Eternal Breath: A Biography of Leonard Orr Founder of Rebirthing Breathwork

By Pola Churchill and Sondra Ray

Eternal Breath-A Biography of Leonard Orr by Pola Churchill is a unique classic. There is beautiful "light" streaming both from the writing style and content, it touches the soul. It is explosive and revolutionary!

Leonard Orr is one of the Pioneers and Originators of the Human Potential Movement along with contemporary folk heroes, Earl Nightingale, Maxwell Maltz, Carl Rodgers and Abraham Moslow.

Leonard has written thirty books in over a dozen languages including: Rebirthing in the New Age, The Story of Rebirthing Breathwork, Babaji Angel of the Lord, Government without Taxes, How to Make Democracy Work, Breaking the Death Habit.... His International Rebirthing Breathwork Movement has served over a ten million people on six continents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Nov 14, 2007
• ISBN: 9781466959057

Pola Churchill

Pola Churchill is author of the books Shiva Mahavatar Babaji (1996) and Eternal Breath, A Biography of Leonard Orr -Founder Of Rebirthing Breathwork (2006). Pola has written, produced and hosted several dvd's on Rebirthing Breathwork including a documentary on "The Keys To Permanent Healing" -a series of interviews with "Healers and Lightworkers" from around the world, illustrating their alternative healing modalties. She also has a screenplay for a feature film in development. Pola is a Light Worker / Healer, a Leonard Orr Rebirther Trainer, Seminar Leader, Counselor, and Reiki Level 3 Practitioner. She is Certified in Silver Mind Control, and Psychic Development. Pola has the ability to "See" Energy Patterns in the Body, and assists people to remove and clear blocks to permanent healing on a cellular level. Pola facilitates sessions on DNA Activation and The Pituitary Gland Rejuvenation Technique, which restores the original Divine Blueprint and reprograms the Master Gland to reverse the "death hormone" in the body and slow down the aging process, promoting youthing, longevity and rejuvenation. She is an immortalist, and teaches Physical Immortality. Pola was initiated into Kriya Yoga, a sacred ceremony facilitated by Paramahansa Yogananda's Teachings. She is a world traveler. Pola leads Leonard Orr's famous Five and Nine Day Trainings and is available for individual sessions. For book orders or scheduling trainings and personal sessions contact: TEL: [phone] [e-mail] www.polachurchill.com

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Contents

Acknowledgements.

Forewardby Sondra Ray.

The Preface.

Visions

Chapter 1 An Introductionto Leonard Orr

Chapter 2 Leonard’s Monologue On Rebirthing Breathwork

Chapter 3 An Interview With Leonard Orr-January, 1999

Chapter 4 Leonard’s Childhood, Teenage Years And College Life

Chapter 5 The Development And Expansion Of Rebirthing Breathwork-The Experiments

Chapter 6 The Five Biggies Of Human Trauma

Chapter 7 Theta House, Sondra Ray And Thel Rt Trainings

Chapter 8 Theta House And Leonard’S

Chapter 9 Discovering The Healing Powerof The Breath

Chapter 10 Breath And Breathing

Chapter 11 Certification Training

Chapter 12 Government Without Taxes

Chapter 13 Physical Immortality And The Unconscious Death Urge

Chapter 14 H Ealing The Unconscious Death Urge"

Chapter 15 Shiva Mahavatar Babaji

Chapter 16 The Immortal Yogis

Chapter 17 Taking Rebirthing To Russia

Chapter 18 The Perfect Underwater Birth

Chapter 19 The Struggles Of Overcoming Senility

Chapter 20 The Cv-Chs Drama Rebirthing Infants

Chapter 21 Changes Evolve On All Levels

Chapter 22 A Divine Mother Movement

Chapter 23 Walton Ministerium Shuns Rebirthing

Chapter 24 Minister To The Unchurched

Chapter 25 An Introduction To The Shiva Purana

Chapter 26 The Expansion Of Rbi Internationally

Chapter 27 H Eating With Hoxsey Herbal Therapy

Chapter 28 Regression Is The Cure For Suppression

Chapter 29 Diseases Are

Healings In Disguise

Chapter 30 Leonard’s Yearly Whirlwhind Domestic And International Tours

Chapter 31 The Prophecies

Conclusion

Closing And Intuitive Aarati.

About Leonard Orr And His Books.

Affirmations For Physical Immortality

Glossary

Bibliography

Quotations With Permissions.

Acknowledgements From The Author.

About The Author.

"I dedicate this book to Mahavatar Babaji

and to the freedom of the human spirit

and to the healing of humanity

In Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service."

Pola Churchill.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

"To all my friends who have supported my

spiritual development, especially the

Immortal Yogis, and to everyone that has

participated in Rebirthing Breathwork".

Leonard Orr.

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LEONARD ORR, IS

one of the pioneers and originators of the Human Potential Movement, along with sixties contemporary folk heroes, Earl Nightingale, Maxwell Maltz, Carl Rodg-ers and Abraham Moslow. He has written over twenty-nine books in more than a dozen languages, including Rebirthing in the New Age, The Story of Rebirthing Breathwork, Breath Awareness, Babaji the Angel of the Lord, Government without Taxes, The Truth about Money, How to Make Democracy Work, The Healing Manual, and Breaking the Death Habit. His International Rebirthing Movement has served over ten million people on six continents.

This book illustrates Leonard’s fascinating life as an author, visionary and healer, and his amazing discovery of rebirthing. It reveals his intellect, genius, and brilliant inquiring mind, his personal spiritual path, his first experimental discoveries and development of rebirthing from 1961-1975, including unraveling the birth/death cycle. It shows how Leonard and Sondra Ray perfected the rebirthing technique at Theta House, San Francisco, and how rebirthing became the fastest growing and exciting component to the Human Potential Movement in the 1970’s. By 1973, Leonard had spread his grass roots politics and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles.

