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When she first viewed Amy Hardie's film The Edge of Dreaming, Barbara Condron experienced Buddha's Eightfold path coming alive. "I knew the right message had arrived at the right time and now was in the right hands," she says. "Amy's story opens the door to the soul inviting us to enter the in between land of twilight. Peace and self-assurance replace fear and dread, and we are liberated into new levels of thinking."
Since seeing the film with her students at the College of Metaphysics last September, Condron has corresponded with Hardie. As Governor of International Education at the School of Metaphysics continuing education plays a major role in Condron's global vision, so when Hardie offered to come to the School to offer her workshop, Condron saw it as a natural next step in evolution toward the unfolding of intuitive, Spiritual Man. (That story is told in an article entitled "Everyone Needs to See this Film, or How Sixteen Schools in the Midwest U.S. came to Host a Scotish Film on Dreams".) The sutra of two souls drawn together through the laws of duality, attraction, and relativity reveal the working of Universal Law in their lives and in the lives of an infinite number of people.
March 2-6, 2011, Amy Hardie is attending screenings of her film and leading a follow-up discussion and workshop at three venues in the greater Chicago. She is speaking at Columbia College, a leading institute for film study in the U.S. on Thursday, at the Jungian Center on Saturday, and at the Theosophical Society in North America on Sunday. The venues have been carefully selected by SOM President Dr. Laurel Clark and are sponsored by the three branches of SOM in the Chicago area. This blog serves as the record of the experiences of those present at these events.
EnJOY!
Before too much time passes, I want to express my joy and gratitude to everyone who contributed to the events with Amy Hardie in Chicago. From the lecture at Columbia College, the workshop at the CG Jung Center and the one at the Theosophical Society, we drew over 100 new people into our Circle of Love …. that’s 100 new people with whom we can follow up because we have names, addresses and contact information.
That is not counting the hundreds who now know about the School of Metaphysics through beautiful posters posted by students in the Chicagoland area, emails sent to college professors and department heads, phone calls made to university chairs, media people …Each SOM student in the Chicago area (Palatine, Chicago, and Bolingbrook) contacted one or more colleges and universities. Collectively we reached 80 colleges, universities, and junior colleges. Students called or spoke in person to professors and heads of departments, to let them know about Amy Hardie’s visit to Chicago, especially the lecture she was giving following the screening of The Edge of Dreaming at Columbia College. Some of the universities sent out “email blasts” to their entire student body. One college broadcast it on their campus radio station.
For many of the School of Metaphysics students, this was a new experience. I witnessed growing confidence, joy, and inspiration in our students as they reached beyond their familiar friends and family to speak to “strangers.” I put this in quotation marks because no one really is a stranger when we relate soul to soul, mind to mind. This is the kind of communication that occurred … and the growing awareness in the students who reached out created a strong attractor field which drew to us the 100+ NEW people who came to the Amy Hardie events.
This is huge. Our students learning to reach out and receiving the joy of meeting new soul friends (resonant with the “anam cara” or “soul friend” in Celtic tradition that Amy taught us) warms my heart. I anticipate growth in our students and teachers as they build upon what they learned in this community outreach.
We are glad that we could give to Amy Hardie the environment to give to and receive from these people hungry for knowledge and resolution … and we are grateful to Amy Hardie for providing us the opportunity to create in this expansive way.
“I have heard many people say beautiful things about me and my film,”Amy told the group of 20+ SOM servers who gathered at the India Palace Sunday night to enjoy each other’s company and recap the past four days. “If you say my film has brought beautiful things, you have to know it’s you who brought it.”
This is the true measure of the woman I have grown to call aman-cara, soul friend. Amy Hardie is my aman-cara and I am very glad the Universe saw fit to conspire to cross our paths, here and now. [I will have to look more closely into that]
For now, I am reflecting upon the Celtic Bardos Amy brought to us. I learned about the woman in these past five days. Amy said she was very free in her twenties, making award-winning films, even then on cultures and their beliefs about dying. She has always been awake to mortality. Sometime during those years, doctors told her if she didn’t follow treatments, cervical cancer who render her unable to bear children and perhaps kill her. Being an independent thinker, she chose a self-directed, homeopathic route and went on to have three children and a very full life.
At one time Amy was going to earn a degree in religious studies, and this reflects in her thoughtfulness and in her openness to all the possibilities Mind can hold. A few years ago, she decided to write her PhD on the process of dying. She has filmed people dying. She has taught family members how to film dying parents or loved ones. She has worked with health care professionals to assist in this transition from physical life to the other worlds. Into this world, came the dream that she brings to life in her film, The Edge of Dreaming. The film is her PhD work and a gift to the world that I likened to David Hawkins’ Power v. Force.
I wrote a piece called “Everyone Needs to see this Film” for http://www.som.org before meeting Amy. Now, I think everyone who can, should have the privilege of hearing her speak. She talks on the film and the bardo, even leading the audience through an experience of the 3rd bardo, the place of regret and transformation. I shared with her the Resolution taught in the evening of the POWERS of TEN day, as it seems a fitting partner for her work. She is a testament to a life well-lived – growing, caring, transforming, learning every day. Meeting people, traveling, listening and sharing Truth. She is a wise woman, one who knows from experience and teaches from that place. She is a model worthy of emulation for any SOM student.
