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Science suggests the cause of evolution is random changes in DNA from by ionizing radiation coupled with natural selection.  This is largely the view of the scientific community despite the fact there is no scientific evidence for the random genetic variation from parents to offspring.

• What happens to the survival rates of offspring with errors in their genetic code?
• What are the odds of random genetic variations creating a positive outcome vs. a negative outcome?

Due to the complexity of DNA and the resulting proteins, randomness from one generation to the next would almost always have either no effect or a negative result leading to failure of the species, not improvement/evolution.

Mimicry

There are butterflies with patterns on their wing that resemble predators.  The patterns serve to keep predators away from the butterfly by mimicking a larger predator.  This is known as Batesian mimicry (named for English naturalist Henry Walter Bates).

Mimicry has arisen in more that one form on planet Earth.  Spend some time looking at the various forms of mimicry.  Could they possibly be the result of randomness or did some form of intelligence have to be involved? 

If butterfly wing patterns used to randomly change looking for a successful pattern, what caused the patterns to stop changing?  Successful evolutionary patterns like mimicry and camouflage repeat themselves in many diverse places on the planet.

Make Brown Eyes Blue

Less melanin in the iris of the eye results in blue eyes in humans.  Science uses DNA analysis to trace the source of blue eyes to a genetic mutation occurring 6,000 to 10,000 years ago in a single individual.

The world wide population then was probably between 5 and 10 million, making this individual .00002% of the population.  How did this recessive trait appear about a billion people (between 10 and 19% of the population) today?

The reality is a bit more complicated than we learned in school.  There are more than two eye colors and there is more than one gene associated with eye color.  It’s not as simple as Mendel’s peas.  But there does appear to be a force that moves species towards diversity.

Consequences of the Gaia Mind

The Planet Earth is living organism.  The name Gaia is often used to describe the Earth in this context.  The Gaia consciousness is a collective of energy that we can not see and can seldom sense its effects on us.

Dreams have more than one purpose.  But there is a secret purpose of dreams that occurs during Slow Wave Sleep (SWS).  Our brains reach the Delta brain wave state and connect to the Gaia consciousness, downloading our day’s experiences to the collective.  This is the same brain wave state during which Yogi Masters report profound experiences.  And when we are deprived of sleep, there is sharp rebound of SWS, suggesting a need for it; a purpose to it.

The memories of Planet Earth are called the Akashic Records; also referred to as the “Hall of Records”.  This isn’t a physical place but a metaphorical place.  It only exists as unseen energy.  It contains the experiences of every living thing on the planet since the beginning of time.  Psychics and mystics talk about this place and the things they learned there.

The Cause of Evolution

The Gaia mind not only has memories.  It also thinks and has a purpose.  Its purpose is to grow, evolve and spread.  The thoughts of the Gaia are the intelligence behind evolution.

I’m sure the Gaia consciousness uses a suitable mundane physical mechanism to cause the genetic changes in the offspring, such as ionizing radiation from space.  But when we find the mechanism and study its effects, we will find that that it almost always creates positive effects… resulting in evolution.

As humans, we think of ourselves as the most intelligent beings we are aware of, outside of God.  But the truth is we live on a planet that is also a living, thinking organism made of energy.  The planet Earth is often called Gaia when used in this context.  Thinking of our planet this way is an alien thought.  There are individuals throughout history who have become aware of of this planetary consciousness.

Understanding Gaia

The human body is a collective of cells that work in concert for one whole being.  We have five senses.  We gather information and interact with the world around us.  The information gathered is transmitted from the skin cells and retina cells via the nervous system to the brain.  Our lifetime of experiences is collected in the brain.  We also have thoughts in our brains, often related to our experiences.

Gaia is also a living organism that follows a similar pattern.  The planet may appear very different, but look closer.  There are certain universal patterns that repeat as we move from the world of the micro to the world of the macro, moving from atoms to galaxies.  Here are some similarities that are not exact but are a place to start thinking about: 

• The earth regulates its temperature while floating in space.
• The earth “breathes” in a way.  The planetary carbon dioxide (CO2) levels raise and lower with the seasons due to trees in the Northern Hemisphere getting more or less sun.
• The surface of the Earth is 70% water.  The human body is about 70% water by volume.  Surely a coincidence but interesting.

