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Julia Marie (00:00):
I continue my conversation with Raymond Posh about the awakening of the collective consciousness. If you'd like to read about my awakening story and some of what I've learned since then, please click the link below to pick up your copy of Signals From My Soul, a spiritual Memoir of Awakening Now available on Amazon. Welcome to Evolving Humans, the podcast for Awakening Souls. I'm your host, Julia Marie. Settle in and get ready for another spirited conversation. And now back to the conversation.
Feel like we're in the process of evolving into a species that is actually a member of a galactic communityas opposed to simply a planetary one. But how can we not do our part, like you say, to do our best, to expand our awareness?
Raymond Posch (01:20):
So just like you in a way. So I've had this podcast that was about spirituality in general and in general terms, broad terms. And in November, I made the decision to launch a new podcast, kind of put the other one on hold. I'm not producing new material on that one, but all the hundred plus episodes that I have are available. But now I'm focusing on new ways of being, meaning that we can be in a new and more powerful and effective ways in the world. And so I'm going to be a voice for that.
Julia Marie (02:11):
I think that's a great pivot that you're making. You're really honing in. This podcast used to be called the CAT Podcast, consciousness Awareness, and I don't even remember what the T stands for anymore. See? So transcendence, consciousness, awareness, transcendence. But that only lasted for about 16 episodes because when people would Google the Cat podcast, they kept getting podcasts about cats. So I thought,
okay, I guess that was too cute spirit. What do I need to call this? And it came immediate. Oh, look at you
with your cat.
Raymond Posch (02:49):
Yeah. And my wife are pet lovers. We have cats and dogs. So
Julia Marie (02:57):
Yeah. So then what came was just evolving humans. That really is where we are. So it's the Evolving Humans podcast in the middle of a great transition as a species, but we're not here along for the ride.
Anybody who's listening to this is awake enough to be able to be doing something to contribute to the collective. If they're awake enough to listen to a new way of being or to evolving humans, they're awake enough to be able to contribute something to the collective. Whatever they heal, they're drawn to do. So I would just throw that out there as an aside.
Raymond Posch (03:37):
And it's interesting, just within the last week or two, I'm still going through this awakening process myself. And the one, a big thing that I've recognized is that there are many people like yourself who have had a very profound awakening and a major shift in your life at a key point, in my case, I've gone down this different path and I need to speak to people who will identify with that, who are struggling with trying to converse with the divine. Exactly. And so a lot about what I've learned needs to be shared that
not all people get awakened at once, and I can maybe help others who are going through a longer process. I have.
Julia Marie (04:42):
Well now, yes, I will be clear here. Spirit was trying to awaken me back in my twenties. I just wasn't paying attention. And so I got two or three really silent, subtle calls like you got with the book that I did not pay attention to. So the universe pulled out the two by four
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And gave me a couple of wax upside the head and say, it is time for you to wake up so we can have it easier or we can have it. And for some people, they experienced the near death experiences, and so I didn't have to almost die. So I just had some really intense, as you said, profound at the time. They were very profound for me. And so again, it's on a spectrum, it's a continuum, and no awakening is more valid
or not than any other, which again is why I wanted you on the show because it was soft and it was subtle, but you at least were paying attention. I didn't pay attention. So the universe had to pull out the big guns. What is self-awareness and how can that practice enhance my spiritual journey?
Raymond Posch (06:03):
Yes. So awareness. I became aware at some point that the more that I was aware of myself, what I was feeling, what I was thinking, and the more aware that I am of the world around me, that awareness makes a difference. When I become more aware that I'm feeling unhappy and frustrated, well then I can stop and make a choice of, okay, how do I change that?
Julia Marie (06:44):
Well, why am I feeling that might be a good question to ask too. Yes.