Now her work has led to us. She was quite taken with our ability to work together. As she learned about our course, our practices, and the reality we create, she was quite moved. The first day she agreed to be filmed for Hezekiah’s next movie, The Second Life, and contributed wonderful hints of how to use gauzy material to create effects and the kind of sound equipment and camera to own to make his movies just that much better.
On Friday, she filmed Dr. Laurel Clark and I on the subject of the Intuitive Health Analysea at the same time Dr. Terry Martin and Paul Madar gave them for people in St. Louis. [The inner level connections in this amazing three weeks of coordinated meetings involving people in/from three continents continue!] She will be sharing that film with the group of forward thinking physicians she meets with once a month in London. She has also requested a health analysis for herself which she will also be presenting to the doctors as an alternative tool to assist in an individual’s healing process.
Saturday at the Jung Center we experienced Amy’s workshop for the first time. It is of the quality SOM people have learned to expect from the school’s graduates. Amy is a woman who lives by Universal Law. Her consciousness is sufficiently entrained to draw to her the people, places, and things needed to manifest work that is meaningful to us all. That work began with the shamanic journey she introduces in her film. It became a personal practice, working herself with the aid of an aman-aire, through all six bardos until she now teaches that this is to be experienced before you die. I agree. I have been studying the Tibetan bardos for several years now and have come to understand them as the steps one must take to enter into and then exist in the inner levels of consciousness. I learned about these inner levels in the study and practices at the School of Metaphysics. My experiences over the past 35 years make it easy for me to receive, integrate, and comprehend the Celtic bardos, and I am so grateful.
When Amy and I talked about this she said the Tibetan bardos seemed a bit heavy, with their talk of hungry ghosts and such. “The Celtic bardos are lighter,” she said. Now that I have learned of them, I concur. These are the emotional doorways to love that I have been striving to communicate for a decade now. Amy speaks of realizing through this Edge of Dreaming period of her life – which spans since 2004 – how many of her choices were ruled by fear. The journey she describes is one of heart, of courage, and ultimately the triumph of love. The Silver Cord, the movie I made with ten SOM teachers, has been brought back to me in these days with Amy. I give her a copy thinking it might be of assistance to some she will meet in the next three years as she embarks upon work with hospice care providers. I remember several people sharing how The Silver Cord affected through who were facing severe illness or their own impending deaths. At the time, it seemed those people understood the movie the best, and through Amy’s eyes I am beginning to see why.
On Sunday, Amy talked about her journey from fear to love while walking the labrynth on the Theosophical Society grounds. I shared with her the script for a movie I quite literally threw together, with Laurie Biswell’s devoted help, in 2009 for the Chicago IASD conference. The film was simply called “Emotion in Dreams”. It was meant to be a vehicle to showcase SOM dream research on nightmares and to introduce the six emotional doorways to love and how they relate to dremaing. It became an enlightening experience of wakefulness to the True Reality for me, and I have wanted to revisit it. Receiving Amy Hardie, has crystallized that film for me and added the piece I needed for it to become a great film worthy of our new friendship.
I give my Whole Self to Amy for offering, to Laurel Clark for saying yes on behalf of many people (as is just what a president must do!), and to everyone for being who you are so that night at India Palace Amy would also say:
“I don’t think I’ve ever met a group of people like this in my whole life. You’re enormous, you’re coherent, your energy is in sync, it’s the most beautiful thing and I feel privileged to have been here. I will never forget it.”
The weekend was an eye opening experience. As soon as I can gather the funds to purchase this amazing film I want to show it and open up discussions of my own to as many people as I can.
Last Sunday I had a wonderful experience . It was after the showing of Amy’s movie and she was teaching her Celtic Bardo workshop. As we paired up with a stranger to tell a story about a time when we got it wrong, I experienced some old emotions about being inept, and unworthy when I was fired by a client and nine months later rehired some 35 years ago. The response from my partner was completely unexpected as she took a positive and constructive view of what I had just related to her. It was from a neutral perspective instead of my self incriminating point of view.
Wow! She was able to perceive my desire to understand how energy is initiated through expression and how I responded to it superficially instead of observing it’s influence energetically on my environment. She described my inner intentions were actually desiring to understand the cause of the energy expressed, how it is directed and effects other energy. How it can be received in many ways is what I can perceive when I desire to remain neutral. She saw my inner desires repeatedly drawing more experiences for me to study and learn the cause and effects and the choices I can make in any one moment to adopt and make new choices from…
Since this experience, I have been reviewing events in my past, looking at them from different perspectives and marveling at the box I put myself in many times with my poor self perception influencing me to be unproductive. Then I have been looking at positive influences I have been and the way I perceived the energies effecting good results. In these circumstances I am not concerned about how they effect me but how I can use them to gracefully give to others. Great examples of how I have perceived to cause the experiences I have learned from in my whole life.
What a difference…I have been thinking because of this, it would make an amazing DVD, movie or Broadway play…to illustrate to others how awareness and perception of the flow of positive and negative energies are determined by us individually. How powerful.. Thank you, Amy!!!
What a wonderful experience being at Columbia College viewing “The Edge of Dreaming”. It was great to meet Amy Hardie and chat along with hearing more on her experience and making the film. It was also a great pleasure serving and being part of a whole. A lot of amazing energy and being a part of that I feel truly blessed.
