Course Session Transcript

7 weeks to a Life Beyond Limits

with Dr. Jean Houston
Session Two: Quantum Power #1
The Power of Your Quantum Self
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Dr. Jean Houston: Hello, friends. This is Jean Houston, and I welcome you
to join me in this Second Session of Unlocking Your Quantum Powers.

In this Session you will discover how to come into resonance with your quantum
blueprint. This is the higher template of who you are in the fullest expression of
yourself, and you will realize that you are truly not now, nor have you ever, really
been alone. You will know that you are living in partnership with the universe
itself; that you are in the universe and the universe is in you. You are the universal
human, the quantum human, the cosmic human.
I want you to feel more at home in your own remarkable body and mind. In
areas of your life perhaps where you have felt stuck, whether it’s trying to start
a new business or focus more time on your art or your inner projects or finding
the right partner, these will simply begin to open up and flow because the
power of the cosmos will be generating that new reality with you. Remember?
Interdependent co-arising.
I want you to discover that you can be a revelation to others, an intellectual
and psychological beacon, an evocateur of new patterns, new relationships, new
discoveries. You can be one who brings new mind and new matter to an old
world and serves as a catalyst of change and a pathfinder of deeper realities and,
yes, yes, in these cases, people will feel drawn to you because they will feel your
positive, creative, and constructive energy – your quantum energies of love and
service – and they will want to be connected to this and themselves become so
much more than they had ever dreamed.
So, it’s not just about you. Yes, it’s about you, but it’s also about your friends,
your family, the field of life around you, your projects, yourself as an agent of
enhancement of this world and time. Once you discover how to become your
quantum self and partner with the universe in this Session and really and
truly practice it in this Session, follow through on this Session, live it daily in
your quantum connections, you will begin to have access to that power, that

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intelligence, that depth of love and creativity. Those who do this live in a state
of flow, a state of flow; a state that is you in your magnificence that is living in
a different, better, more exciting and inspiring world. And where that world is
not inspiring, is not better, you will have the means to go about and make it so.
Now, please hear this: you are needed in this remarkable, awesome, challenging
time. What you do and how you take this course and follow its training in
methods can make a significant difference to this world. The wonderful poet
David Whyte says: “So much of how we are of service to the world has to do with
how we belong to the world. The ultimate service of human life is a kind of vitality
and giftedness that comes out of a true sense of belonging. The universe is holding
its breath, waiting for you to take your place, no matter how humble that may
be or how small that place may be, there is no other part of creation that can
substitute for you belonging to the world.”
Now, friends, Thomas Moore once wrote, “The soul has an absolute and
unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment.” I love that because
I’m one who believes in constant excursions into enchantment.
In the quantum process–the quantum practice with which we ended the last
session – you became the cosmic human, the one with quantum powers for body,
mind and psyche. This was a way to begin to meet your quantum blueprint,
what I have sometimes called “the optimal template” of yourself – your potential
higher nature that needs to be brought into your life now.
After many years of exploring the phenomenon of the optimal template – the
quantum blueprint – I’ve come to feel assured that it exists as a lure of becoming
for the human being. You feel called and you want to respond. Who or what
is it that has been calling you? It could be considered an evolutionary model
to which we can subscribe. Plato wrote of the optimal forms of things, which
exist as higher patterns for all things, all beings. He called it the “eidos.” It is the
blueprint of perfection – in human terms, the quantum portrait of yourself that
holds the power and potential, the beauty and the wisdom of who you really
are. Perhaps it is there originally in the infant, but loses its perfection owing to
culture, family habit, living in the slums of the self.
I once wrote with my friend, Rhett Kelly, an ode to the perfection of infancy and
how it is progressively degraded. I call it Consider the Stradivarius.

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We are given as our birthright a Stradivarius

and we come to play it like a plastic fiddle.
Consider the Stradivarius.
Consider the child, the star brighter than any star
man’s mind can create.
Conception of this Godstuff rendered freely
as spillover of an abundance of which we are largely unaware.
This nuclear divinity which radiates an unnamable glory when it comes
is, in fact, a creation of such inestimable worth that,
were cosmic scales to be employed,
the infant child placed on one tray and all the precious jewels on the other,
there would be no possibility of outweighing the child.
Talents to last a million years are the mother lode of its molecules.
Its body is celled of mysteries that are incomprehensible,
yet, existent and responsive to all that is and, therefore,
is the container and active channeler of All-That-Is.
There’s no need here to speak of evolution to come.
All the future tunings and turnings are already here,
latent givens in the once and future child.
Its arms and legs enter into conversation with the bright of mornings.
In perfect diaphony, it knows the shapes of nature for its own.
Sunbeams shaping grasses,
trees parting skies,
waters rushing over rock,
these are the mirrors and progenitors of all its movings,

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the visible likeness of its earth-partnered life.

Comes then society’s teaching time.
The child is ushered into the presence of the guidepost to the relevant life,
and this post assigned the teaching task
begins the process of informing the child of its smallness
in relation to the far larger,
its ignorance measured against great intelligences,
its ineptitudes contrasted to vast skills,
its lacks opposed to fullnesses,
its basic inconsequentiality within the context of things that matter.
Knowledge of its own divine origins
begins to be quite systematically removed from its consciousness.
First, the fullness of nature is removed.
The trees are taken out of its arms,
the rushing waters out of its blood.
Body and brain are hunched.
Gates are built in its muscles.
Its brain becomes a fortress against all vastness,
guarding against the remembrance of who it is and where it came from.
This done, the child is deemed acceptable.
But its not yet over.
The internal world must be put to rout.
At one point, a serious point, the child will be taught that
what is imagined is unreal
and an arterial siphon will draw from near its heart

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that much strength of impulse which was necessary to keep up its

commitment to the inner realms.
What is imagined?
What has a reality of ponderables that simply don’t lend itself
To physically calibrate its scales?
This is said to be not real,
and the child is halved, so to speak.
If the heart siphon is not fully effective,
another siphon is put into the veins of the inner elbow
and all that society thinks impractical
is drawn from the elbow’s crook.
Put the various other siphons into alcoved places:
the armpits, the groin, the bend of the knee,
the arched chamber of the eye socket.
Tell the little child that the world out there is
only this or only that.
Or perhaps phrase it “merely.”
Make less than worthy the notice of it.
Only a tree.
And all the trees are cut down.
Merely a small lake.
And the deeps have lost their mystery.
Only this and merely that,
and the magnificences of nature are made into shoddy stage sets.

