This gratis guide is your channel for getting to know the ixZiv.com website and is free to participants. This invaluable manuscript provides a daily plan for living the philosophy and preparing yourself for a new, fun-packed, thrilling, and more fulfilling life.
Welcome from the source ofixZiv.com
We are pleased to extend this welcome to you as the progenitors: We gave this special information to our earth friend Dr. G with the agreement that he will share it with others ready to help increase their understanding and awareness. Our purpose is to demystify the mysterious and provide a scientific way to examine, investigate, and challenge your thoughts. In view of certain discoveries, it is time to review and re-evaluate the old dogmas and credos of the past. Our creed is a teaching of love, freedom, self-empowerment, peace, and joy. It is truly ‘a philosophy of reason’.
ixZiv.com is here to help you discover, apply, and prove the truth for yourself.
Day-to-Day Development
The five biological senses are constantly contending for the mind's attention. In our modern day culture, it is readily accepted that the sense of sight has become the predominant focal point of sensory experience. We accept the importance of change and evolution, and the distinction of man's part in the Cosmos. In the time you have read that last sentence, and if you changed or upgraded your thinking, the entire universe has altered for you.
Science has determined that nearly eighty percent (80%) of our sensory input is our eyesight and hearing. If that is true then our senses of touch, smell, and taste share the remaining twenty percent {20%}. And like anything that is used less and less the function diminishes to the amount it is used.
The inner you, while not supposedly being one of our normal senses, presents the greatest opportunity for redevelopment. The key to opening this faculty is to make a daily excursion into the self.
If our brain and autonomic nervous system is operating in biological sensory overload, the exploration of the inner self, using “SMS” techniques (where the spiritual, the healing power, and the intuition dwells) is a simple, and probably the best way for conscious contact with the cosmos. We can balance and strengthen not only the biophysical but all areas of our life.
The growth of science and technology is unparalleled in challenging, doubting, testing, proving, and presenting any discoveries made. Competition between the scientists themselves can more often than not polarize and desensitize the very core of our existence.
Without developing and nourishing a strong inner awareness we have moved our lives from simplicity, trust, and balance to a mechanized program of complexity, doubt, and imbalance.
To realize and live our true potential we must become at one with ourselves and experience the cosmos. This enormous power exists as intelligent energy that can be utilized as quickly and easily as flicking and turning on or off a light switch.
More simply stated: this intelligent power can be drawn out with the correct input and responds to our every thought of certainty. For instance, just the thought of divine love brings unlimited and abundant love to all aspects of our lives. You direct and manifest what the energy of your thoughts acts upon.
Our paths up 'till now may have brought us success and happiness, or Provocations, pains, and failures. On the positive side, the latter may be the process of a learning experience whereby impurities are cleansed and changed. In fact, that may be why you are reading this now.
It is not the mistakes we make but the very consequences of those mistakes that give us the desire to improve. Thus, we gain knowledge and wisdom not only from study but by actively engaging in higher and better experiences.
The great thing about being a participant of ixZiv.com is that you have an opportunity to take an active part in creating the philosophy and framework of what this way of life means to you. It will provide you with a solid grounding in honest values that can help you make sense of life’s meanings and make you feel comfortable at home among people and a Universe that cares about us.
Your life does have meaning. There really is a Higher Power that can help you live and not just exist. You are not alone. There is a bright and clear way forward, and there is every reason in the world to look forward to the future.
Personal Philosophy
The website ixZiv.com brings together all that is wonderful, positive, and noble in life and we proudly proclaim our only mission is to help you live the Earth life in the spirit it is meant to be. You are an amazing creation, and as we like to say, ‘You are, in the small, all that God is in the large’, and you are not alone. Separateness is an illusion, everyone and everything is connected, and we are all part of the same magnificent Universe... A vast Cosmic Intelligence where everything has a role, a reason, and a place.
You do have a purpose and you are part of a great plan, the grand design. And as a person that thinks independently, you stand at the beginning of a great journey, a voyage of discovery of the self and of the Universe where real knowledge and awareness is gained from your own experience. I think you will agree that there is no greater goal. We openly encourage you to judge all new and past teachings with a critical eye.
Our desire is that this guide, together with the SMS graphics, available on ixZiv.com, the occasional e-mail, the various § ‘Society ofSelf’ seminars, study groups, informative publications, and our Special Events are all offered to help you maintain a balanced life as you increase your awareness, discover, and express your own innermost powers and gifts.
This is the Universal goal:to recognize who and what you are (our basic origin and essential nature) and in doing so realize your full, infinite and divine potential. Our activities, courses, and events will provide you with a blueprint and guide to a more enlightened, joyful, and prosperous life. We know you will look forward to, and always enjoy, personally meeting with others like yourself at our forums, seminars, or events; until then may you and yours make every day your best day in every way.
Being an ixZiv.com Participant
What does it mean to be an ixZiv.com participant? Is it similar to traditional teaching where people attend meetings once a week; participate in other activities, such as Sports, Clubs, Social events, and various studies? The answer is … there are a few similarities to dedicated organizations (some fundamental, some traditional, and some metaphysical) but there are fortunately more differences.
ixZiv.com has been organized within a framework that is reflective of modern times and designed to actively fit a lifestyle conducive to the Age of Information, and to accommodate the ongoing and rapid changes in science and technology while embracing a fulfilling spiritual life with a lot of pleasure and happiness.
We recognize and acknowledge the great achievements of mankind, the effort to gain enlightenment, and to throw off the shackles of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry. We take pride in mankind’s noble and ingenious abilities to succeed despite the challenges, regardless of the difficulties, and against all the odds... We are a § “Society of Self” that can - and does.”