Reporting in from Kansas City! Just shortly arrived here driving from Chicago this morning after the fantastic weekend: well worth the trip! With ample time to process what I experienced in the weekend lifetime of experience, here’s what I’ve experienced can be summed during a dinner wrap-up meeting after yesterday’s film and workshop at the Theosophical Society. Amy Hardie stood up and described the feeling she had of the entire experience in working with the School of Metaphysics as being, “Like dancing with a group of HUGE energetic beings.” As a litany of dance music flooded my Hyndau Elantra on the trek here, I allowed my mind to play with that image more. I imagined my huge Self dancing amidst other Huge beings on life’s dance floor and thought that was one of the key messages of her workshop and of life itself. The neuroscience and Celtic bardos Amy describes in her workshop hold the key of intentionally causing change and transformation into a state of living, breathing, singing and dancing as we truly Are with recognition and reverence. The application of the workshop gives people the opportunity to go beyond identifying themselves as soul in theory into identifying themselves as Reality.
Ellie, my partner in the workshop, described the journey I was embarking upon like, “a highly enthusiastic cowboy riding a wild and free horse, open to possibilities on where the ride might lead him.” As I fill my heart with Joy and Love, I imagine this picture with helps me to identify myself as Soul, happy to come upon Others upon their Horses.
Thank you Amy for coming to dance with us and thank you everyone in Chicago for making this possible.
In order to Grow we must learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Visualization of a project for me turns into plans on paper, outlines of major milestones layered with levels of detail. This is great for managing a project. Project goals, aligned with specific strengths and desires of individuals is what makes a project a success. So began and evolved the Edge of Dreaming project for Chicago. Ideals, desires and needs of both students, teachers and participants came together in a beautiful way enabling all to understand more of themselves and all the others we have grown to know and love. Projects are not without challenges offering us opportunities to grow, like adjusting to policies at Theosophical Society to reassessing activities to meet deadlines to launch the first venue. This project offered us all opportunity to grow and expand our ability to vision and realize our goals. We saw the venues filled. With my calendar full in all aspects of my life, I learned to release and let insight and love guide decisions. I challenged myself to push through emotions, some who’s source I have yet to define, to keep clear the course and the goal: to support the needs and desires of all concerned, myself included. And so tonight I rest, knowing that we have made a major move toward expanding the visibility of the Source, the light within each of us to aid others in their journey. And, we have met a wonderful soul and new divine friend — Amy Hardie. Namaste
It was a privilege to be at the Jung Centre yesterday, and hear the richness of reflection as people made connections to the Celtic Bardos and neuroscience from hospice, Jungian, Buddhist and metaphysical perspectives. That was a rich mix, and I loved the quote from the Buddhist tradition ‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought’. To know that neuroscience is showing us, since 2004, exactly how that happens, is deeply satisfying.
I was quite overwhelmed by the meal afterwards, with the welcome from Renee and Diana, with the exquisite food prepared by so many hands (I had to go to a step class just now to be able to walk upright again after four plates of deliciousness!). Your generosity, thoughtfulness, intelligence, articulate reflection on what it is to be human, and how we can choose to live, will be a model for me.
What pleasures, here in Chicago!
According to the Mayan 13 moon calendar, I am a White Galactic Worldbridger. This wonderful experience with Amy Hardie is a delight to my worldbridger spirit. Bridging the worlds of life and death, bridging the worlds of metaphysics and science, bridging the worlds of the Jung Center and the School of Metaphysics, bridging the worlds of fear and hope, bridging the worlds of the left and right brain, bridging the worlds of regret and compassion … these were just some of the worlds that came together for me today.
Today, in her workshop, Amy introduced us to the Celtic bardos, which describe stages one goes through in the process of death. The anam cara (“soul friend”) is one who is like a midwife, ushering the soul who has withdrawn from physical life into the “other world” or subconscious mind as we understand it in the School of Metaphysics. Amy learned the celtic bardos from an anam cara and now she is bringing the knowledge to other people. At today’s workshop there were a number of hospice workers, and many people who were very open to discuss their experience of death and funerals, open to facing and changing the denial of death that is in our culture.
All of us experience death … not only at the end of one physical life, but also “little deaths”. Any time there is a change … a marriage, a birth, a new job, a divorce, illness, losing a job … there is something in our identity that dies and a new self that emerges.
Amy’s workshop aids us to view ourselves from a different perspective, to view an experience that has us trapped in a new light, so that the new self can emerge, lighter, brighter, perhaps healed.
I don’t want to say too much more … I hope that you have a chance to experience it so that you, too can be renewed.
Gratitude to all of the students from the three Chicago area School of Metaphysics branches who hosted a gracious reception with a huge array of delicious food, open-minded curiosity, open-hearted love, and appreciation for the SOM study.
Tomorrow is the “grand finale” — The Edge of Dreaming and the workshop at the Theosophical Society in Wheaton. We have a FULL HOUSE; people continue to call and email to register … and I know that the transformation people experience will be profound and deep.
Gratitude and love!
In the few moments we have before departing for Amy’s film and workshop at the Jung Center, I am reflecting upon the profundity that is YES consciousness. Diana articulated it so beautifully, and then supported by Dr. Laurel.
