trees and planets. Do they evolve?
    • 130804 Earlier Barbara said that you were a 6th density being but that there are also 6th density negatively polarized beings? I don't understand that.
    • 130804 Aaron said that we're moving from 3rd density through 4th and fairly quickly into 5th. Can you or Aaron talk about 4th and 5th density and what our experience will be of that, or already is, but help us to discern? Will the Earth move into 5th density in our lifetime?
    • 140209 Aaron, you talk about kittens, your cats. You never talk about your dogs. Do you have dogs? How about horses, cattle, pigs?
  • Earth History
    • 920407 Do our myths of Lucifer as a fallen angel come from this event?//Does the myth about Abel and Cain represent the two groups of sixth density beings incarnating at third density, the positively-polarized beings and the negatively-polarized beings?//What happened to the sixth density beings that moved into this distortion that led to the distortion in third density? Did they move to a lower density?//What was the purpose of reincarnating into a world that has no fear?//Where did this negative energy come from if there was not negative energy present before?
    • 980527 Exactly how did earthquakes/earth changes during Atlantis occur from imbalance in Atlanteans? And what can we learn from that ancient history.
    • 040723 You talked about the history of the earth and you mentioned 5 angels that worked with forming the energy of the earth. You named four of them. Who was the 5th?
    • 070607 What has been accomplished over these millions of years by this journey into separation?
    • 080624 What happened between the kindergartners(Essenes) of 2000 years ago and today?
    • 080924 How about our working with beings that are not on planet Earth? Higher-level beings.
    • 081018 Is this world God's intention, is there an intelligence behind it all? And if so, evolution is occurring and yet is there something else occurring, is consciousness also driving things?
    • 081119 Where did karma start? Where did this whole thing, need to be human, start? Where did the first lifetime come from?
    • 090828 I have 2 questions about Lemuria. One is, can you tell us when this timeline was? Can you describe these beings, what they looked like? I'm having a hard time imagining crystal-based life form. Did they look like people with hands and walk around and have kids?
    • 120130 Where did the Lemurians go, and how did they disseminate into humans? How did they mingle with the population?
    • 140201 In the universe there's no other creation with this capacity for love?
  • Earth Transition
    • 000101 Will the sore fingers continue to have all the power?
    • 000202 How should we look at our connection with biological evolution on Earth and how our current human form is related to that evolution?
    • 011115 I was hoping that September 11 would create a paradigm shift. Why is it that you think that we are ready to move into love and leave retaliation behind? We still seem to have leaders in the old paradigm.
    • 031217 Say more about the 4th density human. The nature of the physical vehicle in 4th density, how will that differ from the nature of the 3rd density vehicle?
    • 041023 Can I just ask, us as a group here, what could we do in our prayers, in our meditations, that could work towards a unity of this upliftment? For this love, for this change, for this shift, is there something so we don't have a conflict with each other in our prayers, in our thoughts, that we could bring in our meditations and prayers a oneness, a unity that would really be of assistance?
    • 041024 I am wondering about the shift to 4th density and is there anything to do? I feel no movement in any direction to do anything. Being vs. doing.//Our individual lives are just one person to one person, or maybe a few. But the world is so vast and the negatively polarized people seem so many, I often wish I could live my life on some huge scale and make a tremendous difference. But it all seems just one by one. So, is this world designed to change somehow just one by one? It seems so very tedious and slow this way, but maybe it's what we have to do, lifetime after lifetime?
    • 041111 How can we cause a global shift in other people? How do we get them to become fertile ground, not just on a political or mass consciousness level but even on an individual consciousness level? So many don't even want to move beyond the muck that they've made for themselves out of what they expected this life to be, and stay in severe depression and withdrawal and contraction. How would we be able to work it on an individual basis so we can cause that change overall, globally?
    • 050512 A long time ago, very small, I expected that Mexico is going to go and the coast of California is going to go, when catastrophic earth changes come. We're on the coast up here, are we safe? Here? Or are all of us going to be on a trip somewhere and not have to worry about possessions after the catastrophic Earth changes!
    • 080326 You seem to say that people on Earth are shifting consciousness and the whole universe is learning from that? Do you mean beings on other planets? Could you say something more about that?
    • 080608 In 4 months we have a presidential election. I certainly am not asking you to endorse a candidate, but can you give us some suggestions of how to best invite this elusive peace we wish to see.
    • 080710 Do we have enough time for enough people to wake up before the planet heats up and we have no place to live?
    • 080711 I'm very concerned about what I see as the political and moral breakdown of what our country was founded on.
    • 080818 A friend has come to Aaron in some distress, fearing from what he has heard and read that a huge war or disruption is at hand, and wondering if he should move to the wilderness, perhaps arm himself, and distance himself from the world.
    • 081119 Could you talk a little bit more about this higher level of consciousness that you see is emerging and how the issue of non-duality, where is that going to lead to, and how you envision that.
    • 081217 Can you talk a little more about how the shift to 4th density will manifest itself on the planet?
    • 100508 In a world that is so chaotic right now, how can we help to bring more peace and love instead of feeding that?
    • 100509 I'm wondering about this coming summer and the big events that are going to happen, and if you can tell us more about them and how we can prepare.
    • 101024 Is there a hope that one day the poor will not be with us? That we'll be able to create a society where no one is in poverty?
