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Feb. 27th (Wednesday)
- You Are Not Even Conscious!
Remember that who you really are is the clear light of consciousness which shines on all the feelings and thoughts that arise, but the thoughts and feelings are not themselves conscious.
You – the person you believe yourself to be – are not even conscious!
Consciousness is conscious, but the objects within it are not. The body that you think of as your “self” is an object. There is no consciousness residing in that object. There is no consciousness residing in those thoughts and feelings. There is no one home in that story!
Feelings come and go and are attached to, but they need not be. Above all, none of that nonsense that arises needs to be acted on. There is no one there for any action to affect!
The only “one” in the universe is already all taken care of for all eternity, and that one is you, the light of consciousness itself.
It is often asked: “Why aren’t I having the experience of pure awareness?”
You might hear in response, “There is no one to experience anything.” That is true in absolute terms, but we all know full well there is some experience happening, so we may as well talk about it.
The important thing to remember is that we are not talking about having a mystical or blissful experience. The experience of being a human being in a body continues just as before, and while bliss and mystical feelings may pass through from time to time, this is not what is being pointed to.
What is being pointed to is the fact that…well, you’ve heard it all before: there is no separate person, no separation at all; there is only this impersonal, un-owned consciousness, which is peaceful, eternal, never changes, and needs nothing. It is always here right now, and it is what you are.
But this is not something that you experience! If you can get it out of your head that you are looking to have a particular experience, you can allow for what’s really going on to reveal itself. But you’re blocking out the possibility of seeing what’s real about you by insisting that it has to be an experience. It’s not.
The truth is happening behind the scenes of your human experience – hidden in plain sight, you might say. The experience of being a human with a body goes on exactly as before. But that is not to say that it does not go through some interesting changes. It does change. Your thought patterns will change, and your actions will change. The whole experience as a person does change.
For example, let’s say I have the thought, “I really have to call Terry because…,” and of course there are a million reasons why I have to call Terry, and they all have to do with me thinking I am a separate person who is vulnerable and needs to control all aspects of the life. But the thing is, I don’t want to call Terry.
So in the meanwhile, I followed some sagely advice and did some self-inquiry, and I discovered that I am not a separate person. That had some consequences: now that I know I am not a separate person, and there is just this impersonal consciousness, which is fine right now and needs nothing, I see that I don’t have to call Terry. I don’t have to do anything in the life to protect my interests ever again! So this time, the calling of Terry doesn’t happen. And then that has consequences. And so it goes.
Sometimes people report losing interest in things they used to like to do. That’s to be expected, since much of what we “like” to do is that which makes us feel safe, in control, loved, accepted, approved of, successful, worthy, impressive, smart, attractive, and so on. When the need to have any of that vanishes – when it is clear that no separate person exists – then the interests of the apparent “person” living a life will change. The thoughts don’t go this way anymore: “What can I do to feel safer and more loved?” Now they go like this: “What do I feel like doing?” And then even that goes, since it is seen there is no doer, no one making those decisions!
So now what happens? You lie on the couch all day? It’s possible, but it’s more likely that the living in the body goes on very closely to what it was like before, but without any sense of obligation, guilt, regret, or urgency. The body is allowed to simply move towards anything, without judgment, and without trying to steer, plan, or control.
The sense of doership diminishes, reinforced by the recognition that nothing falls apart when the “doing” is relinquished. Everything works just fine – better, in fact – when I don’t plan it. The life goes on, but more and more there is just a sense that it is being watched, not planned or decided.
And as it is seen more and more that the life is just being watched, the sense of doership, ownership, and a personal “self” diminishes even more. We may watch and like what the “person” is doing, or we may not like what the “person” is doing. But we know we have no way to fix that, and if we did, we see that it would only have an effect on the person that we are no longer believing in so much. And so the idea of doing or fixing is just given up, after a while.
Seeing that there is nothing to do or fix, pretty soon the experience is just one of being carried along like a leaf down a mountain stream. Effortlessly living, watching the changing scenery, goalless, having no opinion about how it goes, and having no cares at all. We get the distinct sense that nature is just taking care of us, and that there is nothing that can go wrong. The body can get sick, or feel bad, or get hurt feelings, or die, but that is all seen as nature’s way, and nothing to be worried about. All cares are gone.
This is probably the “experience” that people are referring to when they talk about bliss. It can’t really be described as blissful, though, because any separate person who would be having this bliss is just not identified with at all anymore. It is more of a relinquishing of any grasp on this whole “world” and what happens in it.
This doesn’t happen right away. People tell me they are happier than they have ever been, but that it hasn’t really gelled for them yet. Well, this is a start. But it also has to be pointed out that it is a start in a direction that is not where you end up. You don’t end up happier and happier; you end up not interested at all in the world of happy and not happy.
You may find that you couldn’t care less if you are interested in the world or not. Who cares? The life may go completely off the rails! Who cares! So you just have to watch and see what happens. You can’t predict where it will go. It’s all unexpected, surprising. You won’t believe how little you will care about your “self.”
But let it unfold in its own time. You can’t force the disintegration of belief in the person. It all starts with the inquiry – am I really this person? The recognition that you are not a person is slight at first, and then cascades by reinforcement through your experience.
Pretty soon the recognition is greater, but still experienced as a conceptual understanding that you are not a person. But before long, there is nothing left to have an experience – you’ve stopped feeding it, and it died! And what is left? Consciousness, which has been here all along. What is in consciousness? Nothing. There is the witnessing of a life unfolding, but you aren’t in it, you are it – you are that life, that consciousness, that witnessing – you are all of it.
This is not what you will experience, however. The experience still feels like being human, probably until the body dies, is my guess. But there is an in-the-background knowing that there is only this consciousness, and that knowing gradually informs the activity of the life. The life stops striving. The life stops suffering. The life stops seeking.
But do you stop seeking? You never were seeking in the first place! There never was a seeker, there never was a separate you. This is the paradox. Don’t try to grasp it. It’s not a job for the mind. It's not a job for the human being.
Just inquire and see if there is really a separate “you,” and see if you can find anything other than this consciousness. This is available for the seeing, right now. Nothing more is needed to learn. Just look now and see: What is here right now? Just consciousness.
And yet, here is this human experience, being had, apparently. It’s okay.
There is a story we tell. The story is that human beings are able to imagine themselves separate, vulnerable, and independent of their source. In the story, imagining that we are separate and cut off from our source is the trouble, and the trouble needs to be undone. Keep in mind that all of this – imagining oneself to be separate, undoing the trouble – isn’t really happening.
It is only the mind of the creature that imagines an apparent, interior world that it believes to be an actual, exterior world. But there is nothing there – no “exterior world” ever existed. That only exists in the mind of the creature. There is no actual, exterior world where a person can imagine himself to be separate. It never happened.
Turn your attention from the imagined, interior world that is projected outwardly from your mind, and instead notice that which makes these imaginings apparent. Look at this directly: this attention, or awareness, without which nothing would appear at all! Without this awareness, these imaginings could not even be noticed. Not a single thought would be noticed. You could think all day long and not know it.
This awareness is not spiritual, and it is not for special people only. Think of it as the normal, working attention that you are using right now to notice these words. If I say, put your attention on the window, you know just what to do. This obvious, clear attention is the only thing that you know is not projected, because it notices the projections. This normal daily attention is before your imagined world.
What can you do, in the story? Is there something you can do?
Yes, there is. But only right now, in real time. It all begins and ends right now. You can’t practice something now, or learn something now, hoping that it will affect your future in a positive way. There is no future. So whatever you do, it has to be now or never.
So what can you do NOW?
It’s so easy. It’s so simple. And there is not another thing you need to learn or know to do it. There is no “truth” to be sought that will help you do this. There is no more spiritual growth needed to do it, no more “heart opening” needed to do it. Not one more satsang, not one more teacher, can possibly add anything to your ability to do this. Nothing is needed to do it.