Receiving their thoughts draws from me the thought of Life itself. It is one of the core messages in Amy’s film. Human beings fear in the absence of love. Where love is present, fear recedes. Not the “emotional bosh” as Martin Luther King puts it, rather love as worldwide fellowship. “I am speaking of that force that all the major religions have seen as the supreme principle unifying all life,” he said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Soul force. That is what Mahatma Gandhi called it.
I know it as Kundalini – the Holy Spirit – the most powerful energy available to man.
I am so blessed by my choices and the choices of others. That is the masculine principle of creation. Uniting one into many is the feminine principle. Together, we give life. Again and again and again, until all is understood and fulfilled. This is what created in Dallas when many came together to present The INVITATION at the Interfaith Peace Chapel. That is what we are creating here in Chicago with supporting and introducing Amy Hardie’s work to others. It is what we will create next weekend in Indianapolis for Dr. Daniel Condron’s Still Mind, Present Moment, Open Heart teaching. Following that will come graduate level classes and the Intuitive Report Guild meetings at the College, then the Power of Personal Connection in Cincinnati followed by the all-student Open Campus weekend at COM. At all times, there can be this level of engagement in the electrical system of the body of SOM and when it is created with YES! consciousness, I can only imagine what it will produce in the world and for us all.
“Yes” to what is whole-minded, sacred, eternal. That seems to be a key, do you agree?
“Yes!” begins that process that allows man to know Self as a spiritual creator, and that is very good indeed.
I look forward to Amy’s workshop on the Celtic bardo and sharing it with all for the greater good that may come from it.
Thank you School of Metaphysics!
I am preparing now for the first workshop in Chicago. I am so curious about what will occur in this room of 35 people who have so much knowledge, so much experience, to bring to their work with each other.
I have eaten like a queen, and am staying in palatial surroundings, able to walk to the lake with no visible other shore. I am immersed in the books I am reading – Karmic Healing and Permanent Healing and First Opinion. It is wonderful also to see a visual talent like Hezekiah flourishing. That is exciting. I feel I am being filled up, nourished and overflowing with new people and impressions and thoughts that I will take back to Scotland, and to the next film with the doctors.
Now to the first workshop. What will it bring?
Amy
Earlier today, John Lennon’s song, “Imagine” kept running through my mind. It is one of the songs that is now a part of the program The INVITATION in which I portray Shirin Ebadi, the program the cast offered last weekend (less than a week ago!) in Dallas.
Why that song? I think because now, in receiving Amy Hardie, we in the Chicago area are reaping the benefits of an imagined thought form, clearly visualized, that has had much mind light shone upon it.
Diana Kenney, the Director of the Chicago school, and I were just talking about how a BIG creation means many minds and hearts and hands being a part of creating it. Each person gives according to their ability, desire, and need, and receives in like kind. ALL of us then get to experience a creation that is greater than any one of us can do alone.
It is beautiful.
It brings great joy, and inspiration. It warms my heart. It is like a spirit leaping up within me, saying “yes!” we can do this! We can create our big dreams and visions. As Diana wrote so eloquently, so many students of the School of Metaphysics have responded to the inner calling, the inner urge, saying “yes” to expansion, “yes” to creation, “yes” to stretching. Veneza, who secured a hotel donation of a gorgeous and gracious place with living rooms and kitchenette, said that she learned she can receive what she expects.
Yes, we can expect growth, expansion, love, joy, enthusiasm, understanding … and what else? Whatever we can imagine. I think that is why John Lennon’s song was running through my mind. What can I imagine? Will it serve my God? Will it serve my soul’s purpose?
We haven’t even experienced Amy’s workshop yet … that’s tomorrow and Sunday. It sounds wonderfully transformational, offering people the opportunity to go inside and experience a catharsis that is healing. I am looking forward to participating and to meeting new soul friends at both the CG Jung Center and The Theosophical Society.
Thank you, Dr. Barbara Condron, for your visionary expectation, for offering us the opportunity to say “yes,” to Amy Hardie for your generosity and willingness to open your life for all of us to learn from, and to the shining soul stars who are students and teachers of the School of Metaphysics who are making this happen.
As Mother Teresa said in her Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech, “We cannot do it without you.”
We are in this together and together we fulfill our part of a Greater Plan.
There is a quiet happiness filling me from the center on out. I think I could be quite giddy with it if I place my attention on it and let it flow.
I perceive quiet happiness radiating from those of us in the North Area who said Yes. Dr. Barbara saw the vision and Dr. Laurel said yes. I said Yes. Yes. Kimberlee said Yes. Kerry said Yes. Yes was spoken with more than the words. The thought form of Yes was created. The entire being resonated with Yes. Yes to the willingness to give, to receive, to explore the possibilities, to learning with the goal of adding to ourselves. This aided our teachers to say Yes. Renee and Veneza said Yes. And for our students to say Yes. Chris, Gerri and Rudy said Yes. And so on. I learned that it is important to extend individual invitations. The general dissemination of information about the event is not as effective as the individual attention accompanying the personal invitation.
I am aware that for this creation opportunity, I experienced saying Yes with mostly love and curiosity. There were still twinges of fear. Especially about filling the room at Columbia College, since people were not registering in advance for that event to the extent I wanted. However, I applied the information in the lessons (and Amy’s film) and always replaced the twinge with the picture of the full room of people and then chose to undertake some activity designed to create the picture of that room full of people. (I went and saw the room in person and so I was able to visualize the actual room full.)