    • 110330 I'm curious what it might feel like on December 21st, 2012, when the planets all line up. If you were sitting quietly in meditation, what might that feel like?
    • 120128 The Mayan calendar says the end of the world is December 21. What does that mean?
    • 120502 How close is our understanding of evolution to the way life developed on this planet? What do you consider the end of the experiment on Earth?
    • 121230 What do we have to do to prepare ourselves for this new time of 2012/Aquarius?
    • 131016 Is the spirit world worried about us?
    • 140406 As the Earth vibration rises, what will happen to those people who are not ready to move into a higher vibration?
  • Elementals/Devas/Ley Lines
    • 090520 What is the relationship of ley lines and the grid that surrounds Earth? What will be the effect of 4th density on the ley lines? What would be their purpose? You mentioned that the grid was there first. How does continental drift or polar shift affect the grid? Will it still stay there and everything else (move) around it? If the earth's magnetic field is weakening, how does that affect the grid? The ley lines have a higher vibration?
    • 090916 What is an elemental?
  • Money/Materialism/Media
    • 030220 The relationship we have with money: I see my limitations in that relationship. I see many other people with my kinds and even shorter limitations.
  • Oversoul/Soul Families/Soul/Twin Souls
    • 070330 Are there really soul mates and do we come back with them over and over again?
    • 090830 The difference between our Oversoul and our guides. Does my Oversoul include individuals and groups of individuals in negative polarity? I made the choice to align myself with this group before I was born? Will I always be with this group?
    • 130331 You speak of the word soul. What is it, exactly? There's one big soul that's everybody?
  • Planetary Events
    • 970423 I started thinking about all the horrors that have been going on, like in Yugoslavia. I don't know where to put it. I mean, it's beyond negativity. I would like Aaron to comment on it.
    • 011031 Could you talk a little bit about the bombings as they get more and more intensified? How do we as humans ever find our way out? It seems sometimes that the negative is so much more powerful and compounding so much more rapidly, that I get discouraged. is there enough love present in this world to offset the darkness that's present?
    • 011115 What is the significance of an earthquake for the people who experience it?
    • 021113 Along the same lines about feeling safe as an individual, as a country, as a world, there are things happening that feel threatening, there's a sense of threat to our safety. How might we stay openhearted and centered and not fearful through these times?
    • 021113 I saw a program on television on the holocaust. This man was talking about his family and how they went into the pogroms and all that. And I was wondering what Aaron would say about treating that with the kind of grace you were talking about. Is it possible to suffer such terrible agony and still not to hate?
    • 030220 I am interested in hearing Aaron's thoughts about our current leadership and political situation, and where he thinks the most skillful action is for those of us who have a political bent.//How do we in our situations help to contribute to a feeling that they can take those swords down?
    • 041024 It's kind of a painful situation for us in America. Is there a larger significance to this situation?
    • 041111 About not just the election but about our whole political process, there's a feeling of dismay that we're slipping back into Dark Ages. People are caught up in their opposition to the fear that they see in the world around them, and feelings of despair that we're going one step forward and two steps back, that we can't seem to advance. How can we better relate to the distortions we see in the world today?
    • 041117 What can we do to get these maniacs out of the White House, these hateful horrible people out of power?
    • 051019 I would like to hear a little more about what you were saying about this culture having a primary focus on learning to trust oneself.
    • 051210 There is terrorism today in the world and hate towards Americans. We are fighting a war in Iraq. US soldiers are suffering. How do we best heal this for ourselves, for the terrorists, and those around the rest of the world? Millions of children are dying of AIDS in Africa. What can we do?
    • 070926 How do you avoid feelings of guilt for one's prosperity compared to the suffering of the poor in the world? Guilt for not doing more.
    • 080924 I am really interested in how the wealthy and powerful, who want the wealth and power to be held only by a few, continue to be voted into political office through deception and trickery. Apparently there are many people who are young souls and so don't see what is absolutely obvious to many of us, the incredible hypocrisy. Yet we also have to live with the consequences. How are the greedy money- and power-hungry able to stay in power energetically when their intention is so fear-based? Why doesn't the more love-based, enlightened candidate, who wants to take care of each other and the world, to spread out the wealth, why don't they win?
    • 081119 There is a great deal of suffering around the matter of economics in our world right now. Would you speak to this and perhaps give us your thoughts on how to be with this situation skillfully?
    • 081217 Is there any connection between this time of the year for celebration and the difficult financial times of the world?
    • 101024 What can we do about current news about children being harmed or killed?//
    • 110521 How do we hold all the suffering in the world and still feel like we're making a difference? What's the purpose of that suffering for us?
    • 120215 What is your conjecture of how the increasing tension with Iran and, my words, bluster of nuclear armament, and many countries increasingly fearful of how to proceed without great harm and suffering?
    • 120318 The question that always comes up is the holocaust, where millions were murdered. Why did so many have to learn this lesson?
    • 120502 You talk about the karmic consequences of killing a mosquito. What about the killing of people that we are constantly at war? Many of those men and women feel they are doing this for their country.
    • 120502 How many groups like this are there on the Earth?
    • 120502 Are predators considered violent?
    • 121205 I'm from Iran. My people in Iran are facing a regime that is killing the people every day. They execute a lot of young people every day, any age, a lot. How should it be possible for these people to get rid of this regime with love? Because every day a lot of people have been killed by this regime, and nothing has changed from 30 years ago.
