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THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX TO LIBERATION

Second Edition 2017
ISBN 978-0-9985501-0-7
eBook ISBN: 978-0-9985501-2-1

PUBLISHED BY SIDNEY AND PHYLLIS KRYSTAL FUND,
a U.S. not-for-profit 501(c)(3) fund of the Futurity Foundation.

Cover Illustration by Annie Rose Fiddian Green
Cover Design by Robin Ludwig Design
Book Design and Layout by The Bridge Studio

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of the Sidney And Phyllis Krystal Foundation.

Tread lightly on the days stretched out ahead of you.
Leave as little mark as possible on your own ego self.
Let the light from within enclose each day.
And when it is finished,
blow it away as you would a soap bubble.
And move forward unencumbered
by old memories, mistakes, and successes.
This is the way to peace.

Phyllis Krystal

I dedicate this book
to Sri Sathya Sai Baba
whose life and teachings
are an inspirational example
of a true educator
in every sense of the word.

I am grateful to the people who have helped in bringing
this book to life, in particular, Peter Schlachter,
Sheila Krystal, Booney Henriques, Beverley Kissoon,
Neil Bisarya, Peggy Lenny, Peter Biemans,
Annie Rose Fiddian Green (Phoenix illustration)
and Dominik Haf.

PREFACE

Whenever I conduct a seminar on any of the many aspects of the work I have received, I always start and end each day by leading the entire group through the Maypole exercise, one version at the start and a shorter one at the end of each day. So it seems to be appropriate to lead whoever may be reading this book in the same way. This will give you a little taste of the method which developed so many years ago with my friend Virginia Lenney. In participating in this exercise to connect to your Higher Consciousness, Inner Guide, Real Self (or whatever name you would use to refer to It) and when practicing it in your daily life, you will find it to be of great benefit to you in many ways. We eventually began to use the term Hi C to refer to our Higher Consciousness.

So to begin, settle into a comfortable chair, or lie down if you prefer. If you are sitting, make sure your legs are not crossed, as this cuts off the flow of energy in your body. Place your hands with the palms up like little bowls ready to receive whatever the Hi C will give you. Imagine that in front of you is a tall Maypole with many coloured ribbons hanging down from the top. Imagine walking up to the pole and choosing a ribbon of any colour that appeals to you at that particular time (the colour does not matter). Then holding the ribbon in your hand, sit back down in your seat. Now look up to the top of the Maypole and ask to be shown an image that represents your Higher Consciousness. Then ask that relaxing energy be sent down your ribbon from the top of the Maypole. Breathe in as you receive this energy and as you breathe out, let go with your outward breath of any stress or tension whether physical, mental or emotional that you may be feeling. Take several deep breaths and breathe in this relaxing energy. Now ask to receive healing energy. Breathe in this healing energy, and as you breathe out become aware of any part of you that is not feeling well or whole. Next, ask the Hi C to send cleansing energy from the top of the Maypole down your ribbon to remove any negative memories, thoughts, feelings or conditions that you are ready to release. Take two or three breaths and ask for this process to continue as you read this book. Ask the Hi C for strengthening or re-energising energy to flow into you as you breathe in and exhale any weakness you are ready to release. Ask this to continue as you read this book. Finally, ask the Hi C to send its completely accepting and unconditional love to you. This is what you have all been seeking all your life whether you realise it or not. Breathe out any obstacles that prevent you from receiving unconditional love. Ask that this love continue to be sent to you. Finally, ask the Hi C to give you whatever guidance or insight will be helpful to you as you read this book.

INTRODUCTION

We appear to be going through a period of immense transformation in the economic, political and environmental spheres and many people are going through challenges in their own personal lives. As indicated by many of the world predictions, we are moving from one way of life to another and the old structures and patterns no longer seem to work and many people feel lost, without a guide to help point the way ahead.

Many people go through life facing immense difficulties unaware that this is part of an inner process of transformation and that if they are willing to accept and understand their situation, they are given the opportunity to learn from it. This book gives encouragement and incentive to people who are going through such difficulties. If they consciously use the tools that the method provides, they are able to cut the ties to whatever obstacle prevents them from living from the guidance of their inner Higher Consciousness, “Thy will, not mine,” rather than from their ego or any outer control.

This journey is symbolised by the Phoenix and the Butterfly which both go through a process of transformation from one way of life to another. This book addresses this very process of transformation both on the individual and world level and what it means for us.

Important Information
For The Reader

Please make sure that you have read my first book, “Cutting the Ties that Bind”, which all the exercises contained in my Methods are clearly explained. Otherwise, it may well be difficult to follow the sequences of the symbols as detailed in this present book.

For most of us, the problem we experience in the present results from events or relationships in our early growth period during childhood, the programming by our parents, teacher, other sources of teachers, relatives and other controlling influences.

This negative conditioning imposed in our early life, as well as from a variety of emotional bonds has restricted the natural growth of our personality.

Therefore, this Method has been used successfully over many years to achieve freedom to express more fully who we are.

Hi C is a unified state of higher consciousness and a source of wisdom and insight which we all have available within us with which to make contact and, can benefit from its superior wisdom.

THE METHOD

The method started in a very simple way in the 1950’s when my friend Virginia Lenney and I decided to try to make contact with a higher consciousness that we felt we had within us: a wiser part of our mind than the conscious minds. We had each been faced with problems in our lives for which we could not find solutions by using our conscious minds. But we both remembered several occasions when we would wake up in the middle of the night with a dream containing the answer or insight we needed. Or we would wake up in the morning with the answer clearly in our conscious mind, even though we knew perfectly well that we did not have the answer the night before. So we thought that there must be some wise part within us which had the answers. We eventually called this the Hi C, for Higher Consciousness.

Achieving contact with the Hi C is the basis of this method. Through the work we were also made aware that our subconscious mind contains everything that ever happened to us and that with the help of the Hi C we could find out what was hidden in the subconscious part of our mind that created obstacles in our present life. We discovered that there had been experiments to prove that the subconscious mind is very much like a computer. It registers and retains everything which has been put into it, i.e., everything that has ever happened to us. At that time computers were not yet developed. But in various hospitals, doctors were discovering that many of their patients came out of an operation, having been unconscious, or even in a coma, believing that they would die, or never become well, even though that was not the fact according to their doctors. After several of these incidents, the doctors decided to find out why their patients came out of the anaesthesia or coma with very negative beliefs. They decided to hypnotise some of these patients and discovered that during an operation, or during a period of time in a hospital, when the patients were unconscious, everything that took place was understood and recorded by the subconscious part of their mind. They could remember everything that happened, everything that was said, all of the comments made by the doctors, the attendants and nurses. Sometimes they would repeat what the doctors or nurses had said, such as, “it looks like we are going to loose this one” or “this one will never fully recover”.