All right ... As we look at how you can apply The Sirius Connection, what it means in your daily life, so we turn now our attention to technique. In this time after the opening of the Vortex, attention and intention come more to the fore; resonance becomes the source of causation; and spiritual hunger and thirst awaken even more than they already have -- and awaken in so many about you. Your chakras are realigning to a whole new frequency. And indeed electromagnetic energy can be used to boost and to work with your very resonance. With the futures, now so much more impactful, there are ways you can work to create an elegance. You can continue to use the techniques that you know -- from the simplest of manifestation to the most intricate -- to create your own reality. Now you approach them with a greater intensity of your own intention, a greater intensity of your own attention, and with an awareness to let in the resonance that it's different now, it's different now. You can have that humility: it is different now. The futures are far more impactful, far more impactful, than they have ever been. And your brain works differently now. Portions of it are now functioning that never did before. And your DNA is functioning differently now than it ever has. Just sit with that. Just thinking about that -- just feeling that -- shifts your attention and opens the way for a greater intention to link together pieces of what is your conscious world in alignment with your conscious creation. Resonance So certainly, with that as a preface, we look at technique. First of all, you can notch up your own overall resonance. Sometimes you can sense: "I'm in the dumps. Yes, I'm in depressing places. I'm in self-pity places. I'm in martyr places. I know those are low-resonance. I don't have to look them up anywhere." ... {laughter} ... "Gee, what's my resonance? Low. That's good enough." ... {laughter} ... And if you will not judge yourself, but go into and beyond it, you can find the reason you're in martyr. If you're feeling defensive, there's a reason for it, and that reason is because you're defending something. That's why people get defensive. ... {laughter} ... They don't do it for no reason. ... "The sun's out, I think I'll be defensive." No, it's always to defend something. People don't control just for the heck of it, you know? There's always some need that is trying to be met. Martyrhood is an anaesthetic, yes, and it is an expression of hostility in its punishing nature, absolutely, but there's always something behind it. You see, when you're in those resonant places that you know are low, stay out of self-pity -- and out of judging yourself, which shuts off any communication. Stay somewhere in between, and let yourself go into the martyrhood, or into the control, or into the defensiveness, into the whatever the low resonance is, and look behind it. "What am I defending? What am I numbing? What am I avoiding? What am I holding onto, and why?" In that place, understanding it, you can take your power back. You can take your power back. Then you can let it go, having taken the power, the treasures, and the gifts. Then you can drop the attention from it and shift it to something else. Then begin to notch your resonance up, to bump it up, to bump it up. Now you can do that in your meditative Safe Place. You can do that in some special place using your own imagination, using your own creativity, being inventive about it. Maybe you'd like to get inside the double-tetrahedron and spin and spin and spin and spin and spin, and rotate. Because in that double-tetrahedron, as you're spinning and rotating, you disintegrate and suddenly disperse to the whole of the universe. When you come back, you can come back without that low resonance. You can put your martyr out of you. You can put the defensiveness out of you. You spin and rotate and then suddenly you're very non-local. You're in the nonlocality of the enfolding energy. And then when you come back together again, you can consciously leave whatever it is out of you. You don't have to let that be part of your molecular structure. Maybe you'll want to go into the future and there let your resonance be notched up. And that's a technique that you can use. And at first maybe it will not be as effective as it will be later with practice and with a bit of experience, but in time it can be tremendously effective in literally shifting the resonance from one place to another in a very short time -- and changing the reality configurations as you do so, changing the reality potentialities as you do so, changing which futures have impact upon you, notching your way up. Working with the Chakra Centers Certainly you can work with the resonance of your own chakra centers. As we adjusted them {in the meditation at the workshop -ed. note}, certainly your Higher Self or one of your Unseen Friends can adjust them. Or you can bask in the light of Sirius itself, allowing your chakras -- like radionics dials -- to be turned, to be shifted, to be lifted, to be adjusted. Sense your Higher Self reaching in. If you want, we'll be glad to do it. You can work with any of your Unseen Friends. Again, go about it inventively, creatively, finding what feels right. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to you that you could do that in your Safe Place. Maybe it does make sense to go into the Underworld. Maybe it does make sense to go over the bluff and sit in your Success Cube. Maybe it makes sense to go down by the river and be in a very private place with the willows that weep and the shade and the mottled light. If that seems appropriate, so do it there. You can find the meditative place that feels right for you and adjust your chakras. Working with the Pipeline Also you can work with the pipeline of futures. It is most helpful to find a way to go into that future and work with it. You can go into the Underworld. You can go to the Causal Plane. You can use the double-tetrahedron. It's so incredibly teleporting from the present reality to futures. In those futures, find the pipeline. Maybe it looks like a clear Lucite pipe. Whatever it looks like to you, it is the pipeline of the futures that are coming. What's in the pipeline? At first your natural tendency is to be somewhat hesitant. "I don't want to see if there's something horrible there. I don't want see that there's some dread disease, or some terrible accident." But then you realize, "Wait a minute. Whatever's there I can change it." Wouldn't it be better to see an auto accident and change it than not to have seen it and manifest it? The short-term gain of avoidance is far outweighed by the long-term reality. Now that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to see dreadful horrible deaths and destructions. No, be honest. And in time, as you get used to working with it, you can work very powerfully, very profoundly, to clear the pipeline. And as you look in the pipeline, you can be very specific. "I'm in this relationship with this person and I'm seeing trouble. There's difficulty we're running into. Let me see what futures are creating this. Let me see what futures are out there. Let me flow into that and find the future. Oh, gosh, this is the future. Six months from now I'm going to realize I was projecting this or fearing that or I was running away from something. But I've found it now and I can change it in the pipeline." And once you discover it allow in the Light of Sirius. Allow in the Goddess. Allow that energy to change what's in the pipeline. Intercepting & Disconnecting Another technique is what we call Intercepting & Disconnecting. Now, when you work with self-sabotaging futures, you intercept the potential self-sabotage, you disconnect it, and you release the energy into a new success. And you can do similarly here. For example, if you were in a situation where you discovered: "Oh, six months from now I'm going to have this huge fight. I can see it, because I can feel it brewing. I can sense it there, so I'm going to disarm it and instead take all that energy that otherwise would have been a fight and create an incredibly close, intimate experience -- an incredible wonderful argument that leads to wonderful great experience." Intercept those futures. Now this might have been a somewhat airy-fairy technique a few years ago, but now, because everything's different, because the vortex is open, you can work with that, thought maybe not exclusively. Maybe you also want to use the techniques that you're very familiar with. Certainly so, if you recognize that it's your martyr, you may want to use the techniques you know to deal with that. But you may also want to create a variation using the future techniques to begin to stretch your experience and expertise with intercepting and disconnecting futures. The Light of Sirius And of course there's always the Light of Sirius itself. Since the opening, that resonance of Sirius is inside you. Perhaps you'll want connect with it by stepping outside at night and looking up to the heavens and locating it, just off there to the left of Orion's Belt -- that twinkling star -- and calling upon it, sensing it, opening to it. Perhaps it's in a meditation where you are sitting on a mound of earth and looking up into the night sky, sensing it, letting it come, calling on it ... "In the name of Sirius, in the name of the Goddess, in the name of ..." An abstract, but oh, phenomenally powerful technique. Optimal Futures Also, and seventh, there is a technique for creating Optimal Futures. Now we're not saying "optimum," meaning the most incredible of any other. There can be many optimal futures. If you go for optimum it gets competitive. You know, which one's better? And ... could I come up with a better one? There can many Optimal Futures. The idea here is that you're going to create these Optimal Futures, and you're going to lay them within the Radiance of your Resonance. And they will start having impact now, long before you would ever manifest them, for as a conduit of that future, it changes you now. Now, admittedly, this technique takes time, it takes thought, it takes work. So it's not something you can just throw together. There are several components, but you can take your time. And you work on it over a period of days or weeks. Not every day all week for weeks. You work on it, maybe a little bit now, and a little bit a couple of days from now, coming back after you've thought about, after you've worked with it. Yeah, made some changes there, etc. So again, respect yourself and not just throw it together. The goal here isn't to get it done as fast as possible and get as many as possible. I've got a book full of optimal futures. I got 20 or 30 of them this afternoon alone. I just sat down and buzz-sawed through." ... {laughter} ... That's probably self-sabotage. ... {laughter} ... Now, an Optimal Future has several characteristics: First of all, Optimal Futures involve skill and challenge that somehow engages your strength, your