  • Polarity/Negativity/UFOs
    • 000216 There is a theory that the first planet in our galaxy on which life has developed to the point of space travel will colonize the entire galaxy, or have major influence on life in the whole galaxy. That is one theory of what is going on with UFOs.
    • 010321 I'm seeing something (a dark form in a closet) that is causing me unrest. I wonder if it's harmful.
    • 011003 Why does Aaron suggest that there has been an intensification of this contest between positive and negative polarity in the past several decades?
    • 011115 Can you talk about the crop circles and their meaning here on Earth?
    • 020101 You spoke of the solstice as a time for returning to the light, but said one still must pass through winter. I understand you were comparing this to the first awakening and then the ensuing 'dark night' before full spring. Can you speak further about this?
    • 031217 Could you speak to the non-duality between good and evil?
    • 051026 In your first story about sitting in the cave, I thought I heard you say that the remains of the shamans that had passed away and were lying on tables, that there was goodness but also evil there. Will you talk more about that?
    • 080618 Is there such a thing as evil?//I've wondered if some of those that are carrying what seem to me and to a lot of others as a lot of darkness, I've been wondering if they have chosen a lifetime to play a role to push many of us at the same time to a different level by playing sort of a trickster role in the consciousness of the world, making it so bad a vision that we get it starkly clear in our minds.
    • 080624 Can you comment on dark powers?
    • 090406 Can you tell us anything about UFO's?//I want to ask about extra-terrestrials. When will they reveal themselves to the world? And how will they do it? What about the ones with negative energy?//Have we been to the Pleiades?//What are we to make of the so-called abduction phenomena? You were referring earlier to Atlantis and changing the DNA in humans so that they would not be so carried away and not destroy the planet. Does abduction have anything to do with that process?
    • 090829 I have been told that as we move closer to the Light, and liberation, that darker energies try to pull us back down. Is that true? When you challenge a negatively polarized being, why can't they lie?
    • 091209 The question is basically about the darkness that seems to control much of the policies of the world. I know that all I can really do is dedicate my life to the Light and serve the highest good of others each day. But why is there such a heavy darkness here?
    • 110425 Do we have to fight negative polarity?
    • 111022 How do we deal with extreme predatory individuals who some people consider evil, who have no intention of a dialogue, someone like Adolf Hitler?
    • 120128 Abidiania has such a high density of positively polarized beings. Are there any areas on the Earth that tend to have a highly negatively polarized density of beings?
    • 120215 You said negativity flies away or leaves this plane. Can it not be transformed?
    • 130804 Earlier Barbara said that you were a 6th density being but that there are also 6th density negatively polarized beings? I don't understand that.
    • 140413 How can I support a patient hearing negative voices? Do I need to take any steps to protect the patient or myself in that situation? What if the situation were such that the physician really could not speak of spirit? Would it be ethical to work with that spirit without telling the patient explicitly?
  • Star Seeds/Star Gates/Wanderers/Light Dancers/Shape-Changers
    • 031204 Jeshua mentioned that there are stargates opening now that were closed. Can he say more about that, and why did they close?
    • 120130 What are Pleaideans?
  • Time/Simultaneous Time
    • 940126 Are we having simultaneous lives? Do they bleed through one to the other? Are they all on the earth plane but in different periods of history? If all is happening at once, how can we benefit by past mistakes? How can the experiences of one lifetime lead to choices to the next?
    • 011114 Can you address the concept of time? Compare it to what we experience as humans on this Earth? Live more than one life at a time, travel between lives?
    • 060920 It's clear that time is relative, sometimes passing faster, sometimes passing more slowly. What is the nature of time? Is it simply an illusion in that on a deep level there is no time and the past and future are included/contained in the present?
    • 111005 Does time exist in the other bardos, and does it not exist here also, it's just an illusion?
    • 131026 I may have asked you, about my true self, higher self. Could it be more than one entity spirit? Could I be more than one in myself? Has my self always been reincarnated as the same entity? Could I have been parts of other souls?
    • 140319 My question deals with time and how it is partially our imagination, how we live in the moment and how it isn't measurable, it doesn't divide itself. So what is time?
• Meditation
  • Access Concentration
    • 060919 Are there different levels of access concentration?
    • 071016 When I have been in access concentration, there is a falling away of self, no ego or self feels present. Who or what breaks through into the stillness of the Unconditioned?//Is not getting caught in objects different from ignoring it?
    • 100325 I'm not sure I'm really clear on whether or not you can have your eyes closed and experience luminosity, and your eyes open and experience access concentration. //What is the next step after access concentration?
    • 100327 What is the relationship of the astral body, how is it involved when access concentration is knowing arisings among light.
  • Anapanasati/Breath
    • 931103 Why isn't the the exhalation or inhalation just as much in the now as the aperture in the breath?
  • Jhanas
    • 131027 Could you distinguish between jhana and drifting off?
  • Meditation
    • 931124 Everybody and every book says that to benefit from meditation you have to do it regularly. My question is: why? Why can't it be like a medicine, I do it when I need it? Is meditation training to be that higher self? Does meditation take us out of ego centeredness?
    • 940105 There are many methods for meditation. Which one do you recommend most?
    • 000627 When one does metta or the type of meditation that John instructed us on this evening, is it important to feel the emotions?
