In this enlightening episode, we delve into the world of light therapy with Dr. Jacob Lieberman, a pioneer in the therapeutic use of light and color. Dr. Lieberman shares his journey from being an optometrist to exploring the profound effects of light on human consciousness and healing. He discusses his groundbreaking work at the Aspen Center for Energy Medicine, where he uses light to help individuals confront and release past traumas.
Dr. Lieberman explains the concept of integrating the three eyes: the physical eye, the eye of reason, and the contemplative eye, to achieve a broader vision and a richer spiritual life. He shares personal anecdotes about his own vision improvement journey and the revelations he encountered about the limitations of traditional vision care.
The episode also explores the scientific basis of light therapy, touching on the role of the hypothalamus and pineal gland in processing light and regulating bodily functions. Dr. Lieberman emphasizes the importance of our relationship with light and how it can influence our evolution and well-being.
Listeners will learn about the historical use of light in healing, the concept of phototherapy, and how light can be used to treat various conditions, including seasonal affective disorder and learning difficulties in children. Dr. Lieberman also discusses the mind-body connection, the role of consciousness in healing, and how our perceptions shape our reality.
Join us as we explore the transformative power of light and how embracing a holistic view of vision and consciousness can lead to profound healing and self-awareness.
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Sounds true presents Healing with Light with doctor Jacob Lieberman. Jacob Lieberman is a pioneer in the therapeutic use of light and color. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Light, Medicine of the Future, and serves as president of Universal Light Technology, a company doing research and development on phototherapeutic devices for healing. Doctor Lieberman is the head of the Aspen Center for Energy Medicine. At the center, he works with individuals to evaluate which colors are met with non receptivity, and then uses special light machines to flash those colors at the eyes of the client.
These colors often correlate to and trigger traumatic experiences from the past, allowing them to surface for conscious expression. Doctor Lieberman has used his methods effectively with thousands of individuals, from the learning disabled to business executives and Olympic athletes. But doctor Lieberman's field of expertise encompasses more than working with phototherapeutic devices. It is his belief that when we open our eyes to a broad range of vision, we open ourselves to a richer and more complete spiritual life. This recording features 2 keynote presentations by doctor Lieberman given at the light years ahead conference in San Jose, California.
A gathering of renowned specialists exploring the role light plays in our well-being. And now, healing with light with doctor Jacob Lieberman.
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Goethe, in the middle of his life said, light created the eye as an organ with which to appreciate itself. And his dying words were open the second shutter and allow more light to come in. And the second shutter he was speaking of was what some people call the third eye or the seat of the soul, the inner eye, the pineal organ as we know it today. Ken Wilber talks about 3 different eyes. He speaks of the eye of the flesh, the physical eye, the eye of reason, the mental eye, and the contemplative eye, the eye that he says appreciates God. Having been an optometrist for fourteen years, I knew very much about the physical eye.
I knew a little bit through my own experience about the eye of reason, and once in a blue moon, I got a chance to experience the contemplative eye. I now realize we not only need to integrate our vision to incorporate all of the 3 eyes, as well as opening up the second shutter. But in doing so, we begin to open up our vision in a way that opens up our lives. Jonathan Swift said, real vision is the ability to see the invisible. As we integrate the 3 eyes, we begin to experience what most people feel is invisible. We now know that the average individual experiences less than one billionth of the amount of stimuli that are present within their environment.
My personal experience is that as that inner eye opens, as we begin to see what at 1 time we felt was invisible, We tune into a broader spectrum, not only of the electromagnetic spectrum, but of subtle energies that are not even within the electromagnetic spectrum, and things begin to shift. For me, it started in '73 when I graduated optometry school and had been nearsighted and wearing glasses for about ten years. I was on my eighth or ninth or tenth pair of glasses at the time, and I went into practice and I was hit with the reality that the average vision care practice supports people's vision in constantly deteriorating.
Not all, but the average 1. And it struck me very very hard because this is what had happened to me. And so in I began doing an experiment, which I called an experiment on the workings of my mind. And at the time, I had a idea that the mind was somewhere located within my head, and so if I could find the right button to press in my head, maybe my vision would open up. And I began doing things like taking my glasses off and in the process realizing that a lot of emotional emotionally unresolved incidences kept coming to the surface. And at first, I thought it was because I took my glasses off that these things came into cause, they came into being. But then I realized that they had been present for a long time and that maybe that was the cause of why I gave up seeing what I gave up seeing.
And so my vision began to improve and I can remember the first time I shared that with a colleague and he said to me, that's blur interpretation. And I realized that same level of invalidation of my feelings and perceptions as I remembered as a child. And so I kept doing the experiment and my vision kept opening up. And I realized things about our testing methods which were totally absurd, such as the eyes are a part of our being. Shakespeare said they were the windows of the soul. They interrelate with light. The eyes and light are married. So then why do we do all of the testing in the dark?
And the eyes have some very interesting aspects. They have an aspect which is the part it's the reflection of the part of our mind that analyzes things, and we call that foveal vision, detailed vision. And then there's an aspect of our vision which reflects the part of our being that feels the environment, and that's called our peripheral vision. It's the anticipatory psychic aspect of our sensing system. To me, it is the most important. The feeling sense is the most important. Why is it that when we evaluate one's vision, we place them in a chair in a darkened room and we put an instrument in front of their face that totally obliterates the feeling aspect of vision. And then we give them a pair of glasses where the center of the lens, what we call the optical center, is directly in front of the eye. That's the only part of the glass that has the exact prescription so that anytime we look away from the center, we don't see as well. So it's almost a way of constantly reincarcerating our vision to only be the devil's advocate, to only look for details.
But it eliminates the part of our being that is intuitive and feels what is actually going on in the world, the part of us that doesn't have to have it proved by a double blind study. So I had some major revelations in the about vision. I can remember as my vision kept improving and I said to my senior associate, I shared within the experience that my vision was a lot better. And he said, well, let's check your prescription. Because at that time, I was under the illusion that to validate, to confirm that what I was sensing was really so, that my prescription had to, in fact, get weaker. I think we got into a real problem when we decided we had to prove that which we already knew.
And so for years, I kept checking the prescription and, of course, it only got slightly better, but yet my vision kept improving. And I didn't understand what was really going on in vision until in sometime in 1974, in the midst of meditating, which I had done since the I had an interesting experience. The experience I frequently had during meditation is that, at times, I felt as though I disappeared. I seemed to lose sense of where I was. And 1 day, I felt this. And I can remember saying, it felt like I became the sky. And the reason I described it as becoming the sky is because I felt as though I was seeing from everywhere at the same time.
I knew that I was seeing everything, but I couldn't tell you from where. Now, what was important about that revelation is that I realized that we don't see with our eyes, that the eyes are the sensor that takes in light, 1 of the sensors, the skin as well. But the seeing doesn't happen within the eye. It doesn't happen within the brain, and it seems to happen everywhere at the same time. So the questions in my mind was, where are we seeing from and who's doing the seeing? So I spent years in the process of opening up this vision. And in the process of opening up my vision, I started seeing things that I never realized existed.
I can remember the first time that I saw the electromagnetic emanation coming off the body, what some people call the aura, although back then I didn't know the word And being a scientist, I figured for sure I had a retinal detachment. But I didn't have a retinal detachment and the experience was very very potent for me Because when you see the body giving off light, you begin to understand what our relationship is with the sun and other light giving bodies. You begin to realize that we are no different than plants. That what we, in fact, call photosynthesis in the plant kingdom is probably no different than what we call metabolism within our bodies.
That we are living photocells, if you will. So here, the body gives off light, and not only white light, but different colors of light. Now, I didn't understand this until I had a direct experience of it, and now I've had direct experiences of it for almost twenty years. So I trust my direct experience explicitly. What I realized by noticing that the body gave off light is that the way we interrelate with the sun, the way that we utilize that energy, the way we either allow it to traverse our being without in any way controlling it, or the way that we attempt to control it, then becomes evident in the way that the body re emanates, reradiates this light.
So what I'm saying is, we think of the sun out there, but we have the opportunity of becoming the Sun. All of us have seen artist renderings of great people, be it Jesus or Buddha or Saint Francis of Assisi, And many times, they are pictured with an aura, with a halo. And I always thought that that was something that the artist just put in. But after having my own experience of seeing it, what I realize is this defines the word illumined, to be illumined. And so when I say we have the opportunity of becoming the sun, what I'm saying is that our relationship with light is very, very crucial to our evolution, and this is probably why light is mentioned in regards to evolution, to enlightenment, to being illumined, and so on.
All of these experiences, the improvement of my vision. I should also add something about vision. I said that I had a revelation of feeling as though I was seeing from everywhere at once, and coming to the conclusion for myself that we don't see with our eyes. And most people say, well, that's impossible. We know that we see with our eyes. Well, if, if Sam Pesner, who's an optometrist on the front row, took me to his office today and evaluated me, he would find a significantly strong prescription. Yet I haven't worn glasses in sixteen years, and I pass all my driver's tests, and my vision varies between about twenty twenty five and twenty twenty or better.
So the question I'm asking is, where am I seeing from? Now I only share this experience because we're in a very important time historically. There's a lot of paradigms that are melting, crumbling. And the paradigm of how vision works also needs to crumble. It's probably the biggest epidemic, other than thinking, that we have in this country. Probably seventy percent of the individuals in this country wear corrective eyeglasses, and probably more than 90% wear sunglasses, corrective or non corrective. So all of this led to some very interesting insights. And in the I began utilizing light therapeutically. I got involved with a group called the College of Syntonic Optometry.
Syntonic comes from the word synteny, which means to bring into balance. And it was a group of gentlemen, that had been involved in this organization that began in the and by a man named doctor Harry Riley Spittler. And Spittler was a man a hundred years ahead of his time. He had 4 doctorates. He was brilliant. And he came up with an entire system of utilizing light specifically by way of the eyes. He felt that the light coming in could augment the function of the nervous system and endocrine system and put the body into balance. I began this work in the I used it on my mother, created a miracle within twenty days, which just totally blew me open.
I had no idea what to do then. Here I had discovered something that was magical, but I couldn't talk to anybody about it. People already thought that I was somewhat on the fringe, but I had some respectability. But if I was gonna start talking about light and seeing auras, I would have been booted out. So it was a very difficult time for me coming to these realizations about things that the average person's paradigm didn't include. You know, we say that seeing is believing. Well, the truth is, if we don't believe it, you don't even see it. So it's difficult to talk to someone about something that is not within their concept of reality.
You just there's nowhere to go with that. So what I began doing was working with children in my office, treating a lot of children that had learning difficulties, discovering some very, very interesting things about children that seem to have difficulties in school. What I notice is that they really don't have that many difficulties in school, but they're frightened to be in school. And I remember when I was in school how much I hated school. Well, not that much has changed. Most kids still hate school. And 1 of the things I know about children is children know more than we know. See, they're the next generation.
They're a bit more advanced and evolved than we are. They keep trying to tell us that, but we don't listen because we wanna be in control. And so what I notice is that when children are put or incarcerated in what we call learning, which really has nothing to do with learning for the most part, a lot of stress develops and these children close down. And the way that they close down is the energetic field that surrounds the body collapses. And when it collapses enough, the actual visual field, what we measure with a perimeter or a visual field device in our office also collapses.
And so what we notice is that children who are highly stressed in an academic setting or any condition, their visual field is very tiny. Now, you know, all of you are looking at me, but you're also aware of things happening to the sides. These children, if they looked at me, they may only be able to see a small part of my face, but they wouldn't be aware that something was missing because they had no means of comparison. So rather than appreciating the world or their life's experience as a whole, they were experiencing life through a whole. And the problem is that the field of vision, as I mentioned before, is the feeling aspect of vision. That's the anticipatory part of vision, and it allows us to develop relationship.
So, for instance, as I'm looking here, I'm also aware of where I was looking before and where I will be looking next. You might say that this is the present in relation to the past in relation to the future. When my visual field collapses so that I'm only in touch with a small piece of the present, I don't know where I am in relation to where I've been or in relation to where I'm moving to. Literally, I'm lost in space. And so many of these children collapse even further when this phenomenon occurs. And what I noticed early is that light, by way of the eyes, seemed to create miraculous enhancement in this situation. It would open up the field of vision.
Children would have personality changes, physical changes, academic changes, performance changes, and so on. And after a while, the parents of the children I was treating said, well, if you did that with Johnny, how about my migraine headaches? And so I can remember when parents would come in. I remember this 1 woman came in and had migraine headaches. And so we treated her, and three or four weeks later, her migraine seemed to dissipate, which she had had for seventeen years. And she came back two months later for a progress evaluation, and she said, you know, my migraines are gone, but, you know, I forgot to tell you something.
I said, what's that? She said, well, before I came to you, I hadn't had my period in a couple of years. And within two weeks of the treatment, I started getting my menses every month right on time. So I said, wow. This is very interesting. What's going on here? And so that began opening up even more. The paradigm kept spreading. And I began treating individuals that not only had things such as migraines, but individuals who had been in a coma and patients that had had multiple strokes, where sometimes they hadn't spoken for a long time, and then all of a sudden they started speaking. And I started having experiences that just kept causing me to look deeper, look deeper.
Being a scientist, I knew that I had to understand, my mind needed to understand what I was experiencing. So I began looking at what was really going on. And keep in mind, I came from an optometric background at the time, and I was led to believe that light entered the eye, stimulated the retina, it went through the optic nerve to the back of the head, what we call the occipital cortex, the primary visual centers or the striate cortex, and then through some magical means, we saw. I mean, I wasn't really told much about light. The sun was never mentioned in my education, and the only things we knew about light was that light entered the eye and created something called eyesight or vision. And the other property was that when it went through a prism, it broke up into its different spectral colors.
Little did I know that we were physiological prisms, that this invisible energy entered our being, and the way that we used allowed or not allowed that energy to come through was emanated, re radiated energetically out of the body. And now, we are beginning to realize that our minds are not confined to our heads or even our bodies, but that this physical body is encapsulated by an energetic field, which you might call your mind. So this energy being received by the body and reradiated is extremely important. But this was fifteen years ago, seventeen years ago. I didn't know a lot of the things that I now know.