I did not shut down or deny the twinges of fear. Shutting down or denying it results in the creation of pretense that the twinge of fear did not exist. This keeps it in the dark. I believe this is the way to allow the twinges of fear to grow in size and substance. Amy talks in the movie about fear. How when she took her attention off it, it grew like mushrooms in the dark.
I think that shining the light of awareness allows the fear to “burn up”. The fear, transforms into ash and smoke. That which is not needed can be allowed to gently drift away. That which can be used from the ashes can then be intelligently directed to form the desired creation. In the North Area, we are experiencing the natural consequences of embodying Yes and working the Law of Manifestation. We had 53 people yesterday in Columbia. 17 people from the School of Metaphysics were there. Most of the people there just walked in. One of those signed up for classes. The event went very smoothly. More importantly, I am learning much, the teachers and students are learning much. The Jung Center, a smaller venue is full with a waiting list. 30 people are registered. I think Dr. Sheila may be the only person from the School of Metaphysics registered there. We continue to take registrations for the Theosophical Society venue. We probably have about 75 registered so far.
Of course it isn’t about the numbers. It is about learning. It is about reaching many souls who are ready to learn to go within. This event is aiding me to move into knowing. Knowing that we can reach and teach many people and that we have everything we need to do so.
I am enjoying the beauty of the moments.
With love and appreciation, Diana.
Our afternoon with Amy Hardie……
The afternoon began when Dr. Laurel Clark accompanied Amy Hardie to lunch with a board member and volunteer therapist at the Jung Center in Evanston. The synchronicity of Universal Law was profound, Dr. Laurel reported. Amy has recently been given a grant to use film with hospice families and hospice nurses and it so happens that the man on the board of trustees was a hospice nurse and is currently working as a therapist aiding people to understand the process of death and dying. He also happens to be a film buff and gave Amy, the film maker, a dozen film titles to watch!
Afterwards, Dr. Laurel and Dr. Barbara Condron joined Ariadne Conner (who is serving as Amy’s personal assistant during her Chicago tour) and Amy in her hotel apartment. Amy had expressed interest in filming them to present to a group of twelve doctors she is working with presently in the cause of advancing the medical view of the body and health to an energetic model. The seeds of this work are clearly manifested in her movie.
Dr. Laurel reports….
When I was listening to Amy speak yesterday about her personal journey of healing, I had the clear impression that her life is a message of hope for other people. It takes courage to be centered in one’s self when the body is failing, feeling out of control and scared. I firmly believe that most doctors in their heart want to aid people but allopathic medicine doesn’t have the knowledge of how to do that since it is based upon viewing the body as a thing separate from the spirit that animates it.
These doctors who Amy is filming, through years of experience, have arrived at a place of recognizing that medicine doesn’t have the answers they originally sought. It was thrilling to be able to speak to them about the Intuitive health analyses and the perspective that we at the School of Metaphysics have about how the body serves as a vehicle for awareness and understanding. This is a lifelong dream that doctors will know about this intuitive tool to aid them in doing true healing work.
Dr. Sheila Benjamin was also present….
As a witness, observing the interaction between Amy, Dr. Barbara, and Dr. Laurel, I was reminded of the greatness of our work and the beauty of patience, watching seeds germinate and sprout into fruits of our labor. I have been an intuitive reporter for 27 years (the same year Ariadne received her first crossing, at one year old!). The inspiration for me being an intuitive reporter began even before I entered the classes. A friend of mine who was an SOM student here in Chicago gave me a Health Analysis for my birthday. Even though I was not present, I imagined what it was like in the school at the time it was being done. Later that night, I went over to the school to listen to the master tape because at that time SOM provided typed transcripts not tapes. (And now we are leaping to CDs!)
I was awestruck by the truth that I heard from someone who didn’t even know me, revealing thoughts I only personally knew and at that time decided I wanted to be able to provide this service for others.
One of Amy’s questions concerned if other people can give reports. If I was to give a suggestion to anyone who has been inspired either through receiving a report as I have or who are at this point is training, the suggestion is to remember how it changed your life. The internal drive to be part of the intuitive research team, to give in those ways, is the single element that makes one an intuitive reporter or conductor. I wanted to share this with the world, so I wanted to be a conductor so anywhere I went I could train more reporters. So my question to anyone who is training to become a conductor is: “Is your image/your motive the same?”
Ariadne who was Amy’s right hand sound person…..
To be in the presence of so many wonderful thinkers has been a tremendous honor. As there was discussion about what was to be recorded and what angle to take in talking together to reach the doctors for whom this was being recorded I was excited at the prospect of a dream beginning to sprout. A dream that I know that I have had, and I’m sure many others, of a global understanding of how our thoughts create our physical experience, including illness. The tremendous work the School of Metaphysics has done in this arena is starting to grow internationally and is a wonder to behold!
I have this image of a wheel. At the hub is Metaphysics and coming out of that are spokes. Spokes of medicine, of the arts, of sciences, humanities, language, and everything that we enconter in physical life. The study of the mind is what keeps the wheel turning. It is inspiring to see leaders within the SOM and without coming together to create these spokes in ways we have seen in imagination only until now.