In 1974, Leonard became Founder of Rebirth International and Inspiration University, creating a following of over ten million people. He accomplished this without the aid of government funding. The book illustrates his metaphysical teachings, his revolutionary and transformational books and his pioneering contribution to healing in society. It includes his research and practice of physical immortality, and from 1979, onwards, his experiences and adventures with the immortal yogis in remote areas of the world, including the Himalayas. It also reveals his profound and sacred relationship with his Guru Mahavatar Babaji and the spiritual healing techniques and teachings he learned from Him.

Leonard also owned a seven hundred acre property in Northern California, he named it Consciousness Village, Campbell Hot Springs. He created this healing center and community for people to transform themselves rapidly in a safe supportive environment. The book describes his daughter’s perfect underwater birth in 1985, at the Phoenix Bath House located on the property; the challenges of his marriages, raising his children, and his ability to rebirth infants intuitively.

This book takes you through the trials and tribulations of his five year roller coaster battle from 1988-1992, when Leonard was healing early senility and victory over death. He survived eight terminal diseases by practicing spiritual purification, utilizing the five elements and using Shiva Kalpa Therapy. He also discovered the powerful Hoxsey Therapy in Mexico that has cured cancer for over one hundred and sixty years.

From 1998-2004 the book illustrates his controversial conflicts with the clergy, media and film crews. By 2006, you can see his amazing network of International Breathworkers and centers he has developed world wide, and the non-stop domestic and overseas tours he completes annually.

This book reveals Leonard’s personal vulnerabilities in all his extraordinary life experiences and how he manages to retain his sense of humor even during the toughest situations.

As you read this book you will be drawn into his magical energy field!

Forewardby

Sondra Ray.

IT WAS MY

great privilege and honor to be there in the very beginning of the Rebirthing Movement, and luckily I was the fourth person in line on the first day of this great Experiment. After my experience in the hot tub with Leonard, I recall lying under a tree and being able to see the aura around each leaf, it was the first time I saw auras, and since I had never taken any drugs, I was astonished and overwhelmed with joy.

The next day, I decided to move into the big house on 301 Lyon St, San Francisco, California, and became a rebirther. I knew this was to be my life’s work, as I had never encountered a healing technique as powerful and exciting as rebirthing. Leonard gave me the gift of rebirthing which totally healed me. He got me clear on creative thought which is the secret to everything. He reminded me of physical immortality, which released me from death. He cleared me of the Five Biggies which changed my life forever. He taught me how to lead seminars, he gave me a new career and reminded me of my life’s purpose. He taught me about money and success. He led me to India to my true Guru Babaji. He definitely gave me something to write about.

Over the next few years I was able to contribute greatly to the research, especially in the area of how one’s birth affected ones relationships, and as a result I founded the Loving Relationships Training. With great passion I spread rebirthing around the world, training thousands of rebirthers and rebirthing multitudes of people. Twenty-five years flew by, and I remained in bliss doing this work, and using the process on myself.

It was only after my mother died, that I realized I was burned out, and had to stop traveling and take some years off to recover. Now, I am returning with a deeper understanding and knowledge, because of my own core issues which came up after menopause, and the death of all my family members. I feel we are ready for a RENAISSANCE OF REBIRTHING, and I’m quite happy to be part of the next phase.

In my LRT communities, family member’s rebirth each other, and this blessing is something so special, that I feel it should be a common practice, and part of every family. When heavy issues come up within a family, there is a great need to understand how to process and handle this. Not everyone can afford therapy, but breathing together could become the regular way to clear family issues. If one member of each family learned to be a rebirther, life would be so different on this planet.

I met a woman who was raised in a small rural church in Sweden, and after every sermon, the minister would have the whole congregation lie down and breathe together in a rebirthing style (but not calling it rebirthing). Needless to say, she grew up to become a great healer and clairvoyant naturally.

Although I ran around the world and did my own thing for decades, I never ever changed the basic technique Leonard taught me into any offshoot. To me it was perfect and pure, the way he channeled it. My main contribution was in the area of processing the effects of one’s birth trauma on our relationships and body and life.

Recently when I saw Leonard. We had a good time reminiscing about the good old days, and you’ll enjoy reading about them in this book. I do feel however that it is time to move to the next level now, and get rebirthing even more mainstream!

With great respect to Leonard Orr-Founder of Rebirthing

Sondra Ray-Founder of Loving Relationships Training, A Divine Mother Movement, Sacred Renewal Ministries and author of seventeen books.

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The Preface.

Birthing and Rebirthing into the New Dimensional Shift.

As

PLANET EARTH

is becoming a star, orbiting towards the photon belt (Christ energy) transforming and accelerating rapidly to make its quantum leap into the fifth dimensional shift, we are simultaneously raising our vibrational field in synchronicity. In quantum physics everything that exists in the Universe is Energy. And all time and space are Holy.

Birth and Rebirth are the metamorphosis from Spirit (conception) to matter (birth). A body is a solid form of spirit in motion. Our bodies are holograms consisting of electricity and water. Within the portal of breathing energy as well as air (prana) in the rebirthing process, we are bridging heaven and Earth, and automatically elevating our energy field toward our ultimate goal-Ascension and Transfiguration-This is how the New Renaissance in rebirthing is emerging. By downloading the information and intelligence and Light from the new frequencies into our DNA and increasing the DNA strands from two to twelve, this process will trigger the immortal cellular memory deeply encoded in our bodies. Each DNA strand and double helix that we extend, upgrades our consciousness. We must clear the negative mental and emotional core beliefs within the matrix, and align the original blueprint, to step into the fifth dimension realm of consciousness.

