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Do you remember the thrill of discovering firsthand the holographic mind paradigm of Mindscape, and the limitless potential it offers? Now we are going a step further: expanding the paradigm even more; putting into practice more of that potential; and using more powerful tools. If this appeals to you, welcome to Advanced Mindscape!

Advanced Mindscape contains both advancements of material learnt in Mindscape, as well as new techniques and material. It is the result of using and experimenting with Mindscape in my own life and work for almost a decade and a half since I first trained with John Veltheim. More recently, I concretized my idea for an advanced experiential workshop, and I was privileged that John gave me the go ahead to introduce Advanced Mindscape within the ever growing PaRama-IBA matrix. Since then, three Advanced Mindscape workshops have taken place: in Glastonbury, UK last year, and this April in San Antonio, Texas and Kelowna, Canada. Judging from the feedback, I can safely say they were a hit.

The motto of Advanced Mindscape is Explore, Expand and Upgrade...Beyond Workshop and this is exactly what we do in this intensive and exciting workshop. Advanced Mindscape differs from the Mindscape weekend workshop in a number of ways. For a start, it is a full three day weekend, with no introductory evening. Although there are specific subjects I aim to cover, we try to work in a 'right brained' format of moving with the individual group energy in terms of when we do what, and how much of each topic. Moreover, in Advanced Mindscape we walk the talk, so the learning itself happens while we're all in workshop state, eyes open and interacting together. Naturally, the crux of the seminar centres around the Mindscape method and concepts, however the various applications, techniques and enhancements we work with during the weekend may at times also borrow from other disciplines, such as systems thinking, NLP, shamanism, Kabbalah and the esoteric mystery traditions. But fasten your seat belts, let's take a brief tour of what Advanced Mindscape deals with.

A SHORTCUT TO WORKSHOP
We start by upgrading the Workshop technique itself (in this article I will distinguish the word 'Workshop' as in the basic technique of Mindscape, from 'workshop' as in seminar by the use of the capital letter). We do this by installing a 'trigger' - a particular hand or finger position, specific to each individual, which once activated, shifts the mind into the alpha state. The Trigger essentially means that you can then access Workshop in seconds, and in the weekend we use it all the time in everything we do. The Trigger has to be programmed (once only) by means of a guided multi-sensory exercise which anchors your brain's neurological pathway that leads you to the Alphamind state, with that specific finger position. From that moment on, you have your own 'Workshop mudra', a virtual shortcut to Workshop whenever you 'fire' the hand Trigger! Participants have reported the Trigger technique as being among their favourite in the weekend, as it makes Workshop more accessible than ever before.

CLEARING THE WAY AND PREPARING THE MIND
You could be driving the most high-powered sports car, but you will not necessarily get anywhere faster if the road ahead of you is congested or blocked. This analogy applies when we come to use mind and holistic techniques, so in Advanced Mindscape we take an in-depth look at those factors that can so affect our success, particularly the attitudes we hold. At advanced levels, be it Mindscape or BodyTalk, we need to give more than just lip service to working on those attitudes and mindsets that are detrimental to our work, including the vested interest and agendas, performance issues and other 'ego factors'. For instance, I must get it right is a common starting attitude for most people, yet a heavily-loaded one that actually threatens the success of our work. It's always interesting to look into why you feel you must get it right! By reframing our attitude from an expectation of an outcome to an observation of 'the process', which is not connected with any specific outcome, we begin to offload the huge load that often sits on our shoulders as we enter our clinic or office, and our results can improve significantly. Then of course, we might also ask our selves who is afraid of not getting it right, which is a whole discussion in itself! We will also learn several ways of stilling the mind, including an ancient walking meditation that balances intention with attention.

PLAYING WITH TIME AND SPACE
None of us need any introduction to the idea that time or space are not as linear as our conscious mind perceives them. Even physics tells us so. In Advanced Mindscape, we discuss this concept in some detail, but more importantly, we play beyond these boundaries. One example is regression, moving our awareness through time to experience specific moments from the past. This is a useful tool, for instance, for getting awareness of the cause of a trauma or an 8th chakra event. In one of the exercises in Texas and Kelowna, we took our conscious awareness to the moment of birth, entering the world, and availed ourselves of this perceptual position to consciously instill in the mind more of the attributes that will serve us in life. Given the quantum nature of the time continuum, we can postulate that this positive feedback loop into the birth process has a powerful effect on the present.

We also address remote viewing. While the Mindscape method is in itself a form of remote viewing, during the weekend we also try an approach to remote viewing similar to the way it was practised within the top secret military and intelligence projects, using specific targets for the experiment which I set weeks before. These sessions generated a great deal of interest, and some quite impressive results were obtained.