What I see in these talented thinkers that I have been surrounded by is what I can now call the Chimney effect. In Amy’s talk yesterday at Columbia College she spoke about how the Shaman was impressed by how quickly she entered into the trance. She said that the Shaman described her as a Chimney. I can see this in the way she holds the camera steady for long periods of time. Still. I can see the tremendous space that is held in Amy and the Doctors’ consciousness which allows for inspiration, creativity, and connectedness to be at the forefront of consciousness and action which will cause that wheel of life to spin with grace and ease.
Hezekiah was present to film the encounter which we may be able to share at the Intuitive Research meeting at SOM HQ in two weeks.
I learned a lot more about intuitive reports simply being there and listening to my mother and Dr. Laurel. The whole thing felt very professional and casual at the same time. I think it’s really good how so many of the allopathic doctors are interested in more wholistic and spiritual forms of healing. I hope they can learn a lot from this film Amy is creating. It is also fun working with her, to help set up the set. She’s a great inspiration and I’m learning a lot from being around her.
Yesterday, I interviewed Amy for my new film, The Second Life. She gave me perfect answers that I am sure I will be able to fit exceptionally well into the story. One of the questions I asked was “Is it possible to learn new physical skills from one’s dreams?” She described how this can happen. The answer was better than I could have anticipated and will fit perfectly into my film where the lead female character, a young girl, learns how to play piano in her dreams. It is incredible I have been able to learn from her and I am grateful for the opportunity.
from Barbara Condron…..
Amy is quite eager to have an Intuitive Health Analysis. She was so ready to receive and to film. The absence of a complete intuitive team while Amy is here caused a creative discussion of what might be possible to accomplish what Amy wants to present to the team of physicians. These include a radiologist, anesthesiologist, general practitioner, and so forth who are exploring and introducing “new” ways – herbology, EFT, compassion training – to aid people in healing. They are a diverse group and she talks with them once a month in London. Laurel and I are working out the details of how to make this happen, and it may well launch us into a new level of international cooperation through what we filmed today added to skype technology in the exchange of intuitive technology.
The Society for Intuitive Research is blossoming, all around the world!
Friendship – both human and divine – is the heart of School of Metaphysics study.
Friendship shines here in Chicago through teachers and students making space in their lives to prepare and receive Amy Hardie, her film, and the many people drawn to the message it conveys. I am honored by the movement of individuals working toward a common goal. How, in each generation, each person finds his or her own way to contribute thus placing their piece in a much larger puzzle that is this intersection of our lives. It is also the unifying of consciousness that is for the common good, the welfare of all. Again, the ideal, purpose, and activity of the School of Metaphysics is given life through those who are willing to live the ideal.
Last night, The Edge of Dreaming ,was screened at Columbia College. It was the fourth viewing for me. Seeing it on a large screen enabled images to surface that are lost in a computer or TV screen. It reminded me of The Silver Cord. The Silver Cord is a film arising from the Intuitive Research pioneered by SOM for 40+ years. Capturing the evolution of consciousnness from the pre-recorded history Atlantean period to the present, it was created by a College of Metaphysics class I was teaching in 2005. The Silver Cord premiered at the University of Oklahoma under Damian Nordmann’s guidance (what happens in Dallas, happens in Chicago!) when he directed the OKC branch of SOM. Damian received the vision that is the Society for Intuitive Research (SIR) and this is an area of keen interest to Amy Hardie.
When you see her film, the message of the connection between mind and body is quite strong. Did she make herself sick from worry rising from the dreams? Did she make herself well by eliminating fear and claiming her passion for life? Those of us who study such things, who investigate the alternate realities and daily court them, have responses to those questions. When I first emailed Amy, I noted this interest, introducing her to the intuitive research and sending a copy of First Opinion. She had read the book before coming to Chicago, and much of our conversation since her arrival has focused upon that topic. She has invited to film us on the topic. When we parted last night, she had the books Karmic Healing by Laurel Clark and Permanent Healing by Daniel Condron in hand, saying, “I want to read these tonight before we shoot tomorrow.” I smiled. Film maker research!
Just as someone (Kim? Ariadne? Diana?) posted her thoughts that this time is Kismet, I recognize the coming together of karma and dharma into a resurrection of consciousness for all who are wiling to make the journey. I have a sense of providence these three weeks. First Dallas, now Chicago, and next week Indianapolis upon my husband Daniel’s return to the States from India.
It is an amazing time to be present on all seven levels of consciousness! I recommend it to all. – BC
I love this film. I have watched it quite a few times as I experience it with different friends at different times. Last night I was able to watch it on the big screen, which made it even easier to enmesh myself into what was unfolding. I love the way the director uses art to address important questions, giving space for people to consider the answers for themselves.
I love that way the film allows us to learn through observation. We watch as the director, Amy Hardie, works through the fear of death and illness with openness, curiosity and the desire to learn. I saw how this choice to intelligently “walk into it” produced understanding, health and wholeness.
I am still finding something new in the film.
Last night I was taken with the part of the film where there is the observation that the things that we deny, or avoid in our lives come to us at the time of death as recognition – something new for me to ponder. A big thank you to Amy for a beautiful film addressing important and timely questions about death and healing. Having had the opportunity to meet Amy in person, I suspect she is a private person and I am grateful for her willingness to be so open with her experience. The film is very rich for it. Thanks also to everyone who helped make the screening last night at Columbia College possible.
