Well, that is the reason why you cannot; it is control. Everyone has problems with it, even me, but I have obviously gotten passed that. It is your analytical self. It is okay to analyze, just do it afterwards. It is almost impossible for you to do because you just want to analyze what is going on mentally. You cannot let go with your brain so that your consciousness can collect the data on a different level.

Here is an exercise to help with that. Have someone work with you.

Before you go out to do one of those things, have them show you a group of objects one at a time, and try to remember as many as you can. Twenty-five is ideal, but that is an extreme amount. If you can get up to ten objects without saying what they are in your head and then recall them verbally afterwards, that’s an excellent discipline for you to work with.

While you are reading, look at the objects in the image. See if you can acknowledge what they are, one at a time, without saying what they are in your head. You will find that the exercise shuts the Babbler off.

Then go and experiment on those other levels because it is like learning to do two things at one time. You might have to struggle somewhat, but once you have it down, you will find that you can do other things the same way without realizing that you are doing it. Fool your

brain with a simple exercise like looking at a bunch of objects without saying the words in your head, and then jump over to some other larger exercise where you can experience it without analyzing it. You will find that the little exercise shuts the Babbler off. Looking at animated objects will also teach you to let your mind get fooled so you can go to deeper levels and have new experiences.

There is also a program online that will just show you different objects. It’s like a memory game, but it will just show you random objects one after another.

Perfect, just do not say what they are in your head. When it is done, say, “There was a camera, cigarette box, comb, toothbrush, cotton swab, and a pair of jeans.” See how far you can go without saying their names.

As soon as your brain says, “Jeans,” or “there was a pair of jeans two minutes ago,” you are done. Now you have to start all over again so you can get further than that.

Could you do that with reading? I’ve been thinking about trying to read without saying the words in my head.

Yes, I do it all the time. That’s all I do. I just let my mind go over it, and I know that my deeper sub-conscious is tracking the words. So all I have to do is just skim over them, but it’s harder. Start off with the objects.

There is a game that I play on my cell phone, a card game where you have to match the symbol behind each card. I’ve noticed that the images, like a heart, are the hardest. That tells me that you can do numbers much easier because they are more familiar. So it depends on what objects you are going to work with to train yourself. Always go with objects more than numbers or letters.

I’ve done it with numbers as well. When I’m doing the Sudoku puzzles, when I’m checking them at the end, I used to say the number in my head. Lately, I’ve just been recognizing some of them instead of

saying them in my head. I just scan, and pretty soon I’m going really fast.

Well, as good as those games can be, you really need to use real life objects. That is the best way because there are other senses that kick in.

When you are looking at a two dimensional object on the screen or something like that, your brain sorts it differently. When you look at objects three dimensionally, it’s more personalized and you can sometimes hear the sound as it is being picked up. When you go into an environment with that training, like a haunted house, your brain is more disciplined to deal with those things in a three dimensional sense.

Can that go back to feels-like? Will it help train you in that area?

Sure, absolutely. Sometimes you have to be careful with feels-like though because feels-like can really nauseate you after a while, until you really get good at it. It can really throw you for a loop because when you start to categorize objects and then you practice feels-like; there is something weird that happens between your brain and dimensional intelligence. It sometimes leads to feelings of nausea. It is almost the same thing as sensory overload, just a little different.

Earlier, I experienced a flashback of my father’s house on the east coast. That was a perfect example of how the memory works. Certain textures or images can trigger little flashes of other time periods.

That leads to a discussion about this moment. There should be something that you could do to hold this memory. If you were to meditate, then you could come back here and then recall this whole period with me.

There are other important values to it because there are more things happening here than are even being said. You should mark your memory now. Take your shirt. Look at whatever happens to be the focal point of this particular moment. Just focus on this moment. Then without taking your eyes off that focal point, take your shirt, and smell it. Then try to mark what the smell is from your shirt. Try to find it. Hopefully, it smells good. If you don’t do it right, it won’t work. Now, when you go back into your everyday routine a week or even a month from now, sit down and go

into your meditation. Think about this particular moment, this particular state, and smell it. It will help bring your mind back to this moment.