And so I began searching, and I came across a paper written in the by a scientist named Cajal. And in the paper Cajal talks about his hypothesis that light enters the eye and aside from going to the centers of the brain having to do with vision, it also touches a part of the brain known as the hypothalamus. And then I look further, and in the a series of of researchers in separate locations seemed to come to the same hypothesis. But it wasn't until the hypothesis. But it wasn't until the that through some very sophisticated scientific techniques, we were able to prove conclusively that light when it entered the eye, aside from going to the visual centers, also goes to the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus.
So I began looking at the hypothalamus. What is the hypothalamus? And I realized that the hypothalamus is the brain's brain. It's the part of our being that is the major collecting station for information from the environment, externally, from the environment internally, from our psyche as well. The stress response is initiated within the hypothalamus. Many of our immune functions are directly sent out, ordered out throughout the body from the hypothalamus. And the hypothalamus also houses the body's biological clock. Just like the watch on your wrist, the body needs to know when to do what, because all of our life's experiences are cyclic and rhythmic.
So a lot of that is handled by the body's biological clock located within the hypothalamus. I said, wow, this puts light in a much more important position in my life. And then, of course, I realized that 1 of the reasons the hypothalamus was so important is that the hypothalamus directly controlled the portion of the nervous system that regulated what was happening within the body, the autonomic nervous system. And the hypothalamus also controlled almost all the functions of the body's master gland, the pituitary, which then seemed to affect the functions of the rest of the endocrine glands.
Says, wow. This hypothalamus is the CEO. It's the chairman of the board of the entire body. But then the scientists inside of me got in and said, well, who or what is telling the hypothalamus what to do? And I began looking and looking and looking, and I don't find much. And then I remembered reading in some esoteric texts about the pineal, which had a whole series of different names. The Greek philosopher Herophilus in the fourth century said it was the sphincter of thought, the origin of thought. Indian mystics said it was the third eye, the eye within, the contemplative eye.
Rene Descartes, the French philosopher in the sixteenth century, said it was the seat of the soul, the seat of our consciousness. Yet science, on the other side, said it's the pineal body when we didn't understand what its functions were, if there were any. Because keep in mind that we thought the pineal was a vestigial organ, a mere appendix of the brain. So we called it the pineal body, and then we called it the pineal gland. And now, within the last ten years, it's graduated. It's now called the pineal organ. And what we know about the pineal is that the pineal is not only the body's light meter, but it is the body's regulator of regulators.
It regulates everything that's happening in the body, and it's the only part of our being that doesn't receive information from any higher neurological centers. What that means to me, excuse the expression, is that that's the part of us that's connected to God, whatever that is. Now, the pineal I mentioned is the body's light meter. It receives information from the environment about light and darkness and spectral characteristics by way of the eyes, and it also receives information about the Earth's electromagnetic field.
I'm sure it receives a heck of a lot more information, but that's as much as we can conclusively say now. Now, that's very important because what we're saying is that it is the part of our being that is receptive to information from the heavens, light and darkness, and from the Earth beneath our feet, the Earth's electromagnetic field. So it feels as though this body is the connecting rod between the grounding forces and the heavenly energies. And that was my first idea that the pineal had something to do with relationship. So as I looked further into how the pineal worked, I was led to believe that light entered the eye, affected the retina, then went to the hypothalamus of the brain. The hypothalamus passed the information on to the pineal.
The pineal created a very interesting hormone called melatonin, which is the only hormone in the body right now that we know of that can do anything it wants, anytime it wants, anywhere it wants. Very powerful hormone, and it comes into creation from its effect from the pineal's relationship with light and darkness. And it's released because of light or darkness. So I was led to believe that the information was given to the pineal. The pineal created a messenger hormone, which sent that information to every single place in the body without exception. Basically told that part of the body what was happening outside, whether it was light or dark, what time of the year it was, what time of the day it was. And then the individual cells used that information to orchestrate their internal function and then synchronize themselves from mother nature.
In other words, the pineal is the part of our being that lays the basic foundation for relationship. Very important because everything in our life is a function of relationship, the 1 thing that we know very little about. Recent statistics indicate that less than five percent of all marriages remain. And of course, you know we are the only culture that has a concept of something called unemployment, or exercise, or vacation. You never see whales that are on vacation, or trees that are unemployed. But we're the only ones that seem to have these ideas.
Why? My sense is we are out of appropriate harmonious relationship with our life. Maybe this is the reason why our pineal are the size of a pea, whereas many animals, their pineal may occupy 50% of their brain at the time that they're born. It has to do, I sense, is with relationship. And that's a very important thing because everything in life, everything that happens in terms of health is a function of relationship. My investigation into light, what I just shared with you, seems to be a major foundation for the newly rediscovered field called phototherapy.
I say newly rediscovered because it's not new. It was probably the very first healing modality that we know of. All of the major cultures utilized light. There were people that looked directly into the sun every day, and claimed that it would not only heal their physical ailments, but give them the gift of longevity. The Egyptians looked not only into the sun, but it colors. And they said, not only it would heal the body, but it would open up the past memory banks of the observer. Almost like a homeopathic remedy, light would go in and seem to trigger the opening of a part of us that we have kept in the dark. After all, they say we use 3 to 4% of our intelligence.
What's happening in all those other areas? So light has been used for a very very long period of time. 1 of the major areas of medicine that has been utilizing light is the area of psychiatry. What they found within the last dozen years is that there is a whole group of individuals that seem to get depressed during the wintertime when light levels are low and days are shorter. And what they have found is that if you take light and apply it by way of the eyes, they started out with large banks of light, then they gradually reduced the size of the banks, increased the wattage of the lights. Now you can actually get it in a pair of glasses that goes on your face, so you can wash your dishes while you're receiving the treatment.
And basically what they found is that if you allowed individuals to treat themselves with light every day, and originally it was four to six hours, now it could be fifteen to twenty minutes, then within three to four days, the light seemed to fool the brain into thinking seasons had changed. It was no longer winter, it was now spring. And the depression and a lot of the symptoms of the depression seemed to lift, and the person was able to go on with their life. The same technology has now been effective in general depression, in dealing with individuals coming off of drug and alcohol dependency.
In some of the studies, those individuals have been able to reduce the amount of medication they need by up to 90% when it is used together with light therapy. So there's a lot of interesting technologies having to do with light. I have some different feelings about what's actually going on. It is not my feeling that seasonal affective disorder is caused by a lack of light. I think less light is only a catalyst that triggers what is already there. I don't feel that light should be used as a band aid on a melanoma. I think that many of these technologies are very good as a tool, but to be used full time, I feel that you then overlook what is really going on.
And, unfortunately, our medical system has been set up in such a way so that the medical doctor has become a medical deity. And the problem with that is that they then become responsible for healing us, which means if they don't, we wanna sue them. And at the same time, we are disempowered with the ability to take care of our own bodies. We become less and less responsible for take care of our own health system. So tomorrow, at the end of the day, I'll be talking about techniques that I have used having to do with healing on that level, and specifically about an area that I think is really really important and that is the realization that we are the remedy.
The remedy is not outside of us, and I'm not speaking in just some spiritual non grounded sense. What I am beginning to find is that all disease is the end result of a breakdown in relationship, whether it is relationship within ourselves, between us, with the environment, with the cosmos, whatever. And it's probably a direct no. I'm gonna go further. It is a direct function of the way that we utilize our minds. And so if the breakdown is within harmonious functional relationship, then the cure is to recreate that relationship.
And so I'm beginning to understand how the doctor can be the healer or how the doctor can be the slayer. We think that licensing has to do with where you practice. What I'm beginning to realize is that my license is about giving someone else the license to get well. And I used to think that it was techniques that would improve one's vision, exercises, and so on. And now I get letters and phone calls all the time from people to say, gee, you know, I was listening to you sharing your story about your vision, and I noticed that my vision got clear.
Now that's called spontaneous remission. It doesn't just have to happen with cancer. It happens with everything as soon as we let go of our point of view. So if we could just tune in to what we do that creates the spontaneous exacerbations in our life, we would have a much greater ability of also noticing when that opening occurs and we have spontaneous remission. If we can begin to live that way, then we create a whole field of energy that is supportive of that going on. See, the problem is when I say to someone my vision has improved and then the doctor says to me that's impossible, then it's impossible.
So if I believe him or her, and, you know, doctors are like gods. That's the way we're brought up. So if I believe them, then I take on their concept of reality which limits my concept of reality. Can you imagine how it would be if we had 2 national registries? 1 had all of the people on it that were just diagnosed as having some fatal illness, and the other 1 had the names of all the people on it who were told they had a fatal illness and then had a spontaneous remission. And then what would happen is that as soon as someone found out that they supposedly were going to die from something, the first thing that we did is we coupled them with an individual who was told the same thing and is living.
Now, what do you think would happen to the paradigms the moment that happened? So I think it all comes down to not be in touch with the self, not being in touch with our belly brain. That's our final decision maker, and that's my final statement. Thank you.
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This concludes doctor Jacob Lieberman's opening presentation on healing with light. Our program continues with a second and more in-depth discussion of healing with light with doctor Jacob Lieberman.
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Now 1 of the other things that's come up today is my technique versus your technique versus their technique. So what I'd like to perhaps talk about and share a little bit this afternoon is what I perceive as nature's technique. Because the body has its own wisdom and it is a microcosm of a larger macrocosm called nature and the universe. So if we could understand something about the way nature works, the larger picture, if you will, then we have a much greater understanding of how we work within ourselves and in relation to others. Now this phenomenon came to me many years ago.
And the way it appeared was this. You see, we had an old paradigm. And the old paradigm had the idea that the body was a piece of equipment with replaceable parts. And we had this big thing that we called a body, and then we had this little tiny thing that we called the mind. It wasn't much that we knew about, so we didn't mess with the mind much. And when things happen within an individual that we felt had something to do with their mind, we called it a mental disorder. They'd lost their mind. They went insane. We would take them away in white jackets, you know, with their arms behind. You remember the old paradigm. And the old paradigm was built on an illusion of hierarchy.
Not only and and the illusion, I believe, was built into the body because we dealt with the world as if we were separate from everything within it. So there was always the doctors, the patients, the teachers, the students, and so on. There was always this hierarchy. So based on that, I believe that we developed a superstition about how the body worked. And what we said was that the way that it worked was that we had these senses. And the senses picked up whatever there was out there, fed that information into the brain. The brain mixed that information with old information, and then it told another part of the brain what to do, and then that other part of the brain told the nervous system and the endocrine system what to do, and then those systems passed it down to the muscles and the nerves and so on and so forth. Wasn't that the view that we were all all told about?
That that's the way the body worked. So we had an idea that the body worked as a hierarchy, number 1. And number 2, we had an idea that primarily we had a body. And then we had this thing called the mind which we didn't understand. And if you look at all the original approaches to, let's say, light and color, except when you go way back to whether it is the Rishis in India or the seers of Egypt, they understood something about nature and themselves because they were connected. But in more modern times, let's say within the last couple hundred years, we've forgotten about that connection with nature.
So we developed this separateness from nature and out of that came a hierarchy. So if you look at the original approaches to utilizing light and color, the original approaches had to do with utilizing light on the body to treat conditions. The body had conditions, you alleviated conditions. That was the old paradigm. And our family structures and everything were built like that. And so our view of reality followed that same idea. And then we started seeing shifts happening. If you look at old movies, you never really see people having emotional expressions of a deep nature. It just wasn't part of what was going on. As my parents said, it wasn't in vogue.
You didn't hug in public. I I really never understood how my sister and I were born. I never heard my parents making love. When did it happen? So it wasn't in vogue. I can remember when I said to my mother, and my mother is 79 and my my dad's almost 82. And 1 day when I was going through a lot of my own healing, I said to my mom, I said, why was it that I never remember dad hugging me? And she pulled me into the room and she said, how do you think I felt? He's never hugged me. They were married fifty years at that time.
So this is part of the old paradigm, expressionlessness. Well, that's a hard word. So we've seen changes. When they we got to the point that people used to allow themselves to express themselves, we used to call it losing it. When they lost it on the movie or in the movie, the next scene was that they were usually taken away. They were medicated. They were given shots. They were taken away in the white coats. So that was our view. The mind was a dangerous thing. So the paradigm has been shifting, and then you had something called psychosomatic. That was sort of an interesting way of saying the person was crazy.
You know what it means, that the psyche affects the soma. But the way we used it was they're really crazy. It's it's all in their imagination. That was a big word, the imagination. And then we went into the area of mind body integration. And then people like Norman Cousins expressed his own experience of supposedly he was going to die of a certain illness, and then he watched funny movies and lacked himself into health. See, it's hard to die while you're laughing. So what's happened is the old paradigm has gradually transformed into a new paradigm.
Now a lot of the new paradigm is based on work that probably began a long time ago, but in terms of current work to validate this, you have to go back to 1977 and some very, very important discoveries that were made by a friend of mine named Candace Pert, who at the time was working at the National Institute of Mental Health. Now Candace Pert, I feel in the next year or two or three or four is going to get the Nobel Prize. And she, she's got a book coming out next year called Molecules of Emotions. Candace Pert was a lady at the National Institute of Mental Health that discovered, along with a few other people, a group of informational substances called neuropeptides.
Now in the body, we have many informational substances. Some of them are called neurotransmitters. Some of them are called hormones. Some of them are called neuropeptides. They are all essentially the same thing. Anyone who's really understands endocrinology will tell you there's no difference. We used to think they were different. Now, who really knows will tell you they're all in the class of informational substances. They take information into the body. The old thought was that when something happened in the body, a reaction occurred in the mind.
That's why they called them neuropeptides, neuro meaning within the mind. And then the mind would create these chemicals. The chemicals would be secreted in a hierarchy throughout the body, and that's the way the body knew what it needed to do. Well, what Peart discovered as she was looking into the area of the immune system was that when these neurochemicals, these informational substances, neuropeptides, were secreted in the brain, they were simultaneously secreted by the immune cells. And what she specifically found is that the secretion of these informational substances Or let me change that, not the secretion. The materialization of these, informational substances came about in response to a feeling, a thought, an intention, an emotion, a belief.
