“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside, awakes” Carl Jung
by Carole Dean
Every other Saturday we have a film funding class. We’ve learned that the power of your mind is a major asset in funding and making your film. I read mind power books for the class and share my understanding of the book with our fiscally sponsored filmmakers.
We are currently working on Joe Dispenza’s book Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon. You will find that it’s as if he is talking to filmmakers. There is so much similarity in what he says and what filmmakers deal with on a daily basis.
How Living in Survival Mode Holds Us Back
In his brilliant book, Joe explained that the long-term effect of living in survival mode.
In time, we begin to thrive on it and we become addicted to stress chemicals. The result is a frenzied state where we shift our attention from one person to one problem to one thing in our environment. We live on constant high alert because we view our external environment as unsafe.
Because the outer world appears more real than our inner world, we’re addicted to someone or something in our external environment. The longer we live in this state the more our brain waves move into high beta brain waves which causes us to feel pain, anxiety, anger, impatience, and aggression. As a result, our brain waves can become incoherent.
Where You Place Your Attention Is Where Your Mind Goes
When the emotions of survival are controlling us, we focus on the external world on finances, terrorism, dislike for your job, and we’ve become preoccupied with what we think could be causing that problem.
When this happens, we’re living in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Where you place your energy is where your attention goes so if it is on a problem in the external world, you’re giving your power away to someone or something else. And your energy is stuck in the material world, where you are constantly reaffirming your present reality.
What is happening is you are tied to the energy of the known trying to predict the future based on the past. For you to make a change in your life, you need to step into the unknown because that’s where things can change, says Dr. Joe.
The more you live in stress the more you’re trying to affect matter. Matter trying to fight and force and manipulate for an outcome. As a result, everything you want to change is going to take a lot of time because in this space-time reality you must move your physical body through space to create the outcome you want.
Finding Room for the Unknowns
The more you’re living in survival, that’s the first three chakras, the more you’re using your senses to define reality, the more you’re separating yourself from a new future.
Between where you are now and where you want to be is based on how you think and predict it should happen.
But if you’re predicting then your thinking is based on knowns, there is no room for an unknown or a new possibility in your life.
Let’s say you want a new job so you might take the time to create a resume get online and start looking for positions and go on interviews. Now this requires time. We all look at time as linear. So you must project it’s going to take you maybe a week to get a good resume, two or three weeks of research, and then interviews. After that, you might have a job in so many months.
All of that takes time because you are matter trying to influence other matter. There is a distinct separation in space and time between where you are and where you want to be.
Focusing Our Attention Outward
Because we don’t have those things we feel lack and separation, so we live in a state of duality. We want things we don’t have and that’s how we create things.
When we experience separation from our future desires, we think and dream of what we want and then we set about a series of actions to get them. Example, if we’re always under financial stress, we want money. If we have a disease, we want health and if we’re lonely we want a relationship.
Because of this experience of duality, we are driven to create. And he reminds us we are matter focused on matter trying to influence matter to get money or health, so we’ve established it’s going to take quite a bit of time and energy.
While we’re doing these things like looking for the new job, we are waiting for something outside of us to change how we feel internally. However, when something in the outside world doesn’t happen or it seems to be taking a long time then we have more lack.
We feel even more separate from what we’re trying to create and our emotional state of lack, and frustration keeps the dream at a distance further increasing the time for the outcome.
Let’s Talk About Quantum Laws
Quantum inward expression of the laws of nature is an invisible field of information. It is the energy that unites everything material.
Now this material field organizes and connects all the laws of nature. It’s a dimension where there’s more time and space. In other words, it’s a dimension where time is eternal.
We want to get beyond time. We want to get beyond this self and go from the consciousness we have of being somebody to nobody. OK?
We want to go from the consciousness of something to nothing. We want to move from the world of the senses to the worlds beyond the senses, stepping into the quantum to create the future we want.
Joe Dispenza’s Walking Meditation
That’s why Joe Dispenza created his walking meditation. In it, you must constantly give up who you are, where you are, and what you are. You go into the nothing, into the world of nothing, feeling nothing.
It is through this that you can reach the quantum field and move through time and space because in the quantum field everything is unified you are one with the field. Things can happen quickly.
As we begin to surrender all aspects of self and remove from the external world of people and things and places, we move to the inner world of energy, vibration, frequency, and consciousness. This is where magic happens.
Joe says that when we take our attention off objects and matter and open our focus to energy and information then different parts of the brain work together in harmony. This unification of the brain is what makes us feel more whole.
Connecting to the Quantum Field
When we do this properly, our hearts begin to open and become more coherent. As our heart moves into coherence, so too does our brain. Meaning we’ve gotten beyond our body and we are eliminating things that allows us to move to the alpha and theta brain waves patterns. There we connect with our autonomic nervous system.
When this becomes activated, its job is to restore order and balance causing coherence and wholeness. It is in this state where we begin to connect to the quantum unified field.
