Stillness Touch
Evolution of Consciousness
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Warm Greetings Everyone
The image is of Chinnamasta, the tenth Mahadeva, whose ferocious heart is necessary to meet our times.
"You want it darker?"
~ Leonard Cohen
I finished Master Class 1 Opening Heart as Organ of Perception and Master Class 2 The Grail Journey in Basel Switzerland. My 12 years in Basel is due to Daniel Agustoni's generous support.
What stood out this year (2025) was the arrogant tone - based on ignorance - on behalf of a few non-osteopath biodynamic craniosacral therapists (BCST) who were in these classes.
I believe one aspect that influenced these BCST practitioners - besides being ignorant of osteopathic biodynamic principles and having not done their inner work - is their unconscious and unprocessed reactions to our times. One elder BCST practitioner courageously pointed this out in class by revealing his deep, hidden terror of annihilation.
Europeons are terrified about the future.
Throughout Europe and the USA, we are terrified because of the tenuousness of our survival.
I encountered in two Basel classes that ten percent of the 80 Master Class participants, exhibited embarrassing degrees of ignorance, arrogance, and resistance to osteopathic biodynamics and post-biodynamics. How did that manifest? Practitioners were argumentative, which only exposed an ignorance of the biodynamic practice boundaries that Sutherland and Becker gave to us. It was obvious these practitioners had never deeply studied Sutherland or Becker. Why do I say that? Because practitioners were defensive and fought against non-efferent practice boundaries that Sutherland gave to us for contacting the unerring potency. These practitioners refused to move beyond what they were taught: 'orienting to the neutral.' But that creates a tad-pole neutral, which 'settles' the nervous system's fight, flight, freeze reactivity by invoking a parasympathetic state.
When stillness infuses the tad-pole - CSF, brain, spinal cord - that is a functional neutral.
When stillness suffuses the whole-body and fills our auric field - that is a biodynamic neutral.
Whole-body stillness is the neutral that osteopaths operate in.
Obviously, a tad-pole neutral and a whole body-auric field neutral are different domains of consciousness graphic. Each domain thrives under specific practice boundaries.When crossing those practice boundaries, it is unethical conduct.
The non-osteopath biodynamic craniosacral therapist finds neutral by orienting to it. The very dualistic practice of orienting is what creates a tad-pole neutral, which prevents the emergence of Becker's Silent Partner, an osteopathic biodynamic neutral.
Sutherland described a biodynamic neutral at the end of his life as the moment we can Be Still and Know I AM.
BCST practitioners are not to blame;
they are taught to operate in a tad-pole neutral during their non-osteopathic biodynamic training.
However, am ironic side-effect of that degree of ego control is Sills would also never be able to utterly surrender ego control and fall into the great black unknown.
A side-effect of incorporating these safety measures in a curriculum is BCST/CSB students will never know the neutral that Sutherland characterizes as Be Still And Know I AM.
The courageous confessions by the non-osteopathic founders of BCST
reveal that the state that they call "neutral"
is not an osteopathic biodynamic neutral.
The definition of a functional neutral:
when stillness envelops the tadpole
- the brain, spinal cord, CSF as one unit -naturally creates a sense of settling.In a functional neutral, the parasympathetic nervous system
induces the "relaxed response."
A relaxed response brings with it the sense of 'settling' (Google "relaxed response").
1) A refusal to cease using efference while touching.
2) Inability to cease offering one-sided contacts that are not referenced to the midline. This creates a false midline in recipients, according to osteopathic biodynamics.
3) Continuing to operate in a dualistic relational field with clients instead of mutuality.
4) Dualistically "orienting to the neutral" - creates a functional neutral - in which stillness envelops the 'tadpole' - amid Sutherland's CRI domain.
5) Practitioners expressed a deep-seated aversion to giving up ego control due to their training.
6) Unable to drop deep inside and dwell in a non-efferent state of non-doing to realize a biodynamic osteopathic neutral.
We leave the control of the body in the hands
of the unerring potency, which is our Silent Partner.
Can you talk about what you call the ‘’Silent Partner’’ ?
Well, if I talk about it, that isn’t what it is. One can only say that the pure ‘’I’’ that represents me (my true nature) is my Silent Partner. It is the same Silent partner as yours, the same Silent Partner that is in this room, and the same Silent Partner in the insect I saw walking around. It’s all the same Silent Partner, and accepting and surrendering to it, has to become a conscious experience. The Silent Partner is not anthropomorphic (humanized) - it is itself. It has to be made a conscious awareness or knowing, but just the second you’ve got something that you can put your mental, intellectual finger on, that isn’t it. But still, it is something that is.
