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Living as Light: By Brent M. Baum A new perspective on the impact of familial, societal and global trauma on our bodies, minds and spirits. Brent Baum offers a new perspective on the impact of familial, societal and global trauma on our bodies, minds and spirits. He developed a ground-breaking strategy for the healing of our painful memories called Holographic Memory Resolution™, a client-centered, non-traumatizing body-mind approach founded on the principles of quantum physics. Chapter One: The Invitation This book is about mystical intimacy—not intimacy as it was typically modeled for us by parents, teachers, religion or society, but true oneness: the capacity to merge with another as light, generating the ability to heal, love, and let go. This involves our capacity to release all that we are not and to fill the emptiness with the magnificence that we truly are. I am going to talk about our mastery of consciousness and the invitation to embrace the fullness of our destiny and nature. As part of this evolutionary unveiling, we will examine the opportunities we now face to use our spiritual resources to transform our relationships, our bodies, our minds, and the world around us. As a “side effect” of this shift in consciousness, I suspect that we will find an intimacy greater than we imagined possible, a new model for interpersonal relationship and social interaction, and the power to heal many of our diseases. (Page 2.) Chapter Three: The Wake-Up Call Buried beneath the surface of our existence is both mystery and perfect wisdom. It beckons us in infinite and often unnoticed ways. We usually remain true to this voice without consciously realizing it. This wisdom comprehends what we call accident. It invites our pain, our mistakes, and our traumas as invitations to awaken. It utilizes our seemingly fruitless efforts to produce fruit recognizable only decades later. Such wisdom contextualizes everything we have ever known and experienced within a meaningful matrix. It embraces our rage, futility, and grief as anticipated outbursts while loving us all the while. It perceives death, defeat, and victim-hood as the retractive forces that catapult us the greatest distances toward enlightenment. (Page 15.) Chapter Seven: Manifesting Eden Eden is more than a mythological place or a material site of primordial failure. It is a promise and invitation embedded within the cells of our bodies. It is our spiritual destiny. (Page 47.) There are clear indications that we were not thrown out of Eden due to a moral failure; we were designed to evolve lovingly into it. Until such time as we would learn to heal our traumatic experiences and master our disparate states of consciousness, we would continue to subconsciously and automatically encode any experience that overwhelmed or threatened our existence. Such protection was in place in our physiology years before moral development occurred within the psyche, and was present in our physiology at least 1.5 million years before the notion of an Original ‘Sin’ was even conceived. It appears that we were designed to be more than ‘moral;’ we were intended to be ‘mystical’ in nature. And this mysticism is profoundly tied to our inherent mastery of our space-time perception—our influence over our states of consciousness. (Page 52.) Chapter Eight: The Return to Innocence Innocence is a state of simplicity that we achieve as we release the fragmenting voices of trauma. Our intentions become singular and our walk with the Divine continuous when we are not diverted by attachment to the past or its fearful projection into the future. (Page 57.) Eden exists as a state of ever-renewed innocence, clarity, abundance and generosity of spirit. In the loss of our vision of personal integrity and truth, we are cast from the sacred place of spontaneous manifestation and abundance. There is no question, but that as our intentions are rendered singular—free of the distractions of conflicting voices and messages about our worth, identity, purpose, and potential, we instantaneously manifest the abundance that we conceive in our minds. Without the static interference of dense imprints in the emotional body, the thoughts that we generate from this enlightened state germinate before they pass our lips. Such is the creative potential we hold from our design. Eden is our destiny, not some tragic ruin waiting to be excavated from the layers of our pre-history! (Page 61.) Chapter Ten: Lessons in Duality Through breakthroughs in physics, psychology, cellular biology and anthropology, it is evident that our ultimate “duality” or capacity to split into diverse states of consciousness, preceded history, civilization, religion, and even language as we know it. Such fragmentation or splitting of consciousness occurred spontaneously in our earliest stages of evolution—at moments of physical or emotional overwhelm. This magnificent protective mechanism holds the map to our personal and collective reintegration. It bears an ancient invitation to spiritual intimacy and wholeness. (Page 77.) Chapter Twelve: Mystical Intimacy A physics of intimacy exists that bears a blueprint for awakening. We are at the advent of a great deepening of the human potential for relationship. As the “negative” voices and imprints of others are released from the cells and fields of our bodies, we become capable of remaining present to and attending to the voices of those around us. We also become more available to the voice of Wisdom that speaks from within us. We have gravely undervalued the impact of our words and gestures on the psycho-spiritual development of the individual and of our interpersonal relationships. (Page 87.) Chapter Thirteen: Reclaiming the Emotional Spectrum As we free ourselves from the dense energies of trauma, we open to an unprecedented capacity for creativity, for never in our history have we known or lived from the unencumbered flow of light with the full spectrum of emotional possibility. (Page 93.) Chapter Eighteen: The Body as Mirror Our