Participants can always gain access to regular and current information via the Internet at ixZiv.com. Also available are self-study courses, publications, programs, and video presentations in several formats. Everyone is welcome to take advantage of the information presented on ixZiv.com.
Your decision to become a participant of ixZiv.com is an important step in your venture into a new way of looking at yourself, your world, and the Universe. By becoming a participant, and by your regular visits to this website, it is our purpose that you will continue to grow in Self-knowledge, Understanding, and Awareness.
As a participant, you are demonstrating your intent to develop a greater understanding and awareness. That’s why we value your participation and appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a demonstrated flow of the special knowledge we have.
We need and solicit your unique perspective and your intellectual contributions toward shaping the teachings of www.ixZiv.com.
Bringing people together, the unity of all human beings, and the collective effort of everyone to make the world a better place is a vital part of our goal. While you will find abundant resources provided by ixZiv.com, we place a very high value on what we call the § “Societyof Self.” We know that when each individual participant of the teaching grows, we all grow.
We invite you to begin by gaining an understanding of the philosophy which you can explore at your own pace both by attending in person one of the actual seminars and/or by availing yourself, at your leisure, of the materials you’ll find on the ixZiv.com website.
Scott Peck, psychiatrist & writer, stated, “The greater awareness arrives slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual awareness is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spirit power is always an ebullient one.”
Of primary importance and one of our most essential goals is for everyone to have a greater recognition and connection with Cosmic Intelligence. It is through this path that we not only connect with the One, but connect with each other, and develop and expand as individuals.
You are participating in the creation of something important to man's survival, with a fresh perspective on what it means to be a modern human being living in a scientific age, but an age which has also arrived full circle to rediscover the intensely deep underpinning of spiritual intelligence that has been guiding both science and philosophy from the beginning of time.
One of the primary diseases of our time is that millions of people have been estranged from a basic foundation, unable to understand their own lives. For centuries, traditional religions have tried to provide members with a framework to shape their lives. But it was inevitable as science progressed that the most fundamental precepts of society as a whole would be shaken to the core.
The more people learn about science, witness the success of the scientific method, and pick up all the modern tools that science has provided for us, the less legitimate the claims of the old, organized religions seem to be, and the more valid the thinking person's role becomes.
It’s only natural for people to think there is a basic disconnection between the methods of science and the tenets of religion. The established and presently accepted path of science deals only with observable, measurable, or apparent facts, and/or a constant rigorous search. Science and skepticism are fast friends, and both are still changing even as you read this.
With traditional thinking and teaching, it has been much the opposite. Questioning has not been encouraged. The ability to “have faith” is central to maintaining one’s standing within a religious framework. Most religions proclaim: “What we say can’t be disproved, so you might as well believe it.” In a modern world steeped in science, that’s just not good enough anymore.
ixZiv.com wants to help you to bridge the gap between science and religion, showing how spirituality and science together can harmonize and provide a total view. Thus, our true philosophy is one that honors the rational, curious questioning of serious sincere students, while also providing a rich framework to experience that which may not be defined in purely rational terms.
Most people want to believe in miracles, that there is some basic magic in the world, that the universe is a realm of enchantment and adventure. Indeed, what current scientific knowledge is showing us is that there really is an infinite force in the universe, that there is a Universal Intelligence, and that there is a proper way to make that reality a positive, loving force in all of our lives.
Thinking for yourself is a process that allows one to be more comfortable with reality, being a “real” person. A “real” person accepts the world as it is; doubt, uncertainties, and new and familiar things are easily tolerated. A person able to think for themself Understands the difference between being Religious and being Spiritually aware. One who thinks for themself accepts the disappointments of oneself and others with love. One who thinks for themself is not limited by convention. Thinking people are creative, they can focus on problems in an objective manner.
A thinking person is usually a Spiritually aware person and is secure and self-sufficient. Spiritual people are appreciative of the world around them and experience mystical feelings involving compassion and empathy. Spiritual people allow themselves to have deep interpersonal relations. Spiritual people do not discriminate. Spiritual people are ethical. A spiritual person’s humor is usually spontaneous and thoughtful, seldom is it antagonistic.
There can be many roads to becoming spiritual, but since the beginning of time the most common is the path of religion. Religion can be used both for the guide of a society toward spiritual awareness, or for the manipulation of society towards a negative state. The bias of church leaders can alter a religion, but a religion that is corrupt from the beginning can be devastating to society. Religion should support one on the way to spirituality, and it must let one think for themself and be themselves as individuals.
Tradition is the main thing that keeps religions alive, but the control it exerts is sometimes harmful when trying to lead one toward living a spiritual life. Thinking for yourself involves the development of an individual in a society, not a herd of mindless drones continually doing what they have been doing for centuries. Tradition will give most members of society a reason to continue practicing a specific religion; however, it is not an acceptable reason for a think-for-yourself spiritual person.
At ixZiv.com we present a fast but thorough method to facilitate the study of the traditions of religion and of the “Holy Bible”. This study (for SOB’s) also includes various other sacred texts that must be examined and investigated using known scientific methods.
Do you want to be an SOB “StudentOf theBible”
Or more accurately a “Crypto Theologist” Christianity is based on metaphors. The Bible was written in such a manner that it could be and is interpreted many ways. This is both a good and a bad point. Because there is such a wide range of interpretation it can be used from generation to generation, and the metaphors can be applied differently as conditions change. However, this is also a downside. The wide range of interpretations bends itself toward almost all interpretations- good or bad, true or false. When a biased individual begins to interpret the Bible there is a great chance that they will warp the metaphor to fit their unique bias, whether it is based on race, class, society, culture, or gender. When interpreted incorrectly, religious metaphors are harmful to society and anyone that is progressing towards true spiritual awareness, whether it is through religion or science, or both.