That when you felt something or had a thought, an appropriate chemical messenger would come from invisibility into materialization and would express throughout the body what that feeling was. We used to think it happened as a hierarchy. What we found out is the way that this occurs, the way that informational substances are felt throughout the body are as a network, not as a hierarchy, as a field, as within a holographic field. So what was discovered was that whenever you have a feeling, emotion, intention, whatever it is, simultaneously, you have the materialization of these chemicals throughout the body.
Now it started out as something discovered about the immune system. What has now been discovered, and we now know there's about 58 to 60 different neuropeptides, each associated with different states of mind and emotions. What we now know is that these are manufactured by every single cell in the body at the same instance of time as you have the feeling.
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So what I'm saying is is that the mind has essentially escaped the brain. The mind is no longer in the head as we thought. We used to say up here being in your head. But it's not in your head. So what we now know is that the mind exists throughout the body. And the way that the body works is directly related to your state of consciousness. What's going through that chatter? John Bradshaw says that there's approximately twenty five thousand hours of takes in your mind, your mental chatter. We know that each person experiences about 60000 thoughts per day.
Unfortunately, 95% of the thoughts you're having today are the same ones you had yesterday and the same ones you'll have tomorrow. Now that was a very profound discovery in the area of mind body medicine. But then another discovery came about in the and a new set of informational substances was discovered. The reason we hadn't thought about it before or seen it before was because it seemed to be predominantly looked at within the insect kingdom and within the plant kingdom. And these informational substances were known as pheromones. Now pheromones are informational essences, energetic essences that are secreted by the body also in response to your state of mind, state of being.
And these are secreted into the environment. So when your mind is going through whatever it goes through every microsecond, the body responds by creating the appropriate chemical informational substances so the entire body knows and feels simultaneously as a field what's occurring, and simultaneous to that, the same energy is being transmitted out into the atmosphere as a field of information. So where is the mind? Not in the head. So where is the mind? Not in the body. So where is the body? The body is inside the mind. It's not a body that creates a mind as we used to think.
It's a mind, a field of energy, a non localized area of intelligence that creates what appears as a physical entity. Big shift in paradigms. Now that's really the basis for a lot of what we now called body mind, 1 unit. Doesn't work separate mind and body. They're both the same thing. So quite honestly, there's no treatment that just treats the mind and no treatment that just looks at the body. We've been talking about all these different modalities. They all affect everything at the same time. There's no way to separate them. The real question is, what level do you enter in at?
And we all enter at the most appropriate level for who we are and what we want to do. So someone may wish to treat it at this level because that is what's comfortable for them and appropriate for them and someone may want to treat it at this level just like Mary utilizes a table that moves as she's giving the treatment. This is her particular approach. It isn't a right or wrong and the body mind is being affected. It's just a different way. We are all different. We all bring in a different gift. So all of these approaches affect everything. But the reason I wanted to lay down the old paradigm to the new paradigm is to give us an understanding of what I'm gonna continue to share with you.
Now the way that this came into my awareness was not through the reading of some scientific literature about what I just shared. And the way that it came into my awareness about how I feel and perceive that nature does the healing was not through reading a newspaper or reading some scientific literature, but through my own experience. So I'll share the experience with you because I think that most of you have had a similar experience. When I was a youngster, I used to have a lot of daily interactions with my father. We used to bang heads. And I didn't think that those things that happened to me as a child would in any way affect me as I became older, because as a child, you don't realize all of this kind of stuff, until I was about 25 and then ended up marrying my father dressed as a woman.
I guess I'm the only 1 in this room that's had that experience. And then after six or seven years of being married, I went through a very, very difficult separation and divorce. And there is nothing that anyone has spoken about in here whether it is major anxiety attacks, deep depression to the point of wanting to kill myself that I haven't experienced. I used to have 30 or 40 major anxiety attacks every day And I had them for about six and a half years. Nine one one was my favorite number. I can laugh about it now. I was frightened to death continually.
Continually. My body would shake, I couldn't catch my breath, you know, my color would be gone. In fact, that's why I do what I do now. That was my schooling. But if you haven't had that experience, it's scary. So then we might avoid going into those domains. Or we'll go into them in a more cognitive manner rather than knowing them by heart. So this is an area that I know a little bit by heart out of my own experience. As John Downing said, I'm not a psychologist but I probably could be. So what I'm saying is when I got divorced, within a couple years later, I once again got into a relationship with my father dressed as a different woman.
And I thought this was interesting but this time it didn't take seven years. This 1 was a three and a half year relationship. I was beginning to get smarter. So at some point, I started looking at that phenomenon. And I said, My goodness, it's so interesting that I keep attracting into my life women that are energetically like my father. Until I realized that all my close male friends were just like my father too. And then I looked at all of my close friends, male and female, since I was a little kid. Sixth grade was the first time I fell in love with the first girl. And every single 1 of them without exception was just like the parent, my dad in this case, that I had unresolved issues with.
And even my teachers with the exception of missus Williams in fifth grade was just like my dad. I mean, I looked at this really carefully. Now this may sound odd, but look at your own life and see if nature does not in fact feed to you anything in your life that's unresolved. Now when I first heard that, people said, well, that's karma. You know, what comes around, goes around. But I was a scientist at that time, and I needed to have a greater understanding. Is this just something that's in my imagination, or does this have any validity at all?
Because if there's something to this, if in fact we are homeopathic remedies running around, being attracted to each other for a very specific reason, then everything we need for healing is within our relational dynamics. The problem is we're all in relationships, but we don't know how to relate. So I look at the human relational phenomenon as a series of tuning forks. You know how tuning fork works. You hit this 1 here, the 1 over there will buzz. What do you think happens when we get together? We resonate with the part of each other that's like the part of the other.
So how does that actually work or is that just an illusion, something I'm passing on to you? If we go back to the periodic table of elements, because everything comes down to those elements, and you take any element in the periodic table let's say you're dealing with iron. The way that a chemist, a scientist determines the difference between 1 element and the other is just the same way that the police department knows Bob Dubin from me. Fingerprints. This is my signature. He has his own. Well, if you look in an element, every element has a fingerprint. Because if you take the 2 rocks out of the ground, they only look like 2 rocks.
But how do you know which is the iron and which is the mercury if they don't look different? Well, the way that they do it in science is you take this element and you heat it up. And when you heat it up, if you put it within an instrument called a spectroscope, that element will give off an energetic essence. It will give off light. You remember Bob Dubin said this morning, he said, whenever there is change within a system, the electrons jump states. They jump to a different state. And when they do, photons are given off. Light is given off.
The photons are the informational substances. So when you look deeply into the body, the way that the body communicates within itself is that every time there's a change in state, each cell gives off light, and that's the way the cells communicate. These are informational photons. You take an element, you heat it up, which means you are activating it, And it starts giving off its fingerprint, its vibrational electromagnetic signature. If you look through the spectroscope, you can see that the element is giving off light in different portions of the spectrum. So if you're just looking at the visible portion, you might notice that the element let's say you got a rock here. It's being heated up. You look through the spectroscope and you see here's violet, the violet end of the spectrum. Here's the red end of the spectrum. Right? And you notice that the element all of a sudden has a peak here. It's giving off something in the blue or indigo and then it's flat. And then, oh, there's another peak over here right in yellow.
So that's the energetic signature of the element When it is in a state of excitement, which is what happens when something gets heated, it gives off energy, let's say in the blue violet and yellow portion of the spectrum. And in science, we call those Fraunhofer emission lines. But in real terminology, it's just the energetic signature of the element. So what I'm saying is every element has a signature, an energetic signature which is visible. Now that in itself is important, but let's get to the real guts. You take this element, you heat it up, you're looking at its signature and now you do something and the something is that you shine white light into the space, into the environment that this element is excited and giving off energy in. And then what you notice is that the element will attract to itself from the white light an exact mirror image of what energy it is giving off.
Let me repeat that because this is really crucial to the understanding of how nature works. You take any element, you excite it by heating it, it'll give off an energetic signature. You put it into an environment of white light and it will attract to itself an exact mirror image of what it is giving off. What is this body? On 1 level, the body is made up of all of these elements, everything. You take this body and accept when we're sleeping, and we're still excited then, but when we are awakened we're excited. And when we're excited, we are giving off an energetic vibrational signature.
You can call it an aura if you'd like. You're walking around with this aura. Where? In an environment of light. So what do you do? You attract from the quantum soup of experience out there an exact mirror image of where you are at at any particular instance of time. So how can there be a negative effect? The doctor and patient are being attracted for a reason. The therapy you're giving is absolutely appropriate. The experience is appropriate. Now we can go back to the initial paradigm that there's right and wrong. But there's no right and wrong in the world. That's just what our mind has done.
There's just is. And if you look at it carefully, you will notice what your peace is in the action. So the experience in nowadays is there are no accidents. Things just don't happen. The world has a much greater knowing than our mind does. So the importance of this is that when I started noticing that I was attracting into my life things that were unresolved and how does that relate to this energetic essence? Well, see, my sense is that we are biological or physiological prisms. You know what happens. You take a glass prism. It's very pure. You take invisible energy called light. You shine it in through 1 end, and then out the other end comes all these colors.
But have any of you seen auras? Raise your hand if you have. Great. So when you've seen an aura, have you ever seen anybody walking around that look like a rainbow? No. So what makes us different than the prisms? The prisms the only thing that makes us different from the glass prisms is just 1 thing. The prism doesn't have a mind. What comes in just flows through. But we do something with our minds, and when we do it, it's like it's like if you had a hose and water was running through it. Now if you didn't touch the hose, the full flow of energy would come through. But if you took your hand and you grip that sucker and the more you squeeze, the less water would come out, this is the mind. That's what the mind does. That's 1 of the things the mind does.
It strangles the flow of energy as it comes in because we want to be in control. So we control it. Put a wrench in the works, unfortunately. When we do that, the light that's emitted is not the rainbow. It's something less than. So what was being emitted from me were the weak links in my chain, the sensitive spots. Why? See, our mind knows what we like. A lot of the things we've been hearing here is about giving the person what they like. Well see the mind knows what it wants but it doesn't have any idea what it needs. The body knows just what it needs.
So there's the mind saying, Give me what I want. And then there's the body that's saying, well for the species to evolve we're going to need to do it differently. That's called evolution of the species. That's how we evolve. We attract just what we need in order to continually expand. If not, we'd probably self destruct. And even though some people have the idea that we're going to keep doing that, people throughout history have always thought the world's coming to an end, but it doesn't. It just keeps going. It just keeps getting just what it needs for the evolutionary process to keep shifting.
So what I noticed was that we attract just what we need. And I noticed that happened with the clients that came into my office. Always, they had a gift for me. They thought I had a gift for them. They didn't realize they also had a gift for me. So the reason I'm sharing this is that I want to take us into the newer paradigm. But I needed to lay a little bit of a foundation about the old paradigm and the new paradigm to create the newer paradigm. This is going to be the substance of my next book. What we know is that the body is encapsulated by a field, a non localized field of intelligence, that when we are not in our mind, our local mind, when we are in nonlocal mind, universal mind, we are without thought, if you will.
We are infinitely connected to everything. Everything. Now, so I make that statement and you say, well, how do you know that? Well, I'll tell you how I know it. I've been having, I guess, parapsychological experiences for years. Metaphysical experiences for years. There was a man in the field of optometry who was a very dear friend of mine named Elliot Forrest. And we were very connected. And 1 day, I was in the shower in Miami, Florida when I used to live there. And I was taking a shower, this was 1 morning, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, I started sobbing.
I just started sobbing. And I mean, it was like 1 of those real deep sobs when, you know, you can't quite catch your breath. And all of a sudden I have this feeling that Elliot died. And I stepped out of the shower, I'm soaking wet and I pick up the phone and I call New York and I said, Libby, when did it happen? She says, how did you know? He just died. So how did I know? What was I picking up? Was I pick I I I felt that. Now, was I picking up something in the radio wave frequencies? Was I picking up something in the waves that create television? What happens when the phone rings and you know who it is? What are you picking up? Are you picking up the same fiber optics that US Sprint uses?
What happens when you a healer lays their hands above the body and you feel this intense heat? What's coming out? Is it infrared? I mean, what is going on there? What are we picking up and how are we picking it up? Is it that the body has a field that's like a radar screen? You know what a radar screen is. It's a device that the armed services and the airports use to pick up things, planes let's say, before your physical senses can pick them up. Well, we know that the physical senses are a very poor they're very poor devices for evaluating reality.
After all, we pick up less than one billionth of the information that is available. And we think seeing through that little peephole into life that what we're seeing is what exists. That's a fact. We pick up less than one billionth of what's actually the stimuli going on out here that is available to us. And you know what we're picking up? We're only picking up the stuff that fits our picture of what reality is. In vision, I remember when I was in optometry school, people would say, Seeing is believing. Well, it's not true. If you don't believe it, you won't even see it.
When I was in optometry school between '69 and graduated in '73, there was some interesting experimentation and research that was being done in Harvard Medical School at the time by 2 gentlemen named Hubel and Weasel who eventually received the Nobel Prize. And what Hubel and Weasel did is they reared kittens in 2 separate conditions. In 1 condition, the kittens were reared in rooms of horizontal alternating black and white stripes, and the other kittens were reared in rooms that had, alternating vertical black and white stripes. And what they found when these cats got old and they examined their brains is that the connections between the neurons, the stuff that was sending the information, was such that the cats reared in the horizontally striped rooms could only see a horizontal world. They could see this, you know, the horizontal the horizontal aspect of things.
The cats reared in a room with vertically oriented stripes could only see a vertical world. They couldn't see anything horizontal. Along with the information received genetically, there is information within the field of the individual that has to do not only with the physical structure of the body, but it has to also do with the belief system of our predecessors. So we don't come in as an empty slate. Look at babies. They're all different. When my 2 kids were born, my daughter came out just breathing like a lark, and she still is. My son came out holding his breath to the point that I thought he would die. And I think to this day, he's still holding his breath.
