BE STILL

Non-efference Prevents
Contamination of The Potency

When we practice a biodynamic cranial approach without efference it is a path to realize I AM. However, if we practice with efference, biodynamics becomes a functional approach for the relief of symptoms.

I AM is THE Neutral
which is Dynamic Stillness
the Absolute Unerring Potency. 

It is impossible to contact potency if we engage efferent practices that recoil us away from the potency.

Types of Practitioner Efference

Here are 5 fundamental types of practitioner efference that recoil us away from the potency:

1. Enquiry into the biodynamic tides
2. Using stillness as a bypass
3. Absolutism
4. Teacher Guru-disciple co-dependence
5. Unwinding to realize our second birth

The above types of efference create the specific recoils that are taught in the biodynamic cranial approach schools: Chart

Also, body armor triggers unconscious recoils that block the potency Chart

To read about Sutherland's Potency: Click Here

 Non-efference means BE STILL

BE STILL means to repose in neutral; if we repose long enough we realize I AM, then we become THE Neutral, which is called Sacred Repose. 

Evolution of Neutral As An Ascending Journey to I AM

A biodynamic neutral begins as whole-body stillness. When this neutral deepens, it's levity lifts consciousness up and out beyond the body to ascend into the transpersonal domains that free our Soul from the ego and Superego's control.

Freedom arises after we become THE Neutral

We realize THE Neutral in Sacred Repose after we utterly surrender our consciousness to Dynamic Stillness, or I AM.

At I AM, consciousness is infinite and our Soul is free.
Reposing in I AM ends the ascending biodynamic cranial journey as a path of development Chart.

When the ascending current biodynamic tides disappear in I AM
that is the end of our biodynamic cranial journey for the evolution of consciousness
and we enter a post-biodynamic realm of the sacred pulse

Dr. Sutherland's osteopathic biodynamic cranial practice for the evolution of consciousness is summarized by Dr. and Mrs. Sutherland on their headstones:

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM

When we are in neutral, biodynamic tides emanate from the stillness in our midline and express primary respiration.

All tides disappear and return to THE Neutral at I AM

Many spiritual traditions teach that realizing I AM is the end of the Soul's journey because our consciousness is united with the consciousness of The All. In other words, we KNOW I AM.

At I AM, we realize the body is consciousness 
and our body becomes whole at infinity

I AM is called Shiva in the Ancient Vedas; this Sacred Masculine principle is an essential realization. Yet, it is not the end of our Soul's journey.

The ascending path to I AM is an initiatory stage of the Soul's journey to the enfleshment of love.

To continue to evolve our consciousness
beyond I AM, we choose it

Our choice to utterly surrender consciousness to I AM invites the descent of consciousness into our body's cells that unites with Shakti and we realize the Divine Feminine Mystery of love.

A love that creates all that is
and is stronger than death

If we desire to enflesh infinite consciousness in our cells
we choose to descend

This choice is THE Fulcrum to Freedom

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The Descent Of Consciousness And Enfleshment

Enfleshment begins after our spirit current shifts from ascending to descending.

Ascending and Descending Currents

After consciousness descends and implodes into our flesh, we realize infinite consciousness inside our cells Chart

Amid the cellular implosion of I AM, the kundalini changes directions and regenerates the reversed kundalini that leads to enfleshment (See Stillness Ch. 2).

The reversed kundalini engages descending current practices that strengthen our will.

When our consciousness is strong enough, we can consciously descend and repose in our body's cells.

With our sustained descent, amid an inner-body repose of consciousness, the imploded space in our cells reveals an inner infinity.

When infinite consciousness is enfleshed, we can bear the unbearable Divine Feminine Power amid all her intensity, intimacy, and paradox.

The descending journey into our cells
begins with Pratyahara, 
which is a completely non-efferent practice of innerness

Pratyahara Is The Practice Of BE STILL 

After a daily non-efferent practice of Pratyahara over time, our Soul gains the strength to face and integrate our shadows, which involves being with intensity without going into bypass or recoils to avoid the potency.

Pratyahara is BE STILL 

Deepening our Descending Practice to Enflesh Love

After the implosion of consciousness into our cells, we become THE Neutral, and then we have the strength to engage our Grail Journey.

Each shadow that we face and integrate strengthens our Soul, and builds our presence that becomes unwavering - BE STILL. Then, we can face more powerful shadows, ... until finally, we can be with any degree of intensity, intimacy and paradox.

With our unwavering presence, we integrate our deepest most feared shadows, which prepare us for life in these apocalyptic times.

