The Subconscious, The Divine, and Me: A Spiritual Guide for the Day-to-Day Pilgrim
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Through six lessons, Joseph Drumheller leads us from pain we feel to the ability to take action and create better lives.
1. Pain Leads to Suffering
2. Suffering Leads to Awareness
3. Awareness Leads to Healing
4. Healing Leads to Awakening
5. Awakening Leads to Development
6. Development Leads to Action
Joseph Drumheller
Joseph D. Drumheller has been practicing the art of healing since 1991. From 2003-11, he worked extensively with cancer patients at the PeaceHealth Cancer Center in Bellingham, WA. His mission lies in helping people overcome all forms of suffering and to learn how to connect to Divine presence. His own relationship to the Divine is expressed as a deep love for the outdoors, which he pursues as an avid whitewater paddler, boat-builder, visual artist, writer, musician, and geologist. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his twin flame Tamara.
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The Subconscious, The Divine, and Me - Joseph Drumheller
The Subconscious, The Divine, and Me
A spiritual guide for the day-to-day pilgrim
Joseph D. Drumheller
Pine Winds Press
An imprint of Idyll Arbor, Inc.
39129 264th Ave SE, Enumclaw, WA 98022
www.PineWindsPress.com
© Copyright 2011, Idyll Arbor, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Idyll Arbor Editor: Thomas M. Blaschko
Cover photo: Peter Bowers
ISBN: paper 9780937663240
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ISBN e-book 9780937663257
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To Tamara
For teaching me
The meaning of belief
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pre-Lesson Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Lesson #1 Pain Leads to Suffering
Lesson #2 Suffering Leads to Awareness
Lesson #3 Awareness Leads to Healing
Lesson #4 Healing Leads to Awakening
Lesson #5 Awakening Leads to Development
Lesson #6 Development Leads to Action
Appendix
References
Author
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, my thanks go to Tamara Zink. Without her love and support I’d be nowhere. In deep gratitude, I also want to acknowledge my Corbin/Drumheller ancestry and my immediate families for setting the foundation for growth, stretching me beyond what I thought possible, teaching me where I need to develop, helping me understand forgiveness, and learning what love is and is not (I’m still working that one out).
I’m deeply indebted to each client I’ve had the opportunity to work with. They are my teachers. Much of what I have learned has come through them. I also acknowledge, with deep thanks, Oneness University for popping the cork to deeper levels of spirituality that changed my life forever.
More thanks to:
Ananda Giri and Tony Robbins — for personal miracles that defy description
Bev Edie — for artwork, T, being my friend and one of my deepest revered teachers
Carol Brumet and the PeaceHealth Cancer Center in Bellingham, WA — for the opportunity to work on a very deep level
Chris Morgan — for playing his part in one of the coolest synchronistic connections that helped get this book published
Courtney Seard, Abby Soley, Mark Butterworth — for teaching me how to be a healer
Flora LaRayne – for her gentle healing, insight and guidance
Fran Bolt — who helped start this ball rolling
Jacklyn Johnston — for powerful help in my own healing and development work
Natasha Haycock-Chavez — not sure why, but hey, it’s my book and I can thank anyone I like!
Tom Blaschko and Idyll Arbor Inc. — for making me a published author
Oh yes, and The Divine — for making it all work
Introduction
I decided to write this book for four reasons.
First, every winter for the past six years, I’ve built a boat — nice cedar strip canoes, works of art actually. Recently, I moved into a place without a workspace and nowhere to build a boat. I’ve also developed a gnarly allergic reaction to epoxy. To put it simply, I can’t build boats anymore, so I have extra time on my hands.
Second, I have a secret. I think I’ve figured out the nuts and bolts to living practical spirituality, how to do it on a day-to-day basis in a regular life…without incense! I’ve kept this secret so long that it’s starting to bug me. In fact, the Divine has been encouraging me lately to get the word out. I’ve got all this extra time on my hands and no place to build a boat. I can take a hint: It’s time to write!
The third and most important reason is to help you (the reader) discover and develop your own connection to Divine presence, an absolutely necessary skill to lead a happy, healthy, purposeful life. In a broader perspective, in order for humanity to emerge from this time of transition, this Divine connection must be the cornerstone experience.
And my last reason for writing this book? Because Tamara told me to!
This book has no affiliation with any given religion, though I frequently refer to a benevolent presence that’s bigger than all of us. There are a million historical words for it: the Divine, Chi, the Great Spirit, Collective Consciousness, Higher Self, Source, God…you name it. I’ve never found a word that completely sits right with me. So to make it simple, I’ll use Divine.