The major difference between people and Gaia is that Gaia is a collective of energy that requires people to function as it’s senses.  Human beings are essentially the sensory of the planetary collective just like skin cells and retina cells are the sensory for people.  The mechanism that transfers those experiences to Gaia is the central nervous system.  We move around the planet and collect experiences and the data is transferred to the collective.

I doubt that the individual cells of our body are aware of the collective just like as people are seldom aware of the planetary collective.

The Akashic Records and Gaia’s Five Senses

Edgar Cayce said his information came from the Akashic Records which he also called the “Hall of Records.”  This isn’t a physical library but a metaphorical place.  It exists only as a type of energy.  And since energy can never be created or destroyed, only changed in form, it is a collection of all the experiences of every living thing on Earth since the beginning of time.  Psychics often use the word frequency to describe this type of energy.

The Akashic Records are essentially the memory of the Gaia.  The thoughts, actions and experiences of all living things that have occurred on this planet throughout time are stored here.  If the planet Earth is alive then it must have a way to collect information; it must have senses just like humans.  Here are ways some Gaia receives information and populates the Akashic Records:

1. Dreams

During Slow Wave Sleep, when the brain waves slow to the Delta state, an energetic connection is made between our brain and the Gaia consciousness.  Our daily experiences are transmitted to the collective.  Similar to the way a person with a laptop connected via Wi-Fi can upload a new file to the Internet.

2. Thoughts 

Thoughts are energy; but not a type of energy we can currently measure with science.  Some interesting experiments have been performed using instruments to measure how thoughts affecting plants.  Unfortunately most people’s thoughts are too unorganized and chaotic to have much effect on our reality.  But a major global event can focus the thoughts of millions of people. This can create a significant change in the consciousness of the planet.  For example, hundreds of millions of people watching Hurricane Katrina or the events of September 11 unfold on television. 

3. Sunlight

Our sun is a more than a source of heat and light.  It is a significant source of communication from the Universe (also known as God).  Sunlight is coded with frequencies from God that tell life to grow, proliferate and evolve.  The sun is not an internal source of information for Gaia like human experiences or thoughts but an external source. People feel things like hunger and love inside our bodies; different from feeling objects outside our bodies. The planet can also feel both inside and outside itself. 

4. Passing 

When we are born, at the moment we leave our mother’s energy field, unseen energy from Gaia enters our body.  The body is really just a set of metaphorical clothes for this energy being inside of us.  We could not experience everything this dimension has to offer if we only existed as energy.  After a lifetime of living and growing and experiencing, we pass away.  When we pass, that energy and other energy collected during life leave and return to the collective.

5. Starlight 

Just as our sun provides a method of communication from the Universe to the life on Earth, the stars provide a network of communication throughout the universe for God.  The speed of this communication is slow because the distances are so vast. But energy consciousness beings have a different concept of time. We are made of living cells and we have a finite lifespan.  Energy does not have a finite life. This vast network of stars was viewed by people more readily in earlier times. Now the Earth is covered by lighted cities which made the stars harder to see.  But just because we do not see the starlight as much, does not mean it is not there, carrying out its job.

For more information, visit the Higher Balance website.

All species of animals dream in one form or another. These dreams have more than one purpose, as do many things in the natural world. One reason is partially understood by today’s researchers and psychologists. The second bigger reason is unknown in the modern world. Read on to learn this secret information.

Dreams Provide Therapy

The first purpose dreams in to resolve internal issues. Dreams provide us with our own internal therapist. A simple example is how dreams help us overcome fear so we can survive:
 
Imagine primitive man starting to spread out around the world. He had a limited understanding of how the world worked and limited language skills to transmit the things he did understand to others. A mechanism was required so that this man could overcome his fear and spread life across the planet. 
 
Primitive man might have been afraid of thunder storms or large mammals or complete immersion in water. But he needed to overcome his fears so he could feed his family and the species could continue to survive. He could not be paralyzed by fear.
 
During sleep, dreams show us these fearful experiences over and over again. Through this repeated exposure, our brain becomes acclimatized to the object of fear, and so the fear is lessened. The next time we are faced with the same situation, we are better able to deal with it.
 
These therapy dreams are predominately during the rapid eye movement (REM) portion of sleep and are the dreams we most often remember after waking.
To understand the larger purpose of dreams we are going to have to take a small detour:

Delta Brain Wave Activity during Sleep

For more than 30 years, researchers have used a device measure people’s brain activity during different actions such as solving puzzles, meditating and sleeping. This device is called an EEG and it measures the electrical activity of the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. There is normally a single overriding brain wave frequency.
 
