Level 5: Co-Embodiment

On Level 5, CNG is engaged when we automatically calibrate to our Energy, Time and Space availability, where we are able to determine the availability of our partner on each of these levels. This means we do not automatically create a CNG when we do not have the energy to deal with a situation. Perhaps our partner, who has the energy, could step up and create the CNG for us both. If we do not have the time and feel pressured by circumstances, it is not good to talk to others who are also pressured by time issues. One of the biggest reactions that occur is when we assume our partner should accommodate our needs without first asking if they are willing or able to do so. The same is true for Spatial needs, that have to do with either partner expressing their Emotions. To have Co-Embodiment, we need to be in agreement to work together and support each other if a partner’s Time, Energy and Space is out of balance. Co-Embodiment suggests that we speak to our perceptions of where our partner is in the moment before becoming embroiled in a discussion.

This type of Co-Measured Creativity is what defines Co-Embodiment opportunities. When a partner steps up to support us by holding a CNG, either partially or completely, the purpose is to be of service to us. We naturally return the favor when they are not doing as well. Whenever there is a breakdown and argument, it temporarily dislocates the nature of the relationship and we need to apologize and restore the trust lost before continuing. This usually requires talking about what was learned and how important it is to pay attention to new things. This establishes a problem resolution process that changes the awareness of both parties. A paradox of this process is that this type of Awareness creates more stability than they had in previous relationships, even though the relationship itself is completely unpredictable.

Speaking up is the way we differentiate the people to whom we are aligned from those with whom we are not. Their response to who we are is either real or not. When we take an inclusive stand (and not a defensive position), it attracts others who are naturally aligned with us. The way to amplify this natural attraction is to hold a CNG and be receptive to the Truth of others. What we want to accomplish is to build balanced, complete relationships where we can explore deeper similarities. This process creates the foundation of conscious, committed partnership. What makes these relationships strong is that each person takes responsibility for expressing their Truth as soon as they know it. If there is no alignment, or a partner is compromised in their Autonomy, it is best to know this quickly. Otherwise, we could become attached and compromised in our own Creative Expression by remaining committed to them.

When we are authentically embodied in our Creative Nature, we naturally seek out others who are at the same level. The first thing we observe is to what degree they respond to who we are. While many individuals lack congruent ways to meet us, others are naturally aligned and synergistic without any effort. These individuals can initially be scary, forcing us to love ourselves more; they can see through our Facades, Pretenses, Defenses or inauthentic ways of being. The benefit of engaging these individuals is that we grow and mature faster as contributors in the world. The obstacle is that the more they are aligned to us, the more they can impact us in ways that may not always be the best. For example, if a potential partner had a fear of stepping out and being found out, and we inadvertently triggered that, we might feel blasted by their reaction. Ironically, because we do not have as many Pretenses, Defenses and Distortions and we are open to people who are similar to us, we could be more impacted by these reactions. The benefit is that we would know what was going on between us and would be able to see through any attempt to cover it up.

Our true legacy is whom we have touched or transformed. When individuals receive these benefits and seek to pay them forward it creates a chain of impenetrable spirit. It is a Creative Unity where, like a pebble dropped into a pool of water, waves ripple outward. This Unity becomes an inner Light, which is reflected and increases our ability to Love. This Love is creative in nature and based on real contributions that certain individuals find regenerating. Every person who responds to us is one of our constituents. Meaning that they have a part in our Creative Destiny, just as we have a part in supporting theirs. Until we see our gifts in others, we do not rest! This is a time of inner awakening where we become creative authors of our own lives.

What we seek are individuals who can be embodied with us. The upside of this is that they provide us the quickest, best feedback allowing exponential, accelerated growth.  Being committed to this level of engagement is the best experience in the world. If we want to control or limit our growth, it will be more of a start/stop and being–thrown-off-balance kind of relationship. In this situation, we will tend to vacillate between trusting and not trusting the process and being open versus closed down, which is a little disheartening. The key issue is to find creative projects where we are both equally passionate and aligned with a larger purpose. This is where our Beauty, Truth and Goodness will emerge. Can we accept this or is it too much for us at this time?

The main question is, are we going to be open to individuals who are similar to us or remain defensive? If we remain defensive, we are not going to attract people who are similar to us, except those who are also defensive. This means we will never test who we are and what we want with individuals who have a clear path. This is why we suggest that the opportunity cost is much greater if we hold ourselves back and are not willing to take risks in service of a much larger possibility. So we are blasted a few times! We recover much more quickly from this than from the death by a thousand cuts that we get when we do not engage. It is also in our interest to build skills that work with all people in all situations. Everyone who shows up is, in fact, helping us to be more of who we are. We just need to remember that there is something we can say or do that supports, not just us, but also the people who show up.