The Silent Partner can deliberately be contacted on a one-on-one basis. Why and how it works, I don’t know, and if I did know, that wouldn’t be it. It’s easier to demonstrate than it is to talk about. Right now I’m going to contact my Silent Partner, and while keeping an awareness of mine (Silent Partner), I automatically contact yours (Silent Partner). Now, I’m going to quit. If I contact yours, and then quit contacting yours, I haven’t changed it one way or the other. But it’s more than an ordinary contact (it is non-efferent). Can you feel the difference? It is instant communication.
And everything that you are aware of is not it.
Through its transmutation, it (the Silent Partner) arouses a bio-electrical potential, and I am aware of the system being worked in the patient's body. I am not aware of what is working in their body. I am not aware of the exact details, but I am aware of something going on within because it has been activated. By what? The only source of power there is - the Cause. I contact the Cause first. Why do I contact the Cause first? Because I am the Cause too. If you are going to be a patient of mine - and I can for the short period of time that you’re going to be with me - why can I not play with the Boss, instead of playing with the secretary?
When you contact a patient in this way (non-efferently), you have not taken on the responsibility for that person with that contact. Rather, you are simply trying to say to that individual ‘’Look, Boss, you’re already Boss in that area, and I know that when you do your work, you’re going to do it just exactly the way you want it done. I will let do that work, although I’m not going to sit here and watch you do it ‘’
I approach it this way, because your Boss is far more knowledgeable and efficient than I am for whatever problem you’ve come to me for. I’ve aroused its antennae, and I’m letting it to go to work. But I’m not going to dictate how it’s going to do its work, and it isn’t up to me to sit there and watch it, or concentrate on it (Becker is characterizing practitioner non-efference).
The quicker you can get away from it (efference) and just go back to pure surrender, the better.
All right, let’s take this one step further. I‘ll contact my Silent Partner, then I naturally contact yours, and then I’m going to surrender to it. Something happens, right? There’s a difference. All of sudden, you have the same process working for you (the patient), and I’ve lost my responsibility for what happens. It’s working, and now it’s my job to get in there and (offer contacts) to do what I’ve got to do. See? You can talk about it, but there’s nothing to talk about.
One thing you have to get over is the idea of relating to problems.
Just like when we said the body (its process during a session) isn’t the point, it’s also the case that disease is not the point. If you relate to problems, or you think about things in terms of problems, then all you’ve got are problems. All you have is one effect on top of another effect. You never get to the cause. So forget about problems.
The Silent Partner is, and that’s all there is to it. So why not (surrender) call it to action? When you get to talking about how to activate it, I have given you the simplest answer that there is to give, and I haven’t any more idea when I’m contacting mine what I’m contacting than I know about the man in the moon. Because if I did know, then it wouldn’t be a Silent Partner. That (type of knowing) would be making it a part of the same limited-effect that everything else in our mind can touch.
I’m contacting it and surrendering to it
it’s as simple as that.
If you make it any more complicated, you’re dead - (the empty) nothing will happen. That‘s all there is to it. That’s what A T Still is talking about when he says "God of the mind of nature." That’s what he's referring to.
Question: So it seems like part of our job is to open to that, to surrender to God ?
Actually it boils down to what do you surrender to now? (motion present). Your Silent Partner is a fulcrum point; it’s absolutely still. There’s no energy in motion in the Silent Partner, none. It’s all energy, and it’s not a motion. Actually, it is the source of energy, the state from which energy comes. It isn’t energy in motion, it’s just pure potency. It’s omnipotent. There is no motion, and yet, it’s all motion (entering the non-dual paradoxical state). It just is, and you surrender to it. Sense the stillness that has developed in this room. It’s the same stillness (that is in you and I). Can you feel it? It’s all the same stillness, and you can feel it, but it’s not something that you work at.
If you work at it, you’re missing it.
It’s living stillness that our conscious awareness can be aware of.
This conscious awareness is with our big mind (Unborn Buddha Mind), not our little mind.
Awareness (or Being Present) is acceptance of something. While this may sound esoteric, it is a tangible experience. Once in a while when I’m treating patients in my office, and can take the stillness in that room, cut it with a knife, and make an igloo out of it - it gets that quiet. What brings it on? I haven’t any idea, and who cares? It is there to meet the need for something that's going on for that particular individual (on the table). Where it comes from and where it disappears to is not important. It’s a way of life, a way of life with a capital ‘’I’’ So that’s what it is. Don’t make it complicated. You can contact your own Silent Partner right now, and you can contact and then you are automatically in contact someone else’s, and then you surrender. Everybody can do it ; we all have the same source.