Researchers have divided this frequency measured by the machine into several categories and given each category a name. When people are awake and active the main measured frequency is in the 12 to 30 Hz range, called the Beta region. With eyes closed and very relaxed, the measured brainwave frequency slows down to 8 to 12 Hz, called the Alpha region.
 
The Delta region has a main brain wave of less than 3 Hz. This occurs during slow-wave sleep (SWS). In SWS, we have some dreams but much less than during REM seep. People will reach the Delta region on average after four to five hours of sleep.  Most people do not remember their dreams that occur during SWS.

Delta Brain Wave Activity during Meditation

When the same EEGs are on Yogi Masters during meditation, their brain waves will slow down further. Sometimes they will slow down all the way to the Delta region. But these Yogi Masters are not asleep; they are having profound meditations.
 
Some modern meditation music uses a technique called binaural audio combined with headphones to help people reach the same state.

The Secret Purpose of Dreams

The Planet Earth is a living thinking organism. The name Gaia is often used to describe the Earth it in this context. The Gaia consciousness is very different than human consciousness because is composed entirely of energy. Humans are the central nervous system of this organism. We collect the data and transmit it to the collective.
 
As people, our experiences reach our brains from our five senses. When we touch something with our hands, the nerves carry the sensation from the skin to the brain. The brain gathers the data. The data is in an electro-chemical format as it transmits to the brain.
 
As people crawl and walk and drive around the planet, we collect experiences. There is a mechanism to transmit those experiences to the Gaia consciousness every day. The conduit between our consciousness and the collective consciousness open during sleep when Delta brain waves are present. The same brain wave state of mind that mystics reach during meditation. The daily experiences transmitted to the collective as pure energy, similar to the way a Wi-Fi system works for a computer.
 
From Wikipedia, “After sleep deprivation there is usually a sharp rebound of SWS, suggesting there is a “need” for this stage. The major factor determining how much slow-wave sleep is observed in a given sleep period is the duration of preceding wakefulness.” The purpose for this is not yet known by science. I suggest the purpose is that we must fulfill our role for the planet, transmitting our experiences to the collective.
 
For more information, see the Higher Balance website.

We all can appreciate the beautiful healing energy of spending time in nature, away from civilization. But eventually we have to come home. When we compare the sense of peace and connectedness we feel in nature and to the stress and noise and bustle of city, we know internally that there is a difference. Part of the difference is the energy programmed into the physical objects of these places. Nature in general has more positive energy than our homes or cities.

Reasons Nature’s Energy is Positive

• There are less people around in nature, so it is more isolated from people’s thoughts. Thoughts are energy. Thought energy attaches to the physical objects near the origin of those thoughts. Negative thought energy creates stronger energy patterns and remains longer than positive thought energy. Worry, fear, and stress last longer than love, peace and happiness.

• Sunlight is a stream of positive energy that washes away any negative energy. It’s like pouring cold pure mountain stream water onto a sponge. The sponge is rinsed of anything it has collected. When was the last time you were depressed after a day at the beach.

• Nature is usually filled with plants. Plants give off positive energy. They are alive so they put out a positive vibration, but they don’t really think so they don’t put out any negative thoughts the way people do. Plants don’t’ worry about jobs, or bills or relationships.

Before we can start filling our homes with positive energy, we need to remove any accumulation of negative energy. So here is a list of seven simple proven techniques that you can use to remove negative energy from any space:

7 Ways to Remove Negative Energy

1. Salt carpets. This is the simple easiest best way. Simply sprinkle dry table salt on the carpet, wait an hour and then vacuum the up the salt. Use approximately 3 to 6 spoonfuls of salt for a medium size room. Salt crystals have an amazing natural built in-ability to erase the programming of energy. Using salt is like using an eraser on a chalk board. The information on the board is wiped away.

2. Remove clutter. Things like old magazines and dirty clothes can trap a lot of negative energy in your house. Remove old items you no longer need. Keep coffee tables picked up and clean. Put your laundry in a laundry hamper. Wash your dirty dishes and put them away. Negative energy needs objects to hang on to so it can remain around. By keeping your living space picked up, neat and clean,

3. Loud noises. This is the reason the Chinese love fireworks. Loud noises break up energy patterns and allow them to disperse. Mother Nature does the same thing with the noise of thunder storms.

