Definition of Celarien

People ask me all the time: “What is Celarien?”
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Top Secret: What the AMA Doesn’t Want You to Know

We know from medical research that about 30% of people will “cure themselves” if they are somehow encouraged or “given permission.” This is the famous, or infamous, placebo effect. Pharmaceutical studies are done with great care to eliminate this placebo effect. From the point of view of the drug companies, a 10% effective drug is better than a 30% effective “mind-over-matter” cure.

But very little is done to find out how to enhance the placebo effect. Would it not be better if someone focused on how to make that 30% turn into 80%? That is, make it work more consistently, for more people, more often? That’s only one of the gifts of NLP.

Reality: You Just Gotta be There!

How do you experience reality? That is, when things happen out there in the real world, what feelings, ideas and attitudes come up in your mind? For example: you are driving along and someone in front of you jams on the brakes and you almost run into the car in front of you.NLP mental model
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The Keys to the Universe

As Swami Beyondananda tells us: The bad news is that there are no keys to the Universe. The good news is that the Universe isn’t locked. Seek and ye shall find. So seek and find.

PS. it may take a while — have patience. (insert cosmic laughter here)

Full Faith Gnostic

OK. I admit it. I’m a Taoist Gnostic. A gnostic is a soul aware of itself and it’s intimate connection to the Soul of the Universe. The Taoist part is that the path is the connection. The bottle, the message and the sea. All are the same, not really separate, even though we might think of them as discrete concepts.
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Everything and Nothing

Matthew Fox recently spoke here in Honolulu. We listened as he talked about spirituality for the 21st century. One person asked “can you set me straight about what exactly is God?” The answer was that if someone says they know “exactly” what God is, you should run the other way! Maybe the best image of God is Everything, AND Nothing at the same time.
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