Here it is: Pay attention to attention itself. That’s all this is.
It is the practice of – right now, in the immediate present – turning your attention 180 degrees from the outer world, and aiming it inward, to put attention on the attention itself. All that is needed is to put current attention on the attention itself, and to ignore the rest. Actually, you don’t even need to ignore the rest: when you put attention on attention itself, “the rest” disappears. It just isn’t there.
It’s not like you don’t know what attention I’m talking about. If I say, put your attention on your heartbeat, you wouldn’t think to ask me what attention I mean. We all know “attention” intimately, as if it is our right arm. This is really what we mean when we are talking about ordinary, everyday awareness. Awareness is attention.
Putting attention on attention itself is the opposite of what you are usually doing, by habit. You usually pay attention only to the content – the thoughts, feelings, objects, people, activities – and not to the fact that you have attention at all. This is an inward, not outward, attention. This is attentiveness to attention, not to objects or thoughts, bodies or minds.
“Turning inward” is not what we have believed all these years. We thought it meant: look at your thoughts, your feelings, what makes you tick. Not true. Thoughts and feelings are found by looking outward. Everything that “appears” is found by looking outward. Turning inward means literally to look at what is looking. It means looking at attention itself.
Notice right now that when attention rests on the simple attention that is being given to these words, there is stillness. Not attention to the words themselves, but attention to the attention that makes them noticeable. When current attention moves away from itself, and turns outward, then these words appear; the self, the body, the thoughts, and the world appear, and all the suffering that is borne in these things. These things appear to you when you put attention on them. They don’t have to appear at all. Keep attention on itself, and nothing ever appears.
Why does it seem hard to put the attention on the attention? It’s because your mind will instantly and immediately reject attention, because attention has no qualities. So don’t try and do this with your mind. Just put attention back, on the attention itself, where it started. You will notice the mind disappears.
Nothing else is needed. No activity is needed to make this better, because when attention is on attention, there is no activity. All activity, objects, bodies, and egos appear only when you put attention on them.
Do you see why there are those who say, Just look now and be done? Now, when you look – when you put the attention inward, on the attention itself, and not outward, on the objects in attention – is there anything? Can you find “I” in there? Can you even find a body, or a mind? Can you find suffering? Can you find a seeker? So if you can’t find one now, was there ever one? What was all your seeking about?
You don’t have to do self-inquiry. Self-inquiry implies looking with a mind, in a mind, to see if you can find the origin and seat of the “I,” and finding there is nothing there but a bunch of thoughts. You don’t have to do all that. Look inward, at attention itself, and it is immediately clear that there is no “I” and there never was one. It’s all clear right now, and every time you look.
You don’t have to sit and meditate on this. This is a walking/working non-meditation. It is part of your day. As you walk around, doing your chores, doing your job, chatting with people, turn your attention to attention itself. What happens?
Do it now, do it once, and you’ll never need to be convinced again. It is immediately seen that you and the world do not exist. Nothing is but This, Itself.
And you are This!
Feb. 8th, 2008 (Friday)
- A post by Sergio:
JUST THIS
There is knowing, and there are beliefs. Right now you think there is no difference, and it all belongs in the same pot labeled “What I know.” It doesn’t. There is what you know from your own direct looking, and there is what you believe because you heard it, read it, were taught it, and became deeply conditioned to it over the years.
Why does it matter? It matters because suffering is only in that which you believe. There is no suffering in that which you directly know. In order to be free of suffering, the requirement is that you sort this out. So let’s do it.
What you believe includes everything you think about yourself, who you are as a person, your name, your personality, your body, your history, your memories, your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions, your relationships, your philosophy, your spirituality – in fact, what you believe even includes the world of time and space that you see around you.
What does “What I believe” not include? What it does not include is your direct knowing of what is, of who you are. You cannot “believe” your direct knowing. Your direct knowing is the absence of all that is believed. It is the negation of all that is learned and conditioned. It is what remains when all ideas and thoughts are stripped away. And it is always here, and therefore cannot be added in, nor can it be taken away.
So how do you identify this direct knowing of who you are? By habit, your idea of who you are is that which was taught to you: you are a separate person in a body, and all that entails. If you had never had a single idea taught to you and ingrained in you, what would you know about yourself?
Directly looking, the first thing you know is that you are conscious. Don’t take my word for this – we’re done with learning and beliefs. Do you see for yourself that consciousness is here? Do you see that it underlies all else? Let’s say you would like to tell me that the first thing you know is that you are this body. How would you know that? There would have to be some consciousness for that knowing to be. So do you see, there is nothing that can come “before” this consciousness? Anything else you think you “know” could not be known without first there being consciousness for it to be known in.
To this “first” thing you know about yourself – “I am conscious” – all else can be held up and examined. The one thing you know is that you are conscious, and that is the place you can rest as all the other ideas are questioned. Consciousness itself doesn’t have to be questioned, because it is known directly – Are you conscious right now?
Don’t make the mistake of going after your direct knowing as if it is a belief – that’s a trick the mind loves to play. Just look right now and see if you can deny that you are conscious, and tell me whether that is direct experience, or a belief. And then ignore the mind as it tries to complicate the matter by making you define consciousness, state where it goes when you sleep, or quibble about the wording. Pure distraction! Don’t bother with the mind’s drivel – Are you conscious, yes or no?
So, just notice this point of pure consciousness that you are completely sure of right now. You don’t have to learn it or believe it. It is always here. The body’s systems may fall asleep at night, but when they restart in the morning, there is consciousness, already present and waiting. You know and trust this. Feel the solidity of your direct knowing. Notice that there is not any suffering here. It is peaceful.
Now that you are sure of the first thing, “I am conscious,” you are free to try out adding on various thoughts and beliefs about yourself, and testing them out for validity. But it will be helpful to notice that the starting point – the bottom line – is always simply this pure point of consciousness. You know it for sure. It’s not something you can lose or forget. Try to forget to be conscious! You can’t do it.
This is not a teaching: there is nothing to learn, nothing to believe. There is no practice required for this knowing, no time required for this to be known. See it as you’re reading these words: You are conscious, right now. Don’t get “I am conscious” mixed up with your beliefs; see that there really is a knowing that is not a belief. I know I am conscious, and I know this is not a belief. Do not mistake your beliefs for knowing, and do not mistake your knowing for a belief!
You keep trying to add to the pot of “What I’ve learned,” thinking that more is better, and that there will finally be enough, or there will be just the exact right piece of information that will set you free of suffering. But there is only suffering in that pot! So adding to the pot doesn’t do anything to relieve suffering. You aren’t dealing with anything you directly know, you are only adding more beliefs. And all suffering is caused by beliefs. The one thing you are ignoring in this recipe is what you really do know. And that, you know already. It can’t be added, because it’s not missing.
We tend to reject direct knowing in favor of beliefs, because we have come to cherish our beliefs. We are attached to them. This is why we suffer and struggle with confusion and frustration. But when we look for ourselves, all doubt about who we are vanishes, and it all becomes perfectly clear. Negating all but what you know by directly looking, your suffering disappears. And all you know by directly looking is “I am conscious.” Notice it now.
The beauty of this is that what you know directly contains no suffering. Suffering only exists in that which is clung to by habit, believed and not known. If you follow your own knowing, you will always be free of suffering. So this is the gift; this is why it is sometimes said that there is only Love. Love is the fact that there is no suffering in the only thing you know for sure!
You. Right now. Knowing. Do you see that this is not in the future, that it is not an attainment? That which you know is right here, all the time, and always has been. You didn't learn it, and you don't "believe" it. It can’t be shaken, it can’t be threatened, it can’t be taken away. Right now, by looking for yourself, this everyday, ordinary consciousness is here. All else is learned, believed, unreal, and causes suffering.