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The siphon has drawn nerves of vision from under the roofed brain,
taken the full life of seeing from the eyes.
Belittle another human being.
Categorize him with a label having to do with his color, his race,
his lack of academic training,
his societal affiliations.
Pin him like a butterfly specimen for the child to inspect.
Minus all his full lifeness,
his essential human divineness,
his proper dimensionality,
and you’ve siphoned out generative power that reaches deep into the groin
that could’ve meant the re-seeding of the world.

That’s what we wrote years ago, but with what I’ve discovered in my work with
so many thousands of people, I know that there can be – must be, has to be – a
recovery of the magnificence of our own divine nature.
So, let us turn it around. Start with a child or young person who still exists
within you regardless of your age. I have found that the supreme prerogative of
childhood is wonder. Wonder. Wonder and enchantment.
If, by some chance, wonder and enchantment escape containment, the child-
become-the-adult is able to respond with such totality to the incoming flow of
reality – information, vision, revelation – that she is able to organize new things
– creativity, novelty of pattern and form out of this – and become, so to speak,
a co-creator with the quantum reality that surrounds and infuses her. Is it any
wonder that so many of the great geniuses and innovators are those who have
kept their childhood alive in them? They stay in a state of wonder, and wonder
has a buoyant, exhilarating, crest-of-the-wave effect. It is at once a state of sheer,
gorgeous possibilities that exist ready to unfurl at any moment and expectancy

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of fulfillment and an anticipation of more to come. “A sense of wonder is the mark

of the philosopher,” Socrates once said.
The aim of the cosmic questions asked by both child and philosopher – and now,
with the coming of our relationship to quantum reality – is to enter into that
reflexive state of delight and resonance in which one discovers the answer that
tells one that the world and the universe is a quantum entity – one’s self writ
large. “I become what I behold,” said the child-man Walt Whitman, echoing the
experience of all children as they seek to understand by incarnating the world –
becoming what they behold.
And so, like Walt Whitman, we return to some of the lost genius of childhood,
marrying it to a conscious beholding of ourselves as the container of incredible
Quantum Powers, as we enter into the realm of limitless possibilities for our
bodies, our minds, our souls, and psyches. Those optimal quantum blueprints,
those optimal templates, are there held in the great field, waiting for you to
come upon them.
Here comes a Quantum Practice. Let us now explore the Art of Living in an
Expanded Self – an Enchanted State which gives us access to latent physical
capacities or higher states of body functioning, as well as for health and
wellbeing; mind states that enlighten as we learn; psychological states where
we consciously orchestrate our moods and emotions, our relationships, and
the vast party of all the different and brilliant personalities and their skills that
we have within us, as well as our soul, of our soul states, where we delight in
exploration into God.
Be very present in your body as I speak to you now. Please know that your body
is the stuff of stars and of the minerals of the earth. Your blood runs briny with
the seas. The essence of oceans spills through your veins and arteries, and the
sediments of earth make up your cells. Your genes are universes in themselves,
coded with enough information to re-create the world.
Perhaps, then, it’s these elements of earth and sky, of nature and cosmos that
actually compose your physical being – the inner mirror of the great nature that
has pushed us to the choice points that we now face. And it all has a purpose,
even a destiny. You are, my friend, the apex of the 13.8 billion year evolutionary
process that has resulted in you and your life.