By doing this we can access more Light Energy. The frequencies are getting higher and higher each day. Our personal Merkaba’s (energy grids) are spinning faster and faster. When our bodies absorb enough Light, our atomic cellular structure is re-aligned and re-configured with an implosion of refined magnetic electrical particles. We merge into these light particles and disappear (dematerializa-tion). Within this new Ascension paradigm we are becoming one with the God head.

When we connect with this Infinite Intelligence, Eternal Energy or spark of creation, on one level it is a very subtle shift. Yet, on another level it is like receiving a thunderbolt of electricity. It will give us ecstasy, immense peace, deep joy, pure love and creative inspiration. We will be able to effortlessly create an ideal physical body, become immune to disease, expand our creative potential and intuitiveness and know our true purpose.

These new frequencies are what our souls have been searching for. They areultimate freedom and liberation from human bondage. The lower vibration of negative energies will no longer have any effect on our chakras. They will dissolve around us like dust.

There is a new Language of Light emerging that every soul will recognize. There are mathematical codes embedded in this Light and they look like pristine crystalline snowflakes that shimmer blue and purple astral light. They are absolutely beautiful!

The fulfillment of the Divine Plan is finally manifesting here on Earth. This celestial adventure consists of integrating the cosmic heart and soul consciousness of God into every atom throughout the universe. This is a very exciting and empowering time to be here on this planet. The quickening that is occurring is unprecedented in the history of mankind. Rebirthing, and having a conscious relationship with the elements, earth, air, water and fire as spiritual purification tools, will accelerate your healing process into this new paradigm. Can humanity be awakened? Are you ready?

OM Shanti.

Pola Churchill-Rebirther Trainer and author of Shiva Mahavatar Babaji (1996).

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Visions

by Pola Churchill.

SINCE

1985, I have been a Rebirther Breathworker, completing my first training in Australia with Sondra Ray. My first personal experience of Leonard Orr was in 1988. I was in Europe at the time, reading one of his books titled

PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY, THE SCIENCE OF EVERLASTING LIFE

(1980). I was immersed in the chapters written about the eternally youthful, deathless Mahavatar Babaji, the Immortal Yogi Christ of India. In a nutshell, one might say Babaji’s day job is CEO of the Universe. He is the cosmic boss of all things, He oversees the evolution of our planet to make sure we behave ourselves and live in harmony!

I couldn’t take my eyes off this beautiful hypnotic photograph in the book. Suddenly, I was aware of a highly strong presence in the room. I looked up. I gasped, as I saw Babaji’s image from the same intense photograph, melted onto the television screen three feet away! I thought, This is ridiculous, I must be hallucinating! I was shocked, but mesmerized at the same time. The hairs on my neck stood on end! I told my friends what had just happened, they looked at me as if I were nuts.

I immediately called Leonard in the United States, his number was in the back of the book. I didn’t care if it was three a.m. in the morning, I urgently wanted a logical explanation just to preserve my sanity! He answered the phone. Thank God. It seemed like he had just been meditating. Oh he said, in a very calm, amused, and congenial voice, Babaji likes to play with us. He’s just making you aware of His living presence. He appears to thousands of people daily, around the world, you are lucky to have had a direct experience of His energy! To Leonard this seemed to be a normal event. From that moment on, I knew in my heart that I had investigate this esoteric guru.

Over the years of training to become a rebirther, I voraciously read every book I could find about Babaji. Now and again he would appear in my dreams. Then I had a Technicolor lucid dream in which I saw India and the Ganges River, I heard this ethereal music. I felt Him calling me, pulling me like a magnet to India. This prompted me to visit Babaji’s ashram in Herakhan, India at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. I took a month long trip with Sondra Ray on her yearly Eternal Quest Training. I was hungry to learn the truth about Babaji. I had to find out if this was all real or not. It was.

After the second day at the ashram, I went into the ancient temple area, and pranamed (fold hands together in prayer position) before the altar. I said to myself, Okay Babaji, you have brought me all the way here to India, now prove to me that you are real! I received no immediate response, I was expecting an instant revelation or flash of lightening, or something dramatic, nothing happened.

A few days later, I entered the temple. BANG! I got the shock of my life! Babaji unexpectedly blasted my third eye open with a giant golden OM symbol, (this is His signature) like the one I had seen on His forehead in a dream. The force was so great, I nearly fell over backwards. I heard His voice say, I am Babaji, I am real! Okay, I said to myself, I get the message, loud and clear! I finally received the direct confirmation that I had wanted.

I returned to the United States, and after seven months of integrating and absorbing the whole Indian trip, which completely transformed my life, I had another profound experience. I had an incredible vision. It happened at a Rebirthing Intensive Training, during one of my rebirthing sessions, at the beautiful Stewart Mineral Springs in the vortex of Mt. Shasta, California.

As I was breathing, a big bright ball of golden lucid light entered my navel area, and exploded into splashes of light inside my body. Every breath I took was an endless wave of pure ecstasy. The deep divine love I experienced was indescribable; it was beyond my wildest dreams. I never imagined such incredible energy existed! I literally went into another dimension; an angelic realm. Then I saw an angel with a huge wing span hovering over me. I heard celestial music that sounded similar to a high pitched soft chime. It continued for the next two days. I was in a subtle altered state.

