PsychoNoetics: The MetaPsychology of Identity

In some ways PsychoNoetics started with allergies. I have always had allergies and the physical healing part of my work started when I became trained as an NAET * practitioner.

(*Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique, an allergy therapy based on a kinesiological diagnosis and acupuncture or acupressure therapy clearing.)

Allergies are the hardest things to heal. This is because they are not a disease state in themselves, but rather a healthy, defense mechanism run wild. An allergy starts with the association of a toxic stimulus with one or more innocuous ones. These associations create a category of stimuli that your immune system recognizes and reacts to as toxic and threatening. Thereafter, whenever these formerly innocuous stimuli are encountered, the body defends against them as if they are identical to the associated toxin. They have become allergens!

This kind of associative learning is not only normal; it is essential to our survival. It is what teaches us to unthinkingly avoid putting our hand in the fire or reflexively put our foot on the brake when the light turns red. Despite being normal, allergies can make our lives miserable and in extreme cases, endanger our health.

Associative learning is not only the way allergies form; it is the way they spread. For instance, many of us lose the enzyme to digest milk when we get out of infancy, but though it gives us indigestion, we like a plate of ice cream for desert. When we eat it after other foods, however, the toxicity of the undigested milk can associate with these other foods, and they can become "allergized".

Unlearning Allergies

So we don't heal an allergy, rather we unlearn it; we reverse the processes by which the allergy has been learned. When you come to me with an allergic reaction, I investigate what you have become allergic to, and then clear not only the reaction itself, but also the allergic associations and the way in which the immune system is triggered.

Even then, allergies cannot always be cleared permanently. They tend to come back. In much the same way as they were originally learned; they are re-learned. So sometimes the best you can do is manage your allergies, clearing or deconstructing them when they become bothersome.*

*When I first started working as an NAET practitioner, I was frustrated by the fact that some of my patients would regain their allergies, and I suspected that I was doing something wrong. However in time, I had the opportunity to treat people who were initially treated by very advanced practitioners and they too had relapsed. This motivated me to change my approach from allergy elimination to allergy management.

All allergies can be cleared. However, that does not mean you can come to tolerate exposure to every substance. Some so-called allergies are really incompatibilities or even toxins, and exposure to them will not only create a defensive reaction, but also "allergize" other substances that are associated with them.

Allergy clearing and allergy management

I offer two related services insofar as allergies are concerned.

1. I do distant healing/clearing of allergies, clearing as many as you can tolerate in one session (usually two or three).
2. I teach people how to diagnose and clear their allergies themselves so that they can manage them when they come back, and gradually become independent of my services. I encourage all my clients who have allergies to partake in the allergy clearing workshops that I offer periodically via telephone conference. As we clear allergies together, your bodymind starts to learn how to do it, and soon you develop the ability to clear on your own.

Ingestant allergies

• Food allergies and incompatibilities
• Drug allergies
• Vitamin and supplement allergies

Environmental allergies

• Pollen allergies, hay fever
• Mold allergies
• Allergies to cats and other animals
• Smoke allergies
• Exhaust and hydrocarbon allergies
• Chemical allergies
• Other environmental allergies

Contactant allergies

• Allergies to metal
• Latex allergies
• Wool and other fabric allergies
• Allergies to cosmetics

Emotional allergies

Sometimes we can become sensitized to a situation or even a person and have an allergic, defense response like sneezing or hives

Sometimes, usually because of severe or chronic exposure to toxins, a person will develop multiple chemical sensitivities.  This means that an exposure that would not impact an ordinary, healthy person, even one that has allergies, impacts them severely.  People of multiple chemical sensitivities go into full-blown allergy attacks at the slightest provocation, a whiff of perfume, the exhaust from a passing car, wet cement across the street, going into a room that has been recently painted, anything at all.

These people also tend to form additional allergies at the drop a hat.  In many cases, this is because they are in an ongoing, toxic state, and their bodies have to be detoxified.

In every case, as in all severe allergies, the immune system has also been weakened and the adrenals exhausted.  The treatment for this is complex.  In addition to unlearning the allergies and detoxification, energy healing, glandular, herbal and vitamin supplements, and biomagnets can all used to support and restore adrenal and immune system function.

If you are already working with a holistic physician, I am happy to engage as part of your healing team.

