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Spiritual Algorithms: Law of Divine Oneness – We Are All Connected
In the third part of our "Spiritual Algorithms" series, we explore the Law of Divine Oneness. The Law of Divine Oneness is a profound and often challenging concept that suggests everything in the universe is interconnected. If you've ever heard the phrase "All is One, One is All" (a favorite of Bashar fans), you’ve encountered the essence of this law. It teaches us that separation is an illusion, and we are all deeply connected at the core.
At its heart, the Law of Divine Oneness is about recognizing the Divine spark inside yourself and everyone you meet. Every person on this planet is an incarnation of source energy, having unique experiences. Understanding this interconnectedness can be challenging because our minds tend to focus on differences like race, location, religion, and political beliefs. But when you step back and see the bigger picture, it becomes clear: we are 99.99% the same. The distinctions that divide us are just surface-level distractions.
For me, this law truly came to life through my experiences with plant medicine; whether it was mushrooms, ayahuasca, or wachuma. These experiences have deepened my understanding of the interconnectedness between all beings and helped me recognize that by helping others, I am helping myself. It’s not just about being a good person; it’s about realizing that we are all extensions of each other.
So, I challenge you to take a moment and see where you can connect with the Divine spark within others. Start with those closest to you, and then expand outward with love, empathy, and understanding. Because when you help someone else, you are ultimately helping yourself.
Spiritual Algorithms: Law of Cause and Effect – You Reap What You Sow
In the second part of our "Spiritual Algorithms" series, let’s talk about the Law of Cause and Effect. This law is often referred to as the Law of Karma. This law is simple yet powerful; the energy and actions you put out into the world will eventually come back to you. Whether it's through kindness or negativity, every action sets off a chain reaction that influences not just your own life but also the lives of others.
One way to think about it is like a boomerang; the good you put out comes back to you, and the negative energy you put out also finds its way back. It’s a universal principle that ensures everything we do has consequences, even if we don’t immediately see them. This law teaches us to be mindful of our actions because we are always creating effects. Whether we’re helping someone or being rude, our choices matter.
I want to share a personal story to illustrate this: when I was at West Point Prep School, a classmate was about to be medically discharged, and I told him, “It really sucks that this is happening to you.” Years later, he reached out on Facebook and told me that my words had a significant, positive impact on him. You never know how your actions, no matter how small, will ripple through someone's life.
The key takeaway from this law is that we always have a choice. Are we contributing to positivity and growth, or are we creating negativity and contraction in the lives of others? In a world that often pushes selfishness and competition, the spiritual path challenges us to think about how we influence the world around us. Are we spreading love, kindness, and positivity…or the opposite?
Spiritual Algorithms: Law of Attraction - Thoughts Create Your Reality
In the first part of the "Spiritual Algorithms" series, we’re diving into the Law of Attraction—a concept that many are familiar with, but let’s break it down in a way that feels authentic. At its core, the Law of Attraction teaches us that our thoughts create our reality. The energy we put out—whether it’s positive or negative—shapes the experiences that come back to us. It's not just about being "positive" or "negative"; it’s about understanding that the world we see is a mirror of our inner state. If we're projecting feelings of abundance and positivity, that’s what we attract. But if we focus on lack and negativity, those are the experiences that show up.
What’s often missed in the Law of Attraction is the action piece. It’s not just about thinking and waiting for things to happen. You need to take aligned action—this is what creates momentum and opens the door for synchronicities and opportunities to flow in. I always emphasize this in my coaching, especially in my "Infinite Possibilities" course, where we dive deep into how taking action amplifies the energy you’re sending out.
This is just the beginning—stay tuned as we explore the other spiritual algorithms that can help you align your life with the universe’s flow and experience the abundance you’re meant for.
Chris on the CyberPsych podcast!
I’m honored to be one of the first few guests on the CyberPsych podcast!
CyberPsych episode 4 is now live! Listen to “Episode 4: Securing Your Internal Happiness with Chris Gates, Sr. Offensive Security Manager at Robinhood, on our website or on podcast platforms such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify. In this episode, Dr. Stacy Thayer, Ph.D., MBA chats with Chris Gates about the relationship between hacking and security and mental health and happiness. Chris shares his personal journey to happiness and how hacking helped him become a spiritual fitness coach and energy healer.
Corporate Wellness Programs
I recently presented “A Hacker’s Guide to Mindfulness” for an Information Security company’s corporate offsite event. This was custom training I created specifically for this group.