As a White Cosmic Wizard, I have often found my timing for important things to be great.
I arrived in town in time to change and go to Columbia College. Columbia College is a 7 story older building that is positioned on a corner street in downtown Chicago. The atmosphere was one of Creativity. There were young adults recording at one corner, there was a stage that looked like later there would be some performers performing and the rest were people working on laptops and getting to their classes riding inside these really little elevators. (You are so close to the people that you must speak to them) The people were of all ages and dressed with their own signature design. I loved it.
The room began to fill with adults that appeared to have been invited by the School of Metaphysics students as well as students that were from Columbia College studying about film making, sound recording, and a variety of different arts.
I sat anxiously awaiting Amy’s arrival. I felt like the Dr. Suess book “Are you My Mother?’ as I looked into the faces of those arriving wondering if they might be her. After the film was viewed, Amy very graciously arrived and with stillness, and honor walked down the steps to the front of the room. (The room was arranged in theater style) She thanked all that were in attendance for coming and watching her life be revealed on the screen. Her vibration is one of kindness, humbleness, and grace. She answered the audience’s questions.
Here are some, What type of microphone did you use? Was it difficult having filmed documentary films to film such a personal film? How did you create the film images of the dreams, that you used in your film?. She addressed each question in a friendly and natural way. It was if we were all in her home in Scotland just talking.
This time seeing the film I received something even deeper. Amy talks in the film of how she likes to get inside things. The images that she uses in the film are the physical body. As I heard those words, the realization that I had, was that she was doing just that with this film, this time she was diving deep into the inner dimensions of her being. To the core of Who we all are.
It is great to be here in Chicago to meet Amy and to be with so many great souls who want to be the change in the World. It was worth the miles, the hours and the money to be in the presence of greatness. I am so Thankful to the School of Metaphysics for all that I continue to learn about Purpose and what is truly important…..Soul Understandings. Mother Teresa’s words sound in my ear, “Parents are too busy and the children take to the streets and get involved in something”. Remember to feed your soul, even when you think you don’t have time, that is what the spiritual disciplines in the School of Metaphysics study give to each of us.
Meeting Amy last night was a fantastic experience. Once I got past the struggle of the arrival I found myself growing in many ways. In my many outside activities I have the opportunity to meet celebrities of all walks of life. Many of which see themselves as such. Amy had such a warm and open aura surrounding herself. Perhaps the facts which were behind the film have opened her eyes to some true meanings of life.
In addition to the experience of meeting her, I found once again the lesson behind just allowing events to unfold as they are meant to. Working with the other students and instructors, allowing their own growing experience to unfold, has always been a struggle for me.
As such I am looking forward to Sundays events and would suggest everyone who can be, should be there.
Once again I love everyone involved just because they are.
Amy you are amazing.
I met Amy Hardie the filmmaker last night before the public screening of her documentary film at Columbia College in Chicago. What an amazing lady! She is very heart centered, very curious, very receptive, warm and genuine. We were able to converse,off and on for about an hour, while she waited for her documentary to show to some 40 plus people.. I am impressed the most by her genuineness. Her ability to focus her attention, to place her full interest on me and what we were expressing and sharing. This was so refreshing!
I observed her being open and completely receptive. She repeated several times how nice people were and how much fun she was having and the energy that she exuded in saying this was very convincing. She expressed very personal experiences and her impressions with an attitude of giving freely of what she is learning. She indeed is enjoying what she is learning as she experiences people and new friends.
I learned from her example how important it is to stay centered in my heart. This is where she is. I learned in being with her that my fulfillment is captured by my ability to enjoy life for its amazing zest of experiences and learning. It is an attitude that she has, a way of thinking that I observed in her that has a certain charisma of being real.
Amy Hardie loves to be connected and she has taught me how I can be more genuinely connected too. It’s no wonder her films speak to the public so profoundly. They have her energy, the gift of curiosity and giving. Thank you Amy Hardie!!!
Wow … seeing The Edge of Dreaming on a big screen really enhanced the experience, making it seem like I was in Amy’s home, in the hospital with her … in her dream(s).
Amy Hardie addressed the audience’s questions at Columbia College in Chicago after showing the film. We had a full house, including documentary students and faculty, a group of students and teachers from Loyola University, and many other people new to the School of Metaphysics. Amy took a photo from her vantage point on stage of the audience, “to show to my family,” she said. Of course, she is documenting her experiences here!
I am very proud of the Chicago, Bolingbrook, and Palatine students for their outreach and service. Students from all three schools greeted, hosted at a table to sell books and DVDs, spoke with the audience afterwards, shining their lights brightly.
Tomorrow, Amy is filming some of us from the School of Metaphysics for her latest documentary which is with a group of 12 physicians who are recognizing that they were “taught wrong” by learning to view the body in a mechanistic rather than energetic form. She is fascinated with the Intuitive Health Analyses and wants to learn more, to include us in her film. This is the time for the education of the SOM to move into greater notoriety.
