awakening to our greatness

Introduction

Hi, my name is Dr. Rick Moss. Itʼs my

pleasure to offer you an opportunity to have

a clearer experience of who you are when

your awareness is freed from the distress

of the past. You may or may not be aware

of this distress, but if past upsets and old

hurts have not received healing attention,

they lie in our subconscious and are

generators of present experience. To be

fully present we have to let go of the past.

To be fully alive and authentic, we have to

be present. Letʼs get started. Letʼs awaken

to our Greatness.

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Chapter 1: An Open Window

Who are we really? We are like

a window that shapes and

determines the quality of Light

that shines through it.

We are what remains when that which is

temporary, limited and negative is

cleared away. We are a vast reservoir of

Greatness, an infinite bank account.

Intelligence without measure. Love

without condition. We are an individuated

expression of the Light that is Being

Itself. And therefore we are like a window

that shapes and determines the quality

of the Light that shines through it.



rocks under a waterfall.

Sooner or later the game of hide and seek

wears thin and we yearn to be our Selves,

yearn to throw off the constraining diapers

of time. We set out like the Prodigal Son.

We take a few steps toward God and God

takes a hundred steps toward us.

And through the sheer force of yearning and

the power of commitment and the pain of

unraveling illusions we are re-birthed…born

anew into that which has never changed and

always was…our Self, our True Self.

Yes, this is who we really are at our core. And

yet this is rarely our experience. Most of the time

we are aware of a totally different self.

We are more than the greatest moments

we have ever known. We are an ocean of

infinite Goodness. We are generosity

unbounded. We are a trillion expressions of

God, echoes and mirrors to the One.

Collectively we are facets of the jewel of

existence. We are Consciousness in the

process of awakening to our Self.

Nothing about us that is limited is

permanent. From the perspective of time

we are on a journey. We function in a world

that is a classroom. We are here to learn to

choose. We explore free will. We employ

the right to pretend that we are not God…

that we are sorry creatures. But, pretense

can only last so long. It wears away like



And so here is the opportunity. Will we

awaken to the Greatness that is our true

nature or will we choose to maintain the

patterns and false beliefs that fool us into

thinking that we are not enough, bad, fallen

and failing?



So, letʼs start reclaiming ourselves. We can

bring all the wonderful qualities of our

Greatness into our lives. We do not have to live

with fear…fear of failing, of abandonment, of not

looking good, of just about anything; we can live

with a sense of confidence.

Letʼs do this together. Imagine that you are

standing on the ground at what we could call

Point A. In front of you is a pathway. Itʼs made

up of pebbles. The pebbles closest to you

are black and they get lighter and lighter until at

the end of the path the pebbles are clear and

crystal-like. As you stand at Point A, bring to

your awareness any fear that you can get in

touch with. Imagine that this fear is like a dark

liquid inside of you and start to let it drain out

Chapter 2: The Self RememberedIf I am my Self, then who the hell is the other guy?

If the past has a face, it belongs to this

other guy. Your face is the face of inner

Light, beauty, calmness and Love. The

face of the past reflects all the limited and

negative thoughts and emotions youʼve

ever thought and felt but have not

released. Traumas that youʼve

experienced have led this face to decide

that the world is not a safe place, to be on

guard, to withhold love. “Withhold

Love?” says your Lighted Self – just

as impossible as it would be to withhold

breath.

So, letʼs start reclaiming ourselves. We can

bring all the wonderful qualities of our

Greatness into our lives. We do not have to live

with fear…fear of failing, of abandonment, of not

looking good, of just about anything; we can live

with a sense of confidence.

Letʼs do this together. Imagine that you are

standing on the ground at what we could call

Point A. In front of you is a pathway. Itʼs made

up of pebbles. The pebbles closest to you are

black and they get lighter and lighter until at the

end of the path the pebbles are clear and

crystal-like. As you stand at Point A, bring to

your awareness any fear that you can get in

touch with. Imagine that this fear is like a dark

liquid inside of you and start to let it drain out



Imagine that the black pebbles pull out of

your feet more fear... and they do this

effortlessly. All you have to do is walk

along the path heading for Point B, where

the pebbles are crystal-like and clear.

