Paul Lenda | Maintaining Mindfulness Amid Hyperdimensional Interference
Paul Lenda is an author and mindfulness guide, who has been residing in Laos during the 2020 lockdowns. He's the founder of websites like SHIFT and The Uplift Guide, and he wrote a great book called The Creation of a Consciousness Shift. Join us for a conversation about attaining our highest evolutionary potentials, contacting spiritual guides, cultivating awareness to find truth, and much more.
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In this episode
Core themes
Chasing Perpetual Summer to Laos
Paul describes leaving the United States after Washington State, which he expected to feel like home, stopped feeling right. He says he questioned his higher self through regression hypnotherapy, the I Ching and meditation, and the answer was to live in perpetual summer for at least a year so his energy field could stay expanded instead of contracting through winter as it had in Vermont. After about seven months in Thailand, where a Buddhist rather than Christian culture shaped daily life, he says he and his partner were the last two people granted visas into Laos. He also recounts being told his cats were his guides.
Meeting Your Guides in Meditation
Asked how to connect with guides, Paul starts with getting into a receptive mode past the noise of distracting thoughts, using a square breath of four counts each, the 4-7-8 breath, breathing mantras, or ambient tracks from the Insight Timer app. Longer sits bring an alpha state of pure awareness where, he says, the messages arrive. He describes close to a baker's dozen guides, including towering blue and black beings with gold accents and a crystalline figure in a meditation circle around the planet. Both men urge testing unfamiliar beings, and Chance suggests simply asking fearlessly whether they are of the highest and greatest good.
Time Fractals and Reframing the Past
Paul says the higher self is not somewhere above us but already within, stretched through dimensions in the same space, and he prefers the term time fractal to timeline because past, present and future happen at once and shape each other. He describes healing the past of his lineage and setting blueprints for the future. Chance frames changing the past as reframing your view of an event, and offers a simple method: journal a hard memory from the view of an omniscient narrator who loves the main character unconditionally. He calls imagination the core operating system of thought, and Paul extends the same approach to inner child work.
Tuning Forks, Toning and the Energy Centers
Chance shares his work with tuning forks and toning with his own voice, and his sense that sound and electromagnetism are two sides of one phenomenon, like thunder and lightning. Paul recommends Sacred Sounds by Ted Andrews, whose author suggests a pitch pipe for tuning the seven energy centers, and The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson. Chance then raises the idea of two hidden notes beyond the familiar seven, tying it to nine as the number of the self. Paul answers from his own visions of a toroidal energy body, describing one energy center above the head and another below it, like infrared and ultraviolet.
Charge, Synchronicity and Spiritual Armor
Chance argues that personal charge shapes how much synchronicity and manifesting show up, calling the knowledge that health is wealth the real life hack. He describes the halo chakra as a kind of spiritual armor, like a coach high in the bleachers calling plays. Paul adds that synchronicities come in many forms beyond numbers and that synthetic ones exist too, so one that leaves a situation still feeling wrong may not be authentic. Chance casts trickster entities as split off parts of the psyche, and closes on attention as spiritual currency.
Quotes
“It's always good to remind ourselves that we're embedded inside a unified field of conscious energy that is essentially limitless.”
“All of us have a really powerful support team behind us, and even though you can't see them with your regular perception, they're there.”
“The imagination is a portal that can take you anywhere. It's not like this abstract, ephemeral, pointless, silly, fluffy add-on to the human machine.”
“Your higher self isn't somewhere higher than you. It's not spatially like that. It's already within you.”
“There's no safety guaranteed in reality, but challenges are always a direct result of what is necessary, and the obstacles are the course, as you might say.”
“People usually just think about number synchronicities, but there's a lot of different kinds.”
“Your currency and your current, they go hand in hand. Not just your money, but your spiritual money is attention. That's your spiritual currency.”
“It may seem like we're going through intense darkness right now, but it's always darkest before the dawn, and there will be a new dawn.”
Paul Lenda is an author and conscious evolution guide who founded SHIFT and wrote The Creation of a Consciousness Shift; he appeared on InnerVerse to discuss maintaining mindfulness amid hyperdimensional interference, contacting spiritual guides, and cultivating awareness to find truth.
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