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I’m going to tell you a new story in mythic terms – a true story but told mythically.
I want you to feel it. I want you to see it. I want you to be it. It is the story that is
known by your optimal template, your quantum self.
To begin, I want you to travel back with me way, way back to that time 13.8 billion
years ago. In the beginning there were and continue to be the great gardeners
who live in the metaverse, a vast farm fertile with energy, creativity, intelligence,
and love. It is the quantum field.
So, the gardeners decide to plant a new garden in the quantum field of the
farm’s limitless, nested universes. They begin with an infinitesimal, tiny seed,
a microcosm coded with the energy resources to flower in to a richly-varied
cosmos. So potent is the quantum ground, so ready is the seed that, once planted,
it bursts its pod with an explosion of light and energy. Part of you was coded in
that seed. You were there in essence. Remember. Remember.
And lo, this infinitesimal seed sprouts into a great tree that holds in its branches
a trillion galaxies, each blossoming with a hundred billion or more stars and
perhaps trillions of life forms. Whirlwinds of energy swirling through the
branches coalesce into biological living systems of planetary scale, each home to
billions of organisms that balance each other in self-sustaining ecological webs.
Nourishing each bud of this immense flowering is the great tree, the great
oneness, which links every expression of the garden’s unfolding in an energetic
resonance such that anything that happens in any part is known instantaneously
to the whole. As the budding life forms of the biospheres complexify, the most
advanced among them jump first into an awareness of themselves and then into
awareness of the great gardeners, the goddedness that planted them. Problems
that arise at each state of your growth create opportunities for learning,
experimentation, and new expression, leading the advancing ones – and you are
one of them – to deeper and more profound understanding of themselves and
their world. And as this understanding grows, you develop ways to meet your
physical needs with less and less expenditure of energy and resources, so that
more and more of your awareness can be devoted to tending the garden of your
consciousness and your culture.
Soon, the winds of the technology that have evolved are cross-pollinating the
flowers of many places and knowings, venturing out to explore the worlds of
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your technological advances, you, adventurous ones, you are one of them come
to discover the wonders of the cosmic tree. You begin to understand that all
life – all life – is engaged in a process of continuous creation and that birth,
growth, death, and new birth are all expressions of energy in motion. You come
to see that the cosmos, both within and without, is a living organism – a single
unified garden re-created in its entirety moment by moment by the love and
intelligence of the gardeners, which flows continuously through the great tree,
like nourishing sap.
You discover further that along with the knowledge of the great tree comes a
radical freedom. You and they know themselves to be free to make mistakes,
to face evil, to experience suffering, for suffering is the inevitable consequence
of the great potential of your seeded nature locked into a still-maturing
consciousness. Yet, over time as your scope of vision widens, these beings evolve
toward transcending their suffering as you do ­– as you do – and come to a more
and more expansive understanding of who you are and what you yet may be and
do.
Knowing at last that all is all within all–all is within all, the totality present in
each part and each part fully connected to the whole – these beings (and you
are one of them) move beyond the limited conceptions of the local laws of form
and gain access to the very patterns of creation. With this knowledge you join
the gardeners in their great task of planning and planting cosmic gardens and
nourishing them with your intelligence and love.
And so the cosmos continues to bloom. Remember. Remember. Remember. And
you can remember, because you are given from the beginning the quantum
partner who holds all of this cosmic history and your own immense evolutionary
journey.
Your responsibility is to reconnect with this inner nature, this emergent
evolutionary nature, this optimal template, this quantum blueprint that has
been waiting for you to recognize it and be filled by it. It is here, this quantum
blueprint, looking for you, waiting for you. “Come closer,” you say, and it does.
For each of you, its appearance will be unique. You may feel it as light, as joy, as
something that is filled with the codes of your higher nature. It has been waiting
for you to sense and recognize it as your higher destiny all these years in your
own local life and for millennia, millennia, millennia before that, since that first
cosmic seed began to bloom.

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And now the moment has come. Move towards it as the quantum blueprint
moves toward you. Feel yourself connecting with its energy, its wondrous
plans for you as you move into this blueprint of your quantum nature, your
larger life. Connecting now with the energy and the plan for your larger life.
Connecting now with the energy and the plan for your larger life.
As the original template moves in you, know that you are becoming a superb
catalyst, a carrier of new genesis as the world is getting ready to move. Your
mind is growing so you can think in many ways – in words, in images. Thought
waves that sometimes seem to border on genius, in fact, can become genius.
Much that may have been lost in your childhood and adolescence, as well as
those remarkable skills and qualities that were latent in you, are now becoming
real. Courage, passion for the possible, deep belief in yourself, rigor, diligence,
a wave tide of joy and belief, the creative life, your spirit enspirited by the great
gardener, God/cosmic mind/the supreme beloved who calls you into being. You
are loved. You are nurtured. You are empowered. You are called forth to your
highest destiny for this life in this time.
And if you still think this is too grand, then know that you have also been given
a magnificent support system, the chief among them being what is called the
great friend, companion on your journey, known as the entelechy – the higher
guidance, your old friend who watches the supreme happening to you with so
much love.
Entelechy is an ancient Greek word perhaps best understood by its description;
the way Aristotle put it, he said, “The entelechy of the acorn is to be the oak tree.”
Of course, we can think of so many things – the entelechy of the baby is to be the
grownup human being, of the rose seed to be the rose, and to you to become oh
so much more than you ever thought to be. The entelechy will sustain, love, and
guide you.
Now, we are about to start the process of the entelechy, and it may very well be
that those of you who have taken other courses with me have done something
like the process we’re going to do but never from the evolved form of quantum
possibilities. Occasionally, I have to give you a variation of a process that some of
you may have done with me before, but only when this process is key to further
and greater development.

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Let us begin the Quantum Practice of Being with the Entelechy.