Thinking for yourself always relies on the unification of people. When one is fortunate enough to be involved with a wide spectrum of other people they can benefit, along with the others, by exchanging insights and viewpoints. It is also comforting to take the road toward a better understanding and true spirituality with others. The group can assist anyone who is questioning a certain message, debate or explain why an ideal is or is not necessary and help one to fulfill the interpersonal goals of scientific, religious, philosophical investigation and personal fulfillment. The idea that there can be only one correct religion is ludicrous. Religions should peacefully co-exist. Most religions are based on a spiritual goal in as many different ways as there are religions. The road toward a better understanding and spiritual awareness for yourself can be traveled several ways. The positive goals one may meet that embrace thinking for yourself are easily hindered by small lapses of good judgment in everyday life.
The Society of Self
Participants are encouraged to adopt a comprehensive lifestyle that informs, improves, and pleases all aspects of their lives. When you do so, all of your normal activities will be enhanced in amazing ways as you become grounded by these core principles.
This does not mean you need to carry around some kind of instruction manual to consult every minute of the day. Rather, as you grow in the experience, you will develop a superior mental assembly, a philosophical foundation that will help you in innumerable small ways, and often in big ways, as you traverse the course of life’s adventures, because that’s what life actually is: a great adventure.
Being a participant with ixZiv.com may result in you changing your paradigm, your basic outlook on life. It is critical at this juncture in history for every human being to stop thinking of themselves as a biophysical machine toiling away in isolation in a hostile and uncaring universe.
The need is for more cooperation and less competition. For too long, the human race has been living under a “man against nature” mentality, or “man against man” or even “mind against body” point of view.
Assumptions like these -- basically incorrect assumptions -- cause you to stay rutted in archaic thinking. If, at the root of your personal world view, you believe that you are in aggressive competition with other people, other businesses, other ethnic groups, even with the opposite sex, then you will unfortunately go out and shape your world in this way; a world wherein you are constantly struggling against others and yourself.
Certainly, competition is a fundamental process of nature, and struggles are often a good and motivating thing, but most people are oversold on the notion of continuous, unending, aggressive rivalry. We have come to accept a hyper-Darwinian world in which all species of nature are enveloped in a titanic struggle to survive and do so by grappling with and defeating others. But when you take a second, more thoughtful look at nature, you find just as much cooperation as competition, and perhaps even more intertwined support.
Bees pollinate flowers as they gather honey. They cooperate. When an animal’s remains decompose, minerals that were once in bones once again become minerals of the earth, ready for use by something else. From that soil springs healthy new plants, which in turn provide nourishment for more animals. Obviously, the proper view of nature is that of a system of immeasurable interdependence and cooperation.
There is a network of life. Everything is involved in a ceaselessly interacting, nourishing, changing, enhancing, transformation. It is a complex dance that is the beat and pulsation of all existence. Thus, instead of getting up each day with the attitude of “joining the rat race” you can decide today to stop framing your reality as a competitive struggle, and revision your life as a journey of cooperation with everyone joining you for a mutual ride to get to a better place.
It’s interesting to note that one of the most successful business models is “joint venture” strategies, called “Fusion Marketing.” This is when two disparate companies find ways that they can share and merge resources for the mutual profit of each other. Today, literally millions of businesses are getting together to find innovative ways in which they can help each other grow and prosper.
When you study business, or follow business stories in the media, all you seem to hear about is competition and “competitive strategies.” To the discredit of the media, you will rarely hear about business cooperation strategies, yet the latter are among the most powerful and successful tactics used by both large and small business.
We find that natural science has provided an incredible underpinning that is designed to help us model our reality on cooperation and inter-connectedness. All energy and matter of the universe is grounded in the ‘zero-point field,’ (the primary manifestation of the Cosmic Intelligence). You are connected to that Intelligence; you are a part of it. Everything else is connected to it and to you as well including those aspects which you think you are competing with.
If you reorganize your elemental world view, bringing it into line with this new loving, interconnected, supportive mode of thought, you will find your life changing dramatically. It will seem like a miracle at first, and you can bet your bottom dollar that miracle or magic is the proper word for it!
When you incorporate the basic premise and embed it in your thinking; that your life and your existence is more about cooperation than competition, it will infuse all aspects of your life, making every aspect of your professional, personal, intimate, and social life more rewarding and fulfilling.
Connecting to Your Own Spirit - YOU!
Adopting the ixZiv basic fact of interconnected loving cooperation to be the central factor of your thought processes is the beginning. ixZiv will provide suggestions and instructions in a wide variety of proven methods and resources in which you can take part as per your choice.
A primary practice that is vital to your personal spiritual growth, and therefore growth in all areas of your life, is that which helps you make a stronger connection to that all-encompassing network of total existence, the Universal Intelligence or Cosmic Consciousness which is the source of all being.
Using ancient wisdom, from many traditions, along with the cutting-edge of science supports the idea that the strongest, most natural connection of the human mind to Cosmic Intelligence is through the subconscious to the super-conscious mind. Many of the problems and failings of the human race today can more often than not be blamed on the total dominance of conscious, ego-driven, and empirical thinking models.
All of us need to start paying more attention to our inner self primarily because that is where the utterance of Cosmic Intelligence may be heard and understood most deeply.
