Talk : Concocting Recipes For Fresh Thinking

This is an edited recording of an Insight Timer Live where I share how I came about creating the Flavours of Thought and Recipes for Fresh Thinking courses on the app. There are three examples of recipes I created live too. If you are looking for change, wanting more focus, or dealing with grief, you may find some answers here.

Transcript

So,

Welcome one and all.

I hope you can hear me.

Just let me know.

I'm trying a new 4K camera out and I'm just trying its AI audio out to see if that works.

I'm recording this as well just in case anything goes a bit pear-shaped.

But do let me know if sound's coming over.

Hi,

Violet.

Hi,

Siri.

Hi,

Violet from New York.

Siri from Norway.

So first thing is,

I'm just doing my last live.

I'm going to have summer off.

I need a bit of a break,

July,

August.

So,

We're back in September where I hope to be launching,

Talking about some new courses I'm preparing.

But also,

For those of you who are inside time of teachers,

There are some changes on the app in the way that people get their revenue.

And I'm going to be changing the way I'm going to be presenting myself to the world as a result of that.

I don't fully know about them yet,

But I'm interviewing the CEO of Inside Time on Monday next week.

So,

That should give us a bit more clarity.

But it does mean that some of the things I'm talking about today might change in terms of some of the things I'm able to do.

Because there's some frustrations with the app in terms of me being able to share some of my more esoteric secrets.

So,

This is going to be a bit of a strange live because I'm going to presume that,

Especially for the recording,

That some of the implementations have changed,

Which make it a bit easier for me to share more of the deep secrets.

Right.

So,

It's great to see so many teachers here as well.

So,

What I'm going to share today is I'm going to go over some of my previous lives to make this a consistent live where everything is all in one place.

I'm going to do the recording and post that on the app.

And so,

We're talking about recipes for fresh thinking today.

So,

Let me explain where they came from.

Some time ago,

I was in a course.

It was a how to be psychic course over nine months,

One weekend a month over nine months.

And a teacher came to me,

For those listening to the audio will be able to see this,

She came and she offered a spread of tarot cards like that to me and other people in the class.

And she said,

Choose a card.

So,

I just choose a card at random,

Didn't turn it over.

And then when we got round to turning it over,

She asked each of us in turn what we thought of that card.

I turned over the tower.

And I basically said to her,

I think it means it's all about taking all structures down so we can build new structures back up again.

And she said,

Have you ever studied the tarot?

I said,

No,

I never actually touched a tarot deck before then.

And at the end of the class,

She said to me,

You need to read this book by a guy called Paul Foster Case.

I think I can mention it on this live because it's available as a PDF,

Freely available,

Called The Key to the Wisdom of Ages.

So,

I got this book,

Read it and I started vibrating,

My aura started vibrating as I read the book and really,

Really got like an unconscious awakening.

I wasn't conscious of it,

But I knew something was changing in me.

But it's a very difficult book to read.

I must have read it 50 times or so now,

Tried reading it backwards.

I keep seeing things in it that weren't there before and what have you.

So,

I took it upon myself to do a contemporary version of that book.

And I called it Flavours of Thought,

Recipes for Fresh Thinking.

And so,

When you see a deck like this,

I'm just holding up a tarot spread of the major arcana.

So,

When you see a deck like that,

All the cards are on top of each other.

And it gives you no inkling apart from the fact they're numbered to the true structure of the tarot and what the tarot is all about.

So,

The major arcana of the tarot consists normally of 22 keys.

So,

The name of the book,

Jane,

Was The Key to the Wisdom of Ages.

I hope I haven't transgressed the insight I was pleased by mentioning it,

But it's a fantastic book.

I think it's pretty much out of copyright now,

So you can just really get it.

A guy called Paul Foster Case,

Who actually came to me in a dream once,

That's another story.

So,

The major arcana,

There are 22 modes of consciousness.

And the minor arcana is normally split into four suits.

And they describe us as nine-dimensional beings having a three-dimensional experience.

And that's going to be the subject of my next courses on Insight Timer.

I've just got one more course in this current series to deliver next month.

And then over summer,

I'm going to start deconstructing and republishing the second book I wrote called Planes of Being.

And that describes the minor arcana.

And I'll come back in September and we'll do some lives on the four planes of being.

That said,

And Siri will know this because she and I have been working together on a card deck for many months,

Is there's at least five planes of being.

And the deck that we're going to create will have five sets of things.

And it'll describe us as 11-dimensional beings having a three-dimensional experience,

Which just puts a whole new spin on everything.

Very exciting.

Anyway,

Today we're going to talk about the major arcana.

And again,

For those listening in audio,

They won't be able to see this.

I'm just going to hold up this pattern here.

I hope you can see that.

Now,

Don't worry about the detail of it,

But just notice that there are three horizontal rows of seven and one at the top.

And this better describes how the major arcana functions.

Now,

As I can't upload attachments to Insight Timer courses,

I thought,

Oh,

I can't really do a course on this because it's going to be impossible.

But I realized that if I gave you the instructions on how to how to draw that pattern,

Then it will give you a better inkling of how it works together.

And it also goes from your unconscious process into a conscious one.

You make it more conscious.

And also you ground it into the physical plane.

Oh,

Someone said that everything's backwards.

Again,

That doesn't matter.

The main thing I want you to see,

Cyril,

Is that there's three rows of seven and one at the top.