Simply notice the one thing you know, “I am conscious.” In that, you are free.
Perhaps you have heard many masters speaking this non-duality message and you can ask “If I am not the doer, how can "I" do anything to bring about "Realization"? How can "I," a non-existent dream character, do self-inquiry? There is no "I" that can do anything! If I inquire "Who am I?" isn't that coming from the character in the play that is being lived, and if so, isn't that just another part of the story? Why do "teachers appear" if there are no students? Why are books written, if most teachers agree one cannot get it from a book?
I know your frustration and I sympathize. I’m not going to give you the stock neo-Advaita “who’s asking?” answer, because it’s not helpful. I’ll try to give you something practical to go on, although there is a paradox at the center of it all, and so at some point, all practicality fails.
You are exactly right if you say that there is no one to do any of that. But also notice that “you” are still “doing” all kinds of stuff – reading this right now, for example. The difference is, that to a person who believes they are a separate entity residing in this body, this appears to be an act of someone doing something. To one who knows themselves not to be this body, or a separate entity, the reading is simply happening as part of the unfolding of one life. To take it even further, to one who knows they are not separate, nothing is seen to be happening at all.
So it is to this gray zone – where it still appears to a seeker that there is a doer, even after that seeker has grasped the concept that there is not – that most Advaita teachings are directed. To those who still believe that they are this body, and that they are separate, independent entities, it all appears to happen, and they appear to be the doer. So for teachers to help you, they have to talk to you inside that dream in which you create the “self” character. They are addressing a dream character, knowing full well you are not a real character! But since you think you are real, they will address you as such.
So this is the answer to your question “why all the books, etc.?” There is real practical purpose – in the dream – in pointing to this and carrying on the tradition of the sages of the ancient past. Of course, the pointing points to: get out of the dream entirely! The end of seeking is not finding, the end of seeking is getting out of the dream that includes seeking! But this has to be pointed to in the dream, do you see what I mean? If you weren’t mesmerized by the dream, then you would immediately see that you are not a person, and there would be no need to say a word.
So the pointing is ultimately telling you to find your way out of the dream somehow. But the dream is powerful and hypnotic, and tricks need to be employed to see your way out of it. Ideas are offered: examine the sense of self that you identify with and see if there is any substance to it, watch your mental process and see if there is any free will, don’t follow your thoughts, etc. This all drives a wedge between your falsely created “self” and the truth of who you are. That wedge widens, and eventually you can’t make the connection any longer to this “you” you believed yourself to be.
But without any direction, at first, we are just searching aimlessly for years and years, with all our practices and new age spirituality, trying so hard to “get” something “for me.” It’s not until we encounter some authentic Zen or Advaita that we begin questioning the very premise that we are basing our whole search on – the premise that there is a “me” to get something. Once this starts being looked at, it’s a house of cards and it will fall sooner or later. Once the idea that you are not a separate person is even entertained, the end of the dream is inevitable. It can’t support itself. But this all happens on its own time.
Of course there are those who, in their dream, love the story and don’t want to let go of it. And so they go to satsang every week for years and feel that they are accomplishing something, growing spiritually, and that’s just part of the dream. And they can’t help it! It’s just what is happening in that particular organism – it’s acting the way it’s been programmed. So, no, there isn’t really anything you can do. And yet, you’re doing stuff anyway!
So it is right: there is no teachers, no sages, no enlightenment, no anything at all. But because of the paradoxical nature of this, you have to come to knowing this in a roundabout way – you have to sneak up on it from the rear. Rather than a frontal assault, like bashing yourself over the head until you see that nothing exists, you have to go in and remove the underpinnings until the falseness of the separate self that depends on those underpinnings can’t stand up anymore, and crumbles under its own weight.
This is what the pointers – all the repetitive “who’s asking the question?” – are all about. The pointers are trying to show you that your “self” only occurs within the dream that you are dreaming, and that what you are looking for cannot be found by a dreamed self. “Who is asking the question?” is pointing to the fact that the self is dreamed.
Expose the “self” as merely a learned belief based on other learned beliefs, and you’re out of the dream. That’s done by looking at this “self” directly and seeing if it is real. No one can do that for you. You might say no one can do it at all, but you can, as long as you believe you are capable of doing stuff! How will you know when you no longer believe you are capable of doing stuff? When you don’t even have to ask that question.
Just keep letting go of your ownership. You can believe me when I say that there is nothing worth owning. Let it all go. Let go of your ideas of the person you are, the life you lead, and how this is somehow “you.” Let go of the seeking to find the ultimate answer for this imaginary, made-up character.
Just don’t bother trying to know something – or, if you already feel that you know this “intellectually,” don’t bother trying to identify with it. Trying to identify with something is simply the activity of a false character. The activity is noticed; look to see if you can find a separate entity doing this noticing. If you cannot, and it is seen that the character is false, watch as all reference points regarding the activity vanish. Who will identify with the witnessing when the "who" has vanished?
There may be a desire arising right now, saying that this fictional character wants to identify more often with awareness. Nevermind it. Any change you want to make would simply be movement of a fictional character. A memory of a conversation, a thought of a fantasy future – what do they amount to?
Even if you have "got" this understanding, give it away. Let it go. Right now there is empty, ownerless being. It’s free and you don’t have to do a thing. I call that a good deal.
With my brain, this appears as consciousness.
Without my brain, I don’t know what this appears as.
My brain is like a radio. It comes home from the store, I turn it on, it picks up what is, and broadcasts it. It “tunes in” to what is already there. If I never turned on my radio, it wouldn’t make any difference to “what is.”
What is “what is”? I might call it that which is prior to consciousness. Before it is “tuned into” by a brain and is interpreted as consciousness, what is it?
Does it have anything to do with human beings? Do it have anything to do with you?
Dec. 21st (Friday)
- In the higher densities, the Name of the Game is Consciousness. This simply means that the higher densities of existence, whether positive or negative in orientation, all recognize that the business of all being and existence everywhere is always that of Consciousness... becoming more and more "Aware." Awareness is related to "density" of consciousness, so to say. The STS (Service To Self) way of achieving "density of consciousness" is to "gain weight" by assimilation of other consciousness units. This is generally promoted as "All is One" and refers to "evil" as a "rebellion" or a fault or something that will ultimately be "done away with."
STO (Service To Others), on the other hand sees "gaining weight" in a different way. It sees that an acknowledgement of the consciousness of "other self" as equal to its own consciousness, in spite of completely different manifestation of that being, is the way to "network" the consciousness so that the Whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The difference is that the STO guys recognize consciousness as being an "integrative" activity of mutual networking and interdependence because they view all others as self, even if they are different, and therefore seek to help and assist because the other IS self in an absolute internal sense. In this way, Absolute Consciousness, or God is "glorified" by a marvelous diversity of being if you wish to put it in those terms.
The negative guys, on the other hand, play the game in terms of domination, subjugation and absorption of other consciousnesses into "One." . But, they too, understand that the rules of the game posit that in order for them to truly "absorb" into their being these other "consciousnesses," that the "other" must choose to become part of their "self-aggrandizement." An unwilling "food" is, in essence, not "nutritious" so to say. If the consciousness does not choose, it becomes a "poison" to the consciousness that seeks to "eat it." And so they must promote "Oneness" in a very particular way.
Note that both sides acknowledge "Oneness," but in very different ways.
So, we have to understand here that the true Negative Realm agenda is to "eat consciousness." So, this actually prevents an overt "take-over" in literal, physical terms. If an "invasion" was detected, this would mean that the veil would be lifted and all would see the "man behind the curtain" and would be disgusted and turn away. Just as in the "Wizard of Oz," those Ruby Slippers have to be obtained VERY CAREFULLY!
Gathering the essence is an art of great subtlety! The "negative alien plan" is, in its purest sense, STALKING.
