Meet Robert Pruett of Getting Conscious

Today we’d like to introduce you to Robert Pruett.

Hi Robert, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
Growing up my father was an outlaw biker and my mother was a temple Mormon, polar opposites. Moving around a lot, I quickly learned that making a friend meant losing them, so I isolated myself. I did not learn to socialize much until I moved out on my own and went to college. I felt like an outsider, a stranger in my own skin, and this led me to seek social acceptance, trying to figure out where I fit in this life.

I began doing party drugs in my early 20s which eventually led to full-blown heroin addiction. In the natural course of that lifestyle, soon I was committing crimes to sustain my habit. In 2006, I lost my house, car, and fiancé. I felt like I had nothing left to live for.

At one point I woke in the hospital and was told I could never do drugs or smoke again. My heart was operating at only 20% capacity. I was in mortal danger. I did not care and continued my path of self-destruction.

I ended up going to prison for 2.5 years, during which time I encountered a series of spiritual teachers that showed me a path to spiritual awakening. I was incarcerated, but ironically for the first time, I felt free. What a remarkable experience bliss is. Service work transformed everything in my life, from my character to my experience. My cup felt full even though I had nothing in the physical world to boast about. I wrote the curriculum for three classes and taught until my last day.

I was brutally attacked toward the end of my sentence. This was precipitated by a synchronistic series of events. My front teeth were knocked in, and as this happened, I felt no pain but instead experienced an awareness of the overwhelming fear of my antagonist. He had been forced into the position by cruelty and I knew the cycle had to break. I realized at that moment that I had truly and sincerely changed. For the first time, I did not fight back. I understood something profound and deep. I had the true and absolute power of love on my side. The next day people offered to kill him for me, but I would not allow it. This chain of events led to growth and change for many, likely more than I know.

Upon my release from prison, I worked hard just to get by until I got off parole, at which time I immediately quit my job and went to the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts where I embraced my path as a healer. I became a Reiki Master and trained as a Lomi Lomi practitioner with an array of training in other modalities.

Three years out my father passed away and I relapsed on heroin while in a very toxic relationship. The one thing I had not been able to work on in prison was healthy boundaries in a relationship. It was a complicated situation – I knew the mistake I had made and where it would lead. I ended up going back to prison for prescription medication fraud, which is how I sustained my habit at the time. It was initially only a one-year sentence, which was remarkable considering my past felony convictions, but nearing release more charges were filed, and I ended up with another 4.5-year sentence to serve consecutively.

My second prison sentence went much like the first. I challenged myself to learn, grow, and help others. Service came back to me quickly and I resolved to work on the lessons the universe had presented. I apprenticed under a yoga master and went on to become a teacher myself, learned music theory and guitar, and worked on the art of painting and performance poetry. I worked out most every day, building a healthy physical routine. I later learned that my heart had recovered completely.

When I got out, I began teaching aerial yoga and joined a circus troupe doing lyra, trapeze, and silk which was my favorite. I went through a string of experiences that led me into yet another unhealthy relationship. My problem was that I got confused about who I was supposed to heal and who I was supposed to love romantically. I gave her too much until I no longer recognized myself.

I was working a job that was not in alignment with my truth as that relationship began, and in a moment of clarity, I spontaneously quit. I went on to help start a multi-million-dollar behavioral health center called New Freedom, which stands alone in the industry, driven by its non-profit side, which reaches into prisons to build mentorship relationships, teaching the value of service work and giving a positive focus to those incarcerated. It felt amazing to give back to the community that had saved my life from heroin, but my real potential was still blocked by my toxic relationship.

I suffered physical and emotional abuse in a way I had never experienced from a partner. It predictably escalated until I could not take anymore. I walked away and left the lifestyle we shared behind. I moved out and focused on work. I didn’t talk to many people outside of that for close to two years, focusing on my internal growth and on my passion for service. It took a long time for me to process the trauma I had invited, but I came out stronger than ever and did not look back to heroin again. The desire for that type of self-destruction had flown forever.

Years prior I had learned about Human Design, but in those two years of reconstruction, I dove deep and learned tools that taught me how to access and understand my energetic system and intuition. I developed a curriculum based on Human Design and the lessons and experiences that had helped me through addiction, the lessons that taught me how to have love and compassion for even the most challenging people. I began teaching this path I call Consciousness & Vibrational Theory, which is available to the public now.

Today I still work for New Freedom and run my healing practice (www.totaltranquilityaz.com), a tech business specializing in web development (www.totaltechsolutionsaz.com), and teach Consciousness & Vibrational Theory. I am now developing an online learning system to reach a larger audience which will soon be available on my website, www.gettingconscious.com.

I am now in a happy relationship and have found I can love in a way that is profoundly different with healthy boundaries and strong communication. I have an amazing, supportive group of friends. I reflect at the end of each day and honor myself with the self-care that I always needed and never allowed. I look forward to the continued adventure of bringing light to the world in the spirit of service and love.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The ego is my biggest obstacle and challenge.

The ego is the mother of fear and attachment which diminish our ability to connect authentically with ourselves and the world. Also the lack of tools and teaching, it has taken a lot for me to learn what I now know and I look forward to sharing that learning with the world so they do not have to stumble in the same ways I have.

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Getting Conscious?
Right now I am most interested in raising the conscious vibration of humanity out of the mire of shame, guilt, and fear. It is possible to align with attractor fields that completely change the filter of perception and experience of life.

By doing this work starting with the self, we are able to balance the energy of thousands still living in fear. This is much rarer than most would think – only a small percentage of the population experiences the vibration of true love, and fewer still achieve states of non-duality or enlightenment. I teach science that allows humans to access the field of consciousness where all truth resides, which helps calibrate our focus and make strong choices for the betterment of all. I am a shaman and caretaker of the body, mind, and spirit.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you.
I see luck as the synchronous and unstoppable pull of the higher self whose nature is love.

The more I surrender, the “luckier” I am. Eckhart Tolle wrote, “What you fight you strengthen, and what you resist persists”. True facts. Letting go has allowed me to achieve what would have seemed impossible to my younger self.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.gettingconscious.com
• Other: totaltechsolutionsaz.com and totaltranquilityaz.com

Image Credits
www.whiledreaming.com