Non-alignment is disconcerting because it is the difference between competition and cooperation. Competition reflects that we cannot trust others because we do not trust ourselves. Cooperation reflects the capacity to engage others, even when they may not be willing to engage us. Cooperation provides a way for others to meet us in a positive manner, even if they cannot trust themselves. Sometimes others can entrain themselves, to look for the higher options in a situation. When this occurs, we learn it is possible to trust ourselves and relax with those with who are aligned. When others do not respond to us, as long as we do not give ourselves away completely, we learn to spot the indicators that tell us when a situation will not produce a good outcome. The most important thing is that we learn to speak up and be a leader or author of our own experience. This allows us to attract others who are more aligned with us.

When we become authors of our lives, we are able to accept the support and insight of others without reaction. Since we are not tied to our personalities, we do not need credit or acknowledgment. Our ability to affirm our Selves (large “S” meaning we are identifying now with our Primary Creative Expression, not our small “s” personality programming) allows us to find new ways to accomplish change using the resources that naturally show up. Learning that we can come together with common passion becomes more real with experience. We need to have a way of unifying our Feelings and Emotions so that the past and present inform our current reality. Individually, we want to use our imagination to create a shared reality. The more we share our experiences, the more they become an interactive picture of the entire possibility. When we can do this in a way that produces a mutual benefit for everyone, we can trust it as a common development, not a selfish, self-serving development. The intention is to build greater resourcefulness for imagining what we need. It creates a vocabulary we can use to talk about how we can be motivated to work together.

It is Creative Integrity that drives us to seek partners with whom we can experience Growth. As long as we choose individuals who do not have the capacity to be authentically creative, it drains us. This leads us to becoming extremely focused on those individuals with whom we experience the greatest Creative Flow. Until we find a number of partners where Creative Flow becomes the norm, it is hard to accept that our lack of good choices has always been the biggest obstacle to our own success. Energetic Integrity becomes the new standard for determining which investments to make in a relationship. As our Personality Integration process unfolds, we come to trust ourselves more, which opens us up to attracting individuals with Creative Integrity. Our energetic presence is reinforced and supported by these individuals, and we are able to be fully autonomous, yet simultaneously co-embodied with them.

As we become more conscious about the impacts others have on us, we become more selective about whom we want to work with and whom we cannot effectively engage. This duality is about the degree to which we can align our Intent with the intent of others. The benefit of unifying our Sensations and Feelings is that we can now effectively read the Feelings and Sensations of others. This allows us to know when something is off, and to what extent it is off. This usually manifests in a high degree of Cellular Affinity with almost everyone we engage. When individuals show up with a lot of integration in terms of their Feelings and Emotions, they are magnetically attracted to the field generated by these groups.

When we know who we are, we commonly wonder if we are the only people that want to make the world a better place. We confront the possibility that unconscious patterns seem to guarantee default choices. We seek to rectify this by expanding our Context and vision so that we can assist the universe in bringing some small degree of order. We begin to recognize that the universe wants us to more successfully contribute to its design. By declaring our personal space and the CNG space, we start with a conscious embrace of our harmonic possibilities in our existing field of endeavor (in this case, the space around us). This does not mean that we cannot reach out and have impacts beyond us, just that we need to be anchored and clear about ourselves. We increase our direct connection with the universe through activities, meditation and learning how to respond to its impressions.

Co-Embodiment means we are shifting into operating primarily through Transpersonal and Impersonal Desires. This requires that we go beyond Separative Desires where we need to benefit from something at the cost of others. These Desires are commonly thought of as selfish. They are also related to our parental repressions where our parents’ lessons minimized our personal choices. Transpersonal Desires are shared experiences that have a mutual outcome that we both want. Transpersonal Desires are the building blocks for great relationships. When we are clear about our desire and we meet others with the intention of creating possibilities together, Transpersonal Desires naturally occur. Impersonal Desires are those desires that we may share with others that are beyond our personal control or capacity to individually create (for example eradicating world hunger). Most Idealization patterns have Impersonal Desire elements. When this occurs, we are actually distancing ourselves from our own heart’s connection to the outcome, and we are always blaming others for what we believe they should have done. This means it is an Idealization pattern and it is probably impersonal in nature. 