So what I'm saying is that morphogenetically, we bring in certain beliefs along with our genetics that combined with the initial experiences that we energetically attract in, those experiences sculpt the neurology in such a way so that subsequent experiences are automatically edited out unless they conform to the same beliefs that were created from the first experiences. Do you get what I'm saying? So when we say you create your own reality, what are we really talking about? You're only seeing it your way. Each of you is an artist and there is a blank canvas here within a frame.
And as you're observing me, you are each individually creating me on the slate there. And each of you thinks it's me, but it's not. Each of you sees me in a different way. There's some of you that came up to me during the day today and shared some really wonderful things, and I'm sure there's some of you who think I'm a pain in the ass. Well, I'm neither a pain in the ass nor am I wonderful. I just am. You make me what I am to you based on your experiences. So what I'm saying is you are creating this experience. Now how is it that we see what's going on?
See, when I went to school, we had this idea that the way that vision worked was that information entered the eye, went back into the computer, the computer did something, it inverted the picture. It's They they made it sound like it was something like a camera And then through some magic, we saw. So we all understood the neurology, physiology, and so on, but we were never told how it is we see. And so what I discovered for myself quite a few years ago is something about how we see. See, the eyes are always making these micro little movements. The eyes are situated right at the helm of this system. They are not a separate entity from the brain. They are the brain.
The brain has 2 frontal extensions called eyes. When light strikes the eye, it simultaneously strikes the brain. Eyes and brain are the same. So the eyes are sort of at the helm of the system. They're the navigational system. How do they work? Well, what I noticed is that when I went to school, I was led to believe that when I looked out at what we call experience, there were some things more important than others. Isn't that what you were taught? There was something called figure. The figure was the main thing. And then the other things that were less important were called the ground.
In education, they call it figure ground relationships. And I was led to believe that this actually existed in the world. That there was something that was more important and the rest of it less important. I didn't realize that what that was the way our minds worked. It had nothing to do with reality. And what I discovered that really improved my vision is that this quantum soup of energy doesn't in reality have a figure and ground. It's a constantly changing figureless ground. So if I could view reality, if I could look in this experience here and see everything equally, then there's no difference between anything out there and there's no difference between myself and it.
I become part of the experience not an observer of the experience. Well, if you allow your eyes to see that way, you notice a few interesting things. The first thing is in order to do that you have to give up your point of view. You have to see with fresh eyes. You have to see from nowhere. And if you do that, you'll get into spontaneous remission with your vision and probably every other part of your body at the same time. Now, that sounds a little weird. Those of you that wear glasses, take off your glasses sometime because you can't really see with your glasses on. And I'll explain that a little later. Take off your glasses, close your eyes and get yourself relaxed, and then open your eyes and you'll notice a very interesting phenomenon.
As soon as you open your eyes, just for a quick second, everything is very clear. How many of you that wear glasses have ever had that experience where you had your eyes closed? Regardless of your prescription, you open your eyes and everything is crystal clear and then it gets fuzzy. What do you think is going on between the point of crystal clarity and the point of blurriness? As soon as you open up, you see from no point of view. Within microseconds, every filter steps into place and now you're viewing this quantum soup through all of these filters.
So you don't really see what's going on. You just make of it some distorted thing based on your experience. So what I noticed is that if I could see from nowhere or if I could see from everywhere at the same time, then my vision became clear. And this is why I shared with you yesterday that I still have a significant prescription for those of you that are optometrists here. I'm a diopter and a half myopic and I have 2 and a half to two and three quarters diopters of astigmatism. Which means that for those of you that are not optometrists, is my vision should be at best maybe 21 fiftieths and at worst maybe 23 hundredths or worse, but it's nowhere near that.
I saw everything that was projected up here today. So where am I seeing from? Perhaps Alex Gray was right on the money. The eyes are within the field. These are only the windows of the soul. The eyes are out here all over the place. So as I started to understand something about how this phenomenon of field occurs, I began to realize that our field can be endless, infinite, which means that our intention touches everything. And you say, how's that possible? Well, I was always led to believe that the way that our vision worked is that light entered the eye. We've all agreed upon that the last two days. Right? Light enters the eye and then all this stuff happens.
But there's something else going on. You see, light affects the body, but consciousness determines how we take light in and what portion we take in. Forget about what's out there. If all we needed to do was get full spectrum light, then every farmer in the country that's putting pesticides in the food that they're trying to get you to grow on, but they're killing you at the same time, they should be very conscious because they're getting the full spectrum of everything. But it isn't about getting full spectrum light. It's having a full spectrum life.
It's being able to receive what is present. Bob can do all the adjustment he wants. Won't do anything unless you're open to Bob. Won't do anything. Unless your receptivity opens up, your treatment is nothing. So we're the major pharmacopeia. We're the major healing energies. So if we can have an infinite field of intelligence and the way that I know that is you see, I used to think the way we saw is light entered the eyes, I just said. Right? Do you ever been in a bus or somewhere out in the public in a group of people and all of a sudden you get the feeling somebody's staring at you? You ever have that? And you turn around and by God they're looking at you? What were you feeling?
Were they sending beams of light out of their eyes? Is that possible? They looked at you with their eyes, their intention, something goes out. See, my feeling is that 80% of the light goes this way. Only 20% comes this way. And that's the way I think intention works. It goes out holographically in every direction and dimension simultaneously. So then we have this field we live in. And the field is a big radar screen that picks up information before your senses pick it up. We call that precognitive experiences or psychic experiences. And we know children have that, right, until they grow up. I call that the process of adulteration.
We adulterate them and they lose their field collapses. So what causes the field to collapse? Because the field can stay expanded or the field can stay collapsed, which means you have a dynamically shifting radar screen. Now you know if the radar screen is infinite, then you can pick up everything that's going on, can't you? And in reality, we know everything that's going on. But for some reason, we seem to block out a lot of it. Why? The field collapses. The radar screen gets small. And when it goes to its extreme, if you evaluate the visual field, the physical manifestation of this larger field, it will shrink.
When consciousness opens up, it expands, and it can happen in a microsecond because this field is not a static thing. It's a constantly breathing kind of phenomenon in every direction there is and it changes with states of mind, your breathing, and so on. So what causes it to collapse? Well, in 1974, when I first was able to see auras, I noticed something interesting. You can really see the aura brightly until people start thinking. The moment they think, the field collapses. Well, we were led to believe that thinking is the necessity for learning. Wasn't that it? That's what made us higher than the other portions of the animal kingdom?
That's what allows us to use them for cruel experiments if we wish to Or eat them or whatever we want to do? Isn't that what it was? We could think, they couldn't. Yet we know we're the only ones that are unemployed or need to exercise as I mentioned yesterday. So what keeps this thing going? See, the thing we call thinking is just a real fancy word for something I call worrying. See, most of our thinking is really worrying. But it's not really worrying. It's the most sophisticated cheating ever created. See, we used to think that cheating was the thing you did when you looked over someone's shoulder to see what was happening on their test paper because you didn't study.
That's obvious cheating, like obvious addiction, drinking or drugging. But the real big addiction in this country is thinking. It's what we do avoiding whatever we're feeling. We go up in our minds. So what I've noticed is that what we call thinking is really just the process of rehearsing continually. It's what we do to try to guarantee that things come out our way. And we do that because we've never developed an authentic security about our own function. So we do this cheating as a way of trying to appear in the way we think we're supposed to be in the world. The moment we do it, we can't learn. Because the moment that we start thinking, we stop breathing.
It was, Freud that said, when a parent yells, the baby holds their breath. When we get scared, we hold our breath. Why do we think? Because we're scared. We're afraid to be spontaneous. We're afraid that we won't be accepted, We won't be loved. They'll say we made a mistake. We'll be embarrassed. Whatever the hell happened to us as children. So fear and thinking, for the most part, I find are identical. Now your minds won't like that. But that's been my direct experience. And the moment you start thinking, it's impossible to learn. Whatever you want won't come until you stop thinking.
While you're thinking, it gets to the tip of your tongue. That's it. Then it stops. It won't pop out till you stop thinking. So the idea of thinking, trying harder, totally screws you up. That's what meditation is about. Get out of your head, get out of your thought process, magic happens. So the real question is, how do you take the magic into the world? How do you keep the field expanded? So when I started working with light, what I noticed is that if I put colors into the system, I could intuitively feel what was going on. The person could subjectively tell me what was going on. I could monitor the physiology to determine what was going on. But there are several different ways that I would know energetically what portion of the life's experience, which is the same as the light experience, the person was unreceptive to.
We're not antagonizing anything. The system has what it has. You feed the light in and through either 1 of the ways I just mentioned, the body tells you, gee, this doesn't feel comfortable. Why? Because the light energetically is a tuning fork and it's awakening a tuning fork just like it that's lodged in your body. This is the part of the light that never exited your prism. This is the part of your life's experience that when you ingested it and digested it, you couldn't stomach it. So you held on to it. You couldn't express it. It was too scary to say how you felt.
So you held on to it. Well, you know, Bob Dubin said that everything is light. All matter is frozen light. You take energy, you slow it down, it becomes solid. You take the energy of emotionality and you slow it down by not expressing it, and it becomes a biological resistor. It crystallizes in the body. It becomes a lump, if you will. Then what happens is you know how they they crack kidney stones down stuff? They take sound and and it cracks. This is the same phenomenon. You got this crystalline bunch of energy, this stagnant energy that's been held on to emotionally because it wasn't safe to express it, to release it. You now put the light into the system and it homeopathically awakens it.
The person starts feeling, Margaret, you put on the light. What do you feel? She said, I feel some energy moving. You said my heart is is pumping a little fast. The soma, she first feels going on. If you sit with it for a while, if you just sit with it, something surfaces and you get a flash of something. You simulate energetically something that the person is unreceptive to. They're unreceptive to it because it's unfinished business. This is what they keep attracting into their life which they call an irritant. But it's not an irritant, it's a gift.
So we put it in to the system. It doesn't make any difference where you you start from the area where they're least not responsive or most. You do that out of intuition. I don't have any method. My method is I just trust myself. So I do the best I can to just go for it. That's what I'm doing right this moment. Well, that's the way I work with people. I trust this piece of technology. So what comes in, I just use it. And if it starts violet or it starts at red, I don't know how it's gonna start or even if it's going to start. I just do whatever comes up. That's just the way that I happen to work. Doesn't mean that anyone else has to do it. That's just what I need. That's my particular medicine that I need to help me evolve.
So any way you use this will be appropriate for what you need. And that's what needs to be trusted. Now, time is out, but I want to do something. I'm starting a new book. And this will capsulize where I'm at. And this may be the intro. This just came out in the last couple days, but I wanted to share it with you. And this is called From Light to Enlightenment. But I don't know if that's going to be the title of the book or if the title of the book is gonna be called Open Focus. But 1 of those things. As I approached the end of my first book, Light Medicine of the Future, I became aware that the process of writing the book had transformed my awareness.
I realized that the last section about the healing power of relationship was the essence of what I really wanted to communicate. Because the book was almost finished, I didn't rewrite the previous chapters. I could see that another book would be necessary to do justice to this topic. As I went into the world to promote that book, these ideas became even clearer. The first book was largely a product of my mind. It had been written by thinking, planning and organizing words on paper. I realized that the next book would have to come from a more organic level of knowing. I wanted it to be a creation of the spontaneous wisdom that arises in each moment.
I wanted it to share what I know by heart. It was a time when humans were completely attuned to their inner selves and were able to read the language of nature as a reflection of their own inner harmony. They could sense what was happening within another person and what remedy to use for every disease. You can still see this today in so called primitive cultures. In modern world, we have forgotten that natural ability. Instead, we dismiss it as witchcraft or the imagination. But now science itself is proving that this imagination may be the organizing principle of our body and that this witchcraft may be our most potent healing remedy.
We are fundamentally connected to everything in the universe just as the ancient people knew. In our lifetime, we are seeing the convergence of 3 healing paradigms, 3 different ways of understanding reality. To discover and transform ourselves, we will move through all 3 perspectives. The first paradigm is the world view that we learned in childhood. It structured our formative experiences, the past causes of our current patterns. In medicine, it was based on the scientific principle of Cartesian dualism, which split the mind and the body apart.
The body was a machine which could only be understood and treated mechanically. All of the mind and the emotions which could not be explained in mechanical terms were dismissed as not real, as imaginary. This separated the individual from their only true source of healing, the gut knowing of the belly brain. These healing powers were then projected outside the self, turning the medical doctor into the medical deity. The second paradigm is a place of expanding awareness and integration. Working from this perspective, we have created a new view of reality that connects ancient wisdom with scientific discoveries and reintegrates our fractured selves.
It recognizes that our mind and body are 1, and that consciousness on all levels consists of holes within holes, all ultimately interconnected. Mind body medicine strives to reawaken our connection with the healer within. In the process, we are demystifying the medical deity and turning the doctor patient relationship into a partnership. In the third paradigm, we try to apply these insights to our daily lives. Can we achieve and maintain body mind integration, not just during meditation or in therapy, but throughout the day? Can we maintain full self awareness during the daily activities and interactions?
Can we become aware of how we magnetically attract certain life experiences? Can we consciously expand our opportunities for growth and self awareness? We can do all these things, but not by learning a perfect technique or by having a great personality. We do it by becoming so aware and choiceless that our full awareness flows spontaneously like magic. This is both very easy and almost impossible. Life is a process of becoming aware, a constant practice. So we're at the threshold of a new healing paradigm, but the new medicine turns out to be the same as the oldest medicine, the healer within. Nature's innate intelligence knows exactly how to heal ourselves and others.
We are the most potent remedy in the world, a healing pharmacopeia that energetically attracts the transformative experiences that we require next. And life's little irritations are often precisely the medicine that we most need to assimilate. It is only a matter of time before even skeptical scientists confirm that we are the most powerful medicine in the world. What will the FDA do then? How will it regulate us when we become the doctors, the healers, when we talk to each other and healing occurs, when we touch each other and healing occurs? Everywhere I travel, I see that this is already happening.