And so the major arcana can be split into these three groups of seven.

The bottom keys refer to modes of thought I call ethereal whispers.

They're thoughts that come off the top of our head,

The back of our mind.

And they're whispers because sometimes they're not formed as words.

We don't hear them.

They just come in as knowings or nuances and that sort of stuff.

Lightbulb moments.

Also,

The second row then,

Which is keys eight to 14 in the tarot,

Refer to unconscious processes.

And then the top row,

Key one to key seven,

Refer to conscious processes,

Self-aware processes.

And then the key zero,

Which is the fool,

The obvious,

Refers to a state of bliss.

So it's not really a mode of consciousness.

It's a state of being.

So you've got a boy there walking to a cliff edge with a dog that's his unconscious mind,

Guiding him so he doesn't fall off.

His money's on the end of a stick,

So he doesn't care about anyone stealing it or what have you.

He's oblivious.

Some people call him the fool,

But he's the wisest card in the pack.

So I did some mind mapping.

I was writing a book at the time on lightbulb moments,

And I was stuck on chapter nine.

And I'd been studying with Tony Brizan,

Who's the master of mind maps.

He invented the modern day mind map.

And he showed me a technique you could use when you get stuck.

If you get stuck on something,

Just put individual words down in a map and just free associate from them.

And if you put the phrase lightbulb moment down and free associate from it,

You'd only go to aha moment or eureka moment.

But if you put the word lightbulb and moment down from the word moment,

You can go to a moment in time or the moment of a lever.

From bulb,

You can go to a lightbulb.

But also I know because Kirsten's coming in from Holland,

You can go to a tulip,

And you might be able to see those in those wonderful tulip fields over in Holland.

So you go to a plant bulb as well.

But when I was mind mapping around the word light,

It took me off into a whole new different direction.

This was about this chapter I was stuck on in a book on lightbulb moments.

And I started to free associate around the word light.

And I realised that light could be split into spectrum.

And also realised that subatomic particles could also have different flavours and spins.

These are specifically called quarks.

And then this amazing lightbulb moment came in that wouldn't be amazing if our thoughts came in different flavours too.

So I then wrote this chapter on flavours of thought,

Left it for a while,

Sent the book off to the publisher.

They took a year to publish it,

Which is very interesting.

And then over summer,

Just after I submitted it in about July,

This whole book came in called flavours of thought.

And I thought,

Well,

If we describe each of the keys as a mode of thinking,

Where can we go with it?

And obviously,

If you've got flavours of thought,

What you can do with flavours is assemble them together into recipes.

And these recipes are effectively modern day spells.

So what you've got on the app right now is a few things.

So I've started to upload these things to the app.

I'm going to put these in the chat room for you.

So the first thing you can,

The first course you can have a look at is called the keys to overstanding.

The keys to overstanding is my interpretation of the tarot.

Now,

If you haven't got time to read that marvellous book by Paul Foster Case,

And even if you do,

Like me,

You'll find you might not understand it.

I have contemporised the keys from that book in a course on Insight Timer called the keys to overstanding.

And there's 23 meditations in there or guided meditails,

I might call them.

And underneath them in that book,

He also associates a different musical key with each tarot note.

So I had great fun when I was creating the keys to overstanding,

The meditations of composing some music inspired by that character,

That archetype,

And also in the key that Paul Foster Case referred to in the book.

And so in the keys to overstanding on Insight Timer,

And this doesn't appear anywhere else in my work,

You'll find I've merged the music and the stuff together.

So the unconscious mind will be triggered by the music and also then your conscious mind will get triggered by the understanding or the overstanding of the key.

So if you want to really do a deep dive into these keys,

I recommend that course.

It's one of my,

How can I say,

Part of my magnum opus,

If you like.

But also if that's too deep for you,

The other thing you can do is go into three courses which I started uploading on the app.

One is Flavours of Thought,

Ethereal Whispers.

The other is Flavours of Thought,

Unconscious Murmurs.

And then the third is Flavours of Thought,

Self-Awareness.

Let me just post that one.

I'm putting all these in the chat room for everybody.

Flavours of Thought,

Self-Awareness.

And these will take you through what each of the flavours do.

So we're talking about it from a flavour perspective as opposed to a tarot perspective.

So it's very contemporised.

I'll give you an example.

So the Fool,

I would call the obvious.

So when we get to the state where,

Oh damn,

That's what exactly what that should be.

That's the obvious state of being is a blissful way to be.

We could take the Magician.

The Magician grounds the above into the below.

And he does this by imposing his conscious mind on this and making a decision to cast a spell.

The High Priestess I call Validation.

I apologise that these are all backwards on your video.

The High Priestess I call Validation because she's,

As we know,

Women are much smarter than men.

And she just waits for stuff to come and she doesn't have to command magic into the world.

She uses intuitive magic and she can just allow it to come into the world.

And all she does is validate it and make sure it's right for the material plane.

So the flavours of thought lead us to the recipes for fresh thinking.

So I'm going to hold up this pattern again for you.

I realise it's backwards,

But that doesn't matter.

What's important is we can take a flavour from the bottom row,

Combine it with a flavour in the middle row,

And then combine that with a flavour in the top row.

And they all lead to the obvious.

And I'm going to do this live on this call.

