Given that we were speaking at an event in San Marcos California in late January, which is a stone’s throw from San Diego, we decided to attend the TCCHE Conference. They’re having another TCCHE event this May in Florida. Their events focus on programs and talks that explore the mysteries of Human Consciousness.
This year’s speakers include some of the known names in the fields of science and spirituality, such as Gregg Braden and Bruce Lipton and others who are great storytellers such as Marianne Williamson and Michael Beckwith. Here are a few highlights from their San Diego event.
TCCHE Speakers
GREGG BRADEN
A dynamic speaker at TCCHE, Gregg started his talk with his goal for the afternoon, which was to accept your invitation to wake up. He says, “I am here to help you have the confidence to step into a new world. But before it can show up out there, it has to show up inside.” He added, “The better you know yourself, the more you will be able to embrace your own power.”
Although he didn’t go deep into the political climate, he spoke of the shifts we are seeing not just in the United States but worldwide. He pointed to how nations want something different and everything is up for grabs as a result. In other words, we’re seeing climate extremes, economic extremes, political extremes and emotional extremes. “Today’s extremes are not random,” he says. Like many spiritual teachers with a science bent, he is referring to the big shifts we’re seeing in the world today.
Gregg also talked about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how he worries that humanity is being pushed to give our biology away to synthetics . . . to technology. He spoke about the importance and sacredness of our human-ness and that our compassion and empathy is a critical part of being human, not something to be scorned at or flawed. He says, “climate is being destroyed to keep us strung up, in fear and survival. If fear isn’t there, then those in power lose their leverage. The evil is psychological, which is playing out in the entertainment, our social media and technology.”
He also addressed how technology companies and advisors to the World Economic Forum are pushing technology as “fast and as far as they can” to integrate AI into human bodies. He asserts that this appears to be driving too many decisions, from our economic and banking system to our medicine and healthcare.
Gregg asserts that anything that denies us of our pure human creativity without the AI is denying us of our Divinity. Who do we become in the process? And do we really know what we will become? He encouraged everyone to triumph by living your Divinity without plugging into the fear that is being thrown our way as a society. He says, “Divinity is where your love begins.” He went on to give everyday examples of Divinity:
- When a musician or artist says, “I didn’t create it, it came through me.”
- When an architect says, “The plan took over me and was appeared.”
- When an engineer says, “Beautiful code happens when I get out of the way.”
- When a film director says, “The idea wasn’t mine, it flowed through me.”
- When an author says, “The words worked their way through me.”
“As long as we deny our divinity, we are imprisoned in the feeling that we are not worthy of love, happiness, healing and connection,” he added. In other words, our body is a conduit to something far greater and beyond our physicalness. Love is part of that. Gregg believes that synthetic life can’t access our divinity of what it means to be human. Is consciousness simply the way quarks and code are configured together or is it something more? What does it mean to be conscious? Of course, this moves into the age-old question we’ve been talking about inside and outside of the tech world for a while now: Can AI have consciousness? And if so, what kind of consciousness will it have? Can it replace human consciousness? Or augment it?
Our soft technology if you want to call it that, allows each cell to store and retrieve information. Gregg says, “Every cell emits light. We also have the history of humanity in our body (epigenetics). Blockchain mimics the way cells store information in our body.” (Source: Computer Biology: 2008). Gregg believes that we are scalable beyond limits as we are always self-replicating, self-regulating and self-correcting. Our emotions, feelings, beliefs, breath, movement and focus are all how we operate our soft technology.
He asked, “What is every cell in our body is a library? What if the genes are words and sentences? Then how do we decode the messages that live in our DNA?” Then Gregg went even deeper, pointing to how the four root writing systems describe our origin.
Through the mapping of numbers and letters in ancient alphabets such as Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic, he came up with YH GV, which translates to who we truly are: God Eternal within the Body. In other words, Gregg says, “those 50 trillion cells in the human body are God Eternal in the Human Body.” He suggests that now more than ever, we need to embrace the deep truth of what it means to be human and to embrace love over fear. “
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
As someone who ran for President twice, she remains alarmed at what is happening politically as well as to our human psyche as a result of some of the decisions that are being made at a societal, economic and political level. She says, “The main characteristics of human nature has moved from dysfunctional to malfunctional. We live in a society with a thought system that is filled with limited truths.” As a result, she asserts that we need to now unlearn those thought systems and reclaim what is behind that false narrative.
As an advocate of the Course in Miracles, she is known for bringing up the wisdom of the great spiritual masters, especially Jesus (Yeshua). She reminded us that his core teaching was about love and to love one another. “The real miracle,” she says, “is to love one another and to realize that we are living at a time when we can realize those miracles.”
She went on to give examples and draw parallels to what we are seeing in the world today. “Think of the universe as self-organizing and self-correcting. See your cells that way as well. Every cell has its own natural intelligence. Sometimes a cell loses its connection to its natural intelligence and goes off and does its own thing. It finds other disconnected cells which ultimately leads to dis-ease.”
Marianne added, “We have been infected by a malignant though form which has led to disease of our entire species. But remember that even when a cell goes astray or a thought form goes astray, they can self-correct.” She reminded us that “Darkness isn’t a ‘thing.’ Fear is the absence of love and has forgotten its purpose. Yet, love corrects the fear . . . the cells, the thought forms, the universe . . . and gets things back in alignment with harmony.”
She believes that the only real failure in life is when we don’t learn from our mistakes. “When someone else causes you pain, it’s not you,” she says. The true you, she reminds, is our Spirit. “Enlightenment is a shift in perception from the body physical perception to the Spirit perception. The computer file that you bring down from the cloud is your own choice, not someone else’s choice. Attunement is within you if you allow it to be and it will correct itself. We are that powerful.”