The message that I received during this awesome experience was, You can truly anchor heaven on Earth here and now in your present body. To attain this state, you don’t have to die and leave your body. Later on, I realized that this visit was indeed Babaji. It is known that He appears and disappears and travels in a ball of light.

(The most recent vision I had on Babaji’s Commemoration Day at the Self Realization Temple in Pacific Palisades, Ca., I saw Babaji suspended above the altar hovering over the images of Jesus and Krishna. He was sitting in lotus style with a bright light beaming from His forehead. He proceeded to show me His bodies. First of all He transformed into Shiva, with snakes surrounding His body; Shiva’s garland’s of snakes symbolizes the Yoga of Physical Immortality. He then transformed into a Krishna body, and then a Budha body. The Budha body duplicated itself twelve times. It was like seeing an evolutionary kaleidoscopic of His Bodies. Then a crystal tree appeared with beautiful light radiating from it branches. This represented the tree of knowledge and wisdom).

In 1996, I decided to write a book about my experiences. The result was SHIVA MAHAVATAR BABAJI. (Just by meditating on pictures of Babaji you too can have an experience or visit from Him).

While researching for this book, Leonard responded to a letter I wrote requesting information about his personal experiences with Babaji. I knew he had a close relationship with Him, and had a mountain of information to share. After talking to Leonard on the telephone, I noticed that I was feeling very blissful for the next three days! What is going on?

I discovered later, that Leonard was given an extraordinary gift by the grace of Babaji. Leonard could transmit His energy to people, like a blessing. The next time, I spoke with Leonard, I decided to do an experiment, and see how long the energy would last. This time it lasted four days! How did he do this? I really wanted to know curiosity got the better of me

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CHAPTER 1

An Introductionto

Leonard Orr

"Mastering the human condition is not superficial,it takes a lot of knowledge and concentration

understanding and healing. It takes deep love for God,it takes spiritual practices and it takes loving sensitivity

for all people."

Leonard Orr.

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1970. Leonard giving his Cheshire cat grin, looking like Jack Nicholson.

Who the hell is Leonard Orr?

Is he still alive? What are you writing a book about him for?

Isn’t he the Guru that made his first million dollars selling air?

Didn’t he disappear to India, and live in a cave while studying those immortal yogis?

What concoction of revolutionary ideas has he created this time?

"Wasn’t he the one that used to give prosperity seminars in the seventies, and wear dollar notes pinned to his sweater, and people would line up to pay him hundred-dollar bills?

Didn’t he used to sleep in his bathtub all the time?

Oh yes, I remember him; I went to one of his seminars. He picked his nose and fell asleep in the middle of the lecture!

Did he ascend yet?

These were some amusing and colorful reactions I encountered while doing research for this biography. Isn’t it amazing how someone with such notoriety can be so intriguing? This preliminary introduction of Leonard illustrates somewhat of an eccentric character, but that makes him all the more interesting. These inquiries ignite a spark of a legend, and they combine to paint a picture of someone who is larger than life. In this case, these people happen to be lovingly talking about a giant.

Although Leonard and I had spoken frequently by telephone, I had yet to meet him in person. He had a formidable reputation: Founder of Rebirthing, renowned author, noted visionary, international lecturer, immortalist, and creative genius. But the same healing energies that propelled him through so much creative activity, also worked their way down the telephone lines, to pique my interest and compel me to fly out to Staunton, Virginia, where he lived.

My motivation for this meeting with Leonard was also activated by my deep curiosity. The investigative reporter inside of me wanted to expand my metaphysical experiences even further along the path. If Leonard was all he was reputed to be, meeting him was clearly a wise decision and quite possibly an adventure! At that point in my life I wanted more spiritual freedom. A freedom to taste the higher spiritual realms in the absolute truth, knowledge and wisdom department that happened to fascinate and grab my attention at the time. For the last ten years, this insatiable thirst to search out the Holy Grail by studying with various advanced teachers had always gotten me into trouble somehow. I inevitably ended up getting much more than I bargained for! My experiences in India were evidence of that.

My next step was absolutely clear: I would devour, dissect, and analyze the knowledge this particular magician Leonard Orr had to offer. In July, 1997, I decided to participate in Leonard’s famous Five Day Rebirthing Training at the Yearly Rebirthing Convention and test the waters for myself.

Now fully resolved with my mission, I wasted no time. I arrived in Virginia the following afternoon. I was completely exhausted after the long and uncomfortable flight from California. I was already beginning to asking myself, What am I doing here? Why in the world do I need to do another training? Had I been too impulsive? Was the energy I felt from Leonard something in my own mind? Was I letting my curiosity overcome my objectivity?"

A car had been sent to pick me up at the airport. I unwound and stretched my cramped limbs as I was driven to a house in Richmond. When I arrived, I was told that Leonard and his assistants were expected later. I strolled down to the garden, and flopped into a hammock that was strung between two willow trees, letting the stress of my journey dissolve from my body; but I couldn’t totally relax. I was anticipating with great excitement the prospect of meeting Leonard for the first time. For the moment, I was happy to slowly recuperate my energy, by letting the thick humidity of the Virginia countryside blanket me as I gently swung in the hammock. As I melted into the warmth and rural noises of this idyllic retreat, I began to feel calm and at ease.

Leonard and a group of rebirthers arrived a couple of hours later. He had a Cheshire cat grin on his face that was slightly flirtatious. My first impression of him was, My god, he looks just like a young Jack Nicholson! Anyway, as Jack.... I mean Leonard....walked toward me, I instantly had a flash back to that famous scene in the movie The Shining, where Jack’s axe wielding madman character was chopping a door down saying, Heeer’s Johnny! I thought to myself, What have I let myself in for?