We're going to choose,

I'm going to choose to get some numbers from you,

And we're going to cast a spell.

And I guarantee that spell will not be cast anywhere else in the cosmos because we're going to choose it at random.

And so in the book,

The first version of the book,

I did three flavour spells.

And there's a certain numerology with it,

Which I explain.

I've now got two courses out on it.

I'll just post these in there.

So introducing recipes for fresh thinking is the first one.

And that's where I take you through how to create that pattern.

And then the first course on,

I thought,

Well,

Let's deal with something which might affect a lot of people,

And that's abundance.

So the first set of spells are generating abundance.

And what I'm doing,

I love a metaphor.

If anyone's worked with me or read any of my stuff,

You know that I like a metaphor.

So I've done a starter,

Which is a three flavour spell.

A main course,

Which has got more ingredients in it,

And that's a seven flavour spell.

And then the sweet,

The dessert,

Is a five flavour spell.

And I think the first one is,

Yeah,

The first one is seeds of abundance.

And then it's all about generating abundance.

And then the dessert is about promises,

Which is an interesting concept.

Once we improve our promise,

Then,

And promise things to people,

Deliver on those promises,

Then the world responds back to us.

It's like we dropped a massive pebble in the pond.

I'm just going to do a third course,

Which is going to come out in July.

And that's on,

You can use these spells for positive things,

But you can also use them to deal with issues.

So it's going to be dealing with anger.

And there'll be three courses there,

Dealing with anger at yourself,

Dealing with anger at somebody,

Or dealing with anger at the system.

I've written that,

Just need to record it over the next couple of weeks.

So it'll be out sometime in July.

So that's what this metaphor is all about.

It's about the keys of the tarot being modes of consciousness.

And we can tap into those.

And if you should take a spell,

For example,

I'll just pick one out random.

And I advise this in the course.

This is not one from the course,

But let's say you take these three keys here.

If that happened to be the spell,

That strength,

The hermit,

And death,

And death isn't a bad card,

As depicted in James Bond,

It's a good card.

It just means we're allowing something to die so something else can regrow.

If you take the keys from the actual tarot,

And you put them out on your desk,

Then that spell will cast itself for you while you're just in your day,

Which is fantastic.

They are really,

Really magical.

So what I thought we'd do is let's get either an issue or a opportunity.

So I don't mind how many of these we do,

Because I want this to be interactive.

Because if you want the material on Flavour of Thought and Recipes for Fresh Thinking,

They're in the courses on the app.

So I want to make this session completely magical and different.

People don't mind typing into the chat room any issues they have at the moment,

Or any opportunities they have at the moment.

Thanks for that.

I won't deal with abundance,

Victoria,

Because there's a course on that.

So I want to do something which is completely different.

Oh,

How to make a situation change into something else and clarity of focus.

So let's just do those two first.

So I'm going to do change with Siri.

So any time when you're working with this metaphor,

The word meta means above.

So the higher above you can see the issue,

The better it is.

And we'll do that when you talk about clarity of focus.

So we'll do that as well.

And it's amazing how defocusing can help us focus,

But we'll come on to that in a minute.

Now,

When you've got 22 things,

So there's 22 keys in the standard major arcana,

You can actually combine them 22 factorial ways.

I'll just spell that in the chat room,

22 factorial.

And there's a website you can go to and you can put any number in it,

It'll tell you what the factorial is.

And a factorial is 22 times 21 times 20,

Etc.

And it's something like 51 trillion,

Right?

So there's 51 trillion ways you can combine 22 things together,

Which is just amazing.

I'm going to show you one in a minute as we conclude,

Which is a different way of seeing the tarot completely.

And so as I put in,

In the original book,

I think I did 21 recipes.

And in the second edition of the book,

I did some more multi-flavor recipes.

I'm doing some different recipes now.

But even with the work I've done,

I doubt if I've ever done more than a hundred recipes out of 51 trillion.

So it just shows you,

We've got a little bit of flexibility when it comes to doing something unique.

And when I do live meditations,

I've got one coming up in a couple of weeks time,

I do a thing where we generate a mantra.

And I ask for four random syllables from four people in the audience,

And we use that as a mantra.

And then we find a thing that that relates to.

And then one of the things about that mantra,

As I guarantee,

Is never the same.

It'll never be repeated.

So it's all about using different sounds.

You know,

We've got how many different phonics can we do compared with the number of keys in the tarot and what have you.

So lots of fun we can use when we put new things together that's never been put together before.

And if you think about what the cosmos wants to do,

We're children of the cosmos,

We're aspects of the cosmos.

The cosmos wants to know what happens when it becomes incarnate.

And that's the way the universe evolves as well.

Perhaps there's another course in there,

I reckon.

So what I want to do now,

It's really good that very few of you have actually seen that.

And then it's backwards and you can't even read the text on it because all we can do is to get the pattern right.

And now what I'd like to do,

And I've got to say,

Siri,

Do not,

I don't want the number from you because one,

You've got a bit of knowledge and two,

I want it from somebody else because we want randomicity.

I didn't even ask for these numbers,

But they're coming in already.

So 16,

11,

Can I get 22 and 7?

Right.

That's perfect.

Right.

16,

11,

22 and 7.

And then obviously 0,

Which is the full,

Will be the thing.

So I'm going to just read this out now.

Let me just make a note of these.

So I'm just going to mark this off on a pen.