While I’m not sharing the training broadly (coaching clients please ask), I can provide samples for anyone that is interested in a corporate wellness package. We can offer a one time event, quarterly training or monthly options.
Why? / What does your business receive from the training?
"Reduce Stress in the Workplace": Corporate mindfulness coaching can help employees develop coping mechanisms to handle stress and anxiety, leading to a more relaxed and productive work environment.
"Enhance Productivity": By learning mindfulness techniques, employees can improve their focus and concentration, which leads to increased productivity and efficiency.
"Improve Work-Life Balance": Corporate mindfulness coaching can help employees create a healthier work-life balance by managing their time and reducing burnout.
"Boost Employee Engagement and Morale": By providing mindfulness coaching, companies can show that they care about their employees' well-being, leading to increased engagement and morale.
"Develop Emotional Intelligence": Mindfulness training can help employees become more aware of their emotions and develop greater emotional intelligence, which can lead to more effective communication and collaboration in the workplace.
"Create a Positive Workplace Culture": Mindfulness coaching can help create a more positive workplace culture, where employees are more empathetic, respectful, and compassionate towards one another.
"Improve Decision-Making": By learning to approach decisions with a clear and calm mind, employees can make better decisions that are grounded in reason rather than emotion.
"Reduce Employee Turnover": Offering mindfulness coaching as a benefit can help reduce employee turnover by showing employees that the company cares about their well-being and wants to invest in their personal and professional development.
Breathwork exercises
I did a series of posts on Instagram. Sharing them here so they dont get lost to the ether :-)
^^ One of the easiest ways to get started with breath work. If 4 count is too much it can be 2, or 3. or if 4 is not challenging enough you can work up to 8 or 10 seconds.
April Special
April Special:
Light-Sound-Crystal Reiki Session
This Reiki session is ~75 minutes long and is a combination of Light Therapy, Crystal Therapy, Sound Therapy using [primarily] solfeggio frequencies but the practitioner may also incorporate singing bowls, drums, rattles, tuning forks, or crystal singing pyramids during the session as they feel intuitively called.
Chris on the Seeking Sabiduria Podcast
This week I was honored to be on the Seeking Sabiduria Podcast!
From the show description:
Check out the newest episode of @seekingsabiduria podcast 💥 with this week’s guest, Chris, the founder of @theskybeckons
Chris is a spiritual fitness coach, energy healer, and hacker who guides people on their healing journey to find self-love, connect with their inner child and identify their life purpose through energy healing, coaching, education, and accountability.
We had a great convo about Chris’s own healing story, how he found reiki, his plant medicine experience, the reiki session he held for me, and Chris gives wonderful advice for people on their spiritual journey.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/4hOtGtVLv1Y
Chris on the Speak! podcast with Brandi Bee Love
I was on the Speak! podcast with Brandi Bee Love! you can check out the episode below.
We discuss Reiki, plant medicine, inner child healing, trauma, and hacking :-)
ChatGPT: Write me a Reiki Manual
Playing with ChatGPT and I asked it to create a reiki manual. The answer is below:
Reiki is a form of energy healing that originated in Japan and has been practiced for over 100 years. It involves the transfer of energy from the practitioner to the recipient through touch, with the goal of balancing the recipient's energy and promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
To practice Reiki, there are several key principles and techniques that you will need to learn:
The Reiki principles: The Reiki principles are a set of guiding principles that are meant to be followed in all aspects of life, not just during a Reiki session. They include: just for today, do not anger, do not worry, be grateful, work with diligence, and be kind to others.
Hand positions: There are several standard hand positions that are used in Reiki, each of which corresponds to a specific area of the body. Some common hand positions include the head, neck, and shoulders, the abdomen, and the feet.
Preparing for a session: Before beginning a Reiki session, it is important to create a peaceful and comfortable environment. This may involve lighting candles or incense, playing soft music, or ensuring that the room is at a comfortable temperature.
Giving a Reiki session: To give a Reiki session, the practitioner will place their hands on or near the recipient's body in the designated hand positions. The practitioner will then allow the energy to flow through their hands and into the recipient's body, using their intuition to guide the flow of energy.
Reiki symbols: Reiki practitioners may use specific symbols during a session to focus and amplify the energy. These symbols are typically learned through Reiki training and are kept secret within the Reiki community.