Raymond Posch (06:49):
And why absolutely is you're right. Exactly. So what I was learning about awareness, it seemed I think I was not paying, I was not digging into it enough for quite a while. It was slower than it could have been. That's okay. But as I began to see, and most recently I'll have to say over a number of years, I've had times where I felt very much in an ability to connect and communicate with the divine. And primarily for me it was with God. More lately, I've been exploring can I communicate with angels and what does that mean?
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And then I would go into periods where I was not hearing a response. I knew that was the problem, was in me what was my problem. And so it is taken me a long time to learn that expanded awareness, continually stepping into that state of awareness, which is totally different than thinking kind of almost the opposite of thinking that the more I step into that with the intention to let it expand, the more I shift from not being
able to communicate with a divine, to being connected with the divine, and in fact, even in communion with the divine. Exactly. And so awareness, one of the big ways I began to step into that war was with the techniques that Eckhart Tolle teaches in the power of presence, and he teaches the technique of inner body awareness. And then as you become more aware of your inner body, then you can shift that into
awareness of the field of energy that is you or that is me, and feel into it even more until you feel that deep connection with the divine itself.
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So it's definitely been a learning process for me. That particular technique was very powerful for me, inner body awareness, and I had to learn first. I had to do kind of body scanning of being more aware of my head and my neck and my shoulders and arms and the rest of my body kind of piece meal. And then eventually I could get to the point of being aware of my whole inner body at once. And if you remind
yourself to have that awareness and then let it continue and expand, for me, that's a technique that really helped.
Julia Marie (10:22):
The other thing I like to tell people or remind them is pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
Raymond Posch (10:30):
Yes.
Julia Marie (10:30):
Your eyes aren't just looking at something to be looking at something. You're looking at whatever that is for a reason. So pay attention to what you're paying attention to is also another simple practice people can do every day at any moment that does that same thing. It helps expand your awareness.
Raymond Posch (10:51):
Exactly. I call it notice what you're noticing, but that's exactly right. And so that's your point you were making there that we need to pay attention to. What if it's an ache in our body or a feeling of anxiety, we need to pay attention to that
Julia Marie (11:14):
And start asking questions
Raymond Posch (11:16):
And start asking questions. Exactly right. Yeah.
Julia Marie (11:19):
That's information that's available to us and awareness that's available to us that we aren't accessing. Maybe we don't know. We can,
Raymond Posch (11:32):
For me, what I discovered in the podcasts that I do, I've talked to so many people who talk about energy healing and having an awareness of energy that I never had even, I never had a strong sense of intuition. I was very left brain, like you said. And so getting to a point where I've been able to expand on intuition and open more was one thing, but the body also is a very powerful tool I've learned for becoming more aware,
Julia Marie (12:15):
Most reliable tool as a matter of fact.
Raymond Posch (12:18):
Yes. And if we learn to feel more into our body and what it's telling us, a lot of it a can be related to energy within our body as well. It maybe is feeling the energy of our body and whether it's positive energy or negative energy, that has been a big eye opener for me to really begin to start paying attention more to what people were telling me about, awareness of energy in the body, and even the ability then to
go to the next step, which is to be able to move energy in our body. And I think you're very much into that type of awareness. So am I right?
Julia Marie (13:11):
Well, they activated healing. That was the first thing that happened to me. But I just want to say one thing because you're a computer guy. I tell people all the time, your physical body is your most reliable data point, and it only understands tooth. It understands ones and zeros.
Raymond Posch (13:30):
Okay?
Julia Marie (13:31):
Yes or no, it doesn't know the gray stuff. So you can get a pretty good read on something based. For example, if you meet a person, do you feel this opening in your physical body or does some part of you shrink? That's something you need to pay attention to. The first time you meet somebody, even before they even shake your hand, you're going to have a response to them. And if you're paying attention to what your body does, it'll tell you everything you need to know.
Raymond Posch (14:01):
Wow. Yes.
Julia Marie (14:02):
Yeah. And for yes, no questions, the biggest bundle of nerves is in your solar plexus area. So when you get those gut feelings, they're going to be on point because that's the strongest place to receive a signal from the field is in your solar plexus.