The aim of Stalking is to create a completely controlled artificial environment composed of thoroughly predictable human behaviors - made predictable because they have been programmed to respond to cues of conditioning [inculcated through centuries of lies and obfuscations presented in the form of religions] and all of this revolves around a ’story’ that is actually untrue, and wholly misrepresentative of the real negative aim.
For centuries these programming signals have been being set up - either because of time travel capabilities, or because of actual historical presence. Various prophets or religious leaders have been influenced to preach, or teach or prophesy philosophies designed to lay a foundation for later take-over - possibly in our present time. When people begin to get wise, the Negatives simply go back into the past, add something more to the soup to "cover up" the new awareness. This then act as a domino effect and influences our present. Time loops and all that. A lot of people think that the "alien invasion scenario" is a ruse concocted by the government to create the impression that there is a forming "threat," thereby enabling the institution of a New World Order. But, this idea is based on a misrepresentation of the process just described.
The important thing to remember is this: there is NOT a "unified conspiratorial activity" going on here in the hierarchy of government. The "divide and conquer" effect is also manifest at this level and suits the alien purposes to a "T." Such activity at ALL levels is consistent with their program of STALKING, in which confusion and cross-purpose prevents a clear perception on the part of the Stalkees.
Yet, at some deep level there may be a direct conspiratorial interaction between the "secret government" and the negative aliens... but it is unlikely that any name of those involved would be recognized by anyone, no matter how "in the know" regarding the subject. These "secret superiors" are just that: SECRET. Any organization you can name, or about which you are AWARE, are merely "outer circles."
What is the designed objective of this STALKING? It is two-fold.
Read more!........
- Ok, this site contains a lot of Michael Topper's material. His essays will blow your mind! Besides the Matrix V material, Adi Da, and ACIM, I have found this particular material to be of the highest kind. But MT and AAA have disappeared in 1993 during an occult siege. So be careful. You may not want to read what he has revealed.
Up to you.
If you do... check these sources out: Tribe.net.
"This is drawn from a series of articles written by a fellow named Michael Topper, who uses the nom de plume "Marshall Telemachus" or even "Mother Terasu" and others. After producing a great deal of material, most of which was published by Val Valerian in his series of Matrix books, he sort of disappeared from the scene.
The series is long and complex, and the complex language usage makes it almost inaccessible to the average reader. I am sure that this was intended, because it is hard work to read it. There is no free lunch in the universe. In this series, he gives away incredible secrets of reality; but you still have to work to "get it."
I have here synopsized and condensed a portion of one section of this series with great effort to assure that I have retained the content intact."
Precis on The Good and The Evil
by Michael Topper
Excerpts from an article in which Topper discusses the higher realms in terms of economy! We thus see the Hermetic connection: As above, so below, and vice versa. We can surmise the agenda above, by observing the dynamics below! [Edited for clarity and brevity]
In the case of both positive and negative beings of 4th Density, the negotiable currency of their transactions is a bio-psychic energy; the mode of both is accumulation, in the sense of storing and putting such biopsychic energy-capital to work in powering or transforming the centers toward deeper integration and functional unity.
Due to the character of our traditional spiritual and esoteric teachings, we may have a conceptual difficulty understanding how a being of a higher density manages to acquire its status without benefit of any basic heart-development.
Positive beings at 4th density have achieved the necessary intensity and developmental alignment through conscious decisions based on recognition of the abstract propriety of identifiable divine law. […] Such beings display a recognizably "scientific" approach to spiritual considerations; they openly regard Divine Light as a mensurable magnitude. […] Their apparent "coldness" or objectivity is only apparent. They register the distress of others and modify their approach accordingly. […] One need only compare the behavior of truly negative beings to appreciate the difference. In the famous account of Whitley Strieber [there is] an adequate example. […]
In Strieber’s account, we witness the astonishing effort to transmute those horrific experiences into a positive outline. Thus Strieber, with almost excruciating transparency invokes the standard "humanistic" saw to the effect that dichotomies of good-and-evil are too simplistic and medieval, truth always being some "gray" blend of opposites; in this way he shields from himself the obvious implications of his ongoing ordeal.
But more importantly, he demonstrates to perfection the procedure of how one "falls into the hands" of the Negative Beings and, by the denial mechanism of 3rd density psychology, creates the belief that "good" things, developmental things, positively proceed from such ordeals. […]
His conclusions, his distillates of what he’s learned, insist almost schizophrenically that these entities must in some way have the "good of mankind" at heart, but that through the apparent terrorism of their utterly unworldly appearance and vile behavior they function something on the order of "cosmic zen masters," taking a stick to our stubborn skulls. […] As "proof" of the actually liberating work they’re performing, Strieber invokes the fact that owing to his jarring experiences he’s "come loose" and is able to sample in waking consciousness the phenomenon of astral travel.
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But folks? This is even better!
Dec. 4th (Tuesday)
- Ok, you need to launch this video and then watch it and follow my step by step commentary on it. What a farce! Enjoy!
“watching
7:19 PM
she's got the proper symbol there, it means peace, not war.
Reader of BLOG
7:19 PM
yes i noticed that as well
7:20 PM
its the sun symbol
John Stankiewicz
7:20 PM
it's the swastika reversed
Reader of BLOG
7:20 PM
yes
7:20 PM
its the proper way though
John Stankiewicz
7:20 PM
reversed from Hitler's
7:20 PM
right
Reader of BLOG
7:20 PM
yes
John Stankiewicz
7:20 PM
and it is Arien
7:20 PM
those are the true Ariens
7:20 PM
not what he proposed.
Reader of BLOG
7:21 PM
but the sun is a symbol used to suppress us
John Stankiewicz
7:21 PM
actually, the black sun
Reader of BLOG
7:21 PM
oh really
7:21 PM
ok
John Stankiewicz
7:21 PM
but also the sun was used to rule over folks.
7:21 PM
so misused.
7:22 PM
vajriana budhishm! Wow, impressive.
Reader of BLOG
7:23 PM
what is that
John Stankiewicz
7:23 PM
notice he is carressing something in his left hand.. .that's a
reminder to himself about his Guru.
Reader of BLOG
7:23 PM
oh yes
7:24 PM
i noticed it
John Stankiewicz
7:24 PM
It's a non-dualistic type of buddhism, similar to non dualistic vedanta.
Reader of BLOG
7:24 PM
i see
7:24 PM
but what is the thing on his right hand
John Stankiewicz
7:24 PM
from the Hindu/Sanscrit/Vedanta... 5000 years old or more.
7:26 PM
jews always win? what kind of Guru is this guy? Har!
Reader of BLOG
7:27 PM
what ?
i just asked what is the thing in his right hand
7:27 PM
oh
7:27 PM
you quote Him
John Stankiewicz
7:27 PM
it's a device used to remind oneself of one's Guru.
Reader of BLOG
7:27 PM
hah
7:27 PM
yeah but that the one in his left hand
John Stankiewicz
7:28 PM
that's some kind of Buddhic device.. am not sure about it.
7:28 PM
but concentrates the mind in any case.
7:28 PM
he's right about a living master though.
7:29 PM
and they are NOT completely transcendental.. Gurus are at various
stages of life.
7:29 PM
there are very few that are in the 7th Stage of Life.. if any...
7:29 PM
Raman Maharshi is a well known one that was in the 6th stage of life
and had 7th stage intuitions.
7:30 PM
Am just commmenting as I view the video.
7:31 PM
he wante to have his own? what an ego!
7:31 PM
wanted
7:31 PM
did not wanted to bathe in His energy and stay in that kind of high?
Wanted his own? Now this is an excellent example of a Spiritualized ego.
7:32 PM
he has not need to transcend the ego.. he wants his own disciples.
7:32 PM
And he worships the world! Shit! Worships this dream! Ok, grounding
is good, but not that way!
7:33 PM
he is talking about himself!
7:33 PM
whe he talks about the ego wanting to survive. Watch the video again.