Friends, to begin I ask you to put your hands up patty-cake style. You can be
standing or sitting. And I want you to believe for the next few minutes that right
there opposite you is your entelechy, your great friend, your essential self, your
guide. It is as if this being is you if you had spent a thousand years developing
your full potential. It is the part of yourself that is encoded with your higher
destiny, your purpose for being.
Some of you may see or feel this being is representing the soul itself – the deepest,
holiest, most whole part of you. Some may sense it as the inner strength and
vital force that directs your life and growth toward becoming all you are capable
of being. Some of you may see it as the local emergence from the great ground to
the great quantum field of being of yourself in its most optimal form.
This essential self, this entelechy, has a radiance that our local self often does
not. The entelechy is in touch with both your life and the life of the universe. It
is in touch with the wisdom of the earth and the wisdom of the heart. It can put
you in touch with the unexplored continents that lie within your mind and your
body, for it knows the maps of the soul and the treasures that can be found there.
This essential self, this entelechy, knows the possible paths your life may take
and wants to help you choose the best ones. It knows how to turn imagination
into reality, how to make the life you live fulfilling and creative, how to help you
co-create with the quantum field. Above all, it knows why you are here and what
you yet can do, where you can go, and why you need to go there. Closer than
breathing, nearer than hands and feet, the entelechy, the essential self, is your
mysterious friend who has always been ever-near however much you may have
denied its existence.
From here on let’s just call this being, this entelechy, The Friend – in capitals –
The Friend. Getting to know this friend is a wonderful experience, for when you
know this friend you are never really alone again.
I want you to receive this friend, this magnificent being who loves you so much
– total, complete loving – and as your hands are up you feel this friend’s loving
presence just moving through you, in you, above, within, around you.
You feel yourself so loved by this great friend, this entelechy; so deeply loved,
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much. You may feel a warmth suffusing your mind, your body, a great sense of
affirmation. And, yes, the friend knows your follies, but also knows your glories,
makes no judgment, is looking upon you with so much love, so much feeling.
And you feel yourself so deeply nourished, nourished by this loving friend,
nourished and nurtured. And in this nourishment and in this nurturing, the
things – the great things within you that may have been put aside or shadowed
– these great things come forward again; the great things of your innocent
babyhood, of your adolescence, of your maturity. These great things come forth
again. They are being loved into being.
And knowing yourself so deeply loved and cherished, you are cherished by
this great friend; cherished, loved, empowered, affirmed. The fullness of you
believed in, called into being, ignited. You are one who now knows yourself
utterly and completely loved.
And this great friend, the entelechy, is here now with you for the rest of your
life if you choose, the great companion of your way, to love you, to be with you,
to open you now to the mystery of transformation, as your great friend, the
entelechy, supports, guides, sustains you.
And with this great support and loving, the quantum self grows stronger in you
with the help and the love of this great companion.
The quantum blueprint begins to take shape in you as you are being nurtured
into a life of embodiment in a higher form. As you stand or sit with this great
friend, the entelechy, this great, great, loving friend, so many potentials are
being grown in you. A sufficiency of intellectual and moral passion to explore
new ways of being for your body, your mind, your soul, and with it the ability to
present the availability of an unobstructed universe, both within and without,
you are so loved, so received, so called forth by this great friend, this one who
loves you absolutely.
So many new potentials are being activated – potentials for imagination and for
creation, potentials to choose the best paths, potentials to enhance your senses.
Your touching hands become more vivid. You may actually begin to feel something
of the friend’s hands on yours, a winged gift, perhaps a slight electrical impulse.
And now feeling, being utterly with The Friend; utterly with The Friend, so
deeply loved, so richly called forth in the presence of the very wonderful friend.

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And you are also called into deeper psychological realms; a memory, your
memory being enhanced, a new order of intelligence and creativity. You now
have access with The Friend to the quantum field and access to the thousands
of images and ideas. You’re allowed to inhabit your life much more fully, to be
present to the whole range of your experience and not just dwell on the hot
spots. You are living now within the treasure house of so many potentials as
The Friend can carry you there, can bring you safely and beautifully into the
treasure house of this vast realm of potentials; the vast realm of potentials.
And so you thank your friend, knowing that all you have to do is raise your
hands, feel the deep guiding presence, know that it is there, live every day with
The Friend as your companion, your guide, the beloved, the one who affirms
your existence in its fullness.
And now taking a very deep breath. As you’re taking your deep breath, thank
The Friend. You’re going to find these potentials will be emerging more and
more. You will find yourself given to silent contemplation to stock your spiritual
income so as to have the wherewithal for ethical and creative expenditures.
You will find that you will come to learn more completely and with greater
ease. You will access and apply potentials stored in inner quantum space
such as the awakening of your higher intelligence, the improvement of your
memory, the capacity to go to your own inner university and learn so many
things, accompanied by the great friend; learning so many things that ordinary
education never taught you. And at the same time your ability to create through
co-creation with the support of the great friend, to co-creation with the quantum
field and to sustain the development of these creations, as well as the ability to
tap into the great mythic and symbolic realms of your deep self – your quantum
self – that resides within you.
Let us now focus on the optimal templates – the quantum blueprints for your
body-mind.
We discover what the ancients in the Eastern and the indigenous worlds have
always known – and please see this in yourself – that access to the great quantum
realms, to the great transpersonal domains, lie within the gates of your attuned
body. Your brain is a stargate. Your body . . . the cells of your body are filled with
mysteries, which invite you to enter into the larger body, a richer field of mind
and spirit that comprehends it all. This means that right now – you listening to
me right now – agree to relinquish those limited and limiting patterns of the