Our creative potential increases as we learn how to do more with less. Transparency and honesty both attract like-thinkers and repulse defensive, power brokers. Our contributions become noticed and our resolve is tested in several ways. As we become more embodied, our cry for assistance becomes evocations to the universe. These heartfelt Transpersonal Desires become more widely heard and appreciated. Groups grow, form, and split apart as people unify with those who are aligned with them. This is how we end the mixed-messages and the Defensive Distortions, as well as unconscious dualities. The key to navigating this level is to find the narrow, middle path where creative flow and growth is maximized.

This is how we maintain our close, creative connection to Universal Intent. It is also the way we are seen and heard by our Constituents. The size of the group does not matter as much as the quality of our connections. What conscious individuals want most is to have either a better connection to themselves, or a better connection to the universe. All Authentic Life Expression facilitates one of these two connections. We expand our CNG when we recognize where others are in their consciousness. We learn how to blend our consciousness with theirs to expand both of our perceptions. We also use the CNG to experience Worldview, Creative Actualization levels and the balance between Intent, Content and Context.

Our Creative Expressions provide insight into the patterns of engagement and disengagement. We begin to notice subtle dissonances and see opportunities when there is congruence. Creatively aligned partners learn to adjust to greater differences when there is an overall engagement process. This is when Playfulness, Paradox, and Mutual Learning become the most critical; their polar opposites, Seriousness, Certainty, and Unilateral Action create disasters in relationships. What we need is trust, not refusals, in order to get involved. If these Relationship Skills are active in our relationships, the CNG will grow in sophistication and elegance. Women will become Cultural Leaders and men, Cosmic Magnets.

When we fixate on our Defensive similarities, we deny the strength that comes from accepting the mystery of Creative similarities. On a Personality level, uncomfortable similarities teach us to look deeper within to resolve our past judgments. For example, a Primary Storyteller, who may be repressed in their communications by having parents who criticized whatever they said, was taught to deny speaking so that when he met another Storyteller who spoke his or her mind, it irritated him. When we limit ourselves because of the judgments of others that we take on, it frustrates us when we see others not limited in the way that we are. These uncomfortable similarities require us to clear the judgments that we took on, which naturally happens when we are around people with the same Compatibility Factors.

We also have beliefs, which may or may not be true, regarding who we are or who we think we should be, that can be irritating to others. This is because when we attempt to repress beliefs, we become more fixated, reactive, and intense. In these situations, we need to figure out what patterns are being triggered and forgive ourselves for being caught up in them. We also need to recognize that some of these patterns are based on the people we were around at the time. Do we need these Defenses, or can we release them? Because the people we are attracting now are more conscious than those we dealt with in the past, we need to work on these issues until we can fully love ourselves as we are. Meaning that when we are around people similar to us, we do not default in reaction to them.

Learning how to share our Context is what provides a better foundation for creative exchange. In using the CNG space, we balance masculine and feminine approaches to create greater wholeness. Even if we are more feminine, our ability to tune into the masculine expands our perspective and we are more powerful and direct in our expression. The opposite is also true for two masculine individuals who would naturally become more feminine together in a CNG. This is the universe seeking greater balance and wholeness. The key issue is that when we get into alignment, we overlap and amplify certain skills, perspectives, and possibilities that do not show up when we are by ourselves. This is one of the core benefits of working and being with others.

The benefit of engaging this process is that the universe seems to guide us in ever-increasing ways to find our most fulfilling contribution. The more we can embody our Context and test how our Context could connect to the Context of others us, the more we will be able to understand our Creative Potential. Each time we find a deeper, more powerful creative resonance, it awakens possibilities within us that can then be recognized by others. This means that every exploration we make further clarifies our unique talents, thereby attracting better partners as we grow. This process is greatly enhanced by our ability to concentrate on our contributions.

At this level, we learn how to receive and give Love. On Level 3, we focus on giving Love to connect us. On Level 4, we learn how to use Radiant Self Unifying Love to enhance our connections with others. Now, we learn how to use Love to bring others with us as we find new ways of expression. This allows us to utilize a reservoir of contributions called Good Will. It is the openness we embody to discover new ways of interacting that makes Goodwill such a potent a force in the world.

The primary tool to stimulate others to respond to us is our Passion. The ability to unify our Feelings and Emotions provides the capacity to accurately read others’ Feelings and Emotions through a CNG. The irony is that just as we are becoming more impersonal, and being more Simultaneous and Equal (based on Communication Process), we find ourselves able to penetrate the fog of Idealization and burn through its distortions. This ability to Transfigure our own Feelings and Emotions provides clear insights into the Goodness of others allowing us to manage our connections more effectively. This assists us in starting high-performance teams or leading groups.