7:34 PM
see, he tells some truths, spiritual sadhana (which is relationship
to the Guru) and so on... and then talks about egoic stuff.
7:34 PM
So if your mind is clear, you will see that this guy is basically not
the real thing.
7:35 PM
And Sound is a fifth stage realization.. hearing the Sound of the
Spheres and so on.
7:35 PM
There are quite a few Gurus out there that are promoting the path of
the Sound. But that's less than even the sixth stage samadhis and
realization.
7:36 PM
He clearly shows a fifth stage Realization.
7:37 PM
By the way, the TM mantra is the same mantra given to EVERYONE! Har!
7:37 PM
At least that is what I found out.
7:38 PM
actually, Ivan, you will be amused by my new master: Puppet Ji.
Search that on youtube.
7:39 PM
ok, now it is clear, he is using a Mala in his left hand.
7:40 PM
it is a device for saying mantras.
7:40 PM
just like in the Christian tradition.
7:40 PM
the Mala has 108 beads from a rare ... bean? Something like that.
7:41 PM
and it is known to hold potent spirtitual force, over time.
7:42 PM
Rudraksha beads.
7:42 PM
Traffic direction... again, fifth stage.
7:42 PM
thousands of people lost their bodies... you see?
7:43 PM
soul retrieval.
7:43 PM
that's even a 4th stage or 4th density experience.. in the Astral.
7:43 PM
there you go a tibetan prayer wheel.
7:44 PM
but he has not real attention to it!
7:44 PM
something like chewing gum!
7:44 PM
something that automatic has no effect!
7:44 PM
this guy is a fool!
7:45 PM
this guy is just a circus priest.
7:45 PM
Oh well.
7:45 PM
So ends my review.”
Nov. 27th (Tuesday)
- No Story, No Person, No Suffering - a post by Sergio
I hear from many people who say they are in a place of understanding, but are not feeling "done." They say they are frustrated and want to know what to do to end the frustration.
And I don’t think it helps much to tell them, “Who is frustrated?” It’s true that there is no one to be frustrated, but I think this is said so many times that it begins to fall on deaf ears. You need more than that.
What are teachers saying when they tell you, “There is no one to be frustrated”? They are really referring to the story you have to be making up all the time in order for there to be a person, and in order for there to be frustration. It’s the story that is at the root of the belief in a person. You’re making up the story, and so you’re making up the person, out of your own imagination. No story, no person.
A story needs to be told for there to be frustration. Without telling a story, is there frustration? Where? How? Look for the story you are telling. Look for the narrative you create for the frustration to thrive in. This narrative creates the person out of thin air. This is something you're doing all the time – you’re creating the person all the time with your inner narrative. And this is the center of every problem, every speck of suffering and seeking.
So what can you do? What is needed is not action, it’s inaction. Stop making up a story. Having no story amounts to the same thing you’re asked over and over: Who is frustrated? Where is the person? But, “getting” that there is no person is not something you just have to wait around until you "see" – making up the person is actually something you are actively doing all the time. You don't have to do it. You don’t have to make up a story. And without the story, "This is so frustrating" has no place to take hold, no place to bloom. It just blows away like dust. Nothing has any place to take hold. Nothing can harm you. You are at total peace.
If you don't tell a story right now, there is just a watching, a peaceful noticing of the current moment. No problem arises, no frustration, no irritation, until you start constructing the narrative. Until then, it doesn't exist, and it's just pure consciousness, you, peace, that's all.
You Can Call it Free Will, But It’s Not
One thing we really take for granted all day long is the experience of free will and self-determination. We go through our day believing that we are controlling our thoughts, controlling our actions. We feel like we direct our thoughts, we know what we want, we plan our day – our whole lives, in fact – and we act on those plans. We have goals, we choose the actions that will lead us to that goal, and thus we are in control of our destinies. Wow, life should be great all the time!
Why isn’t it? If you are in control, why isn’t your life great all the time? Well, first, what you think of as your life being “great” is when things are going according to plan. After all, you know best, and having your plan be met is the only way you’ll be happy, right? Wrong. You’ve seen over and over in your life, in painful abundance, that this clutching and clinging to the fantasy of your “ideal” life or experience always fails, always disappoints. So if there is actually freedom from this pain, as is promised, there must be some other way of looking at this. Am I saying you must give up control? Not at all. I’m saying you never had it.
What is this “I control things” experience, actually? You say, “I feel like I am deciding to read this right now.” I challenge that. I say it feels like what it is, but that you are, by habit and definition, calling this very feeling “I decide.” Your words are lying to you about what is really going on. There are thoughts and actions taking place. Your day unfolds and you appear to be making split-second decisions to keep it all on track. It happens quickly, and everything seems to be going fine, so you have no reason to stop and doubt whether it is really you deciding and controlling.
No reason, that is, except for this one thing: It sucks. All day long, having to know, decide, analyze, plan, figure, project, second-guess, wager, risk, plot, and think think think think. Do you like it? Think it all through, make sure it’s good or they’ll come get you, it will all fall apart, they’ll stop loving you, you’ll be humiliated, you’ll die, you’ll be on the streets, you’ll have to move in with your mother. It’s all up to you! Don’t mess up! Not a single misstep or you’re screwed! Guess what? None of this is true. You are all taken care of already. You don’t have to do – indeed, you cannot do – a thing. Sit back, relax, have an iced tea, and watch the life happen. As essence, you can’t be harmed. It’s all going to be fine.
Is it okay to actually do this? Can you kick back and just watch, without making things happen? Won’t all the wrong things happen if you stop trying to control? Well, look and see if you are controlling in the first place. If you find that you aren’t and never were, and things have been going along fine so far, then there is no worry, is there? So let’s try an experiment.
Stand in the middle of a room and wait, without any plan. Just wait and see what you do next. Will you still be standing there twenty-four hours from now, without a plan? That’s one of the possibilities, but it’s not likely. Something will probably have moved you off that spot by then, like hunger, or fatigue, or the need to walk the dog. If the phone rings, you are likely to walk over and answer it. If you have an appointment, the thought will probably enter your head and you will automatically get your things and head out the door.
As you stand there, watch for the moment that the movement happens, without a plan. There might be a thought that precedes the action and there might not. If there is, watch the thought arise without a plan. Did you plan on that thought arising at that particular time? Did you plan what the thought contained?
Notice how automatically this happens. Observe how mechanically you are moved around. Once you stop naming this action “I am deciding to do this,” and observe what is really happening, you will see that all your actions are automatic. Even the thoughts coming to you are automatic. The feelings that arise are automatic. This is a mechanistic, apparitional world, and you are part of the apparition. You are a stimulus and response machine. Everything you do is based on all the other things in the apparitional world that led up to it. You can’t make it be any different, because you’re not even controlling your own thoughts.
Watch this in action throughout your day. If you can’t “decide” what to do next, just wait. You’ll do something. And the best part of this is, it will be effortless. It’s effortless! Life without planning is life without effort. Without planning, you’ll suddenly find yourself in the middle of a task you’ve been dreading for weeks, having fun and accomplishing more than you thought possible, effortlessly.
It is the false sense of control that causes most of the suffering in the life. Without the belief that you have to make everything happen just right, all the tension in the body drops away. All the frantic searching in the mind for the right action, the right move, several steps ahead all the time, anticipating all possible responses from others, the guilt and second-guessing afterwards, etc., it just stops. So how do we get rid of the “sense” of control? Well, it’s not really there in the first place. The “sense” that you control things comes from your label, not from the experience itself.
You have an experience of being in your day, wherein thoughts arise, feelings arise, actions arise. You can see it all happening. This is the experience you have. This is the experience that you have learned to label “I think,” “I feel,” and “I do” (or “I decided to do”). Those are simply labels – words alone, nothing but words. Look at what is happening, without labeling it. If you don’t say, “I decided to get out of bed,” is it possible that getting out of bed just happened, and your label colors the experience for you?