Sometimes people who are prone to allergies and in particular, people with multiple chemical sensitivities, also develop autoimmune disorders. This is when a part of your body becomes misidentified as an alien substance and your immune system starts to reject it. Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, and type 1 diabetes are just three examples of this widespread problem. The treatment for autoimmune disorders is similar to the treatment for multiple chemical sensitivities, i.e., identifying and unlearning the specific allergic reactions, detoxification, and supporting adrenal and immune system function. However, the parts of your body that have been impacted by an autoimmune reaction, glands, organs, joints, even the nervous system, may also need attention. These will begin to heal themselves after the autoimmune reaction is cleared, but may also need healing, supplements or more conventional rehabilitation practices. Furthermore, in the cases where joint, organ, glandular, neural structures have been significantly impaired, major medical intervention and support is indicated, e.g., insulin or knee replacement. For a more complete list of autoimmune diseases I refer you to a List of Autoimmune Diseases from Wikipedia.

Autoimmune diseases

Diseases with a complete or partial autoimmune etiology:

 

Accepted

The "Mesh" column lists those conditions that are classified as autoimmune by the MeSH system.

Name	MeSH?	ICD-10	Description
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)	yes	G04.0	is a form of encephalitis caused by an autoimmune reaction and typically occurring a few days or weeks after a viral infection or a vaccination.
Addison's disease	yes	E27	is often caused by autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex.
Ankylosing spondylitis	yes	M08.1, M45.	is a chronic, painful, progressive inflammatory arthritis primarily affecting spine and sacroiliac joints, causing eventual fusion of the spine.
Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS)	yes	D68.8	affects the blood-clotting process. It causes blood clots to form in veins and/or arteries.
Aplastic anemia	no	D60	is often caused by an autoimmune attack on the bone marrow.
Autoimmune hepatitis	no	K75.9	is a disorder wherein the liver is the target of the body's own immune system.
Autoimmune Oophoritis	no	N70	is a disorder in which the immune system attacks the female reproductive organs.
Celiac disease	no	K90.0	is a disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the proximal portion of the small intestine caused by exposure to certain dietary gluten proteins.
Crohn's disease	no	K50	is a form of inflammatory bowel disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. Major symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea. There is also a theory that Crohn's Disease is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis.
Diabetes mellitus type 1	yes	E10	when it is characterized by a deficiency or absence of insulin production (Type I), is often the consequence of an autoimmune attack on the insulin-producing beta cells in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas.
Gestational pemphigoid	no	O26.4	is a pregnancy-related blistering condition where autoantibodies are directed against the skin.
Goodpasture's syndrome	yes	M31.0	is a disease characterised by rapid destruction of the kidneys and haemorrhaging of the lungs through autoimmune reaction against an antigen found in both organs.
Graves' disease	yes	E05.0	is the most common form of hyperthyroidism, and is caused by anti-thyroid antibodies that have the effect of stimulating (agonist) the thyroid into overproduction of thyroid hormone.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)	yes	G61.0	is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (i.e., not the brain and spinal column). It is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis and Landry's ascending paralysis.
Hashimoto's disease	yes	E06.3	is a common form of hypothyroidism, characterised by initial inflammation of the thyroid, and, later, dysfunction and goiter. There are several characteristic antibodies (e.g., anti-thyroglobulin).
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura	yes	D69.3	is an autoimmune disease where the body produces anti-platelet antibodies resulting in a low platelet count
Kawasaki's Disease	no	M30.3	is often caused by an autoimmune attack on the arteries around the heart.
Lupus erythematosus	yes	L93, M32	is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease wherein the immune system, for unknown reasons, becomes hyperactive and attacks normal tissue. This attack results in inflammation and brings about symptoms. This is a "Non-organ-specific" type of autoimmune disease.
Multiple sclerosis	yes	G35	is a disorder of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) characterised by decreased nerve function due to myelin loss and secondary axonal damage.
Myasthenia gravis	yes	G70.0	is a disorder of neuromuscular transmission leading to fluctuating weakness and fatigue. Weakness is caused by circulating antibodies that block (antagonist) acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction.
Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS)	n/a	n/a	is a neurological disorder that appears to the result of an autoimmune attack on the nervous system. Symptoms include opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia, intention tremor, dysphasia, dysarthria, mutism, hypotonia, lethargy, irritability or malaise. About half of all OMS cases occur in association with neuroblastoma.
Optic neuritis	no	H46	is an inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
Ord's thyroiditis	n/a	n/a	is a thyroiditis similar to Hashimoto's disease, except that the thyroid is reduced in size. In Europe, this form of thyroid inflammation is more common than Hashimoto's disease.
Pemphigus	yes	L10	is an autoimmune disorder that causes blistering and raw sores on skin and mucous membranes.
Pernicious anaemia	no	D51.0	is an autoimmune disorder characterised by anaemia due to malabsorption of vitamin B12
Polyarthritis in dogs	n/a	n/a	is an immune reaction severely affecting the joints of dogs. Although rare and of unknown cause it can render a dog immobile even at a very young age. Treatment includes cortisone-type drugs.
Primary biliary cirrhosis	no	K74.3	appears to be an autoimmune disease that affects the biliary epithelial cells (BECs) of the small bile duct in the liver. Although the cause is yet to be determined, most of the patients (>90%) appear to have auto-mitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) against pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC), an enzyme that is found in the mitochondria.
Rheumatoid arthritis	yes	M05-M06	is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body's immune system to attack the bone joints.
Reiter's syndrome	no	M02	seems to be an autoimmune attack[citation needed] on various body systems in response to a bacterial infection and the body's confusion over the HLA-B27 marker
Sjögren's syndrome	yes	M35.0	is an autoimmune disorder in which immune cells attack and destroy the exocrine glands that produce tears and saliva.
Takayasu's arteritis	no	M31.4	is a disorder that results in the narrowing of the lumen of arteries.
Temporal arteritis (also known as "giant cell arteritis")	yes	M31.5	is an inflammation of blood vessels, most commonly the large and medium arteries of the head. Untreated, the disorder can lead to significant vision loss.
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia	n/a	D59.1	is a disorder characterized by IgM attack against red blood cells
Wegener's granulomatosis	no	M31.3	is a form of vasculitis that affects the lungs, kidneys and other organs.

