Free-Beingness™
Fully Living In Transcendent Freeness!
David D. Cicia, Ed.D.
Guidance Program Details
The New Program
(As of May 20, 2008)
The new program is a complete pathway that brings you to fully living Free-Beingness in your ordinary everyday life. This is an extraordinary occurance, but I have discovered how to facilitate it easily and fairly quickly. It takes an inner awakening and then a period of transition. I am with you in both, and all the way to the full realization.
Elements Of The Program
There are four main elements of the program - one that I do entirely for you while you just passively receive, another that you do for yourself, and a third one that we do together. The fourth element is essential support materials (recorded talks and written articles.) These all happen during the same period of transitioning to Free-Beingness, starting with your first session.
The four elements of the program are:
1. Awakening Inductions
2. Immersion Practice
3. Personal Guidance
4. Support Materials
These are explained in detail below.
I. Awakening Inductions
This is the part that I do for you. In a series of sessions I directly bring you to the Free-Beingness realization as an inner awakening. I have discovered where to go in your inner world, and exactly what to do in order for this to happen.
I found out through working with students that this must take place in silence. This is because your old habbits of thought and action very strongly tend to interfere with the new way of being and experiencing that is Free-Beingness. That means that your having any consciousness of what is going on enlists your mind in creating self-consciousness and effort, and that is exactly what has to go. So, at this level, no technique of method that you yourself do can be of any benefit. You must get the feel and realization of transcendent free-ness from a place beyond your old mind. My silent inductions do this deeply, smoothly and effectively.
The other factor here is that you must be brought to the inner awakening through your own unique individualtiy. There is no "one size fits all" method in this. I have found that each person is so unique that what I do with each person can be radically different from what I do with another person. The inductions come from my finely and deeply tuning in to exactly where you are and to exactly what you need in order to really get the transmission.
So - this aspect of the program consists of direct silent transmission of the full awakening realization from me to you. I do this for you starting right from the first session. It takes a period of transition to get to the point where you are consciously experiencing this realization fully, and a further period of transition to get to the point where you are fully living it. Because of this, a whole series of these induction sessions is necessary. Each session reinforces the realization, deepens it, and brings you to more fully experience it consciously (but effortlessly, without engaging the old efforting mind.)
Sessions
Typically, we start off with a series of sessions once a day for 2-3 successive days. After that inititial intense start, we go to a schedule of longer times between sessions. After awhile we go to once a week. Sessions are typically around an hour at first, and later around a half hour each once we get into the reinforcement stage. Sessions continue until you are fully living Free-Beingness in your ordinary everyday life, which can take around 3-4 months, or longer, depending on where you are at when you start, and how much your old patterns pull you back. (This varies quite a bit from person to person.)
II. Immersion Practices
Once you start to really get the inner awakening realization (usually within the first few sessions, even in the first session) I teach you how to access that on your own, so that you can speed up the process of Free-Beingness coming all the way out into your conscious experiencing and into fully living it.
It is crucially important that you really get the inner awakening realization first, because the practice I teach you is really nothing more than a way to re-access this on your own. Unlike all forms of meditation, what I teach you involves no effort, no actual doing anything on your part. There is no mantra, no focusing on an object, no concentration, etc. etc. I show you how to simply "fall into" the inner awakening realization that I have brought you to, and then how to just let yourself get absorbed in it.
I call this "Immersion" because the element of letting yourself get absorbed in the inner awakening realization that is already alive in you, is all that it really is. You are doing nothing, really. You are simply letting go into the transcendent free-ness that is already awakened in you, and then resting there awhile. There is no method or technique of any kind that can possibly every get you there. Because of my silent inductions (which I reinforce in you in our sessions) you are already there, and you just find yourself there and rest in it.
Because there is a danger of effort and control creeping into any practice, we go slowly in getting to the full practice of the deepest immersion. I guide you there carefully and slowly in a series of three stages. Each stage allows you to get used to more and more non-doing in your practice. When you are quite comfortable in one stage, and find it utterly easy and effortless, I show you the next stage.