As we align our own natural Creative Intelligences so they work together fluidly, our Creative Gifts emerge. This is greatly facilitated by having partners who not only see us, but also encourage us to contribute in new ways. This is manifested by Transpersonal Desires. The primary value of relationships becomes manifest, which is to bring out the best in both of us. We learn to distinguish different qualities of alignment, so that complementary skills bring out synergistic Gifts between us and with others with whom we have alignment. This means that the creative synergy within us works better with some people than with others, and that there is another type of synergy that works between two people with creative integrity. External creative synergy comes from alignment in our Life Work and it is an alignment based on a purpose that we have agreed to. It works uniquely because we modulate ourselves to fit into the parameters that our partner defines.

Internal Creative Synergy is based on having the same compatibility Factors, Creative Motives, Attractions, and Skills that do not require an external agreement. It works because we have the same foundation and understanding of what works for us, which is also what works for our partners. Common Neutral Ground unifies both types of Synergy. It is extremely fortunate when we have both types of Creative Synergy at once. Finally, Worldview differences also come into play because individuals with different degrees of actualization have reduced synergy than with those operating on the same level. These Gifts only emerge when we are willing to engage others to determine the best way of interacting with them. There is no substitute for practical experience.

Co-Embodiment is our first real experience of operating in Unity with others. This is possible because we have become more transpersonal and, yet, have fully developed our own Sovereign Autonomy. This means that we can now make better assessments because we know who we are fully. We also know when we could be compromising ourselves. No one can compromise us at this point. By being conscious about our Creativity we are able to surrender to the Co-Creative process with our partner, allowing energetic transmutation. The more we get experience in operating energetically in a transpersonal way, the more we attract more interesting possibilities. Some would say it creates a synchronicity of opportunities. In effect, we become a magnet for the resources we want and need to fulfill our Authentic Life Expression.

Often, at this level, we feel more grounded and ‘real’ because we know how to implement our contributions without being attached to them. This is because we have embodied a sense of Personality Detachment that allows us to experience freedom of choice. This level is usually more active, as we feel a sense of power when making choices to move forward. While we do not rush or push others, we can feel urgency within ourselves. This urgency combines three elements: Aliveness, Enthusiasm and Spacious Presence. We need to learn to breathe and give ourselves time and space to process our experience as we go. It is helpful to use our bodies to sense the appropriate time for moving forward in any activity. Without this considered sensibility, we can hyperventilate and get thrown off balance due to an imposition of urgency in the current circumstance. This experience of urgency is really a transpersonal Intent, where we affirm our purpose, which then connects to the greater, Universal Intent to make a conscious connection. It can be disruptive or supportive. What matters is if we are connected to the process that is unfolding and keeping track of its development. There is always enough time to make a balanced choice. 

Mutual development is a shared process. While it improves with practice, we already have a certain set of expressions and Feelings that convey what is going on with us (that others are aware of). While many think of this process as two partners being able to dance together, it is actually more than that. It is the ability to create our own dance in the moment because we are confident that we are tuned into our partner and they naturally respond to whatever we do. We see the constant shifting of masculine and feminine expressions between partners, as they occur. When we trust that our response will take things to another level, it creates a greater connection and we are thereby unified with our partners. A CNG at this level allows other layers to come into connection. Here we use our inner knowing to assess the appropriate action to accomplish and integrate any activity. In short, we know when to start and stop, without needing outside confirmation.

Being present to our body and its consciousness is a godsend. The skill of Physical Discernment where we are able to tune into our own heartbeat, breathing, or energetic pacing awakens us to how we are a physical part of the world. When we connect to others from this physically resourced place, it encourages Mutual Learning. Mutual Learning is the capacity to engage lessons together and find answers through deep conversation. Most of the time, it is about finding a common resonance with another person and then letting things unfold. It is definitely not about imposing our will on others. To do so not only impedes them, but impedes us as well. Physical Discernment and Mutual Learning empower Co-Creative endeavors because no one is in charge. Instead, the process reveals who should take the leadership at any particular time and the responsibility is shared.

Co-Creativity means engaging others with Intent, Content and Context so we can synchronize the expression of Life, Light and Love. It is an open-ended process where creativity engenders new insights that create new possibilities. It is a mutual effort that always expands the CNG. It particularly opens up and makes real those areas in which we may not be the best. In this shared space, we get more comfortable dealing with topics and situations that previously would have seemed difficult or even impossible. A lot of the inspiration that is felt in a Co-Creative process comes from being mirrored by our partner. The more they see our whole being, the more it empowers them to see themselves in the same way. This expands our understanding of ourselves and encourages us to take risks in service to improving the world.

