Stillness Touch
Evolution of Consciousness
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Dr. Sutherland created a cranial touch as a spiritual journey that is akin to the ancient practice of laying on of hands, which has been practiced as a sacrament for thousands of years in all spiritual traditions.
Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy, was renowned for laying on of hands.
When modern medicine took over the healing arts, it reduced touch to a mechanical treatment system that regarded the body as a machine controlled by the nervous-hormonal system.
Touch as a sacred body rite was terminated by modern medicine.
Holistic methods that focus on the nervous system and trauma management is a medical practice that desecrates the sacred mystery of touch to realize a love that creates, maintains, heals, and makes whole the body.
Biodynamic Cranial Osteopathy was founded by Sutherland after 48 years of cranial study; he shared his biodynamics only with his inner circle of osteopaths. In 1945 Sutherland gave a lecture, which introduced a non-medical modality that harnesses the power of the unerring potency to access the ascending tidal expressions of consciousness, which leads to the realization of I AM. Depth psychology calls I AM the Self.
Important Note: Sutherland's non-doing principles of touch to realize "I AM" are taught to osteopaths over a nine year biodynamic training. Sutherland's principles are not taught in non-osteopathic schools. Those trainings miss Sutherland's teaching points in several ways:
1) They force hierarchical medical principles and ethics onto a non-medical biodynamic field of mutuality.
2) They teach enquiry into the biodynamic tides, which as ascending current expressions of consciousness, lead to desire and clinging to the bliss of the tides.
3) They get stuck in the bliss of the ascending tidal domains of consciousness, which creates various forms of spiritual bypass.
4) They misuse Stillness as a bypass to avoid uncomfortable intensity, which prevents the descent of our consciousness into the body.
5) They subtly encourage a covert guru-disciple codependent relationship with the teacher, which weakens our will as students.
6) Teach efferent functional cranial methods, which, as an outside force prevents any contact with the unerring potency, the tides, and Dynamic Stillness.
7) Offer a functional curriculum and call it biodynamic, which is considered by osteopaths to be unethical conduct by deception (BCST CURRICULUM)
8) The biodynamic cranial approach (BCA) lacks depth; its class topics are full of fluff and gimmicks that keep practitioners stuck on the surface. The result? No second birth as an enfleshed union of body, consciousness, and love.
What is the result of engaging any of the above efferent pitfalls? We cannot realize the neutral state of consciousness that leads to our second birth. Why? Because by remaining in efference, or on the ascending planes, the ego and Superego maintain control of our will by engaging two strategic complexes based on fear and desire: the hypermasculine (fear) and hyperfeminine (desire). These complexes generate the many forms of recoil that keep us away from the unerring potency to avoid Dynamic Stillness.
The above strategies are an unethical spiritual bypass, which the ego and Superego use to prevent the realization of I AM - which is the infinite consciousness of Dynamic Stillness. When stuck in efference or ascent, we avoid descending into the body, which blocks enfleshment as the implosion of our consciousness into the cells.
It is not until after I AM implodes from our midline into the cells that our second birth can occur.
What is the second birth?
It is the cellular enfleshment of the Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love that is stronger than death.
After enfleshment, the heart's SA Node emanates the Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love.
Pure Breath of Love's pulse reveals that the body is a sacred vessel of love.
If we touch while in a Sacred Repose within as our 'seat' of enfleshment, it evokes the Divine Feminine power,
which, by entrainment emerges inside a recipient.
The Divine Feminine Wisdom and Love is the Holy Grail that re-spiritualizes matter and restores to the body it original magma-like quality that, as the super-substance of love that unifies us with all things.
In 1977, I founded the Sutherland Cranial Study Group and the Cranial Rhythmic Institute (CRI) while in college. By 1981, I was training people in Manhattan from all walks of life: I taught self-care classes at the 92nd Street Y, presented at Whole Life Expos nationwide, and I wrote a regular "Self-Care Column" for the Whole Life Times Magazine for 3 years. I co-founded the Whole Life Healing Center with an MD homeopath, which was one of the first holistic integrative centers in the USA.
Then I met psychotherapist and author Robert Johnson who was trained by Carl Jung. Beginning in 1986 for 12 years Robert mentored me one-to-one in Jungian's depth psychology.
In the 1990's, I developed a system of anointing the skin with oils that harmonize the fourfold organ systems. This was based on the Rhythmic Massage developed by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman, MD. I was invited to present my original work to the Anthroposophic Medical Conference (PAAM) in Seattle, 1995. After 12 years, the impulse evolved into Sacred Body Rites, which is akin to the original authentic Sacred Tantric practices of touch as a spiritual practice.
Then, in 1995, I began to spontaneously experience the tides as states of consciousness, which subsequently inspired my writing of the book Stillness and the teaching biodynamics. I first taught my meditative biodynamic principles of Stillness Touch and its practices at the Pacific School of Homeopathy in San Francisco - these were my first biodynamic classes! Then by 1997, my cranial students started asking me to privately teach biodynamics to them in a San Francisco home.
I also trained lay people and the entire Health Services Staff at Kripalu in Stillness Touch, along with cranial students, and professional practitioners from all walks of life. I have certified dozens of teachers worldwide through my two schools Dynamic Stillness and Sacred Body Rites. Subsequently, several biodynamic and tantric schools have been founded by my graduate teachers. I teach Stillness Touch Master Classes in Basel, and I offer Private Intensives that include session exchanges.
I am approaching my sunset years.
My teaching worldwide will come end in a few years because of the bodily toll of international travel.
I will continue offering Private Intensives and Master Classes at home, and I may offer a Legacy Training to those who wish to carry-on my life's work.
Perhaps you will join me