When our Soul is strong, we do not fall prey to what Steiner calls the three Beasts of doubt, hatred, and terror. 

If these forces take control of our Soul, it activates our Psychotic Core.

After our Psychotic Core has emerged, we are not capable of remaining serene and we cannot carry-on with life without being behaved by the three primary shadows of the Soul.

According to Steiner, when the three primary shadows express in us, it indicates that the Beast has co-opted our Soul and we are under its control.

The mark of the Beast is the quintessential human condition of our times

In Ancient Times, Ascent Was Necessary  

In ancient times, humanity needed ascent to lift us ‘out of the mud.’

According to my mentor, psychotherapist Robert Johnson who trained with Dr. Karl Jung, ancient humanity was ‘stuck in the mud.’

In other words, we spent most of our time and energy on survival - securing food, water, clothing, shelter, fire, child rearing, protecting the family from wild animals and hostile neighbors.

Being stuck in the mud was the harsh reality of human life in ancient times

The ascending current lifted humanity out of the mud and we evolved from a hunter-gatherer to an agrarian society. Then we entered the industrial revolution that freed us from the hard labor required to live in the mud. Today, our digital virtual reality has lifted us too high out of the mud, so now, ascending practices hinder our evolution.

Today it is the opposite:
Instead of being stuck in the mud 
we are stuck in ascent! 

I AM that is stuck in ascent overvalues the masculine and undervalues the feminine.

If we habitually cling to ascent, our ego becomes hypermasculine, and we cannot evolve beyond the masculine consciousness.

Today, ascent imprisons our Soul in a spiritual bypass that then activates the Superego who believes 'I AM GOD.'  

Superego uses the ascending current to:

Control the Potency
Diminish our Strength of Will
Hinder Our Evolution of Consciousness
Block Enfleshment

As mentioned, the signs that the Superego Beast is in charge of our Soul are:

Hyper-enquiry into the tides
Stillness as bypass
Absolutism
Teacher co-dependence
Misuse of unwinding, which is the application of a functional approach in the biodynamic realms

When the Superego Beast takes control of our Soul, it controls the potency and misuses it to command Dynamic Stillness to display tidal phenomena. This is known as absolutism.

In absolutism, the Superego commands the potency to create an endless array of alluring displays. For example, once we access fluid and long tide we are led to vaster and slower tides, that become slower and more expanded over time ... ad infinitum. The infinite ascending tides never end! They will become slower and vaster infinitely, beyond a connection with the body.

If the fluid and long tide allures us, we can get lost hyper-enquiring into the endless ascending tides to derive exalted meanings. Then we become prisoners of ascent, and our consciousness becomes hypermasculine, which leads us to an addiction to the dissociated displays of virtual peace, light, bliss, and love - this is the definition of Spiritual Bypass.

Chronic efference diminishes our strength of will and so weakens our Soul that we are unable to discern or evolve beyond the ascending domains of consciousness. We remain stuck in spiritual bypass.

Habitual bypass invites the Superego
to take charge of our Soul

As mentioned above, on the ascending planes of consciousness the tides are eternal and they never end. One tide leads to the next larger tide, and then to the next even greater tide ... ad infinitum.

Here, Dr. Becker's Kashmir Shavite teacher Swami Chetanananda wrote in his book Dynamic Stillness a characterization of tidal phenomenon:

When we hyper-enquire into the tides, and we cling to ascent, we remain stuck there in spiritual bypass. The subsequent spiritual dissociation strengthens our Superego even more.

To antidote the epidemic of bypass
in the Biodynamic Cranial Approaches,
we shift from ascending to descending meditative practices

The Grail Journey is a Descending Practice That Antidotes Spiritual Bypass

Descending practices that support our Grail Journey are in my book Stillness Touch Union of Body & Love Chapter  7 to help to integrate our Core Erotic Wounds as part of our Grail Journey navigation.

When We Navigate Our Core Erotic Wounds
We Realize The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail is Divine Feminine Wisdom, a magma-like substance of love that pulses in our cells emanated by our heart's SA Node.

When this all-cell Sacred Pulse of Love is emanated by the SA Node with every heart beat, it indicates that the Christ and Sophia have reunited inside our cells - and the body is reunited with consciousness and love.

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM LOVE

Here is a summary of our journey when it evolves from the biodynamic neutral to Pure Breath of Love:

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM
Becomes
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM LOVE

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Let's continue a review of Prague class, and then we will explore the ‘not yet’ to prepare us for our next Grail Journey Class in Prague.