Suspected

Diseases suspected or theorized to be linked to autoimmunity are:

• Alopecia universalis

• Behçet's disease

• Chagas' disease ^[3]

• Chronic fatigue syndrome

• Dysautonomia

• Endometriosis ^[4]

• Hidradenitis suppurativa ^[5]

• Interstitial cystitis ^[6]

• Lyme disease

• Morphea^[7]

• Neuromyotonia ^[8]

• Narcolepsy ^[9]

• Psoriasis

• Sarcoidosis

• Schizophrenia. ^[10][11][12]

• Scleroderma

• Ulcerative colitis

• Vitiligo ^[13][14]

• Vulvodynia

Additional Autoimmune Diseases: Autoimmune inner ear disease AIED

Karmic Clearing: a transformative process

Karmic clearing  (psychonoetic memory clearing) is a miraculous process. The underlying dynamics are complex but the experience is magical. Sometimes it is as if an entire psychological problem, something that has been troubling you your entire life, has just disappeared without a trace. You can't get in touch with the old feelings anymore; you can't even remember how bad you felt, how angry, how victimized. You are just over it.

How does this happen?

We are all in the grip of karmic patterns. A karmic pattern is just the effect of something which has happened to us, whether in this life or in a previous one. Because everything that has ever happened to us is permanently held in Karmic memory, it is as if it is constantly happening, and we are always experiencing it. Imagine that someone is continually hitting you - you would never stop feeling it. This is the case with karmic memories; they never stop being there and you never stop hurting. They are called karmic memories because they stay with you from lifetime to lifetime, stored in your karmic self.

Karmic Clearing actually erases these memories. You let go of them and, surprise of surprises, you stop feeling their effect. Then, with PsychoNoetics, you deconstruct the patterns which you have formed around these memories. After clearing and deconstructing, you just get on with your life, but with enhanced energy, clarity and ease.

How does PsychoNoetics clear these Karmic memories?

There is an unconscious process by which your soul body holds on to karmic memories. This, like the write-protected data on a computer, cannot be accessed unless you know the password. This data is held so deeply in our bio-computer that most of us don't even suspect it is there.

From his immersion in nondual consciousness, Dr. Jeff has developed from being a psychologist to being a psychological intuitive, a healer of the mind, a healer of consciousness . Non-dual consciousness has awakened in him the ability to access the memories held in another person's soul body and, by aligning his intention with theirs, to facilitate their release.

