Since I was trained by Dr. Sutherland's student for eighteen years, my Stillness Touch is based on Sutherland's oral instructions that he conveyed to his inner circle osteopaths. Sutherland discovered the 'uncanny' power of Be Still as a non-efferent way to touch as a path to "Realize and Know I AM"
Here is how Dr. Sutherland publicly characterized touch that he privately taught to his inner circle:
"We had a visit from a young lady, a ballet dancer whose name is well known on Broadway. In our living room, she gave a dramatic and reverent dance interpretation of the biblical saying 'Be Still and Know that I am God." In her impressive presentation, we could see that she lost all awareness of the physical senses.
"Be Still" these physical senses and get as close to your Maker as you can, closer than breathing. Where you realize what is meant by the Breath of Life, not the breath of air, the breath of air being merely one of the material substances which man utilizes in his walkabout on earth.
It has been my endeavor to get as far away from the physical senses as I possibly could, that is, to a point where one begins to experience - to realize "Be Still and Know." That is why I have so much to say about information gained solely through laboratory tests and experiments and information often gained through the application of erring or unreliable physical senses.
How many of you have the same degree of vision? The same degree of touch?"
~ Final Lecture AOA Yearbook April 1948
For a more in-depth perspective on Sutherland click here: Potency Interview
Stillness Touch Legacy Practitioners choose to abide by Dr. Sutherland's instructions and carry on his principle of using 'no outside force' of any kind during a session.
That means Legacy Stillness Touch Practitioners
~ Do not orient to neutral because that is dualistic, which creates a tad pole neutral
~ Do not use the hands to feel for motions, to sense anatomy, evaluate the nervous system, or the experience tides. Why? Because Sutherland says hands are "erring or unreliable physical senses." Efferent touch with the hands is one of five physical senses (See Stillness Chapter 3)
~ Do not get trapped in the ego's narcissism, by falsely believing that we can help out the Breath of Life. A renowned teacher and author asked my teacher "Why does Charles need to hang out in Dynamic Stillness and do nothing when he could be helping the Breath of Life?"
The question exemplifies a superego confession: 'I am intermediary between God and recipient.'
~ Do not deepen into the superego shadow realms. This occurs when a teacher gets trapped in megalomania. The Superego misleads us to believe 'I am a God or a Guru.' This expresses the Psychotic Core, which manifests as teacher co-dependence that occurs when teachers subtly encourage a guru-disciple dynamic with their students.
Dr & Mrs Sutherland declared the total biodynamic map on their headstones:
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM
When The Tides Dissolve At Dynamic Stillness And You Realize I AM That Ends The Osteopathic Biodynamic Tidal Map
Right here is THE FULCRUM:
IF you choose to let I AM descend into your body
you begin your post-biodynamic Grail Journey
guided by the Sacred Pulse of Love
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM LOVE
You Can Get Stuck In The Endless
Ascending Biodynamic Tidal Domains
Amid The Belief That Dynamic Stillness
Is The End Of The Soul's Journey
What Is The Result?
You Will Remain Stuck In Stillness As Bypass
Beware of The Following Methods Of Spiritual Bypass That Are Taught As Biodynamics Outside Of Osteopathy:
Orient To Neutral
Enquire Into Tides To Gain Meaning
Misuse Dynamic Stillness As A Bypass To Avoid Meeting Your Shadow
The Practice Of Absolutism
Guru-Disciple Codependence Covertly Encourage By Teachers
Harboring Unconscious Terror Of Potency & Pure Breath Of Love
Ignoring Our Shadows Activates The Psychotic Core
Which Gives Birth To The Beast
The Beast Is A Complex Of The Soul That Seethes With Doubt, Hatred, And Terror
Of The Divine Feminine, The Holy Grail, And Pure Breath Of Love
Spiritual Bypass means we orient to neutral, cling to biodynamic tides, which weakens our will, recoils us from the unerring potency, traps our consciousness in the ascending biodynamic tidal realms, and aborts our second birth, by rejecting our Soul's descending Grail Journey to Love.
Orienting to neutral and enquiry into tides to seek any meaning is efferent and dualistic. Efference and dualism keep you stuck in the ascending domains that create the hypermasculine or hyperfeminine complexes. They lead to absolutism, which misuses Dynamic Stillness as a shield to prevent the integration your shadows by recoiling your consciousness away from a descending Grail Journey to love.
Spiritual Bypass blocks the midline descent of your consciousness, which preventing evolution. Therefore, your Soul is not free, it is trapped by the ego's strategies of control. When the ego and Superego control your will, they create recoil strategies that bypass and stop consciousness from crossing the threshold of your known, which prevents the realization of I AM at Dynamic Stillness.
After you realize I AM
and you choose to surrender control
I AM will implode into your cells
and you begin a descending Grail Journey
that is guided by the Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love
The Grail Journey Enfleshes
Love That is Stronger than Death
To enflesh the Sacred Pulse of Pure Breath of Love
Wait ... for nothing ... in I AM at Dynamic Stillness:
When I AM descends and implodes in your cells
Pure Breath of Love emanates
a whole-body non-tidal Sacred Pulse of Love
That Is Stronger Than Death
Master Classes Are For Any Practitioner Who Desires to
1) Give Up Bypass
2) Stop Using Efferent Medical Model Touch
3) Wishes To Face Our Apocalyptic Times
With An Unwavering Presence Of Stillness
4) Carry Sutherland's Legacy
Stillness Touch Follows Sutherland's Principles
You Are Not The Doer
Touch Is Not Medical
Cranial Is Not A Therapy
You Do Not Play Doctor or Therapist Who Treats Patients
You Use No Efference
You Do Not Orient To Neutral
You Do Not Feel With Your Hands
Your Touch Is Not Anatomical
You Do Not Cling To Biodynamic Tides
You Let Your Consciousness Descend
To Integrate Your Shadows
Thus, Stillness Touch Practitioners Are Self-Responsible
Rather Than Codependent With A Cranial Teacher-Guru
We Practice Mutuality
~ While touching, get as far away as possible from the physical senses to realize and know I AM
~ Use no outside force (efference) when touching
~ No doing to and no treating
~ Do not call cranial a therapy
~ Let the unerring potency be in charge
~ BE STILL, which means we are not efferent
~ No medical touch
~ No objectification
~ No enquiry into the biodynamic tides to seek meaning
~ No orienting to neutral, anatomy, nervous system, midlines, tides, stillness (dualistic)
~ No trauma management (a nervous system cranial wave-based functional practice)
~ No cranial techniques are applied, even as intentions
~ No suggestion of still points
~ No ego-to-ego negotiating of a relational field (dualistic)
~ No creation of space, no biodynamic zones, no shifting into tides (doer)
~ No visualizing primary respiration coming from the horizon (doer)
~ No mixing of medical touch with non-medical touch
~ No mixing of pre-biodynamic, biodynamic, post-biodynamic
~ No unwinding to realize the second birth
~ No asking a client what their preferred contacts are in a session
"But I was trained to use all the above methods in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, what do I do?"
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I have been informed by graduates of the BCA School
that their classes are full of fluff, gimmicks,
and have no relationship to what I offer as
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