Do you think you would stay in bed all day if you didn’t decide to get up? Try it. Just lie there without a plan, and see what happens. You might indeed stay there all day. But you also might just get up. Wait and watch for the first sign of movement. Wait and watch for a thought to arise that says to get up. Getting up happens, and we have learned that the name of this action is “I decided to get up.” And then we go around insisting that this is what is really happening! It’s only a name!
What if you learned as a kid that water was a solid. And whoever tried to point out to you that you could put your hand right through it, you would argue, “Yes, I see that, but it’s a solid.” It’s the same thing happening. I’m not pointing out that you see something different from what is real. You’re seeing reality. You’ve simply mistakenly labeled it something else: “I control my life and actions and thoughts.” It’s a false label for the experience of reality that you have.
So it’s just a belief that has you living in this limbo with the burden of responsibility. Do you need to change your belief? No. None of this has anything to do with you. Just be with what you know, right now. Pay attention to what is going on right now. There is seeing with no seer. There is feeling with no feeler. There is action with no actor. There is knowing with no knower, and this whole imaginary world of you and your free will appear to take place within that knowing. And the knowing is what you are, not the person.
The stimulus-and-response machine is noticed by you. The person masquerading as “you” is observed in awareness. The thoughts in your head belong to no one. The pains and aches in your body belong to no one. The sense of control belongs to no one. These things are free-floating, smack dab in the center of awareness, and are attached to nothing and no one. If it feels “personal,” check and see if that is not just the name you put on it, and not the actual experience. How can something feel personal when there is no person? Reality does not lie. Your words and labels, however, are very good at lying.
Just be, without calling it “I control this.” You never did, so you’re not giving anything up. Watch the actions, observe the thoughts, without imagining that you are making them happen. Enjoy the movie. Float downstream.
Be without a center of control, be without a body, be without a history, be without an opinion, be without all the traits that make you special. Just be. Be no one, in no one’s body. What a blast! Living, with no body! Sensing and experiencing, thinking, feeling, with no person! No harm can come to you. No worries, no fear, no needs.
Just aliveness. Alive. Aware. Here. What more do you need? Stuck in traffic? Late for your appointment? You're not missing anything. No dates? Sitting home alone on Saturday night? Oh well, you're not missing anything. Made a bad decision, which caused you to lose a great opportunity? Nope, you're not missing anything! Busy at work? Too much business and not enough play? Not missing a thing.
This is it, my friends. There is nowhere to go. You are exactly where you are, aren't you? And in my world, that means that that is exactly where you are meant to be. Why? Because it's where you are! You haven't missed a thing.
You can't miss what you already ARE. And whatever you are looking for is what you are. No doubt about it, everywhere you turn, there you are, so how could you miss something important? You think this "missed thing" is going to make a difference to what you are? Not possible. This "missed thing" is YOU!
There is nothing that you need or want that is not already what you are. Therefore, no mistakes, no missed opportunities, no "could haves or should haves" make any difference at all to what you are.
This moment is as it is, and thinking that it shouldn't be is just another vibration of the Isness....it doesn't change anything. And you can't miss what you are. Just try!
There is only this point of present consciousness. It occupies no time and takes up no space. Everything that is apparent appears to take up space, and exist over time. But this apparent existence is all taking place now, within this single, simple point of consciousness. The consciousness itself occupies no time nor space. Experience this yourself, right now: does consciousness take up any time or space?
Everything that happens – is thought about, is felt, is observed – all takes up time and space. There is nothing in your world – mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual – that does not take up time and space. But consciousness does not take up time and space, so consciousness is not “in your world”; consciousness is that within which your world appears.
It is with this present consciousness that you know anything to exist. So it is as if there is an explosion of existence, once you move one tiny step away from the reality of the single, dimensionless, timeless point of consciousness, and move toward the thought-created forms that you imagine in your mind. Once a time and space “stage” is given credence in the mind, then anything and everything can appear on it.
The universe is imagined to be spread out over time and space, and therefore “existing.” But it is only existing, or apparent, within consciousness, which has no “room” for these things to occupy. They can only occupy imaginary time, and imaginary space. The consciousness itself, which has the capacity to give rise to all of it, is the only thing that is real. And this you know, right now, as your normal, knowing sense of being. It is who you are.
Consciousness is not localized, in the apparent “world,” because consciousness is the source of the apparent world. Everything in the apparent world springs from the single, dimensionless, timeless point of consciousness, which you know right now as the one witnessing the reading of these words.
There is no part of the universe that is not simply this consciousness, non-localized, the seed point of all existence. This seed point is all there is, and this is what you know, and have always known, not because the mind has labeled it and named it, but because there is existence, and you are always the witness of it.
Nov. 7th (Wednesday)
- A post by Sergio for your enjoyment and consideration: with commentary by js
“From: Sergio Cettour <tuscarito@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: November 6, 2007 11:37:47 AM EST (CA)
To: admin@9planetreviews.com
Subject: For_Spirit
What Is Awakening And Liberation?
Awakening for most characters is a split second event [js: for most characters? What does that mean? Most characters do not awaken!]. In that split second what is seen clearly is that there is no-one, there is no person. The personal identity simply drop away suddenly and completely and what is left is awareness without any person mediating it.
This is an astonishing event because however old you may be when this happens, for however many years there’s been self-consciousness, there has always been a person present [js: no there has not, there has no one been here]. Every phenomenon that has been registered by consciousness [js: Consciousness implies EGO, Consciousness has never arisen, the ego does not in fact exist] has been mediated and experienced by a person, a person who has coloured each moment of awareness. That sense of a person will not have been noticed precisely because it has been ever present. It’s like living in an environment that you’ve lived in all you life without noticing the scenery because it’s always been there. It’s just taken for granted. This is only a metaphor but in a way that’s what the sense of being a person is like. It’s taken for granted to such an extent that it isn’t even noticed until it suddenly drops away.
When the person drops away nothing changes. What is suddenly seen has always been there. Everything remains as it is, so in a sense this is much less interesting than taking hallucinogenic drugs, or even getting drunk or stoned. These all produce quite interesting phenomena. But when the person drops away there’s no change in the phenomena whatsoever and yet it is a staggering event. Suddenly it’s seen that the person and their personal experiences are completely irrelevant. There is the sudden seeing that your whole life has been an illusion, a kind of conjuring trick. Oneness plays a trick on itself to convince itself that it’s separate, that it exists in one place which is separate from all other places.
I’m describing awakening as if it’s something that happens but it’s important to stress that, however paradoxical or mysterious this sounds, actually nothing happens. I mean that in both senses of the phrase. For the first time ever in this apparent life nothing is seen to be happening. Nothing is seen to be creating all of this. And so although it has to be talked about as an event that appears to happen in time let me emphasise that it’s not a personal experience because there is nobody there having the experience.
In that split second of awakening it is seen that this is timeless eternity. This is nothing manifesting as everything in timeless eternity. Then a split second later in the story of time the person is back and everything is just as it was before. Except that the person’s mouth may be hanging open in astonishment and they may be thinking “What the hell was that?” And that’s it, it’s over. That’s awakening.
Sometimes when there is awakening there seem a moment in time when there is a difference between knowing that ‘I’ am nothing and knowing that ‘what I am’ is everything. It is like wandering around an empty house when you are moving and all the furniture has been taken out- the walls are still standing but this is no longer home. There was no owner but the house was still there with its empty rooms. So you realise you are ‘nothing’ but do not realise that what you are, is ‘everything’. In this case there is an awakening but the whole isn’t seen because there is still a subtle, nearly invisible ‘me’ seeking [js: the “I”, or the ego]. The experience shows there can be a preliminary seeing of this but also a subtle someone still there. Finally comes liberation and that part of that seeker drops away and there is just everything. Until there is no one it can never be seen that all there is is everything because there is still somebody looking [js: The so-called Witness Consciousness Position or the Ground of Being, in Buddhism, or the Observer in ACIM]. This is the case for most people that there is a residue that eventually drops away. It is occasionally possible that some people do not have this residue and go straight to liberation. [js: There is no such residue that you speak of... that IS the Realization, eventually.. and then you wake up!]
