Foster Gamble
Month 6, Week 1
(President & Co-Founder: Clear Compass Media)
Grounded Solutions for a Thriving World
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Robyn: Hello everyone, and welcome to month six of the Self-Care Revolution. I think we’re in awe sitting here realizing that we’re... I guess we’re introducing our 55th speaker, Foster Gamble. Welcome. We’re so glad to have you here today.
Foster: Thanks for having me on. It’s an honor.
Robyn: So everyone, my name is Robyn Benson. I’m a doctor of Oriental Medicine and I’m also the founder of Santa Fe Soul Health and Healing Center. I’m excited to host many of you who are going to be coming to our center – which we actually built 8 years ago – in just two weeks for our live Self-Care Bliss event and I’m here with…
Kevin: Kevin Snow, intuitive counselor and the Desert Shaman. I’m just really excited to follow up the James Twyman interview with Foster Gamble. Just an amazing day.
Robyn: We’re still like wowing over that conversation. Now, we’re going to move right in to THRIVE, right? This is perfect. And just so all of you understand, the Self-Care Revolution is a 12-month series and beyond. We’ve got lots of plans for 2014. This month our theme is all about the Power of Relationships with Self, Other, & Money. We’ve got so many really great speakers through this whole month.
The title of today’s talk with Foster Gamble is “Grounded Solutions for a Thriving World.” So, just to give you a little bit about our speaker today: Foster is the creator, host, and visual designer of the world-changing documentary THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? Foster’s quest took two paths: a scientific journey and an exploration of the human potential to navigate through the challenges threatening our survival.
In his search for a way out of our demise, Foster trained and taught Aikido, the non-violent martial art. He created a training and technology company, Mind Center, in Interaction Dynamics, a program for mastering skills in communication and conflict resolution. He combined Aikido energy principles and mind fitness techniques in Zone Sport Training, which helps athletes to enhance performance. He also developed LifeBalance, addressing balancing one’s personal family and professional lives.
Foster’s exploration of living geometry came to fruition in 1997 when he co-convened the Sequoia symposium – a multi-disciplinary scientific think tank exploring perspectives on Unification Theory. There, the primary energy patterning of the universe was clarified and recognized as a blueprint for designing sustainable technologies and social systems. This discovery represents the convergence of science and the evolution of consciousness that Foster set out to explore as a young man and is the “code” featured in the documentary film, THRIVE.
Foster lives in California with his wife Kimberly Carter-Gamble, the co-creator of THRIVE.
Well thank you once again for being here.
Foster: It’s a pleasure.
Robyn: Well, as I read your bio I was like, “I can’t leave even one sentence out.” I know it’s about five pages, but wow. We’re just so thrilled. Honestly, when we were creating the Self-Care Revolution, I remember vividly speaking to you at the extraordinary Tesla conference last July in Albuquerque and thinking, “I would love Foster to be one of the speakers.” I just want to say thank you for saying “yes,” because we are just beginning and I feel that our message certainly aligns with a lot of what you’re doing in the world. As we said earlier before the conversation, we need five hours with you, but we’ve got one power hour so we’re going to go for it. So, without further ado… Kevin, I’m going to let you start this time.
Kevin: So, why don’t we start talking about the movie? I’ve seen it, and I think it’s amazing. We can use that as a framework for the rest of our conversation.
Robyn: So the question being?
Kevin: How’s the movie doing now?
Foster: I’m happy to report that it’s doing phenomenal. It’s beyond our dreams, actually. It’s currently being seen by over a million people a month in 24 languages all over the world. Even more important to us than that is the fact that people are sharing it with one another. They’re trusting it to share with family, with their work associates, with their spouses, and so forth. What we’re finding as we’re traveling around the world with this film is that people are so hungry for the information about what’s really going on in the world, you know, what’s in the way of our thriving.
Once they get sufficient immersion in that, then they’re ready to go. We’re just seeing hundreds of millions of people waking up and wanting to move onto solutions. That’s one of the reasons why I was excited to talk to you today, because obviously, health is at the core of it all. Without health everything else pales for use as individuals, as a species, and as a planet. I’m really happy to say that THRIVE is receiving a warm reception all over the world.