Here are the stages:
a. Peacefulness Immersion
I show you how to fall into deep inner peacefulness directly, without any methods or techniques. You then simply rest there for awhile. Because you already have the inner awakening, this practice tends to access that without your even knowing it. You just find yourself there sometimes - a place that is beyond deep peacefulness. There is nothing you can do to get yourself there, but this opens the door, and since it is already alive in you, it is free to come out - and it starts to more and more.
b. Immersion In Transcendence
Once you are comfortable with the first practice and it is utterly easy and effortless, I show you how to fall into a deeper place. And, at this stage also, you have had more deepening, reinforcing inductions from me in our sessions.
At this stage you find that you are able to fall into an inner quietness and silence that is in the deep peacefulness that you experienced at the last stage. This deep silence is already in the peacefulness, and it is beyond it. It takes you to places that are beyond all experience - what some have called transcendence, transcendental consciousness, Pure Awareness, pure emptiness, no-thing-ness, the void, etc. etc. It is peace beyond peace, silence beyond silence, awareness alone by itself beyond all experiences, both inner and outer. Pure Awareness.
My inductions have already awakened the transcendent in you from the very first session. You may or may not have consciously experienced that. But by this stage, you have had enough reinforcing inductions and enough preparation through the first stage of practice, that you can now just fall into this deeper pure silence.
The effects of this are profound, as the connection between the inner awakening realization (that already contains the transcendence) and your conscious outer mind is stronger, clearer and more open. This connection starts to become an open channel, and there is less and less difference between your inner transcendent free-ness and your outer experience. This stage of practice brings you much further in this.
c. Immersion In Freedom
Once you start to consistently have clear conscious realizations of transcendent silence, both in your practice and in your outer experience, I show you the deepest place of inner freedom in you. This is the place that I have been opening up deep inside you from the very first session. It is the place that is enclosed by the old way of being, That enclosure is a kind of prison that keeps the conscious ego-mind in action, that keeps your whole body-mind in a constant state of alert, tension and contraction. I now show you how this gets released. And that release opens up the deepest access to transcendence and the fullest integration of that into your whole being.
It is important to note that I say "it gets released." There is absolutely nothing that you or I or anyone can consciously do to make it release. Any effort on that level is just an action of that place, and therefore merely reinforces its action of contraction, narrowing, etc. etc. This is the case for all other forms of meditation, for all "spiritual" practices, and for all body-mind self-help programs. And it is why they never bring anyone to the realization of transcendent free-ness.
This is why I am cautious about introducing you to this level, and only do so after many silent inductions, and preparation through the previous stages of practice in your falling into transcendence effortlessly. You must simply fall into this place, this level, or the practice won't work. In fact, if any effort or self-consciousness happens in this practice it will be detrimental to you awakening. The whole process must be totally innocent - with the transcendent Pure Awareness simply arising spontaneously in you on its own. When Pure Awareness connects with your ego functioning at this most fundamental level, the contraction of the ego releases, and you then realize ultimate freedom, Free-Beingness
You cannot ever be totally and full free until this level gets released. Even if you have a profound inner awakening, unless this level gets released the central and fundamental hub of the old ego-mind is still active - and its activity is very strongly rooted in survival mechanisms, and therefore it is very strong and tenacious. It will continuously pull you back, no matter how far you open up. And it will hang on forever, because that is what it is programmed to do. In fact, that is its primary task - to hang on forever, to control you and all you do, forever.
I have found where this place is, how it functions, and exactly what it takes to get it to let go and release completely and forever. This simply involves bringing it and Pure Awareness together and letting them blend, combine and merge. This takes very exacting precision, and being deeply rooted in a clear realization of Pure Awareness. That is what I do for you from the very first session because I am there and am able to do it without my conscious ego-mind interfering with the process. By this stage you have had enough clear realization of Pure Awareness yourself, and enough inner subtle experiencing through the practices, to be able to touch into this place yourself, and find it there along with Pure Awareness. I then show you how to let these connect, blend and merge.