The Wye Cottage
Back in the 80s, I had a friend who owned a large 10,000-acre sheep farm in New Zealand. On a visit to see him we were driving down a country road and we slowed down to go over a one-way bridge. On the left side of the bridge was a cottage sitting on a river with the name “the Wye cottage.”
I jumped out of my seat and said oh what a lovely place. I could go there and write a book. He paid no attention. He just kept driving we crossed the bridge, went to his sheep farm, and I started daydreaming about that house. I saw myself living in the house.
It had a veranda on three sides with a huge wisteria plant covering most of the porch with gorgeous pink blossoms. I got into the energy of the area. I felt the peace and serenity. New Zealand has this feeling you pick up of independence. It gives you a feeling that you can do your own thing.
I went back to the United States thinking I could buy that house and have a wonderful life. In fact, I thought, I could live there forever. Then I got into the real world and forgot the dream. But I put it in the quantum field and it stayed and began manifesting.
Making My Move
Fast forward to 2001. I sold my New York & Chicago & LA companies and was looking for what to do with the rest of my life. In my quiet daily meditations, I started seeing the house in New Zealand as if it was waiting for me. Then 9/11 happened and I decided I needed to have a safe place outside of the United States and the white cottage was no longer a dream but a strong possibility.
I called my friend in New Zealand and said I’m really interested in purchasing the Wye cottage. No, he said there is a sweet couple living in the house. They’re very happy they don’t want to sell but come on over anyway, so I did.
This couple were interested in selling all I had to do was ask. I bought the house I went back to The United States, and I had to wait six months to come back.
What Was I Thinking?
When I got back to New Zealand and looked at the house I was in shock. The inside and outside had not been painted in 30 years. The gutters were falling off the house. It needed a better roof. It was in a terrible state. There was just so much that had to be done and why didn’t I see that before?
Because I was feeling into the energy and the joy that the house could give me. I saw the house in the state it became while I lived there. I loved every minute I spent in that house. It was an early 1900’s Craftsman house that was moved from the city into the country.
I will always believe that my Intentions of living there, my visions of happiness in that house and my vision of growing a garden and becoming part of the community we’re all instrumental in bringing the house to me.
Yes, it took years from the time I saw the Wye cottage until I bought it but that’s because I put imitations on when I could buy it. Once I sold my business, the time was right for me, and the house was waiting.
Seeing and Acting on All the Eternal Possibilities
In the world of the quantum, where time is eternal, everything is happening in the eternal present moment. As you move through time, you experience other space, other dimensions, other planes, other realities, and infinite possibilities.
It’s like you are standing between two mirrors and looking both ways at yourself into indefinite dimensions and the mirrored images represent an infinite number of possibilities that you’re living now.
Your future could be any number of possibilities. It’s up to you to choose what you want.
I believe that one way to get into a lower state of brain waves is meditation. When you sit in a quiet place with no phone or interruptions you lower brain waves and allow yourself to connect your vision to the quantum field. This is where you can attract what you want.
I attracted The Wye cottage. When I moved into the house, I promised to restore it to its former glory, and I did. I put a lot of attention and love in it. I painted the house myself I took great joy in owning and restoring it. I gave a grant for a writer’s retreat and sent writers to the Wye cottage for a month. I think the cottage loved to house these creatives. We all enjoy it.
Using Meditation to Realize Your Dreams
Meditation is a quiet place where you can imagine feeling into and become the person you want to become. Perhaps becoming the award-winning filmmaker, you truly are.
Think back in your life and see if you’ve created things you envisioned. Where you wanted something, or some person and you focused on a vision, and it happened?
Perhaps you can use that energy and that memory to empower you to spend time daily to move yourself into this quantum field through walking meditation or sitting meditation. Whatever it takes to allow you the quiet time with lower brain waves to get into the quantum field and plant your dream.
To me this information about going inside to create your future is exactly how to do it. Many people use meditation to lower brain waves and visualize.
I’ve been meditating since 1974 normally twice a day, this is most important to me. I think this has given me better health an easier life and has allowed me to achieve my goals.
See the Future You Want
To bring them fast, outside of our time-based reality, we must get in a quiet place and live like the goal already exists. This is how you can compress time and bring it to you quicker. Be in the no one, no place, nothing space to create and attract.
We did this as children. We had no past to limit us. We saw something we wanted, and we asked someone in our family for it. We went to bed visualizing we had it and we got it. Life was that simple for most of us.
To get back to this immediate request and immediate fulfillment, we need to drop the past and see the future we want, not be influenced by the outside information, go inside, and create your own reality, live it, feel it, breath it and achieve it.
Carole Dean is president and founder of From the Heart Productions; a 501(c)3 non-
profit that offers the Roy W. Dean Film Grants and fiscal sponsorship for independent filmmakers. She hosts the weekly podcast, The Art of Film Funding, interviewing those involved in all aspects of indie film production. She is also the author of The Art of Film Funding, 2nd Edition: Alternative Financing Concepts. See IMDB for producing credits