To gain greater access to the all-wise inner you, the conscious mind needs to be at least temporarily quieted. The conscious mind must relax its control long enough so that what lies beyond it can come forward and be better understood and used by you in a practical way. “Meditate/pray. Live wholly. Be calm. Do your work with proficiency. And like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Let your light Shine bright!
Have you ever tried to go to sleep at night, only to be tormented by your own mind? As you try to drift off to sleep, your mind keeps racing. You keep thinking about dozens of things, your current problems and worries, your plans for the next day, sudden memories that come back at you unexpectedly, sometimes memories from dozens of years ago. It can be maddening. You just want to sleep, but your own mind, for some reason, won’t let you.
Or perhaps during the day you feel your mind is scattered. Instead of being able to concentrate and focus on the important tasks of the moment, you keep getting distracted by all kinds of thoughts and the activity in your environment. Your attention span seems limited. The result is that the important tasks that need completing today are more difficult to concentrate on, and on awakening you function like a scattered, inefficient machine.
Both of these examples are signs that your conscious mind is out of balance with the deeper, more sedate aspect of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is in hyperdrive. And is crowding out all intuition and deeper contemplative thought. The ancient Buddhists of Thailand had a term for a runaway mind; they called it “monkey mind.” But now “monkey mind” is very much a disease of modern times.
We live in a complex age, the age of information, artificial intelligence, and instant gratification. We are constantly bombarded with messages from a myriad of sources. When you get up in the morning, you probably check your phone, computer, or TV and are confronted with enormous amounts of information, more stimulus in one day than our grandparents had in a lifetime.
Modern media is designed to cater to a short attention span. Most news items on are rarely more than a few seconds to 45 seconds long. Broadcasters throw dozens of information items at you, compacted into short-time bursts. In between the entertainment, they jam in messages from advertisers, weather reports, click bait, and anything else they can dump into your mind. Bombardment with media messages is only the beginning.
Today, people are so engaged in the everyday world, the term multi-tasking has been borrowed from the world of computers and applied to human beings. When people are driving to work, they listen to the radio as they think about all the tasks they must complete in the coming day. Even when putting the smart phone away while driving, there are still billboard advertisements, scenery, monitoring traffic signals and signs and watch out for all the other drivers as they navigate the rush hour traffic.
You may not believe this, but some even do other things in the car, like do/check their hair and make-up in the mirror, talk to people on cell phones, read and send text messages, some folks make notes with paper and pen. Some people listen to audio novels, or foreign language tapes. Etc. etc.
When you get to work, it’s more of the same. There are dozens of tasks to complete, e-mail to read, meetings to attend, co-workers to chat with, coffee to drink, telephones to answer. Some people have been known to listen to music or the radio while they work. The result is a daily blizzard of items for your mind to cope with every second of every minute, of every hour of the day.
Our special Techniques can help you surpass this distracting blitz: these techniques can be your Portal to the Cosmic Intelligence as a quick and sure way to reach and enjoy a powerful meditation Using Universal Intelligence.
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Emmanuel Kant, Philosopher
A lot of people discuss business over lunch or share the buzz of their personal lives as they eat. The result of it all is setting the conscious mind into overdrive, crowding out everything else and by “everything else” we especially mean the enormous amount of information that is existent in that sphere of awareness, which is the zero-point field of Cosmic Intelligence.
Think of Cosmic Intelligence this way: The spectrum of visual light is actually an exceedingly wide band of wavelength frequencies, but as human beings, we only perceive an extremely narrow segment of that total spectrum. We cannot see infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, X-rays, gamma rays, and more. But just because we cannot see it all does not mean that it does not exist.
Your active conscious mind, that which you experience front and center every waking moment of your life, is only a very narrow band of the total mind available to you.
Some psychologists compare the human mind to an iceberg. Ninety percent of an iceberg looms unseen beneath the surface of the water, with only the tip peeking out the top. But because we tend to invest so much into what we can see with our eyes; it is difficult to consider that the vast majority of the iceberg is unseen, and the vast majority of our mind is ignored.
Your super-conscious mind is open to a greater spectrum of all the information existent in the universe. It’s available to you, but because your “ordinary” mind is so busy multi-tasking, you almost never pay attention to the more subtle forms of information that surrounds you at every instant.
Yet even people with the busiest minds often get hunches, bursts of intuition, and other sudden creative insights that seem to come out of nowhere. Certainly, we have been taught that these incredible creative nuggets are from “nowhere” and that they are anomalies. The fact is, however, there is very good scientific evidence to suggest that creative, intuitive impressions is information existent and available anytime, at all times, and everywhere in the universe.
When we experience those wonderful moments of inspiration, we are actually accessing not only our own greater minds, but the mind of Cosmic Intelligence.
Everyone would agree that these mysterious, intuitive, creative bursts of information are wonderful experiences. Everyone wishes they would have more of them. The fact is you cannot only have a more creative and intuitive mind, but you can connect and use the vast potential of your super-conscious mind; what is even more exciting is this is where the unlimited, infinite wisdom, and information of the Cosmic Intelligence is. AND why and how it is always available to you.
It is important to note that we are not saying that your conscious mind is bad or inferior but what is important is that it is not allowed to control and dominate your total daily existence. Remember the goal is greater cooperation and that is how you earn the right to access all this wonderful, beautiful, powerful, universal knowledge.
Constant Cosmic Contact and Why to Meditate
Tune into The Cosmic Intelligence: A quick way to meditate and get in touch with the Cosmic Intelligence, the Mind of Spirit, starts with learning to quiet or ignore the constant din and clamor of the conscious mind. There are formal ways to do this, and there are many small, daily adjustments you can make that will bring Cosmic Power forward.