Raymond Posch (14:24):
Yes. And thank you for mentioning that binary characteristic. I had never thought about it that way before.
Julia Marie (14:34):
It's very much a one zero kind of thing when you're using your body as an instrument. Yes or no is the best path to take with it. So maybe play with that. You might have some interesting results.
Raymond Posch (14:50):
Well, what I've really been learning more recently is that awareness isn't just a binary thing, like you were saying. No, it's not. It's definitely in degrees. You can be a little bit aware of something or giving it a little bit of your attention, or you can give it a lot of your attention. And it's like being a meditator and being in
that state of awareness, say of your breathing or whatever you're paying attention to. And you can be in it totally and a hundred percent in awareness, or you could be flipping back and forth between thinking about it and awareness. And you might be aware 10% and 90% thinking, or maybe you can get to the
point where it's 90% aware or in 10% thinking. So there is a gradation there. And that developing awareness more fully is one thing, and developing awareness that is expansive, that is expanding and reaching new levels of insight and perspective is also very important. And so you do need to continually work on, I think that developing that awareness, at least I've had to some people, maybe they get total awareness at once.
Julia Marie (16:31):
In my opinion, it would be really hard to sustain. I've had transcendent experiences that were, for a moment, you feel like you're the whole universe all at once, but it's not sustainable. But I've touched the potential of that.
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Now my state of awareness now, I say consciousness is on a continuum. And the only reason why I mentioned the binary function of the physical body is some people want to use the physical body as a meter, but it doesn't work that way. It's a yes or a no, a black or white. It's very much the physical level of your awareness that's accessible through your physical body is very much binary. Wow. Other levels of your awareness are not, so don't use this vehicle to try and get really subtle answers. It's not capable of
giving that to you. That's just my own perspective.
Raymond Posch (17:27):
But I think I heard once that someone said the body is a great tool for learning awareness and learning our are experiencing life. In fact, I think they kind of referred to it as a, that we can use it to test what works and what doesn't
Julia Marie (17:54):
Work. Yes, we can. And it contains all our records too. So everything we need to know is in this little memory stick. We just need to figure out how to plug it into the computer to get the data using your IT analogy.
Raymond Posch (18:10):
Right. Very good.
Julia Marie (18:12):
I do want to ask you, because we did mention the evolution of consciousness, and you kind of touched on this a little bit, but I want to put a bow around it. Can you talk a little bit about how the state of the world is a reflection of our individual and collective consciousness?
Raymond Posch (18:32):
Yes. Well, it's my understanding that first of all, most people think that their consciousness, their thoughts in their head is their own unique thing. That's not open to anyone else. We don't readily know what other people are thinking. But no, I learned long ago that there is one consciousness we are a part of that our consciousness is a part of that. In fact, I know now that our body is a part of that. And so we participate in
the whole. And so the term collective consciousness is very valid. How we think, how we see the world, how we feel about the world, how we experience life reflects our consciousness. But it contributes to the whole that there is this sharing that takes place at an energetic level or at the level of consciousness itself.
And even if we don't perceive it in our belief in separation, there is that wholeness.
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So when we talk about evolution as every person works on their own evolution or growth, they radiate aspects of that out and it affects the collective consciousness. So right now, the collective consciousness of the world is because we've been this species that have operated at the level of ego, and that is based on a belief in separation that we've been dominated by fear. We've been coming from that consciousness. But
as we lift our consciousness to greater awareness, to greater understanding, that we are all interconnected at a deep level, that we are connected, if we allow it, the level of universal love, that it begins to elevate the consciousness of all mankind. And so that's how evolution does require us to participate because we
are conscious beings and beings that have specifically been given free will and the ability to participate in creation. So those aspects have to tell us to, if we want to see the world to change, we need to participate in that change.
