Joseph Costa on the 15th Step Process Renowned mystic, author and lecturer Joseph Costa Ph.D., has been teaching people to connect with their inner guidance for over 40 years. He is the founder of the Institute of Thought in San Diego, where he teaches an advanced form of Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, the 15 th Step Process, and other self-help techniques. Most of Dr. Costa's life has been dedicated to bringing forth information from the'“Inner” or Spiritual World, to the world of matter called Earth. He says that this has been difficult, as the “keepers” of the World of Matter have zealously insisted that the World of Matter is the only thing that exists; all else is presumed existential and therefore suspect, of the Universe and hostile.

In the year 2000 Dr. Costa was given the formula for a fail-safe method of communication between both worlds by Jesus and other master teachers. This method of communication Dr. Costa has been teaching around the world of matter since the year 2000 and continues to do so today.

The following interview is about how he has used universal principles to raise his consciousness, as well as the collective consciousness of the human race.

Many people are finding ways to have a “connection” to the spirit world; what can you share about your ways of finding guidance and information?

My awareness of being guided started when I was 4 years old, when I was visited by people who I thought were members of my extended family. I was to discover that they were actually inner-world teachers. Since that age I've been taught the nature of how our thoughts and emotions govern our lives; how to look into my own past lives for insights into my present experiences; I've learned to examine mass consciousness for clues into changes in the world. I've learned that like everyone else, my teachers have always been with me, whether or not I was ready to listen, and they have guided me in every area of my life.

Do you have a favorite story of one of these teachers?

One of my teachers appeared to me as a large red-haired robed man, who seemed to be able to make my ego rise to the surface, while my other teachers always seemed encouraging and optimistic about my abilities. One evening as I was being taught to create lights in the ceiling of my room, which was actually an exercise in thought and energy, he kept saying, “Oh, Joseph can't do that!” I saw this as an affront to my abilities and really, somewhat cruel. He repeated this a few times, until my temper got the better of me and I actually took a swing at him (chuckles).

This of course turned out to be a waste of energy, since my hand went right through him and hit the dresser. That was one of many lessons that have been given to me over the past 80-plus years, and they are very fond memories to me.

You mentioned the changes in the consciousness of the world; what strikes you as being the most important thing for people to know about where we are as a race?

Well as most people can see, things seem to be accelerating on the planet. For example one can look at the previews in the movie theater and be struck on how fast and intense the previews are, whereas until recently the scenes were shown in a more casual pace, and the viewer could easily see, more or less, how the movie would play out. Video games, television and music have also been sped up. Since this is happening in every area of life, it's easy to see that this is part of a cyclical change, as predictable as the change of seasons, yet of course it's a much longer-term cycle. This change is occurring, and we need to adjust to it, or we will be left behind and find ourselves in a lot of physical and mental trouble as an aspect of the 2012'“Shift.”

Having said all that, there do seem to be many who either don't acknowledge the changes we're undergoing, or who aren't aware how to adjust to them. For example, children whose thinking is very fast and easily bored by the traditional teaching methods, are being prescribed drugs in a misguided attempt to “bring them into line”, whereas they actually represent the future of our consciousness!

The key seems to be to bring the thinking and physical structure into harmony with these constant changes, so that we can dwell in harmony with the earth and the physical structures we inhabit.

When your spiritual teachers speak to you, how do they contact you?

Since I was a very young boy, they have always appeared to me as people. As I mentioned, I first thought of them as uncles in my human family. I've since learned that many lifetimes of being an explorer and student of consciousness have allowed me to easily interact with what's called'“the Other Side.” What I've also found is that they were preparing, through my experiences and abilities, a way that everyone can communicate in a reliable way with the guides that each one of us has brought with us into this life.

I have developed a system for the use of the spiritual (third) eye. It is of particular importance at this time of the changes of dimensions in the Universe for the human being to understand the use of the third eye for seeing and communicating in the Inner World through the use of the language of metaphors.

What is the 15 th Step Process?

The 15 th Step is a special place or level of training where communication with guides and the higher self becomes a reality. It's about spiritual growth and learning how to balance the material outer existence with a non-material inner teaching. The purpose of the 15 th step is to remove human ego thinking and lift the veil that is hiding the truth of one's actions. This frees one to heal the body by gaining a true understanding of the root cause of the problems and provides methods for the release of karma.

Meditation and prayer are ways to quiet the inner being. The 15 th Step process is designed to accelerate the unconscious thinking to a vibrational speed equal to the high vibration used by the Inner World beings of light and wisdom. When the body and mind are generating at this heightened speed, an amazing communication is possible. This heightened communication could never be accomplished while the body is generating at its normal rate of speed. This makes it possible for the average human being to pass through dense vibrations and communicate visually and verbally with teachers, doctors and healers in the Inner World.

You mentioned doctors, will you explain?

Deceased medical doctors in the Inner World can now assist humanity to cleanse karma from the World of Matter I am establishing the length, width and breadth of working with these doctors whose role is participating in assisting humans to heal from traumas in the change between the 3 rd and 4 th dimensions and to help with healings of the individual and planet as well. I am putting together a science of the Inner World (non-matter) to present to universities to substantiate non-matter research.

You speak about the role of the chakra system in the human thinking process as being thought attractors for two thinking systems. Can you elaborate on this?

The role of the chakras is to attract different kinds of thought into the mind. Because we are thinking constantly at many levels, these attractors are functioning continuously. The mind has for its use eight mind chakras and an impeller/expeller mechanism (body brain) which attracts and expels the thoughts from and to the planet sphere. The impeller and expeller is at the center of the mind ball. This is also at the center of the human physical body, the pit of the stomach. The mind and the animal are connected in the pit of the stomach area also, which is the reason one at times feels a psychic/physical blow there. The feeling is caused when a major jolt of different thoughts floods into the center.

In your writings you say “The Ener-pulse calibrating meditation provides grounding and healing with the planet .” How does this work?

Ener-Pulse is a method of meditation discovered as a result of my research on words, sounds and syncopation. It calibrates the human body by melding energies from the right and left of the body to a state of balance by relating the human body to the earth cycle of vibration. The result is the adjustment of the physical body to the planet with the psychic energy (aka grounding).

What about the TRuST Process which you developed?

Thought rotation self-therapy (TRuST) allows one to change past thinking which permits forgiveness. The teaching has at its foundation the understanding that we are creating our own reality each moment of our lives. If some negative event occurs today, no matter how small or large, past thinking caused the condition to occur. The simplest comment of negativity is a mental instruction to manifest a negative event. Thought Rotation is a method that allows us to change our thinking in the past so that the future smooths out.

What makes the form of Transpersonal Hypno-therapy you teach so advanced?

I use and teach what we call rescripting. Rescripting is a method of karma release that removes physical trauma (any distortion) from the body. It's a method of using the mind to bring forth karmic experiences of the past-life in regression work which enables the therapist to recreate damaging past psychological experiences which relieves the patient physically, mentally and emotionally, the result being release of karma in the individual and the collective consciousness.

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