ASSOCIATION OF NOETIC FIELD THERAPY PRACTITIONERS
INTRODUCTION TO NOETIC FIELD THERAPY
A SOUL-CENTERED COUNSELING PARADIGM
by Robert D. Waterman
I am not the first to invite us to consider human consciousness as an essential link in the evolutionary equation. Our test has always been, Do we form our value from the image of the world or upon the essence that emerges from the center of our being? To respond to this inner force of divinity, we must create the "sufficient conditions," as Thich Nhat Hanh (1995) would say. We must invite the inner bell of the soul to ring.
As I reflect on the emergent form of our modern world and contrast that to the compelling inner imperative of our divine nature, I am convinced that I must join those who say we must radically revise the way we understand our healing and learning nature. Official knowledge, whether religious, scientific, or secular, has become our bondage when it could as easily be a multitude of help-mates assisting us to bond to our souls and use our lives as sails to catch the liberating winds of spirit.
During my study and the development of Noetic Field Therapy™ (NFT™), I became aware of an invitation to generate a therapeutic paradigm based on the universe as seen through the eyes of soul. In us, flows the energy and wisdom of all creation. Our intelligence, loving, and impetus to learn arise from this shared essence as a divine process. When we see through the eyes of soul, the quest becomes less of "saving souls" and more of transforming the ego. To this end, join me in a dialogue with the infinite concerning the health of the mind and heart and how best to approach learning as a healing art, and therapy as transformational learning.
ORIGINS
Early Experiences
Forty years ago, I discovered that when I simply focus my attention and suspend any thought or belief, insights flow to me. Sometimes, my awareness transports itself into mind and soul realities. Other times, when I turn my vision inward and focus on the perceptual darkness, a subtle light and archetypal images appear. When I draw and journal about these images, further insights occur.
The idea for this kind of exploration first occurred to me in my early teens while reading about mystical experiences in the Bible. Later, my interest and understanding advanced considerably. Just after Army basic training, I was a subject in a sensory deprivation experiment. The University of Maryland conducted the research at the Presidio of Monterey. As a member of the test group, I was in a small room for three days and nights. To limit sensory input, the room was totally dark, soundproof, and at body temperature. After awhile, the room perceptually lit up. I saw amazing colors that surpassed any physical color, and light radiated from the shapes I saw. I also had out-of-body experiences in which I flew over the Southern California landscape. After these transformative and enlightening experiences, I was convinced that, in addition to the physical world, there is at least one spiritual world.
Husserl Influence
Later, I discovered a kindred spirit in Edmund Husserl (Ihede, Harris), a turn-of-the-century philosopher who developed transcendental phenomenology as a science of philosophy. His work provided me with a research method and an academic format. Husserl developed a protocol he called "reduction." The aim of reduction is to focus on and to deconstruct the fixity of perception and the sedimentation of beliefs. The natural world is subjected to the beliefs we form from our response to experience. Once these beliefs are formed, we tenaciously center our worldview in these beliefs as if they are immutable truth. This idiosyncratic tendency runs far deeper than we generally understand. Husserl discovered that when he focused on an object, while excluding all else, and deconstructed his beliefs and perceptions that held that object in a given meaning, he was transported into a transcendental state in which he could directly understand the essence or intentionality of that object.
When the grip of fixed beliefs is loosened, our perception changes and the flow of spirit is once more freed to inform us of the truth and intention of that upon which we have placed our attention. In the experience of transcendental mind, Husserl knew the truth. He discovered that facts, rather than adding up to truth, are correlated with truth. A correlation exists because fact infers truth and truth intends fact. In other words, variation in one corresponds to variations in the other. For example, mental constructions (such as beliefs), physical forms, and events correlate with a priori intentions, or essence. We gain understanding through experiential thinking by bridging the world of essence and form.
My experiences—the paying attention and letting go and the sensory deprivation—were forms of reduction, which freed my perceptual fixity to move into the experience of essence. My center of perception shifted from material mind to spiritual mind. I realized that the descriptions of conversion and mystical experiences described in the Bible follow a similar protocol. Paul on the road to Damascus and John on the Isle of Patmos experienced the deconstruction of their perceptual fixity and were transported, as I was, into a state of perception shaped by essence. Milerepa (Lhulungpa), a renowned Tibetan mystic, described his experience of spending long periods in the limited sensory environment of mountain caves in order to deconstruct his karma and realize enlightenment. Jesus had a similar experience fasting in the wilderness. My experiences gave me a taste of the accomplishments of these great mystics and demonstrated to me the extreme therapeutic value of these universal themes.
From this understanding, I began to form the theories and practices that I have come to call NFT. The power of NFT is in the practitioner’s understanding of self as energy, the environmental energy field, spiritual mind, soul perception, intentional consciousness, and the dimensional resource of the noetic field.
Sides of a Coin
My spiritual development has always paralleled my academic quest. They always seemed to be natural complements, like the two sides of a coin. Analogous to the correlation between essence and form, I studied with mystical teachers while I continued my academic education. So too—while learning to appreciate academic rigor, the many expressions of psychological and educational understanding, the natural history and accomplishments of the human spirit, the energy "poems" of physics, and the metaphysics of great literature—I was discovering the depths of my soul and the mystical realms that express through all reality and knowledge as a life-giving and -creating spirit.
Quimby and Emerson Influences
Two of my mentors, who, like Husserl, saw beyond official wisdom, were Phineus Parkhurst Quimby and Ralph Waldo Emerson, both American transcendentalists. Husserl found a way to deconstruct the perceptual projection of the form and, by so doing, to experientially apprehend the correlated intention that gave it meaning, thus to understand the truth directly as knowing. He also found that the practice awakened him in a deeper way. Quimby (Dresser) had a similar method of exploration. He discovered the healing power of the soul and the role that belief plays in shaping health. He facilitated the deconstruction of the client’s beliefs that related to the "dis-ease," which enabled them to access their inborn healing. He also silently aligned himself and spiritually enhanced the energy of the clients. Emerson (1950) admonished that our destiny is to put aside official wisdom and build communities and a nation derived from the eternal wisdom of our souls where all understanding resides.