The most effective formal methods taught in the Far East involve long regular daily sessions but by utilizing our special ixZiv techniques you can obtain the same results in a more prudent fashion and more in line with the modern evolving lifestyle.
Meditation is both an art and a science that can be traced back in many forms throughout centuries of human development. All major religions have developed particular styles of meditation. Meditation is perhaps most associated with Eastern religions such as Buddhism, and various Hindu sects, which have developed some different and formal protocols for what each considers proper meditation.
But almost all Western religions practice meditative techniques, even though they may not call them that. Catholics, for example, pray with rosaries, which involve the rhythmic repeating of certain prayers, (similar to the use of mantras) and it’s usually done in a quiet setting while the worshiping person focuses his or her mind on the Infinite. Those who practice Zen meditation might argue that their practice is extremely different from those who favor, for instance (as an example but not the only example) transcendental meditation.
This teaching does not endorse nor frown upon any existing technique or particular school of meditation and recognizes the benefit of many forms of meditation and/or prayer. The bottom line is you can learn to meditate in any way, or with a method that suits your personality best. You can even invent your own form of meditation. All you need is to understand the universal basics that are common to all forms of meditation.
Here are some suggestions and guidelines: Any kind of meditation is more beneficial when practiced every day. Fifteen minutes to one hour per day are optimum, but if you only have time for just 5 or 10 minutes per day, you are a prime candidate for the ixZiv.com method revealed, the benefits will always be significant.
Meditation can be done alone, or with groups of people, quietly or guided. A few people report that meditating alone is extremely difficult, yet others prefer meditating while alone. Experimentation with both types will reveal what is best for you.
The fundamental goal of meditation is to relax the mind and ignore the body. Note that the goal of meditation is not to go into some kind of hypnotic trance, or radically altered state. The goal of effective meditation is very simple: To learn to become very calm and quiet for a certain period of time every day. You remain who you are and aware of who you are, it’s all you.
We repeat; conventional meditation is most potent when done every day. Most meditation starts with breathing. Take notice of your breathing the next time you are very excited or experiencing anxiety. You will discover that you may be breathing from the top of your chest, and with short and rapid intakes of breath. The greater your anxiety, the more rapidly you breathe. When you are calm and relaxed, it is just the opposite. You breathe more evenly and closer to your stomach.
You will soon discover that your state of mind can follow the way you breathe. When you make a conscious effort to take deeper, slower breaths, your mind responds and becomes calmer and more relaxed. This effect is increased when you make an effort to breathe with and from the bottom of your lungs, rather than from only the top part of your chest.
Some teachers of conventional meditation techniques prescribe certain postures and positions. Zen meditation, for example, requires that you sit in the lotus position, legs crossed, spine straight, chin slightly down with the top front of the skull pointing up toward the ceiling or sky. However, many people are simply unable to sit in the lotus position, while others find it so uncomfortable, they forego meditation altogether. Thus, we suggest you find a position that is easy and comfortable for you. It is okay to sit in a chair, lay flat on your back, or find some other suitable position.
When you are in your preferred position, begin breathing deeply and slowly, pushing the air in and out with your diaphragm, the top part of your stomach. Breathe in deeply through your nose, hold it for a tiny instant, and then let it out slowly and evenly [or in several controlled short powerful] bursts through the mouth.
Now here is the part which many people find the most difficult as you breathe out, you should seek to make your mind as empty as possible. The last thing you want to do is think about all those things you think about every day whether it be problems or anxieties, or happy, pleasant thoughts. The goal is to obliterate any and all every day conscious feelings and especially negative concerns.
The only thing you want to be thinking about or paying attention to is your breathing. Simply pay attention to how your breaths come in, and how they go out, and nothing else.
Now here’s an extremely important point: You want to empty your mind, but you do not need to struggle against your thoughts.
When people first start meditating, they are surprised at how extremely difficult it is to simply stop thinking! Your thoughts just keep coming. They distract you. They prod at you. They seduce and tempt you. Very often, you might forget about your breathing, and you soon wind up on one thoughtful tangent or another.
Whenever you find your mind wandering, don’t struggle. Rather, Recognize and bless the thought, and very gently bring your attention back to your breathing. You may find your mind wandering again and again. Don’t panic or get frustrated. Just keep bringing your attention back to your breathing, even if you have to do it a hundred times in a few minutes.
As you continue to practice, you no doubt will find that this gets easier for you. Be aware: When many people try formal meditation for the first time, they find it to be among the most difficult activities they have ever done. Meditation sounds simple and relaxing, and it can be, but for people whose conscious minds have been on hyperactive overdrive for most of their lives, just a few minutes of trying to make the conscious part of mind be quiet and relax some of its dominance can be remarkably difficult.
It’s easy to get discouraged, but if you continue this practice, the benefits to your life will be enormous, even extraordinary. Advanced masters of meditation will tell you that it’s not how well or long you meditate that is important, but the fact that you do it on a regular basis.
In meditation, there is no “good” or “bad” or “right” or “wrong.” Just continue your practice and don’t expect a specific result. The benefits in your life will be made known when you least expect it. On the other hand, many find that meditation brings powerful results, and changes their lives dramatically in a very short time.
The Science behind Meditation
Recent advances in medical technology have made it possible to verify and explain the beneficial effects of meditation. Researchers Daniel Goleman and Tara Bennett-Goleman conducted tests which showed an active relationship between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex during meditation.