Unlike the movie character, Leonard appeared to radiate kindness and gentleness. He looked fairly tall and slightly scruffy, wearing a casual green T-shirt and shorts. I was aware that Leonard shaves his head frequently, and for long periods of time; a spiritual practice he learned in India, so I was surprised to see he had a thick mop of dark brown hair. In a low monotone voice, he said a friendly, Hello, Pola how are you? and strode past me like lightening. He walked into the house and promptly jumped into the shower. He then sat alone by the fire for an hour.

Okaaaay, I asked myself, That’s an unusual introduction. What was that about? Why was he in such a hurry to shower and sit by the fire this hot summers’ day?

I inquisitively asked a rebirther what Leonard was up to. Apparently, he had just finished a Nine Day Rebirthing Training Energy pollution, someone mentioned.

What on earth is that? I asked. Did I just check into the sanitarium at One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and get a frontal lobotomy?

Another rebirther replied, He’s cleaning and balancing his energy body with the water, and then the fire.

Oh, of course, I said, pretending to be all knowledgeable well nurse Ratchet now I am really ready for my tranquilizers.

After a while somebody announced that we were all leaving, Going South to the training center in Staunton, VA. A few other rebirthers piled into Leonard’s car. I asked Leonard politely if I could sit in the front passenger seat while he was driving. I figured if we had a two hour journey ahead of us, I might as well pick his brains, find out what makes this man tick, and try to continue the energy flow from where we left off on our last telephone conversations! Unfortunately, before Leonard even had time to answer me, I was greeted with a hasty, No, sorry! by a Rebirther Trainer. Did I need to be washed, scrubbed, disinfected and polished before entering Mr. Orr’s energy field to prevent his aura from getting polluted? My request was declined. I thought, Something’s Gotta Give. Perhaps Jack Imean Leonard is no Easy Rider after all.

Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity to have a conversation with the young Lenny as he calls himself, I quickly brainstormed and came up with a brilliant idea. I told him that I have a tendency to get carsick, and would he mind terribly if I had to suddenly throw up over his shoulder if I am forced to sit in the back seat? Maybe that would change his mind? My intimidation tactic failedmiserably. My comment was greeted with a pregnant pause somebody thenexplained to me that Leonard never allows people to sit in the passenger seat of his car while he is driving, until they have processed their unconscious deathurge .what on earth is that? Did I just land on another planet or something? Would somebody please explain this psychobabble? Is Leonard eccentric or what? I was already starting to get slightly activated by his energy. I didn’t know whether to laugh or go mad!

Now I am stuck in the back of a hot stuffy Ford 250 pickup truck for two hourssquashed sideways between five other people help get me out of here! Now Iknow why in prenatal terminology they call it no exit terror. This is like being stuffed into a traveling womb with quadruplets, except there is no obstetrician ready to catch us if we fall out of the back door. We all took turns reading text out aloud from Leonard’s book the Healing Manual (1998), which is the owners manual for mastering the human body. Exactly what I need right now, what about mastering the insane mind? That would be more appropriate.

I had now officially joined the Leonard Orr traveling road circus. Leonard drove like a maniac and I noticed he rarely used a seat belt! This experience was like going on a roller-coaster blindfolded at night! But somehow I felt safe and secure. We arrived at the Staunton training centers’ housing facility looking a bit green, but in one whole piece. We were given written instructions for tomorrow’s schedule.

Looking forward to just collapsing on a nice comfortable mattress, I was shocked to see that the beds were like wooden coffee tables, bare and hard. Were we expected to lie horizontal on a bed of nails?

I wondered to myself with intrepidation. I visualized that we were going to be disciplined like Indian Yogis clothed in a loin cloth carrying a begging bowl and chanting for our supper!

We were given a thin air mattress to place over the wooden cot, and a sleeping bag for warmth. Did we just arrive at boot camp? Leonard believes mattresses hold energy in them, and you can get wiped out by other people’s negative energy. I slept like a log that night even though someone was snoring their head off in the next room. All five participants were woken early the next morning by a ringing bell. It was a grey drizzly overcast day. Noticing my resistance, I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed (womb). I would have been happy to stay there all day. We were then escorted to the training center, down town, in Staunton. The center was an old three story turn of the century building, with wooden floors, large bay windows and spacious rooms, each with a fireplace. The trainers and trainees were gathering for the first seminar in the Conference room. We were shown around and given our schedule. We were told that Leonard was due to arrive at any minute. At that thought, something must have triggered in my subconscious mind. Suddenly my mind began racing, my adrenaline was pumping, and I instantly became emotionally overwhelmed. I could not thinkstraight. I soon found myself on the floor breathing like a steam engine Ihad just experienced in rebirth jargon what is called a spontaneous rebirth.. I guess my training had already begun. I was activated by Leonard’s catalytic energy.

A Rebirther Trainer walked over, gently touched me and said Get out of the drama, and into the breath. I nodded. I couldn’t even think, let alone speak at this point. My analytical mind had given up trying to figure out how this happened so quickly. My mouth had gone frozen (probably to everyone’s delight) and indented like a little old lady with no teeth in her head; my cheeks hollowed out. My hands were tingling, felt heavy, and looked like lobster claws. My whole body was tingling and vibrating, I thought I was going to levitate off to the ceiling. How long is this going to last?

By this time Leonard had arrived. I could hear his voice in the next room, and I was getting more and more activated By now I needed mouth to mouthresuscitation not a breathing coach! The trainer stayed with me in my own process and guided my breath until I felt completed. They had started the training in the next room while I was sprawled out on the floor with a blanket over me, still breathing away .what was all that about? I haven’t been in a sponno for years..