In the deep transcendent silence that you now are consistently experiencing, I show you where that place, that level, that activity of the ego-mind is, how to experience it in such a way that it is available to the deep silence, and how to then bring the two together innocently and effortlessly. What happens from there is spontaneous and free. It just happens, like a chemical reaction when you bring two volatile substances together. You don't do anything but bring the two together. An explosion of Free-Beingness and release from contraction happens. That brings you to the ultimate release into transcendent free-ness, both in your inner awakening and in your outer life.
d. Immersion In Free Action
This is a level of releasing the basic self-contraction that is deeper and more powerful than the previous level, but a little more tricky to get. Therefore, you can only get to it once you have had some good results from the previous level, and your experiencing is on a more subtle level.
This stage is similar to the previous stage but it focuses on the activity that gives rise to what we used in the previous stage. When this activity is released into the flow of free easiness, then all levels of your body-mind are released into that flow, at the most basic level of action rather than just perception.
This stage of immersion frees up all your actions, starting from your most basic action, where your whole sense of individual existence arises. That very first impulse is a very subtle action. That action gets turned back to its natural, non-reflective flow in Pure Awareness. And that is the final stage of liberation into Free-Beingness living. This just unfolds spontaneously from there.
III. Personal Guidance
The combination of my inductions and your absorptive meditations brings you all the way through to fully living Free-Beingness in your ordinary everyday life. I am there every step of the way with you, through our sessions. Sessions are not only the place for the inductions and the instruction into the practices. They are also the time to discuss your experiences, your questions, and various aspects of the transitioning from your former way of being to the new way.
Getting to the place where you are fully living Free-Beingness in your ordinary everyday life involves a very large transition. It is as big and as radical as the transition between any of the normal developmental levels we all go through in growing up. These transitons are not always easy, because our whole way of being, experiencing, feeling and acting changes in fundamental ways. I help you with this transition in our sessions. I know the experiences you go through, the places you might get stuck in, and how to more easily and gracefully get through it all. With my guidance the transition can be fairly easy and quick. But each person has their own unique experiences, and so you need personal help and guidance. This too is an integral part of the program.
My commitment to you is to bring you all the way to where you are fully living the full realization of Free-Beingness not just as an inner awakening but consistently all the time in your ordinary everyday life. That is what this whole program is designed to do. In our sessions this is all personalized. I focus totally on you and your unique needs. I do this in every aspect of the program. So, what I give you is guidance that is made up right on the spot just for you, where you are in the moment, and in the course of your transitioning into the new level of living. Your old ego-mind is programmed to keep you from this. Only skillful help and guidance from beyond yourself can ever possibly get you there. This is what I give you.
IV. Support Materials
1. Recorded Talks
Working with many students I found that I was repeating some things over and over. It is just not possible to remember everything that is said in a session. Also, it helps to review important points outside sessions. Free-Beingness is not only a completely new way of being and living. There is a totally new understanding that goes along with it. And it takes repetition to start to really understand the important points.
Also I found that I said some important things to some students that didn't come up in conversations with others.
So I decided to record a series of talks that you could access any time you want to. In these talks I cover all aspects of the inner awakening and the transition to living Free-Beingness fully in your ordinary everyday life. You can download these talks and listen to them as many times as you want to. Many students tell me that they have been a great help.
These talks are available here.
2. Articles
I have also written a large number of articles on all aspects of Free-Beingness, and continue to add more all the time. These help with your understanding of the background of Free-Beingness, what it is, and how it is realized.
These articles are found here.
3. New Insights
My new blog where I post my most current insights and new developments in the program, on an ongoing basis. These posts are more frequent and shorter than my Articles, which are longer and more serious.
These posts are found here.
These four elements of the program taken together makes for a complete pathway that takes you inevitably to Free-Beingness.
