Raising Consciousness

Freestyling from Richard Wilkins, the UK Minister for Inspiration, set to music by Tom. [Downloadable Audio]

Created byTom Cassidy, Richard Wilkins

Last updated 8/2012

English

Course content

5 sections • 25 lectures • 2h 21m total length

Beyond The Script 16:08
Resist the temptation to change the script, and go beyond it.

Very early ideas on the Script - just recorded in the room with Richard and with improvised piano accompaniment.

[Fairly rough recording but it's great to see the ideas taking shape.]
Beyond The Script 211:15
Great quote from here - 'Human consciousness is going Broadband.' Richard in his living room, just mulling over a few things with an avid fan. (Cindy)
Beyond The Script 36:32
Look, I know most of you are not going to really think that you're amazing, that you're there etc. But what about your kids? You're writing the script NOW, for your kids... ...the mother of all programmes.
Beyond The Script 48:44
There's nothing wrong with you, you don't need fixing, it's not your fault, you haven't been programmed, you're just not choosing. The script is.

Becoming Magnetised 18:13
Some thoughts on attracting rather than chasing success from a long time ago. This has been set to a piece of music called 'Indigo Moon' by the australian guitarist, Matthew Fagan.
Becoming Magnetised 27:25
More great perspectives, this time set to Chris Thile's 'Not all who wander here are lost'
Becoming Magnetised 313:12
"Encouragement is to people, what hot air is to balloons." The importance of making people feel good if you want to have any degree of success. Set to the terrific Oscar Peterson/Freddie Hubbard version of All Blues by Miles Davis.

Awareness 2:23
There's only one thing that limits people and that's their lack of awareness.
Busyness 13:14
The biggest challenge we have today is 'busyness.' The script tells us that Busyness = Success, but busyness is usually our biggest cause of regret. Watch out for it...
Can Everyone Access This?3:49
This doesn't require intellect. Everyone can access this, but sometimes intellect can get in the way. How long would it take you to find something if you're looking in the wrong filing cabinet?
Defending The Script 4:42
Most people will fight to the death to defend the very thing that's screwing their life up.
How Do You Know You're Not The Script?2:34
Simple. You wouldn't choose it.
Purpose 3:52
Your purpose is not about DOING, it's much simpler than that. Just be yourself.
Results Of BC4:27
BC is short for Broadband Consciousness, the 5-day 'pickling' process to get these ideas well and truly bedded down. For more info: http://theministryofinspiration.com

Description

You know when you listen to songs over and over again, you find yourself knowing the words without ever having set down to learn them?

Well, that's the same concept behind this course. Since 2004, I've been setting the incredibly powerful, yet simple teachings of Richard Wilkins to music, so I can listen to them over and over again without getting jaded. So, this is more of a collection than a course, a bunch of recordings to download and listen to from time to time, rather than a specific programme to go through.

[btw Richard is the co-founder of the UK's Ministry of Inspiration and has been forging his ideas in the furnace of people development for the last 20 years.]

It's not about the type or even the quality of the music, it's just about tricking that part of your brain that says 'you know this already, you don't need to listen to it again' by having some musically interesting accompaniment.

Anyone familiar with my other courses will realise, it's just the minimal will approach I favour, but this time for learning. I first used this technique for language learning when in Hong Kong and it worked so well that I now use it for everything I need to learn deeply. There's all sorts of neuroscience behind the use of music in learning which I'll leave you to research yourselves.

Or you could just try it - it works. 8 years later I have totally internalised these ideas and they play a central role in all my teaching.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did putting it together.

All the best

Tom Cassidy

These recordings were mostly made by recording casual conversations with Richard and his partner Liz Ivory, and then seeing what might work musically with it, either adding existing tracks of jamming new stuff live.

Musicians involved on original material:

Kieran Doherty on Drums, Jozef Secnik on Bass and me on Piano.

Raising Consciousness

Course content

Richard freestyling in his living room back in 2006, with improvised musical soundtrack4 lectures • 33min

Personal Magnetism - some of Richard's early ideas set to a chilled soundtrack3 lectures • 29min

Poems from Richard and Liz with live piano improvisations10 lectures • 27min

Meditation with Liz Ivory1 lecture • 18min

Richard, Liz and Tom's Q&A Session to improvised piano7 lectures • 35min

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