Southwestern College
In 1976, when I became the founding president of Southwestern College, in Santa Fe, the phenomenological and mystical influences took on the expression of counselor education. Translating mystical teaching and energy therapies into innovative, experiential teaching was a wonderful experience. The greater challenge during the accreditation process, however, was when circumstances required us to rise to the occasion of articulating the curriculum to our colleagues. The college was accredited in 1996, and, as president emeritus, I am free to conduct a deeper study of spirituality in counseling and the implications of that to therapy and counselor education.
Spiritual Mind and Perception
Husserl drew upon the ancient Greek understanding of mind for the focus of his technical language. To the ancient Greeks, the mind is a spiritual faculty. "Nous" is their term for the intentional, purposeful intelligence that controls and orders the world of matter. Nous emerges from the void as the wind of spirit or the first emanating spirit of creation. It is similar to Logos, or the Word that became form. "Noetic" derives from nous and is the structure of perception and understanding in our experience of the relationship or correlation between nous and form. Perception, then, is our experience of the intelligence that forms and sustains the universe.
Noetic is a briefer form of the Greek term "noegenetic" or "noegenesis." Noegenesis combines noesis and genesis and means the capacity of experience to generate new knowledge. Noesis is the essence side of the correlation of form and spirit. Noema is the form or genetic side of the correlation. Noesis and noema are correlations within the noetic experience. We learn by apprehending through our experience of the noetic correlates.
As soon as nous expresses as form, it becomes perceptually sedimented because we generate beliefs about it. Once this occurs, our beliefs shape what we see. The fact that a form is evident has a fleeting neutrality. When we respond to life, we create beliefs that help us understand what happened or what we see. A problem occurs, however, when we think belief is the truth. Belief then controls how we see and interpret reality. In noetic science, then, beliefs are hypothetical structures through which we pursue truth. Facts, as well, are documented observations that reflect truth. Facts are on the noema side of the correlation. Facts "speak for themselves," only if we listen noetically.
Transformational Experience
In terms of NFT, the presenting issue is the fact that reflects the truth the client is seeking. The cure occurs when the client awakens to the aspect of soul that is indexed to the presenting issue. The noetic correlation of noema and noesis describes the transformational experience.
In NFT, you align with the energy field of higher consciousness and create a common energy context through the client’s highest intention, facilitate a reductive focus on the presenting issue, employ relevant protocols, and assist in the transformation of the blocking structure while the client awakens in the soul-space that is indexed to the symptom. Soul-space is our expanded center, our home, the self defined out of essence, and our place of peace (noesis). It is the experiential correlation to the ego or world-defined self (noema).
I call the experiential moment when the client awakens as soul, in response to a therapeutic issue or educational challenge, epiphany. It is an unexpected moment of truth, insight, or intuitive perception, insight into reality, or a flash of essential meaning, and it is often initiated by something ordinary or commonplace. It is a moment of revelation or appearance of the light.
Noetic Field
Therapeutically, a noetic field is an interacting psychospiritual energy that has an implicit intelligence and knows how to interrelate and synchronize with all elements within that coherent system. We are a microcosmic noetic field, and the universe is a macrocosmic noetic field.
As we attempt to understand the life field in which we live and out of which we are made, our sciences increasingly develop whole-systems models as the best understanding of our data and experience. Physics is progressing into a model that describes reality as an energy field that contains a primary, implicate (non-local) intelligence that causes and sustains the world we experience as material. As a whole-systems model, NFT is the best accounting of my therapeutic experience.
This trend is reminiscent of the ancient Greek’s use of the term nous and noetic. At this level, then, the noetic field is a sustaining, nurturing, intelligent, transdual life field that is universally present. Parallel to the emerging scientific terms—such as Bohm’s "implicate order" and "non-local causality" and Close’s "primary consciousness"—this field can be compared with grace, dharma, nirvana, or heaven. As noetic beings, we have the capacity to generate a noetic field and, by so doing, interface with the universal noetic field. Looking through a phenomenological lens, we are, as a whole system, a noetic field that constitutes the correlation between our ego and soul selves.
Our psychological issues represent a localized distortion that influences the alignment and balance of the entire field of energy. Reduction provides a technique through which we can know the essence—the sustaining intentional consciousness—of the structured universe of physical and psychological forms. In the context of NFT, the transcendental experience of Husserlian reduction is one in which we simultaneously access the psychological distortion, our actualizing intention to which the distortion infers, and the essence of the universal or macronoetic field.
CONTEXT
All therapeutic issues are dualistic, even adversarial, within the client’s psychospiritual field. The process of NFT transforms the dualistic characteristic of client issues through the application of consciousness and various protocols. NFT synthesizes universal themes that weave through ancient mysteries and modern therapy to produce a simple and powerful approach to therapy. It requires trust in the human instrument and the conversion and discipline of our mind to its spiritual capacities.
Therapies that are thematically related to NFT also reflect the prototype of Husserlian reduction. To illustrate this premise and important elements of NFT, I offer Rogerian therapy, experiential focus therapy, and Thought Field Therapy™ (TFT™). From the NFT perspective, these therapies are effective because they help clients shift their self-definition from externally imposed circumstance to an experience of self as soul-centered. In the process, the client accesses an inherent transformational resource that is powerful, loving, intelligent, and divine. Rogerian therapy emphasizes the power of the therapist’s presence and alignment with a higher principle. Experiential focus therapy demonstrates the power of focus on the felt sense to access the belief structure and the value of the client’s awareness as a means to index transformation and the felt shift as a spiritual expression. TFT helps us understand the transformative power of protocol as an intrinsic dynamic of the noetic field.
Unconditional Positive Reduction
Issues often begin with early experiences in which we try to share our loving, express our excitement, or try to get something we need. When those early events are met with control or a manipulative agenda in exchange for the loving we want, the acknowledgment we need, or the basic needs we require—let alone a violent or indifferent response—we adapt by developing distorted beliefs concerning love, needs, and empowerment.
Phenomenological reduction can be a simple therapeutic process. For example, Carl Rogers (1969) developed "unconditional positive regard" as a therapeutic tool. As clients articulate their beliefs and conclusions concerning their issue, they are responded to with unconditional positive regard. The client talks, and the therapist loves them without judgment. This is a reductive process.
Issues originate from experiences in which the client is coerced or manipulated through their need to give or receive loving or to get safety, shelter, or nurture. The beliefs that structure and preserve those issues require manipulative or agenda-laden responses to maintain their existence. When the client articulates the resulting issue or trauma and is met with loving or unconditional positive regard, the sedimenting belief system begins to deconstruct.