So 16 is excitations,

Which is the tower in the tarot.

Very interesting.

That was the first key that I was presented with and Violet,

You've chosen that.

11 is equilibrium,

Which is justice in the tarot.

22,

Oh,

22 is key zero.

So that's all fine.

So it's a four flavour spell with 22nd key,

Which is the zero key as the result.

7 is cultivation.

Oh,

And Maureen,

You've very kindly given me key 10.

That's brilliant.

And key 10 is replication,

The wheel of fortune.

So what we can now do,

I'm going to make this into a little meditation.

We've never done this before.

It's all about change and how to make a situation change into something else.

And what will happen is we'll get to the obvious position.

But what's interesting,

I'm guessing that most people are looking for change of some form.

It doesn't mean that what they've got at the moment is particularly not so good or bad.

It just means that a change is,

They say,

A change is as good as a rest.

But everybody will be looking for a slightly different change from Ciri.

And this is why these spells are so universally applicable.

They work for everybody.

Now,

I'll just write this down so you can all make a note of this.

So if you've got a tarot,

Don't do this now,

But what you can do afterwards is you can put these tarot keys in and lay them out as you wish.

It doesn't matter.

As people know me,

I don't like rules.

So you can lay them out as you wish in a circle or in a square or whatever.

Wheel of fortune.

So we've got the Fool,

The Chariot,

Wheel of Fortune.

And then the change that we're going to talk about will come into your world.

So in the book,

Plagues of Thought,

I always start with an ethereal whisper first.

The idea that there's a nuance out there,

That we've got higher presences that know what change is good for us,

When that change is good to happen,

And the form that change should come in.

But they also have messages for us about how to go about it.

So I want you to just take a couple of deep breaths in and out.

One more.

And let's be comfortable with change.

Some people resist change.

There was a massive message from Insight Timer,

The CEO of Insight Timer,

And it's got a lot of people very worried because it's change.

You get into a pattern,

You think you know what you're doing,

And all of a sudden this change comes in.

It's going to affect meditators too,

As well as Insight Timer teachers.

But the good thing is that this change,

I think,

Is positive.

And the other good thing is that they open the door for us to understand those changes and also influence them to a certain extent as well,

Which I'm hoping to help spearhead.

So that's the sort of way to look at change.

It is scary.

It is destabilizing.

But when things change,

We do get into a new mode.

The opposite can happen.

The opposite can happen is if we don't allow change.

And a good example of no change is,

I'm going to get the tarot key out now,

Is an inversion in the tarot.

So that's the excitation of change.

And if I invert it,

That's the non-excitation of change.

That's staying.

I want to keep my head in the sand.

I want to just keep things as they are.

I don't want to change.

I'm going to become intransigent.

And what happens when we do that?

I'm going to say this metaphorically rather than physically.

We start to wither and we start to die.

Aspects of we don't grow.

So when we bring change into our life and the tower is the excitation of that change,

Then that's the start of something new.

So we then move to key 10.

Key 10 is the Wheel of Fortune.

And the Wheel of Fortune is kind of an interesting card.

I use it a lot in the Generate Abundance course.

And what happens when you look at cards in a slightly different way?

You notice,

And again,

It doesn't matter if this is inverted,

You notice this is the Wheel of Fortune.

And it's got eight spokes on it.

The North,

South,

West,

And East.

And also North West,

South West,

South East,

And North East.

And what you can do when you have that superimposed on the pattern of the flavours,

It can point you as to where you're going to go next.

So I'll just point to that one.

That's key.

I'm working backwards as well.

That's Replication.

And if you superimpose the card on it,

Then it's pointing towards the East,

Which is Equilibrium and Justice.

So this is where what happens when we put the cards together,

They start to influence each other.

You can do one flavour spells,

By the way.

But also what happens is your one card can lead to another.

So it just so happens that Justice was right up on my deck next,

Which is great.

So the card of Equilibrium of the Wheel of Fortune,

Which is Replication,

Points you as to the next place to go.

So what it means is we're spinning the Karmic Wheel one more time.

And it's going to point us to how we're going to spin it.

We're going to spin it using the Key of Justice.

And so when we spin the Wheel of Fortune,

We're saying we want change.

We're going to embrace it,

But we're going to embrace it in a very,

Very specific way.

We're going to embrace it in a way that helps us void our Karma and move on to the next place.

And here's where the next key kicks in,

The Justice Key.

It kicks in because we want to do it in balance.

And the balance is of three forms.

There's a balance,

Which is a temporal balance.

So do it so that the change that you make,

You're comfortable with the past way it used to be and the future way it used to be.

But also you're going to,

You want to induce a wobble.

So a person that's walking on a tight road uses a long pole and that wobbles and actually keeps them steady.

So a good bit of wobble is actually useful in our life.

So if you're going to make a change,

Make a small change first and just see what happens and do it so you're still on the tight road.

And then what you can do is increase a big,

Make a bigger change and a bigger change,

But keeping everything in balance.

So the first way that we're using is temporal balance.

So the past and the future are nicely balanced around us as in the present,

But we're also doing it so it's balanced from a perspective of all the light and the dark,

The good,

Evil,

The fear and the love.

So we're not falling off,

Like we're not going back to the tower where these characters fall out of the tower and the Tower of Babel collapses because people thought they could build a tower to get up to heaven,

When actually heaven's on earth anyway and what you need to do is bring heaven down to earth,

Not to bring it out to get up to it.