Julia Marie (21:49):
Yeah, I totally agree. So we're coming to the end of our time and I just have a couple of more questions I want to ask you if there was anything, is there anything there you'd like to say or share that I haven't asked you about?
Raymond Posch (22:17):
One of the things or a couple of things that I've been really learning and focusing on more release more recently is that number one, us left brainers in particular and very conceptual people, we want to understand how it all fits together. And so we focus on those on concepts a lot, but we really need to begin to pay more attention to experience. What are we experiencing in ourself and in the world, and how
do we want that to change? So experience and paying attention to experience I think is very important.
Then a second piece that goes with that, that's really been hitting home to me in my trying to step into creating heaven on earth for myself right now within myself, is allowing that word allowing is very important. We have to, first, we can conceptually see or believe that we're part of this big divinity, but we have to allow that divinity to show through us and work through us and be in the world through us. So
allowing is very important because we have so many people. I think most people have reasons to believe, well, I'm not worthy. I'm not good enough.
Julia Marie (24:04):
Who am I?
Raymond Posch (24:05):
And we need to recognize that and to explore that and to ask ourselves questions about that. But then we need to that divinity allow ourselves to experience that divinity through us, that love, and we need to allow it to show through us into the world.
Julia Marie (24:34):
Well said. If you could go back before all of this started for you and tell young Raymond posh anything, what would it be and why? What would you say to him?
Raymond Posch (24:52):
That's a good question, and it's a big question because I could say that I would want to, I pay attention sooner and dive into it sooner and to ask deeper questions about it. As I was going through this learning process, the problem is that we have to go through a learning process. So yeah, there might be some things that can shortcut it, the process and speed it up. But I would say don't take this idea of spiritualityand that we are part of the divine and that we are part of evolution. Lightly take it seriously, dive into it.
The more you dive into it, the more that you will learn, the faster that you will learn and that you truly can participate. And what I've really come to understand is that life is meant to be a very creative thing. We are meant to create what we want to experience in our life. Take that statement seriously, jump into it wholeheartedly and embrace it and find every way that you can to become happier, healthier, creating the
unfoldment of life that you want. And I think it can make a huge difference to every person, and it can make a huge difference to our human evolution.
Julia Marie (26:53):
On the flip side of what you said, and I'm going to only speak for myself, I am aware that what I am experiencing in my life in this moment is of my creation. So there's also a component of whatever it is I am experiencing, I must take responsibility for because I'm the one that created it. So if I don't like where
This transcript was exported on Feb 18, 2024 - view latest version here. I am, then I need to be asking why did I create this? So that would be the little caveat that I would add onto the end of your wonderful statement.
Raymond Posch (27:28):
I agree. I get very completely and very well said. I love that
Julia Marie (27:33):
We're coming to the end of our time, but before I close out, will you please tell the listeners where they can find you and what you're working on right now?
Raymond Posch (27:42):
Okay. I am very active in my podcast. Its name is New Ways of Being. It is available on most podcast directories. My podcast website is www.new Ways of Being World, so you can find everything there as
well. And I do blog posts and other things that will be made available on my website, which is raymond posh.com. Posh is P-O-S-C-H, and I'm launching a community to go with this podcast right now as well.
So if you're looking for a place to talk with other people, that community will be available and growing.
But again, I want to make a difference. That's a big priority for me.
Julia Marie (28:50):
You're putting yourself out there, and so that is making a difference and good luck with the community.
That's a big project. Trust me. I know. I will put your links in the show notes below. Well, I just want to formally thank you for taking the time and having such a wonderful direct fil meaningful conversation with me today. I feel like there's a lot in here for people to ruminate on and think about, and hopefully some seeds were planted.
Raymond Posch (29:28):
Well, thank you so much for having me here.
Julia Marie (29:32):
That's our time for today. Thank you for listening. And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with
two other people so we can bring more light to this world. And now here's a quote for you to ponder as you go about your day. It's not until you awaken, you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.