What is a Psychonoetic Clearing session like?

At first all you will be aware of is Dr. Jeff asking you questions, questions which you will not be required to answer-but just to hold. On the unconscious level, however, Dr. Jeff is going to be engaging your soul body, accessing, testing and releasing karmic memories and patterns.

As you release a memory however, you will probably become aware of a subtle relaxation, a lifting of tension. This is usually accompanied by an involuntary deep breath. As you rid yourself of the negative feelings and energy blocks that have accompanied the negative pattern, you start to feel lighter and clearer. Not only will you be relieved of your negative feelings, but in most cases they will become impossible to even get in touch with. They simply won't be there anymore. But this is not all. In the days and weeks to come, you will experience a series of welcome changes, as your psyche and your life radically reorganize themselves in tandem.

As you work with Dr. Jeff, whether privately or in workshops, you'll gradually develop the ability to do psychonoetic clearing on yourself and to help your friends and family as well. It is a matter of waking up and harnessing the intrapsychic energies and communication channels that are the real way that consciousness works.

Every psychonoetic clearing releases a trauma, unblocks energy and stimulates growth. Sometimes this opens a Pandora's box, as more and more repressed, psychic material becomes free to surface. This may give you the appearance of going backwards and may be discouraging for awhile, but don't worry. This is to be expected. Keep in mind that all psychological growth and spiritual evolution necessitates change and although it may be disturbing, it's an immensely positive process which will pay off in the end.

Over time, following the clearing path of PsychoNoetics, you'll transform yourself overtime into a clear vessel, free of self-imposed problems and limitations and in continual touch with your innate perfection, that which is variously called Christ consciousness, Buddha mind, God nature or simply Common Identity.

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An integrated paradigm of dis-ease and healing

I have news for you. A lot of physical diseases and most psychological and psychospiritual disturbances come directly from identity confusion! Identity confusion creates tension, inner conflict and stress. These, in turn, unbalance us. When this happens, the homeostatic processes that regulate every aspect of our body and mind kick into overdrive to restore and rebalance us. However, due to the stress of identity confusion, they are continually frustrated in this endeavor. Eventually they overheat, trip a circuit breaker, and stop working or at best work feebly.

Even before this happens however, we start to suffer the consequences of stress, both physical and psychological. The physical consequences include allergic and autoimmune disorders, stress syndrome, metabolic disorders, cancer, etc. The psychological consequences include most disorders that do not have a clear physiological or genetic origin, problems like depression, hopelessness, anxiety, rage, inferiority/superiority feelings, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction, ADD and the like. The list goes on and on, only limited by the mental health profession's ability to find separate ways of classifying what are essentially separate expressions of the same problem.

What is identity confusion?

Our identity is what we are. We all have a specific identity; one that is both physical and psychological and has many facets and layers. We were born with much of our physical identity and some of our psychological identity already given to us, but over time we added on this base. Experience and education taught us things that extended our identity. Some of these things were true when we learned them and remain true, others became less true over time and still others were never true. The things that remain true enhance our functioning, but the things that were false or became so, create self-conflict and limit our functioning. In short they create identity confusion.

Identity confusion then is when our true identity is overlaid with mistakes, and these mistakes, like glitches in the software, screw up our psychobiological computers. They create conflict, stress and dis-ease.

As I have said, identity confusion exists on both the physical and mental levels. One example of physical identity confusion is allergy. An allergy is a kind of conditioned learning. Allergies are formed when our immune system associates innocuous substances with a toxic substance so that a formerly innocuous elicits a toxic response. A more severe case of identity confusion is an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmunity is an allergy to a part of our own body. It takes place when our immune system misidentifies a part of our self as an alien substance and rejects it. An even more severe case of identity confusion is cancer. In cancer a part of our body actually mutates into an alien form, but, because it was originally part of us, our immune system fails to identify and reject it. Conversely, the cancer cells forget they are part of our body.

How is identity confusion the common denominator of these three, disparate disorders? Allergies are a case of implicit identity confusion, where we become confused as to what is toxic to us. Autoimmune disorders are a case of explicit identity confusion, where we confuse a part of our body with an alien invader and mistakenly reject it. The case of cancer is the reverse of autoimmunity, where we confuse an alien invader with a part of our body and fail to reject it.