Imagine that as you walk along the path

the pebbles are getting lighter. Now

they're dark grey. The dark grey pebbles

effortlessly pull out a different tone of the

fear as you continue to walk along the

path.

your feet and into a holding tank under the

ground at Point A. As you visualize this fear

draining out as dark liquid, you are telling

the subconscious exactly what you want it

to do. The subconscious speaks

visualization better than it speaks English.

Imagine that the dark liquid has drained

out to the level of your waist. Now itʼs

down to the level of your knees. If you are

good at visualization… great. If not, it will

still work if you use a feeling of the draining

or just consciously give your subconscious

instructions with the words that you are

reading. Now imagine that all the dark

liquid has drained out and start to walk

along the path.



Now the pebbles are medium grey,

and they too, pull out a lighter tone of

the fear. And now the pebbles are

light grey, pulling out the most subtle

vibrations of the fear that have been

stored in your body and mind.

With one final step, imagine that you

step onto the crystal-like clear pebbles,

and now youʼre also standing in a warm,

loving Light. Imagine that you have to

do nothing for this Light but be. Itʼs not

given to you because of your body, your

performance, your ability to please. It

wants nothing from you. It is just

Love, just kindness. And nothing that

you do will ever make it go away.

As you drink in this warmth and love,

if there is any more fear that you are

aware of, imagine that you could let

this fear go. Perhaps it could be

released as if it were blackbirds of

smoke. Perhaps it is heavier, like a

bowling ball, and you could let it roll

out of you and break on the ground

and be

swallowed up. Do whatever you need

to do and just let it go.

Now, as you stand in the light on the

clear pebbles answer this question. Do

you feel more like yourself in the Light

or in your fear? If you feel more like

yourself in the Light, then youʼll have

no problem letting the fear be

transmuted that drained out at Point A.

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yourself in the fear, then itʼs time to get a

new definition of yourself. Perhaps you

could start with an awareness of yourself

as someone who would like to release

fear.

Now itʼs time to start walking in the

direction of Point A. Imagine that the

Light comes with you, and that as you

walk across the colored pebbles they

turn clear. As you step onto Point A, if

you will, ask that any fear you left in the

holding tank be transmuted to Light and

be gone. How do you feel?

Who you are, is not the fear

that lingers in your body and mind

from the past. Who you are is who

you are in the Light.



Chapter 3: The Basement Door

Even if you have had an experience of

Self, if I were to ask you “Who are you?”

you might answer with your name, your

sex or your job. Do these answers define

who you are, or are they a limited and

constricted idea of who your ego thinks

you are? On the other hand, what

happens if I asked you, “Who are you

really?” Feel into it for a second. Perhaps

your experience is one of expansion and

an inability to put the answer into words.

Or, maybe there is simply space without

an answer. The first time you



one-story house with a very large

basement. We probably recognize what

we have added to our living quarters,

but in many cases, we have long

forgotten what we stuck down in the

basement. But just because we have

forgotten doesnʼt mean that what we put

down there has gone away. In fact,

everything that was put in the basement

stays in the basement until we discard

it. Hereʼs an example of personal mind.

Imagine youʼre back in 5th grade. Invite

your mind to start bringing up memories

from the basement…people you knew,

what it felt like, the teacher, things you

studied. If you sit with this for a few

minutes you might be surprised to see

what comes up.

answered the question from your

personal mind. In the second

instance you might just have had an

experience of what we could call

your Whole Mind. Whole Mind

transcends your personal mind

and is a part of all that is. It is

infinite. Some call it God Mind.

It is your Self freed from the

basement that is this personal

mind.

Just what is the personal mind and

how does it affect us?

The personal mind has two parts:

one part that we are aware of and

another part that has stored

information that we are not presently

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dramatic emotion. It could be as simple as a

time you really wanted to be the best at

something and yet you were only good at it.

These emotions, along with old negative

beliefs about yourself and the world, lie in the

basement of your mind. But, in fact, they do

more than lie in your mind. They act like

software in your computer and directly affect

the printout…the printout that is your life

experience.