The amygdala is the part of the brain that controls feelings of anger and anxiety. The prefrontal cortex, on the other hand, makes people slow down and be more thoughtful. This makes the prefrontal cortex excellent for analyzing and planning, but not good for making snap decisions. The amygdala is good for making rapid judgments based on what’s happening in the environment and has a powerful effect on human emotions and behavior, especially in moments of crisis.
For example, if a person sees a Tiger leaping out at them, the amygdala will trigger a fight or flight response long before the prefrontal cortex responds. The trouble is the amygdala usually does not discriminate between real danger and only perceived danger. This is particularly true in our modern world where social strife, job anxiety, relationship problems and more trigger the amygdala as if we were about to be attacked and eaten by a ferocious man-eating Tiger.
Not dissimilar to our ancestors who always had to worry about predators, people today experience events many times daily or even hourly depending on social media activity or when exposed to news which can trigger the amygdala response. The result is frequent anxiety events which, simply put, tends to drive people crazy. That may be why so many people are nervous and agitated, or why so many people resort to taking anti-anxiety medications, such as Prozac or Valium, drugs which calm the mind, but also deaden the creative spirit, and more often than not produce addiction. These same drugs that are supposed to help us can also make people feel like a walking zombie.
Studies of people that meditate have shown that the amygdala effects can be eliminated from daily life without the use of any harsh drugs yet still keep people safe by alerting them when they are truly in danger, and not just perceived danger.
Other studies of meditation have linked the practice to increased activity in the left prefrontal cortex, which is associated with concentration, planning, meta-cognition, or thinking about things, and positive feelings. As regular meditation increases the activity in the left prefrontal cortex, the constructive changes stabilize over time. That means, even if you stop meditating for a while, the calming, positive effects linger.
Also, during meditation there is a modest increase in slow alpha or theta wave EEG activity. Alpha and theta wave activity is associated with a feeling of “bliss,” or as some people report, “feeling blessed.”
At ixZiv, we place particular importance on those areas where religion and science intersect and support each other. In the case of meditation, we have literally centuries of evidence that meditation with the ixZiv dynamic is a proven way to improve one’s life, to feel happier and experience a spiritual oneness with the cosmos. And now that solid science has backed up this claim, we can state with a great deal of assurance that meditation will have the effect it claims to, and therefore, we espouse it would be a missed opportunity to not adopt this practice and use it to make your life better.
ixZiv meditation used as a daily practice will help condition your mind to be calmer, more creative, intuitive, and spiritual. By taking a more proactive approach by practicing ixZiv.com dynamics; you will also help increase and refine your healing qualities more naturally and rapidly.
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Author
Everyday a Real Connection
Living the Love Filled spiritual way of life means bringing your spiritual awareness into every facet of your life. Thus, we recommend you nurture your deeper, more thoughtful super-conscious mind in more practical and happy ways, allowing it to come forward more often in everyday situations.
Try this experiment: Tomorrow, during the normal course of your day, take a moment to notice how you are breathing. Do it several times a day. You may be sitting at your desk at work, driving your car, or cleaning your house. Many people are surprised to find that their breathing is actually fairly tight, shallow and rapid, and for no particular reason.
What this indicates is that your normal state of mind is possibly a lot more tightly wound than perhaps you thought it was. While you continue what you are doing, consciously make your breathing deeper, slower and more regular. Breathe from your stomach rather than from your chest. You may be very surprised at how much better you start to work, even in stressful situations. It may seem paradoxical, but by slowing down, you will actually speed up, and work more efficiently and productively.
When your mind is calmer, you think more clearly, make fewer mistakes, and you will see possibilities for improving the way you live and work, which you’re stressed out “monkey mind” may have been blocking from you.
Another daily activity involves testing the abilities of your intuition dozens of times per day. For example, every time your phone rings, pause for an instant and see if you can deduce who is calling you. If someone knocks on the door, look inward briefly to see if you can determine who is there before you go answer the door. Without looking at the clock, see if you can tell what time it is several times a day. Try to use this faculty on other things as well. Make it fun!
When you try this at first, you will probably have a lot of “misses” when you try to foresee who is calling you or who is at your door. But you are just beginning to exercise a certain mental faculty that you have long ignored, in this case, your inner mind and its abilities.
For most people, the intuitive, prescient powers of the mind have atrophied from long disuse. Thus, when you first began to invoke its powers, it may seem like a waste of time and produce less-than-spectacular results. But like any muscle in your body, it will begin to respond and strengthen when you start to acknowledge it, test it, stretch it, and use it more vigorously every day.
When you make conscious attempts to make better use of your super-conscious mind, it will respond in kind. It’s as automatic as telling your subconscious mind that you want it to wake you up at a certain time. When you make conscious attempts to make better use of your super conscious mind, it will respond in kind.
The subconscious mind “takes orders” from the conscious mind to a great extent. It is said that the subconscious mind does not know the difference between the truth and a lie. Whatever you program your subconscious mind to do, it will do, and do so naturally. The longer you continue to test and endeavor to activate your subconscious processes, the stronger you will grow in this ability, and the more amazed you will be with the positive results it will bring to your daily life.
Always keep in mind: Your subconscious mind is your paramount and first connection to Cosmic Intelligence. When you operate more in connection and with greater synchronization of the Cosmic Mind, everything in your life will demonstrably fall together more easily, with less stress, and with greater creativity. You’ll get more work done with less effort. You’ll have more flashes of brilliant insight. You’ll soon begin to see and enjoy the world and your life in a whole new and exciting, wonderful way.
The Aims and Mission
As a participant we are sure that you will agree that it is important that we all clearly understand our values, principles and aims. This is useful to know, not just because you should but because non-participants may inquire of you what it is that you are doing on the ixZiv.com website, what it stands for and what its goals are.