It is possible to learn to live in the ‘’Presence’’
as Joel Goldsmith calls it, 24 hours a day.
But, we’re always forgetting this, being distracted by the world we’re walking around in. But it’s possible, in spite of the fact we’re walking through this world, to always to be in constant surrender to this thing you just made contact with. It’s simply a matter of continuing to surrender as a conscious awareness experience, and it gets to be a habit. It can be practically impossible for us to do this always, because we’re human beings who live in this world. I get tired, and while I’m driving home, someone cuts me off and I get mad. So it’s hard to do it, but it’s as simple as that - a conscious, personal, even super-personal surrender to the stillness that’s part of our being.
This is where osteopathy ends and spiritual healing and the private domain of Faith begin.
~ Becker Rollin The Stillness of Life Rudra Press
Osteopaths graduate a nine-year biodynamic training to learn how NOT to traumatize clients so, they have no need for trauma management. The same applies to the Stillness Touch trainings.
Nor do we ever in biodynamics or post-biodynamics use efference
or offer one-sided contacts that are off the midline.
Dualistic relating, offering efferent touch, and making one sided contacts that are off the midline create numerous treatment reactions when we are in an osteopathic biodynamic neutral.The treatment reactions occur IF a practitioner enters the osteopathic biodynamic or a post-biodynamic field and applies efference or one-sided holds.Unfortunately, I observed treatment reactions occur in a Master Class post-biodynamic field when practitioners refuse to give up their prior training and they do not follow the practice boundaries I offer. They also do not drop into a biodynamic or a post-biodynamic neutral (for more context, read Unethical Conduct below).
I am not talking about a functional treatment field, where efference and one sided contacts are appropriate. In the nervous system (NS) tad-pole neutral, the NS possesses fight, flight, freeze reactivities that protect the client from a practitioner's efference.
The ethical breaches continued despite that I said
"biodynamic osteopaths insist that one sided contacts
- with no hand contact on the midline -
creates a false midline in the client on the table."
In my fifty years of practicing, I have never before witnessed non-osteopath practitioners so adamantly defend
a contact that, according to osteopathic biodynamics, creates a false midline in clients.
After all, Sutherland and his inner circle of Legacy osteopaths gave us biodynamics,
why not abide by their practice boundaries and principles?
Adamantly defending a one-sided contact breaks an osteopathic biodynamic practice boundary: offering one-sided contacts applied inside a biodynamic or post-biodynamic field creates a false midline. By continuing to offer these contacts, displays a never-before-witnessed degree of ignorance and defiance of osteopathic biodynamics and post-biodynamics.Also, the contrived one-sided contact is totally made up: it has nothing to do with the biodynamic embryological principles (more on this later). The existence of a one-sided contact cloaks a Superego Megalomaniacal arrogance. The contact's name implies the presence of Mother Mary who holding the body of the crucified Christ. What has this fantasy contact got to do with osteopathic biodynamics? Or post-biodynamics? Does that contact honor Blechschmidt - the body is made as a bilaterally symmetrical unit around an axial midline. So, always contacting the midline, often by touching ossification points is essential. But I doubt that the non-osteopaths learn this.
I will never again allow anyone in my group fielddesecrate the biodynamic principles that Sutherland brought us.I now understand why osteopaths have never allowed body workers into their classes. Do I have to enforce the same policy?Misguided practitioners are increasingly more arrogant and aggressive by the minute, which will only call forth in me Chinnamasta's ferocious-hearted response.
I do NOT offer osteopathic biodynamics.
After the session, the assistant came to me and said
"that was the worst session I've ever had in my whole life."
"I know more than Sutherland, Becker, Jealous, and Ridley (about his Stillness Touch)."
If a practitioner longs to enter the 'room' and 'know' post-biodynamics,
there are specific practice boundaries to honor.
Simply put, to offer Stillness Touch demands practitioner integrity.In most cases, the unethical conduct came
from the cranial master teachers and seasoned practitioners.
The efferent techniques that these "master practitioners" offered originated from their non-osteopathic biodynamic training. That means no one witnessed the damaging effects because everyone was in the same tad-pole neutral room. However, when practitioners apply efferent contacts to fellow participants during Master Class session exchanges, that behavior - when in a post-biodynamic group field - amounts to Practitioner Unethical Conduct.
This gross breach of integrity is a disservice to the group field. Such unethical conduct desecrates the original osteopathic biodynamic impulse that Sutherland gifted us. Again, the main culprits of this practitioner unethical conduct came from the non-osteopathic cranial teachers, ahem.