    • 051102 Sunday morning when we sat, there were very few people at the early sitting and it was very noisy. Doors were opening and squeaking and closing, and I was getting very angry and distracted. And every time I would come back to my breath, another noise would come. I went into all kinds of anger and judgment and entitlement, being incensed, it seemed like I could not get to the place where I could see through my anger. And I'm wondering if you have some suggestions for that.
    • 080624 What is the goal of sitting? What is the ultimate goal of this practice?
    • 101110 When you speak about creating a loving heart with compassion for yourself, what practice would you do every day to help that, to create that?
    • 101113 I've had a problem in the past being motivated to do a daily practice.
    • 120504 I have noticed a lot of physical agitation, squirminess, recently during meditation. Does that have something to do with high energy? How do I work with it skillfully?
    • 131027 I am asking about going back and forth between pure awareness and vipassana
    • 140201 If there is such a thing as moving meditation, why do sitting meditation? It's painful for me to sit.
    • 140521 Often if I meditate in a group, I feel extreme heat in my body for a while. I start sweating. Then it goes away.
  • Metta
    • 970423 Could smiling to a feeling be a subtle form of trying to get rid of something?
  • Prayer
    • 931103 Are prayer and self-talk just different forms of the same thing?
    • 940427 Since God is not personal, what is the object of prayer? Do we pray to ourselves, focusing our own energy? How does this relate to personal affirmations?
    • 000119 Is it okay to think of or to take personally the idea that someone might notice or hear prayers?
    • 070926 Can you ask Aaron to talk about the power of prayer? And the form of it, the form and the power.
  • Pure Awareness
    • 991027 How does pure awareness and choiceless awareness lead to choice, choosing and freedom? I am wondering how I can come to remain centered and make choices from a centered being in touch with a deeper kind of reality.
    • 000627 Aaron said that sati was awareness. Is sati awareness within pure awareness mind?
    • 051210 When one is in pure mind, pure reality, no thought, no object, no self, is there a way to be in that state and navigate ordinary reality?//I want to know about being in a high trans-personal state, perhaps at the level of the divine, the God-head. How is this possible?
    • 060805 What about people who are living with terrible conditions, bombing of their homes in wartime? Is this just a nice practice for easy living?//In dzogchen, it seems there are no concepts, just hearing, just seeing, just feeling, just awareness. Would it be correct and true to say that it is a subtle contraction whenever concept should arise? For example, resting in dzogchen practice and here is raccoon is just seeing. When concept raccoon arises, is that a subtle contraction out of resting in rigpa?//Is this the traditional togyal as taught in Tibet?
    • 070422 Who asks the question about what is aware of awareness? From what level does that question arise? Who asks it?
    • 071016 Why bother resting in awareness?
    • 080625 From a psychological perspective, does resting in pure awareness have anything to do with.trying to be more in one's right brain than one's left brain?
    • 100325 Correct me if I'm wrong: awareness practice and access concentration are still on the side of the nirmanakaya and the awareness turning on itself is on the side of dharmakaya.
    • 100326 If you see an energy field around the tree, is that the same as luminosity?
    • 100403 Did you say that there's a difference between pure awareness and the Unconditioned? Are you saying that the reflection (of the moon, in metaphor) is the qualities of the pure awareness, like presence, peace, silence, I'm taking these to be the Unconditioned?//It seems as though you're saying that some additional effort of practice of vipassana or some kind of mindfulness is required to stabilize the pure consciousness.//Isn't the Unconditioned non-dual with awareness?//Isn't the Unconditioned the same as the emptiness?
    • 100522 Can you say more about how the self is experienced in moments of pure awareness?
    • 110519 At the point of resting in pure awareness, is equanimity essential?//Is it appropriate to just know that space, rest in that space? And when is it appropriate to expand out? My understanding of dzogchen is that you enter into a big space.
    • 130928 How do you recommend that we use the pure awareness practice with the vipassana practice?
  • Retreat
    • 120502 If our intention is to close the gap between us and others, to recognize our oneness, what is the rationale for abstaining from eye contact and friendliness and loving energies, friendly greeting with fellow retreatants?
    • 140521 I find it very difficult to experience the mundane and the supramundane at the same time. In my daily life I find that those experiences happen on the cushion, and I wonder if my life is just too busy.
  • Sinking Mind
    • 100327 I don't know whether I've fallen asleep or whether there was a dissolution of spirit. How can I tell?
    • 100509 When I meditate, sometimes I don't know if I'm just spacing out, and therefore I'm bypassing something.
    • 140521 Sometimes I think I'm getting really good at relaxing. Then I wonder if I'm just on the verge of falling asleep.
  • Tonglen
    • 940427 In the tonglen meditation which Aaron has taught us, he taught us to envision the light coming in, resting in our hearts, then moving directly to another person.
    • 970604 As suffering is brought through the heart chakra, whether it is someone else's or my own, is the suffering not transformed as it is released through the head chakra?
  • Vipassana
    • 030517 During meditation, the mind had 3 directions. I felt the breath, I felt the body, and then sometimes a story came. I was confused how to stay in the present rather than going with the story.
    • 061003 Is there value in spending certain amounts of time, in meditation time, in either vipassana or pure awareness?//How does one come back to vipassana from the open spaciousness?//In working with supramundane objects, my limited experience is 1) they do not come about from cause and effect, therefore they cannot be penetrated, and 2) I question whether the Unconditioned can be an object in vipassana.