After completing my breathing cycle, I eventually joined the group. Leonard greeted me with a compassionate smile. An hour had already passed, even though it felt more like ten minutes of breathing. I probably looked like a maniacal bag lady, slightly sweaty and dishevelled, but I felt somewhat calmer and more relaxed. We sat in a circle. I watched Leonard with utter fascination and surprise, that he was capable of rattling my cage so quickly. I observed his interaction with the group. He was cool, calm and collected as he spoke. The others looked likedeer caught in headlights ready to anticipate the unexpected. This was my initial perception of him.

Leonard exudes an unusual mixture of being very ordinary and down-to-earth, which immediately puts you at ease. There are no pretensions on his part: yet he is also mystical and profound. He is enigmatic.

Just being in his presence is healing and cathartic, as I soon found out! Because Leonard does not meet any social paradigms, people in his presence are left with an open space in which their own consciousness is revealed. Emotional cases or birth scripts surface rapidly in his presence. He is a catalyst who stimulates the healing process to push human beings forward and raise their own vibrational field. He says few words, but he teaches with energy, and energy contains information. This information is invisible except to those who can see it, but it can still impact the consciousness of those who don’t.

Leonard is a character of such persuasive and powerful qualities, that people are instantly drawn away from their normal way of thinking into higher realms of consciousness. He has the ability to rapidly change your perception of reality. He is a mind blower. There are few people that have not been impacted by him in some sort of way. Hardly a soul can dismiss him, although some try to. Those that do try to characterize him, do so out of projections of their own process rather than having a real understanding of him.

He is in this world, but not of it. He is an old soul. He has an aura of ancient wisdom, yet almost childlike simplicity. When he looks at you, it is as if he has known you your whole life, and knows everything about you. He has the ability to inspire and awaken an individual’s creativity, inspiration and enthusiasm even if it has been dormant for years. He is a quiet and unassuming man, his mannerisms are gentle and he is very soft-spoken. He has an infinite, eternal respect for others, unless they ask or pay him to expand their limitations. He has a mind like a steel trap. He is sharp, he does not miss a thing. Leonard will say things just to push your buttons; he enjoys being quietly outrageous! He always has a mischievous grin on his face, as if he knows something secret, and is planning his next practical joke. He has a great sense of humor and is an original thinker. Some people call him a modern day yogi.

Leonard does not usually describe himself as a healer, teacher or Minister he just refers to himself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and walking toward the mastery of his natural divinity and healing of his emotional mind and body. He also likes to share everything that he has that’s of value.

As the week progressed with firecrackers going off in my head, I read as many of Leonard’s books that I could get my paws on and downloaded the information into my memory banks. I discovered that Leonard is a spiritual and intellectual pioneer. His classic books are revolutionary and transformational; his publications have made him an international authority on Biblical literature and religion. The many topics he covers include: health and rebirthing, healing,philosophy, psychology, business, personal relationships, religion, personal success, prosperity-consciousness, physical immortality, government without taxes, politics and democracy. You name the subject material; he has probably covered it. Leonard has written over twenty-nine books published in over fifteen languages. He is an internationally famous lecturer, and has traveled the world over ten times.

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CHAPTER 2

Leonard’s Monologue

On Rebirthing Breathwork

"And the Lord God breathed into man’s nostrils the Breath of Lif

and man became a living soul."

Genesis 2:7

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1971. Leonard having mischievous thoughts. Photo by Seth Bartlett.

LEONARD DIETRICH ORR,

carries not the memory of his own birth, but the actual experience of it with him every day. It lies quite near the surface accessible to him whenever he desires, a breath away it could be said. Such access has become vital in the making of his life, which is a remarkable saga of transformation, discovery and transcendence that has all the grandeur of any myth of American ascendance. Out of the emotional union with the original experience of coming into this world, Leonard has blossomed and subsequently he has planted and watered the seeds of hundreds and thousands even millions of other flowers among humankind. It might be said, that Leonard Orr is responsible for bringing more people into the real world than any other obstetrician on earth. For although we have all been delivered from the womb, it is a gift of genius that delivers us from all that weighs upon us, starting from the moment that we are born into this world out of the wholly spiritual. Leonard is a spiritual midwife delivering our mind and body into Eternal Life. We can become the unborn Eternal Spirit.

As a result of hundreds of spontaneous rebirthing experiences, between 1962 and 1974, Leonard perfected a method of rebirthing himself and others. This process of Rebirthing Breathwork (RB) is also called Conscious Connected Breathing (CCB) or Intuitive Energy Breathing (IEB). Between 1988 and 1993, he also healed himself of eight terminal diseases, and is a senility graduate, (he survived his senility process without dying) probably the only person in the Western world to achieve this (see Ch.19)

Leonard explains, "Rebirthing is a word that has many meanings, for me rebirthing has two main definitions. One is learning to breathe energy as well as air: when you breathe energy, you have a direct experience of the Eternal Spirit. The other is to unravel the birth/death cycle, and to incorporate the body and mind into the conscious life of the Eternal Spirit, to become a conscious expression of It.

"Many people use the word rebirthing to mean any emotional release or any rush of energy, or any filling of the Holy Spirit that stimulates breathing. We can learn to breathe in ten two hour sessions, but unraveling the birth/death cycle can take fifty to a hundred years, or many life times. I liberated myself from much of my death urge, birth trauma and family patterns before I learned to breathe consciously. Most people today however, learn to breathe first and get liberated later. This is the easier way.

