| I have witnessed what I call 'emotional house | | | | I believe this event describes the chemicalization |
| cleanings' at a number of New Thought workshops | | | | experience -- a Spiritual Sodium Bi-Carb moment -- |
| and retreats I have attended during the past twenty | | | | which we all experience when our minds are |
| years of higher consciousness exploration. People | | | | stretched by information so new and |
| attend these retreats from all over the world and | | | | thought-provoking that it sends us into an energetic |
| from all walks of life. Most of the participants are | | | | mind-spin. It is a consciousness shift, and hopefully, a |
| from a combination of Christian and New Thought | | | | spiritual deepening. When we allow ourselves to work |
| backgrounds. Many of the 'house cleanings' come | | | | through our embedded belief systems we enter a |
| from people who are in some kind of life transition. | | | | state of receptivity that can produce spiritual |
| The 'house cleanings' I am referring to usually come | | | | awakening and growth. We are ready for the |
| on the third or fourth day of a week-long spiritual | | | | Indwelling Christ to speak to us. |
| retreat. After almost a week of mind-boggling class | | | | Growth usually comes when our Christ potential (our |
| discussions, evening assignments, and group projects | | | | Jesus quality) creates dissonance in our old belief |
| on Biblical, New Age, New Thought, and metaphysical | | | | system (represented by the money changers) and |
| subjects, a few of the students (probably 30%) | | | | turns our old beliefs upside down (the tables). When |
| experience emotional meltdowns. | | | | this happens, we experience emotional |
| The metaphysical term for this meltdown is | | | | chemicalization. |
| chemicalization. When people receive life-changing | | | | As we grow on our spiritual journeys, we are bound |
| information that creates considerable cognitive | | | | to run into moments when our old beliefs run |
| dissonance, old emotional programming and belief | | | | head-on into our new-found understanding. When this |
| systems resist the new information and they | | | | happens, we experience some form of |
| experience an internal upheaval. | | | | chemicalization. |
| My term for this chemicalization experience is 'Spiritual | | | | When we go through a chemicalization experience it |
| Sodium Bi-Carbs.' Sodium Bi-Carbs are a great | | | | is sign of growth, not stagnation or backsliding. It |
| metaphor for the 'perculating up' of old belief | | | | means that the old stuff which has kept us unaware |
| systems and self-defeating assumptions that we | | | | of who we really are and what we can really do is |
| allow to limit our good. | | | | undergoing a revolutionary change. It means we are |
| That's what I believe is happening in Matthew | | | | rising to a higher octave in consciousness. |
| 21:12-14. Jesus has just made His triumphant entry | | | | Once we take a few Spiritual Sodium Bi-Carbs |
| into Jerusalem. Read Matthew 21:12-14 in your | | | | (chemicalization experiences) we feel the sizzle of |
| favorite Bible translation to see what happens. | | | | enthusiasm, the swish of expectancy, and the fizz of |
| Here is a metaphysical meaning of the account. You | | | | a deep transformational lift which tell us we have |
| may want to fasten your seatbelt: | | | | been changed at depth. |