But don't take my word for it. Create your own healing shifts. As we move from light to enlightenment, every life experience becomes an opportunity to further expand our self awareness, to realize more fully who we really are. Thank you.
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Sounds true presents Healing with Light with doctor Jacob Lieberman. Jacob Lieberman is a pioneer in the therapeutic use of light and color. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Light, Medicine of the Future, and serves as president of Universal Light Technology, a company doing research and development on phototherapeutic devices for healing. Doctor Lieberman is the head of the Aspen Center for Energy Medicine. At the center, he works with individuals to evaluate which colors are met with non receptivity, and then uses special light machines to flash those colors at the eyes of the client.
These colors often correlate to and trigger traumatic experiences from the past, allowing them to surface for conscious expression. Doctor Lieberman has used his methods effectively with thousands of individuals, from the learning disabled to business executives and Olympic athletes. But doctor Lieberman's field of expertise encompasses more than working with phototherapeutic devices. It is his belief that when we open our eyes to a broad range of vision, we open ourselves to a richer and more complete spiritual life. This recording features 2 keynote presentations by doctor Lieberman given at the light years ahead conference in San Jose, California.
A gathering of renowned specialists exploring the role light plays in our well-being. And now, healing with light with doctor Jacob Lieberman.
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Goethe, in the middle of his life said, light created the eye as an organ with which to appreciate itself. And his dying words were open the second shutter and allow more light to come in. And the second shutter he was speaking of was what some people call the third eye or the seat of the soul, the inner eye, the pineal organ as we know it today. Ken Wilber talks about 3 different eyes. He speaks of the eye of the flesh, the physical eye, the eye of reason, the mental eye, and the contemplative eye, the eye that he says appreciates God. Having been an optometrist for fourteen years, I knew very much about the physical eye.
I knew a little bit through my own experience about the eye of reason, and once in a blue moon, I got a chance to experience the contemplative eye. I now realize we not only need to integrate our vision to incorporate all of the 3 eyes, as well as opening up the second shutter. But in doing so, we begin to open up our vision in a way that opens up our lives. Jonathan Swift said, real vision is the ability to see the invisible. As we integrate the 3 eyes, we begin to experience what most people feel is invisible. We now know that the average individual experiences less than one billionth of the amount of stimuli that are present within their environment.
My personal experience is that as that inner eye opens, as we begin to see what at 1 time we felt was invisible, We tune into a broader spectrum, not only of the electromagnetic spectrum, but of subtle energies that are not even within the electromagnetic spectrum, and things begin to shift. For me, it started in '73 when I graduated optometry school and had been nearsighted and wearing glasses for about ten years. I was on my eighth or ninth or tenth pair of glasses at the time, and I went into practice and I was hit with the reality that the average vision care practice supports people's vision in constantly deteriorating.
Not all, but the average 1. And it struck me very very hard because this is what had happened to me. And so in I began doing an experiment, which I called an experiment on the workings of my mind. And at the time, I had a idea that the mind was somewhere located within my head, and so if I could find the right button to press in my head, maybe my vision would open up. And I began doing things like taking my glasses off and in the process realizing that a lot of emotional emotionally unresolved incidences kept coming to the surface. And at first, I thought it was because I took my glasses off that these things came into cause, they came into being. But then I realized that they had been present for a long time and that maybe that was the cause of why I gave up seeing what I gave up seeing.
And so my vision began to improve and I can remember the first time I shared that with a colleague and he said to me, that's blur interpretation. And I realized that same level of invalidation of my feelings and perceptions as I remembered as a child. And so I kept doing the experiment and my vision kept opening up. And I realized things about our testing methods which were totally absurd, such as the eyes are a part of our being. Shakespeare said they were the windows of the soul. They interrelate with light. The eyes and light are married. So then why do we do all of the testing in the dark?
And the eyes have some very interesting aspects. They have an aspect which is the part it's the reflection of the part of our mind that analyzes things, and we call that foveal vision, detailed vision. And then there's an aspect of our vision which reflects the part of our being that feels the environment, and that's called our peripheral vision. It's the anticipatory psychic aspect of our sensing system. To me, it is the most important. The feeling sense is the most important. Why is it that when we evaluate one's vision, we place them in a chair in a darkened room and we put an instrument in front of their face that totally obliterates the feeling aspect of vision. And then we give them a pair of glasses where the center of the lens, what we call the optical center, is directly in front of the eye. That's the only part of the glass that has the exact prescription so that anytime we look away from the center, we don't see as well. So it's almost a way of constantly reincarcerating our vision to only be the devil's advocate, to only look for details.
But it eliminates the part of our being that is intuitive and feels what is actually going on in the world, the part of us that doesn't have to have it proved by a double blind study. So I had some major revelations in the about vision. I can remember as my vision kept improving and I said to my senior associate, I shared within the experience that my vision was a lot better. And he said, well, let's check your prescription. Because at that time, I was under the illusion that to validate, to confirm that what I was sensing was really so, that my prescription had to, in fact, get weaker. I think we got into a real problem when we decided we had to prove that which we already knew.
And so for years, I kept checking the prescription and, of course, it only got slightly better, but yet my vision kept improving. And I didn't understand what was really going on in vision until in sometime in 1974, in the midst of meditating, which I had done since the I had an interesting experience. The experience I frequently had during meditation is that, at times, I felt as though I disappeared. I seemed to lose sense of where I was. And 1 day, I felt this. And I can remember saying, it felt like I became the sky. And the reason I described it as becoming the sky is because I felt as though I was seeing from everywhere at the same time.
I knew that I was seeing everything, but I couldn't tell you from where. Now, what was important about that revelation is that I realized that we don't see with our eyes, that the eyes are the sensor that takes in light, 1 of the sensors, the skin as well. But the seeing doesn't happen within the eye. It doesn't happen within the brain, and it seems to happen everywhere at the same time. So the questions in my mind was, where are we seeing from and who's doing the seeing? So I spent years in the process of opening up this vision. And in the process of opening up my vision, I started seeing things that I never realized existed.
I can remember the first time that I saw the electromagnetic emanation coming off the body, what some people call the aura, although back then I didn't know the word And being a scientist, I figured for sure I had a retinal detachment. But I didn't have a retinal detachment and the experience was very very potent for me Because when you see the body giving off light, you begin to understand what our relationship is with the sun and other light giving bodies. You begin to realize that we are no different than plants. That what we, in fact, call photosynthesis in the plant kingdom is probably no different than what we call metabolism within our bodies.
That we are living photocells, if you will. So here, the body gives off light, and not only white light, but different colors of light. Now, I didn't understand this until I had a direct experience of it, and now I've had direct experiences of it for almost twenty years. So I trust my direct experience explicitly. What I realized by noticing that the body gave off light is that the way we interrelate with the sun, the way that we utilize that energy, the way we either allow it to traverse our being without in any way controlling it, or the way that we attempt to control it, then becomes evident in the way that the body re emanates, reradiates this light.
So what I'm saying is, we think of the sun out there, but we have the opportunity of becoming the Sun. All of us have seen artist renderings of great people, be it Jesus or Buddha or Saint Francis of Assisi, And many times, they are pictured with an aura, with a halo. And I always thought that that was something that the artist just put in. But after having my own experience of seeing it, what I realize is this defines the word illumined, to be illumined. And so when I say we have the opportunity of becoming the sun, what I'm saying is that our relationship with light is very, very crucial to our evolution, and this is probably why light is mentioned in regards to evolution, to enlightenment, to being illumined, and so on.
All of these experiences, the improvement of my vision. I should also add something about vision. I said that I had a revelation of feeling as though I was seeing from everywhere at once, and coming to the conclusion for myself that we don't see with our eyes. And most people say, well, that's impossible. We know that we see with our eyes. Well, if, if Sam Pesner, who's an optometrist on the front row, took me to his office today and evaluated me, he would find a significantly strong prescription. Yet I haven't worn glasses in sixteen years, and I pass all my driver's tests, and my vision varies between about twenty twenty five and twenty twenty or better.
So the question I'm asking is, where am I seeing from? Now I only share this experience because we're in a very important time historically. There's a lot of paradigms that are melting, crumbling. And the paradigm of how vision works also needs to crumble. It's probably the biggest epidemic, other than thinking, that we have in this country. Probably seventy percent of the individuals in this country wear corrective eyeglasses, and probably more than 90% wear sunglasses, corrective or non corrective. So all of this led to some very interesting insights. And in the I began utilizing light therapeutically. I got involved with a group called the College of Syntonic Optometry.
Syntonic comes from the word synteny, which means to bring into balance. And it was a group of gentlemen, that had been involved in this organization that began in the and by a man named doctor Harry Riley Spittler. And Spittler was a man a hundred years ahead of his time. He had 4 doctorates. He was brilliant. And he came up with an entire system of utilizing light specifically by way of the eyes. He felt that the light coming in could augment the function of the nervous system and endocrine system and put the body into balance. I began this work in the I used it on my mother, created a miracle within twenty days, which just totally blew me open.
I had no idea what to do then. Here I had discovered something that was magical, but I couldn't talk to anybody about it. People already thought that I was somewhat on the fringe, but I had some respectability. But if I was gonna start talking about light and seeing auras, I would have been booted out. So it was a very difficult time for me coming to these realizations about things that the average person's paradigm didn't include. You know, we say that seeing is believing. Well, the truth is, if we don't believe it, you don't even see it. So it's difficult to talk to someone about something that is not within their concept of reality.
You just there's nowhere to go with that. So what I began doing was working with children in my office, treating a lot of children that had learning difficulties, discovering some very, very interesting things about children that seem to have difficulties in school. What I notice is that they really don't have that many difficulties in school, but they're frightened to be in school. And I remember when I was in school how much I hated school. Well, not that much has changed. Most kids still hate school. And 1 of the things I know about children is children know more than we know. See, they're the next generation.
They're a bit more advanced and evolved than we are. They keep trying to tell us that, but we don't listen because we wanna be in control. And so what I notice is that when children are put or incarcerated in what we call learning, which really has nothing to do with learning for the most part, a lot of stress develops and these children close down. And the way that they close down is the energetic field that surrounds the body collapses. And when it collapses enough, the actual visual field, what we measure with a perimeter or a visual field device in our office also collapses.
And so what we notice is that children who are highly stressed in an academic setting or any condition, their visual field is very tiny. Now, you know, all of you are looking at me, but you're also aware of things happening to the sides. These children, if they looked at me, they may only be able to see a small part of my face, but they wouldn't be aware that something was missing because they had no means of comparison. So rather than appreciating the world or their life's experience as a whole, they were experiencing life through a whole. And the problem is that the field of vision, as I mentioned before, is the feeling aspect of vision. That's the anticipatory part of vision, and it allows us to develop relationship.
So, for instance, as I'm looking here, I'm also aware of where I was looking before and where I will be looking next. You might say that this is the present in relation to the past in relation to the future. When my visual field collapses so that I'm only in touch with a small piece of the present, I don't know where I am in relation to where I've been or in relation to where I'm moving to. Literally, I'm lost in space. And so many of these children collapse even further when this phenomenon occurs. And what I noticed early is that light, by way of the eyes, seemed to create miraculous enhancement in this situation. It would open up the field of vision.
Children would have personality changes, physical changes, academic changes, performance changes, and so on. And after a while, the parents of the children I was treating said, well, if you did that with Johnny, how about my migraine headaches? And so I can remember when parents would come in. I remember this 1 woman came in and had migraine headaches. And so we treated her, and three or four weeks later, her migraine seemed to dissipate, which she had had for seventeen years. And she came back two months later for a progress evaluation, and she said, you know, my migraines are gone, but, you know, I forgot to tell you something.
I said, what's that? She said, well, before I came to you, I hadn't had my period in a couple of years. And within two weeks of the treatment, I started getting my menses every month right on time. So I said, wow. This is very interesting. What's going on here? And so that began opening up even more. The paradigm kept spreading. And I began treating individuals that not only had things such as migraines, but individuals who had been in a coma and patients that had had multiple strokes, where sometimes they hadn't spoken for a long time, and then all of a sudden they started speaking. And I started having experiences that just kept causing me to look deeper, look deeper.
Being a scientist, I knew that I had to understand, my mind needed to understand what I was experiencing. So I began looking at what was really going on. And keep in mind, I came from an optometric background at the time, and I was led to believe that light entered the eye, stimulated the retina, it went through the optic nerve to the back of the head, what we call the occipital cortex, the primary visual centers or the striate cortex, and then through some magical means, we saw. I mean, I wasn't really told much about light. The sun was never mentioned in my education, and the only things we knew about light was that light entered the eye and created something called eyesight or vision. And the other property was that when it went through a prism, it broke up into its different spectral colors.
Little did I know that we were physiological prisms, that this invisible energy entered our being, and the way that we used allowed or not allowed that energy to come through was emanated, re radiated energetically out of the body. And now, we are beginning to realize that our minds are not confined to our heads or even our bodies, but that this physical body is encapsulated by an energetic field, which you might call your mind. So this energy being received by the body and reradiated is extremely important. But this was fifteen years ago, seventeen years ago. I didn't know a lot of the things that I now know.
And so I began searching, and I came across a paper written in the by a scientist named Cajal. And in the paper Cajal talks about his hypothesis that light enters the eye and aside from going to the centers of the brain having to do with vision, it also touches a part of the brain known as the hypothalamus. And then I look further, and in the a series of of researchers in separate locations seemed to come to the same hypothesis. But it wasn't until the hypothesis. But it wasn't until the that through some very sophisticated scientific techniques, we were able to prove conclusively that light when it entered the eye, aside from going to the visual centers, also goes to the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus.
So I began looking at the hypothalamus. What is the hypothalamus? And I realized that the hypothalamus is the brain's brain. It's the part of our being that is the major collecting station for information from the environment, externally, from the environment internally, from our psyche as well. The stress response is initiated within the hypothalamus. Many of our immune functions are directly sent out, ordered out throughout the body from the hypothalamus. And the hypothalamus also houses the body's biological clock. Just like the watch on your wrist, the body needs to know when to do what, because all of our life's experiences are cyclic and rhythmic.
