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Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach

By Richard Fuller in Metaphysical Reviews

"The glorious day author, practitioner of Chinese medicine and co-founder of the Deva Foundation of New Mexico, Rick Phillips learned to communicate with the dolphins, was the day his life changed forever.  He learned about a collective mind, group awareness and the knowing of oneness.

Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach is an excellent book.  "It's purpose is to search deep into the energetic source of connectedness and the role that communication plays on our lives."  Rick's reality was governed by aloneness and so, he was a victim of separation.  But no longer.  The dolphin's gift for communication brought him an energy that opened his mind, changed his reality and introduced him "to the phenomenon of communion, that state of consciousness where only unity prevails in an expansive energetic connection."

Thus, Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach helps remove the blocks to experiencing unconditional love.  Even more, Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach helps the reader find the path to unity by teaching consciousness of communication.  Using his own personal experiences from journey into awareness, as well as actual case studies from years of psychospiritual practice, author Rick Phillips leads the reader from the darkness into the light.  This wonderful, inspirational delight illuminates the road to better relationships through communication.

Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach is, in the final analysis, a book about empowerment.  Spiritual healing through communication has long been one of this reviewer's goals.  Rick Phillips has walked the walk and now talks the talk.  The result is a work of illumination, one that brightened my day and my future.  Don't miss it!"

By W. Ritchie Benedict in Venture Inward

"We do it to ourselves, you know.  By our emotional reactions to the people and events surrounding us, we literally make ourselves sick from time to time.  There is a very telling example in the 1975 Oscar-winning movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."  When the mental patients unexpectedly are removed for a short time from the stifling atmosphere of the hospital in which they are confined and go on an ocean cruise, they begin reacting like ordinary individuals.  A trifle eccentric perhaps, but normal.  Author Rick Phillips, a practitioner of Chinese medicine and a teacher of meditation practices, went on a revelatory cruise of his own on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii, back in the autumn of 1989.  His raft was surrounded by at least fifty dolphins, and when we entered the water with them, he experienced a unified reality that some have labeled cosmic consciousness.  Most of us have mere flashes a few times during our lifetime, if that.  The separation from elements of ourselves and others, not to mention the rest of the universe, is the source of our problems.  Partly, this is due to a lack of communication and partly due to the power of the ego.  Phillips asks the question how can we move beyond the false assumptions we've made and transcend the illusions of the familiar experience?  Abstractions bother us, and yet much of the material world consists of concrete expressions of symbolic reality (i.e., a drive to win is expressed by an accumulation of sports equipment).  We know when a Higher Self or reality is in operation because we can feel it all the way down to the depths of our being.  Sex may ultimately be viewed as a way of connecting with this aspect of the universe, but of course, it is not the only way.  Any experience whereby you become lost in the experience can create this sense of "oneness".

The author says "Using our senses with clarity and developing our ability to understand the energetic messages of mind/body feedback loops gives us the opportunity to take action for corrective change.  This is one function of communication: to bring information to consciousness and thus giving us the freedom of choice."  Some of this information involves signals that would otherwise be lost and we refer to this as extrasensory perception or intuition.  He goes on to state that the nature of karma is repetition programmed or patterned responses (in other words, memory) and this helps to generate separation and suffering.  We hold on in order to prevent opening emotional wounds, not realizing that it is necessary to lower the shields in order to dissolve past injury and become whole.

How often have we watched at TV. movie, where on e character says to another "you never listen".  Much of this inability is due to stress and living a life at high speed.  Paradoxically, we are far more effective when we are laid back and are taking our time to examine and understand a problem.  Interestingly, the idea of regression into another lifetime can be viewed as valuable, whether or not we believe in reincarnation, or the actuality of another lifetime.  By putting current difficulties into the context of another personality/another era, it appears to be easier to recognize the causes of a psychological/spiritual affliction, almost like watching a character in a movie undergoing the same ordeals you are experiencing.  This is illustrated in this book by a number of past-life sessions.

Fear of the psychic and those who have cultivated such abilities is really an abuse of power, according to Phillips.  As consciousness is the source of all manifestation, its potential power is unlimited.  The odd part about this is that we express power in everything else and the consequences of misuse in these other areas do not seem to bother us to a great extent (i.e., military, economic and military destruction).  If your hearth and head is in the right place, then there is no need to fear any form of psychic ability, because you will be unable to harm anyone or anything.

Once it is possible to go beyond the perception of seeing duality, good or evil, then enlightenment can take place and the separation/loneliness of existence is removed.  To do that, it is necessary to take a leap into the darkness, to let go of what we think we are.

The reader will find that he/she will recognize not only himself/herself, but also the dilemmas faced by friends and relatives.  After all, the field of consciousness is ultimately all one.  Recognition is the first step in healing.  By formulating a way doing this in his book, Phillips has contributed to a new beginning for the next millennium.  We should take his admonitions to hear and put them into practice.  An invitation to openness -- can we afford not to undertake it?"