Old Program Details
Note (Dec. 12, 2007):Most simply stated, the program is this - I guide you directly into the realization experience, and then coach you in the transition in your everyday life into fully living Free-Beingness. I will be putting details of all this here soon.
Note (Oct 15, 2007): As noted on the front page, the means for imparting Free-Beingness is now free-form dialogue rather than any technique or practice. This means that integration with your outer experience takes place seamlessly with the inner realization, both happening at the same time. It also means that there is no longer a clear, set sequence of learning. Each session simply deepens your realization and integration. The procedure is to have as many sessions as it takes in order for Free-Beingness to start showing up clearly and spontaneously in your ordinary outer life outside of sessions. This may be 3 sessions. It may be 10 sessions. Or it may be more. You can have as few or as many sessions as you like, and even continue beyond where it starts to show up in your outer life, in order to gain more momentum for it. See details of how to arrange sessions at the Sign Up page.
Note (Oct 12, 2007): I have been continuing to make breakthroughs in the experience and teaching methods for my guidance program. I am now able to guide you into the basic realization experience in a few sessions. We then spend more sessions in fine tuning that experience, and I teach you a short renewal experience that you can do on your own. So, you get the results listed below from an experience that is utter simplicity. However, the way of imparting it has a lot of subtle points, and so it often takes several sessions to get it exactly right, and so that you can then do the renewal practice on your own.
The descriptions of experiences below still apply, but the program phases no longer exist. Read the descriptions to find out what awaits you as a spontaneous unfolding in your life, as a direct result of the one realization experience I guide you into in your sessions.
I am also developing an advanced coaching program that helps you integrate the realization experience into your everyday life much more quickly. This program helps you get beyond old patterns and habits that tend to pull you back to old ways. It is entirely focused on helping you develop the new, higher way of functioning that Free-Beingness brings. Since this new way of functioning is really so new, coaching into it can help quite a lot, even though this higher functioning tends to develop spontaneously simply as a result of the realization experience and the renewal pracitce. This coaching program focuses on speeding up the unfolding of what are listed below as experiences in the advanced phases of the old program. This no longer takes place in phases, and doesn't involve the practices mentioned below. It is something entirely new. I will be announcing it soon, with details.
Former Program Descriptions
My guidance is a complete training program for fully functioning at the higher developmental level of Free-Beingness.
It consists of a Basic phase, in which you get the realization, and three Advanced phases, where the integration of that realization into your ordinary everyday life is accelerated and in which you learn to function on the higher level. Descriptions of these are below.
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What Happens In All Phases Of The Program
I have found that the only effective way to get the Free-Beingness realization across to you is intensive one-on-one personal guidance. This can be in person but is usually over the phone. The number of sessions we have together will vary according to your needs, but usually there are several sessions over a number of succesive days to start off. Then we go to a session every couple of days for awhile. And then onto a maintenance schedule of about once a week until you fully integrate the realization. (The advanced phases may take more days initially because what you learn is a little more involved.)
It is my aim to really get you to the realizations, and so we have as many sessions as it takes to get you there. There is no set program within sessions, nor is there a set number of sessions. I just interact with your experiences and guide you moment by moment in the direction of the realizations until you get there. I have found that there is a need for many subtle corrections and adjustments along the way. And these adjustments are completely unique and individual to your needs and circumstances. There is no way to do this except by the kind of intense personal interaction that we will have together over those days of guidance.
Phases Of Unfolding
There are five phases of unfolding into the fullness of Free-Beingness. These correspond to five natural levels of life, going from the deepest to the most outward. These are:
Phase I: Beingness
Phase II: Existence
Phase III: Psyche
Phase IV: Mind
Phase V: Action
Click on any of the above links to go a description of that phase.
Phase I. Free-Beingness Realization
Here I guide you into the complete Wholeness of Free-Beingness that includes 1. Pure Awareness (true, deep inner peace), 2. the natural radiance of Pure Awareness as pure vibrational field, and 3. integration of the entire range of your experiences, self and world. This is a simple process even though the scope is huge. Getting it is very subtle though, so it may take several sessions before you really settle into it in a precise way so that it unfolds from there on its own. The follow-up sessions insure that you are able to access this on your own in a completely effortless way. Then, you just "fall into" Free-Beingness. There is no technique or practice, just this "falling into Free-Beingness" that I ease you into.
