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Jean Houston November 17, 2011 JEAN HOUSTON NOVEMBER 17, 2011 Host Volume VIII | November 17, 2011 Guest Jennifer McLean HEALINGWITHTHEMASTERS.COM Jean Houston Jennifer: Welcome, everyone, to Healing with the Masters. Masters, the worD, means so much, but while we may think of masters as the wonDerful guests that share their knowleDge anD experiences with us each week, I consiDer you to be the master, each of you in this auDience, you, the participant. No one knows you better than you, anD no one is more uniquely qualifieD to transform your life than you. ToDay we will together Discover the tools anD techniques to heal, to continue to shift your life into love anD light anD, in the process, truly make a Difference on this beautiful planet. Together we are a powerful community. You matter. You can light up the worlD. ToDay we are honoreD to welcome a very, very special guest, someone who has been a very important teacher in my life anD has been a teacher in this beautiful Human Potential Movement for many, many years. In fact, I woulD consiDer her one of the principal founDers of this whole movement. Dr. Jean Houston is joining us toDay, scholar, philosopher anD researcher in human capacities. Is one of the foremost visionary thinkers anD Doers of our time anD one of the principal founDers of the Human Potential Movement. Jean has workeD intensely in 40 cultures anD 100 countries, helping global leaDers, leaDing eDucation institutions anD business organizations anD literally millions of people to enhance anD Deepen their own uniqueness. She is a prolific writer anD author of 26 books, incluDing Passage [sic] for the Possible, Search for the Beloved, Life Force, The Possible Human, A Mythic Life, which is an absolute classic, Learning to Live Our Greatest Story, Jump Time anD The Manual of the Peacemaker. An aDvisor to UN agencies in human anD cultural Development, she has workeD to implement some of their extensive eDucational anD health programs. Since 2003, Jean Houston has been working with the UN Development Program, training leaDers in Developing countries throughout the worlD in the new fielD of social artistry. Dr. Houston serveD for a year anD a half in an aDvisory capacity to PresiDent anD Mrs. Clinton, as well as helping Mrs. Clinton write It Takes A Village to Raise a Child. She has also counseleD leaDers in similar positions in many countries anD cultures, anD we are absolutely honoreD to have such a beautiful soul anD spirit, a committeD anD engageD anD intelligent Dr. Jean Houston on Healing With the Masters. Welcome to the show. Jean: Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you for that overly generous introDuction. It reminDs me of that wonDerful saying. I hope that I can grow into the being that my Dog thinks I am. Jennifer: Well, in our minDs anD hearts, Jean, you’ve Definitely Done it. We’re in very interesting times right now, anD there’s so many of us that are finDing that we’re being kinD of compresseD in Healing With the Masters: Volume VIII Page 2 of 26 Jean Houston November 17, 2011 Copyright 2011, all rights reserveD Jennifer McLean | Healing with the Masters | www.McLeanMasterWorks.com our lives, compresseD with the happenings of the planet. Many of us are feeling that it’s no longer about just being happy but about surviving. Is it possible for us to still finD that place of happiness in the miDst of all the turmoil? Jean: I think what is there, almost prior to happiness, is excitement, is ebullience, anD the reason I say that is, when you look at the factors that are absolutely unique in human history, globalization — I mean, the worlD is flat. Right now, I think it’s two‐thirDs of the worlD are on mobile phones. That’s two‐thirDs of seven billion people. Twenty‐five percent are on the Internet on a regular basis. I’m reminDeD of a story I just hearD about someone was taking a walk in Wales with a man. The fellow askeD, “Well, what Do you Do?” He saiD, “I’m a stone mason, a monumental stone mason. I builD grave stones.” He saiD, “Well, thank gooDness you’re not on the global theme.” He saiD, “Yes, I am. I get all my stone from InDia by way of the Internet for graveyarDs in Wales.” You have the information technology, which is now creating a worlDwiDe interrelationship so that the worlD minD is taking a walk with itself. People have to Develop all matter of new capacities. I mean, the new story that we talk about, which is emergency through emergency, is simultaneous. It is happening all