The Point of Insight | "Half Human, Half Mystery"

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Welcome to the point of insight.
Imagine a black night sky.
And in it
A point.
A tiny star.
And now this part gets a little weird.
Imagine that light.

Like a beacon.
Up and through itself, you land someplace new.
Somewhere you've never been.
A different way of being.
That's a point of insight.
For about a decade I studied somatic meditation during a period of my life
Really beginning when I was thirty nine and
coming up to around fifty years of age. And in the study of somatic meditation,
We pay quite a lot.
of attention to what's happening.
Inside our body, and in particular in the subtle
body and the subtle flows, what's happening in our belly and our heart, and inside our head, what's happening at the bottom of our feet and in the palms of our hand throughout the entire body.
And through somatic meditation.
One of the
insight you could say keys. It felt like that. It felt like
It was a key on a
Key ring.
That went and
Unlocked. You ready for this? The jail.
that I felt I was in and then there I was inside a jail. This was a prison of my own
thinking and sense of constriction in my hand reached around the jail bars with this key and voila
Unlocked the door. The door is now open. Exit. So this was the key.
That I discovered
Which is that
In each of us, in our subtle anatomy, there's something that's called the central.
channel.
Maybe you've heard about this, if you've ever studied yoga.
I was a meditator and
I didn't know what it was until
Someone the somatic meditation teacher pointed it out to me.
And then I had this sense as I sat in meditation.
That there was a flow of energy.
That was coming from below.
Entering.
Right at the very
bottom of my torso running up in front of the spine all the way up through the top of my head.
Later as I started
Interviewing more and more people for insights at the edge, I would often be drawn to asking them questions.
Seeing if were they also aware of this central channel and why aren't more people screaming about this from the rooftops? It seemed like such an important discovery.
For me because in this sense of flow
Yes, as I mentioned, there is a sense of freedom, but also inspiration.
A feeling of being connected to the earth below and heavens above, and what I learned was that many of the
Of the spiritual practice traditions actually do reference the central channel.
I just hadn't heard of it.
When I was talking to a yoga teacher.
Richard Freeman, and we were recording together in the Sounds True Studio.
The Yoga Matrix, he started talking about how you ready for this? The real yoga teacher.
Is
The central channel.
The Sushumna
In the yogic tradition.
That's the real quote unquote guru.
The inner teacher. And I was like, Yeah.
Oh my God, yeah, that's the inner teacher.
And then
Working with Qi Gong Master.
Robert Pang.
At one point I said to him, You know, when you do this exercise that you teach where the sun energy is coming from one hand and you're imagining, visualizing
lunar moon energy coming from the other hand and you're holding it above your head, going right into the center of the head. I go, Whenever we do that exercise, Rob it's like
Bam, I sudden feel fulfilled.
And clear. And he's like, Yeah, it's opening your central channel.
Can't me.
the energy from the left and the right, the ida and the pingala in the yoga tradition is what they're called, going right down into the center.
This discovery for me
has been
Really
Uh, you could say a through line, a through line in
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Being
Upright.
As a person, and I started
Looking at different people and seeing in various teachers how an open flow of energy in front of the spine.
manifested in how they carried themselves, how they sat when they were teaching. And I could see this
Upright.
Inspired
quality
And this
St.
that within that channel they were connected to greater
Forces.
Cosmic.
forces and that we each
Could
Cultivate and honey.
This kvalit
Of flow up in front.
of the spine. You could call it
A river.
of awakening flowing through us.
All right. So
There you go. I'm pleased with this. This is terrific.
This is a key, it unlocks the door, it creates a sense
Um
Grounded
Knowing and
Receiving
of inspiration
And I'm now headed
To talk to Lee Harris.
For a special interview we're doing on being a light warrior.
And Lee Harris is an energy intuitive and channel and musician and
Super creative force.
And he had mentioned something that he called the light warrior spine.
And I was like good.
I'm gonna interview
Lee Harris about being a light warrior, and I'm gonna make sure to talk to him to get his sense
Of what is a light.
Warrior.
spine. And of course, you never know what's going to happen in these kinds of conversations. And was I looking for confirmation about
The power of the Central Channel, yes, but I also just wanted to get his take on it and what it meant to him. And then
Here we go.
He surprised me.
He said, You know, Tammy.
Many years ago.
My guides showed me
That each of us
Um
You could see it.
Like an angel.
behind you.
Eight to twelve feet tall that's pressing up against you.
Behind you.
And that that
Is available that sense of
Guidance and angelic inspiration.
Is available to each of us, and you can call.
On this
And he's like ever since my guides
Show me that.
He's like I it's informed me in an important way.
And here's
When the point
Of insight.
Happened.
As we were talking, suddenly
I'm talking to Lee and I think this happens.
When a teacher is in a certain state,
It travels like a spark.
From one person to another just jumps. Whoop.
Spark jumps.
Like the positive
Moving.
Of a
positive contagious elements like boom.
So there I felt the angel.
Behind me.