You will have the complete realization of Free-Beingess at this phase. It will unfold on its own for you into all areas and levels of your life. In theory, there is no need for the advanced guidance programs. But in actual practice, you probably don't want to delay getting to full integration, because so many benefits come to you from functioning on that level. The advanced guidance phases help accelerate the process of integration and help open you up to functioning at the higher level which comes from the Free-Beingness realization. And so, these latter phases are highly useful to you, and I highly recommend that you go through them.
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Advanced Realization Guidance
Through my advanced guidance you learn to function at the subtle levels of Consciousness, but within the Wholeness that was established through the basic realization. This also accelerates the process of integrating the inner Bliss Of Peace into all areas and levels of your life. That is because you are learning to bring that inner realization into action from the deepest, most powerful levels of Consciousness, and this has an activating effect beyond the original awakening.
Another aspect of these advanced phases is that each of us has patterns, programs and habits from the past that keep us in the lower levels of functioning. These patterns are naturally transformed when you get the basic realization, but, because they exist in the body-mind, they are unlike the realization itself, which happens instantly. These old ways of functioning take time to change. The advanced stages greatly speeds up this process.
These new levels of functioning are a kind of "non-doing doing," so they are even more subtle to get across to you than the basic wholeness. Therefore these phases may take a little more personal time together.
Phase II. The Radiance Of Free-Beingness
You can start on this after the basic realization has been well integrated in you, which can take a few weeks and up to around 2 months.
Two things happen in this stage. First, the radiance that naturally comes from Pure Awareness is ramped up, so that it is stronger and flows more fully into your life. This happens through a very large activation of 3 of the most basic transcendental qualities of Radiant Pure Awareness. These are: Pure Love, Vibrant Aliveness, and True Power. All together, these 3 have a synergy that is much greater than their sum. In order to have this happen, you learn the alchemy of creative blending within Consciousness itself. That brings about this activation.
The second thing that happens is part of the higher level of functioning that comes with Free-Beingness. Just as you learned to re-integrate into Wholeness in the basic realization, here you start to learn to differentiate various factors and elements within the Wholeness of Consciousness, and to experience these at the most subtle levels. These two factors - differentiating within the Wholeness of Consciousness and experiencing at the most subtle levels of Consciousness - are the activating and opening factors at this stage that bring you to higher levels of functioning.
The result of these two things is that you have much greater radiance in your life and experience. And you learn to function at a much higher level in all aspects of your life. Your whole life opens up to brand new vistas of happiness, freedom, creativity and abilities. And the basic realization is brought out much more strongly into your outer life and experience of the world.
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Phase III. Being A Transcendent Person
This brings you to the shining of Free-Beingness throughout your
entire outer personality.
Once you have integrated the previous learning and realization - which again can take up to a couple of months - then you can go on to this next phase, where you open up the dimensions of personal psychology, emotions, personality and ego self into the transcendent dimension. What you have realized and integrated so far carries forward into a very profound personality transformation, in which you actually become a Transcendent Person rather than just a small ego-self living out a limited destiny and playing out roles that were given to you by society and conditioning. You start living Free-Beingness as your new identity and self.
Ordinarily, such a deep personality change is accompanied by great trials and challenges. But this does not happen here, because the previous phases have quietly and easily already put you through the major part of the required changes. Now, when these deep changes are brought all the way through into your outward personality, they come through in a natural easy flow.
One of the main reasons for this is that at the phase we go right into Psyche itself (which is a specific level of vibrational experiencing), and don't try to get at it through the outer layers of experience such as thoughts and emotions (like psychotherapy tries to do.) Therefore, entry into this level is easier and the effects are both deeper and smoother.