Life is full of persons with agendas or unaddressed injuries. Conversations between such persons tend to perpetuate negative self-regard. The presence of loving acceptance and the absence of manipulation disperses the negative self-regard. Unconditional loving deconstructs the negative belief. At some point, the client’s intentionality for love, recognition, or support reasserts itself into the flow of the therapeutic relationship and the noesis emerges as the experiential correlation, as a healing epiphany.
Experiential Focus Therapy
In her book, Integrating Spirituality in Counseling, Elfie Hinterkopf (1998) discusses the "felt shift" of experiential focus therapy, developed by Eugene Gendlin, as a form of spiritual assertion. The client is guided to focus on the "felt sense" (noema) that corresponds to the presenting issue. By following the felt sense, the client further attunes to the energy field of that issue and is invited to elaborate.
The reduction occurs while the client focuses on the felt sense and elaborates on the images that present themselves. The context created by drawing out the client in this way is deconstructing and is sufficient for the felt shift (noesis) to emerge. When transformation occurs, the client experiences a felt shift. The felt shift is a spiritual assertion of the experiential correlation of the felt sense and its sedimented beliefs.
Thought Field Therapy
Roger Callahan (1996) developed TFT by relating his study of applied kinesiology to his therapeutic work with phobias. He discovered that the acupuncture points along the meridians are an integral part of the construction and anchoring of memory and emotion (sedimentation). He calls the negative emotion that is distorting the thought field a "perturbation" (noema).
In the therapeutic protocol, the client attunes to the perturbation in the thought field while tapping the points in specified sequences (deconstruction). According to Callahan, this procedure results in cure or transformation (noesis) of the symptom (noema). TFT tapping unblocks the flow of energy in the meridian and by so doing releases the perturbation or distortion in the thought field. The client reports "subjective units of distress (SUDs)" levels to evaluate the transformation. Cure occurs when the client is free of the harassing negative emotion or perturbation while attuning to the images that represent the distressing situation.
NATURE of LANGUAGE
I find it helpful to reflect on the nature of language as a protocol, in and of itself. Our use of language shapes our perception. In conversation, we enhance the fixed quality of our perceptions or loosen the sedimentation of our beliefs.
Language is an integral part of the noetic approach to discovery, learning, and therapy. We use language and its symbols to affirm the reality we are currently in and to communicate, learn, and explore new realities. This phenomenon has impact on cross-cultural challenges and the divergent tendencies experienced by different ethnic perspectives and relations between divergent subgroups within a national population. We reinforce our trauma with our self-talk. While telling our stories in communities of like victims, we reinforce our trauma through our tacit agreements among group members.
Social Perception
We form subjective strata of assumed understanding to which our language refers. These strata contain idiosyncratic meaning that comes from our common conditions, such as living on the same earth with universal challenges of safety, survival, shelter, nurture, and esteem needs. Generally, we access these strata through a felt sense and tacitly agree to its meaning. In addition, the subgroup forms its own set of symbols regarding the conduct of life and responds to this set of meanings as a tacit agreement among the members or adherents. The strata become normalized as the measure of reality for the adherents. Our perception becomes embedded in the "story" of our own culture. We will instinctively defend these core beliefs and respond to any deviation with resistance, even adversity. From this perspective, our survival depends on the dominance of our core beliefs.
This "embeddedness" of our perception into the story is hypnotic in nature. Our mind is synchronized to the story. The lens of perception is synchronously aligned with the cultural integrity of the story. This is neutral. Positive character can be inspired by this link. It is also the glue of cults, professional groups, religious denominations, street gangs, which all express various degrees of this phenomenon. Charismatic leaders, demagogues, and conartists have a way of weaving us into their story in a way that leads us to believe it is our own. Operating from a noetic level, however, enables us to transcend dogma and stratification to harmonize with each other and the cosmos in a fantastic state of resonance in which the creative role and limitation of beliefs are revealed.
The strata are not the center. Our center is inherently secure and needs no defense. The center is soul. The soul manifests as universal and transpersonal needs. In our center, once accessed consciously, we experience a heartfelt union with everything and everyone. We may continue to act assertively when appropriate, but we do so from a deep source of compassion and mutual respect. Speaking from one’s center has a powerful reductive effect on communicants who are speaking from any degree of manipulation for any reason, whether simply for safety, securing a sense of identity, or wanting to hurt or dominate. When we speak from our center, our words resonate with the noesis experience of the noetic correlation. As the conversation progresses, each participant experiences an invitation to move to his or her center and speak from there. In a sense, the ego dies, goes to heaven, and then asserts a new paradigm. As successive transformations occur, the new paradigm becomes increasingly soul-centered.
We are transitional beings, always beginning each moment anew. As soul-centered individuals, we express as thought, behavior, and speech modified by our idiosyncrasies and distortions. To some degree, when we act, we always corrupt what we know as soul. Regardless of how enlightened we are, the constraints of the psychological, social, and physical world modify our expression. We must be impeccable, vigilant, and in perpetual transformation in order to sustain our soul-centered lives. That is, of course, if peace, grace, health, well-being, and prosperity are important to us. When we form alliances as souls, we create a collaborative witness that purifies our shared expression.
Reductive Listening
We can choose how we apply language to our goals. In addition to speaking from our center, we can learn to listen to ourselves and reflect, to see if our speech is taking us where we want to go. Listening, reflexively activates a correlational experience between our center and normalizing beliefs. I call this reductive listening.
Through reductive listening, we can test if the effect of our words matches our intent. For example, we can tell if we are pursuing a process of understanding or defending a position. As noted, our language and its symbolic complexes become sedimented, which severely limits our perception and therefore our sense of safety, etc. Our perception is constrained to our collaborative meaning structure as an idiosyncratic lens. Language correlates with our intention; so, when we use language reflexively, we can experientially evaluate our intent and deconstruct any tendency to dominate or use language as an adversarial weapon. Language can be a scientific gift of the soul and can transform our differences, heal our wounds, and generate peace.
Information Age
We live in an information age, which accelerates the capacity of our language as a vehicle of interaction, cohesion, and understanding. Change happens fast. At times, overwhelmingly fast. The sensation of technology may become the next great soul-substitute to grab our languaging, second only to power. I speak here of dominating power in contrast to loving power. Technology of itself is neutral. We could invite ourselves to first plug into technology and fashion our center after the image of the World Wide Web. We could, as well, invite ourselves to make the primary connection of our nervous system through our souls into our divine origin and use technology as a linguistic extension of our divinity. As we make this linguistic transition, we develop sustainable speech, which reflects into environmental transformation. The refined world of information also carries the capacity to become such a sensitive mirror that we can see the contours of the spiritual worlds reflected back to us.