That’s a pretty radical assertion, so let me

give you a way to explore this idea. Imagine a

time in childhood when you felt really hurt

about something. As a result of that

experience what thought did you have about

the world or about yourself? Common

Some brain research shows that, in

fact, every conversation you have

ever had is stored there. And, that’s just

the beginning. My work has shown

that every emotion that you did not

fully express is also waiting in the

basement. For example, if there

was a time you felt hurt or wronged,

and you started to complain and were

told “Be quiet or you’ll get something

worse to complain about”…that sense of

unfairness still lives in your

subconscious. If you lost someone or

something dear to you and you didn’t

fully grieve it…that grief still waits for

your attention to be healed and released.

But it doesn’t have to be a



tend to see the past projected on what we are

looking at. So as we see ourselves in the

mirror we donʼt just see ourselves, we see our

history – only we arenʼt aware of this. We

gaze at a facial feature and we compare it to

others, fashion models and our parents.

Perhaps we are overweight and as we look at

ourselves we are unconsciously reviewing all

the thoughts we have ever had or heard about

overweight people. Yet, we think we are

seeing things as they are. Our minds are so

crowded with other peopleʼs opinions that we

may never even listen to our own thoughts,

not to mention find our own self-love. Thatʼs

how we get trapped in the mirror. The mirror it

would appear is a time machine.

thoughts might be, “Life is not fair,” “Iʼm

not good enough,” “People are not safe,”

or “It hurts to feel”. If any of these

thoughts were thoughts you had as a

child, look to see if they seem to be

experiences that you continue to have as

an adult. The amazing thing about

thoughts stored in the basement is that

they get stored there with no time sense.

So, if you were abused as a child the

thought is stored as “I am abused,” not I

was abused, even though it happened

many years ago.

Because most of the basement, the

subconscious mind, is filled with the

past, when we look at something we



much or that maybe our skin would come off. As

an adult this event is insignificant. But the fear of

the Band-Aid being removed lies in your

subconscious as if you were a 5-year-old.

Because there have been many events in

childhood that have been stored as painful and

traumatic and each of these is like a separate

bubble in a piece of bubble wrap, it will take

repeated efforts to remove or pop all the

bubbles.

Letʼs explore another process to free the

subconscious from the stuff of the past.

Imagine, if you will, that you are standing in a

column of Light. And this Light is pure caring. If

the word Love doesnʼt frighten you, it is

unconditional, totally caring Love. There is

Chapter 4: Freeing Ourselves From the Mirror

To free our Self from entrapment in the

mirror requires intent. We have to want the

Reality of who we are more than the

unconsciousness and addiction to living in

illusion. Most likely, our present condition

masks the old hurts and pains of the past.

Ironically, we mistakenly believe that these

old hurts are overwhelming and

insurmountable. Thankfully this is not true.

What we thought was overwhelming as a 5-

year old is not overwhelming to the adult

that we are. Itʼs a little like a fear of a

Band-Aid being removed when we were

little because we thought it would hurt so



with you. And itʼs OK for you to feel however

you feel. And I will stay with you.

Imagine going to that child and saying to the

child that you have come. You the loving adult

have come to look after that child. Find the

feeling of Love for this child. And, as you Love

him or her, imagine how this child will change

given unconditional Love from you...given

protection, caring, attention and acceptance.

As children, everything that happens in our lives

is understood by our child mind as being about

us. If mother or father has no time for us, we

believe that it is because we are not enough. If

there is abuse, we believe it is because we are

not enough. If there is abuse, we believe it is

because we are bad. If there is a depressed

nothing that you have to do for this Love. It

is not given to you because of your body,

your performance, your gifts or your ability

to please. Nothing that you do could can

increase it or decrease it. It is eternal. It is

forever on your side. And it will never go

away. And furthermore it is Love the way

you would like to be loved.

From this column of Love you look out,

or if you donʼt visualize well, you feel out.

And there you are, a child of perhaps 6 or

7. Imagine that this child is hurting or sad.

Something has happened. Perhaps you

could imagine the posture of the child.

You go to the child and say, “Iʼm sorry

youʼre feeling sad but I have come to be



What kind of person has that child become at

40? The beautiful thing is, as you answer that

question, this grown person is you – without the

old hurts and perceptions of the past. Love has

cleared away a stuck part of your subconscious

and you are now seeing yourself clearly…

maybe for the first time.

