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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. It is a staging or an aspect of beinghood, but it isn't its totality. At some point most of us reach a stage, midlife, where we begin to realize that that doesn't bring us into the fulfillment, that there's something lacking, and this is where we have to pass through if we're going to enter, let's say, mystical paths or spiritual paths.

It may take the form then of the surrender of the ego, at which time one then has to be in relationship to something else. Now, I find it very limiting to talk about in relationship to God, or something like that, when indeed there are so many stages before you ever need to evoke such a statement. Interiorly to get to know, to know thyself, is an ancient aphorism over the temple at Delphi, and most people who have orthodox physicians say, "Yes, they ought to get to know themselves," not realizing, of course, that they don't know themselves very well either.

You know, to know thyself is a profound, profound path, and much of what we're talking about is not going in to look at somebody else's material; but what is the journey, what are the struggles, what are the dangers of going into the unconscious? It's been stated the journey into the unconscious is more dangerous than stripping down naked and walking through the Amazonian jungle.

Well, it is. It's just potentially overwhelming, and unless there is some way to handle the entry -- through either centering, or perhaps there's an intent to look at only a part of the unconscious, such as disease -- one can really be overwhelmed and collapse the ego structure, and then we have insanity. If we're on a path of growth towards beinghood in this sense, we want to be confronting ourselves, looking at what we might think of as the demonic side, the dark side, the shadow, but never perhaps more than we can handle at any given time.

JOY: Well, you see, this gets us back to multiple dimensions and multiple entities. It depends on which one is in charge of the consciousness when you bring forth the disowned material. If the child's in charge of the consciousness it's terrorized, and I can't tell you how often I have to tell people, "If you bring that child out, I'll eat it," because they lose all capacity to hold their center when they're in a very critical shift in their development.

Also it needs to be understood that the shadow content of the unconscious, or the unconscious parts of ourself, when we say demonic, or we say dark, it doesn't really mean evil. It means that which we do not identify as self.

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I just recently had a woman whose shadow side was Jesus. She had spent a lifetime fighting and doing battle against Jesus, and she had a dream that totally transformed this for her, so that she went in and suddenly greeted it; she kissed the very thing that she had rejected all of her life, and suddenly found a total transformative experience.

Well, that's an example of somebody going into a disowned material that most other people, certainly in our country, would think, well, why would that be disowned or demonic? And yet you w brugh joy biography of albert use the same label; that was demonic to her, relative to her psyche. So it has nothing to do with what the absolute values are of these things; it has to do with relative values, you see.

A moment ago, you said that if somebody you were working with brought their child up, you said you would eat them. What did you mean by that? JOY: I mean I eat children. I mean if they bring it out, they won't survive very long. The child cannot come out. In other words, you know, it's why in the mystery trainings the children are never brought into the temple, they're never brought into certain arenas.

The child has a wonderful place; unfortunately, it's deified in our society until you wonder whether or not our society will ever get over being a child, and particularly parent-child material, which is deadly. It's deadly to later stages. It's great in early stages, where it really doesn't matter one hoot what you're involved with, but at later stages it becomes an immense, immense problem.

What I find is that we haven't done the initiations in our culture that closed off these stages, so they're left wide open, and we run back and forth between these various parts of our psyche, not realizing the consequence of regressing under the impact, let's say, of a particularly devastating revelation about oneself -- something that's very humiliating, let's say, as you probe the deep unconscious, and you have to take on the realization.

Let's say you have a feminine part that is almost diametrically opposite of what you perceive yourself as being, and you have to realize that that is you, it exists in you, it has a place in you, and so on and so forth. Usually what happens is that people become overwhelmed under such, and they immediately begin the defense, and then they regress to an earlier stage such as a child.

The key is how to hold the development and hold the state of consciousness that can actually entertain the new idea or creative thought, and has resources to engage it and live it and celebrate it and welcome it, rather than saying, "Oh, I don't want to know about that," or "Ooooh" -- this is what I get in conferences -- "ooooh, that terrorizes me.

MISHLOVE: Now, if I can paraphrase what you've said, you seem to be suggesting that for any given dilemma, for any given predicament the human being finds themselves in, for any given crisis perhaps, that there is within this vast unconscious a particular being, somewhere in the hierarchy of beings within us, which is appropriate to call forth, and that the mystery traditions and some of the esoteric traditions have initiations for calling for at different stages the quality of beinghood which is appropriate to the individual at that time.