power, and your talent. Optimal Futures call upon your creativity, your confidence (your ability to cope), and your expertise. An Optimal Future involves a certain skill that presents challenge -- not struggle, but challenge -- an interesting, curious, wonderful challenge. And that challenge involves or in some way engages some of your strength, some of your power, some of your particular talent, some skill. Skill and challenge. When you say you're going to be the zillion-trillionquadrillion-billion-dillionaire of the world, there's no skill there. There's no challenge there, because it's become meaningless. There's no way to engage your strengths. "I can add. I can subtract." Oh ... {laughter} ... Your power is certainly not your talent. There's no way to involve your creativity or your confidence. You can't really be confident. You can't even figure out how much that is, much less be confident that you can create it. It has to have some sort of task that involves skill and challenge. Secondly, it's important that the Optimal Future involve complexity and attention. That is, in order to do this skill, in order to do this task that involves skill and challenge, it engages your full attention. It can't be something you do on automatic, and it must have complexity. Now complexity is often seen as difficulty. It doesn't have to be difficult. Intricate, yes. Involved, yes. But not necessarily difficult. Complexity exists when you allow something to be an expression of your individuality as well as your oneness. When an Optimal Future expresses your uniqueness as well as your sameness, it has complexity. Complexity involves your individuality, your uniqueness, your signature, your autonomy, as well as your oneness, as well as your partnership, as well as the "together energy" you have with others -- perhaps involving my spiritual family more than my biological family, my chemical family -- my spiritual family developed not by chemistry and biology but by character, by personal and spiritual character. Therefore, an Optimal Future is not something you do totally alone -- or if it is, it gets passed on to or is involved with others. Also, whatever it is, you want to become totally absorbed in it while you're doing it. Not obsessed, but absorbed. And, you see, there are those of you doing things in your life now that already involve a certain amount of skill and challenge, and which give you the chance to express your individuality as well as your oneness with another. Some of you are working in sporting activities. Some of you working in creative projects that are purely hobby but are nonetheless beautifully creative. Some of you are in relationships where you are taking the skill and the challenge of intimacy, love and caring that calls upon your strength, power, and talent as well as your creativity, confidence and expertise, and that gives you the opportunity to be fully yourself and a partner with another. Thirdly, an Optimal Future needs to have clarity -- specific and clear goals, short-term and long-term, immediate and eventual. An example: You see yourself having an Optimal Future in which you compose music. That involves a skill. Certainly it involves a challenge because no matter how talented you may be, it involves challenge. It involves skill. It calls upon your strengths. It calls upon your power of vision and creativity. It calls upon your talent. Creative, yes. I have confidence, though, a sense that in that future I can do it with the expertise. And it's intricate, complex. It also involves me by myself, but it also involves others who will listen or who will play or who will enjoy this music. And to that end, it takes my attention. When I'm focussing on this composition, I can see myself totally engaged, totally involved. And there is a clarity. There are goals in mind.  I want to write so many measures every day. Or I want to get the first movement done by a certain time. There is a goal of completion, a goal of achievement, a goal of accomplishment that is clear. Fourthly, an Optimal Future needs to involve Choice, the choice to take charge of the situation, to exercise control in the situation, rather than having to be in control of the situation. You have a sense of dominion: You can exercise control in the situation in varying degrees of intensity. Rather than having to control the situation or be in control of it, you can exercise control. You have that choice: to intensify or to lighten up, to work faster or to work slower, to let it ebb and flow. You have that sense of choice. Fifthly, an Optimal Future needs to have a continuum of feedback, short-term and long-term feedback, a system of gratification and reward, where some of the feedback is immediate. Going back to our composer: You've set the goal.  