"My rebirthing story is the story of discovering the whole process of Rebirthing Breathwork, of discovering the full power and practice of Intuitive Energy Breathing for the present centuries. This has been a very rich and rewarding process for me. I feel like a spiritual pioneer. I am known as the Founder of the Rebirthing Breathwork Movement. What follows are the basic things I learned and how I learned them.

"The main part of this discovery took about twelve years, starting in 1962. The giant leap occurred in 1974-1975, when I gave enough sessions to enough people to perfect it, and learn its potential. Learning to breathe from the breath itself cannot be improved upon. It is an eternal reality, but our ability to incorporate the Breath of Life into our daily lives is forever evolving. The discovery is still going on for me. Every year I learn more about breathing and spiritual liberation in very practical ways. I practice divine energy breathing every day.

"In 2002, I had a more spontaneous regression into prenatal, birth trauma, and early infancy body memories and releases than I had had in any previous year. Now I have more space in my mind and more freedom in my body. The benefits of every self-healing experience go on forever. Rebirthing is genuine spiritual liberation. After we learn to breathe energy, we can practice daily in our bathtub or anywhere. It seems to take most people, children as well as adults, about ten or more one-to two-hour sessions with a rebirther breathing guide to learn Conscious Breathing. This is not many sessions. It is easy for most people to learn what may be the most valuable skill we can have for self-healing, accessing Divine Energy, relaxation and peace.

"A rebirthing experience usually refers to the release of psychoanalytic pain or daily accumulated tensions and stress, and the receiving of healing, Divine Energy, while doing a gentle connected breathing rhythm. This releasing process itself is usually very relaxing, not painful or dramatic. The connected breathing rhythm can instantly remove pain from the mind and the body. It can erase body memories, emotional memories and traumas.

"The energy concentrations of every day life may be our biggest problem. When our Energy Body, our aura, is interacting with other people, which occurs automatically when we are communicating with people or just around them: at work, in a store, or just passing them on the street, an energy exchange takes place. This energy pollution can be even more intense with family members or people that we live with. To consciously notice these energy exchanges is practical spiritual enlightenment.

"The ability to clean and balance our Energy Body with breathing and bathing is definitely one of the ultimate self-healing skills. When we add fire purification, good vegetarian nutrition combined with regular fasting and colon cleansing, an adequate physical exercise system and high quality thinking, we have a self-healing system that keeps us in bliss and good health most of the time.

"I call these energy concentrations that we absorb from other people EEP, which stands for emotional energy pollution. When we participate in the world, we are constantly gathering EEP.

It is law of nature, like getting wet when we go into water. EEP is invisible to the senses, unless we can see auras, but we can easily feel it. We feel it when it enters our bodies as pain, tension, or as sensations that occur in various parts of our body. The emotional energy of other people invades us and can overwhelm us. It can kill adults, children and pets, and does so daily in the real world.

"The only difference between the EEP of others and our own, is that our own negative emotions last longer and do more damage. We put up with old negative feelings because they are familiar. We are comfortable with them. We are so attached to them that we don’t mind if they destroy our happiness, health, relationships, and prosperity. We love our old comfortable feelings and wouldn’t know who we are without them.

"We have to understand and be aware of emotional energy pollution to understand our life and ourselves. We have to learn how to heal emotional energy pollution or clean ourselves spiritually with basic spiritual purification practices with mind, earth, air, water, fire, and love.

"I deal with EEP successfully by bathing twice per day and using regular fasting, exercise, meditation, fire purification, and breathing to balance my energy body. This is the basic responsibility of being spiritually aware or emotionally intelligent. Not doing this can cause illness, even death. We shouldn’t fear EEP, or become overly concerned or paranoid about the negative energy of other people, and become afraid of people. We just have to learn to deal with EEP successfully. One of my definitions of love is the willingness to process the negative energy of other people and to heal them. We sometimes have to work with their thought habits also, in order to bring about permanent healing.

"The energy of people contains their desires, feelings and appetites; their lusts. Obesity is perhaps our biggest health problem today. It is caused not only by eating too much of the wrong things, but also by the emotional energy that we collect from other people, that is then stored in our solar plexus. Environment is stronger than willpower. The quality of people in our environment can control the quality of our mind and life.

"The connected breathing rhythm can instantly remove pain from the mind and body. The breath is the bridge between the visible and invisible; it connects spirit with matter. Conscious Connected Breathing has been used instead of anesthesia during dental work, setting of broken bones, burns and other such painful experiences. I have never liked the effects of Novacaine during dental work, so I prefer to breathe away the pain of drilling etc.

"A rebirthing session can lift us out of our misery sometimes in one hour, and then new layers of tension come to the surface of consciousness to be cleared away. The daily practice of conscious breathing clears away emotional garbage, as fast as it surfaces. Consciously breathing energy and other spiritual purification techniques are an ongoing practice. It is as important for the total health of mind, body, spirit as eating food.

"Conscious Energy Breathing is allowing divine energy to move in the body and ‘surfing’ or sustaining on this energy. It is very pleasurable. Even a minute of connected breathing normally puts me in ecstasy. The basic twenty connected breaths exercise, which takes thirty seconds, takes me into transcendental bliss. Conscious Energy Breathing means breathing away negative energy concentrations, to clean and balance our energy body, which is made up of the soul, the aura, the emotional body, the electromagnetic rainbow body field or chakras that are ever spinning around and through our physical body. Soaking in a warm bath, or sitting with a fire also puts me into bliss.

"The Energy Body creates and maintains the physical body. It is designed and managed by Infinite Intelligence. Daily practice of Conscious Breathing gives us relaxation, peace, energy for success and productivity, better health and tends to restore the joy of life.