This transformation is a profound opening for you in all phases of your outer life, such as love, work, relationships, play and fun. You will be living a whole new life - the radiance of Free-Beingness now visibly shining through you.
This phase is a deep and true activation of your deepest essential self, your true essence. Your true essence is what lights you up inside and then radiates through your whole being. This makes for truly individualized Wholeness of Beingness. You not only are a transcendent being, but a totally unique being living in and from transcendence. The Transcendent Person is Pure Radiant Beingness manifesting as your unique individuality. You come to realize this and shine in it at this phase.
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Phase IV. Spontaneous Creative Flow
Once you have known the wonder and happiness of living as a
Transcendent Person in the world, you are ready to really open up to
the full possibilities of functioning in Free-Beingness.
In this phase, you learn to function consciously at the most subtle level of the radiance of Beingness - the place where all experience and existence arises. This is the place of all creative impulses, and it is the place of free spontaneous action. This is the highest degree of "non-doing doing" in which all your experiences and actions flow spontaneously in moment-to-moment newness. You become one with the creative flow of Consciousness itself. And you do so in complete freedom, not planning or figuring out what to do next, but flowing out into spontaneous creative manifestations.
The way this happens is that you learn the transformational alchemy of combining various elements of Consciousness at their most quiet and subtle levels. These combinations are like mixing chemicals together - the reaction brings forth something completely new. When you learn to play in this field of creating in Consciousness, newness and creativity flows in you all the time, and you find yourself playing in life rather than struggling, planning or merely reacting to circumstances.
This phase is more free-form than the others. You are learning the very essence of free-form living. In the end, this gives you complete Free-Beingness all the time, in all aspects and levels of your life.
This is so opening that you may find yourself having what some people would call "supernormal" abilities. This is a result of functioning on the higher level that Free-Beingness brings you to. They are not supernormal but normal for this level of functioning. But this phase really puts you into higher functioning in many ways.
The way this happens is that at this stage you learn to greatly and acutely differentiate various factors and elements within the Wholeness of Consciousness. When you do this you experience both a greater range of experiences within Consciousness, and you are more and more able to experience Wholeness at the same time as this great differentiation. This accelerates the final movement into full integration of the Free-Beingness realization, because that full realization is when you experience complete Wholeness of Beingness at the same time that you experience all the various specific, separate objects of experience. When you experience Wholeness and diversity clearly and fully at the same time, you are really there, and your whole world changes.
This phase greatly facilitates that Wholeness/Diversity oneness. And it does it in a way that is so free-form that you find yourself in that fluid completeness without even trying.
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Phase V. Dynamic Radiant Beingness
This culminating phase of Free-Beingness training takes you to a place where your whole life is pure adventure, fun, love, power, creative flow, and delight in all your actions and experiences - all within the Transcendent Wholeness of Radiant Pure Awareness ("the bliss of peace all the time.")
At this phase you learn to focus on questions and desires you may have in your life, so as to bring your inner world into action. You learn to do this in and from Beingness, so that your actions are a spontaneous "non-doing doing." By learning to function in Beingness all the way out into the world of dynamic action, you bring the liveliness of radiant beingness all the way into the most outward part of your life and experience. This sews up all of your existence into the Wholeness of Radiant Pure Awareness, so that you actually experience it all as Pure Awareness. Then you fully realize Beingness as both deep inner peace and the most dynamic outer action, at the same time. That is - it is Dynamic Radiant Beingness, and you are that, living that.
This phase also includes special help in areas of your life that you would like to focus your new expanded creativity into - whatever these may be for you. With the great expansion of self and world that you experience in this program, these areas may be entirely new realms of discovery for you, or even pioneering breakthroughs for the world.
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Workshops
I have plans to offer workshops in the future. These are the same program as above but in a group setting for the initial instruction period. They include private personal instruction along with the added benefit of group dynamics. Follow-up is similar to the above programs but has the extra element of group tele-conferences. Come back here from time to time for announcements about workshops, or contact me if you want to sponsor one in your area.