Just as we can be confused about our physical identity, we can be confused about our psychospiritual identity.  And this confusion too can lead to both mental and physical stress, and even a complete mental breakdown.

Let us take inferiority feelings as a case in point.  We all have inferiority feelings at one time or another and about one thing or another.  From a certain point of view they are justified.  That is in everything we do, look like and have, there are others who surpass us.  No matter who we are, there are others who are smarter, stronger, sexier, have a better sense of humor and drive a better car.  Even if we are the greatest in something, we fall short in everything else.  There is just no way that we can be better than everyone else in every way.

But we can try - and that we do!  Every one of us continually compares ourselves to everyone else in every way!  How do we try?  We either compete or we rationalize. When we compete, we go on struggling as long as there is a chance of winning.  And what we are really struggling for, for permission to replace our inferiority feelings with superiority feelings in our own mind.  Why do we struggle so hard?  Because when we accept defeat, we embrace inferiority, with all that goes with it. 

When we rationalize instead of competing, we do it by finding fault with that which we are competing with, or by disqualifying the whole person. When we compete, we can lose.  But when we rationalize, we cannot.  But neither can we win.  Instead, we become trapped in more and more denial and delusion.

How do inferiority feelings relate to identity confusion?  This is where the psychological level of explanation gives way to the spiritual.  On the psychological level, thoughts, like physical things, are completely real.  On the spiritual level however, neither physical things nor thoughts are completely real.  What is real then, you might ask?  The only thing about us that is ultimately real is consciousness.  We are all just awareness, pure consciousness embodied in a body - and that consciousness, disembodied, is God.

When we mistake things like our body or its thoughts for our identity, our identity becomes a collection of things and we are in identity confusion. Things can be compared to other things and inevitably they are, but consciousness is consciousness.  It is no-thing and no-thing cannot be compared to anything else.

Once we compare one thing to another, we have three possible outcomes. It can be better, worse or the same.  Which means that insofar as our identity is tied to our attributes, when we compare ourselves to others, or things, we limit ourselves to being better, worse or the same.  Being better is superiority and carries overtones of authoritarianism and arrogance.  Being worse is inferiority and carries overtones of submission and depression.  Both are undesirable.  Which leaves being the same.  Individuals, even whole cultures have opted for sameness as a way of resolving conflicts and fostering cooperation, but in some ways sameness is the worst strategy of all. Because in the assumption of sameness the individual or culture sacrifices individuality, striving, progress, the power of discrimination and the possibility of excellence. 

So what then is the solution?  It is to transcend the level of false or mistaken identity, to understand our real identity and rest not in superiority, inferiority or even sameness, but in the aliveness that arises when comparison ends.  The gazelle doesn't covet the water buffalo’s muscle, or the water buffalo the gazelle's grace.  They just are different.  Neither better nor worse, they are just themselves.  So the way out of the inferiority superiority split is to rest in our real identity as consciousness, for consciousness is the one thing that is not a thing and so cannot be compared.  It, like all of us, just is.

Unfortunately, letting go to a real identity is not is easy as it sounds (and it doesn't sound easy). Understanding is not enough. We have to really correct the identity confusion belief by belief. We have to clear the belief that we are inferior and need to be superior. We have to clear how these beliefs make us feel. And we have to clear from our memory, those formative experiences that first taught us that there was such a thing as inferiority/superiority and that we were on the lower end of the seesaw.

As long as the building blocks of the inferiority remain in place, the inferiority feelings will persist and so will the need for superiority and the striving for compensation. Only when the inferior identity is deconstructed will the drive for superiority abate. And only then will the forces of psychological homeostasis return us to relaxation openness so that we can listen to higher reason and really take it in.

Facilitating healing

Have you noticed that I always say facilitate healing, not the way I heal? That's because in the final analysis only homeostasis heals. I just facilitate the process by clearing the identity confusion, resetting and energizing the organs and glands, and guiding the recovery process. Without the homeostatic processes, without the intelligence of the bodymind, without the life force, there can be no healing, only decline and disorder, physical and psychological.

This then is the healing paradigm of PsychoNoetics. It is firmly based in the science of consciousness and it guides my practice as a healer, enlightenment therapist and spiritual teacher.