Phoenix Rising!
The Freeing of Human Potential
2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

It has been more than two years since Phoenix Rising was first written. Since then, we have continued to expand the WEL-Systems® body of knowledge (first presented in 'Fully Alive from 9 to 5'). We also continue to engage in the process of Quantum TLC™ with The CODE Model™ as our guide through the experience of questioning for discovery. Time and time again, we marvel at the results! The capacity for human beings to reclaim lost territory of the Self and become both willing and able to fully engage life is indeed, magical.

With the passage of time, we've discovered that it is not that the material in the First Edition of Phoenix is inaccurate - it is that so much more has been discovered! It is perhaps useful to briefly outline some of these larger additions as they help frame a context as you read.

The foundations for the WEL-Systems® perspective are laid out in my first book, Fully Alive from 9 to 5. Phoenix Rising presumes the WEL-Systems context and lays out the framework for The CODE Model™ and Quantum TLC™ as a way of engaging with ourselves and others that is a non-therapy model approach to profound discovery and generative change. The next book, which will be available in early 2004, will bring all the parts together and outline a complete process for personal evolution. For now, the following points will serve to enhance your experience as you read this material:

• Through Portals Passages, an Operating Division of the WEL-Systems Institute, we offer WEL-Systems Certification programs that include NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) at the Practitioner and Master Practitioner levels. (Think of it this way: if NLP is the tires, WEL-Systems is the car… and it comes with tires!) We've discovered that in an autopoietic world, NLP's greatest value lies not in its techniques but in its ability to help us reclaim a sense of safety with our own bodies. We consider NLP to be the 'owner's manual' for the body. Taught in a WEL-Systems context, NLP goes far beyond any value as technique and becomes the platform on which to stand to support individuals to reclaim the territory of the body and an accompanying sense of personal safety. With this 'owner's manual", people come to understand the predictable function of the human body/nervous system and no longer retreat from the flow of their own "emotions'. Magic and miracles abound!
• We have also come to understand that the body, as a quantum biological processor (QBP), is capable of phenomenal processing speeds! The major distinction between a therapy-model approach (with its reliance on language and the functions of analysis and reason) and a Quantum TLC™ experience (which requires no language and is devoid of content) is indeed processing speed. What might take years in a therapy model can be completed in two hours in an autopoietic framework with Quantum TLC™.
• We have discovered that the body (QBP) is processing not two but three (at least) signals. We now know that there is Signal No. 1, the signal from Self (as referred to in Bruce Lipton's work); there is Signal No. 2, a flow of information from external reference points that include physical environment all the way to culturally conditioned expectations/beliefs, etc.; and there is Signal No. 3, a third signal from internal, learned responses as we move through our experiences of engaging - or not! - with Signal No. 2. It is these Signals Dancing™ that create the way we move through the world - being guided by the signal from Self or caught in the dance of the other two.
• We have discovered that the body as the quantum biological processor is like no other processor. Unlike your blender, which is able to process a substance and remain unchanged, the living organic intelligent system that is your body does not just process emotion/feelings/energy/information, it actually metabolizes it. Like your body metabolizes your lunch, with the food being processed and transformed into the tissue of your body, the QBP that you are both processes and metabolizes the emotions/energy/information that moves through your body and restructures the perceptual filter that you are and through which you perceive the world.
• We recognize that the human body, as a quantum biological device, is a living manifestation - a metaphor, if you will - for the structure of the thoughts we carry. Change your thinking and your body changes along with it. The CODE Model™ is a framework for bridging that which we have been taught to hold as two separate things and yet, in our experience, are really the back and front of the same hand!

I continue to marvel at the willingness of our clients to come face-to-face with themselves and claim the magnificence of their imperfection. With their fearlessness and sense of adventure and play, we've been able to continue to press the boundaries of what's possible for us as human beings. Over the years, I have come to conclude that nothing is impossible! I have witnessed far too much to ever allow my thinking to go back into the box. With the support of my colleagues, clients, family and friends, I continue to explore just how much we can do. I am most grateful. Without them, I would have no one to play with.

And last but never least, I am deeply grateful to Dr. Bruce Lipton. I continue to be delighted by his on-going discoveries and their applications to enhance the quality of how we live our lives. I believe that Bruce's science is the fabric from which we'll unfold and flow with grace and elegance into the 21st Century. It takes great courage to step outside that which is considered 'the norm' in the medical world. Tremendous pressure exists to conform and comply… neither of which Dr. Lipton has done. His courage stands as an invitation for me to find my own; his genius a bright light that reveals the path to my own treasures to be found. I appreciate his work and value his friendship.

Phoenix Rising is not intended to give you answers. My hope for you is that, in some small way, Phoenix Rising will invite you to reclaim the truth of your own experience and choose to live your life accordingly. Trust your body - it is the one thing that will never lie to you.