"Jane and Phillip Mountrose help people move through doors that make dynamic differences in their lives."
- Kathi Gibson, Artist, Hypnotherapist, Massage Therapist
Who am I and why am I here? These are the timeless questions we all ask in our search to understand the big picture. These questions call to the soul, the eternal part of us that reaches beyond the physical trappings of our lives to grasp the underlying meaning. The soul understands that it is here to evolve and to contribute to the evolution of the whole in some joyful and loving way. But, in our journey into this third dimensional reality, most of us have lost our connection with this understanding, along with our connection with the soul.
Fortunately, life is synchronous and the events of our lives are like puzzle pieces that we can put together to create the bigger picture. From these events, many of us have recognized that we are spiritual beings who are here with lessons to learn and gifts to share. But having more specific information can help us to complete the puzzle and allow our divine nature to touch all of the pieces of our lives.
Both my wife Jane and I have been playing with this puzzle for more than 25 years. During that time, we have come across some valuable clues that can help you to understand what your soul had in mind when it brought you here. These puzzle pieces provide specific information and tools for understanding yourself and others in a more profound way, as well as guiding you to live in keeping with your soul’s essential nature and divine purpose.
Our books Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT and Getting Thru to Your Soul, which I will refer to more simply as the Soul Book and the EFT Book, describe the basis of our approach and our understanding of the spiritual journey. They focus on healing the parts of ourselves that have become disconnected from the wholeness of the soul. These disconnected parts, which we call subpersonalities, prevent us from simply being ourselves in the present moment. They comprise the wounded ego, which the healing techniques help to heal.
This program complements these other materials. In addition to healing, we also need to develop our self-awareness through an intentional process of consciousness-building to get a clear picture who we are and to see ourselves clearly in relation to the whole. We all want to be fully conscious, but as we approach the goal of awakening to our true purpose, we realize that there are many things about ourselves that we don’t know. Getting to know ourselves better and learning about our purpose are the focus of this audio program.
Like many of you, we have explored a variety of psychological and spiritual approaches. From the mid-1970’s until the mid-80’s, Jane and I were members of an organization that followed the teachings of the Russian philosophers George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky. These teachings, which are known as the Fourth Way, focus on self-observation and self-awareness as a vehicle for evolutionary development. In his written works, Peter Ouspensky described the Fourth Way as fragments of an unknown teaching. Its primary goal is to learn to simply be in the present moment.
We still consider being present to be one of the ultimate goals of the spiritual journey, creating an experience of joy, love and freedom from limitation. We view this as the birthright of the soul. As members of the Gurdjieff group, we learned ways to be present, along with some invaluable tools for understanding the human condition. But as the years passed, we started to feel like we were stagnating and felt that something was off.
We knew we were missing some big pieces of the puzzle and set out to find them, without having any idea of where to look. As synchronicity would have it, we were led to the Michael teachings, which we came to understand as the unknown teaching Peter Ouspenski had referred to decades earlier in his presentation of the fourth way.
The Michael material, which you may or may not have heard about, came into view in the early 1980’s and provided a more complete picture of the human condition and the evolutionary journey we were seeking. It contains some of the same information that we learned in the Gurdjieff group, along with some of the missing pieces of the puzzle.
The puzzle came together even more when we started to explore healing techniques, including hypnotherapy, NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming), Reiki, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and developed our own approaches, like the Getting Thru Techniques and Spiritual Kinesiology, which is the subject of the Soul Book. We learned that we can create a conscious connection with the soul and use it to heal the wounded parts. Harmonizing the different subpersonalities, or wounded ego, speeds up the evolutionary process dramatically, because these are the parts that pull us out of the present moment and the experience of love, joy and freedom we all deserve. |