Here is a brief explanation of each of these: The Mission is to help you lovingly live the spiritual life in the spirit it is meant to be.
The Personal Mission of every ixZiv.com participant is: It is our duty and responsibility to personally exhibit and help our fellow human beings free themselves from poverty, misery, and disease and in doing so help and uplift everyone so that they may realize their true potential.
The Aims of ixZiv.com;Our aim is to proliferate enlightened thought; freedom, empowerment and hope, thereby unifying humankind and strengthening our connection and bond with Cosmic Intelligence.
The General Statement of the ixZiv.comis the natural creed of humankind. It is a philosophy with tenets as old as life itself. Ours is a teaching that questions and actively seeks answers.
We celebrate with special workshop concerts and seminars. We recognize the value of fun in the achievements and great destiny of all people. Ours is a teaching of freedom, love, empowerment, peace, and Joy.
There is an unlimited, all-encompassing, omnipotent, and intelligent permeating force existent in the Universe. This is the Ultimate Source and Power. It is Infinite, and it is all prevailing. It is Omnipresent, in everything and everywhere equal at the same time. It is all. It transcends space, time and dimension. It is without beginning or end. It is eternal. It is the originator yet came before and remains after. It is without form but is form itself. It is the field, the energy, the force, and the very fabric of the Universe.
It is the light. Above all, it is the power of balance and good. It is radiant love. It is pure intelligence. It is perfection; it is all-knowing, conscious and all-aware. It connects everything and is in everything; the planets, the stars, the galaxies and all that lies in-between and beyond. It is vibration and it radiates. It is all matter, life, awareness, intelligence and thought.
It is The One. All That Is. It is the Ultimate Source and Power, Cosmic Intelligence. As one with Ultimate Power, we have unlimited potential. Some call it God, while others prefer more modern or updated non-religious terms.
As Enlightened Human Beings: We do not knowingly kill or harm each other unless to protect the greater good and ourselves. We are citizens of the Planet; therefore, we respect, revere and protect it.
We pursue knowledge and truth to understand the Universe and our place within it. We embrace our relationship with the loving and Ultimate Power, the Cosmic Intelligence and the grace, power and wisdom we can gain from that stronger connection.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank Diarist
Participation Perks
Participation with ixZiv.com will have practical benefits for your everyday life. Many traditional organizations concentrate on so-called spiritual growth or benefits, which are not measurable in objective or realistic terms. But there is no true separation between what some call spiritual values and biological values. All areas of your life will benefit when all of them are in balance and working together. This includes personal, social, financial, physical, spiritual, mental, psychic, and the transcendent realm of your existence.
Physical Benefits
A major aspect of the ixZiv.com philosophy is that a healthy body is an important element for each human being to achieve their highest potential.
ixZiv.com provides a program of enlightening insights into how every person can achieve vibrant health and increased physical vitality. The word vitality comes from the Latin “vita” which means “life.” When your physical body is not in peak condition, you are not fully alive. You will be hampered in your ability to grow in other areas of your life, including the Tran-physical areas of mind and spiritual growth. But when you are in peak physical condition, your physical body will assist you in all areas of development because, ultimately, there is no true distinction between mind, body, soul, and spirit all working together to be YOU.
Mental Benefits
You are the master of your own mind, the captain of your mental state. The great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius said some 2,000 years ago: “Such as are your habitual thoughts; such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” Yet, so many people live their daily lives as a victim instead of a master of their own thoughts.
Every individual has the power within themselves to have the positive and peaceful, yet creative and energetic stream of consciousness they desire. Your mind is your own; you own it and you can make it work for you in exactly the way you want. ixZiv.com is a place where you can get help in gaining Mental Mastery.
Social Benefits
Human beings are innately social animals, and a fulfilling social life is essential to the overall highest potential of each individual. ixZiv.com itself is a collection and gathering of like-minded people, all of whom feel the urgent need to expand who they are as individuals, but also to join in unity with others to find the natural love and support of a group. But no matter what, a robust and healthy social life is a key to the best development of human beings. Thus, we provide resources to enhance a fulfilling social experience.
Psychic Benefits
When most people hear the word “psychic” they automatically think of ESP or some Sixth Sense kind of mental ability. But there is so much more, including enhanced forms of creativity and health. ixZiv.com is notably interested in tapping into the vast extended potentials of the human mind that lay beyond the traditional five senses. This is rich territory where much remains to be uncovered and discovered and is part of our exploratory mission.
Spiritual Benefits
Spiritual awareness means many different things to different people. Albert Einstein, for example, felt that spiritual experience was the sense of wonder one gains when one contemplates the marvels of the Universe, including its yet to be understood mysteries, as well as the profound aspects of reality that science has already constantly revealing to be true.
For others, Spirit is a more abstract relationship with the divine that defies description.
We recognize both of the above. Spirituality is when you experience the connection with All That Is -- when you feel “At one with the One”. To feel expanded, and that total connection with the all-permeating Cosmic Intelligence is the natural state of human beings. Our teachings can help you find your way back home to your natural state of belonging, to the human race, and to the Universe.
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller, Author & Activist
Lessons, Programs, & Classes
ixZiv.com is progressively introducing a range of personal development programs and courses designed to assist participants in their spiritual pursuit. Further details may be found here providing up-to-date information on meetings, events and other activities.
ixZiv.com is dedicated to the pursuit of special knowledge and to pushing back the boundaries of that which is as yet unknown. The mission of ixZiv.com is nothing less than to discover and reveal the answers to the Great Questions that have mystified humankind since its dawn.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why is ixZiv.com referred to as an out of this world ‘philosophical society? A: Many of us crave and pursue knowledge of that which we feel is greater than ourselves or mysterious. ixZiv.com answers this need in an environment of sharing and enlightenment.