    • 071016 When we move into vipassana from dzogchen, what is the primary object?
  • Walking/Standing Meditation
    • 100426 What would be some ways of working with awareness of the space element in the context of standing meditation?
• Non-Duality
  • Awakening/Enlightenment/Realization
    • 930513 What is enlightenment?
    • 000126 Is becoming love the same as becoming enlightened?
    • 071030 A:The question is, earlier in that lifetime, why had I thought I was enlightened? How did I discover I was not enlightened? How did I know I finally was enlightened?
  • Cessation/Dissolution
    • 130324 Aaron invited me to move into dissolution. I would like to ask people here who have had that experience how they do that. Are you in pure awareness and then.. ?
  • Citta/Consciousness
    • 000402 What is the relationship of sem and rigpa? The main question is about consciousness versus awareness and the seeming shift, losing touch with rigpa, cloud blotting out the sky.
    • 060505 So there cannot be consciousness of non-dual consciousness?//In this chart, everything up to astral template, it is all consciousness, and beyond that it is awareness?//Awareness�is that the same as the deathless?//I wanted to know, when we do dzogchen and you tell us to come back, consciousness hears that and responds. Consciousness processes that instruction and comes more into the mundane? What if we were in the Unconditioned but the pure awareness with body dissolution.how does one come out?//If one is in this pure awareness, why would it matter if the body gets cold or dies?
    • 080625 Is there a lokuttara citta for the mind?
    • 100325 How do we let being luminosity not be a plateau? How do we keep moving? Can you say more about the difference between clear light and luminosity?
    • 100327 Can someone describe the sound of nada? How can I tell if it's tinnitus or nada? Can you say something about merging with the nada or merging with the luminosity?
    • 130628 Going into the akashic field, are these sequences of sound emerging from the field in a way that is accessible to us? How does the sound of nada relate to this? Can it heal?
    • 131112 How does chemistry express consciousness, and vice versa?
    • 131120 Consciousness always has to have an object, right? Does awareness take an object? Must it? Is awareness the same as supramundane consciousness? When I have experienced what I believe could be called the Unconditioned, it has felt so joyful and sweet. However, joy and sweetness seem themselves to be conditions? So when we die, we drop the body and everything with it. But does awareness go with us?//You use a canister with a bear to demonstrate keeping a toe in the Unconditioned. Would an example of that be keeping an awareness of nada throughout the day? Or luminosity or spaciousness?
    • 140209 What is citta? I know that mundane citta takes mundane objects and supramundane citta take supramundane objects, but what is citta?
  • Freedom/Liberation
    • 080713 I realized I don't really believe that I can be liberated in this lifetime, or maybe at all.
    • 090221 You say that freedom happens when you see through the self. How does that work with the conditioning that is imprinted in our bodies over a long period of time?
  • Freedom/Liberation/Emptiness
    • 120504 John last night talked about spaciousness and emptiness as if they were synonymous. But it seems to me that there's a subtle difference between the two. I'm wondering if you can comment
  • God/Unconditioned
    • 900730 Is there an unconditioned and unborn beyond the energy and light? I experience everything arising and dissolving, formations coming and going. Then at a certain stage of meditation I experience it all stop. If God is still manifesting as energy and light, why don't I experience that manifestation instead of this stillness beyond all formations? I'm still seeing duality in this. What will God manifest as when it no longer manifests as light and energy?
    • 940202 How would Aaron define divinity?
    • 940330 On the difference between light, love and energy. Aaron has said that God, or the infinite intelligence, manifests in different universes differently. Sometimes as energy, sometimes as light and sometimes love. How do these things differ? How to they bear upon the stream energy? Is the sub-light body just light? Are they distortions of each other in the order love to light to energy? What is the difference between energy and light? Are they interchangeable? What causes the light and sound to come into being? Are you saying that God is a pure form and that love is a slightly impure form of God, or God being aware of itself in its purest form? The word God. Does that mean a supreme being, higher than Jesus, sitting on a pedestal pulling all the strings in the world? I mean, is there such a thing as God, or do people use that word too loosely?
    • 951206 It would seem to me that there would first have to be some infinitesimal sense of being somehow different or separate from God in order for there to be any desire or need for growth or change or learning. How can there be any sense of being able to express more of anything if there is not first a concept or experience of difference or lack?
    • 000209 What, if any, difference exists between the Ever-Perfect and the Unconditioned? How we have functioned has been to consider the individual Ever-Perfect relative to a given person. My understanding of Divine Essence includes we are each a spark of the Entirety, which comes with its own blueprint of that Ever-Perfect.
    • 011128 I wonder if the Unconditioned or pure awareness has any sort of active or creative nature.
    • 070330 In Christianity, there's a supreme being. In Buddhism, there isn't. What's true?
    • 081025 This morning, John talked about the Unborn, the Undying. Could you speak about the deathless?
    • 101014 Does the Uncreated change?
    • 121021 Can you please explain more the difference between conditioned and unconditioned? Is conditioned like material, and unconditioned immaterial?
  • Higher Self/Soul
    • 110521 Is the higher self the pure spirit body?
    • 131026 I may have asked you, about my true self, higher self. Could it be more than one entity spirit? Could I be more than one in myself? Has my self always been reincarnated as the same entity? Could I have been parts of other souls?