SELF AS ENERGY
In our discussion of Rogerian therapy, experiential focus therapy, and TFT, I invited you to explore the reductive prototype embedded in these approaches and to further explore the nature of NFT. This section takes a further look at the intentional nature of psychic energy, the dynamics of balancing blockages, and the healthy expression and actualization of that energy. First, we explore the somatic and psychodynamic behavior of psychic and spiritual energy. Then, we explore the application of therapy through the energy field surrounding the body and explore psychological structure as an energy field.
Somatic Energy Balancing
The relationship between symbolic (meaning) structures and the movement or balance of energy in the psyche has a long history. Sigmund Freud (1935) postulated that the healthy "cathexis" (build-up) of "libido" (psychic energy) is "directionally fulfilling" (intentional). When blocked through anticathexis, psychological problems result. "Psychoanalysis" deconstructs the complexes and returns the client to health. Wilhelm Reich (1972) also recognized that psychological imbalance occurs when the flow of "orgone" (psychic energy) becomes blocked. The "armouring" (blocked energy) accumulates in the related area of the body. Treatment focuses on deconstructing the body armoring.
Like the chi in TFT and the felt sense in experiential focus therapy, libido and orgone are somatic energies. The flow of chi is channeled by the meridians of the body. Libido arises from the instinctual, physical drives that become mental and emotional complexes when sublimated. Whereas TFT accesses the complex through attunement and directly treats the energy structure, Freud accessed the thought field through more passive techniques such as "free association." Reich, as well, focused on the body armoring, though he realized that orgone, in some cases, could stream outside the body and could be balanced by replenishing it from a surrounding cosmic field. There is some correlation between the armoring zones of Reichian therapy and the chakras of yoga psychology.
The Call
Carl Jung (1960) also viewed psychic energy as "actualizing" (directional) symbolic and archetypal structures that determine the circulation, flow, or containment of this energy. We organize our beliefs in symbolic complexes. As these complexes are deconstructed in the therapeutic process, the gravitational flow of the psychic energy carries us into our center, our soul-space.
A similar dynamic is expressed in the psychology of Abraham Maslow (1971). The intentional flow of these energies is the result of an inherent hierarchy of needs, similar in function and structure with the chakras. As the issue relating to these needs resolves, our energies are free to transcend to a higher level of functioning.
Roberto Assagioli (1974) understood the therapeutic significance of the gravitational call of the "high self" or soul. We adapt to the level of functioning that meets our needs and that appears to provide effective solutions. External forces can disrupt this adaptation. The call of the high self can also disrupt our equilibrium. This call deconstructs the limiting symbolic forms.
Many of Jung’s and Assagioli’s therapeutic protocols call for the synthesis of opposites. The synthesis of the oppositional forces awakens us in deeper or higher levels, progressively shifting our identity from our ego into our soul.
Transsomatic Frontiers
The theories and practices of Freud, Jung, Reich, Maslow, Assagioli, Callahan, Gendlin, and Husserl describe transformation as the deconstruction of symbolic structures or complexes as a means to free the intentional aims of psychic energy. As a result, a more energized, expansive, integrated, insightful, centered, and transcendental state occurs. Our custom is to regard these energies as only somatically contained or abstract, as stored symbolically in some form of biologically constructed engram. Rarely do we regard it as an actual field of energy that has tangible, transsomatic form. If we do, the recognition has no practical therapeutic application beyond use as a metaphor for the correlation of symbolic activity and the effective integration of life force.
The concept of energy and higher sense perception (HSP) found in the discussion of chakras and auras (Pierrakos), from yogic (Rama) and Taoist (Ching) models, have much to contribute to our therapeutic understanding and practice. NFT uses symbolic and actual contact with the energy field to effectuate the therapeutic process. These energies are, in fact and practice, actual and discernable through the expanded development of our five senses. By extending and opening our perceptive range and sensitivities, we can: 1) determine and deconstruct the beliefs and attitudes that countermand the sensibility of our faculties, 2) do practices and activities that attune to and energize the relevant faculties, 3) assume the reality of the faculty and practice refining our discernment, 4) test each new level of belief, skill, and understanding through a reductive protocol.
Aura Balancing
When I was 29, I began as an apprentice with master teachers to learn the art of aura balancing (Power, Waterman). I decided to do this after experiencing powerful effects from this therapy. The experience of movement in my own energy field—as the blocks were balanced and transformation occurred—changed my life.
In the practice of aura balancing, therapy proceeds focusing on energy first and image second. We reference our therapeutic attunement first on the energy field, followed by attention to the body and psychological structures. Other therapies we have explored begin with the issue, explore its structure, and abstractly infer the blockage in the intentional flow of energy, synthesis, or integration with the soul-self or actualization of the self.
We begin with the blockage of energy in the field itself, as it exists around the physical body. Once the block is discerned and attuned to, we explore the related belief structure or complex. Blocks generally are beliefs that impede or distort our actualization or they are choices that diminish our sense of self or separate us from our inherent goodness. You assist clients to change, reframe, or forgive themselves for the blocking beliefs or judgments. Concurrently, your therapeutic focus forms a conduit for the flow of spiritual energy (such as chi, darhma, or the Holy Spirit). This flow of energy helps release the blocks, and balances the auric field. When the distortions are gone, the field is once again fluid and smooth. The field is energized, and the aura resumes its natural function of nourishing the body, protecting the psyche, integrating the body, mind, and soul, and maintaining a resonance with the noetic field.
Essential Understanding
The reality of self as energy and consciousness as a field of energy is essential to the understanding and effectiveness of NFT. This energy, though nonphysical, has a variation of solidity on its own level. This is becoming more evident as our technical instruments become more sensitive and as the theoretical projections of physics progress. Just as the atom is theoretically inferred based on its effects, we can infer the soul based on its mental, emotional, and physical effects. Though we have not yet been able to see into the world of the atom, with spiritual sight, we can see into the world of the soul. We are also able to sense and interpret changes in this energy field through the interface of dense and subtle forms of our nervous system and to perceive nonphysical realms.