Today you want to get this many measures done, this many minutes. This portion that has been a stickler. Yes, you would get immediate feedback from that. Now this is a future. You're not doing it but you can see that it has the opportunity of immediate feedback. It has that immediate gratification, that immediate reward. The sixth quality it must involve is commitment and centering, where you are absolutely committed to doing it, to be engaged in it, being involved in it, a total commitment, in the moment, in the now, centered, where you have to give it all my focus now. You can't be distracted. You want to create it in such a way that you can be totally centered and totally committed. Finally and lastly, an Optimal Future needs to stretch you beyond your self-consciousness so that your Conscious Self can emerge. Ironically and paradoxically, being self-conscious is never your Self and it's never being Conscious. An Optimal Future is bigger and grander than you are, and because of that it lifts and engages you such that you lose all sense of self-consciousness. You forget the cameras are rolling. (In fact, they're not.) With an Optimal Future you aren't conscious of people watching. You aren't conscious of what they think, of whether they care, of what they're deciding. You don't even know they're there. You're so engaged that it stretches you beyond being self-conscious. It may well be called a moment of ecstasy, where you are in a euphoria, in a sense of unity, of oneness, beyond space and time. Sacred, ineffable, a self-transcendent moment. You let your self-consciousness go so that in that transcendent moment, in that self-transcendent time, the real you, the true you, the self that you really are can emerge. Now admittedly, these characteristics of an Optimal Future take some thinking and feeling. They take some playing around with. Now putting together an Optimal Future calls upon what: It calls upon clarity. It calls upon centering. It calls upon choice. It calls upon commitment, challenge, complexity, and creativity. It is automatically raising your resonance. As you finalize it, what you do with it is you digest it and you project it. Let it in. Let it in. Imagine yourself caving, mountain climbing. You imagine yourself engaged in this sport or that sporting activity. Imagine yourself having that country home where you can be and do all these creative projects. Imagine it. And as you create it, it's raising your resonance. As you imagine it, as you digest it, it becomes a part of you. You sense it. You feel it. You smell it and touch it in your imagination. Then you project it out there into what we call the Radiance of Your Resonance -- that wedge (of the futures you can experience). OK? Here's your resonance now. After working with creating an Optimal Future, it's maybe moved up a few notches. Now you're feeling pretty good about yourself, as a matter of fact. Your feeling very positively, drawing in a more valuable reality than you were even before you put this together. Now you digest it. You feel it. You let yourself taste it. What does it taste like? What does it smell like? What does it feel like? You're notching up now just a little bit. Not enough that anybody might notice any difference, but you're still notching up. Once you've digested it, throw it out there. Project it out into your future. How far? Well, it depends. If this is an Optimal Future for when you retire from work and sell your property and move to the country, it may be 20 or 30 years from now. Even though between now and then you may change it, it doesn't matter. You still digest it and throw it out there. Throw it out there somewhere within the Radiance -- obviously on upper end of the Radiance of your Resonance. Now that Optimal Future, by its very projection is starting to have impact on you now. It will start immediately to have impact on you. Subtle, yes. It may cause you to feel more optimistic about something, or your programming around some issue may be more effective. Whatever, it's drawing you toward it, toward that Optimal Future. Now if you have four or five of them out there, they're each going to draw you -- not necessarily any faster, but more deeply. It doesn't mean you're going to be 65 any sooner, you see? But it'll draw you more deeply. Now, if you want to really have it come in more deeply, there are one of two things you can do. You can consciously start developing that skill more fully and exercising the challenge. You can start developing that complexity and that attention even now. You can bring the clarity into your current reality. You can exercise that particular skill, that particular challenge, or that particular complexity. You can start exercising that in direct activity. You see, when you're in that Optimal Future, you want to be doing some specific thing. You don't necessarily know how to do that yet, but it's always been there as a dream that you've had. It seems like that would be such an incredible reality, to do woodworking, to carve. But you don't know how to do that, so you're going to start developing the skill now -- preparing, learning, taking steps, maybe taking a class here, reading a book there. It's anchoring. It's not anchoring that future to you, it's anchoring you to that future. You start developing the particulars of skill now, and it will anchor you and pull you to that Optimal Future more deeply, more richly, changing the reality along the way more significantly. Now the other way: Maybe that particular Optimal Future really is something that can't really happen until down there. There's no real way you could go about developing the skill or challenge without actually doing it now in a real way. So the other way you can anchor your current reality to the Optimal Future is to find something else that you can do now not upon the same specific skill and challenge, but upon some skill, challenge, attention, complexity. It will not have the same clear goals, but it will have clear goals. It won't have the same kind of exercise of control in the situation, but it will offer a way to exercise control in some situation. It won't have the same feedback, but it will have feedback in a continuum