Marianne added a little humor into her talk as well: “If you resonate with Jesus, then call him in. If its Shekinah, Source, Buddha Mind, God, Holy Spirit, Gaia . . . I don’t care what you call it, just call it IN. Work with whatever works for you.” She thinks there is only one problem in the world today and that is lovelessness. She says that lovelessness thoughts lead to lovelessness actions and that is what we are seeing more and more of today.
“How do I get that clarity and get to those higher messages?” someone from the audience asked. “Be aware of when you’re stuck and get STILL,” she responded. “Give up your ego self and merge with your Higher Self or your Buddha Mind or your Jesus mind, whatever that is for you.”
She went onto get political without fully becoming political. “If you’re on the side of the Palestinians, you’re not helping. If you’re on the side of the Israeli’s, you’re not helping. We are one. This is where we need to be. It’s not about us individually. I always say, ‘Pray in the morning and kick ass in the afternoon.’” Everyone in the audience laughed. “Allow your light to merge with the light of another. Know your connection.” I love that visual and it works for me to think about another in that way.
An optimist despite the shifts that we’re seeing in the country, she believes that things will correct themselves. During a meditation or period of stillness, she says to ask, “Where would you have me go? What would you have me do? Who would you have me speak to.” In other words, go into the darkness and be open to do the healing that needs to be done. She shouted to the audience, “Don’t wait until you’re a perfect enlightened master before you decide to do the work. Go into the world and start. Speak. Commit. Become. The world needs you now.”
In other words, start where you are. If you’re a teacher, teach. If you’re an artist, create beauty. If you feel the pain, then show people how to heal their hearts. She added, “Scientists have discovered a highway between the brain and the heart. This is the intellectual center of the body and the bridge between the head and the heart is the key to healing. When we align to that attunement, then we step into the path of love. Is your heart open or closed? Be aware in every moment whether you are in a place of love or fear and choose love.”
Another participant asked, “What’s my mission or purpose?” I loved her answer and it was simply this: “Be the alternative in every moment. Choose light and love over chaos and fear in every moment. You won’t get a FedEx with the answer. Be in the present moment and be the light and love in every single moment. That is your purpose: To be light and love in that moment, each moment.” She added, “You have no idea how important this is. Miracles come naturally when we’re acting out of love in that moment. Language also matters. Don’t focus on the negative but cultivate the positive.”
She ended with the reminder that when we become still, we will know. “Ask from your heart and the answers will fall at your feet. We each have the innate wisdom and magnetic resonance within ourselves.” It is similar to the teachings we have been giving for years: We are the gurus we eek out there.
BRUCE LIPTON
I’ve heard Bruce speak several times over the years. He’s most known for his book Biology of Belief which married new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain’s functioning and our thoughts. In the book and many of his talks, he addresses how the molecular pathways through which this happens. Part of his work and teaching include epigenetics, which is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter as well as the effect it has on our personal lives and collective thinking.
When Bruce has plenty of time to walk us through the history of how these developments evolved, you get the whole story and at TCCHE, he had a full two hours. He talked about how matter affects matter and energy affects energy in significant ways and yet materialists won’t buy into the impact latest findings can have on our health and well-being. Bruce walked us through that evolution, of how science represented the physics of the universe and how the world of metaphysical and consciousness were tossed aside because they never felt it had any validity. He wove in philosophers as well, such as Rousseau who studied native Americans and saw how they lived in harmony with each other.
During the time when Europe was run by Kings, slaves and those who were impoverished found their way to the Americas in search for opportunities, answers and of course, a better life. When Deism emerged, people looked to nature to understand God and humanity’s existence.
Deists believe in a God but not one who intervenes with the world, rather one who created the universe according to the laws of physics. From that vantage point, you can imagine that they didn’t see the Bible as a source of truth. Yet Bruce reminds us that Darwin and the creation story, including the Survival of the Fittest, stemmed from elitism. He notes that Darwin was from the Victorian upper-class society. What ultimately morphed was random mutation and scientific materialism, which we still are struggling with today.
Bruce ended with something that no doubt resonated for nearly everyone in the room, “We are not here to control and dominate nature but to work in harmony with it.”
I didn’t hear all the speakers since part of the magic of conferences and expos are the hallway conversations as well as mingling with people in the common areas. And so I did. They also had a room dedicated to vendors. Other speakers worth mentioning include Michael Beckwith, who is very inspirational, and Anita Moorjani.
Michael Beckwith at TCCHE in San Diego
For more information, visit the TCCHE.org website. All photos taken by Renee Blodgett.
Renee Blodgett is the founder of We Blog the World. The site combines the magic of an online culture and travel magazine with a global blog network and has contributors from every continent in the world. Having lived in 10 countries and explored nearly 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural diversity.
She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media services consultancy focused on viral marketing, social media, branding, events and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped companies from 12 countries get traction in the market. Known for her global and organic approach to product and corporate launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an active user of social media, she helps clients navigate digital waters from around the world. Renee has been blogging for over 16 years and regularly writes on her personal blog Down the Avenue, Huffington Post, BlogHer, We Blog the World and other sites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Magazine and is listed as a new media influencer and game changer on various sites and books on the new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed as the 6th most influential woman in social media by Forbes Magazine on a Top 20 List.
Her passion for art, storytelling and photography led to the launch of Magic Sauce Photography, which is a visual extension of her writing, the result of which has led to producing six photo books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to other countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote innovative technologies.