So a lot of that is handled by the body's biological clock located within the hypothalamus. I said, wow, this puts light in a much more important position in my life. And then, of course, I realized that 1 of the reasons the hypothalamus was so important is that the hypothalamus directly controlled the portion of the nervous system that regulated what was happening within the body, the autonomic nervous system. And the hypothalamus also controlled almost all the functions of the body's master gland, the pituitary, which then seemed to affect the functions of the rest of the endocrine glands.
Says, wow. This hypothalamus is the CEO. It's the chairman of the board of the entire body. But then the scientists inside of me got in and said, well, who or what is telling the hypothalamus what to do? And I began looking and looking and looking, and I don't find much. And then I remembered reading in some esoteric texts about the pineal, which had a whole series of different names. The Greek philosopher Herophilus in the fourth century said it was the sphincter of thought, the origin of thought. Indian mystics said it was the third eye, the eye within, the contemplative eye.
Rene Descartes, the French philosopher in the sixteenth century, said it was the seat of the soul, the seat of our consciousness. Yet science, on the other side, said it's the pineal body when we didn't understand what its functions were, if there were any. Because keep in mind that we thought the pineal was a vestigial organ, a mere appendix of the brain. So we called it the pineal body, and then we called it the pineal gland. And now, within the last ten years, it's graduated. It's now called the pineal organ. And what we know about the pineal is that the pineal is not only the body's light meter, but it is the body's regulator of regulators.
It regulates everything that's happening in the body, and it's the only part of our being that doesn't receive information from any higher neurological centers. What that means to me, excuse the expression, is that that's the part of us that's connected to God, whatever that is. Now, the pineal I mentioned is the body's light meter. It receives information from the environment about light and darkness and spectral characteristics by way of the eyes, and it also receives information about the Earth's electromagnetic field.
I'm sure it receives a heck of a lot more information, but that's as much as we can conclusively say now. Now, that's very important because what we're saying is that it is the part of our being that is receptive to information from the heavens, light and darkness, and from the Earth beneath our feet, the Earth's electromagnetic field. So it feels as though this body is the connecting rod between the grounding forces and the heavenly energies. And that was my first idea that the pineal had something to do with relationship. So as I looked further into how the pineal worked, I was led to believe that light entered the eye, affected the retina, then went to the hypothalamus of the brain. The hypothalamus passed the information on to the pineal.
The pineal created a very interesting hormone called melatonin, which is the only hormone in the body right now that we know of that can do anything it wants, anytime it wants, anywhere it wants. Very powerful hormone, and it comes into creation from its effect from the pineal's relationship with light and darkness. And it's released because of light or darkness. So I was led to believe that the information was given to the pineal. The pineal created a messenger hormone, which sent that information to every single place in the body without exception. Basically told that part of the body what was happening outside, whether it was light or dark, what time of the year it was, what time of the day it was. And then the individual cells used that information to orchestrate their internal function and then synchronize themselves from mother nature.
In other words, the pineal is the part of our being that lays the basic foundation for relationship. Very important because everything in our life is a function of relationship, the 1 thing that we know very little about. Recent statistics indicate that less than five percent of all marriages remain. And of course, you know we are the only culture that has a concept of something called unemployment, or exercise, or vacation. You never see whales that are on vacation, or trees that are unemployed. But we're the only ones that seem to have these ideas.
Why? My sense is we are out of appropriate harmonious relationship with our life. Maybe this is the reason why our pineal are the size of a pea, whereas many animals, their pineal may occupy 50% of their brain at the time that they're born. It has to do, I sense, is with relationship. And that's a very important thing because everything in life, everything that happens in terms of health is a function of relationship. My investigation into light, what I just shared with you, seems to be a major foundation for the newly rediscovered field called phototherapy.
I say newly rediscovered because it's not new. It was probably the very first healing modality that we know of. All of the major cultures utilized light. There were people that looked directly into the sun every day, and claimed that it would not only heal their physical ailments, but give them the gift of longevity. The Egyptians looked not only into the sun, but it colors. And they said, not only it would heal the body, but it would open up the past memory banks of the observer. Almost like a homeopathic remedy, light would go in and seem to trigger the opening of a part of us that we have kept in the dark. After all, they say we use 3 to 4% of our intelligence.
What's happening in all those other areas? So light has been used for a very very long period of time. 1 of the major areas of medicine that has been utilizing light is the area of psychiatry. What they found within the last dozen years is that there is a whole group of individuals that seem to get depressed during the wintertime when light levels are low and days are shorter. And what they have found is that if you take light and apply it by way of the eyes, they started out with large banks of light, then they gradually reduced the size of the banks, increased the wattage of the lights. Now you can actually get it in a pair of glasses that goes on your face, so you can wash your dishes while you're receiving the treatment.
And basically what they found is that if you allowed individuals to treat themselves with light every day, and originally it was four to six hours, now it could be fifteen to twenty minutes, then within three to four days, the light seemed to fool the brain into thinking seasons had changed. It was no longer winter, it was now spring. And the depression and a lot of the symptoms of the depression seemed to lift, and the person was able to go on with their life. The same technology has now been effective in general depression, in dealing with individuals coming off of drug and alcohol dependency.
In some of the studies, those individuals have been able to reduce the amount of medication they need by up to 90% when it is used together with light therapy. So there's a lot of interesting technologies having to do with light. I have some different feelings about what's actually going on. It is not my feeling that seasonal affective disorder is caused by a lack of light. I think less light is only a catalyst that triggers what is already there. I don't feel that light should be used as a band aid on a melanoma. I think that many of these technologies are very good as a tool, but to be used full time, I feel that you then overlook what is really going on.
And, unfortunately, our medical system has been set up in such a way so that the medical doctor has become a medical deity. And the problem with that is that they then become responsible for healing us, which means if they don't, we wanna sue them. And at the same time, we are disempowered with the ability to take care of our own bodies. We become less and less responsible for take care of our own health system. So tomorrow, at the end of the day, I'll be talking about techniques that I have used having to do with healing on that level, and specifically about an area that I think is really really important and that is the realization that we are the remedy.
The remedy is not outside of us, and I'm not speaking in just some spiritual non grounded sense. What I am beginning to find is that all disease is the end result of a breakdown in relationship, whether it is relationship within ourselves, between us, with the environment, with the cosmos, whatever. And it's probably a direct no. I'm gonna go further. It is a direct function of the way that we utilize our minds. And so if the breakdown is within harmonious functional relationship, then the cure is to recreate that relationship.
And so I'm beginning to understand how the doctor can be the healer or how the doctor can be the slayer. We think that licensing has to do with where you practice. What I'm beginning to realize is that my license is about giving someone else the license to get well. And I used to think that it was techniques that would improve one's vision, exercises, and so on. And now I get letters and phone calls all the time from people to say, gee, you know, I was listening to you sharing your story about your vision, and I noticed that my vision got clear.
Now that's called spontaneous remission. It doesn't just have to happen with cancer. It happens with everything as soon as we let go of our point of view. So if we could just tune in to what we do that creates the spontaneous exacerbations in our life, we would have a much greater ability of also noticing when that opening occurs and we have spontaneous remission. If we can begin to live that way, then we create a whole field of energy that is supportive of that going on. See, the problem is when I say to someone my vision has improved and then the doctor says to me that's impossible, then it's impossible.
So if I believe him or her, and, you know, doctors are like gods. That's the way we're brought up. So if I believe them, then I take on their concept of reality which limits my concept of reality. Can you imagine how it would be if we had 2 national registries? 1 had all of the people on it that were just diagnosed as having some fatal illness, and the other 1 had the names of all the people on it who were told they had a fatal illness and then had a spontaneous remission. And then what would happen is that as soon as someone found out that they supposedly were going to die from something, the first thing that we did is we coupled them with an individual who was told the same thing and is living.
Now, what do you think would happen to the paradigms the moment that happened? So I think it all comes down to not be in touch with the self, not being in touch with our belly brain. That's our final decision maker, and that's my final statement. Thank you.
[00:38:00] Unknown:
This concludes doctor Jacob Lieberman's opening presentation on healing with light. Our program continues with a second and more in-depth discussion of healing with light with doctor Jacob Lieberman.
[00:38:19] Unknown:
Now 1 of the other things that's come up today is my technique versus your technique versus their technique. So what I'd like to perhaps talk about and share a little bit this afternoon is what I perceive as nature's technique. Because the body has its own wisdom and it is a microcosm of a larger macrocosm called nature and the universe. So if we could understand something about the way nature works, the larger picture, if you will, then we have a much greater understanding of how we work within ourselves and in relation to others. Now this phenomenon came to me many years ago.
And the way it appeared was this. You see, we had an old paradigm. And the old paradigm had the idea that the body was a piece of equipment with replaceable parts. And we had this big thing that we called a body, and then we had this little tiny thing that we called the mind. It wasn't much that we knew about, so we didn't mess with the mind much. And when things happen within an individual that we felt had something to do with their mind, we called it a mental disorder. They'd lost their mind. They went insane. We would take them away in white jackets, you know, with their arms behind. You remember the old paradigm. And the old paradigm was built on an illusion of hierarchy.
Not only and and the illusion, I believe, was built into the body because we dealt with the world as if we were separate from everything within it. So there was always the doctors, the patients, the teachers, the students, and so on. There was always this hierarchy. So based on that, I believe that we developed a superstition about how the body worked. And what we said was that the way that it worked was that we had these senses. And the senses picked up whatever there was out there, fed that information into the brain. The brain mixed that information with old information, and then it told another part of the brain what to do, and then that other part of the brain told the nervous system and the endocrine system what to do, and then those systems passed it down to the muscles and the nerves and so on and so forth. Wasn't that the view that we were all all told about?
That that's the way the body worked. So we had an idea that the body worked as a hierarchy, number 1. And number 2, we had an idea that primarily we had a body. And then we had this thing called the mind which we didn't understand. And if you look at all the original approaches to, let's say, light and color, except when you go way back to whether it is the Rishis in India or the seers of Egypt, they understood something about nature and themselves because they were connected. But in more modern times, let's say within the last couple hundred years, we've forgotten about that connection with nature.
So we developed this separateness from nature and out of that came a hierarchy. So if you look at the original approaches to utilizing light and color, the original approaches had to do with utilizing light on the body to treat conditions. The body had conditions, you alleviated conditions. That was the old paradigm. And our family structures and everything were built like that. And so our view of reality followed that same idea. And then we started seeing shifts happening. If you look at old movies, you never really see people having emotional expressions of a deep nature. It just wasn't part of what was going on. As my parents said, it wasn't in vogue.
You didn't hug in public. I I really never understood how my sister and I were born. I never heard my parents making love. When did it happen? So it wasn't in vogue. I can remember when I said to my mother, and my mother is 79 and my my dad's almost 82. And 1 day when I was going through a lot of my own healing, I said to my mom, I said, why was it that I never remember dad hugging me? And she pulled me into the room and she said, how do you think I felt? He's never hugged me. They were married fifty years at that time.
So this is part of the old paradigm, expressionlessness. Well, that's a hard word. So we've seen changes. When they we got to the point that people used to allow themselves to express themselves, we used to call it losing it. When they lost it on the movie or in the movie, the next scene was that they were usually taken away. They were medicated. They were given shots. They were taken away in the white coats. So that was our view. The mind was a dangerous thing. So the paradigm has been shifting, and then you had something called psychosomatic. That was sort of an interesting way of saying the person was crazy.
You know what it means, that the psyche affects the soma. But the way we used it was they're really crazy. It's it's all in their imagination. That was a big word, the imagination. And then we went into the area of mind body integration. And then people like Norman Cousins expressed his own experience of supposedly he was going to die of a certain illness, and then he watched funny movies and lacked himself into health. See, it's hard to die while you're laughing. So what's happened is the old paradigm has gradually transformed into a new paradigm.
Now a lot of the new paradigm is based on work that probably began a long time ago, but in terms of current work to validate this, you have to go back to 1977 and some very, very important discoveries that were made by a friend of mine named Candace Pert, who at the time was working at the National Institute of Mental Health. Now Candace Pert, I feel in the next year or two or three or four is going to get the Nobel Prize. And she, she's got a book coming out next year called Molecules of Emotions. Candace Pert was a lady at the National Institute of Mental Health that discovered, along with a few other people, a group of informational substances called neuropeptides.
Now in the body, we have many informational substances. Some of them are called neurotransmitters. Some of them are called hormones. Some of them are called neuropeptides. They are all essentially the same thing. Anyone who's really understands endocrinology will tell you there's no difference. We used to think they were different. Now, who really knows will tell you they're all in the class of informational substances. They take information into the body. The old thought was that when something happened in the body, a reaction occurred in the mind.
That's why they called them neuropeptides, neuro meaning within the mind. And then the mind would create these chemicals. The chemicals would be secreted in a hierarchy throughout the body, and that's the way the body knew what it needed to do. Well, what Peart discovered as she was looking into the area of the immune system was that when these neurochemicals, these informational substances, neuropeptides, were secreted in the brain, they were simultaneously secreted by the immune cells. And what she specifically found is that the secretion of these informational substances Or let me change that, not the secretion. The materialization of these, informational substances came about in response to a feeling, a thought, an intention, an emotion, a belief.
That when you felt something or had a thought, an appropriate chemical messenger would come from invisibility into materialization and would express throughout the body what that feeling was. We used to think it happened as a hierarchy. What we found out is the way that this occurs, the way that informational substances are felt throughout the body are as a network, not as a hierarchy, as a field, as within a holographic field. So what was discovered was that whenever you have a feeling, emotion, intention, whatever it is, simultaneously, you have the materialization of these chemicals throughout the body.
Now it started out as something discovered about the immune system. What has now been discovered, and we now know there's about 58 to 60 different neuropeptides, each associated with different states of mind and emotions. What we now know is that these are manufactured by every single cell in the body at the same instance of time as you have the feeling.
[00:49:11] Unknown:
This concludes side a. Please turn the tape over for side b.