Whenever you have a memory or a place that you enjoy being that you want to remember, try and mark it with smell. Then you will be able to bring that moment back with deep meditation.

When I look at how human consciousness evolves and grows and how some people manipulate it to look certain ways, it seems that the mainstream population is basically manipulated or told to think a certain way. The people just go about their daily lives. It seems like everybody’s focus lately has been on war or the economy, if they’re not focused on their eating, sleeping, working and reproducing.

Well, it depends on who is in charge. No matter what, the human race is a very collective thing and we are becoming more globally conscious now rather than nationally divided. Not that long ago, China had their walls up, and they had their own collective. They wouldn’t even let in any outsiders. Europeans had their own collective way of thinking, and so did Americans. As technology and the internet has evolved, older people now are forgetting their trained way of thinking and have less power. The younger generations are talking on the internet every day to friends in China and Australia. Everybody’s talking to people from Africa to Alaska.

They’re starting to speak one language, so it is becoming a wash. Even culturally it is all becoming a wash.

This is disappointing because you want to keep the creativeness of nationality. On the same token, I am all for it because it removes fear of foreign cultures. They’re not looking at people who speak a different language, thinking they are plotting to kill people. You can empathize with them instead so your whole perspective changes.

It is the lack of understanding of what they do in their home or what they are eating, so people assume, “They’re just savages. They’re killers.”

If you were around them at all, you would begin to laugh with them and you would know their first name. You would be hanging out with them and marrying them. Then there would be no more fear.

Well, people are progressing but you have to remove the old ways or else people cannot change. Once you hit thirty, your perceptions solidify and you remain fixed in that state as you grow older. Very few people still remain flexible in their thinking. It is very hard to go from one way of thinking to another. You could spend another forty years breaking out of that religious mantra in your head. When you do start to think differently, you will feel as though you are really alive for the first time. You will think about things that never occurred to you before. You have to make sure you do not lose your mental flexibility.

I have a question about “The Handbook of the Navigator.” You say that when you teach your words are alive. How did you manage to do that for the book? It seems like it has the same effect as sitting in front of you listening to you. It’s pretty crazy.

Well, let me ask you a question. When you read the book the first time, had you ever heard my voice before?

Yes.

Okay, because you heard my voice, you received another texture of my communication. So when you read the book, you could hear my voice.

If you didn’t have that exposure, you would have read the book but you would put it in a different voice other than mine. It would not have been your voice but you would put a voice to it. Therefore, you got one level of texture or data from it. Now that you met me in person, or saw a video of me, when you read the book you will get three levels of texture. Of course, three is the magic number. So you will hear things being said in the book and see me throwing my hands around, raising my voice, and you get that communication also. So it is about decoding.

Even if you’ve never met me, there is conscious thought in the Gaia mind that you tap into when you read the book. These conscious thoughts are like bits of a code. When you find the right string of thought and you

create the code, the effect happens. Creating that effect was the hope of writing The Handbook of the Navigator.

You once told me to try to love my job for a week. Did you also mean to have some type of balance between work and spirituality?

I first started to understand this approach when I was probably about 22 years old. That was when I started to really understand the concept of meditation. At that time, I started to meditate and turn my consciousness inward. That’s what led to a greater level of enlightenment for me. I had to cope with work. I had to cope with everyday life and then I learned mindfulness.

Be mindful of the room you are in and just bring yourself back. Where are you right now? You have a choice to let things eat away at you or, like a Kung Fu fighter, throw it over your head. They’re running at you. They jump. Instead of letting them tackle you, use their weight and a little bit of your energy to throw them over you.

So, if someone is negative toward you, you have a choice to either react to them or just see it for what it is. That’s their ‘I’ needing to get gratification, to get a response from you. Do not give in to them. Just use your mindfulness to say, “I recognize this is negative and either I can automate and get caught in it by reacting with negativity or I could just not let that absorb me.”