So it's just showing you the fallacy of us building colossal structures when everything we need is right on the earth plane in the first place.

So excitation leads to a replication of what works,

That we do when we're in balance.

And then that leads us to the seventh key,

Which is key seven,

Which Linda suggested,

Which is the chariot.

Now the chariot is an interesting card.

The chariot,

As Paul Pester Case describes,

Is a person that thinks they're guiding the chariot,

Two steeds at the front that think they're actually doing the driving,

But there's a path that's hidden underneath them and it's the path that's doing the driving.

And once we allow the path to flow,

We as the chariot,

The charioteer,

Can just observe what is going on and we can go cultivate a new way of being.

And this is where the flavours of thought are much more useful than the chariot.

With the chariot you've got to read Paul Foster Case's book to get all these nuances about the imagery and stuff like that,

But I just say it sums down to the cultivating intelligence,

Which is for us to cultivate a new way of being.

And then the whole thing goes backwards on itself,

And then you start another excitation,

Go to a new replication,

To a new level of balance,

And then cultivate something new,

And then you end up at the obvious as a result of it.

So we're going to move on now to Cyril,

And she wants clarity of focus.

Now it's quite good that I don't know why Cyril would like that,

Or what particular thing she wants.

The way that these keys work together best is when they're working slightly at an unconscious murmur level and conjuring up the ethereal whispers to come in,

Leading us to the obvious state.

And what you can do with the second repetition of this recipe is to do it in a completely different way.

So you could say,

Well actually,

Where do I want to start?

I said in my book initially,

Always start with an ethereal whisper,

Go to an unconscious murmur,

End up with an obvious thought,

A self-aware thought,

And then you end up with the obvious.

But that's a rule,

And it's only a rule of guidance.

What happens if we turn everything on its head,

And we turn the pattern of flavours completely upside down?

Now the first thing is,

I've got to say,

Is I've never had that thought before.

Never thought of doing it this way before.

So thank you Cyril for bringing that in for me.

So you brought that in,

It came in as an ethereal whisper,

What happens if we just turn everything on its head?

So we start with the obvious,

We start with the fool.

So what brought you here today?

What was the thing that you said,

I must come along to this insight,

We've all got things to do in our lives,

So why are we here today?

What brought you here?

And the thing that brought you here,

We don't need to know it right now,

Because the fool does this thing just because it feels right.

And if we live,

If you ditch all the other cards in the major arcana,

And you have to choose one card,

The fool is the one to go with.

Because if you're living in this blissful state where everything's obvious,

All the concepts of worry,

Strife,

Have I made the right decision?

Have I gone the right way?

Did I do the right thing to that person at that time?

They completely vaporise.

So Cyril,

Is it obvious why you're here today?

And if it isn't,

That's brilliant.

This is the ironic thing about the tarot,

We don't need to consciously embrace it.

What we know is that you are here,

You asked that question,

I didn't know it was coming in,

It made me turn the whole pattern upside down,

Which I've never done before.

Where can that mean?

Who knows?

Thank you very much for that.

So that's number one.

So then we will go back to the next key,

Which is going downwards,

It's going to be the chariot,

Right?

So what we could do then,

If we assume that to get clarity and focus,

All you need to do is defocus,

Because it's the opposite of what you're trying to get to.

What that allows you to do is cultivate a new way of being.

So let's all defocus right now,

And I want you to,

I've got glasses on,

So I'll set them off for a minute.

So the way to defocus,

I want you just to put your gaze either straight into my eyes actually,

Straight into my eyes,

And I can't see you,

But I'm imagining that I'm seeing all of you,

How many we've got here,

120,

128 minutes,

So I'm imagining I'm looking right back at your eyes.

But now I want you to be aware of the sides of my head and where my glasses are on the top of my head and my chin.

So even though you're looking right at my eyes,

You're now,

Your awareness is on the edges of my face.

And again,

Keep your gaze right in the centre of the screen,

But now be aware of the edges of the screen.

So I've got a guitar to one side,

A couple of books to the other side,

And what have you.

So be aware of the edges,

Top,

Bottom,

And left,

Right of the screen.

And now widen your gaze or your attention still further,

So you're seeing out the periphery of your vision,

You're seeing the ceiling above you,

The floor below or the desk below,

The walls to either side,

Still keeping focused on my eyes.

And this is the cultivation of a new way to be.

So when you want clarity of focus,

Defocusing this wide-open,

Eyes-open meditative technique is exactly the thing to do.

Because when we've got a busy mind,

And this is the whole point of meditation,

Meditation is not about having no thoughts at all,

It's having different relationships with your thoughts.

When you've got a busy mind and you've got the thoughts in the outer lobes of the brain being active,

I call it a mindful when you've got things going around around your head,

The thing you need to focus on gets obliterated by all the noise in your head.

So using this very simple technique of defocusing,

Then you get into this thing where the thing you need to focus on starts to manifest.

So this leads us to the next key,

The next key is equilibrium,

Which is justice in the tarot.

And again,

We need to keep focus and defocus in balance.

If you spent all your days focusing on something,

Or all your days defocused on something,

You'd be pretty inefficient.

So this focus that we need can take us away from the thing we need to do because it can make us just be in a thinking mode,

Monkey mind mode,

Defocusing might mean you get nothing done.