[00:50:07] Unknown:
So what I'm saying is is that the mind has essentially escaped the brain. The mind is no longer in the head as we thought. We used to say up here being in your head. But it's not in your head. So what we now know is that the mind exists throughout the body. And the way that the body works is directly related to your state of consciousness. What's going through that chatter? John Bradshaw says that there's approximately twenty five thousand hours of takes in your mind, your mental chatter. We know that each person experiences about 60000 thoughts per day.
Unfortunately, 95% of the thoughts you're having today are the same ones you had yesterday and the same ones you'll have tomorrow. Now that was a very profound discovery in the area of mind body medicine. But then another discovery came about in the and a new set of informational substances was discovered. The reason we hadn't thought about it before or seen it before was because it seemed to be predominantly looked at within the insect kingdom and within the plant kingdom. And these informational substances were known as pheromones. Now pheromones are informational essences, energetic essences that are secreted by the body also in response to your state of mind, state of being.
And these are secreted into the environment. So when your mind is going through whatever it goes through every microsecond, the body responds by creating the appropriate chemical informational substances so the entire body knows and feels simultaneously as a field what's occurring, and simultaneous to that, the same energy is being transmitted out into the atmosphere as a field of information. So where is the mind? Not in the head. So where is the mind? Not in the body. So where is the body? The body is inside the mind. It's not a body that creates a mind as we used to think.
It's a mind, a field of energy, a non localized area of intelligence that creates what appears as a physical entity. Big shift in paradigms. Now that's really the basis for a lot of what we now called body mind, 1 unit. Doesn't work separate mind and body. They're both the same thing. So quite honestly, there's no treatment that just treats the mind and no treatment that just looks at the body. We've been talking about all these different modalities. They all affect everything at the same time. There's no way to separate them. The real question is, what level do you enter in at?
And we all enter at the most appropriate level for who we are and what we want to do. So someone may wish to treat it at this level because that is what's comfortable for them and appropriate for them and someone may want to treat it at this level just like Mary utilizes a table that moves as she's giving the treatment. This is her particular approach. It isn't a right or wrong and the body mind is being affected. It's just a different way. We are all different. We all bring in a different gift. So all of these approaches affect everything. But the reason I wanted to lay down the old paradigm to the new paradigm is to give us an understanding of what I'm gonna continue to share with you.
Now the way that this came into my awareness was not through the reading of some scientific literature about what I just shared. And the way that it came into my awareness about how I feel and perceive that nature does the healing was not through reading a newspaper or reading some scientific literature, but through my own experience. So I'll share the experience with you because I think that most of you have had a similar experience. When I was a youngster, I used to have a lot of daily interactions with my father. We used to bang heads. And I didn't think that those things that happened to me as a child would in any way affect me as I became older, because as a child, you don't realize all of this kind of stuff, until I was about 25 and then ended up marrying my father dressed as a woman.
I guess I'm the only 1 in this room that's had that experience. And then after six or seven years of being married, I went through a very, very difficult separation and divorce. And there is nothing that anyone has spoken about in here whether it is major anxiety attacks, deep depression to the point of wanting to kill myself that I haven't experienced. I used to have 30 or 40 major anxiety attacks every day And I had them for about six and a half years. Nine one one was my favorite number. I can laugh about it now. I was frightened to death continually.
Continually. My body would shake, I couldn't catch my breath, you know, my color would be gone. In fact, that's why I do what I do now. That was my schooling. But if you haven't had that experience, it's scary. So then we might avoid going into those domains. Or we'll go into them in a more cognitive manner rather than knowing them by heart. So this is an area that I know a little bit by heart out of my own experience. As John Downing said, I'm not a psychologist but I probably could be. So what I'm saying is when I got divorced, within a couple years later, I once again got into a relationship with my father dressed as a different woman.
And I thought this was interesting but this time it didn't take seven years. This 1 was a three and a half year relationship. I was beginning to get smarter. So at some point, I started looking at that phenomenon. And I said, My goodness, it's so interesting that I keep attracting into my life women that are energetically like my father. Until I realized that all my close male friends were just like my father too. And then I looked at all of my close friends, male and female, since I was a little kid. Sixth grade was the first time I fell in love with the first girl. And every single 1 of them without exception was just like the parent, my dad in this case, that I had unresolved issues with.
And even my teachers with the exception of missus Williams in fifth grade was just like my dad. I mean, I looked at this really carefully. Now this may sound odd, but look at your own life and see if nature does not in fact feed to you anything in your life that's unresolved. Now when I first heard that, people said, well, that's karma. You know, what comes around, goes around. But I was a scientist at that time, and I needed to have a greater understanding. Is this just something that's in my imagination, or does this have any validity at all?
Because if there's something to this, if in fact we are homeopathic remedies running around, being attracted to each other for a very specific reason, then everything we need for healing is within our relational dynamics. The problem is we're all in relationships, but we don't know how to relate. So I look at the human relational phenomenon as a series of tuning forks. You know how tuning fork works. You hit this 1 here, the 1 over there will buzz. What do you think happens when we get together? We resonate with the part of each other that's like the part of the other.
So how does that actually work or is that just an illusion, something I'm passing on to you? If we go back to the periodic table of elements, because everything comes down to those elements, and you take any element in the periodic table let's say you're dealing with iron. The way that a chemist, a scientist determines the difference between 1 element and the other is just the same way that the police department knows Bob Dubin from me. Fingerprints. This is my signature. He has his own. Well, if you look in an element, every element has a fingerprint. Because if you take the 2 rocks out of the ground, they only look like 2 rocks.
But how do you know which is the iron and which is the mercury if they don't look different? Well, the way that they do it in science is you take this element and you heat it up. And when you heat it up, if you put it within an instrument called a spectroscope, that element will give off an energetic essence. It will give off light. You remember Bob Dubin said this morning, he said, whenever there is change within a system, the electrons jump states. They jump to a different state. And when they do, photons are given off. Light is given off.
The photons are the informational substances. So when you look deeply into the body, the way that the body communicates within itself is that every time there's a change in state, each cell gives off light, and that's the way the cells communicate. These are informational photons. You take an element, you heat it up, which means you are activating it, And it starts giving off its fingerprint, its vibrational electromagnetic signature. If you look through the spectroscope, you can see that the element is giving off light in different portions of the spectrum. So if you're just looking at the visible portion, you might notice that the element let's say you got a rock here. It's being heated up. You look through the spectroscope and you see here's violet, the violet end of the spectrum. Here's the red end of the spectrum. Right? And you notice that the element all of a sudden has a peak here. It's giving off something in the blue or indigo and then it's flat. And then, oh, there's another peak over here right in yellow.
So that's the energetic signature of the element When it is in a state of excitement, which is what happens when something gets heated, it gives off energy, let's say in the blue violet and yellow portion of the spectrum. And in science, we call those Fraunhofer emission lines. But in real terminology, it's just the energetic signature of the element. So what I'm saying is every element has a signature, an energetic signature which is visible. Now that in itself is important, but let's get to the real guts. You take this element, you heat it up, you're looking at its signature and now you do something and the something is that you shine white light into the space, into the environment that this element is excited and giving off energy in. And then what you notice is that the element will attract to itself from the white light an exact mirror image of what energy it is giving off.
Let me repeat that because this is really crucial to the understanding of how nature works. You take any element, you excite it by heating it, it'll give off an energetic signature. You put it into an environment of white light and it will attract to itself an exact mirror image of what it is giving off. What is this body? On 1 level, the body is made up of all of these elements, everything. You take this body and accept when we're sleeping, and we're still excited then, but when we are awakened we're excited. And when we're excited, we are giving off an energetic vibrational signature.
You can call it an aura if you'd like. You're walking around with this aura. Where? In an environment of light. So what do you do? You attract from the quantum soup of experience out there an exact mirror image of where you are at at any particular instance of time. So how can there be a negative effect? The doctor and patient are being attracted for a reason. The therapy you're giving is absolutely appropriate. The experience is appropriate. Now we can go back to the initial paradigm that there's right and wrong. But there's no right and wrong in the world. That's just what our mind has done.
There's just is. And if you look at it carefully, you will notice what your peace is in the action. So the experience in nowadays is there are no accidents. Things just don't happen. The world has a much greater knowing than our mind does. So the importance of this is that when I started noticing that I was attracting into my life things that were unresolved and how does that relate to this energetic essence? Well, see, my sense is that we are biological or physiological prisms. You know what happens. You take a glass prism. It's very pure. You take invisible energy called light. You shine it in through 1 end, and then out the other end comes all these colors.
But have any of you seen auras? Raise your hand if you have. Great. So when you've seen an aura, have you ever seen anybody walking around that look like a rainbow? No. So what makes us different than the prisms? The prisms the only thing that makes us different from the glass prisms is just 1 thing. The prism doesn't have a mind. What comes in just flows through. But we do something with our minds, and when we do it, it's like it's like if you had a hose and water was running through it. Now if you didn't touch the hose, the full flow of energy would come through. But if you took your hand and you grip that sucker and the more you squeeze, the less water would come out, this is the mind. That's what the mind does. That's 1 of the things the mind does.
It strangles the flow of energy as it comes in because we want to be in control. So we control it. Put a wrench in the works, unfortunately. When we do that, the light that's emitted is not the rainbow. It's something less than. So what was being emitted from me were the weak links in my chain, the sensitive spots. Why? See, our mind knows what we like. A lot of the things we've been hearing here is about giving the person what they like. Well see the mind knows what it wants but it doesn't have any idea what it needs. The body knows just what it needs.
So there's the mind saying, Give me what I want. And then there's the body that's saying, well for the species to evolve we're going to need to do it differently. That's called evolution of the species. That's how we evolve. We attract just what we need in order to continually expand. If not, we'd probably self destruct. And even though some people have the idea that we're going to keep doing that, people throughout history have always thought the world's coming to an end, but it doesn't. It just keeps going. It just keeps getting just what it needs for the evolutionary process to keep shifting.
So what I noticed was that we attract just what we need. And I noticed that happened with the clients that came into my office. Always, they had a gift for me. They thought I had a gift for them. They didn't realize they also had a gift for me. So the reason I'm sharing this is that I want to take us into the newer paradigm. But I needed to lay a little bit of a foundation about the old paradigm and the new paradigm to create the newer paradigm. This is going to be the substance of my next book. What we know is that the body is encapsulated by a field, a non localized field of intelligence, that when we are not in our mind, our local mind, when we are in nonlocal mind, universal mind, we are without thought, if you will.
We are infinitely connected to everything. Everything. Now, so I make that statement and you say, well, how do you know that? Well, I'll tell you how I know it. I've been having, I guess, parapsychological experiences for years. Metaphysical experiences for years. There was a man in the field of optometry who was a very dear friend of mine named Elliot Forrest. And we were very connected. And 1 day, I was in the shower in Miami, Florida when I used to live there. And I was taking a shower, this was 1 morning, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, I started sobbing.
I just started sobbing. And I mean, it was like 1 of those real deep sobs when, you know, you can't quite catch your breath. And all of a sudden I have this feeling that Elliot died. And I stepped out of the shower, I'm soaking wet and I pick up the phone and I call New York and I said, Libby, when did it happen? She says, how did you know? He just died. So how did I know? What was I picking up? Was I pick I I I felt that. Now, was I picking up something in the radio wave frequencies? Was I picking up something in the waves that create television? What happens when the phone rings and you know who it is? What are you picking up? Are you picking up the same fiber optics that US Sprint uses?
What happens when you a healer lays their hands above the body and you feel this intense heat? What's coming out? Is it infrared? I mean, what is going on there? What are we picking up and how are we picking it up? Is it that the body has a field that's like a radar screen? You know what a radar screen is. It's a device that the armed services and the airports use to pick up things, planes let's say, before your physical senses can pick them up. Well, we know that the physical senses are a very poor they're very poor devices for evaluating reality.
After all, we pick up less than one billionth of the information that is available. And we think seeing through that little peephole into life that what we're seeing is what exists. That's a fact. We pick up less than one billionth of what's actually the stimuli going on out here that is available to us. And you know what we're picking up? We're only picking up the stuff that fits our picture of what reality is. In vision, I remember when I was in optometry school, people would say, Seeing is believing. Well, it's not true. If you don't believe it, you won't even see it.
When I was in optometry school between '69 and graduated in '73, there was some interesting experimentation and research that was being done in Harvard Medical School at the time by 2 gentlemen named Hubel and Weasel who eventually received the Nobel Prize. And what Hubel and Weasel did is they reared kittens in 2 separate conditions. In 1 condition, the kittens were reared in rooms of horizontal alternating black and white stripes, and the other kittens were reared in rooms that had, alternating vertical black and white stripes. And what they found when these cats got old and they examined their brains is that the connections between the neurons, the stuff that was sending the information, was such that the cats reared in the horizontally striped rooms could only see a horizontal world. They could see this, you know, the horizontal the horizontal aspect of things.
The cats reared in a room with vertically oriented stripes could only see a vertical world. They couldn't see anything horizontal. Along with the information received genetically, there is information within the field of the individual that has to do not only with the physical structure of the body, but it has to also do with the belief system of our predecessors. So we don't come in as an empty slate. Look at babies. They're all different. When my 2 kids were born, my daughter came out just breathing like a lark, and she still is. My son came out holding his breath to the point that I thought he would die. And I think to this day, he's still holding his breath.
So what I'm saying is that morphogenetically, we bring in certain beliefs along with our genetics that combined with the initial experiences that we energetically attract in, those experiences sculpt the neurology in such a way so that subsequent experiences are automatically edited out unless they conform to the same beliefs that were created from the first experiences. Do you get what I'm saying? So when we say you create your own reality, what are we really talking about? You're only seeing it your way. Each of you is an artist and there is a blank canvas here within a frame.
And as you're observing me, you are each individually creating me on the slate there. And each of you thinks it's me, but it's not. Each of you sees me in a different way. There's some of you that came up to me during the day today and shared some really wonderful things, and I'm sure there's some of you who think I'm a pain in the ass. Well, I'm neither a pain in the ass nor am I wonderful. I just am. You make me what I am to you based on your experiences. So what I'm saying is you are creating this experience. Now how is it that we see what's going on?