bodies are the maps to our enlightenment; they mirror our unfinished states of consciousness and provide the perfect invitation for our emergence as the conscious creators of our reality. Our bodies are the expression of both our conscious and unconscious belief systems. As such, they mirror to us both the conscious and unconscious imprinting that occurs as we move through life. Both the outer world of relationships and the more intimate world we know as body are reflections of this powerful internal creative act. As such, the body, with all of its aches and pains, can be used to confirm the direction that our intentionality is taking us as we navigate our path on the earth plane. (Page 127.) The body offers us a map to wholeness and health if we attend to it. The wisdom of the bodymind is speaking continuously to enhance our opportunities for happiness and creativity. If we ignore this wisdom and our ability to store these painful states of consciousness, the bodymind will eventually demand our attention through healing crises—particularly when we have become overloaded. This is the magnificent wisdom of our design. Let us remember that the body is a precious expression of the soul. We are spiritual beings having a corporeal adventure! (Page 130.) Chapter Nineteen: Forgiveness and Healing Sometimes we forgive, not because the offender has done anything to warrant our forgiveness, but because we deserve better than to remain bound to them so intimately through the power of our own emotions. Under the shackles of anger and hatred we lose power and are drawn closer through the weight of these emotions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the attachment. Unaware of this bind, we often wonder why we are not more available for relationship in present time. (Page 131.) Chapter Twenty-One: The Key to the Mysteries The traumas in our evolution first revealed to us our innate capacity to pause consciousness itself. This capacity to arrest Consciousness suggests a remarkable and intimate connection to Source. We are only now beginning to fathom the implications of what it means to be “light from light” and to have influence over this primordial creative act. (Page 145.) Our individual and collective traumas reveal to us our degree of dissociation from Spirit and from our power. In learning to address these states of consciousness, we find a powerful key for unlocking our potential and embracing our true nature as creators. Many of those “confusing” experiences of our lives make perfect sense when we view them from our “observer” stance—utilizing the capacity of our multidimensional minds to traverse time and to observe the patterns. From this larger perspective we are able to heal any single moment or intention, learning our mastery of love and light. Through the invitation of trauma, therefore, we discover that we hold the key to resolving the confusion and blindness imparted by our individual and collective moments of overwhelm. In this mystery school of trauma, much is revealed. (Page 148.) Chapter Twenty-Three: From Darkness to Light The Ego is the archetypal composite of our unresolved traumas. Its influence has clouded our choices, health, and relationships for over 1.5 million years. As we commit to our own healing and resolve the influence of this shadow self, we discover the light and wisdom that arises spontaneously from within. Our nature is one of light, not shadow. (Page 159.) Trauma is the source of the “ego.” This pseudo-I is the composite of all of our fear-based illusions created from moments of deficiency, abuse, and abandonment. It is the gauge and measure of our progress in healing and integration of memory. In originating from trauma, the ego possesses a number of false messages: The ego lives with a distorted perception of time. The ego lives from an ethic of deficiency. The ego lives from the “child mind.” The ego is shame-based. The ego has an imbalanced spirituality. (Page 160ff.) Chapter Twenty-Four: The Face of Eden Eden is not a mythological abstraction, but an expression of the original invitation to embrace our divinity. Eden is not a shame-based projection from the past detailing the defectiveness of our nature. It is the standing invitation to embrace our true nature as co-creators and stewards of the flow of consciousness. The obstacle to an Edenic existence clearly comes, not from some primordial moral failure, but from our alienation from the One Mind and the shame that reinforces such illusions of separation. As we master our states of consciousness, using that inherent wisdom written on the human heart, the past and the future dissolve, giving rise to the mystical knowledge that we have always been securely held within the womb of white light that sustains all. The master plan for our healing and the path to enlightenment are clearly contained within us. This wisdom beckons us to focus our quantum creativity on the manifestation of Eden by abiding in the Light. (Page 197.) We hold within the cells and fields of our bodymind an invitation to quantum mastery. Mysticism, therefore, is not some extraordinary experience outside of our ordinary perception; it is the fabric that underlies our very existence. We are at play in a holographic universe that possesses consciousness. There is only one Mind, in truth. As we learn to master the universe that is most immediately ours in this bodymind, we will see the healing spread outward to the whole. This is our blessing as holographic beings in a holographic universe: every part immediately and profoundly affects the whole. “We are one with All That Is; we are one with the Divine Mind!” (Page 199.) Brent M. Baum, STB, SSL, ICADC, LISAC, CCH, appears at Transitions Bookplace for the official debut of Brent’s new book on Wednesday, January 17, at 7pm. There will be a book signing and a short talk by Brent. For more information regarding Individual Sessions, Workshops, or Training, contact Yvonne Hedeker at Michael’s Gift, 847-940-0432 or yhedeker@michaelsgift.org.
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