I’ve laid this book out as a series of cookbook-style lessons
because my peanut-sized brain likes to make sense of things by connecting the dots. However, we all know life isn’t so neatly cut and dried. More often than not, you’ll discover in the living of life that these carefully devised lessons
don’t follow any particular order. They frequently overlap and weave in and out of one another.
I’ve used a few stories in places to help the text flow and to keep the material from becoming too heavy, dry, or boring. With the exception of the Pre-Lesson and Lesson #5, none of the stories you read here are real. Rather, they are a mishmash of hypothetical situations that I have comprised from my own personal experience or bits and pieces I’ve accumulated through hundreds and hundreds of sessions. Healing is based on trust, and I protect client confidentially absolutely.
In the pages ahead, I’ll be sharing knowledge and experience from over two decades of working with the human subconscious — work that has consistently produced positive results in the physical world of healing. Some of the information presented here, about 10 percent of it, has been acquired through reading and attending courses. The remainder of my knowledge has been gained from personal experience. I’ve lived through these lessons. I’ve suffered deeply, as we all have. I’ve learned, I’ve healed, and I’ve grown. Call it luck or fate, but I’ve had the incredible opportunity to be on both sides of the inner journey fence as a student, client, facilitator, and teacher. Growth stops for no one; there is no going backwards. Awareness and experience, driven by Divine grace, are the keys. We are here to grow into happiness. So, shall we begin?
Pre-Lesson Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Let’s Eat Dessert First!
Why bother with spirituality? It seems like a pretty strange and ambiguous venture. I’ve never really understood it anyway. I mean, what’s the point?
Let me answer with a story.
Last summer, I went to check my e-mail at the local library. It’s only about a half-block from my office, and I go there all the time. On the way over, I bumped into a client I had assisted through his cancer treatment. The work we had done together went exceptionally well, and his recovery into full remission was amazing. After doing subconscious healing work with him for a couple of months, he decided to quit chemotherapy completely. He later had a successful reverse colostomy bag surgery, which is very rare. And now he’s doing fine.
While we were chirping away on the sidewalk, another former client of mine walked by and joined in the conversation. I hadn’t seen him for seven years. He was another cancer recovery patient…full remission.
As we spoke, we realized what we had all been through together. Life and death — or rather, death and life. Everyone was beaming. I was beaming to see them both alive and to have had a hand in their recovery; they were beaming because they had survived. It was a moment of experienced collective joy, one I’ll never forget.
Joy, happiness, excitement, passion, purpose, meaning, peace, contentment, fulfillment, abundance, freedom, etc., etc., etc. How many of us get to experience these words, let alone live them out on a daily basis? Not nearly enough. The adventure we’re about to embark on will lead into the realm of these words. It’s the sole reason for taking up a spiritual path: to increase the quality of life. Try to keep that in mind.
Spiritual and personal growth takes time. It takes focus, commitment, and even some skill. I’m not going to pull any punches; it can be difficult, especially in the beginning. However, that’s why I’m here. I’m here to guide you through the process and help you avoid bumps along the way. The effort you put in will produce noticeable results in your daily life. It will also influence the lives of everyone you come in contact with. So if you’re interested in making your life and the world a better place, then by all means, please join me.
Pre-Lesson Homework
You thought you were going to get out of homework? No way! So, snuggle up in a cozy chair with your favorite pen, a cup of hot cocoa, a fuzzy blanket, and we’ll begin.
Take a few moments and answer this question: At this point in my life, what does spirituality mean to me?
Hint: This is a trick question. Save your answer.
Lesson #1 Pain Leads to Suffering
Watch Out for the Dog Poo!
Okay, so how many of you out there have never felt pain? Go ahead, raise your hands. Hmm…just what I thought, nobody. Unless you were born enlightened, the road to eternal joy, peace, and happiness begins with pain. This is a seemingly unfortunate part of the human condition. However, the good news is that most pain is only in your head. That is to say, the ache of life starts in the human mind. Allow me to explain the best I can.
I don’t pretend to be an expert on the intimate and mysterious workings of the human mind. What I propose to do is lay out a simple theory that has proven to be a very effective model. Keep in mind that theories are just theories and are subject to modification at any time. This one has worked well for me over the last couple of decades.
The Conscious Mind — Noise, Noise, Noise!
Each and every one