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Stillness Touch Union of Body & Love
Stillness Touch characterizes laying on of hands, an ancient spiritual healing art practiced by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy.
If you want to learn laying on of hands, the portal is to engage your non-tidal post-biodynamic Grail Journey.
The Grail Journey strengthens your will and empowers your consciousness so you can bear your shadows while you descend into your body and dwell there in Sacred Repose until consciousness implodes into your cells. This is your second birth that reunites your body with consciousness and love - we call this enfleshment.
Enfleshment is a paradoxical state that emerges after you can BE STILL And Know I AM, which completes Sutherland's biodynamic cranial journey, at I AM.
Then, you choose to walk your Grail Journey and enjoy your second birth into Pure Breath of Love.
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"BE STILL AND KNOW I AM"
The above quote, etched on Dr. and Mrs. Sutherland's headstones, ingeniously conveys the total map of biodynamic osteopathy in the cranial field.
Any practitioner who commits to Dr. Sutherland's non-doing principle of neutral - BE STILL - can realize I AM at Dynamic Stillness.
By realizing I AM, it fulfills Dr. Sutherland's biodynamic cranial journey of a touch that evolves consciousness.
Fifty six years prior to writing the above epitaph, Dr. Sutherland's original cranial impulse would not let him go: "The thought came like a bolt of lightning from the blue 'beveled like the gills of a fish' indicating articular mobility for a respiratory mechanism." Dr. Sutherland spent fifty years evolving his cranial work when he wrote in 1948:
It has been my endeavor to get as far away from the physical senses as I possibly could, that is, to a point where one begins to experience - to realize 'Be Still and Know.'
In review, Dr. Sutherland's cranial journey began as a pre-biodynamic medical approach to touch called biomechanical cranial. However, because his impulse continuously evolved, he later discovered the cranial rhythmic impulse (CRI), which became Sutherland's guiding principle for functional cranial. This medical approach is also a pre-biodynamic cranial practice. At this point in his cranial evolution, Sutherland was exploring a medical touch guided by what is now called the cranial wave.
After decades of practicing and teaching functional cranial work, Sutherland moved from the mid-west to Pacific Grove, California. His house was on the ocean in an area called Point Pinos that had a lighthouse. This is where Sutherland sensed the fluid tide, the first biodynamic expression of Primary Respiration that emanates from a biodynamic neutral.
Sutherland's biodynamic practice was born in the 1940's which blossomed until his death in 1957.
During the final stages of his journey, Sutherland abandoned all medical practices because he entered a biodynamic domain, which is a non-medical realm of consciousness that is entered through the neutral.
In the biodynamic neutral, Sutherland realized that the unerring potency heals when the cranial practitioner is not the doer.
Once he ceased being the doer, Sutherland began to let the unerring potency be in charge, which opened him to the Breath of Life, a spiritual domain of living breathing consciousness that possesses an Intelligence. Again, the first biodynamic expression, the fluid tide, possesses an unerring potency that permeates the body's cells and it pervades the atmosphere around us. The unerring potency, says Sutherland, expresses primary respiration of the Breath of Life that emanates the quintessential biodynamic expressions that, as it evolved, expanded his consciousness from the fluidic domain to a vast luminous domain of consciousness that Becker coined the long tide. (See Stillness Chapters 5-9 for details).
Even though Sutherland's journey evolved all three major types of cranial practice, he was steeped in deep humility. Dr. Sutherland said of his cranial concept
"It is not mine. It has never been."
After his death, his protégé Dr. Rollin Becker continued to evolve Dr. Sutherland's non-medical, non-doing, biodynamic principles. Becker coined biodynamics, a term he borrowed from Embryologist Blechschmidt, and he taught that a biodynamic practice begins in the neutral, which he defined as a whole body stillness. The neutral opens the practitioner to the state of consciousness that Sutherland called "BE STILL" that gradually deepens, which leads us to realize or know I AM.
BE STILL means we maintain a non-efferent state of consciousness. A non-medical disposition is required to realize the neural, the tides, and the non-tidal domain of Dynamic Stillness, all of which lead us to a post-biodynamic domain of consciousness called Pure Breath of Love.
In his book Life In Motion (1997 Rudra Press), Becker coined biodynamics, and he sensually characterized the inner qualities of the neutral, fluid tide, long tide, and he introduced a non-tidal domain of infinite consciousness called Dynamic Stillness, which is Sutherland's I AM.
Dynamic Stillness is a translation of Spanda, derived from Becker's tantric practice of Kashmir Shaivism, which he kept private.
However, Becker's spiritual teacher Swami Chetananda authored a 2-Volume book, Dynamic Stillness that deeply influenced Becker's biodynamic principles. The Swami dedicated his two books to Becker.