Use of Skillful Means in Co-Creation

Physical Discernment is the Skill used to tune into creative possibilities. We need to ask ourselves, is this process appropriate for me to participate in? If the answer is yes, we need to ask the same about any other person involved. In the past, we did not have control over whom we worked with. Other people would hire our teammates with little input from us. In the Aquarian Age it is all about mutual participation. Where previously we had strong hierarchies, we are now seeking flatter organizations with more personal responsibility and involvement. This means we will increasingly be part of the decision-making when bringing in a new employee. It is either this or we will run our own company and determine who all our partners are. As we become more creative, we will expect others to be creative with us. If they do not have alignment in their creative chemistry with us, we should not be obligated to work with them. This will increasingly become a reality in the next hundred years. Common Neutral Ground will create the frameworks that make this possible.

Skillful Means is the capacity to use our inner perceptions to gracefully identify a course of action. It is about being able to connect our perceptions into a unified whole so that our interactions with others are intuitively informed. Many people flit from perception to perception, creating a rat’s nest of contradictory Thoughts. These interfere with their ability to follow through with their Intention. To break out of this dilemma, we need to attract individuals who can respond to our Intent by being intentional with us. When we have agreement about our intentions, it produces greater clarity, focus and follow-through. This is because we mutually support each other in fulfilling these possibilities.

What helps us to decide on a common intention are Transpersonal Desires. How do we identify individuals who have the capacity to meet us where we are so they can become partners in our larger mission? Our answer is being able to identify the Motives of others so we can determine if they are aligned enough to make things work. We can also validate that the lessons of others are aligned to us by talking to them about their Attractions. Finally, the most important aspect is, do they have the Relationship Skills developed enough to meet us where we are so we can feel confident that we, indeed, have an authentic partner? For many individuals, a sense of presence in a CNG is the culmination that indicates that they have a conscious partner available to go wherever they want to go.

What is our way of determining our degree of alignment with others? In the past, most individuals would have answered ’Common Values’. While common values are outer indicators that we possess some similarities, we need to get to the core of how we are aligned in terms of who we are and/or what we want to do together. Values are more about shared interests and may or may not reflect an ability to work together, depending on the value or circumstance. Making partnership choices in our personal and business frameworks can adversely impact us more than anything else. This is why we want to invest in ways of validating our own, inner Knowing so we can make the best choices. The skill that allows us to quickly identify who is aligned with us is the Inner Seeing program.

What are the criteria for the choices we make in our lives? Is it identifying Motives, Attractions, Skills or a combination thereof? Do we have an inner process to validate the way we interact with others for various purposes? Now that we have cleared away the debris of our past, what is on our horizon? This is why we use a symbol of the sunrise to indicate new beginnings. These new beginnings start with developing tools of consciousness. Our Compatibility Factors are an example of this. While we have developed ways of validating our inner patterns (such taking the Creative Uniqueness class) on this level, the focus is now turned on others. The Inner Seeing series is an example of how to assess others to maximize our Creative Resonance. We do not need to use only these tools; there are many other consciousness tools available, such as the Enneagram.

Driving the development of Skillful Means is Transpersonal Context, where we learn how to share our awareness with others. What challenges this process is that one partner may insist on dealing with their partner from their own perceptions only, reducing the Transpersonal Flow between them. This is why the more tools we can use together, the greater ability we have to maintain our own Autonomy and fully sharing Intimacy with our partner. There is no need to be concerned that we will become enmeshed in our partner or unduly influenced by them. In fact, it is more likely that the more we share our consciousness tools, we will build a unified perspective in the Common Ground, where we will both be able to discuss our observations in ways that enhance each other. This Creative Flow deepens our ability to feel connected, while simultaneously increasing our ability to use our Awareness to guide our mutual growth.