As people are moving on to solutions, we’re inspired by their activity to create a new section of our website called “The Solution Hub,” really to empower self-creating groups to connect with one another to share best practices: petitions, lawsuits, artwork, flyers, resources, and then learn from each other and support each other. It’s really a decentralized network all over the world. I’m happy to say that last time I checked there were over 760 that already organized and signed up to connect with each other. So it’s really happening, and it’s not some big organization we’re wanting to run. We’re just offering tools for a self-creating movement.
Robyn: Wow. That’s great. So, talk about THRIVE in terms of self-care and just this whole health connection a little bit more.
Foster:Well, the core of the message of THRIVEhas to do with this fundamental pattern called the “torus.” For those of your listeners that might not be familiar with it, it’s a donut-shaped whirlpool vortex that, as far as we can tell and I’ve spent a lifetime on the quest for this realization, it is the fundamental pattern by which the universe sustains a healthy living system.
So, it’s not just some geometric oddity or something, it’s absolutely core to who we are and to the solutions to the problems that we’re facing. We are made up of toruses, every cell in our body, every atom, every electron: your whole body is a torus in that it’s a continuous surface with a hole in the center. Your brain is a double torus. The energy field around your body has been shown by Heart Map and many other organizations to be toroidal field, whether it’s the emotional, mental, or coso-astral plane. There are all these central toroidal fields.
The key, I think, for humanity, is to recognize that the universe is very kindly giving us a blueprint for creating sustainable systems, whether they’re institutional or personal, if we just know how to look. Someone who is really healthy and vibrant, you can feel it, you can see it – whether you can see auras or not – you can see feel it in their presences, because their energy torus, the electromagnetic field twirling around their body, is full, it’s vibrant, it’s freely flowing. What we’ve found is that all of the major problems that we have identified are human-made and therefore, can be human-corrected if we get them early enough.
Whether it’s a breakdown in the banking system, the health system, the food system, the communication system, or whatever, it’s a breakdown in the natural flow or the wholeness of a nature flowing system. If we recognize that and then look for the principals of the torus - which are things like being centered, having integrity, balancing the flow of energy in and out, reciprocal interchange with other fields near you, and so forth - when we tune into that, then our task is to restore the wholeness of a system.
So you look at the agricultural system and we don’t need the pesticides and herbicides and fertilizers and all that. If we honor the wholeness of the natural system and do polycultural organic farming, the insects will stay in balance and you’ll have healthy soil and you’ll have whole food. Same thing with your health - as I’m sure many of your speakers have been going into that - if you take care of your psyche, your emotions, diet, exercise, and your relationships and so forth, then you sustain your natural wholeness. And your body, if it’s sufficiently nourished, knows how to heal. Its primary goal is to sustain the wholeness of that system so that you can fulfill whatever mission you came here for.
So that’s been a huge thing for the solutions groups worldwide, is recognizing that we all have this awareness of the wholeness of a system; the health of a system is at the core. As we start to, as a species, understand what the principals of wholeness are and what the breakdowns are that have been usually done to us by a small cabal of people who don’t have our best interests in mind, who’ve gone about taking over the health field, the energy field, education, media, and science and so forth. Once we realize that and how vastly we outnumber them, if that gets exposed, then eliminating that external agenda, achieving that kind of freedom and justice externally matches the quest that I’m sure all of your listeners are on to find: your own freedom and wholeness within. Either one without the other, I think, in the human experience, can only go so far.
Robyn: Exactly. That’s just a powerful message, too, and I think with the Self-Care Revolution is helping people realize that we are designed to be well. There is that possibility to live well on a day-to-day basis and you can actually reverse and prevent; how critical that is now more than ever because of the state of our health system, but also the level of toxins. This is a big part of our message. The whole torus is so cool, because this is just getting back to nature. That connection to nature that we are. We have a brilliant body that’s designed to be well.
Foster: I love what you have in your title, too, with the Self-Care Revolution, because a lot of that comes back to, “Okay, what is the Self? Who am I?” In my experience, as people learn the principles of sustaining and nurturing a vibrant body, which nurtures the wholeness of their self as a soul, then the energy becomes available for identifying themselves as a family, as their community, as their species. It keeps expanding out until you identify yourself actually as a part of the whole planet, then it keeps expanding out.
We’re seeing that a lot with the response to THRIVE,where we really went into the whole ET situation, free energy, and inter-dimensional communication: that more and more people that, as they’re expanding the wellness of however they identify themselves, that notion of Self expands and pretty soon actually becomes boundless to where people cannot actually identify as an abundant and boundless cosmos and the love that ties all that together. So I think your topic really covers it all.