Enfleshment begins AFTER the biodynamic tides disappear in I AM
and we become THE Neutral

Our ascending current fulfills its evolutionary purpose when we realize infinite consciousness as I AM. 

Then we can make a free choice:

Do we stay in our ascending current of infinite consciousness or do we continue evolving?

To continue our evolution, we engage our Grail Journey that unites our infinite consciousness with the cells of our flesh.

Amid descent, the body itself, as Divine Feminine Love, escorts Pure Consciousness on its descending journey until we realize a cellular inner-body infinity that emerges after Dynamic Stillness implodes in our cells.

In the depths of the flesh love awaits the Soul

If we say ‘yes’ and we let love in, I AM will descend and implode into our cells.

Infinite Pure Consciousness descends so deep in our cells that body, consciousness, and love reunite: this is enfleshment. 

Keep in mind that the biodynamic tides express the Breath of Life and escort us on an ascending spiritual current journey that lifts consciousness up and out of the body away from clutches of the ego's control to realize the Self, Dynamic Stillness, or I AM.

Recall also that Dr. Sutherland and his wife precisely articulated the fruits of a lifetime of work: 

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM

This precious quintessential biodynamic transmission, etched on the headstones of the Sutherland’s, summarizes an osteopathic biodynamic cranial practice for the evolution of consciousness.

The Fulcrum Point Of Freedom

THE Neutral presents a Fulcrum of choice: we can remain in ascent, or we continue our journey and choose the descent of our consciousness.

I repeat, because this is crucial: after we realize I AM, and we become THE Neutral, we encounter a fulcrum point of freedom where there is a choice to make:

“Do I choose to utterly embody I AM in my cells?”

If I say 'yes' then the next challenge is 'can I let go of all control?'

When the ego utterly surrenders control, Dynamic Stillness implodes into our cells.

The utter surrender of the ego's control over our body frees our consciousness, which yields to infinite stillness.

This act of free will invites our consciousness in and down so deep into the body that the infinity of Dynamic Stillness implodes within our cells as I AM.

When we sense our inner cellular infinity, which includes everything, we enjoy paradoxical consciousness.

World consciousness dwells in our cells and cellular consciousness dwells in the world

 Separation Ends - Oneness Prevails

We realize paradoxical consciousness after the cellular implosion of I AM which enfleshes infinite Pure Consciousness.

At this stage of realization Zen says
‘the bottom has dropped out’

At Enfleshment, Dynamic Stillness Emanates Pure Breath of Love

Sutherland’s protégée Dr. Becker coined the term Dynamic Stillness, which is the translation of Spanda from Kashmir Shivaism, his spiritual practice.

Recall that the realization of I AM marks the end of the osteopathic biodynamic cranial journey. I AM is Dynamic Stillness, which is infinite Pure Consciousness, Purusha, Christ, or the Self.

Not until we realize I AM - and after we choose to let I AM in and down to implode in our cells - do we begin our descending journey to realize that our infinite Pure Consciousness is united with Divine Feminine Love.

We realize the reversed kundalini
inside our body's cells

Here, inside our cellular infinity, we enjoy the marriage between the Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine - Shiva and Shakti - Consciousness and Love - Christ and Sophia - Unborn Buddha Mind and Prajnaparamita ...

This union is our second birth into the Enfleshment of love

Enfleshment re-spiritualizes matter, which resurrects its original magma-like state that unites all things.

Pure Breath of Love Spiritualizes Matter

 At enfleshment, we sense the Sacred Pulse of the Spanda in all our body's cells. Spanda is a term from Kashmir Shaivism, which again, was Dr. Becker and his wife’s spiritual path.

When Pure Consciousness and Divine Feminine Love unite in the cells of our body, we enflesh Pure Breath of Love

I use the word breath because in enfleshment the pulse of love co-breathes with all the cells in the body, which reunites inner and outer infinity.

Pure Breath of Love is emanated by our heart’s SA Node that pulses in every cell and throughout all creation 

In Pure Breath of Love, all biodynamic tides have utterly dissolved and become one with Dynamic Stillness that is united with the love that is stronger than death.

In review, at enfleshment, it is the body as love that gently escorts our consciousness along its journey of descent all the way down and inside our body’s cells.

We realize enfleshment by a regular daily practice of Pratyahara.

With our sustained Pratyahara practice of innerness, the body and consciousness unite with the love that creates all that is, and separation permanently ends.

Enfleshment is Our Second Birth into a Union of Body, Consciousness, and Love

Evolving Dr. Sutherland's Impulse

Dr. Sutherland’s final transmission at his death - Be Still And Know I AM - began as an impulse 123 years ago, which continuously evolved to become a biodynamic cranial practice for the evolution of consciousness.