NFT MODEL
All NFT protocols begin with a prayer (silent or spoken) and an alignment with higher consciousness. The client enters the noetic field with the practitioner. This constitutes a shift into an altered state of consciousness that enhances the client’s ability to access appropriate information, clarity, and forgiveness. As the noetic field becomes more energized, the interface and the nexus points expand to include all senses, one or more inner senses, and HSP. In some ways, the entire consciousness and somatic sensitivity become avenues of perception.
Nexus Points
There are two nexus points. One is the nexus to the noetic field. The other is within the therapeutic relationship. The nexus point that connects to higher consciousness is in the top of the head, while the nexus that engages the energy field of the client is in the forehead and often tracks with physical vision and HSP. The forehead nexus is attention, and the top of the head nexus is intention. You maintain a simultaneous attentiveness with these nexus points while interacting with the therapeutic process as it presents itself. For further discussion, see the Alignment protocol.
The development of the nexus points is important to your ability to use this therapy effectively. If this is an unfamiliar or uncomfortable viewpoint, you need not assume your nexus points are not active. A variety of religious, spiritual, counseling, and ethical practices promote the development of these points. Developing the observer, unconditional positive regard, rapport, intuition, phenomenological reduction, and transforming one’s counter-transference support the development of these centers. Years of impeccable experience based on spiritual values will enhance your development. NFT calls for you to initiate conscious, concerted attention to awakening, aligning, and centering in your soul-space, practicing NFT protocols, and doing regular spiritual practices.
Dynamics
In NTF, while the client deconstructs the sedimented belief (block/noema), you deconstruct any countertransference (noema). The epiphany occurs when the client accesses the noetic field through the focus of the client’s issue (block). Your alignment and impeccability enhance the transformative experience.
The noetic field is accessed by the relationship of the practitioner, client, and higher consciousness. The presence of the noetic field is the basis for the learning or therapeutic experience. The field is initiated by your focus and increases in subtlety and power as the focus of the therapeutic process proceeds. Once the access to the noetic field is experientially created between you and the client, a realization emerges that the noetic field already existed as an infinite resource. Since this is an experiential discovery, you may have to accept it on faith. It will work, and at some point the experiential validation will emerge.
ANCILLARY SKILLS
Engaging the energy field, communicating, and evaluating are primary skills through which you contain, coordinate, and administer the application of NFT. The ancillary skills of Energy-Dynamic Relationship (EDR), Enhanced Communications Access (ECA), and Experiential Assessment Evaluation (EAE) are applied concurrently in NFT sessions and function interactively.
Energy-Dynamic Relationship
EDR engages and follows the transformational process as an awareness of self as energy and one’s psychospiritual structure as an energy field. The process begins by establishing a rapport between you and the client through prayer and engaging higher consciousness. Once this occurs, bring focus to the psychospiritual field that reflects the distortions, trauma, imbalances, or diminishing judgments revealed by the client. Depending on your skill and awareness, engage the energy field by "touch" or "attentiveness" at the point of disturbance, which creates a flow of therapeutic energy precisely at that location. The EDR stages are:
Stage One: Attend to and deeply listen to the client. Deep listening is a focus on hearing the depth of the person, listening to the client’s being beyond the words. Also, deconstruct your self-importance and preconceptions. The noetic field works as a silent partner and contains the therapeutic relationship.
Stage Two: Bring your attention or focus to verbal or energetic areas of imbalance. The client may be holding a focus or attending to a flow of energy or feeling. You may be aware of distortions in or blockages to the flow of energy or feeling, which can be discerned visually or sensed through an application of focus. At this stage, there is no judgment or processing. Focus calls attention to itself within the noetic field, attracting needed resources and information.
Stage Three: Each stage builds on the last. With the client seated or lying down, you physically, visually, or through focused awareness touch the areas of distortion in the energy field. Generally, there are three ways of doing this: First, while the client is seated, hold one hand above the client’s head, while the other scans the field around the body, pausing in areas of activity until the energy becomes smooth. Second, at a subtler level, your attention to the flow of energy or inner symbology replaces the use of touch through your hands. Third, the client is lying down while you hold one hand above the client’s head or solar plexus and use the other hand to scan or balance.
Stage Four: This stage is similar to the third stage, with the addition of more radical techniques and skillful means of engaging and transforming the psychospiritual structure and individual energy field. The aura balancing technique discussed earlier is a Stage Four approach. Refer to Through the Eyes of Soul (Waterman) for more information.
Enhanced Communications Access
ECA enables you and the client to access increasingly deeper therapeutic levels. As the rapport becomes refined and enhanced, the therapeutic relationship becomes more technically satisfying and precise. In contrast, antipathy, deceit, and agendas block practically all information. These expressions forfeit higher consciousness. As rapport quickens, the communication between you and the client becomes more synchronistic and the client’s memory and states of consciousness are likewise enhanced.
Intrinsic to the intention of the prayer is the asking and giving permission to higher consciousness to participate. Your energy field and the client’s engage through dialogue. This rapport and focus engage the noetic reality of the helping relationship. As the session progresses, intelligence and love are enhanced as a therapeutic presence. HSP plays an increasingly greater role as greater aspects of the noetic field emerge. The rapport and conscious dialogue are references for the dialogue of the higher selves. Communication within becomes communication between.
There appear to be three levels of communication access beginning with rapport and progressing to the level of providing substantive guidance. The client’s stated experiential assessment guides and enhances the communication access and the therapeutic process in all three levels.
First Level: Key words are focus, rapport, and surrender. Your presence invites a greater presence in the client, creating a flow from higher consciousness through the therapeutic relationship. At this level, balancing or therapeutic enhancement is silent. Conversation is used only to support greater rapport, attunement, and flow.
Second Level: The focus is to invite sharing from the client that brings awareness to trauma, judgment, emotion, etc. without interpretation and free from initiating transformational techniques or advice. At this level, presence and awareness engender transformation.
Third Level: Implement specific techniques or protocols intended to access traumatic experiences, describe the actors and the situational dynamics, and discover limiting beliefs, self-diminishment, or blocks. In general, the client is accessing or describing any choice that displaced his or her sense or connection to center or soul-space. When the client’s awareness or realization does not initiate the transformation, some form of self-forgiveness does.