of rewards and gratifications. And likewise through the list, with that sense of feedback -- it's not going to be the same feedback, but it's feedback in a continuum of rewards and gratifications. And it does involve that sense of commitment, not to the Optimal Future, but to the quite separate skill and challenge you are working with now. It may be that you have an Optimal Future out here that has to do with more academic concerns. But right now you express it through playing tennis. Challenge, skill, certainly so. Complexity, amazingly so. Attention, absolutely. You can't be thinking about what you had for breakfast or who you're going to see later or whether it's awfully hot. You've got to be right there. Clear goals? Yes. Choice? Can you take charge? Yes. Continuum of feedback. After every volley. ... {laughter} ... You get immediate feedback. Either you got the point or you didn't. They don't have too many draws. Nobody got that point. Well, that can happen, we suppose. You just volleyed for six hours and you both dropped dead. You know, it doesn't ... {laughter} ... Does it involve that sense of commitment, that sense of absolute centered commitment in the moment? And do you escape yourself? Yes, if you aren't worried about your hemline or whether your shoes are white enough, or whatever. You lose yourself. You lose yourself, the self-consciousness. And a more real you emerges. It can. Not always, but it can. In that way now, in your 20s, another activity can link you, can connect you, to an Optimal Future that has nothing to do with such physical activity in your 70s, or in your 50s, or in your 30s or some other kind of Optimal Future that isn't that far away. So, you can just nudge it and push it and create it. That's going to lift your resonance, because it involves the attention and the intention. And it involves the qualities of resonance raising from clarity to creativity. When you start digesting it, it nudges your resonance a little further. When you project it out there, it nudges you further. And that can be enough. And then every so often let yourself digest it again. Ponder it. Savor it. Daydream about it. Dream about it in your meditations, or in your night dreams. So if you want to nudge that Optimal Future a little further, you can begin doing that now or preparing for that now, or something else that involves the same seven energies, do you see? You see, it's the energy of skill and challenge that engages strength, power, talent, creativity, confidence and expertise. It's the energy. It doesn't matter what the form is. At least for linking purposes it doesn't matter what the form is. As you do this, you will start creating Optimal Experiences and Optimal Futures, and the link can be phenomenal. It can generate successes that seem not to have anything to do with it. Suddenly things at work get tremendously better. Suddenly the intimacy takes a powerful turn for the better. But you see, it has impact, and shifting your resonance - not just your resonance about the Optimal Future, but your resonance now. That Optimal Future may be very involved in curing the malady you have now. Not so that you can hurry up and achieve the Optimal Future, but so you can move the Radiance of Resonance. "Here's my Radiance of Resonance now, which includes X disease. And through this Optimal Future I've nudged it up to here where now that disease X is outside that wedge. It's not within my radiance. And therefore, it goes away." It's unable to stand the resonance -- even though that Optimal Future had nothing to do with "health concerns" other than perhaps wanting to live fully and richly in order to do that. And what other futures are here in this Radiance of your Resonance, in the wedge of your resonance? When your Radiance of Resonance moves up, futures that are all along the wedge shift and change. And it becomes like magic, very much like magic, so much like it that it probably is magic. ... {laughter} ... Now that the Vortex is open, now that the past has ended its bitter grip and control, now that practice is over, everything IS different. Not "can be" -- IS different. You can make it suspiciously the same, but it IS different. Meditation In this meditation, again open to the energy of Sirius, to your connection. But you know, we've talked so often about that stellar heritage. Well, what is your stellar heritage? It's either Sirius or Pleiades. No, it's not Orion. ... {laughter} ... Even if there's an Orion connection, it's Pleiades/Orion, Sirius/Orion, but it's Sirius or it's Pleiades, or you wouldn't have found any interest in wanting to deal with the Sirius Connection, you see? It wouldn't have interested you. What is that connection? What is your heritage? Were you one of the genetic engineers, so appalled at what had happened? And also one of the souls clearly who said, "I'll sign up." You see, this isn't the first time you've been a Mapmaker. It's not a job assignment that's handed out like karma. "Who wants maps?" ... {laughter} ... It's a quality of who you are. It's part of your nature. It is your destiny -- chosen, yes. But then only Mapmakers choose to be Mapmakers. In a planet full of people, in a universe full of consciousness, there are relatively very few of you overall. But enough. Until we have the opportunity to work with you, be it in workshops, in Blendings, in meditation, we shall close, and we shall do so to each of you and all of you with love, oh yes, with love, with love, and peace. ... Lazaris