Becker and his wife's ashes are under the Mobius Strip sculpture in the ashram garden in Portland, Oregon.
Review: Becker's definition of the biodynamic neutral as a whole-body stillness is the fulcrum for realizing fluid tide. Then, as the neutral evolves and deepens, stillness expands our consciousness to the edge of the horizon (the limits of our known) into the luminous domains of long tide. The long tide then escorts our consciousness on an ascending journey into a non-tidal domain of infinite consciousness that is called Dynamic Stillness - I AM.
At the realization of I AM, the ego dissolves as a separate self and merges with the infinite consciousness of The All.
Realizing Dynamic Stillness, thus, frees your consciousness from the narcissistic ego while the body reunites with consciousness. Here, the body becomes Whole at infinity, and we realize that the body is consciousness at I AM:
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM
When the ascending tides dissolve in the infinite potency of I AM all that remains is Pure Consciousness.
Realizing I AM is THE FULCRUM for our Second Birth
IF we choose it.
When fluid and long tide dissolve in Dynamic Stillness, the midline absorbs the tides, and that is the end of the osteopathic biodynamic cranial journey
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Here, if we choose to surrender all ego control and we let go into THE FULCRUM at I AM, our consciousness will descend and implode into all our cells.
Here - at enfleshment - we start an endless post-biodynamic non-tidal Grail Journey.
We can then sense our heart's SA Node pulse Pure Breath of Love with every heart beat.
This realization of an all-cell Sacred Pulse is THE Fulcrum where Biodynamic evolves to become Post-biodynamic:
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM
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BE STILL AND KNOW I AM LOVE Amid descent, and after the cellular implosion of consciousness, a sacred pulse emanates the Spanda, or Pure Breath of Love
that re-unites your Body with Consciousness, and Love.Body As Love
Again, although he kept it private, it was Becker's tantric spiritual practice of Kashmir Shaivism that informed his biodynamic teachings. This is a descending spiritual current practice to realize the Spanda that pulses in all the body's cells and the universe.
Becker did not teach, write, or mention tantric Kashmir Shaivism due to the politics of organized American medical osteopathy. Jacques Duvall, French osteopath and Becker protégé, sought to deepen Becker's spiritual impulse by introducing to the French DO's the ancient Vedic spiritual principles and practices.
Meanwhile, Sutherland's student Anne Wales and Becker's student James Jealous formed the New England Cranial Study Group. The group developed the elegant osteopathic map of biodynamics. The New England Study Group crafted precise official osteopathic terms, definitions, and boundaries that they coined as "Biodynamic Osteopathy in the Cranial Field."
Their elegant osteopathic map compared and contrasted biomechanical and functional pre-biodynamic approaches with a biodynamic cranial practice (See Chapter 4-9 in Stillness).
James Jealous took it upon himself to spread the New England Groups' biodynamic map worldwide to osteopaths until his unexpected death in February 2021. Just before the end of his life, Jealous had became aware of Pure Breath of Love, which he spoke about in the ninth phase of his trainings and in private classes.
However, the French osteopaths who have completed Jealous' nine-phase biodynamic training talk openly about the Black Magma Love as an expression of Pure Breath of Love. (See Chapter 9 in Stillness and Chapter 9 Stillness Touch).
Here Is The Biodynamic Osteopath Cranial Map:
Neutral⇒Fluid Tide⇒Long Tide⇒Dynamic Stillness
When the fluid and long tide dissolves in Dynamic Stillness at I AM, that is the end of the biodynamic cranial osteopathic map: CLICK
Amid the utter surrender of ego's control at I AM, the ego and Superego cease being separate selves
and our infinite consciousness takes over to release the ego's control over the body via the nervous system.Then - if we choose it - a post-biodynamic practice of Stillness Touch can emerge: CLICK HERE
Pure Breath of Love frees the spirit and we realize our second birth into love.
REVIEW: The New England study groups' precise definition of a biodynamic neutral: when stillness fills the whole body.
Neutral is the presence of stillness - a potency that expands from the midline to a whole body stillness, then to the horizon and finally into infinity, until Dynamic Stillness becomes THE Fulcrum that frees the spirit from the narcissistic ego and Superego.
After realizing neutral, as a whole-body stillness, the tides emerge within to gradually escort our consciousness on an ascending current journey to the unerring potency of Dynamic Stillness as I AM.
Recall that Dr. Sutherland said his ever-evolving impulse did not belong to him, even though it dawned in him like a bolt of lightning 123 years ago.
Yet, his living Spirit inspires anyone who is dedicated to evolving his non-doing principle of BE STILL.