As a tiny child when the ‘me’ is simulated there is a weaning out of ‘being’ which the child will remember for some years. Then that is lost in the over layer of the ‘me’. So awakening is a weaning back into being. [js: all this presumes that this dream is real!]
Because of various spiritual traditions and their stories about enlightened masters, we may think of a person after liberation who manifests complete equanimity no matter what happens, a person with no likes, no dislikes and no preferences. We may have an idealised concept of a person who never feels anger or fear or sorrow, living in an undifferentiated state of bliss. This is just an invention of the mind. Its purpose, if we can speak of it as having a purpose, is to keep us seeking by reaffirming our own sense of inadequacy by comparison. We know that we don’t live in a state of constant bliss so we feel inadequate and we go on seeking.
What happens when searching ends is simply that searching ends. We could say that the person ends, the person dies. That’s quite a dramatic way of putting it but it has a certain accuracy about it. But there is still a character and also feelings, preferences, likes and dislikes. It is just that these are seen no longer to belong to anyone. So rather than there being a person who gets angry, it’s seen that anger simply arises. Rather than there being a person who likes coffee and doesn’t like tea, it’s now seen that a liking for coffee and a dislike of tea arises, but for no one.
However it is likely that the seeing of liberation may bring about changes in the character that is left. It’s likely, although not inevitable, that what may remain after liberation is a character who manifests less neurosis than they did before. Neurosis arises out of dissatisfaction and searching. When dissatisfaction and searching end and it is seen that this is all there is, that this is already paradise, there’s not much scope for neurosis to arise anymore. Of course anything can manifest in liberation so it’s certainly not impossible for neurosis to arise. But it’s not likely that it will. It’s the same with boredom. It’s possible for boredom to arise in liberation but when this is seen to be paradise everything becomes fascinating, so it’s unlikely that the character will be bored.
Neurosis and boredom are experiences of the personal mind and in liberation these phenomena are likely to die away. But you still might have a character who gets angry if they phone up a company and they are put on hold for fifteen minutes by an answering machine. You still might have a character who feels sad when their children leave home. All of these things may still arise but they don’t arise for a person anymore. They are just seen to be phenomena happening in awareness.
What also tends to be felt is a kind of continuous wonder at the miracle that is everything, the miracle that is a cup of coffee or a leaf falling from a tree in the park or the sound of a car going by. When this is experienced as a continuous miracle, neurosis can’t really get a grip. One way I’ve heard this put which I like is that, although anything can arise in liberation including uncomfortable thoughts and uncomfortable feelings, there’s nobody there who is taking any interest in these things anymore. So they just tend to arise and quickly die away again. Nisargadatta says that the world is full of hoops but the hooks are all ours. And in liberation somehow those hooks simply dissolve.
Now you may ask, is there a process that can lead us to liberation?
This is a very important question because it really confronts the whole notion of spiritual seeking and the addiction of the seeker to the belief that there is a state that can be attained and that there are methods which can enable you to reach it. Let’s call that state ‘personal enlightenment’. The spiritual seeker tends to believe in the possibility of personal enlightenment and has as an idea that there is a person who can eventually reach this through a process of self-improvement. He or she may believe that this process might take a few years or it might take a few life times. This is the notion that fuels a great deal of spiritual seeking, no matter which path or method is being followed.
The core impulse behind this notion is the feeling that right now I am inadequate [js: NO! It is the feeling that I am separate, from God, from everyone else, that seems to appear in this realm or dream]. I recognise [js: to recognize means to know again, which implies that you knew before! So you are misusing this term.] that I am not enlightened and of course I’m correct in this because nobody is enlightened [js: why would you say that? Do you really know, for sure? Are you all-knowing or just pissed off?]. There is no such thing as an enlightened person [js: Again, how do you know that? Have you pursued all avenues, have you searched far and wide, or are you just making a conclusion?]. Neither you nor I nor anyone else will ever be an enlightened person [js: Why is that?]. But the seeker has this belief that there is something called personal enlightenment and that there are holy figures out there, perhaps wandering around in robes looking ascetic, perhaps with long beards or with shaven heads, who have achieved that state.
[js: Ok, am tired of this. It’s a diatribe. So be careful about what you will conclude on reading the rest of it. If I get some further energy? I will perhaps edit the rest of it. By the way, no harm meant to Sergio, ok Sergio? You posted, I had to comment. No one is right or wrong. In fact I find much of your post here, below, very instructive. So thanks Sergio! js]
If I am a seeker I will probably believe that there is a process whereby I, a person who is not yet enlightened, can become one of these saintly beings. Usually there will also be the belief that when I become enlightened I will get great rewards. I will become all knowing, wise and deeply compassionate. I will have an enormous golden aura. I nearly said “golden ego”. I will have an enormous golden aura which will attract people to me and they will revere me and sit at my feet and I in my turn will be able to guide them along the path to enlightenment. Perhaps more importantly I will be tremendously envied by all my friends.
Some version of this story is held as a core belief by many seekers. This is the story of becoming, of the treadmill of spiritual paths, of spiritual evolution. The story is that there is a person here and this person, through their efforts, through wiping out their past karma, through their great humility and through the grace of the guru can attain this state of enlightenment.
Actually even in a split second of awakening, if there is complete accuracy in reporting what is seen, without a doubt it is seen that there is no one, that the person is an appearance, a kind of illusion. But when the person comes back they can reject this. Very often they will reject it and go back to their spiritual seeking. Nevertheless what is seen in awakening is that there is no person who has ever done anything.
No person has ever followed a spiritual path because there is no one. No person has ever earned grace because there is no one. No person has ever followed a true guru and received the mantra that will raise their spiritual vibration to the level of enlightenment because there is no one. This is seen absolutely in that split second of awakening. But when the person comes back they can deny this and very often they will deny it. Then they may return to their spiritual path, their guru and their devotion. There’s nothing wrong with this but there’s no person who is getting closer to liberation because of it. This is seen in awakening and after awakening, when the person comes back, it can be acknowledged or it can be denied. It’s completely meaningless which happens. It doesn’t matter which happens but those are the two possibilities.
Then when liberation is seen there is an end to all searching. In liberation there is no possibility any more of there being a person who believes themself to be inadequate and who believes that they can make themself adequate through spiritual work such as meditation or devotion or study or any of the other yogas. What is seen in liberation is that there is no one who could do any of this and there is no one that any of this could have an effect on.
As there is no person, thirty years of meditation cannot purify the person. There is no one to be purified. Liberation brings about the absolute end to searching because it’s seen that there’s no person, there’s no separation and there’s nothing to search for. There can’t be anything to search for when it’s seen that this is all there is. There’s nowhere to go, there’s nothing to find, this is already it. This is already paradise.
I have said before that as long as there’s a person there must be searching. What do I mean by that? When a baby is born it has no sense of separation but it also has no self-consciousness. At a certain point, as soon as self-consciousness arises, the baby becomes a person. They become a person because with self-consciousness a sense of separation arises. From then on there’s also personal fear and vulnerability. As soon as I perceive myself to be separate I can feel threatened by other people or by circumstances. So I need to begin to protect myself, to protect my autonomy.
From the moment of separation it is felt that there is something missing and this is because there is something missing. What is missing is the sense of oneness into which I was born, the sense of unity. And so the person starts searching. What they are searching for is an end to the feeling of separation, an end to the feeling of personal vulnerability and fear. But this search can take many different forms and most of these forms won’t involve a conscious spiritual search or a conscious search for unity.