The realization of I AM marks the end of the biodynamic tidal journey after all the tides have dissolved and united with Dynamic Stillness, which is the Source Potency.

I am filled with gratitude that by grace and destiny my first cranial session in 1973 expanded my consciousness to infinity for 30 days. Immediately after that session, I dedicated my life to the study of Dr. Sutherland’s work, now going on 50 years. 

As mentioned, Dr. Sutherland's radical impulse that cranial bones move created his biomechanical cranial work. Later, his impulse evolved to become functional cranial, that finally became biodynamic. The last words etched on his and his wife's headstones are instructions for how to continue the evolution of his precious transmission:

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM

My 50 years of study and practice of all three types of Dr. Sutherland's cranial practice, along with abiding by his guiding principle for evolution, continue to inspire me to follow his lead and encouragement to evolve his precious impulse, which if I put it into words is:

BE STILL AND KNOW I AM LOVE

The Times

Our apocalyptic times have increased the number of dedicated, mature, self-responsible practitioners who desire to enroll in my seminars.

I support anyone who desires to walk the modern path of the descent of consciousness, which is a non-tidal post-biodynamic journey to love.

Here, at enfleshment, we enjoy the Divine Feminine Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love in our cells and throughout creation.

Enfleshment means our Body and Pure Consciousness is permanently united with the Love that creates all that is

After we realize a cellular union of body, consciousness, and love, we enjoy a profound unbroken alchemical state of utter union with the love that creates all that is. Our every heart beat emanates the Divine Feminine Sacred Pulse of Love that is stronger than death and we realize that our body is a Sacred Vessel of Love.

Body As Love

This union of Body, Consciousness, and Love occurs inside our cells, which is why this realization is called enfleshment.

Again, enfleshment indicates that our Soul has realized the ascending biodynamic tidal journey to I AM, and has shifted its direction to a descending post-biodynamic non-tidal journey to the unending union with the Mystery of Divine Feminine Love.

After enfleshment, we enjoy constant, unbroken guidance from the Divine Feminine Love that is stronger than death.

Our inner-body journey guided by love is mapless and never ends

At enfleshment, the heart’s SA Node emanates the Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love that suffuses (co-breathes) into and through every cell by which we enjoy the lived realization that:

MY BODY IS A SACRED VESSEL OF LOVE

Here, at enfleshment, Stillness Touch resurrects the ancient spiritual practice called Laying on of Hands.

When viewed from the Christian perspective, Stillness Touch invites the descent of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Sophia to a Sacred Marriage that enfleshes in us a Love that is stronger than death.

In Buddhism, enfleshment is a completion stage realization, because the Soul and spirit are free to unite with the love that creates the all. 

The ego and Superego are terrified of the Divine Feminine power
so they vigorously block descent to avoid the Grail Journey
to prevent the integration of our shadows

Ego and Superego-based Recoils Prevent Enfleshment

Even though Dr. Sutherland clearly demonstrated how his cranial work evolves consciousness, today the biodynamic cranial approaches continue to cling to the ascending current tides, despite that clinging to ascent blocks enfleshment.

Sutherland ceased practicing every single cranial approach
when its time was up

His journey continuously evolved. He started with biomechanical cranial, moved to functional, which then evolved into the practice of biodynamics up to his death in 1954.

The choice is ours to make:

Do we honor Sutherland's impulse and choose to evolve his precious gift, just as he did?

If we say yes, then now is the time to let go of our clinging to the Breath of Life’s ascending tides. If we remain in ascent, it strengthens the Superego's control over our will, which prevents our realization of I AM at Dynamic Stillness.

Today, the biodynamic cranial approaches are caught in ascent, drenched in bypass, and they teach numerous efferent ascending practices of recoil and strategies of bypass that prevent contact with the potency and the tides, and which blocks our realization of I AM, which, in turn, avoids the enfleshment of Pure Breath of Love GRAF  

For example, below are the recoils expressed by advanced biodynamic craniosacral students and their teacher in the Prague classes 2022:

1) A guru-disciple dynamic 
2) Unwinding
3) Complaints that Charles focuses to much on shadow work

The Guru-disciple Dynamic

Group field potency is not created by the teacher
It is each participant's mutual presence that creates the potency in the field
If the teacher creates the group field it becomes virtual and inertial

I am not talking about having an authentic guru; that is your personal choice. Rather, I share that I observed in the May 2022 Prague classes a dynamic where the teacher assumed the mantle of a guru that the students are subtly encouraged to adore.