Kevin: And it’s so important. I’m glad you mentioned that. The picture you’re painting for us here is that it all starts with the Self.
Foster: Yes, and I think our definition of the Self keeps changing as we evolve in our own consciousness. I ran a company in Palo Alto for 8 years called The Mind Center. It was really about wellness training, particularly with the technology of brain wave biofeedback. We also had courses in stress reduction, conflict resolution, and team building. One of the things that we found there was that when one gets clear on their purpose - and I don’t think “purpose” is some idea that somebody comes up with, in a sense the totality of who we are as a unique soul, which I’ve also identified as a toroidal dynamic, and we have a video clip about that on our website at THRIVEmovement.com - once you realize that you are an expression of your unique purpose, then as you learn how to relax your body, the energy can flow through you physically.
This is what people found when they were doing their brainwave biofeedback training: that they couldn’t get much control over the subtleties of brainwaves until they had first learned to relax their body. When they did that, what happened is in the process of deep relaxation, your old tensions are released and usually those tensions are holding down suppressed emotions. When you relax, it’s just not all happiness and bliss. The emotions you’ve been suppressing tend to come up, and then as one gets good at doing Aikido, non-violently blending with the flow of emotions, then you clear the anger and then go into the sadness and clear that, and go into the fear and clear that, and then go back to center.
When you’re centered and balanced, your energy will start expanding, it’ll start going up your spine again. But rather than through a contraction into the fear, sadness, and anger, and ultimately apathy if you continue to suppress it, instead, now the energy rises up through an expansion. So in your gut, you start feeling an excitement about your connection to some aspect of life or life itself, then as that expands it moves up from your belly up into your heart area where we experience it as enthusiasm. As that continues to expand, it moves up and includes your face and your head in the experience that humans tend to call happiness.
If we still allow ourselves to ride with that, then it expands out of the body, but including the body, into the experience that we tend to call bliss, which is such a powerful state for insight, for healing, not necessarily a great state for driving a car, being in a business meeting or whatever. It’s a tremendous gift from the universe for letting go that deeply. Then, you can bring those energies back down into the realm of excitement and enthusiasm for actually getting things done and relating to other people successfully.
That release, that sequence of release is from the body and the emotions to the mind, is what we found people needed to master in order to truly release the brainwaves in our training so that the two hemispheres of the brain begin to synchronize. You move down through states of relaxation into the alpha state of creativity and to the theta state of deep meditation and intuition. When you do that, literally portals in your consciousness open up to where you not only identify intellectually with a boundless state beyond your body, but you can actually begin to explore those states while being in a healthy body.
Kevin: And this is for people who haven’t meditated. You’re talking about mediation, I believe?
Foster: Yes. This particular meditation with electronic feedback measures your brainwaves in four different parts of your brain just on electrodes on your skull and then turns it into music and feeds it back instantaneously to you so you can literally choose what kind of state you want to go into.
Kevin: Wow. That’s really powerful. Now, if someone doesn’t have that technology, do you have other recommendations on how they can move through the body, to the emotions, to the mind?
Foster: Sure. There are good teachers, really now it’s so widespread, as you both know, and virtually in every community you’ll find people who are good at teaching relaxation and response, yoga, Aikido, or something that teaches you to center and relax the body. Then, either through books or through counseling or through finding a skilled spiritual teacher, when one learns about how emotions work, then the motivation comes in to actually allow yourself to be emotional responsibly. It doesn’t mean taking out anger on someone else, doesn’t mean dwelling overly in a sadness, but it means allowing your organism to feel what it’s really feeling at appropriate times so that you keep your own torus clear. It’s sort of a Roto-Rooter of the emotional body.
Finally, with the most challenging of all as those two come together, is learning the countless distinctions that there are in the brain-mind relationship where you learn first of all, to notice your thoughts and then let them go. You disengage the clutch of your monkey mind and just begin to relax, noticing the flow of thought. Then, the intuition begins to grow and you learn more and more the skill of having a focused mind, but at the same time, very relaxed. You can choose to apply that to a task. You can choose to disengage as I spoke before and then listen more deeply to your inner guide.
Robyn: So Foster, is this what you call Interaction Dynamics?