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body, those sensory and physical and motor patterns, those emotional patterns,
those intelligence patterns that have been keeping you from becoming all that
you can be. They don’t serve you anymore. They belong to an old story, an
outmoded story that you can give up and allowing yourself, instead, to become
available to the extraordinary dimensions that you can contain for a much larger
life in your body and spirit.
The good news, friends, is that your body is always in a state of morphing,
changing, reconstructing itself, but now it moves to a higher health and wellness.
You know, it’s quite interesting to me that the present fascination with body
morph movies, movies about beings who can change their structure at will –
comic book stories, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Iron Man. You
get the picture. These are the science fiction tales of the longing for physical
transformation, mythic models of something that is already happening.
You know, over the last decades an unlikely collection of men and women have
pushed human performance farther and faster than at any other point in the
150,000-year history of our species. Whether it be in sports, athletics, breaking
records yearly, climbing impossible mountains, riding 100-foot waves, as Steven
Cutler says in his book, The Rise of Superman, decoding the science of ultimate
human performance, these new feats requires, he says, “incredible psychological
and intellectual talents, grit, fortitude, courage, creativity, resilience, cooperation,
critical thinking, pattern recognition, high-speed hot decision-making, on and on
and on, and all under some of the most extreme conditions imaginable.”
Now, friends, we’re not going to make you into a superstar athlete, but we are
going to help you find your quantum blueprint of excellence, which can then be
applied to whatever interests you.
Remember that in the last session you met the quantum self – the quantum
cosmic human placed in your body, leading to the optimal template. This takes
you beyond Superman or Wonder Woman, for it is realizable in your life, your
own body and mind. You have the cosmos, the quantum field, offering you powers,
training you, nurturing you to accomplish the miracle of real transformation –
becoming you. And what you really are, as I often say, you are not an encapsulated
bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. No. Nor are you an incompetent
machine or a protein-based bio-computer. You are an evolutionary wonder. You
are something like 34 trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale. You are a
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is like the flow of music. You are music incarnate, as each of your cells sings to
all the others.
Awareness of this song is sometimes called “being in the flow.” In flow states
every action, each decision, leads effortlessly, fluidly, seamlessly to the next. It’s
high-speed problem-solving, yes. It’s being swept along by the river of ultimate
performance. “Flow naturally catapults you to a level you’re not naturally in,”
explains the Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, Ned Hallowell. He says, “Flow
naturally transforms a weakling into a muscleman, a sketcher into an artist, a
dancer into a ballerina, a plodder into a sprinter, an ordinary person into something
extraordinary. Everything you do, you do better in flow, from baking a chocolate
cake to planning a vacation to solving differential equations to writing a business
plan to playing tennis to making love. Flow is the doorway to the more most of us
seek. Rather than telling ourselves to get used to it, that’s all there is, instead learn
how to enter into flow. There you will find in manageable doses all the more you
need.”
Friends, flow is an optimal state of consciousness, and it affects the body and
mind in utterly splendid ways.
We are about to begin another Quantum Practice of Being in the Flow –
Aligning Energies.
To begin, stand in a place that gives you room to move. With your spine straight,
knees soft, hold your arms out in front of you. Yes, yes, I know. Some of you are
thinking you can sit, you can sit and do this. The point is, your spine is straight,
your knees are soft, you’re holding your arms out in front of you, your palms
facing each other.
Breathe in and out at least twice.
Now, beginning to sense the energy flowing up your spine, down your arms, and
out between your hands, continue to breathe slowly and easily, fully in and fully
out.
Now bring your hands above your head, one or two inches above the crown,
and form a triangle with your hands. Breathe in and out twice. As you do, feel
the movement of energy up and down your spine. Up into your hands strands
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out while you play with the ball of energy between your hands. You play with
the ball of energy between your hands.
Slowly, while breathing fully in and out, bring your arms down and out right in
front of you, forming an open circle, like you’re hugging a big tree trunk. Imagine
the energy racing up and down each arm. Know that within that circle, that tree
trunk is powerful healing energy. Create the sense that you are standing in that
flow. Breathe in and out easily and fully within that flow.
Draw that huge energy now into your solar plexus, right in the middle, having
the sense that it’s flowing in and through you. You are in the fullness of it. You
are in the flow.
Take a breath in. Lift your right hand up to just above your crown. Draw that
energy up. Breathing out, as you bring your left hand up to meet the right,
forming that triangle and arcing the energy. Breathe in and out.
Lower your right hand to your heart and place your left hand anywhere on your
body that would appreciate some healing. Continue to breathe fully in and out.
Now start to begin the process of aligning and breathing in the energies of heaven
through the top of the head and the earth through the base of the spine. Let them
meet, mingle, ignite, and pour forth at the solar plexus. With each breath, notice
that the energy grows stronger. The energy coming down through the head
from heaven, coming up from the earth at the base of the spine, the energies are
meeting, mingling, igniting, pouring forth then out through the solar plexus.
With each breath notice that the energy grows stronger. Imagine a huge ball of
vital stardust forming around you. Move your hands outward through that ball
of vitality that you’ve created. Have the sense that you are moving through a
universe, parting the stars. Your hands carry a radiant energy, which combines
with the universe’s immense creative quantum energies, mingling, creating new
forms.
Slowly bring your hands out and around; around and actually then behind you if
you can, clasping them together behind you. And bringing them up above your
back as you bow reverently toward all creation, and then come up again to the
center, with your hands brought to the solar plexus, where that great pouring
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plexus, out through the universe, joining behind you in creation; clasping behind
you, if you can. And then bow to creation.
Then bringing them back to the solar plexus, continue this movement, sweeping
your hands out and around and behind you, clasping your hands together,
bowing in reverence to creation as your clasped hands lift up behind, perhaps
above your shoulders. Then you bow. And repeat this movement another time
or two, participating in new creation throughout the universe as you, a quantum
creator, are evoking the possibility of life in many places, in many forms, in many
faces.
And now imagine that you are breathing in all that life and all that creation and
holding them beneficently within your own being.
Now pick something in your present life that you want to improve, expand,
move perhaps to a higher form of development. Flow with it. Imagine it vividly.
Using the flowing energies of creation, create it. You’ve got all these energies
working in and through you, you and the quantum field of all creation, creating
together that which you wish to improve, expand, create, move to a higher form
of development. Feel it, creating into the flow of energy. Feel it. See it. Know it.
Use your hands. Flow into it. Sculpt it. Feel the vital currents energizing this
intention and moving in waves of song and celebration from a mere possibility
to a vibrant probability.
This is the 34 trillion cells in your body in flow. They are flowing away. They are
flowing. I mean, you are in flow. 34 trillion cells in flow. I mean, they literally sing
together the song of flow. They do.
Take a deep breath and relax.
I keep talking in my work and my lectures about how in this time of change if we
really want to move into this larger consciousness, then we have to use capacities
that we never knew we had or rarely used, perhaps, since childhood and, in some
cases, from earlier stages of our evolution as well – our future stages perhaps.
You’ll remember that in quantum physics time past, time present, and time
future are said to be simultaneous, and we, with our arrow of time-mind, really
have problems with. But it’s simultaneous – time past, time present, time future
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Now, I refer to these capacities as capacitors. Certain capacities clearly are