Pressing up.
Against me.
And I felt
Myself like in that moment.
And I've said this in the interview, I go, I feel a little bit like at this moment
Like a hybrid
Human.
Part
Heart.
regular human and then there are these wings happening.
What's going on? How are these wings suddenly I've become like a mythological creature
In the midst of this interview this is
This is really getting interesting.
And then Lee continued and said
You can't really be a quote unquote light.
warrior. And the conversation was all around the time that we're in now.
right here in twenty twenty six and moving forward into twenty twenty seven and beyond, and how light warriors are
Playing. That's us.
That's us a roll.
In human
conscious evolution at this time. You can't really be a light warrior
And think of yourself as a separate human being that's not.
Connected
to these empowering
forces of light.
that are partnering and working with us and are part of the larger
Interconnected website.
That we are all connected to. That's actually what it means to be a light warrior. And the reason this was an important
point of insight for me is that somehow when I had first
proposed this title being a light warrior
I kinda saw myself I mean, truth be told, I saw myself as like a human being, being brave and courageous and bringing in light and
wanting to be effective and on purpose at this time and wanting to make a contribution. And when he said that you can't really be effective as a light warrior
Without this sense of
Real
On
Line operational connectivity.
operating through you.
Something shifted.
And I felt as if those wings, even if they can't be seen.
Not only were always available to me pressing from
behind this angelic force, but that I needed
You ready for this to fall back?
Into
that support.
more and more and more and to let it
Press.
Upon me.
Now
A few months later.
I'm interviewing
Thomas Moore.
And we're talking about his new book, The Cure at Walden Pond.
and the many writings of Henry David Thoreau.
That he read and metabolized in order to talk about Thoreau's contribution.
to our human evolution at this particular time, and he talks about how
Throw
instructed us to see what's
Transcendent.
In each
Human
We look at
In addition to their humanity, that transcendent humanity
Park.
of the human and that
As human beings we always carry both.
Or human nature.
And this mysterious
Transcendent.
Nature.
And as I was listening
To Thomas Moore describe this.
I suddenly started
Reflecting and seeing before me the
Many of the people that I love.
My wife, some of my closest friends, many of the authors I work with, many of my co-workers, and I suddenly saw them too.
As these hybrid
Beings, if you will.
Part human.
And part something I can only say is
A mystery.
Part mystery.
Part mysterious nature.
And how that mysterious
Nature.
was some aspect of them
that I just love and that I knew would actually go beyond.
The physical death of their human body.
I could see it. I could suddenly see oh that's the transcendent.
Part
Of them and how each person appeared as I was seeing this
Them in their hybrid nature.
As these
Tremendously powerful and free.
Hybrid beings. So here we are.
Recognizing in
ourselves
Falling back.
Feeling the support.
Oh what?
Lee called the angel.
Behind us.
In my case, feeling almost like there's this coming together of those
Wings.
With my human
Person.
And I know this gets kind of, you know, metaphoric and freaky, and I'm gonna take it even one.
Step
Further.
Which is
I went through a very dark period.
Not all that long ago.
And in it.
There was a sense that my old identity was being stripped away.
And of course people said oh you're in the chrysalis.
You're in the
The goo phase where everything becomes goo, where you don't have your identity anymore, just like the caterpillar.
That goes into its chrysalis and dissolves.
And don't worry, you're gonna come out the other side and you're gonna be a butterfly. And you know, basically I was like, Really?
You're gonna throw a butterfly metaphor at me right now? Like, shut up.
To shut up.
And then I decided to type in how many caterpillars
Turn into goo.
and actually don't make it.
They don't make it.
And you know, I got a it was in I had no idea what number I would get, and you know, it's
And I realise this is all just a metaphor, but
Let's keep going. Twenty to forty percent of them don't come out.
As butterflies.
And so when people are like, Oh, I know you're going through a dark time that's like twenty to forty percent of the caterpillars don't come out as butterflies, they die.
So I kept saying that to people like I was
An obstinate
Teenager.
Or something. And and then at a certain point I was like, Tam, you just have to stop.
Repeating this. It's not helpful. It's not helping you. It's not helping other people.
You're turning into a curmudgeon, you're going through a dark time, but
Let's see what happens.
Let's just see.
What happens.
And isn't that interesting that it was so hard, so hard that I became
And obstinate.
Teenager.
But then at a certain
Point.
I let go of that.
And I leaned back.
'Cause I didn't really have a choice.
Except to fall back.
And trust.
and see what might
happen.
stripped away of holding on
to whatever I could claw and hold on to.
That's when
This transcendent
Part of me.
Got.
Stronger.
When I really just allowed
That
To happen.
And
this hybrid birth
Took on
A much greater expression.
In my own life.
It was only really through a deep type.
Um
falling back.
We could say
Into the arms.
Um
And Angelic.
Presence.
So with that
Hybrid
Humans.
Are we? Am I
It's something now that I feel
can be celebrated.
And then I'm so happy to share with you.
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