Comments on: Synchrotherapy and Hemi-Sync http://www.monroeinstitute.org/journal/synchrotherapy-and-hemi-sync/ A Research and Educational Publication of The Monroe Institute ® Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:42:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Giora Carmi http://www.monroeinstitute.org/journal/synchrotherapy-and-hemi-sync/comment-page-1/#comment-18546 Giora Carmi Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:18:34 +0000 http://www.monroeinstitute.org/hemi-sync_journal/?p=118#comment-18546 It is the first time that I find a collection of people who have found what I have. That it is impossible to heal without getting into a deeper state. That all body illness comes directly from conflictual activity in the subconscious mind that usually escapes the conscious mind. Maybe a better way to describe the illness creating state is that it is the refusal of the mind to accept intuitive flow. I would like to share here the way I have come to know these things and use them in my work. I am an artist. I came to New York City in 1985 to work as an illustrator and did a lot of work for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and for many children's books. I had spiritual experiences from a young age in Israel, throughout my life and they dislodged the inflexibilities about what this life and the world are. Shortly after coming to NYC I started a twelve years training with the late Chan Master Sheng-yen, in Elmhurst Queens. I became intensely involved in meditation and started to have more experiences. Some of them seem to be of the same kind that Meredith Sower reported on in her book Agartha, which resulted from her visit to the Monroe Institute. These experiences further weakened my attachments to common beliefs. I started to be clearer about how the mind works and lived my life with awareness of the subtle movements of the mind coming from knowing my dreams while awake. Toward the end of my connection with Chan Meditation Center, while on a meditation retreat, I came out from a session in which I was in a transcendent state. I did not see anything in this state, but I knew I was in a profound ease. As I stood up, these words came to me: Now, after seeing this, it does not make any sense to do anything in this world that is not the most beautiful that I can. A few years later I went back to school and studied art therapy at NYU. I was 58. I was critical of almost everything I read and wrote my thoughts on the margins of the articles and books. When I started working with people and writing papers I realized that I have created a new way of helping people through the use of art. The main thrust of what I have found is that it is impossible to develop in a natural and healthy way without the involvement of intuition. The same principle is true for healing. In order to heal from emotional suffering the patient has to become intuitive. The main instrument of my approach became a way that I have found to create an intuitive flow in the people I worked with. This happened by using their sense of beauty and relying solely on that ,while creating their art without any plan or direction. I found that this way of working instantanously creates a good feeling of living meaningfully, being open, creative and fluent. Significantly more so than what happens by just making art without this focus of attention. At the same time the art, created in this state, reflects very clearly what the people's dream state is at the time of making the art. It is in the abstract features of the art that one can find the dream state indications. All I have to do after a person has created his art in this manner, is to show them what I see in their composition. Once shown, they see it too. In the next intutive drawing their intuition will start working on their dream state to change it. The changes will come not from me or the patient, but from his intuition, I am a strong believer in allowing intuition do the work of healing, as I know that the changes will come from deep love and wisdom, and will be wise and loving. Why settle for anything less than that? People who worked with me started to heal right from the beginning of our work, and left me feeling much better quite fast. Many of them did so after many years of fruitless traditional psychotherapy. I was moved to write this as my happy response to finding you, the people who wrote these articles, and this institute. I have no doubt that what we do is the direction in which psychotherapy, healing or call it a positive change in the world is going, as it is so much better than the common practice today. With love, Giora Carmi It is the first time that I find a collection of people who have found what I have. That it is impossible to heal without getting into a deeper state. That all body illness comes directly from conflictual activity in the subconscious mind that usually escapes the conscious mind. Maybe a better way to describe the illness creating state is that it is the refusal of the mind to accept intuitive flow.
I would like to share here the way I have come to know these things and use them in my work.
I am an artist. I came to New York City in 1985 to work as an illustrator and did a lot of work for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and for many children’s books.
I had spiritual experiences from a young age in Israel, throughout my life and they dislodged the inflexibilities about what this life and the world are. Shortly after coming to NYC I started a twelve years training with the late Chan Master Sheng-yen, in Elmhurst Queens. I became intensely involved in meditation and started to have more experiences. Some of them seem to be of the same kind that Meredith Sower reported on in her book Agartha, which resulted from her visit to the Monroe Institute. These experiences further weakened my attachments to common beliefs. I started to be clearer about how the mind works and lived my life with awareness of the subtle movements of the mind coming from knowing my dreams while awake.
Toward the end of my connection with Chan Meditation Center, while on a meditation retreat, I came out from a session in which I was in a transcendent state. I did not see anything in this state, but I knew I was in a profound ease. As I stood up, these words came to me: Now, after seeing this, it does not make any sense to do anything in this world that is not the most beautiful that I can.
A few years later I went back to school and studied art therapy at NYU. I was 58. I was critical of almost everything I read and wrote my thoughts on the margins of the articles and books. When I started working with people and writing papers I realized that I have created a new way of helping people through the use of art.
The main thrust of what I have found is that it is impossible to develop in a natural and healthy way without the involvement of intuition. The same principle is true for healing. In order to heal from emotional suffering the patient has to become intuitive.
The main instrument of my approach became a way that I have found to create an intuitive flow in the people I worked with. This happened by using their sense of beauty and relying solely on that ,while creating their art without any plan or direction. I found that this way of working instantanously creates a good feeling of living meaningfully, being open, creative and fluent. Significantly more so than what happens by just making art without this focus of attention. At the same time the art, created in this state, reflects very clearly what the people’s dream state is at the time of making the art. It is in the abstract features of the art that one can find the dream state indications. All I have to do after a person has created his art in this manner, is to show them what I see in their composition. Once shown, they see it too. In the next intutive drawing their intuition will start working on their dream state to change it. The changes will come not from me or the patient, but from his intuition, I am a strong believer in allowing intuition do the work of healing, as I know that the changes will come from deep love and wisdom, and will be wise and loving. Why settle for anything less than that?
People who worked with me started to heal right from the beginning of our work, and left me feeling much better quite fast. Many of them did so after many years of fruitless traditional psychotherapy.

I was moved to write this as my happy response to finding you, the people who wrote these articles, and this institute. I have no doubt that what we do is the direction in which psychotherapy, healing or call it a positive change in the world is going, as it is so much better than the common practice today.

With love,
Giora Carmi

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