If we adore any cranial teacher - as though they are a guru - we not only give away our power, we also externalize our presence because we are directing it outward toward a teacher, which is an efferent dissociating activity that weakens our will.

We dissociate in this efferent leaning out toward the guru-teacher, and we are vulnerable to being misled by the teacher’s Psychotic Core. The teacher's deep shadow drinks up our adoration to gratify their Superego’s megalomaniacal need for a blind cult-like devotion.

I observed the cult-like of unwinding during sessions
in a post-biodynamic Stillness Touch group field in Prague

Unwinding

Unwinding is a pre-biodynamic functional method that under the control of the nervous system (Ticho a Kild, str. 206).  

If bodily motions occur during post-biodynamic Stillness Touch sessions
they are invisible inner-body micro-motions
that emanate as moving stillness

By contrast, functional cranial unwinding exhibits visible bodily pre-biodynamic motions that are under the control of the nervous system and the cranial wave to prevent our consciousness from reaching our midline of stillness.

If we can see the body moving during a session it is functional unwinding

Visible unwinding motions are unconscious strategies of recoil that efferently 'discharge' intense energies that we are afraid of feeling. If visible bodily motions express during a biodynamic or post-biodynamic session, they are a 'bodily' confession that we are having difficulty reposing inside our midline of stillness in the neutral.

If our body visibly unwinds
it reveals that we are unable to BE STILL

The presence of bodily unwinding means we cannot be with the intense energies inside the body, so we avoid potency and stillness and our body physically moves to recoil our attention away from potency to discharge the energy out of our body. 

If we lack the strength of presence to endure the potency 
then visible unwinding bodily recoils occur

Rather than BE STILL and repose inside our midline of stillness we unwind to recoil our body away from the midline of stillness. 

The larger the motions of unwinding 
the further from the midline of stillness we are.

Visible recoils of unwinding to discharge energy include body convulsion, trembling, shaking, undulation, convulsive emoting, groaning, hyperventilation, eyes rolled up, and other dissociative signs during a biodynamic session.

These recoils avoid the potency of stillness and diminish our feeling of intensity, intimacy, and paradox, which stops enfleshment.

Unwinding is an ego strategy that is under the control of the nervous system
that recoils us away from the potency to discharge intense energy

Discharge prevents Shakti from reaching our heart radiance

Shakti is blocked from embodiment because unwinding sends our consciousness up and out of our midline into the ascending realms where we dissociate to seek the safety in the light, the love, and the bliss, which are virtual. This is classic spiritual bypass resembles what Steiner calls the Lucifer Realm, which overemphasizes the blissful, beatific, low-filled domains at the expense of owning the shadow realms of the Great Black Mother.

That is why I was surprised to witness the biodynamic teacher and her biodynamic students unwinding during my Prague post-biodynamic classes in May 2022. I later learned that this "biodynamic" teacher trains her students to unwind.

Here is how one student described the unwinding they are taught: Four people unwind one person who visualizes going through the birth canal to simulate the second birth.

However, this is a virtual "second birth" an ascending shadow realization that is the opposite to the second birth that emerges after our descent of consciousness into the cells of our body to unite with love.

Ask yourself, is visible bodily unwinding a pre-biodynamic, biodynamic, or a post-biodynamic method?  Is it a recoil strategy that contaminates the potency? 

Based on my 52 years of study and direct training in Dr. Sutherland's work, if visible unwinding occurs during a biodynamic or post-biodynamic session it is a second birth into the Psychotic Core of the Beast - it is NOT a second birth of the sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love into our cells.

Unwinding confesses our core terror and we dare not face the intense energies of descent amid the integration of our shadows.

Aversion to Shadow Work

One student complained to her cranial teacher-guru that my 'Master Class is too focused on negative shadow work and too little attention is given to the positive.'

Of course, it is much easier and far more appealing to remain stuck in an ascending spiritual bypass by repeating unwinding movements every time we are touched than it is to descend into the depths of the messy, nearly unbearable intensity, intimacy, and paradox that dwells inside the dark magma of the Great Black Mother, which is the Divine Feminine, isn't that obvious?

In summary, given our times, if we cling to the ascending practices that define the Biodynamic Cranial Approaches today, it prevents the Enfleshment of Pure Breath of Love.

However, regardless of where you are on your journey, there is always a path to choose freedom:

It is Your Choice to Enflesh Love

However, if you choose to remain stuck in ascent, then Stillness Touch is of no use to you.

I support any practitioner who longs to break free of their addiction to the ascending tides.