THE BRIDGE - MICHAEL BROWN -M4B OR MP3 (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

Not sure if an audio fits in the book group?

Anyway, Michael Brown, author of The Presence Process, recently brought out an audio talk called The Bridge. It is a downloadable file for $9.95 from Namaste Publishing.

Until recently there was a Presence Processs Internet Radio Station. This has disappeared. It contained many recordings of talks Michael Brown had given. The material in the talks overlapped quite a lot. This is a talk of that kind, and contains most if not all the key points which could be gleaned from those talks.

It supports The Presence Process but does not overlap that much with the book. My impression is that it overlaps more with the book Alchemy of the Heart. It covers the nature of being upset, or 'set up' by events which trigger emotional charge. It also covers the delusional nature of what Michael Brown calls reactive behaviour.

Besides that, it covers two exercises he recommended, the first involving sitting with emotional charge and discomfort for 15 mintues a day. He says that this impacts the  causal point of our experience, and suggests that applied consistently it does not take more than 40 days to get out of the wilderness.

Elsewhere among the talks on Presence Process Radio, when it was still available, he suggested that this exercise is way faster than The Presence Process in integrating emotional charge, but that The Presence Process may be needed before we are ready for it. In another such talk he suggested that The Presence Process shows us we are in a wilderness of being captive to our emotional charge and reactive behaviour (though I am not sure he would formulate it that way), and this process shows us how to get out of that wilderness.

The second exercise is 'digesting our soul food,' that is sitting with uncomfortable feelings which come up each day, often early in  the day, and in fact if integrated provide the energy required for the day.

Having listened to Presence Process Radio the material is not new to me. However it is good to hear it again.  If you have not heard some of these talks it is well worth doing so. It clarifies, supports and extends The Presence Process, and could be used indepedently of The Presence Process.