Group meetings have always been an important part of the human psyche since the dawn of time. As human beings it is within our nature to want to belong. We consciously seek to identify with certain groups, causes or in this case, a spiritually and scientifically aware group.
Q: What are the benefits of being a participant of ixZiv? A: There are many benefits that you receive as part of your participation with ixZiv.com; Perhaps the highest of these is knowledge and comfort that you now belong to a creed of fellow travelers. You now also have access to the online Participants collections which has an expanding library of tools, articles and resources for you to explore and use as well as details and announcements of events. Additionally, participants may participate in all activities and services where you can exchange views, gain answers and share your own wisdom.
Q: As a participant are there any costs or fees to pay? A: No. Participation is free. Every person is entitled to enjoy the perks that ixZiv.com participation provides without cost. Of course, any donations towards the work and causes are entirely voluntary, very appreciated, and completely at your discretion.
Q: Are there any obligations or requirements for me as a participant? A: No, there are no obligations or requirements whatsoever. ixZiv.com is dedicated to the uplifting of humankind. As mentioned, there are no demands for money, no extra or special expectations of participants having to perform tasks, nothing whatsoever. Our desire is for every participant to gain value, insights, enjoyment, and personal enlightenment from their participation with full freedom.
Q: How old is ixZiv.com? A: We are a recently established organization but maintain that our Core Principle and much of its teachings are as old as life itself. This ancient wisdom is now being verified by cutting edge science. Our Progenitors are those that helped the ancients like Buddha, Jesus, and other great teachers with this wisdom and knowledge to be delivered at their society’s present level of understanding. With ixZiv.com you have the opportunity to examine and use these teachings and truths for yourself and to bring practical, positive and lasting illumination into your life.
Q: As a participant do I have to quit my current beliefs or religion? A: No. ixZiv.com does not pass judgment on any religion or philosophy other than those belief systems that may endorse or encourage harm to others. Participants are free to pursue whatever they wish outside the ixZiv.com teaching. Our hope is that all participants will find great value and a sense of fellowship in an atmosphere of Joy, Harmony, growth, friendship and discovery.
Q:What specifically are the beliefs or teachings ofixZiv.com? A:ixZiv.com does not have doctrine or dogma. The word “belief” itself is loaded with doubt. ixZiv.com does however have a simple convention that is more a pledge of conscience made by participants to try to live love, and help others live a better and happier life through the pursuit of truth, connection with the Cosmic Intelligence, and the unity of life.
Moreover, ixZiv.com holds as its Core Principle that there is a source, an ultimate power of infinite intelligence that originated, permeates and indeed is the universe and life itself. As such, we are a race of ‘connected’ spiritual beings of unlimited potential. It should be noted that we do not advance this principle not only as a matter of faith but on reason and overwhelming scientific evidence. The teachings are put forward on the basis of helping to extend each and every participant’s consciousness with the aim of exploring, utilizing and strengthening this cosmic connection.
Q: What activities are there? A: In addition to our regular site, participants are invited to share in the ixZiv.com retreats, workshops, seminars, and conferences. These events will cover a broad range of related subjects, there are also new and engaging self-learning programs being progressively introduced for the benefit of participants.
Q: Can I get more involved? A: Yes, most certainly. We encourage those who wish to assist in the grand work or in helping ixZiv.com by participating, volunteering or sharing in whatever way they can.
Q: How does ixZiv.com financially support itself? A: Participation with ixZiv.com is free and you are NEVER expected or obligated to donate any monies whatsoever. While ixZiv.com provides an increasing range of services and support to participants that have been initially funded by the progenitors, to continue and build upon this work, the expansion, new premises, administration, and proposed humanitarian projects, there is a clear need and appreciation for more and continuing support.
Obviously, this will only be possible with the generosity and philanthropy of our participants and friends. We provide several donation methods for those of our participants who wish to support the cause and work of ixZiv.com; Additionally, donations for our books, materials, programs, and events produce some financial income.
A Story To Sum It Up
The car was rammed tight into a V-shaped concrete median.
Passing by the car for a few days I saw that the front end was crushed against some concrete and the car appeared to be wedged in so tight that a wrecker would be defied extricating it from the wall.
The car stared back at me as if trying to tell me something. "Why didn't the owner come and move it?" I thought.
Then it hit me! So many lives are like this car. It told a story. The median had bales of straw guarding the entrance; obviously the construction crew was to use the straw to cover the dirt for the grass to grow.
The middle was muddy, yet this car had traveled well over a hundred feet to get wedged in, stranded, damaged, and unable to back out, people gawked and wondered why.
Are you or someone you know, traveling down such a road now? Something or someone warned me not to go down this road. Did you break past the warnings and go on anyway?
The dirt and mud didn't bother you; you were still rolling, traveling on your own road, feeling fine, maybe even excited.
Sometimes when we crash through the warnings, we don't realize it is a dead end. We can't see there is catastrophe, no sovereignty waiting at the end.
If you are traveling on the wrong road in life, there is still time to back up and turn around, before you get so stuck, before you can't move.
WARNING:
Be aware that science, religion, advertising, the media, and the government have proven conclusively that accepting statements and beliefs on faith alone can be hazardous to your wellbeing.
Think for yourself; search, investigate, examine, study and make your own informed conclusions.