evolutionary accelerators. What they do is they propel us from beneath the
surface crust of sleepy consciousness into greater aliveness and awakeness,
because, let’s face it, a lot of us live a long time in sleepy consciousness. Well,
you just can’t do that anymore if you want to live the larger life.
A man walking on a road once met the Buddha, who seemed to be so very, very
present and filled with presence, with something wonderful, an energy, a sacred,
powerful, quantum energy. Well, stunned by his presence, the man asked, “Sir,
what exactly are you? Are you a god?”
“No,” said the Buddha.
“Are you an angel then?”
“No,” said the Buddha.
“Well, then, what exactly are you?”
“I’m just awake,” said the Buddha.
Becoming awake is one of the chief aspects of living the quantum life, and you’ll
be receiving many clues to this phenomenon of being awake and its astonishing
variations. And yet there is a certain comic touch to staying asleep for, in fact,
there’s so much out there that is trying to reach us and too often we get so
caught up in our everyday life or our state of sleepiness that we neither see nor
hear or feel the richness and sheer glory that is there, that is saying, “Hey, you!
Hey! (whistle) Hey! We’re here! Wake up!”
Now, with regard to what most of us currently know, it’s not unlike a praying
mantis – that little green bug; quite a beautiful green bug – finding himself on
the rostrum of the general assembly of the United Nations, facing the delegates
of all nations and thinking, “Hmm, not much food here,” having no idea of the
majesty of nations, the vast spectrum of cultures displayed, the trials and the
yearnings, the sheer overwhelming complexity that is being played out in front
of you. “Nothing much to eat,” the praying mantis says.
In a funny way, that’s ourselves facing the gigantic truth that lies before us. But
let us look out there from the rostrum of how we are profoundly interrelated.
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the changes that occur in our human mind, body, and spirit. And this gives to us
ways of understanding our place in the universe.
One way is to recognize and harvest the experience of our human becoming, of
our ancestors. We discover that we are the great parenthesis, strung between
an evolutionary past and future. That’s who we are – right in the middle. That is
our place. That is our place in the great cosmic comedy.
Your quantum self includes all who have gone before you and all who will yet
become ahead of you. You inherit in your body-mind the earliest vertebrates, as
well as the long course of mammalian evolution. But you also contain as latency
the steps and substance of what will yet become; what you will yet become.
But it’s already emergent within you. The brush of angel wings stir our soul as
some kind of long-forgotten memory of the future, which resides in us as our
emergent self.
I think the question is moot as to whether we are the more who derived from the
less, as Darwin supposed, or the lesser that derived from the more, as certain
theologians and esoteric philosophers think.
In what follows, you are being asked to feel all those past bodies and minds that
have been your ancestors all the way back many thousands of years, but you
will also be asked to feel something else trying to emerge – the next human. Can
you begin to feel that? You are the term in between.
Now for the Quantum Process, the Quantum Practice itself.
Begin with rubbing your hands; rub your hands so you feel real heat between
them. Very good.
Now put your hands apart maybe six, seven, eight inches, and I want you to look
at your right hand and I want you to think of your right hand as the world of the
fathers, containing the world of the fathers – your father, your grandfather, your
great-grandfather, your great-great-great-great grandfather – all the way back.
Now, would you look at your left hand? And I want you to consider your left
hand to be the world of your mother, your grandmother, your great-great-
great-grandmother, all the way back, the world of the mothers. The world
of the fathers on the right, the right hand, the world of your mothers on the
left, in your left hand. You can feel the dynamic, the energy between them.

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Now what we’re going to do is we are going to be able to go back through time and
feel rising up under our hands the world of our ancestors, the world of the fathers
on the right, the world of the mothers on the left.
You are now here in this time. You may begin to feel under your hands your father
and your grandfather on the right in the present time, more or less, your mother
and your grandmothers on the left. Feeling that now. And gradually moving your
hands apart very gradually, you begin to go back in time to the world of your great-
grandmothers on the left, your great-grandfathers on the right. Who are they?
Where were they? What were their concerns? What did they do in life? Perhaps
they are very early in the twentieth century. Feeling these lives of the great-
grandmothers on the left; the great-grandfathers on the right. Feeling, touching
these lives of your ancestors. They are there within you. They rise under your hands
as you go back further into the nineteenth century, the great-great-grandmothers
and grandfathers; feeling them. Did they travel? Did they yearn for a better life? Did
they cross great oceans? Or did they stay put? Feeling those lives.
There, now, in the eighteenth century, did they stay put? Where were they? Were
they looking for a better life? Or were they very happy or at least content with what
they were, what they were doing? Where are they? Are they in the Americas?
The great-great-great-great-grandparents, the great-great-great-grandmothers
there on the left. What is she doing there in the seventeenth century? Is she sewing?
Is she weaving? Is she feeling your presence somehow? What is it? Is it a saint?
What is it? Is it a Buddha? What is it? It’s a holy one. But, no, it is you, paying deep
attention to that great-great-great-great-grandmother in the eighteenth century.
And on the right we go back even further to the seventeenth, to the sixteenth, to the
fifteenth century. Perhaps it is a great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather in
armor who is fighting a war for his feudal lord. Or perhaps it is someone who is a
prince and is galloping through his own great estate.
But going back further and further now into the twelfth century, the eleventh, the
tenth century. And there, there on the right is a man in a little round coracle boat.
Where is it? Is it Ireland? And he also feels you’re present and he says, “What is it, I
wonder? Could it be one of the old ones – the Merlin and the Angus and the Brigit?
Or is it this new feller, Jesus?”
And there on the left is a woman. And what is she doing? Oh, she is pickling fish.
(laughing) And they’re going way, way, way, way back. Going back to the fifth