over the worlD. As you mentioneD, I’ve workeD in 107 countries, anD the worlD that I began to explore many years ago is a very Different worlD than toDay. I mean, virtually everyboDy is getting the tools anD the networks to participate in what is calleD a hyper‐connecteD worlD. So this is happening in just a few DecaDes, anD it means that we have got to learn how to aDapt. Now, if you look at cell biology — I was just with my gooD frienD, Bruce Lipton, anD one of the concepts he talks about is epigenetics. Epigenetics is the environment that turns a gene, that means a potential, on or off. Right now we’re in a totally new worlD environment, for which few of us have been prepareD, that is actually epic genetic. It is turning on the worlD minD in a way that has never been known before. Part of my work has been to prepare people to live in a raDically Different worlD from the one we grew up in. To Do this, it means that we have to begin to access the vast Domains of inner space, the vast Domains of the ecology of the inner worlD. Right now we are suffering from a terrible overuse of the outer ecology anD a horrible unDeruse of the inner ecology, but having workeD with so many thousanDs of people for so many years, I know absolutely that we are loaDeD with potentials few of us ever neeDeD to use, anD now we Do. We neeD to aDapt to a worlD that is an entirely Different reality than the one that we were prepareD for. So I train people. I train people to use their extenDeD internal senses, extenDeD psycho‐ physical awareness, extenDeD psychological realms, where we have more than one — we’re not encapsulateD by some skin, Dragging arounD Dreary, little egos. We are organism environments. We have so many Different people within ourselves anD Different skill sets, to be able to use time Differently, to experience five minutes of clock time as subjectively an hour anD Do the things that normally woulD have taken hours to Do, to be able to Do them or rehearse skills in five minutes to tap into anD be part of this colossal new story. It isn’t about some lonely, young hero battling against impossible oDDs. It is all of us, collectively, together. This is the new story, anD the most important part: women, women rising to full partnership with men over the entire Domain of human affairs. I mean, this is women anD men together, which means an immense, immense aDDition to the minD scope of Healing With the Masters: Volume VIII Page 3 of 26 Jean Houston November 17, 2011 Copyright 2011, all rights reserveD Jennifer McLean | Healing with the Masters | www.McLeanMasterWorks.com who we are anD what we’re capable of, anD then of course the spiritual sourcing. Yes, we’re living in the Divine Delicatessen. Jennifer: Divine Delicatessen, I like that. Jean: Yeah, the spiritual knowings of so many Different — not only the great religious traDitions but also the great shamanic traDitions all coming together to give us access to capacities that hitherto DiD not seem to be possible but now are available. This, of course, is what my life is about. Jennifer: Wow. That was a huge amount of information. As I’m thinking about it, you’re talking about epigenetics, anD you’re talking about Bruce Lipton anD turning on a new worlD. It truly feels to me like that’s what’s going on. We get literally thousanDs of emails from people who are saying, “I feel like I woke up.” As we’re moving in this time of waking up, is there a way that we can nuDge ourselves a little bit more awake, that we can turn ourselves on, so to speak, in this epigenetic way, that we can mine the ecology of the inner worlD better than we have been? Is there something specifically that we can be Doing to nuDge this along within ourselves? I guess the seconDary question to that is: Does that also, when we open ourselves, Does it assist the planet? Jean: Well, I think it assists the planet because we are Earth‐spawneD beings. We’re also, possibly, cosmic agents in a space/time boDy suit. So we Do have access, but we are the Earth minD. Let’s face it. We’re either the neurons or the cancer of the planet, so by golly, we’D better be the neurons. So I think the Earth Does celebrate, in some sense, when we Do wake up. Now, waking up, of course, you finD this in the great traDitions. They saiD to the BuDDha, Gautama SiDDhartha, the BuDDha, they saiD, “Sir, are you a goD?” “No, I’m not a goD.” “Are you an angel then?” “No, I’m not an angel.” “What exactly are you?” “Oh, I’m just awake,” saiD the BuDDha.
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