Mahatma Gandhi is reported to have said, “My life is my message.” Amy Hardie’s life is a message, also, having “defied” doctors orders to have surgery for cervical cancer many years ago, and having recovered purely with the power of thought and homeopathic treatments, and as we have all seen, re-dreaming the “death sentence” dream with the aid of a shaman. As Amy described it, just changing her thoughts about the dream and about her future wasn’t enough. She had to change the neuro-patterns, the physiology in her brain, to produce the healing. Now, at 94% lung capacity, she is declared “normal” or “healed” by the medical doctors.
Her soft-spoken conviction is quite a healing presence.
When I was young I was introduced to a film called Kismet. It a musical from the semi-early days of film making. Since then that word “Kismet” – defined as fate or destiny has lingered in my mind. It appeared in my mind again today and I have now had a chance to reflect on it. I have always loved the idea of fate or the life that could be formed out of a great destiny. I searched for years trying to find my great destiny. In the last few years of study at the School of Metaphysics, I have come to a new understanding and have come to know fate as the action of universal law and destiny as the manifestation of a mind engaged and foresightful.
Today was a testament to both of those beliefs.
Preparing for Amy Hardie to arrive in the windy city has been a wonderful experience and in that seeing all my friends and students grow and shine beyond measure. Meeting Amy Hardie was a pleasure and a delight as she seems to me so gentle in spirit and laughter seems to come easily to her. The Columbia College event went off without a hitch and it is in all these things I see the divine fate and destiny of it all. We created this future. We are the master of destiny and the wielder of fate. As each of our minds became engaged and aligned with the reality of service, inner investment and love the future became easy to for-tell because it was our minds’ and our hearts’ desire creating it.
Amy, the students and teachers, the city of Chicago all did their part to bring this slice of heaven to earth.
It is joyful. It is right on time.
It is Kismet.
I feel very blessed to have Amy Hardie with us. She is a gentle and powerful soul!
As she spoke about her life, and her film projects, I kept thinking that she is bringing HOPE to the world … she is an example of using curiosity to walk into fear and to transcend it through understanding. She lives a life that is healing by its very nature. She said later that she received that thought in her shamanic journey … to bring bits of beauty and hope to the world.
Personally I have not dealt with extreme illness in my own body, but have had several significant people in my life who have. “Losing” someone (through death, or people who walk out without saying goodbye) has been a strong theme in my life, and being close to people who have dealt with sickness has taught me that illness is a kind of loss, too. Loss of freedom, loss of security, loss of the function of a system or organ of the body … Telling the story of one’s life can be extremely transformative, to understand the real lesson that such “losses” bring. Opening into a new reality, new awareness, experiencing something beyond the familiarity of the body … Amy’s life and work explores these themes of life and death, loss and regret, how to move beyond whatever limits us, being centered in what is REAL.
Her first public venue in Chicago is tonight, at Columbia College, and I am so looking forward to seeing The Edge of Dreaming again (for the fourth time) and hearing Amy speak. She is open and curious and said that her experiences so far in the United States have been richly rewarding, as she receives the way that people receive her film.
We are glad to receive her as well, and glad to be able to bring her message to the people who are coming to see The Edge of Dreaming and hear her story.
As a simple first thought on this five day adventure the words Blissful Grace come to mind. I recall I once heard a definition of grace being akin to receiving the love of God without any real reason. As in being able to receive the love of God simply for existing. Within this there is no need to have earned the love or proven that love is deserved. The simplicity of existing, receiving the inner self, and giving of that without reservation seems to me to be the essence of Grace.
This is what I have seen in Amy in just a few short hours. It is something that I’m sure will blossom in a variety of ways which, at this moment, are as yet imagined. What a beautiful city, a beautiful time, and beautiful friends.
What is it like when kindred souls meet?
It is as if no time has passed since the last meeting.
Like a conversation having ended with “and” is now completed
Like a minor chord resolving into a major one
Like a glove reuniting with its mate
Like a new moon becoming full again.
Where do kindred souls meet?
In that space that knows no distance
A sacred place where images shared reveal the heart’s longing
for the immortality divine friendship births
in the land beyond the Edge of Dreaming.
Amy Hardie is here for now.
And I am most grateful
for her heart is kind,
her mind curious,
her spirit in awe.
Just as I thought they could be.
Now, I can be the filmmaker, capturing her image as it radiates the truth she sees. Is there any greater time to experience a friend? I tell her how fortunate we feel that she has shared this story from her life, for it brings people to ask the right questions to know themselves and to find the School of Metaphysics course of study.
She smiles, “I feel I am the one who is fortunate. You are a godsend in my life.”
I think she spoke a beautiful sentence!
Godsend.
That’s what it is like when and where kindred souls meet.
I got to meet Amy Hardie today.
We ate dinner together. She was very friendly. We talked about her film. She was actually filming a woman who asked Amy if she would film her death. Amy filmed her for some time and while Amy was on holiday in Morocco with her family celebrating her 48th birthday, the woman died. That’s where the Edge of Dreaming started. I got to talk to Amy about my films and I’m going to give her a copy of The Dream Mystery tomorrow. She also said she would watch the episodes of “Dream Glimpses” – the outtakes of my interviews with dream experts – online.
I hope that she will consent to allow me to interview her for my next film, The Second Life, as that is my goal for this leg of my trip. I want to learn as much as I can from her. I hope to incorporate what I learn into my next movie. I will keep you posted as we progress through the next few days.