And the truth is,

you are who you

are in the Light…

not who you

thought you were

in your pain and

delusion… in your

stuff. The Light is

who we really are.

parent, it is our fault. It is almost impossible

to come through childhood without

believing that we are somehow to blame

and that we are not Enough.

As you love this child, tell the child that he

or she is lovable exactly as they are. Can

you feel that? And that the Love that you

are giving to the child will never go away.

Imagine the child growing up with this

continuous Love. How does he or she

change? Imagine that the child is growing

up in a different way than you did. He or

she is like a flower in a different soil. What

is the child like (not what you were like)

with this love and protection at 10 years of

age, at 15? What is life like at 25 and 30?



Chapter 5: Where Do We Go From Here?

Understanding is a good first step. But,

the menu isnʼt the meal. If you want to be

about your Greatness, it takes action.

We are already Great. Everything we

want for ourselves already lies within.

Love, Peace, Joy, Creativity, Passion,

Intelligence, Abundance…all within. But,

it takes action to uncover this Greatness.

Even if you think you want this growth

you still have to clear out the resistance

to it from the subconscious. What might

this resistance look like?

You might believe, subconsciously, that

you are bad and therefore you donʼt

deserve the Good that is offered you.

You might, consciously or

subconsciously, believe that God

is punishing and judgmental and that if

you open yourself to God bad things

could happen. You might believe that

God is like your parents (after all your

parents were like gods to the little child

whose mind still exists in your

subconscious). You might believe that

Love hurts and therefore you resist Love.

If these illusions live in your

subconscious mind you could think that

you want spiritual growth, but your



How can you proceed with this work?

You can:

• Do a personal session with Rick.

• Learn to do this work for yourself or facilitate for others.

• Work with Rickʼs clearing CDs.

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Subconscious will always seek safety

over any other desire. So, these

illusions will need to be cleared out so

that you can choose and commit to what

you really want.


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Rick Moss, Ph.D.

Rick has spent 25 years developing this

work that he calls Pre-Cog (Pre-Cognitive

Re-Education). He began developing the

work after teaching meditation for 15 years

and realizing that while meditation is

wonderful it doesnʼt eliminate all the ego

patterns; patterns like fear of intimacy,

issues with God, blocks to love and other

mental software problems need to be

addressed directly. Around this time, Rick

came to realize that he had an intuitive

ability. He could ask a yes/no question and

get a spontaneous movement of his neck.

It moved up and down when the answer to

a question was “yes” and sideways for a

“no”.



His work involves personal sessions and

workshops. He trains people how to use the

work to free themselves and others from the

residue that we carry from the past so that we

can express our Inherent and Divine Nature.

Rick completed a Masterʼs degree in

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Light of

Consciousness from Maharishi International

University and a Ph.D. in Education with a

dissertation on Education and Consciousness

from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the

author of “The Light-Travelerʼs Notebook” and

18 clearing CDs. He is the developer of

Transformation Cards featured on his web site:

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With this gift, which he calls a signal, he

found that he could discern what people

believed in their subconscious. These

subconscious beliefs and the emotions

associated with them, he came to realize,

were like defective mental software, and

they produced a printout of life experience

that was not in accord with what people

wanted as their life experience. He soon

realized that the same signal could tell him

how to help people clear out these

mental/emotional blocks. And when the

blocks went, people were amazed at the

results. They were more themselves and

problems began to disappear.




Acclaim for Rickʼs work:

“I found the work we did to be

extremely helpful…you have a

wonderful gift to offer the world.”

Louise Hay, noted author, speaker and teacher.

“A truly miraculous healer.”

Dr. Candace Pert, author,

featured in “What the bleep…”

“Your work is simply the essence of

power and precision in mental work.

You have brought together the great

spiritual understandings of all

teachings.”

Dr, Bill Little, Senior Minister,

Pacific Coast Church, Pacific Grove, California.

Rick lives with his partner Janel in Carmel

Valley, California, where he has a private

practice that includes in-person and phone

sessions. He travels internationally to teach

and train people in the work of awakening

to the greatness of Self.



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We live on the periphery of a Greatness that

offers everything we need to be profoundly happy,

over-flowingly abundant and breathtakingly in Love.

Letʼs awaken to our Greatness.

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