Experiential Assessment Evaluation
EAE assists you and the client to track the flow of consciousness and helps you assess and track the client within the intersubjectivity of the therapeutic relationship. In its simplest form, ask the client what he or she is experiencing in that given moment. Articulating the present experience enhances both the client’s and your attunements. It is like a psychic locator in the transformational process. This is much like the felt sense and shift of experiential focus therapy and the SUD of TFT.
The client’s articulation helps:
Track the flow of consciousness. [Consciousness is a dynamic structure with reference points that, though contained in a given structure, migrate within that structure. Once the client accesses the field, a focus needs to be maintained.]
Provide you with an evaluation of where the client is within the transformational process, thus helping you orient in relationship to the client.
Form a dynamic connection enabling you and the client to journey together, walk in step, and synchronize the energy fields.
Deepen the communication between the client and you and enhance the level of therapy that can be accomplished.
Refine and focus your assessment, perception, and intuition.
NFT PROTOCOLS
I use protocol to mean an archetypal sequence through which we change, transform, engage, align, attune, and construct or deconstruct states of consciousness. Protocols originate in the archetypal nature of how we respond to life, formulate beliefs, construct our awareness of self, form perception, reflect, and adjust our belief system.
Keep in mind that therapy is accomplished by participating in a flow of higher consciousness. The conditions become sufficient for the noetic field to intercede and enable the client to appropriately realign and identify with soul. By using the Universal protocol, which follows, other techniques and procedures can be incorporated into the framework of NFT from any compatible therapeutic configuration.
Alignment Protocol
The protocol for aligning to the noetic field and activating your attunement is simple. It requires that you focus your attention, visualizing each element as it is added, to the best of your ability, and relaxing and releasing everything else. The noetic field matches you according to your understanding, imagery, and intention. If you have difficulty sensing, seeing, or experiencing your relationship to the nexus and noetic field, faith and intention work. If the following protocol seems to be too much, instead: 1) be silent with your client for a moment, 2) honor the client’s humanity, and 3) align yourself with unconditional positive regard.
The numbers in this protocol correspond to the same numbers in the following illustration.
In an attitude of reverence and surrender, begin with a prayer. Ask the higher power to be present and to surround you and the client, and surrender to that higher power. [The sequence is universal. Into this simple protocol, you insert the holy words that activate your attunement. A silent prayer is fine.]
Place your attention at the center of your brow, through your brow into the center of your head, and imagine a point of light. [You may see or experience a quality of energy, color, or symbol.]
Direct your attention from the center of your head through the top of your head. [At some point, the noetic field will engage this focus, signified by the appearance of a symbol, felt sense, or experience that is consistent with your spiritual orientation or archetypal nature. I often see the Sanskrit word "Hu" or a dove with outstretched wings and head pointing toward the top of my head. To me, both signify the Holy Spirit.]
Bring your attention down through the top and center of your head into your heart. [Regard your heart as if it were a chalice filling with energy from the noetic field and overflowing into your relationship with the client. You may see something other than a chalice, but generally it will be a receptacle or receiving in nature.]
Direct your attention to your client while maintaining an awareness of your alignment. [Your aligned attention to the client through the noetic field activates a soul circle, which is a circular energy that links the soul of the client and the practitioner and contains the therapeutic process. It is a deep level of rapport.]
Reductive Focus
The Reductive Focus protocol unlocks sedimented beliefs or blocks. The sequence creates the necessary conditions for transformation and facilitates alignment with the soul. As you practice the protocol and develop the skill of reduction, your mind develops into a perceptual organ of the soul. (Husserl did not use this exact description for his experience. He did, however, know he was changed by the practice of his philosophy of science.)
Begin with the Alignment protocol.
Focus on the selected phenomenon (noema), excluding all else.
Deconstruct the sedimentation of beliefs, loosening your perceptual fixity.
Experientially discern the meaning (noesis).
Universal
The Universal protocol provides a framework for applying techniques and procedures from compatible models, which incorporate some form of reduction.
Begin with the Alignment protocol.
Utilize EDR, ECA, and EAE.
Focus on cure as soul-centering indexed to the issue or symptom.
Apply the technique, procedure, or protocol.
Foundation
The Foundation protocol assists the client to move from a self-image, belief, or center defined by external circumstances to a soul-centered knowing based on the experience of one’s inherent goodness. The issue does not disappear. It remains worthy of consideration, but it no longer defines or dominates one’s center.
Begin with the Universal protocol.
Ask what the client is experiencing (felt sense).
Ask the client to take a breath, clear the air (energy field), and sharpen the focus on the reported experience.
Make a focusing statement. [For example, "Tell me a time when you tried to share your loving and couldn’t." You may also perceive an image or have a sense, hunch, or insight from which you can form a focus statement. The client’s insights may also serve to make focusing comments. The client may report information concerning an issue or a concern.]
Bring attention to or touch the point in the energy field around the client that expresses the distortion or block, or have the client touch the physical location. If nothing is apparent, just be present.
Assist the client to access and describe the traumatic moment—who did what to whom and how the client diminished, judged, demeaned, or shamed him-/herself (noema).
Assist the client in self-forgiveness or to reframe the judgment. [Audibly stating the forgiveness is important. A statement affirming one’s self and the particular denied or suppressed virtue in relationship to the event is often a powerful support to the forgiveness process (reduction).]
Ask the client to take a deep breath to facilitate the release and the receptiveness to a response from higher consciousness.
Ask the client to give permission for higher consciousness or the Holy Spirit to touch into that injury or place of need and to give permission for that place to respond to that spiritual help.
Hold the space, and encourage the client to let go and follow the flow of the epiphany (noesis).
Insightful Focus
Not withstanding that the road to mastery can be long and challenging, accessing the noetic field can be simple. In fact, it needs to be simple so that you can readily explore NFT. The Insightful Focus protocol is a simple way to access information from the noetic field. It was developed from transcendental phenomenology, follows the same steps as the Reductive Focus protocol, and is used to align or bring insight to you and the client.
Focus on the image or statement that you want an answer for or understanding of (noema).
Inhale steadily and deeply while holding the noetic focus.
When the in-breath is maximum, hold it and focus intently on the noema.
Rapidly release the breath, and relax as totally as possible letting go of the focus and releasing yourself into the noetic field (reduction).
Relax further while you allow understanding or insight to emerge (noesis).
Articulate (speak or journal) whatever occurs to you.