  • Non-Duality/Oneness/Non-Separation
    • 931117 If we came from that infinite energy, we must have known we were not separate. Why did we accept the illusion of separation and all the fear and pain that follows? I have suspected that the reason is that to do so is to grow and expand, and that the very nature of the infinite energy is to grow and expand. Is that how Aaron sees it? Did we all begin self-awareness at the same time or is there some sort of constant turn-over, so to speak, of us being separated from the light by illusion? Will there be a time when we are all part of the light again as one?
    • 940330 Aaron said at that first moment of self-awareness, that which we call soul did not find itself separate. That which was self-aware is what found itself separate. Where did the self awareness come from?
    • 091122 Are you saying that we need to resolve all of the psychological issues before we can see non-duality in a non-conceptual way?
    • 121021 I've been looking at equanimity as an expression of non-duality. Could you comment on that, as to if that's appropriate?
    • 131113 I'm struggling a little bit with this concept of no separate self. I understand it intellectually, but I'm not at a place where I feel like I am really living it. What would the guidance be for someone like that?
  • Pure Awareness
    • 000101 What is the value-I don't know how to phrase the question-the value of self-awareness?
    • 000126 I think I need a little clarification of what it is that is aware of thought.
    • 011128 I have a somewhat large question about the relationship between awareness and energy. One seems more an active principle and one more, passive isn't quite the word, but they seem like 2 different qualities. Can Aaron say a word about their relationship?
    • 140402 On the simultaneity of consciousness and awareness, is that simply the arising of thoughts or objects within that field of awareness?
  • Relative/Ultimate
    • 931103 When Aaron says that this world, relative reality, is an illusion, does he mean that the illusion is the illusion that this physical world is all that there is to us? What does he mean when he says this world is an illusion?
    • 940202 It seems to me that the self is real enough. Granted, the physical, emotional and mental parts are not all there is, and that on a deeper level we are indeed connected with all that is. So, I can see that the entirely separate self is an illusion. Nevertheless, the experiences and memories of this body, these emotions and this mind, seem real. 'There never was a self feeling or doing this.' I do not understand the last part. It seems that it was a part of who we are, that there was a self doing and feeling this. My memories and old mind come from this, in fact. When I hear phrases like 'the illusion of self,' I find I am very defensive. In part it feels like I am being told that my emotions and experiences are not important.What does he mean by the illusion of self idea and what is this defensiveness about?
    • 000126 Why do we need to experience the personal to get to the ultimate when at one level we're always at the ultimate?
    • 000202 Talking about eggs and shell-lessness, is it necessary or important that we first be self-aware or someone before we can be shell-less and noone? So then it is not possible to have incompletely experienced self in this relative reality that we live? There is no minimum requirement of identity or selfness in order to stably, in a stable way, move into the ultimate?
    • 000209 Could Aaron talk about the self? I get confused about emptiness of self. Who meditates? Who chooses to breathe mindfully or offer metta? Who is Aaron talking to?
    • 010221 I have been getting confused lately about self and illusion of self and no-self.
    • 070330 What I'm wondering is, why is the relative necessary?
    • 100801 I have been exposed to some teachings recently that say there is only the Ever-Perfect; all else is an illusion. What is the value of including the relative distortion?
    • 101027 If a fish is unaware it lives in water, can you help us understand how we are unaware that this physical life is really a dream?
    • 111130 Aaron, do you live in ultimate reality? What's it like?//Would you speak about the movement from the relative to the ultimate reality? I keep thinking of chakras and the movement among the different chakras, and how we sometimes can integrate our being and live in different realms, being grounded in the spiritual at the same time.//Are emotions more relative reality rather than the ultimate?//What happens if you try to force expansiveness?//If it was consciousness that jumped out of Barbara's body, what was still connected?//There can be awareness when one is unconscious? And if so, is that something outside of us? Is it like our essence?//Is there any distinction between awareness and the higher self and/or the soul?
  • True Nature
    • 900730 What chooses at birth to forget the spiritual plane? What continues? Are the energy and light expressions of the five aggregates?
    • 031204 Can you talk about the soul in relationship to the body?
    • 050425 You and Aaron both spoke beautifully about vastness, this endless ocean of love, compassion, light and space, which in essence is our true nature. I know this to be true from the bottom of my heart, yet when I start to let go and fall into this space, a kind of trembling and fear comes up. Why is this so?
    • 130227 Would you speak more to claiming our wholeness and our angelic presence, and what are the blocks?
  • Unlimitedness
    • 081029 You said that you couldn't fly because you don't believe that you could do it enough, so could you do something that you considered a miracle if you believed you could do it?
• Right Effort
  • Free Will
    • 080624 How does our free will fit in with karma?
    • 080626 If there is no self, who has the free will? If all things are conditioned, aren't our reactions wholesome or unwholesome, also conditioned and therefore no self, no choice?
    • 131113 Can you go into any details as to how much free will we're allowed in working out our next incarnation?
  • Intention
    • 960221 Who is offering the heart-centered intention and from whence arises the fear-based intention? Who is repeating an issue?
    • 000119 Is everything in our lives only a mirror for our highest intention or our intention? Is Aaron saying that we get stuck at intention until we can figure out how to get past our own procrastination?
    • 031210 Is intention an aspect of the Ever-Perfect, or does it come out of the Ever-Perfect?