Closing a session: After a Reiki session is complete, it is important to ground and protect your energy. This can be done through a variety of techniques, such as visualizing a white light surrounding your body or using a grounding stone.
It is important to note that Reiki is not a substitute for medical treatment, and practitioners should always recommend that clients seek medical care if they have any health concerns.
I hope this basic manual serves as a helpful introduction to the practice of Reiki. As with any form of energy work, it is important to continue learning and growing as a practitioner, and to always approach your work with an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Intuitive Counseling
I’m happy to announce my Intuitive Counseling offering is now live!
Description:
Intuitive Counseling is a form of psychotherapy where the practitioner utilizes their intuition to uncover what the client may not be consciously aware of. Chris uses his intuition and psychic abilities to access this unconscious information and bring it the client’s conscious awareness. This is a one-on-one holistic experience using energy work, psychology, connections with spirit guides, and personal experience to help you realign with your soul’s purpose. He does this by analyzing your current family/relationship dynamics, your family history, life circumstances and experiences, beliefs and programming, and where you feel stuck to arrive at answers and insight to heal, get unstuck, and empower you to develop a path forward living your soul’s purpose with focused intention and action.
This was a 6 month journey of personal discovery and healing where I was forced to use my coaching skills and intuitive abilities (working with guides and angels) to assist clients with uncovering where they were subconsciously stuck in their lives and relationships. The final exam for certification involved performing an intuitive counseling session for someone I hadn’t met. All I had was their first name!
For more info please check out the service description:
https://www.theskybeckons.com/intutive-counseling
If you have any questions please email me to request a call or zoom to discuss any questions you have.
-CG
Want to change your experiences? You need to change your programming!
A common question I see posted on various forums and that is frequently posed to me is “How do I change my (life) experiences?”
Many many teachers have talked about how to do this but it starts with understanding:
Your experiences are a direct result from your Thoughts & Beliefs and your Feelings & Emotions
Your brain sends the same chemicals when you remember an event as they do when you are experiencing event. This is why just thinking about or remembering a past wrong or situation can make us upset or sad or happy.
If you want to change your experiences (or reality), you must change the inputs to your behavior—>experience loop.
The easiest place to do this are the Thoughts / Beliefs inputs as mastering and changing Feelings and Emotions is a bit more difficult.
Most of our core beliefs about the world were programmed in at a very early age and most people don’t spend much time thinking about their relevancy, universal applicability, and the if we want to keep those beliefs for ourselves. Heck, most people dont even know they can dump (limiting) beliefs that arent useful for you.
The following image demonstrates the above cycle.
Another way to view this cycle is below:
Our programming, which began at an early age, perpetuates most of these thoughts and beliefs. Most of these are Brules (Bullshit Rules). The don’t apply to everyone and they don’t HAVE TO apply to you once you decide they don’t need to.
How do we start to notice brules or our thoughts and beliefs? There are many coaching quizzes you can take to get a sense of your beliefs and core values but meditation and mindfulness are another important way to begin to take stock of your current thoughts, beliefs, feelings and emotions. When you are feeling upset you start working backwards on why you are feeling that way, what triggered it, what belief has you upset or feeling unheard or less than, what thoughts were brought about by that situation. Did you react or respond to the situation.
Lastly, the above is core to my coaching practice and something I do with each client. We also go into depth about limiting beliefs in the Infinite Possibilities class. If either of those are of interest to you please reach out for more information.
Energetic Currency
Attention is Energy and Energy is currency (Energetic Currency). You give your energy to situations, events, news, people, thoughts, beliefs, fears, hopes, loves, etc
As an example, we can take the concept and extend it to energetic coins. Say I have 10 energetic currency coins in which I can place them (and my attention) on things. My energy|personal power is then attached to those things until I deploy them elsewhere. Here’s the rub, if I'm not conscious and deliberate on where I put those coins they end up being placed in non-important and non-useful locations leaving me no coins for things I truly value or where they are actually needed.
This has also been shown to me as a house in the summer trying to keep the cold air while keeping multiple windows open. You have to identify the open windows and shut them. Many of these windows you don't even know are open until you go look for them (Self Observation).
If you are exhausted, distracted, and have no energy to do the things that actually matter to you, then I’d suggest you take a look at where you are currently deploying your energetic currency.