Re-Placing
In his book, Look to the Mountain, Greg Cajete, a foremost Native American scholar from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, discusses the importance of place in indigenous learning. We speak of making a place for ourselves or finding our place. In the Native American experience, place is fundamental to a healthy spiritual and psychological orientation.
Through my client work, I observed that, depending on how they were raised, they were required to give up who they were in order to get shelter, safety, nurture, esteem, or survival. They literally and symbolically had to give part of themselves to someone who controlled what they needed. They had to relinquish their sense of place to be acculturated. Instead of the client having a sense of themselves in their own center or soul-space, the controlling person was in that space dictating how or what they should be. They had to "sell out" to bond themselves, so to speak. It was apparent to me that my clients had given away their space to the point of having lost their sense of owning their life or being their own person. They had no grounding. Symptomatically, they expressed this as a feeling of not belonging here, as if they were dropped from a space ship, illegitimate, or orphaned.
When one’s sense of place is not sufficient, higher levels of integration appear to be limited. There is no place, in one’s center or space, to anchor higher consciousness. Therapeutic changes don’t seem to hold or work at all when the client’s sense of place is insufficient. Without the compass provided by place, actualization is difficult and transformation is curtailed. The Re-Placing protocol strengthens the client’s sense of place by retrieving, realigning, and reintegrating the "given-away self" with a place or center in present time.
Find the initiating events when you gave a part of yourself away in exchange for safety, survival, power, nurture, esteem, or shelter.
Forgive yourself in relationship to abandoning or betraying yourself, and affirm yourself as your center.
See the self that was given away actually with the symbolic control person you gave yourself to.
Begin a slow breath, and visualize the self you gave away with the control person.
As you continue the slow in-breath, see the given-away self traveling from the control person to you and entering through the top of your head into your physical body.
As you complete the breath, visualize the given-away self and the physical self-of-now in the same simultaneous place.
Hold your breath and continue visualizing both physical forms as one.
Rapidly exhale, completely let go, and totally relax.
Making Even
I became aware of another perplexing issue similar to place. My usual approach either didn’t work or had minor effect. There was no evident shift in the client’s felt sense or experience of self. I suspected that the blocks I had been addressing were an effect of a deeper concern or that a priority agenda held those forms in place.
I discovered that many times the priority agenda was some form of revenge. As long as the client wanted revenge, nothing would release, transform, or cure. The target of the revenge can be someone else or one’s self. The revenge holds a client in dualistic consciousness and, as such, prevents noetic field access and aligning in their soul-space. Higher conscious, being noninflictive and nonadversarial, had to stand by and could not act as long as the client wants revenge.
We have a natural instinct to make ourselves whole. Revenge is an adversarial approach, which perpetuates wounding. When we center in our wound, wholeness becomes out of our reach. In contrast to "getting even," the Making Even protocol helps us make whole.
Trace the early trauma.
Experience and own your victimization.
Accept the anger and rage resulting from the violation.
Determine whether your vengeful acts were directed at self or another.
Decide if you want to surrender the desire or need for revenge, knowing that by doing so you are not condoning the perpetrating behavior but changing your relationship to it.
Forgive yourself for making revenge more important than your own soul.
Allow the energy flow to complete itself while giving permission to your hurt place to receive spiritual intervention and give permission to the higher consciousness (Holy Spirit, Great Spirit, noetic field, universal compassion) to assist you deeply in your transformation.
Have compassion for the victimizer.
Articulate any change in your subjective experience. [If appropriate, return to the original technique or procedures that appeared ineffective and that initially suggested revenge was the priority agenda and try it again.]
Time Angel
The past continually cycles into the present. As we engage present challenges, we have the opportunity to also heal our past. We can translate current events into metaphor and look for causation in the past. When the past trauma awakens in our emotions and in our somatic memory, awareness brings transformation. As we deepen our awareness of self as energy, we become aware of a greater power for change within our noetic field.
Our vision of our past is very much alive within us. We can move noetically to any time or place where we once needed help. We still need the help. The goal is not to change the event. It is to change the quality of the event and our relationship to it. In a sense, as we interpret events and form our beliefs about ourselves in those events, we create holographic beings that are replicas of ourselves at those times. This phenomenon is similar to Callahan’s "holons." When these holographic selves are created with insufficient loving, a vital aspect of our life force is caught in the past. I call these selves orphans.
To make it easier to read, the Time Angel protocol is presented as if to a female client. In this protocol, the client is guided through a journey to her past. The goal of the journey is to find her orphans who need someone like herself to be present, supportive, engaged, and loving. You can also use this protocol on yourself.
Relax and close your eyes while we ask for the presence of the Holy Spirit or the light for the highest good. [Essentially, this is a prayer for guidance, protection, healing, and engaging the noetic field at a level that knows the highest good of the client and the practitioner.]
Imagine that you are traveling into your past. In this journey, you are looking for past selves who needed you as you are now. The goal is to be your self-of-now joining your self-of-then, in her own time. At some point, you will sense or see your self-of-then who needs you. Go slowly; there is no hurry. Observe.
As your self-of-then becomes clearer, describe what she is wearing on her feet. How is she dressed? How is her hair fixed? How old, what fragrances, time of day, inside, outside, time of year, weather? Engage all of your senses.
When your self-of-then becomes clear and more delineated and seems to take on a substance, a reality, see your self-of-now and your self-of-then together in that place and time. Be cautious. Give your self-of-then time to respond. She may be timid or somewhat frightened. If she doesn’t recognize you, introduce yourself. Explain that you are her self-of-the-future and that you are there to help.
Slowly wait for her to approach you or begin to relax with your presence. See if you can reach out and touch her. If touch is allowed, explore holding her in your arms and fill her with your loving. This may take awhile.
When you sense that the loving is working, invite your self-of-then, if it seems appropriate, to forgive herself for any way that she believes she is unlovable, powerless, or inadequate because of the current circumstances or anything that may have happened. Have her forgive herself for any self-shame or -blame. After the forgiveness, have her let it all go and fill those spaces with more loving.
When the time seems right, tell your self-of-then that you must return to your time. Tell her that she can call you whenever she needs you. Or, she can return to the present with you, knowing that the two of you will merge.
Return to the present, and take a deep breath and see yourself as a light body containing your physical body. Be aware of what you are experiencing, and slowly open your eyes.