"The energy cycle, the amount of energy and air the individual needs to breathe, usually lasts for one to two hours. The cycle can be longer, or as short as five to twenty minutes. During the first ten to one hundred sessions, it is usually longer than an hour. Experienced Conscious Breathers with years of practice can have five to twenty-minute sessions. The time of the cycle is not determined by the breather or Rebirther, but by Divine Energy itself. It is the time that Divine Energy takes to clean and balance our energy body. Our physical body gets cleaned and balanced as a byproduct. Total health can be a wonderful side effect and normally is.

"When our Divine Energy finishes its healing, cleaning and nourishing work, it recedes to gentle energy flows. But when we need powerful healing, the movement of God’s powerful healing energy in our body can produce dramatic physical sensations, and changes as it washes away our tensions, pains, and disease. It also cleans the circulatory system and the nervous system.

"A Rebirthing Breathwork session means doing a simple connected breathing rhythm in which the inhale is merged with the exhale in an uninterrupted circle. It means to relearn how to breathe energy as well as air, the way we did unconsciously as children. Since every negative thought and experience inhibits the breath, by the time we become adults, we need to relearn how to breathe. I have never met an adult, (besides the immortal yogis) who didn’t need to relearn how to breathe! Rebirther Breathworkers are breathing guides who assist us to maintain the gentle, connected breathing rhythm until we have a completed energy cycle-usually one to two hours. This is a very wholesome experience! Completed energy cycles are the key to high quality Rebirthing Breathwork.

"When people do the connected breathing rhythm for one or two hours, they feel pure life energy flowing through their body, dissolving tensions and energy concentrations. A completed session or energy cycle yields a rich feeling of peace that leads to satisfaction, productivity, love, intelligence and creativity. I’d like to reemphasize that most connected breathing sessions are not painful or filled withdrama, they are usually very pleasurable, fun, and interesting—simply amazing and miraculous!

"However, some people can, and do, make parts of their first few sessions fearful, or dramatic, or even painful. Good breathworkers cannot totally prevent this. If you keep breathing through your fear and discomfort, within a few minutes it will all dissolve into relaxation and a balanced feeling of well being. People that do have some discomfort in one, or a few sessions, get beyond it when they continue sessions. Conscious Breathing becomes easier and more and more pleasurable with experience and practice. Most people can learn the ability to breathe energy in ten sessions with a good Rebirther Breathworker.

"One of the goals of the first ten sessions is to learn how to maintain the connected breathing rhythm for an hour without supervision. Then we can give sessions to ourselves whenever we like without supervision. Learning Energy Breathing is a skill. When we learn this skill, we can use it forever, like thinking, walking, nutrition etc. This is as true for children as for adults, even babies.

"Since the Rebirthing Breathwork Movement I started became successful, and created a world wide demand for sessions, a lot of charlatans have entered the field calling themselves rebirthers. They get people to scream and beat pillows, and do other stupid things that have nothing to do with rebirthing. They are ignorant of the true practice of pure Rebirthing Breathwork. I have always thought and taught, that people have enough drama in their every day lives. I have always used conscious breathing to give people a vacation from drama and a vehicle for bliss and peace and healing Life Energy. Rebirthing breathing is learning to breathe from the Breath Itself.

"Some people have diluted the high quality of the original breathing practice of rebirthing and given it many other names. A good rebirther is only a breathing guide who allows your own life energy to do the session, and who creates an environment of safety for you to experience the miracle of Divine Energy. Some good rebirthers can also channel healing energy and make the session more powerful and pleasurable.

"A Rebirthing Breathworker is a professional Breathing Teacher. Since teaching the ability to breathe energy as well as air is spiritual work, I have always taught breathworkers which I train that it is unethical to withold this practice from people because of lack of money. Rebirthers can trade services, negotiate sessions or give people a session without pay when necessary. Everyone deserves to have this ability.

"When people have the ability to breathe energy it is easy to release negative emotions and physical symptoms that are caused by energy concentrations, or EEP. For example, the common cold, in my opinion, is usually caused by birth trauma. A lot of people don’t believe in birth trauma, yet they have colds. Most people have fewer colds their first year of breathing energy and after a few years of breathing consciously, they have the first cold-free year of their lives. Rebirthing seems to be the only reliable cure for the common cold because it is the only thing that heals the cause, birth trauma.

"Rebirthing as unraveling the birth death cycle takes longer than learning to breathe energy in ten sessions. It can take twenty-five to a hundred years or even longer. It involves personal liberation from birth trauma, infancy consciousness, family patterns, and the death urge. It involves mind and body mastery. To become a Conscious Being involves healing the emotional mind. Rebirthing as a healing technique is a tool and a fast track process to attaining all of this."

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CHAPTER 3

An Interview With Leonard Orr-January, 1999

"Spirit is evenly distributed throughout space and time.

It is indestructible, infinite, and eternal. Spirit is no one thing,but it is the Substance of everything. The whole of Spirit is present in ever

point in space and time. It is the thinker."

Leonard Orr.

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1972, Santa Barbara. Leonard.

IN JANUARY

1999, Leonard made a rare appearance in Los Angeles to promote two new ground breaking books.

THE HEALING MANUAL (1998),

which is like the owners manual for the human body, and

BREAKING THE DEATH HABIT

:

THE SCIENCE OF EVERLASTING LIFE

(1998). He led his famous Five Day Rebirthing Breathwork Training, at a landmark mansion in the Pacific Palisades area. It was a tremendous success.

Joanna Bloem, a film producer and Certified Rebirther who was Leonard’s first organizer at Theta House, organized and enrolled this large training. There were sixty participants with five