August: Transition in Phase 8
August is the 8th month in the sixth of the pandemic years.
During August, Nature takes a lead role in your life, moving you into position for the coming manifestation in the 12 Phases™. As Nature moves you, a transition happens, turning you toward a place among others that is a new form of good in your life. You are passive, not able to choose your way as Nature takes the lead. There is often a feeling of “in-between” pressure – not yet out of the past, not yet into the future.
Since January, Phases 1 through 8 are internal growth processes. The good intention is hidden in the events of Phase 1 when you are distracted by new events and your intuition gets you through the change. As the seed of good develops within you, your body and mind respond unconsciously, assuring your gradual development. In Phase 8 you might detect anticipation of a future event, just as a pregnant woman anticipates the coming birth of her baby.
Your experience during August will differ from others in the details. What we all share in common is the principle operation of Phase 8: Transition. Transition follows July’s Meaning attached to your greatest human strength. When others become attached to your strength, the picture becomes larger. Transition is Nature moving you deeper into that attachment.
In my life, the move into close quarters with others and being involved in my sister’s treatment for cancer both accomplished a transition. I was turned, inside out, toward what will become a permanent new level of personal growth. The transition happened in small occasions that required new behaviors that I performed unconsciously.
On August 4:
I sat with my sister during her first chemo treatment, simply absorbing the experience. Meanwhile, I let my body adjust to my new place and cooked my first meal there.
August 8:
Simple situations with family and my host home helped me realize something deeper: In right order, my place stays empty until I fill it. That day turned back to writing about the Phases when I listened to Demis Hassabis on the Lex Fridman podcast. Demis Hassabis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using AI to predict protein structures. As a neuroscientist and pioneer in AI research, as well as an award-winning game designer and five time World Games Champion Hassabis has a broad, well-blended world view.
Hassabis’ opening remarks snapped me to attention because the Phases fit into his thinking. He looks for the simplest pattern of complex things in Nature. He says having a model that reflects nature - which is the 12 Phases™ - makes the pursuit of understanding easier. The Phases is the simplest pattern of the complexity of human living.
Demis Hassabis: We can stare at each other and all these living things all the time. We can inspect it microscopes and take it apart almost down to the atomic level. And yet we still can’t answer that clearly in a simple way. That question of how do you define living?... I guess we’ve developed a lot of mechanisms to cope with these deep mysteries that we can’t fully, we can see, but we can’t fully understand and we have to just get on with daily life. And we keep ourselves busy in a way. In a way, did we keep ourselves distracted?
August 20, 12+8
In my calendar, these are today’s reminders from previous epithanies:
“Love and harmony. Without extension there can be no love.”
and
“When love shows up on the topside everything begins and ends with love.”
Without the reflex of self-protection, I realize that my housemates keep their positive feelings toward me. By moving with them, I behave like them. This walks me beyond my isolation, naturally. Their perceptions are of my disposition, which, until today, was separate and guarded. As I let my body and mind process this, I relax. I feel the natural way this is happening in me and with others. I only have to let Nature move me. Phase 8.
August 21 (12+9)
I feel compelled to fill time in-between by investigating my new neighborhood. I went past the familiar sections, and once I was in new territory, I relaxed. I needed to get away. I realized that getting away has been my method of coping since childhood. I was, even now, unconsciously getting away. What a wonder to realize this!
While driving, I half-listened to Joe Dispenza's book, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. Occasionally, a phrase would catch my attention like when he said that the quantum field is doing good for you; it loves you, so let it. This is my feeling about the Phases experience. I learned to think its way and distortions and emotions eventually fell away. As I trusted the system, Nature "grew me" into itself, much simpler than all the work Dispenza teaches using his meditation method of mind control.
The Phases accept you as a uniquely forming individual. They are the next understanding of your self. All that happens externally is excessive but satisfies our need to feel real. The growth process selects from all that happens only what adds to who and what you truly are as an individual. Your heart's mind ensures that growth happens out of and toward your unique inborn qualities.
When we observe Nature, the process of growth is gradual and according to the species. For us humans, the complex nature of Life occupies you, sending much information through your heart's mind for its purpose. Step out of the busyness of life and look at time from Nature's perspective where growth is happening.
August 31, 2025 the end of Phase 8: the finish.
I slept well, woke up at 9:20. Had to go get eggs for breakfast and felt ease toward spending money. Grabbed the popcorn on sale at the door and left with kombucha and mocha coffee, as well as toothpaste and progesterone. I felt truly alone now and it feels right.
Conclusion:
You can become more sensitive to your internal sensations by learning the twelve phases system because they are constant and always in sequence. This is the nature of what scientists call a living system. Just as we learned how our organs function rhythmically, you can learn how your individual development is steady and rhythmic in the 12 Phases™. The complex contents of your life provide opportunities for your heart’s mind to select what is good for you, specifically. Take time occasionally to see what time and Nature has done for you.
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Referenced in this blog:
Demis Hassabis on the Lex Fridman podcast. (https://youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?si=ZzxudhiZKtG9z1y_)
Demis Hassabis, achiever (https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/)
Joe Dispenza: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3FKxSaBIIG3QaqlN1pXrbH?si=16a3e61d82ef449b)