    • 041023 I'd particularly like to hear Jeshua speak about intention vs. trying from the ego place.
    • 070404 Can you speak to the difference between grasping for a something and having intention to get something?
    • 080626 When we ask for the highest intention, who or what determines what is the highest intention?
    • 080711 What would be my best career path?//Is my contribution in this incarnation having to do with my new book?//What is it that I am to be learning at the present time?
  • Power
    • 081119 How do trust and fear impact power?
  • Responsibility
    • 001004 I'm seeing how this largely defensive personality I call me is really just the product of innumerable conditions. Not me or mine, really. Here's the place I get confused, though. How do I not take it personally, yet take personal responsibility for addressing it? I'm having trouble balancing the notion of It's not my fault with It isn't my responsibility.
    • 011115 What does it mean to be responsible?
  • Right Effort
    • 011128 If we move toward a place of non-attachment, including non-attachment toward enlightenment, so that there's no grasping at enlightenment, no grasping at anything, what keeps us moving toward it? What creates the momentum if it's not grasping? Because when we grasp we just pull ourselves further from that enlightened experience.
    • 130324 I feel that I am in transition about what my next goal in life is. I think of greatest good for all humanity, but there are many ways I might go. What do I do?
  • Satyagraha/Soul Force/Ahimsa/Dynamic Compassion/Peacemaking
    • 970205 Would Aaron or you expand on the definition of ahimsa?
    • 070926 My concern, my worry, my fear is that if everything is viewed as having a karmic origin, it seems like it gives humans an excuse to not take action to remedy injustice.
    • 100730 Where does one begin, with the suffering in the world?
    • 131027 Please talk about having permission from others, either consciously or energetically, to work energetically. What about if a person senses that another being has an attachment, negative thought form or entity that is influencing negatively? What about a child? What about precepts #1 and #2, that we read at the retreat? 'Do not allow others to harm another or kill another.'
  • Service/Seva/Bodhisattva
    • 000315 I would love to hear Aaron talk in this context about being bridges and working with the violence in our schools, the fear in the religious right; every time I turn on the radio I hear fear and negativity speaking. One concern I have is that Deep Spring is not being acted in the outer world other than teaching meditation. Perhaps that's all we are needing to do now, but it feels like there are a lot of ways which I am being pulled to work. So I'm asking about practical applications.
    • 080618 I feel that this lifetime for me is important as a time to help other people in a spiritual way. What steps can I take to find the best ultimate path to use my talents to help others?
    • 090406 How can I be of most service?
    • 110521 How does Aaron see the overall world picture that we cannot see at this time, and how we can best serve? There's this sense of I'm not doing enough.
    • 120417 When things are very traumatic and painful to behold on a daily basis, when we see the lack of consciousness and the amount of suffering it causes, what is our personal responsibility to move humanity along in a direction that would lessen suffering and make room for the next generation?
  • Sharing the Dharma/Teaching
    • 970402 How does one find the discernment to know if a teacher is leading you astray?
    • 991117 In teaching this material about spiritual work, where does the teaching start? When Aaron teaches this subject of spiritual work, where is the starting place? What are the principles of the order in which it is taught? What does the student need to understand first?
    • 060805 I believe Aaron or you were speaking earlier today of levels of ignorance. It seems possible a vipassana teacher would still have that level of ignorance where one does not see unwholesome patterns. It is of some concern to me that if any teacher were at that level they might be working with students and it might not be very skillful. Can you speak to that?
    • 070824 If we have a student who has years of practice in another tradition, and they describe their sitting beyond the focus on the breath, should we still invite them to go back there?
    • 100731 This quote was relayed to me after my dharma talk that with each dharma talk you create a thousand years of karma. It's being filtered, it is my view of the dharma. So I struggle with that, that I'm changing pure dharma. Even though it's coming through me, it's being altered.//Do you personally state an intention, however subtle, before you talk?
    • 121021 I am going to be teaching meditation to non-vipassana trainees, people who are mostly beginners. What would you suggest to start with?
  • Spiritual Community/Light Centers/Deep Spring Center/sangha
    • 041024 We're in the middle of evolving of building a community here, and I'd be interested in any thoughts about issues that we ought to face or ways we ought to move as we build the Deep Spring community. In the Essene community, I'm sure there were differences of opinion at times. How were they treated?
  • Spiritual Path
    • 931215 A question about the difference between 3 paths: bakhti (devotion), jhana (concentration), and karma-yoga.
    • 940216 How do I bring my intellectual understanding of defendedness more into my experiential life? Do I need to meditate for hours each day?
    • 000119 How does a person know when they are on a spiritual path?
    • 120502 At the beginning of your talk you mentioned three dharma paths. Could you say more about those, what they are, and a little more about those?
  • Surrender/Release/Letting Go/Renunciation
    • 000112 I feel like what I need to do is accept things instead of trying to figure them out, and I was just asking what would be helpful to accept situations as they are.
    • 011212 Could Aaron say something please about surrender? My understanding of surrender had been to yield to another or higher power. What raised the question anew for me was a commentary I read on St. Francis of Assisi, especially his prayer, O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, and so on. The commentary says that Francis is, in a certain sense, asking to be a hero. He doesn't want God to dismiss him from anything. He's asking that he be the instrument that understands, that loves, that brings joy and consolation to the people he meets. If that is surrender, it's a different emphasis, a different orientation. So, could Aaron pick that up and say something about it?