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century, the fourth century, the third, the first, the second. Going . . . Your hands
going back, feeling. And there perhaps on the right is a man who is walking
beside one of the holy men in Israel? Is it Jesus? Is it Peter? Who is he walking
with? But he’s listening so intently, this great ancestor. And there on the left, oh,
there on the left is the mother herself; mother wondering, “When will he stop
walking around and come back into the carpentry business?”
Walking, going back further and further and further through the many hundreds
– and even thousands – of years, feeling and touching these people who held .
. . the women mourning, the babies born and dying, born and dying; so many
babies. The men wondering, “Am I going to be put into servitude again? Am I
going to have to work and slave for somebody else? Or maybe there’s another
hope?”
Going back a thousand years BC, and there, on the left, in South America – deep
in South America – there’s a woman who is a shaman. She’s a wise woman, and
she’s collecting the herbs in the forest so that she knows that she can help her
people to get well again.
And there on the right, oh, in Africa. There he is – a great drummer, and he is
drumming what he thinks as the great spirit sent to being.
And we go back further – 3,000 years BC. There on the right a man is working
somewhere around that time with stone, helping to push this stone along to
help build the great pyramid of Egypt.
And there on the left is a priestess, a priestess of Isis, who is singing a haunting
song to her beloved goddess, Isis.
And going back even further – 5, 10,000 years – there is a woman on the left
somewhere perhaps around Turkey or the Middle East, who’s poking holes in
the ground with a stick. And there she’s putting in the wild seeds, for she has
discovered these wild seeds, they make the new grains, the new wheat, and she
doesn’t have to go around and just keep searching all the time.
And on the right around – I don’t know, what is it? – 20,000 ago is your great-
great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, and he’s lying on his back in a
cave somewhere. And he is painting what he has seen during the day – the giant
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Off in the corner and on the left there is a woman who is saying somewhere, “It’s
getting colder. We must find new ways of using these fires, new ways of staying
warm.”
And you go now back and back and back and back, tens of thousands of years –
maybe even hundreds of thousands of years – to those places where your minds
of both the great-grandfathers and the great-grandmothers are brimming,
beginning to look up to the heavens and wondering; be looking to the ground
and feeling the holiness of the ground.
Going back and back and back and back to the time where you began to descend
from the trees. And now your arms are way out at your side or even behind you,
for you have gone through the great, great tiers of the ancestors. And you, with
your chest up front, you are the great receiver of all this wisdom, knowledge,
this folly, this lostness, this gathering foundness, this tragedy, and this great
comedy of the human story.
But now, with your arms behind you, begin to come forward again. You come
forward. You bless those ones who have come down from the trees into the
great plains of Africa. You bless the ones who start the great wanderings; the
wanderings across the earth. You come to those 10,000 years ago who are
finding ways – the great mothers who are finding ways of creating agriculture,
the great fathers who are finding ways of carving in stone and chipping in the
stone. And gradually 3, 4, 5,000, 6,000 years, beginning to create the cities, and
the women who are now the priestesses of new possibilities and the men who
are finding the very structures with the women, with the great-grandmothers
and grandfathers, getting it together, creating cultures, creating civilizations.
And you come forward, but this time you gather, you harvest, you harvest and
give gratitude to these great elders, these great elders who have made you into
yourself. You give gratitude. You bless their lives as you come further and further
forward to 5,000 years ago. You honor those lives. You honor the one who builds
the great pyramid. You honor the women in the great forests, who find the herbs
to make people well. You honor, you bless, and they feel your presence, for time
past, time present, time future are simultaneous. They feel your presence, and
they wonder, “Who is this spirit who has come? I feel suddenly relieved. I feel
a lightness in my life.” But, of course, it is you. And you come forward 4,000,
2,000, 1,000 years ago, honoring, blessing, giving love and comfort to these lives
pouring through your hands.

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Five hundreds years ago, 400, those ancestors who start the travels, travels
west, travels east, or live comfortably in their villages. Two hundred years, 100
years, the lives of the great-grandfathers in the nineteenth century, the twentieth
century; the grandfathers, your fathers, and gradually you came along and you
blessed that little baby.
And you come into the present, blessing the world of the mothers and the
grandmothers on the left, the fathers and the grandfathers on the right, and you
come to your own mothers and fathers. And then you take now this blessing
where you cross your hands on your chest, for you are the front of the great ship
of ancestors. And you feel the enrichment of the experience of all the ancestors
that is now there with you; there with you now; there with you now.
But something else calls. Something else calls from behind, and you take your
right hand and you put it behind so that you are now still in a continuity with
the world of the ancestors. But something is calling you forward. And with your
left hand you stretch it forward. And, of course, it is some descendant of your
mind, your body, or both, a thousand years in the future who has heard of this
practice. Perhaps they are listening to this practice now on whatever are their
different sets for listening.
And it is that descendant of yours – of your body, your mind, your feelings,
whatever – and that descendant is now reaching out to you, into your left hand,
and you feel the continuity. You feel the gratitude from that descendant. “Thank
you, dear ancestor of my mind or ancestor of my body. Thank you for doing
what you did today to restore the great chain of being between the generations,
the great continuity. Thank you for your life that gave me the affirmation and
the power of my own life. Thank you.”
And from the past also, with your right hand behind you, a great gratitude
welling up –“Thank you for your blessings.”
And so you are the turn-between, between time past and time future. To the
ancestors of the past, the descendants of the future, you are that great, great
quantum being who is holding and joining them together.
And that is the great Quantum Practice of the Ancestors and the Descendants.
Thank you.

