Clearing the Path to Conscious Manifestation

By Brent M. Baum

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Filling In the Gaps in the What the Bleep Do We Know? Movie

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Brent Baum completed his post-graduate training at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy, and served as a Catholic priest, a faculty member of Notre Dame Seminary, an archaeologist in the Near East for over thirteen years, and as Clinical Director of Cottonwood Treatment Centers in New Mexico and Arizona. He is an Internationally Certified Addictions Counselor, a Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor for the State of Arizona, and is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.

     An internationally recognized lecturer, trainer, and trauma resolution specialist, Brent employed the knowledge and expertise gained from his groundbreaking work with over 11,000 trauma survivors to develop Holographic Memory Resolution^®, an innovative tool for the release of the emotional, behavioral, and physical imprints of traumatic experiences. His pioneering work led to his involvement with the senior staff of TWA Flight 800, rescue personnel and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing and the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. He is the author of The Healing Dimensions, Resolving Trauma In Body, Mind and Spirit. Empowerment of the “Healer Within” forms the foundation of his retreats and workshops.

In this age of “reality TV” and sensory bombardment with wireless, digital, live, uninterrupted access to the most traumatic events of each day, a movie like What the Bleep Do We Know comes as a breath of fresh air. Do we truly create our reality by how we observe it? In this film we have interviews with many of the leading quantum physicists of our day and have an opportunity to pause and consider the meaning of their discoveries for our personal lives. Quantum physics has affirmed that the act of observation is not passive, but creative; that is, what we focus upon we create! What we devote our minds and thoughts to we empower. All of the reality that we once thought was “out there” is, in fact, cast on the stage of our internal quantum projector, and this perception is our reality. There is no doubt, we create as we observe. This means that our happiness is very much dependent on our focus and intention. After at least one and a half million years on this planet, we have come to recognize that our personal and collective fulfillment is directly related to how we manage the flow of consciousness. This presents us with an unparalleled opportunity for healing and change. There is, however, a challenge that remains: in order to manifest our highest good, we must learn to master our “intentionality”—both conscious and unconscious. While this concept is mentioned in  What the Bleep Do We Know, the movie left us wondering what are the actual steps we need to take in order to gain mastery of our consciousness and intentionality. But we have learned much about this.

     In his book The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav stated that humankind’s path of evolution up to this point has been mostly “unconscious, from unconscious intentions.” Unconscious intentions are those set in place by cultural imprinting, trauma, imitation of our parents and society, and through many other sources—many of which occurred before the age of five and before we had any say in the world we internalized. They riveted or focused our consciousness, setting these intentions before we were capable of conscious choice. In this day and age, when trauma is one of our principal themes, we are, by necessity, learning much about how we manage this flow of consciousness, particularly under stress. Stress and trauma insert an unconscious intention whose function is to prevent the recurrence of pain and overwhelm. Trauma hypnotizes us and induces an altered state of consciousness, inserting its own protective message and intention in the 93% subconscious mind. Though we may consciously intend one thing from our 7% conscious mind, we frequently find this good intention interrupted or even sabotaged by a stronger or conflicting message from our past that casts doubt upon our capacity to fulfill our conscious goal. This interruption comes in a millisecond of time. The truth is, we move in and out of altered states of consciousness some 15-50 times per hour—and we wonder why we have difficulty attaining our goals! Our heightened understanding of trauma and the magnificent capacity we possess to pause consciousness itself when we are overwhelmed has led us to take a second look at the power of intention.

     In his book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz alluded to the tremendous reduction in personal and collective power that has arisen through the accumulation of trauma and subconscious imprinting that has occurred through our evolutionary process. He appropriately termed this condition the domestication of the human spirit and spoke of the dream or altered state of consciousness that has ensued—suggesting that we live in a kind of walking dream state! Our cultural identification with elements from the film The Matrix finds resonance when we begin to consider the impact of coming out of 1.5 million years of trance and begin exploring our power to consciously create our reality. Returning to Genesis, and our earliest literary origins, we see that Adam and Eve’s “eyes were opened” (Gen. 3:7) – in Aramaic, this is an indication of a shift in consciousness. Their shift in consciousness was accompanied by a sense of shame. Shame is the emotional expression of trauma—evidence of an actual split in consciousness, rather than merely some moral failure or sin on humankind’s part. We originally dissociated long before we possessed the vocabulary or the moral awareness to “sin.” It is shame that more potently sabotages our conscious intentionality and impairs our creative efforts to manifest Eden. Whatever metaphors or media we use to express this phenomenon—the message is valid: we have clearly been dominated by the influence of subconscious (memory-based) intentionality for most of our personal and collective evolution.

     We come now to a remarkable and privileged transition time for humanity. The original physiological protections built into our DNA that allowed us to pause consciousness under overwhelm are now teaching us that we possess the capacity to reclaim our lost intentionality. We have now mapped this capacity to pause consciousness down to the cellular and molecular levels. The “fight-flight-freeze response” which automatically engages at moments of overwhelm, enables us to pause consciousness in the cells and fields of our bodies. Once stored in the body in a holographic manner, any fragment of this encoded experience will trigger our stored feelings and bring us back to this painful moment in space and time. As adrenaline rushes to assist us in this protective effort, our T-cell production decreases—ultimately resulting in compromised immunity. The holographic nature of memory permits us to reduce and contain stressful and traumatic experiences in a single, manageable fragment and at specific sites in our bodies. Similarly, the fluidity of the holographic mind, coupled with the body’s accessibility to stored memory, enables us to readily update the subconscious and free ourselves from the constraints of old outdated images, intentions and obsolete defenses. As we begin to understand this process, we discover that, at moments of physical and emotional overwhelm, our power was not permanently lost; it was simply placed on hold until we could return to consciously reclaim it.

     In working personally with over 11,000 trauma survivors, rather than become devastated by stories of abuse, cruelty, and torment to the human spirit, I have become more and more excited about our potential. While the What the Bleep movie spoke of our addictions and addictive thinking that keeps us trapped in unhealthy patterns of manifestation, we have discovered in the last fifty years that it is actually the trauma induction mechanism that pauses consciousness itself and arrests our development—fostering our codependency and the outward-looking search for wholeness. As we resolve these “stuck” points in our personal and collective histories, we free ourselves and realize that we have the capacity to manifest our reality from a place of singular intentionality. As we clear the images of trauma, we are capable of maintaining focus. We can actually listen to our children, partners and the spiritual guidance speaking to us when we are no longer interrupted by the static voices and defensive messages of the past. As we become more aligned with our power and our truth, we manifest spontaneously, and we manifest our highest good. It is at this point in our evolution that we realize our full potential and our nature as the quantum creators of our reality, not its victims. Through new techniques, interventions, and strategies like Holographic Memory Resolution^® (see details on our web site: www.healingdimensions.com), we are capable of reclaiming our paused moments of consciousness and discovering our nature as the powerful creators we are. The elusive Eden we seek is not some mythic ruin of the past, but the natural state of abundance that emerges as we reclaim our lost intentionality and become singular. In such a place, abundance, health, intimacy, peace and joy are our reality.

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Brent Baum will present two lectures on “Clearing The Path to Manifestation” at 7pm Thursday, July 13, at Sacred Paths in Downers Grove, and 7pm Saturday, July 15, at Transitions Bookplace in Chicago. For more information contact Yvonne Hedeker at yhedeker@michaelsgift.org or 847-940-0432.

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