JOY: That's well stated. And this is what we lack in our culture, and when we didn't close the door -- I've often said it's a good thing the vagina closes and we can't get back into it, because people would go clear back into the womb if they could get back into it. JOY: It's a very interesting thing, how of all the times when we really would want to hold our development and hold our resources and our richness of being and our life experiences, how fast within an eyeblink these earlier stages can seize us.

It's not only of course for an individual who's faced with, let's say, a life-threatening process or an initiation -- because that's what initiations are, they're life-threatening, life-threatening to earlier stages -- but this holds true for collectives, it holds true for nations. Whenever we are stressed out we regress, we become more fundamental, the sabers start rattling about: "Go back to the old ways," and so on and so forth.

All of that is regressive tendency, and very difficult to prevent in a collective sense. The only thing one can do is hold one's own development.

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So in times of war, in times of chaos -- the worst extreme that I could give you would be somebody who's trapped in a hotel in a fire, where they regress all the way down to trying to open a locked door, and they die because they have lost all resource, all cognitive function, under the hysteria of trying to open a door. Whereas the mystery training and the later stages -- I do believe that in our culture we will develop and bring back the initiations that allow childhood to die, to close off, to induct the next stage.

Let me put it this way. In true initiations, there was always a possibility one would not survive them. In other words, they had to be stressed. So there was nothing if everybody just gets moved through, like we do through our educational systems, so it means nothing. Or even some of the wonderful initiations that have been lost in our culture, such as the Bar Mitzvah, such as the Catholic confirmation, which is just sort of social right now, but its real depth has been lost, which was to birth and incarnate an aspect of that individual and close off the previous stage.

But this means mother and father have to let them go too, you see, and that isn't what our culture's all about. In our culture, we stay children until our parents die. If so how do I connect with you? This is the first time on this site so I am not sure how to proceed. On Jan 22 someone posted that hey have a series of Brough's audio tapes.

I was in several of his programs and would like to listen to those tapes for renewal and to see how they impact me now at a different stage in my life. How do I connect with person that has them? Hi Tim, Deborah here. I'm the person who posted about having some of Brugh's audio tapes. Please reach out to me at dbdilts gmail. I am currently out of the country so email is the best way for me to connect.

Warm regards, Deborah Bacon Dilts. I'd love to hear those tapes. I saw Brugh years ago on Keewaydin Island off the west coast of Florida and have always been curious. Can we share them somehow? I miss Brugh very much. Just listeningto his voice or reading his text is an induction. I would love to listen to more of his teachings too, if it's not confidential.

I live in Hong Kong, is there any way can share by mp3 format? Thank you for the article. It was nice to read it. In it, you said he was an "something man," which makes me wonder at the state of his health at the time, as everything I've read says he died at age 70 Decborn in January I'm reading one of his books now, and getting great insight from it.

Post a Comment. Friday, February 5, Bye-bye, Brugh. Last December, Brugh Joy passed away. Brugh originally had been a doctor.

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He'd interned at Johns Hopkins and finished his training at the Mayo Clinic. He was a practicing physician until a bout of pancreatitis steered him toward alternative medicine. Brugh dove into energy healing, Jungian work, and dreams. He left his medical career and began leading self-development workshops. Michael Crichton wrote about his experience at one of Brugh's seminars in his book Travels.

My wife and I do dreamwork once a month with a couple of friends who are students of Brugh's. Inthey got me into one of his weekend workshops, in Chicago. It was an amazing experience! At the first meeting, he led a heart-centered ritual that inducted everyone into the work for the weekend. I was amazed at how this one something man could work with all 25 of us, taking each of us deep into the work.

In the evening, after the last session of the day, Brugh was chatting with me, when he casually put his right hand on my chest and his left on my back. I felt intense energy flow through my chest, blowing my heart open. Every morning, we'd do dreamwork. He'd call for dreams, and he'd go around the circle and got right into the meat of each dream immediately.

And the dreams I had while I was there were very big, very vivid, as if Brugh's presence had evoked powerful forces from my subconscious.

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This turned out to be my only chance to work with Brugh in person. Brugh had had pancreatic cancer sometime in the s and had fully recovered. He was in such good health that he went on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet a couple of years ago. But inhe was diagnosed with a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer, his third experience with pancreatic health issues.

This time, there was no recovery. The way Brugh worked with treatment for his cancer, and the way he approached his death, was a lesson in itself. He treated chemotherapy as if it were a holy sacrament. He was totally open to whatever happened, and he met his own death with a sense of wonder and curiosity.