So it's keeping the balance between focus and defocusing together.

And she also says she's pulled the reverse charity car which is absolutely wonderful.

I've done so many sections,

I've done so many things over Zoom,

I did an interview with Kazaya Gibbons,

If you want to know more about the tarot,

Kazaya's got some great courses on the app,

She's amazing.

And so we both had a full deck of cards.

And we both pulled,

I think it was the knight of wands or something.

So we both pulled exactly the same card in the middle of this interview,

Which is quite bizarre.

So we're moving on from equilibrium,

Which is focus and defocus in balance,

And you then move to the wheel of fortune,

Which is replication.

And that's all about using it and using it in a way that you're keeping in karmic balance,

But you're also moving on down your karmic path.

And that leads us back to the tower and what have you.

The tower,

In this context,

Is about taking old structures that don't serve you anymore,

And replacing them with a new structure.

So just imagine,

As if you every morning,

You did that eyes defocusing exercise,

I do it when I'm dog walking in the morning.

So I start formal meditation at all,

But I'm in a defocused manner.

But I'm also focused on things like what the dog's doing,

Hope they're not rolling in fox poo,

Hope I'm not tripping over tree branches,

And all that sort of stuff.

So you've got to keep focus and non-focus in balance.

And then amazing ideas.

So an idea for a new course might come in for me or a book or a blog or something like that.

And I use that time as part of my creative process in the morning,

Just to be out in nature,

Which is great,

Fresh air coming in.

And then the ideas for the day,

Which are completely different from the ones I might have had at the end of yesterday,

Come in.

So some great observations in the classroom.

I didn't realise that we need to defocus,

Thank you,

That's Claire Duer,

Interesting spelling,

Lovely spelling.

And Catherine,

You drive the car,

Yeah.

So important that we are focused on certain things like traffic lights and T-junctions and other drivers around us when we're driving a car.

But yeah,

Often we can drive a car,

Get from A to B and have no memory because we're actually doing it using our unconscious process.

And yeah,

Trish,

It does,

The defocusing technique puts it in what you call the liminal state.

Which is actually,

The liminal state is the fool.

So the fool sits in the liminal state all the time.

And so that's great,

One minute before,

Because that's enough on my course I'm writing.

Here you came in,

Thank you,

That's wonderful,

Wonderful stuff.

Right,

So I'm going to do a bit of a preview of somewhere I'm going after the next set of courses.

So I put in the classroom,

The Keystone was standing,

The Flavors of Thought courses,

The Recipes for Fresh Thinking.

I was going to do about eight Recipes for Fresh Thinking courses,

But an idea came on the dog walk this morning that I should just do one more,

Which I've written.

And then I'm going to move on to the minor arcana,

Contemporization,

Which is all about the planes of being.

But I'll do the five states,

Not just the ninth dimension,

But the eleventh dimension as well,

Which is going to be interesting.

But before I do that,

I want to show you something.

I mentioned about the 51 trillion combinations of 22 objects,

And one of them is the Master Spell.

It's called a Cube of Space.

This is a Cube of Space.

It's all the tarot keys on one glyph.

A glyph is an object,

A magical object.

Now this one has been slightly mangled by my dog this morning,

So sorry about its uneven edges.

He will play Mr Pickle.

One thing about a cube is that it's got six spaces,

12 edges,

So that's 18.

So there's four missing keys,

And the missing keys are inside this particular cube.

And this cube I contemporized over 10 years ago into what I call the Cube of Karma.

It's what I call a Master Spell.

And I was going to do this as a course on Insight Timer,

But I can't upload the template of the cube.

So I was struggling to know how I can do this as an upload,

Because I have to describe the whole cube.

You have to put forth six spaces together,

Glue them together,

And this sort of stuff.

And then early this morning I got the answer,

Because Insight Timer are going to allow us to offer external mentoring.

So I've got all this material existing outside Insight Timer,

Not able to put it into Insight Timer.

So I'm pretty sure I can do this without,

Because the changes are happening on Monday,

Is after I've done this course on the Minor Arcana,

I'm going to offer up a mentoring course to take people around the Cube of Karma.

And what you get,

Because I can do this outside Insight Timer,

Don't take a small cut,

Is you get one of these.

And again,

It doesn't matter if it's backwards.

This is a flat packed cube.

And again,

It's only got 18 flavors on it.

And then when you assemble it,

It goes into this form here,

And it gives us a karmic path of awakening.

There's seven steps going around this cube.

You also get to know about the internal dimensions as well that are hidden.

And then when you take in the seven steps of awakening,

We then go to a last thing called a Hypercube,

Which is,

This is called a Tesseract.

And you get to steps eight and nine of awakening.

And I didn't know,

I knew about this stuff.

I've learned about this stuff for over 10 years or so,

God knows how many lifetimes.

But I didn't know how to deliver it,

Because the functionality of Insight Timer made it impossible to deliver it.

But I think they've just,

With this change that they're just bringing in now,

It means I can deliver it.

And it also takes the current courses,

Which are like introductions,

To a whole new level.

And so I'm pretty excited about that.

It's only just sinking in how it's all going to work.

And it's absolute honor to be able to share it with you all today that this might be the way forward.

Also,

It's going to be the way forward,

I think,

To other guides as well.