See, when I went to school, we had this idea that the way that vision worked was that information entered the eye, went back into the computer, the computer did something, it inverted the picture. It's They they made it sound like it was something like a camera And then through some magic, we saw. So we all understood the neurology, physiology, and so on, but we were never told how it is we see. And so what I discovered for myself quite a few years ago is something about how we see. See, the eyes are always making these micro little movements. The eyes are situated right at the helm of this system. They are not a separate entity from the brain. They are the brain.
The brain has 2 frontal extensions called eyes. When light strikes the eye, it simultaneously strikes the brain. Eyes and brain are the same. So the eyes are sort of at the helm of the system. They're the navigational system. How do they work? Well, what I noticed is that when I went to school, I was led to believe that when I looked out at what we call experience, there were some things more important than others. Isn't that what you were taught? There was something called figure. The figure was the main thing. And then the other things that were less important were called the ground.
In education, they call it figure ground relationships. And I was led to believe that this actually existed in the world. That there was something that was more important and the rest of it less important. I didn't realize that what that was the way our minds worked. It had nothing to do with reality. And what I discovered that really improved my vision is that this quantum soup of energy doesn't in reality have a figure and ground. It's a constantly changing figureless ground. So if I could view reality, if I could look in this experience here and see everything equally, then there's no difference between anything out there and there's no difference between myself and it.
I become part of the experience not an observer of the experience. Well, if you allow your eyes to see that way, you notice a few interesting things. The first thing is in order to do that you have to give up your point of view. You have to see with fresh eyes. You have to see from nowhere. And if you do that, you'll get into spontaneous remission with your vision and probably every other part of your body at the same time. Now, that sounds a little weird. Those of you that wear glasses, take off your glasses sometime because you can't really see with your glasses on. And I'll explain that a little later. Take off your glasses, close your eyes and get yourself relaxed, and then open your eyes and you'll notice a very interesting phenomenon.
As soon as you open your eyes, just for a quick second, everything is very clear. How many of you that wear glasses have ever had that experience where you had your eyes closed? Regardless of your prescription, you open your eyes and everything is crystal clear and then it gets fuzzy. What do you think is going on between the point of crystal clarity and the point of blurriness? As soon as you open up, you see from no point of view. Within microseconds, every filter steps into place and now you're viewing this quantum soup through all of these filters.
So you don't really see what's going on. You just make of it some distorted thing based on your experience. So what I noticed is that if I could see from nowhere or if I could see from everywhere at the same time, then my vision became clear. And this is why I shared with you yesterday that I still have a significant prescription for those of you that are optometrists here. I'm a diopter and a half myopic and I have 2 and a half to two and three quarters diopters of astigmatism. Which means that for those of you that are not optometrists, is my vision should be at best maybe 21 fiftieths and at worst maybe 23 hundredths or worse, but it's nowhere near that.
I saw everything that was projected up here today. So where am I seeing from? Perhaps Alex Gray was right on the money. The eyes are within the field. These are only the windows of the soul. The eyes are out here all over the place. So as I started to understand something about how this phenomenon of field occurs, I began to realize that our field can be endless, infinite, which means that our intention touches everything. And you say, how's that possible? Well, I was always led to believe that the way that our vision worked is that light entered the eye. We've all agreed upon that the last two days. Right? Light enters the eye and then all this stuff happens.
But there's something else going on. You see, light affects the body, but consciousness determines how we take light in and what portion we take in. Forget about what's out there. If all we needed to do was get full spectrum light, then every farmer in the country that's putting pesticides in the food that they're trying to get you to grow on, but they're killing you at the same time, they should be very conscious because they're getting the full spectrum of everything. But it isn't about getting full spectrum light. It's having a full spectrum life.
It's being able to receive what is present. Bob can do all the adjustment he wants. Won't do anything unless you're open to Bob. Won't do anything. Unless your receptivity opens up, your treatment is nothing. So we're the major pharmacopeia. We're the major healing energies. So if we can have an infinite field of intelligence and the way that I know that is you see, I used to think the way we saw is light entered the eyes, I just said. Right? Do you ever been in a bus or somewhere out in the public in a group of people and all of a sudden you get the feeling somebody's staring at you? You ever have that? And you turn around and by God they're looking at you? What were you feeling?
Were they sending beams of light out of their eyes? Is that possible? They looked at you with their eyes, their intention, something goes out. See, my feeling is that 80% of the light goes this way. Only 20% comes this way. And that's the way I think intention works. It goes out holographically in every direction and dimension simultaneously. So then we have this field we live in. And the field is a big radar screen that picks up information before your senses pick it up. We call that precognitive experiences or psychic experiences. And we know children have that, right, until they grow up. I call that the process of adulteration.
We adulterate them and they lose their field collapses. So what causes the field to collapse? Because the field can stay expanded or the field can stay collapsed, which means you have a dynamically shifting radar screen. Now you know if the radar screen is infinite, then you can pick up everything that's going on, can't you? And in reality, we know everything that's going on. But for some reason, we seem to block out a lot of it. Why? The field collapses. The radar screen gets small. And when it goes to its extreme, if you evaluate the visual field, the physical manifestation of this larger field, it will shrink.
When consciousness opens up, it expands, and it can happen in a microsecond because this field is not a static thing. It's a constantly breathing kind of phenomenon in every direction there is and it changes with states of mind, your breathing, and so on. So what causes it to collapse? Well, in 1974, when I first was able to see auras, I noticed something interesting. You can really see the aura brightly until people start thinking. The moment they think, the field collapses. Well, we were led to believe that thinking is the necessity for learning. Wasn't that it? That's what made us higher than the other portions of the animal kingdom?
That's what allows us to use them for cruel experiments if we wish to Or eat them or whatever we want to do? Isn't that what it was? We could think, they couldn't. Yet we know we're the only ones that are unemployed or need to exercise as I mentioned yesterday. So what keeps this thing going? See, the thing we call thinking is just a real fancy word for something I call worrying. See, most of our thinking is really worrying. But it's not really worrying. It's the most sophisticated cheating ever created. See, we used to think that cheating was the thing you did when you looked over someone's shoulder to see what was happening on their test paper because you didn't study.
That's obvious cheating, like obvious addiction, drinking or drugging. But the real big addiction in this country is thinking. It's what we do avoiding whatever we're feeling. We go up in our minds. So what I've noticed is that what we call thinking is really just the process of rehearsing continually. It's what we do to try to guarantee that things come out our way. And we do that because we've never developed an authentic security about our own function. So we do this cheating as a way of trying to appear in the way we think we're supposed to be in the world. The moment we do it, we can't learn. Because the moment that we start thinking, we stop breathing.
It was, Freud that said, when a parent yells, the baby holds their breath. When we get scared, we hold our breath. Why do we think? Because we're scared. We're afraid to be spontaneous. We're afraid that we won't be accepted, We won't be loved. They'll say we made a mistake. We'll be embarrassed. Whatever the hell happened to us as children. So fear and thinking, for the most part, I find are identical. Now your minds won't like that. But that's been my direct experience. And the moment you start thinking, it's impossible to learn. Whatever you want won't come until you stop thinking.
While you're thinking, it gets to the tip of your tongue. That's it. Then it stops. It won't pop out till you stop thinking. So the idea of thinking, trying harder, totally screws you up. That's what meditation is about. Get out of your head, get out of your thought process, magic happens. So the real question is, how do you take the magic into the world? How do you keep the field expanded? So when I started working with light, what I noticed is that if I put colors into the system, I could intuitively feel what was going on. The person could subjectively tell me what was going on. I could monitor the physiology to determine what was going on. But there are several different ways that I would know energetically what portion of the life's experience, which is the same as the light experience, the person was unreceptive to.
We're not antagonizing anything. The system has what it has. You feed the light in and through either 1 of the ways I just mentioned, the body tells you, gee, this doesn't feel comfortable. Why? Because the light energetically is a tuning fork and it's awakening a tuning fork just like it that's lodged in your body. This is the part of the light that never exited your prism. This is the part of your life's experience that when you ingested it and digested it, you couldn't stomach it. So you held on to it. You couldn't express it. It was too scary to say how you felt.
So you held on to it. Well, you know, Bob Dubin said that everything is light. All matter is frozen light. You take energy, you slow it down, it becomes solid. You take the energy of emotionality and you slow it down by not expressing it, and it becomes a biological resistor. It crystallizes in the body. It becomes a lump, if you will. Then what happens is you know how they they crack kidney stones down stuff? They take sound and and it cracks. This is the same phenomenon. You got this crystalline bunch of energy, this stagnant energy that's been held on to emotionally because it wasn't safe to express it, to release it. You now put the light into the system and it homeopathically awakens it.
The person starts feeling, Margaret, you put on the light. What do you feel? She said, I feel some energy moving. You said my heart is is pumping a little fast. The soma, she first feels going on. If you sit with it for a while, if you just sit with it, something surfaces and you get a flash of something. You simulate energetically something that the person is unreceptive to. They're unreceptive to it because it's unfinished business. This is what they keep attracting into their life which they call an irritant. But it's not an irritant, it's a gift.
So we put it in to the system. It doesn't make any difference where you you start from the area where they're least not responsive or most. You do that out of intuition. I don't have any method. My method is I just trust myself. So I do the best I can to just go for it. That's what I'm doing right this moment. Well, that's the way I work with people. I trust this piece of technology. So what comes in, I just use it. And if it starts violet or it starts at red, I don't know how it's gonna start or even if it's going to start. I just do whatever comes up. That's just the way that I happen to work. Doesn't mean that anyone else has to do it. That's just what I need. That's my particular medicine that I need to help me evolve.
So any way you use this will be appropriate for what you need. And that's what needs to be trusted. Now, time is out, but I want to do something. I'm starting a new book. And this will capsulize where I'm at. And this may be the intro. This just came out in the last couple days, but I wanted to share it with you. And this is called From Light to Enlightenment. But I don't know if that's going to be the title of the book or if the title of the book is gonna be called Open Focus. But 1 of those things. As I approached the end of my first book, Light Medicine of the Future, I became aware that the process of writing the book had transformed my awareness.
I realized that the last section about the healing power of relationship was the essence of what I really wanted to communicate. Because the book was almost finished, I didn't rewrite the previous chapters. I could see that another book would be necessary to do justice to this topic. As I went into the world to promote that book, these ideas became even clearer. The first book was largely a product of my mind. It had been written by thinking, planning and organizing words on paper. I realized that the next book would have to come from a more organic level of knowing. I wanted it to be a creation of the spontaneous wisdom that arises in each moment.
I wanted it to share what I know by heart. It was a time when humans were completely attuned to their inner selves and were able to read the language of nature as a reflection of their own inner harmony. They could sense what was happening within another person and what remedy to use for every disease. You can still see this today in so called primitive cultures. In modern world, we have forgotten that natural ability. Instead, we dismiss it as witchcraft or the imagination. But now science itself is proving that this imagination may be the organizing principle of our body and that this witchcraft may be our most potent healing remedy.
We are fundamentally connected to everything in the universe just as the ancient people knew. In our lifetime, we are seeing the convergence of 3 healing paradigms, 3 different ways of understanding reality. To discover and transform ourselves, we will move through all 3 perspectives. The first paradigm is the world view that we learned in childhood. It structured our formative experiences, the past causes of our current patterns. In medicine, it was based on the scientific principle of Cartesian dualism, which split the mind and the body apart.
The body was a machine which could only be understood and treated mechanically. All of the mind and the emotions which could not be explained in mechanical terms were dismissed as not real, as imaginary. This separated the individual from their only true source of healing, the gut knowing of the belly brain. These healing powers were then projected outside the self, turning the medical doctor into the medical deity. The second paradigm is a place of expanding awareness and integration. Working from this perspective, we have created a new view of reality that connects ancient wisdom with scientific discoveries and reintegrates our fractured selves.
It recognizes that our mind and body are 1, and that consciousness on all levels consists of holes within holes, all ultimately interconnected. Mind body medicine strives to reawaken our connection with the healer within. In the process, we are demystifying the medical deity and turning the doctor patient relationship into a partnership. In the third paradigm, we try to apply these insights to our daily lives. Can we achieve and maintain body mind integration, not just during meditation or in therapy, but throughout the day? Can we maintain full self awareness during the daily activities and interactions?
Can we become aware of how we magnetically attract certain life experiences? Can we consciously expand our opportunities for growth and self awareness? We can do all these things, but not by learning a perfect technique or by having a great personality. We do it by becoming so aware and choiceless that our full awareness flows spontaneously like magic. This is both very easy and almost impossible. Life is a process of becoming aware, a constant practice. So we're at the threshold of a new healing paradigm, but the new medicine turns out to be the same as the oldest medicine, the healer within. Nature's innate intelligence knows exactly how to heal ourselves and others.
We are the most potent remedy in the world, a healing pharmacopeia that energetically attracts the transformative experiences that we require next. And life's little irritations are often precisely the medicine that we most need to assimilate. It is only a matter of time before even skeptical scientists confirm that we are the most powerful medicine in the world. What will the FDA do then? How will it regulate us when we become the doctors, the healers, when we talk to each other and healing occurs, when we touch each other and healing occurs? Everywhere I travel, I see that this is already happening.
But don't take my word for it. Create your own healing shifts. As we move from light to enlightenment, every life experience becomes an opportunity to further expand our self awareness, to realize more fully who we really are. Thank you.
[01:37:42] Unknown:
This concludes healing with light with doctor Jacob Lieberman. If you would like additional copies of this recording or a complete catalog of transformational audio tapes, please call sounds true. One eight hundred three three three nine one eight five, or write the Sounds True catalog, 735 Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302. Thanks for listening.
Introduction to Dr. Jacob Lieberman
The Philosophy of Light and Vision
Personal Journey and Vision Experiments
Discovering the Body's Light Emission
The Role of the Hypothalamus and Pineal Gland
Historical Use of Light in Healing
The Shift from Old to New Paradigms
Mind-Body Connection and Informational Substances
The New Paradigm of Healing
From Light to Enlightenment: Closing Thoughts