• Working in the Akashic Field
  • Akasha/Akashic Field
    • 100403 What are these Akashic files you're talking about?
    • 100730 Is the interpretation of the akashic field as presented by McTaggert just a semantic difference in expression?//I'm curious about the word akasha; what language is that?//Could you please say a little bit about the relationship between the akasha and the akashic records?
    • 100731 Does akasha balance on a moment-to-moment basis, or is it only applicable in the very larger karma sense?
    • 110429 How do the akashic records relate to the akasha? Is this how you retrieve my akashic records? Is the akashic field used in the different densities?
    • 110521 How do you bring the possibility that you found deep within the akashic field into manifestation? Can you explain the relationship between sambhogakaya and the akashic field?
    • 110521 Can you talk about the relationship between nada and luminosity, those two in relationship to the akashic field? Do nada and luminosity come out of the akashic field?//Does the akashic field require a separate citta, to perceive?//How does accessing the Unconditioned help with service in the world?//I don't know the difference experientially between pure awareness and the akashic field, and between tuning into the energy body and what we felt in that exercise, which you said was the akashic field.//Are mundane and supramundane citta active in the akashic field?//Is the akashic field 100% conditioned?//How can we tell experientially, or experience, whether we're in the akashic field or in an expression of the Unconditioned, like spaciousness, nada, luminosity?
    • 110525 What is the difference between the element of ether and akasha?//Would Aaron please describe the nature of the intelligence of the akashic field?
    • 111008 Can it be said that the akashic field is where the energy expression of an arising is just after it comes from the Unconditioned?//Are you saying to focus on an energy channel from the base of the spine up to beyond the third eye in order to access the akashic field?//Is this kundalini energy?//When energy arises from the akashic field, it passes away again. Does it go back into the akashic field, or into the dharmakaya?
    • 111009 Once we enter the akashic field, how do we work with it? When we are in the akashic field, what do we do? How do we work skillfully?//When I use the akashic element, there is a way that it feels. Just like there is a feeling of fire or air or water, it has a particular feel. I was wanting to know the difference in feeling between the kundalini energy and this akashic field. Is there a signature energy feel to this channel, or a way of understanding if I am in the akashic field by the feel?//How does Barbara close her access to the akashic field?//How do you ensure that you are not meddling in the akashic field if you are in both?
    • 111010 It's fairly easy for me to sense the polluted stream but transmuting into light, I don't understand that.//Do we actually ask the question, What is it??//What is togyal?//When I rest in pure awareness, I see arisings as stuff. Is that trekchod?
    • 111010 How do you do tonglen from within the akashic?//Is it possible to connect with the akashic field via the open heart?//When Dipa Ma walked through walls or floated in the sky, was she aligning her intentions with the akashic field?//How does utilizing the central channel help to access the akashic field?//When we hold light, are we not offering the possibility of changing conditions?
    • 111011 Is the akashic field infinite?//How do we work with strong karma in the akashic field?//I was wondering if you could explain again how we work with distortions for ourselves in the akashic field.
    • 120502 I wonder about our relationship with spirit, as it relates to the akashic field.//In Milarepa's story, putting his head in the mouth of the demon, how does that relate to, in the akashic field the experience of transformation or absorption of the demon or the habit energy?
    • 120502 We've all been aware of the sense of oneness, the sense of all that there is, for a long time. The akashic field seems quite similar, and I'm curious about how they're different, those concepts are different from the concept of the akashic field.
    • 120502 John alluded to the fact that his experience of the akashic field was feeling energetic. I was wondering what the other potential experiences are, such as more visual? More auditory? More kinesthetic? Is it different for everyone?
    • 120504 From the place of presence, or the akashic field, it seems that deep seeing really kicks in. And the world reveals itself in surprising ways. It has a feeling of reading karma, reading patterns. Could you speak to that?
    • 120620 Is the term ether the same thing as akasha? What is the akashic record?
    • 120621 When we have awareness of the field, and it's very clear to me I've initiated a disturbance into the field, now you've taught me I can pull it back. I know I'm doing it and I want to undo it. How?
    • 120625 How does this experience of working within the akashic field in the way you just described, by following the dissolution of an emotion into the akashic field, how does this relate to the dissolution that leads to cessation?//What is the relationship between the akashic field and sila, in terms of my practice?
    • 130306 It seems to me that you're describing access concentration, and then the akashic field is the container for that concentration?
    • 130410 Can you speak about working with the akashic field while sleeping?
    • 130629 Could you say something about the relationship between dzogchen and the akashic field? I'd like to hear a story about one of your lifetimes where you used akashic field work.
    • 140416 As an athlete, I've sometimes had the experience of a sweet connectedness with whatever it is that I'm competing at. Athletes refer to this as being in the zone, where literally, in team sports especially, it seems as though one knows what's about to happen a split second before it actually happens. The trained activity becomes almost infallible in not missing the shot or making every pass or catch. Is this the akashic field? Is this connection to the akashic field?
    • 140428 Is sambhogakaya the same as the membrane between the primordial and the conditioned? Are there barriers to accessing the akashic field or entering that space? I have heard the phrase akashic records. Is there a connection?
    • 140429 How is the akashic field different from spaciousness, or from pure awareness? When we descend, do we go into that primordial purity?