That’s mindfulness. When I understood mindfulness, I was able to take the everyday grind of life that was eating away at me and recognize it for what it was. Then I would just say, “Okay, I’m just going to throw it over me. I’m not going to grab the bull by the horns. I’m not going to contemplate or bow. I’m just accepting it for what it is. It’s where I need to be. It’s what I need to do. I will do those things and when I start to think negatively or dwell on it, I’m just going to be mindful about it and just let it go over me.”

Well, the first week or two of trying to be mindful is the hardest. By the third or fourth week, if you can consistently think of it, it becomes you. In other words, it just becomes your way of looking at things. Most people will practice for a week and then they’ll forget about being

mindful. Eventually, they start reverting back to the Doe and become disgruntled. Then the I’s take over without even thinking about them. Then they’re back in the thick of it again. So constantly remind yourself to be mindful.

I always thought it was very interesting when I visited Jewish friends of mine that they had these little boxes on every doorway, even in the hallways. The box is called a mezuzah and it contains a blessing and quotation of the Torah called the Shema. In that prayer, it commands you to have that paragraph on the front of your doors and gates as a reminder.

If you walked into a bedroom, there would be this little scroll. Every time you walk through a passage way, there’s one of these and you would have to kiss it. I asked my friend, Ozzie, why he had these things in every doorway. He explained to me that it’s to remind him about his relationship with God. By having these things in every doorway and having to touch them, because you walk through doorways all the time, it’s a quick little reminder, “Okay, am I in check? Am I still here?”

Now, of course, my thinking is what you are thinking. Eventually, you are just going to create a habit and you are not even going to think about it, but that’s not the point of this. You have to find ways to say, “I need to be mindful.” That is why we created the Higher Balance necklace. When you are combing your hair and you look in the mirror, you can see the necklace when you have it on, “Aha! I have to remember to be mindful.” Or, if you bend over and it taps you on the chest, you say, “Oh yes, I’ve got to be mindful.”

This is how religion became so prevalent. It is how your faith is built up. If you wear a cross all the time, you are constantly reminded to be spiritual, and that’s what convinces you to be religious all the time. You have to find creative ways to be more mindful. So, I thought, “Well, why don’t I just get a big poster and put it over my door that says Mindfulness, or put it on the refrigerator. Do whatever works for you.

You explained exactly how being mindful for the first week is incredibly hard. Then it slowly gets easier until you automate your mind. Do you then fall back into the I’s?

Yes, exactly. It’s just like a path out of the city. It gets greener and greener until you are in the forest. You see the creek and you see the water.

You are walking on the path and then there is a bench. So then you start walking further and the path gradually turns to concrete and takes you back to the city. Before you know it, you are looking at the buildings, and looking at the trees planted alongside the buildings. All of a sudden, you are back in the city and you forgot all about what it felt like to be in nature.

So, you have to always remember to be mindful. The Doe is all powerful. You have to find ways to remain mindful. Do you know how I remain mindful? Teaching is what enables me to survive. This is why I tell all my students to teach. If you have somebody to teach, it will make you mindful because you have to think about it. You can’t speak it. You cannot do it unless you’re thinking it.

Your true salvation is to exercise your spiritual mind instead of letting it become sedentary and fall into the Doe. The only way to do that is to continue exercising your consciousness because you are bringing it in to this dimension.

I find more satisfaction when I can talk to somebody, even about Christianity or the deeper meaning of the Bible. I get deep satisfaction out of that. It helps a lot.

Yes, it helps a great deal. It exercises what you already know. What you have learned in the beginning is just as powerful and potent as what you will learn from the more advanced material. When you forget the lower stuff, there is nothing to hold up the advanced material. It is like a foundation. That is why you have to start off with a good foundation. Lose your foundation and the whole building is going to come down. So if you do not maintain the foundation, you have a problem. Teaching always brings me back to the lower levels and then it maintains the higher ones.

Teaching is the greatest way to maintain your spirituality in an environment that is constantly in the Doe.

In one of the classes, you mentioned that you were psychically attacked. Suppose one of us found ourselves in a similar situation.

Well, then you better hope you have studied the class so you know what to do. It’s either pull out your sword or build your pyramid. Control your breathing, your consciousness and your frequency fields. There is an awful lot of information here.