And what we're planning to do,

For those of you that are a guide on Insight Timer,

And in our Teachers with Insight Facebook group,

What we're going to do sometime in July is to have a support Zoom,

Where we share best practices on how to embrace these new changes inside the app.

Remember,

Change is what Siri was talking about.

Also,

We can use the tower as the exciting force to bring it in.

Now,

If anyone's on this call,

Who's thinking about being a meditation teacher on Insight Timer,

And generating sleeping income,

Then you're welcome to join this Facebook group.

So it's unlike other Facebook groups that support Insight Timer teachers,

You only have to be a teacher with Insight,

Not a teacher on Insight Timer.

And if you just want to,

Whatever you're teaching,

It doesn't have to be teaching in Insight Timer.

If you're teaching and you're in Insight Timer,

Come and join our group.

It's a great community.

But also then if you want to learn how to get your stuff onto Insight Timer,

And I think we've just opened the door to retreats,

I'm hoping to convince them to allow us to do online retreats as well as offline retreats,

And mentoring,

I think that it's a great opportunity.

And one thing it did for me was give me,

I had all this stuff 12,

15 years ago,

And 2009 is when I started generating this stuff,

I didn't have access to the market.

So my books were out there on Amazon,

I'm probably sold about,

If I sold 100 books,

I'd be lucky.

And so when Insight Timer came along,

I found yesterday my first poster,

The 21st of August 2015 was when my first track got approved.

So that's last nine years nearly,

Isn't it?

Which is amazing.

But when Insight Timer appeared,

What they do,

Which is great,

Is every day they get about 10 or 15,

000 new souls,

Which are potentially your customers.

I could never get to those people,

Ever.

I didn't know I existed,

I didn't even know I was a meditation teacher until they discovered me anyway,

So apart from all that.

So going back to your question,

Have you ever taught a tarot course?

I'd love to learn from you,

That's very kind of you.

I don't teach the tarot,

This is the thing.

The tarot is just a set of keys.

And there's a track of mine,

It's a free track called My Magnum Opus.

When I was doing all this stuff,

I think when I wrote,

2009 I wrote Play With A Thought,

2012 I wrote Planes of Being.

And then I was mentoring people to write books at the time.

And Eleni ran a psychic course in the College of Psychic Studies,

Teaching people how to be a medium,

Said that she had a client of hers who wanted to write her book.

Could I help her?

So I went to a networking meeting,

I was doing a talk in the morning,

And I was stuck on the M25,

Which is the orbital motorway around London.

So I gave her a call.

And in 45 minutes,

I mentored her on the books that she should write.

And I realised I'd not charged her for anything,

I keep doing this sort of stuff.

So I said to her,

Well,

You're a medium,

And you don't know me from Adam,

Could you do me a reading?

And I thought,

I thought nothing of it,

I thought she's going to tell me I'm going to have 2.

4 children,

And whatever.

But she came up with this amazing reading from a source that she'd never connected with.

Her mediumship was connecting with the dear departed spirits.

She got a source,

And I've actually verbatim narrated that in the Magnum Opus track.

She basically said,

It's not about the tarot,

It's about us.

Tell him Martina,

She was called Martina,

Tell him Martina,

It's not about the tarot,

He's got the keys,

And done things that people haven't done before.

And it's about us,

The divine ones.

And it's the most magical thing.

I've got a little shiver down my back,

Because I'm relaying this to you right now.

So I don't teach what you call the tarot,

I'm teaching an interpretation of the tarot.

And specifically what the keys in the tarot have awakened in me,

And then can awaken in other people as well.

And then methodologies,

And I've got to say,

In this book,

Paul Foster Gates' book,

He basically shows this pattern,

But then doesn't explain it.

He mentions one thing about numerology,

And then he goes on to something else.

He shows the cube of space,

And then doesn't explain it,

And then he goes on to other stuff.

And I started to research these things.

There's four books you can find on the cube of space,

Only one of them's any good,

By a guy called David Hume.

But even that book is deeply entrenched in the tarot,

And it makes it very difficult to get the advancement without studying the tarot.

And I signed up for this Paul Foster Gates' school,

His tarot school,

And I studied with them for 10 years.

It's an online school based in California called BOTA,

Builders of the Edutum.

But it took me 10 years to get the information so I could distill it into something which I can impart in a three-day course on Insight Timer.

And so my aim is to take this stuff that's really complicated and obfuscated,

Which means it's been made very hard for mere mortals to get their head around,

And to make it easy,

To make it practical,

And really importantly to make it safe as well.

So these magical spells,

You can use a spell for nefarious purposes,

In the same way you can use it for good.

So I will not teach you the tarot,

Violet,

But I'm very happy to impart what you can use the tarot for in practical senses to get somewhere.

Now,

If you want to go and learn the tarot,

We have Simone Clement,

An amazing tarot reader and teacher,

Kazar Gibbons.

There's people that are really,

Really good at the tarot.

Any questions,

Or would anyone like one last recipe?

Well,

Trish,

You said one more.

What would you like?

Okay,

None.

This is a tough one.

Okay,

Now I'm going to use grief in its widest sense.

What I did on the original set of 21 recipes is,

If it was a problem,

I went backwards.

So let's say I started on key 18,

Then key 10 and key 2,

I'd go that way.

If it was just a situation,

I'd go vertical.