I call this protocol Time Angel because of an experience with a client. When she was a small child, she was locked away in a room. The room was warm enough. She had a bed. Food was left for her, and she had a pot that she could use as a toilet. As I was guiding her in this process, we were just at the point when I said, "Now have the self-of-now enter the room with the self-of-then." She suddenly exclaimed, "Oh! I’m the one!" She said she survived those times because an angel had come to her. The angel held her and filled her with loving. When I had her enter the room, she said she realized that the angel who had come to her was herself.
All the faculties are present in adult life to travel the time line as it is imaged into the holographic meaning-structures within the individual. Awakening to the transcendental dimension is like being "born again" into our wholeness. Time travel allows us to heal and transform our past, which creates a present that is as if we had lived the healed past. In a manner of speaking, we become our own parents. We move as the soul-of-itself and enter into whatever the time-bound self needs. As we awaken into the depth and wholeness of who we are, the events and beliefs appear in perspective. We see our life as a continual enhancement of the soul.
Structural Symbolic Focusing
Each consciousness center or chakra differentiates in its psychospiritual function into specialized areas. Each center serves the soul’s activity in specialized ways. Because of that, each center will characteristically contain blocking beliefs related to those functions. For example, when we try to share our loving and cannot, the beliefs we form in response to that trauma form as blocks in the energy field near the heart center.
Review the EDR, ECA, and EAE discussion for application in this protocol. Begin with the Alignment protocol. Each of the following focus statements provides a point of engagement for an ECA level three approach. The focus statement draws a response from the client. This is an associative or resonant response, so whatever occurs to the client provides the next step. The focus statement and resonant response engages the intelligence and compassion of the noetic field. The focus statements are arranged in a particular sequence to optimize the therapeutic development of the energy field. For that reason, I recommend that you guide your progression according to the sequence given.
Insert each of the following focus statements into step four of the Foundation protocol. As content emerges, make any minor modifications that enable the process. Complete the entire Foundation protocol for each block that emerges.
Solar plexus: Tell me about a time when you were alone, afraid, abandoned, or hurt or experienced guilt or shame.
Feet and knees: Tell me about a time when you were confused or didn’t understand, felt unsupported, or had no sense of place.
Spleen and root: Tell me about a time when you judged your sexuality or creativity, had resentment, or needed revenge.
Heart: Tell me about a time when you felt regret, disappointed, or betrayed, or tried to share your loving and couldn’t.
Throat, face, and brow: Tell me about a time when you had difficulty speaking, seeing, hearing, or facing.
When you are sensitive to the energy field, you will be aware of or sense the realignment of the client into soul-space and the enhanced flow of energy. Asking clients what they are experiencing provides a reference and anchors the transformation. Depending on the level of therapy, this protocol may not require specific attention to each center. Rapport in the noetic field while asking the focus statements may be sufficient.
Golden Triangle
The idea for Golden Triangle protocol comes from psychosynthesis. It is ideal for synthesizing opposites especially when the client is caught in the paradox of seemingly antithetical or adversarial polarities in which s/he cannot transcend or deepen into soul-space. The process of integrating opposites centers the client. The flow of energy follows the imagery. In this case, for example, a client may be caught in a conflict between shame from being victimized and the desire for revenge. The conflict drives a separation from center.
Visualize a golden triangle in front of you with its base toward your feet.
Visualize a symbol for each element of the duality. The symbol is best when it is simple and relevant in meaning for you.
Place one symbol on each of the lower corners of the triangle and intend and allow them to migrate up the sides of the triangle. The symbols, triangle, and the noetic field will interact causing the symbols to transform as they progress. This process works best when guided and allowed, rather than forced or second-guessed.
The symbols will continue to change as they approach the apex. As they interact at the top, allow them to shift in whatever way they do. They will synthesize into a new image, which may or may not contain elements of the original energies. Allow yourself to flow or move with the felt sense that emerges through this synthesis and go with it wherever it takes you. Often, it is an epiphany.
Report or journal the resulting experience.
Symbolic Resonance
Symbolic Resonance is a term I borrowed from Roger Wolger and his approach to regression therapy (past life). Simply stated, symbols resonate like piano strings. A note struck in one octave will resonate with the same note in another octave. The resonant consciousness opens memory fields from the past. The past experience appears as a structure in the field forming as an intentionality, which we must fulfill or complete in a present experience. The symptom is a resonant call to the past for awareness, fulfillment, and transformation.
For example, I was listening to a client’s story. We had approached her situation from several perspectives, and nothing seemed to help. I suspected something deeper. As I listened, I heard the phrase, "No matter what I do, it will never be enough." I asked her to close her eyes and repeat the phrase, letting go of anything else that tried to catch her attention. She said she experienced an inner vision, which appeared to be a past-life metaphor. She saw herself as a small child. Her mother had died and her father did what he could but didn’t have much time for her. She felt alone, abandoned, and unwanted—insufficient for meeting life’s challenges. I asked her to go to her time of death. She found herself hovering over her corpse that had a sword piercing her neck into her shoulder. She had also complained of neck and shoulder pain. Her dying thought was, "Whatever I do, I will never be enough."
She had an element of revenge as well. In this case, she directed it toward herself. I always treat "past lives" as accurate and appropriate metaphor and avoid whether or not it was an actual past life or whether or not we have past lives. As my teacher used to say, "We have to spend our eternity somewhere."
In summary, the protocol is:
Talk about what is concerning you. [Listen for the resonate phrase. It will catch your attention.]
Focus on the phrase [resonate phrase]. Repeat it over and over until it elicits a felt shift or image. Articulate the felt sense and image. [Use ECA to guide the client.]
Elaborate until an epiphany occurs.
Elaborate in terms of understanding and current circumstances.
Conduct self-forgiveness, if appropriate.
TO THIS PURPOSE
When thinking disconnects from soul, it becomes ecologically blind. The Achilles’ heal of science and religion is the habit to base our sense of worth, rightness, courage, and fulfillment on external agencies. This is neither a "me first" approach, nor the pseudosacrifice of putting the appearance of service or righteousness before the genuine nobility of our inherent divine nature. There is a vast difference between the egocentric distortion of self-righteousness and the soul-centered approach of making the divinity within us our first priority.
The mirror of the world reflects our inner awakening. Fulfillment occurs as an intended bonding between our experience and the essence within us. This ever-increasing soul substance strengthens our mastery of the spirituahe soul is our objective as human beings. All else ultimately supports that cause. To this purpose, NFT is my contribution.
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