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To me, T.S. Eliot’s statement is so important, “Time past and time future are
gathered in time present.”

So, my friends, you see, it’s true. It’s true that the basis of any transformative
potential lies in this inheriting potential and also its future evolutionary
unfoldment that is still within us. That’s part of the receiving of the optimal
template, the template of all the ancestors, the template of the future.
That is part of waking up to the optimal template, to the quantum blueprint.
This could not be more important. Please go back and practice this over and over
again.
The great civil rights leader, Howard Thurman, once said, “Don’t ask what the
world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs most
are people who have come alive.” Becoming alive is the great gift of relationship,
the psychological quality par excellence that seems to lead all others. Where do
we find all others? Right here, right now.
In the Buddha’s Avatamsaka Sutra, it is said that in the heaven of Indra, which
means reality, there is said to be a network of jewels so arranged that if you
look at one you see all the others reflected in it, the same way each object – each
person – in the world is not merely itself – himself, herself – but involves every
other person, every other object and, in fact, is everything else.
Quantum physics says much the same thing and assures us that we are all
entangled, interwoven. We are all reflecting each other. So, now know and
appreciate that listening from all over the world are members of this seminar
who are part of Indra’s net of people-jewels; each of you shining in all the others.
This is a revolution; more, an evolution in relationships. Thousands, actually,
who are here, shining; shining together in each other, in you. And in 20, 50,100,
maybe 1,000 years from now, they are still listening.
And as jewel-like reflections casting their shining brilliance to you and together
now reaching out to one another, feeling connected, I invite you now to lift your
arms and open to the vast interwovenness of power that is us in the quantum
universe. Comets rushing in, bringing news and the wisdom of the sages and
ages, coming in from Alpha Centauri and Polaris and the Andromeda galaxy
and the 800 billion stars of the Sombrero galaxy and the mind of God and the

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smile of a child, all entangled, interwoven and opening to those powers as an

interwoven group of perfect reflections of the whole.
But what perfection. You, being a perfect self and a perfect inclusive reflection
of every other being in this particular web, with the sense of being perfect in
your quantum self. And also breathing in so that it becomes clearer and clearer
that each person is a jewel in Indra’s net and aware that you are capable of
understanding, cherishing, and reflecting all the other jewels.
And feeling this flow of relationship and relevance, the one thing . . . you go
back, actually, fairly few generations and you’re all related to each other just
on the genetic form, regardless of where your immediate ancestors may have
come from. You are related genetically. You are related in a psychic bond. You
are related in the community of souls that decided to appear on this earth at
this time. You are related in your plans, your projects, the orders that are there
for you, your higher templates.
You are related in what my friend, Caroline Myss, refers to as “the sacred
covenants.” You’re here to fulfill your covenant and help the covenants of each
other’s to be fulfilled and evoke each other into the larger story of which you are
a part. You are related in terms of the consequences of your actions that just go
out and out and out and come back to you. Feel that now – the richly entangled
connection of this group altogether and invoking the incredible power of the
combined group all sustaining, all arising and co-creating with the quantum
field.
And know this: with all these minds and hearts connected here and hereafter,
you can come back inspired with ideas and projects and gifts and news from the
universe. And since those in our future are also present, revelations, surprises,
inventions of things to come coming to us. Maybe they’re not totally coherent
yet, but they will come. Believe it.
And, most important, give a blessing to all, blessing not only to the whole field,
but also to one another from the place of reflecting the incredible gifts and news
from the universe. And since those in our future are also present, revelations,
surprises, inventions of things to come coming to us, maybe they’re not totally
coherent yet, but they will come. Believe it.
And most important, give a blessing to all, blessing not only to the whole field,
but also to one another from the place of reflecting the incredible riches and

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beauty that the world will gain from you, a quantum person, from these quantum
people.
And let me leave you with a reminder that the quantum field is open at all times
and can be accessed for whatever one needs.
Here’s a poem from Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky that will assist in the
process of embodiment of the quantum universe in you. It’s about your marriage
to the quantum reality in the form of marriage to the sun, and it goes:
Inherent in most suffering,
especially that of the mind or heart,
is feeling, is believing that you can miss something in life,
but that’s not true,
for on your wedding day with the sun,
one of its presents to you will be,
if you want it,
every experience that has ever been known or can be known.
Yes, a divine treasure awaits each soul.
It is the infinite, infinite possibilities
that you can really borrow from at any moment.
Right now.
Breathing from the atmosphere of possibility,
we play out our lives as part of a greater story.
May we live the greater story.

Thank you, my friends.

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Information About Your Instructor

Dr. Jean Houston is a world-renowned scholar, philosopher
and researcher in human capacities. She is one of the foremost
visionary thinkers and doers of our time, and one of the princi-
pal founders of the Human Potential Movement.
Jean has worked extensively in 40 cultures and more than a
100 countries, helping global leaders and guiding educational
institutions, business organizations, and millions of individual
people to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness.
As advisor to United Nations agencies in human and cultural development, she
has worked to implement some of their extensive educational and health pro-
grams, and since 2003, she has been working with the UN Development Pro-
gram, training leaders in developing countries throughout the world in the new
field of social artistry.
Dr. Houston was also an advisor to President Bill Clinton and former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, as well as helping Hillary write her bestselling book It
Takes A Village To Raise A Child.
She is a prolific writer and author of 27 books, including A Passion for the Pos-
sible, The Possible Human, A Mythic Life, Jump Time, Manual of the Peacemaker,
and The Wizard of Us.

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