When we have a positive internal attitude and can be spaciously present with partners, they naturally respond to us. It is our intention to operate in a state of goodwill that allows them to feel supported by our presence. Goodwill is the capacity to operate in a state of integrity for the greatest good. It requires us to be able to love ourselves and not personalize our love in terms of others. We call this type of love Radiant Self-Unifying Love because it is a natural experience of agape and it’s generalized in all of our interactions with others. This means we are able to let go of ‘special love’ and see how it is the experience of giving love that provides the benefit. Personality expressions of love are about convincing others that they mean something to us or that they are better off with us, thereby offsetting their insecurities. True love is never manipulative or used to influence others’ perceptions of us. Otherwise, we can be caught in limited expressions of love that trap us in personality frameworks. All forms of personality love are conditional; and it is the process of mediating whom we love and for what reason that denies us the experience of the connection we want. In Radiant Self-Unifying Love we love people because we love them and we never need to take back or even regret any expression of our love. Loving Our Creative self is the class we recommend to help make a transition into Level 5.

Effective human relations require goodwill. It is about creating an atmosphere and an attitude that is open and available. It builds trust in others and it allows us to build bridges between different perspectives, principles and beliefs. Most importantly, it comes from a compassionate heart where we see the goodness in others and do not attempt to change them in any way. If they learn things from us, they might change, but that is not our job. It is also about performing random acts of kindness and contribution to others so that we can share our delight in the creative possibilities that emerge in every dimension of our life. Many individuals would say that goodwill is the result of recognizing our personality limitations so that we can address and eliminate our self-criticism, therefore we will not carry forward this burden. It is about letting go of the million ways we seek others to validate us, instead becoming a person who validates others exactly where they are. This is what makes us interesting to other people. By being a person of depth and responsiveness, we attract others who are the same. Rather than complaining that there are no conscious people in the world to meet, we need to cultivate this consciousness within ourselves by sharing it with others so that it magnetizes to us the people that we want.

As we become more Transpersonal we show up as being more open and available to others. The paradox is that the more we know ourselves, the less we need to prove ourselves, meaning that we like open exploration where we can discover hidden synergies. We realize where some of our challenges overlap, which motivates us to change the status quo. The more we balance our experiential Modalities, the more sensitive we become to what is going on around us. This is what precipitates our growing awareness of the existing pain in others. We discover that many individuals are broadcasting their pain, even though they deny it to themselves. This causes us to develop screening tools so we do not always have to experience these broadcasts.

We can become so selective that, in the same environment, we can screen out some people while being available to others. This kind of discrimination originates on a physical level and is about recognizing different vibrations. Each factor operates on a particular level and can either add to or subtract something from the larger energetic expression. While Pacing, Decision Making Approach and Defenses are all different patterns that can be confusing when considered together, we become conscious by separating them out, recognizing where we are so that we do not automatically impose these patterns on others. Otherwise we are caught in our perceptions and reacting to the perceptions of others so that we are no longer cognizant of the overall trajectory of the conversation.

The more we are present with ourselves, the more we are able to be present with others and see beyond these different expressions. We naturally do this because Transpersonal individuals broadcast their joy and love to increase their Unity with others. These screening tools are used in Common Neutral Ground and can be visualized as different frequencies of expression. Initially, we cannot separate the pain from the joy. Over time, we not only do this, but also refine and individuate our screening based on particular people. This allows us to be aware of others without having to take on their issues or distortions.

When we are meeting new people, a CNG is a big advantage. It not only allows us to energetically synchronize with another, but it helps us to identify their Compatibility Factors, Motives, Attractions and Skills. The more we create space with another and explore how they respond to us, the more we realize that their configuration and how they try to connect with us tells us everything about them. This gives us an incredible amount of insight to the degree that they can be a Co-Creative partner. While it is not definitive initially, it is predictive. This means that with some individuals we can see particular types of problems. When the people we are meeting indicate that they would like our assistance in these areas, it gives us hope that they will make great partners. This does not mean, however, that they will be able to implement the consciousness tools that we are talking about.

One way to expand our CNG is to learn how to connect to others at a distance, at a preset time. It is recommended that we begin this process in a small group when we have some Transpersonal or Impersonal desire that we share. For example, an impersonal desire could be world peace. This would allow us to practice using our Intent to create a connection between various individuals at the same time, to either concentrate, meditate or contemplate on a shared topic. Afterwards, we could write a journal entry about what we thought about and what energetically shifted within us. Perhaps one day a month, we could have a conversation between the members of the group to review what is going on and how well we are syncing up. We could also examine whether creating connections between CNGs actually deepens our own process and provides a framework for developing new ideas about what could make things better. Some logistical suggestions would be to spend less than half an hour at any one time. In fact, the preferred time frame is ten to fifteen minutes. When we start to experience our capacity to interact using the CNG between people not present to each other, the power of a CNG starts to dawn on us. This is particularly beneficial for couples and for groups that have an inspirational or aspirational motive.