4. Play spiritual music. My favorite is the album Eric Pepin album “Deep Resonating Aums” from the Higher Balance Institute. A close second is the song “God is Real” from Krishna Das on his “Door of Faith” album. Buddhist monks use tingshaws to dissipate unfavorable energy. You can use your stereo with the same effect. Combine this technique with no. 4 and a great pair of speakers for a really deep cleaning.

5. Meditate there. A proper meditation once or twice a day in your living space will broadcast out a powerful positive vibration. A broadcast from a meditative state of mind becomes much more powerful than it would otherwise be, making positive energy more powerful than negative energy. A proper meditation will saturate a space with uplifting energy for several hours.

6. Rearrange the furniture. The Chinese practice the art of Feng shui. Again negative energy needs something to “cling to.” Arrange your space with as much wide open space as possible, allowing any negative energy to disperse. But also the act of rearranging will cause this harmful energy to dissipate.

7. Add living plants. Plants add color, life, oxygen and positive energy to your home. All good things to have. But only if you water and maintain them.

For more information about energy and programming, listen to the FREE class on energy “The Ties That Bind” at Higher Balance free audio.

Great Meditations Contain 7 Essential Elements

There are many great reasons for practicing meditation and many methods available to learn. Here is a clear and concise list you can use when shopping for a style to learn or to evaluate the mediation practice you already have.

1. Only 20-25 minutes long.

If some is good, more must be better, right? Wrong. It is much better to have short focused effective sessions that leave us both relaxed and energized. If we invest too much time, excuses to skip this time become more likely. And in the long run, we eventually stop meditating. It is okay for the advanced meditator to have longer sessions, but only if the entire session is productive.

2. Begin with relaxation and deep breathing.

During your meditation you will eventually forget about your breathing and it will become slow and shallow as your become more relaxed. Beginning the meditation with imaging blowing out the stresses of the day combined with deep breaths out is a great way to relieve tension. Both the imagination and the deep breaths send the signal to our subconscious to slow down.

3. Music without words.

Some teachers advocate silence or using mantras to reach a sort of trance state. In truth you can reach a much deeper and much more clear place by not having any words in your brain. With some practice, it is much easier to achieve this state if you have headphones on and are listening to music. The music provides a sort of “mental bubble gum” for your brain. It keeps your brain occupied so it doesn’t feel the need to fill the silence with words. Also to prevent feeding the need of your brain to have words present, the music can’t have any words. At least any words in a language you understand. Also the type of music; the beat, the style, etc, can create an emotional response in you making your meditation much more effective. Upbeat music can leave you energized. Slower relaxing music can take you to deeper states of relaxation.

4. Binaural audio and headphones.

Listening to music on headphones with embedded binaural beats of the proper frequency enhances meditation. The binaural beats will naturally start to slow your brainwaves down and cause the hemisphere of your brain to start to synchronize. Unfortunately this is only an advantage for the beginning meditator. These audio tracks are not recommend for advanced practitioners and will actually keep them from reaching more profound states of consciousness.

5. Touch and focus on chakras.

Focusing on the bodies chakra points is an ancient and important part of meditation. Older system of meditation often required focus on each of the seven main chakra points in sequence. More and more often, modern styles have reduced this to three specific chakra points; Chi chakra, heart chakra and mind chakra. Nearby chakras are affected nearly as much as the chakra of focus and a lot of time is saved. Creating a more repeatable and focused experience. Missing from most teachings is the fact that you actually need to touch the chakra point with your hand; specifically the tips of two fingers. The high nerve density in your hand serves to increase your focus and keep your mind from wandering.

6. Both guided and unguided versions of the music.

The best meditation music tracks also need to have two versions. The first version includes voice instructions over the music for learning proper technique. The guided version should be used by the advanced student once per week to make sure their form stays sharp. The second version has no instructions and is for daily use. The unguided version is where really deep states of mind are reached.

7. Twice per day.

I hate to say it but improvement takes effort, just mastering at any other skill. If you want to be a great author, you have to write, write, write. If you want to get in better shape, you have to consistently go the gym and work out. If you want to become a great surgeon, you have to continually practice your skills by performing surgeries. One meditation per day is good and you will improve if you only meditate once per day. But the optimum number is twice per day. This still is a small investment of time, but reaching this state of mind twice per day for day 20 minutes each works much better than one 40 minute meditation. And the more often you reach these deeper states of mind during meditation, the more likely the skills you learn from meditation will bleed over into the rest of your day.