Energetic Currency Traps
"We waste so much currency (energy) on fighting up against truth....spiritual truths, universal truths, uncovering truth. When really, if we were to just allow everyone to be in their own truth, we would have so much energetic currency to create a New Earth.......True freedom really requires an availability of energetic currency. Because if your currency is being siphoned into something that is like a mini war in your life or on the planet, you don't really have it available to you to live this true and sovereign life that we came to live." ~Micheila Sheldan
Begin to take stock of where your energetic currency is placed. Set the intention to notice where you place your energetic coins each day and decide if it's a useful deployment of your attention.
Time Slot Machines:
If your attention is projected outward on time wasters and distractions like social media and games then it’s not available when you want to use it.
“Changing” People’s Minds:
Is changing the mind of a stranger on the internet your true inner calling? Is that stranger in a position and mindset to receive? Are you spending time you normally charge people for or time you normally get paid for on people who don't value your time?
Things “I” object to:
How much or energetic currency do we expend with all of our "objections" throughout the day? Consciously deploying our or our is key. This video from The Nagual Zone was really eye opening when I started to pay attention to my objections throughout the day.
Stop This & Gain Lots Of Energy - The Nagual Zone| Carlos Castaneda| Don Juan Matus
And a personal take by Chris:
I object - pt 1 | The Sky Beckons
Fixation on the Past or Future:
Need to focus on the now - the past is unchangeable and the future is yet to come. If you are busy focusing on either of those you miss opportunities NOW.
Chris on Hack Chat
Hack Chat // Chris Gates // Positivity and Becoming a Red Team Leader
Was honored to be on Hack Chat with Marco talking about both my tech life and my metaphysical life. What do you think? The 2nd half is more of the spiritual component.
When the Universe Asks....Are you sure??!!
Those of you who have seen The Secret or practice Law of Attraction know this reality has a bit of a delay built in. But did you also know they Universe will come back and ask “You sure?!”
When we decide to make life changes, within a short time of announcing that change to the Universe we will get an opportunity to test our desire to make and keep that change. If you’ve decided to be more patient with the kids or work, go on a diet, or pick up a new habit. You’ll receive a test or echo of the old behaviors, people testing your willingness to behave differently, or an opportunity to do what you said you’d do going forward.
Just something to be aware of. Now that you know it’s coming you can be prepared.
#60secspirituality#healingjourney #newearth #spiritualtiktok #lifecoach #spiritualdevops #selfworth
Chris on the Soul-ish Podcast
I was on the Soul-ish Podcast discussing Reiki, Law of Attraction and my healing journey. Check it out and let me know what you think.
-CG
(Re)Awaken who you were born to be
The mission of The Sky Beckons is to re-awaken and make clients aware of their “always on” connection with Source through coaching, education, and energy work which leads to personal experiences with our own personal power and Source.
If you’ve found this page you’re potentially doing really well according to “everyone else” but feeling like something isn’t complete or something is missing. That’s what it was like for me. I had a resume with tech jobs anyone would kill for (Facebook, Uber, Cruise) but I hated what I was doing. I had a house full of people but I felt alone. I had a 5 figure twitter following but felt like I had no people who understood who I really was and I had to be someone I wasn’t to make everyone else happy. I was depressed and didn’t want to be on this planet anymore. I filled my void with material things but was never satisfied after the initial buying rush wore off.
What’s missing is that you are not living the life you incarnated here to live; at least not at this stage. The feeling that something is missing is your soul speaking to you to do something different.
Desired outcomes after working with me:
Understand the Body—>Mind—>Soul triad
Understand this reality’s Brules (Bullshit Rules) and how to free yourself of them
Understand your tolerations and boundaries and learn how to enforce your boundaries with others
Understand the eternal nature of our soul and our always on connection with Source
Understand your avatar’s default characteristics based on astrology and numerology
Understand your Dharma and what you are meant to be doing to fulfill your soul’s purpose
Awaken your intuitive abilities for your own confidence and guidance via psychic exercises and a regular mediation routine
Clients understand and embody:
How reality works in this incarnation
How our thoughts, beliefs, and actions become the reality experience
How we can “hack” reality by understanding the “thoughts become things” process and using self observation to identify and change beliefs we want to change
Energy work to improve our personal state
Exercises to enhance our psychic abilities
Conscious Reality Creation
Hit me up via the contact form for a free 15 minute hello call (over Zoom) or we can start with a Distance Reiki session
If you’d like to know more about Chris click here, check out testimonials, and I encourage your to watch my “Hacking Your Happiness” talk