And then if it's an opportunity,

I'd go from the left to the right.

And that was just giving it some sort of structure.

So what I'm going to suggest is,

All I want from you,

Nonny,

Right now is one number between 15 and 21,

And then we'll let the pattern of the flavours dictate where the recipe goes.

And I'm going to use numerology in this as well.

So give me a number,

Nonny,

Between 17.

That's brilliant.

Right.

So 17 is germination.

Okay.

And then if we move,

This won't make sense.

If we move to my left,

Which is probably your right,

It goes to key 9,

And then that goes up to key 1,

Which is 17,

9,

And 1.

If you subtract 9 from 17,

You get the number 8.

And if you subtract 1 from 9,

You get the number 8 as well.

So it's numerically balanced.

I'm going to find the actual keys for this one.

If you don't mind,

Germination is the star.

The hermit is isolation key 9,

And then the magician is key 1.

So these are the three keys in this particular spell.

And we can use them in two different ways.

I'm going to do a reverse.

I'm going to go both ways with them.

Okay.

So,

And I'll do this fairly quickly,

Because I want to show you how powerful these recipes are.

So we take the key,

The magician,

And we decide that,

For example,

The grief we've been dealing with,

It's done its job.

And I'm not going to denigrate the grief,

Right?

But it's done its job.

You can then say,

Well,

What would I do next?

That's no good.

I don't feel it's done its job.

It inspires you to take up the key of the hermit,

Which is isolation in the tarot.

And then this is where we just go into a little bit of understanding about the hermit.

It's one of my favorite keys,

Actually.

I do like the fool,

Obviously,

But the hermit is kind of my archetype.

And the hermit has got a staff and a light,

And he's actually standing on top of a mountain.

So he's doing two things.

One,

He can see where he's come from,

And he can see where he's going,

Although he's got lots of options about where he's going to go.

But he's got a staff and a light.

So the staff is steadying him,

And the light is showing him the way,

But it's also showing others the way to go.

So imagine,

And I don't know what you do for a living,

Nani,

But imagine is if one of the points of the grief that you're going through,

You've been through,

We've all been through grief.

I was at a funeral just the other week,

And I know Kirsten had one as well.

So imagine if the grief we're going through gave us some skills and experience such that we could help other people with grief.

Would that help you dealing with your grief?

By the way,

There's a lady called Heidi Gessner who's written a lovely book on all of this stuff.

Right,

So then what we do is we bring in,

This is a reverse spell by the way,

I don't think we need to go the other way because it's working so well this way.

We then bring in the magic of the star.

Now,

The star has got a wonderful lady in it,

And she's got one foot on the water and one foot on water and one foot on the ground.

And she's pouring water from,

The water is the superconsciousness and the ground is the earth plane.

And she's got an infinite supply of water which is going bi-directionally from the earth to the higher planes and from the higher planes back down to ground.

And she's got one foot firmly on the earth plane and one foot on the water,

So she's nicely balanced.

She's also got seven stars around her,

Which are the illumination of the chakras.

So she's got illumination coming through every single major chakra point.

And that energy,

Just that energy by itself.

I'm going to do this right now.

So imagine if the universal energy that is out there is actually a healing energy.

And right now I'm going to allow universal healing energy to come in through all my seven chakra points.

And I'm going to let the higher chakras energies come down and sit in my heart chakra and the energy that's flowing into the lower chakras to come up and sit into the heart chakra.

And then I'm going to beam out to you specifically Nani,

Into anyone else that is going through grief at the moment.

Unconditional love from my heart to yours.

And by that I don't mean something metaphorical.

This is an actual energy that's flowing out right now.

To help you overcome the grief.

But more importantly,

As you're a teacher and you want to share wisdom and expand love so you can help other people do the same.

So what happened there was these three keys open that up in me.

It made me do something in the earth plane I've never done before.

And hopefully then that's what I call nicely infected other people on this call.

So do reach out directly by the way,

We're going to go into any more of this.

And I hope that's been useful.

I hope it's been useful in the context of some of the changes going on inside you in inside timer.

Cyril,

Great message there.

She's got clarity,

Wrote a book as a result of one of the last lives I did on being a writer.

And this one about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

So I helped you,

You wrote something else that's going to help other people.

Nani,

You can help other people go through grief as well.

So I'm going to love you and leave you all.

I'm not going to be back in a week.

I'm not going to be back in a week.

I'm going to be I'm not going to be back on doing a live until about September after I've put some of these planes of being courses up.

But if you're in the Insight Timer,

The Teachers with Insight group will be doing some support sessions in there.

So do come along and thank you for thank you everybody making me do something I've never done before and coming up with some more of the 51 trillion permutations and combinations that we can have with these amazing 22 keys.

Love you all and see you in a couple of months or earlier if you're in the Teachers with Insight group.

Take good care everybody.

Reviews

Tom you have such a deep and unusaul understanding of everything, it's amazing. How can I get there?
Could you list the book titles and authors that you mentioned please. 🙏 including your own which I am very interested in reading.
Thank you so much for opening up new ways and thoughts for us all. 🙏

I'm so glad that I was at this LIVE session and that I was able to listen to the replay today! I love that I picked 16 and that was the Tower, which was the first card you had pulled. So many synchronicities! I'm a huge fan of change and Tower moments have always led to great things so I look forward to many more! Thank you for sharing your gifts!