Instead the search will arise out of a sense of dissatisfaction with whatever is seen to be going on in this, in presence. There will be a search for some kind of comfort and if that comfort is found, dissatisfaction will arise again fairly quickly and then the search will start again for something else. For example the search might be for physical comfort, security, wealth, excitement or a relationship. Most people will go through the standard ways of trying to make their life feel o.k. The fact is that once there is the sense of a separate person, it will be felt that this isn’t it. Everything might even be going along pretty satisfactorily and in that case it will just be felt that this isn’t quite it. It’s almost it but if only I could just tweak it a bit then it would really be it.
We could describe the unfolding life of a person as simply a number of attempts to turn a life which is felt to have something missing into a life which is felt to be full and satisfying. And that never happens. At least it never happens for long. One reason for this is that we have contradictory and conflicting impulses. If life somehow arranges itself so that one of my impulses is satisfied this will more or less automatically mean that another of them won’t be satisfied.
For example at some point in my life I may become aware of yearning deeply for a relationship. There may be a feeling of incompleteness and of wanting to unite with another person. If I manage to achieve this it probably won’t be very long before another yearning makes itself felt which might be a yearning for more independence or to unite with a different person. As long as I’m fulfilling my need for closeness with someone my sense of independence may be threatened. And as long as I’m fulfilling my need for independence I may not be fulfilling my need to be close to someone. You could say that there’s an inbuilt dissatisfaction in the very game itself.
The person will always be searching in different ways to overcome their sense of dissatisfaction or separation. The usual ways of searching include acquiring an education, getting a job, making money, getting into a relationship, creating a home, having children, seeking out adventures of one kind or another, travelling, acquiring goods like clothes and cars. We may go through periods in our lives when we feel that our sense of dissatisfaction can only be healed if we find the perfect sofa or if we trade in our Ford and buy a BMW instead.
For some people however separation is felt more as a sense of dissatisfaction with their internal state. These people might try to heal this through psychotherapy or personal development. There are so many means on offer now in the personal growth movement and the psychotherapeutic bazaar. The same people at a different time in their life, or other people, might be drawn to following spiritual paths; to meditation, to devotion, to chanting, to sitting with gurus. The list is endless. The list of things that we will try in the hope that they will bring about an end to the sense of separation, this core dissatisfaction with whatever is actually the case, is absolutely endless. They are legion, the methods that the mind will invent, the paths that the mind will tell stories about.
In a way the only difference between my trying to end my sense of dissatisfaction by finding the perfect sofa and my trying to end it by following a spiritual path is that the second involves a more self-conscious searching. In the second there may be an awareness that I have a desire to heal the core sense of separation within me, whereas if I’m buying a sofa there’s usually not a great deal of self-conscious searching in that. I am probably just aware that I want to make my bum more comfortable. But they are both equally valid and invalid, meaningful and meaningless. It makes no difference which I do because neither of them will bring about the healing of the sense of separation.
I’m hesitating over saying the next bit because I don’t want it to sound like a method. I should issue a health warning about it. If we are self-consciously seeking and we’ve had our psychotherapy and our spiritual healing, devoted ourselves to a guru, practised Buddhism and danced our way around the New Age bazaar, then it’s possible that out of the continual sense of frustration and disappointment that arises and out of the realisation finally that none of this works, that none of this does heal the sense of separation, there can be a giving up arising out of that. And out of that giving up perhaps the simple seeing of this can happen.
But of course it’s unwise for me to say this because it could be taken as a suggestion that there is a method, which is that you immerse yourself in as many spiritual paths as you possibly can until you discover that none of them work and then maybe awakening will happen. And that’s not true. This isn’t a method because there is no person who can choose to immerse themselves in lots of different spiritual paths. All we can say is that meditating on the grace of the guru may arise or it may not. There is nobody who can choose that.
So there is dissatisfaction, the feeling that this isn’t it. There is the sense that this is not the promised paradise, the promised paradise is always sometime in the future. This leads to searching. There’s nothing wrong with any of the different ways of searching. Indeed within the story of a person living a life many of these ways of searching can make that life much more comfortable, whether it’s shopping for a sofa and then finding that your bum feels more comfortable while you’re watching television, or doing psychotherapy and then finding that your emotional life feels more comfortable after you have forgiven your parents, or following a spiritual path and then finding that your daily life feels more comfortable when you’re in touch with the love of the Divine Mother or the grace of the guru.
Any of these ways of searching may lead to a person being more comfortable. But that is all you get. You get a person being more comfortable in their prison. If you are in prison, it’s far better to be comfortable, for your prison to have a soft sofa and incense burning in the corner. But that doesn’t get the person out of the prison they perceive themselves to be in.
Nothing will get the person out of their prison because the person is the prison. When the person drops away then it is seen that there never was a prison in the first place.
Now I must say that it is impossible to describe non-duality using language. The problem with using language is that language is by its nature dualistic. Language can only refer to phenomena - to thoughts, emotions, sensations and objects. Language describes the world of the appearance in which everything is perceived to be separate. There is no language which can describe non-duality and there’s no possibility of there being such a language. It’s not a limitation of the kind of language we use, it’s a limitation of the nature of language itself. The best that language can do is to describe duality and then say that non-duality is not that. But of course that doesn’t get us very far.
The seeing of non-duality, that there is no separation, cannot be expressed in language. Language can only hint at it. However concepts about non-duality can be expressed endlessly in language with ever-evolving complexity. The more subtle the mind that is expressing these ideas, the more evolved and complex they tend to become. Many of these ideas are profoundly misconceived. The most common of these misconceptions is the idea that there is someone who can do something to heal their sense of separation; in other words that there is a person who is able to discover that they are not a person.
The complete absurdity of this idea is often camouflaged by highly complex and subtle thinking. So you can have a communication which expresses very seductive ideas about non-duality, presenting it as something which can be realised through an evolutionary spiritual path. These ideas have no actual connection with non-duality but they may offer us a very convincing, although completely meaningless, story about it.
Of course most people have no interest in non-duality or in communicating about it. They prefer to get on with things which are more interesting such as studying Buddhist philosophy or working out which horse might win the 3.30 race tomorrow. And where non-duality is talked about, miscommunication is far more common than clear communication.
This is partly because miscommunication about non-duality is often more interesting because it can involve wonderful stories about spiritual processes and a person gradually becoming purer and wiser in all sorts of fascinating ways. There is simply a lot more to talk about in the miscommunication of non-duality. We can discuss all the techniques for evolving spiritually, purification through work and devotion, the development of compassion and how to be here now - all the usual stories of spiritual becoming.
If we bring in Tantric Sex or beings from other realms such as spirit guides, gods and angels, these stories become even more interesting. We can fill an entire imaginative universe and this seems much more fascinating than a simple cup of coffee or a leaf falling from a tree in autumn. But of course it is only filling an imaginative universe. There’s nothing wrong with this and there’s nothing right with it. It is simply what it is. It is just what arises for some people.
But none of the paths of spiritual development which it is recommended that a person follow in order to discover that they are unreal has anything to do with non-duality. One of the problems with communicating about non-duality clearly is that there is not very much in it for the mind to find interesting or to get hold of and so the mind is quite likely to find it rather dull. The mind would much rather listen to magical stories about spiritual evolution and adventures on the path towards an imagined personal enlightenment.
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Nov. 2nd (2007)
- THE DREAM OF SEPARATION, a post by Sergio! One of my BLOG readers. And wow, is it packed or what?
All there is is No-thing Being Everything and what appears as part of that everything is the belief and experience of being a separate self — an apparent individual with its own free will, choice and ability to act. This happening is uniquely human and is called self-consciousness. To most people it is the reality. That apparent feeling of being separate is at the root of the suffering, inadequacy and sense of loss that drives people to search for escape or resolution. It is Being dreaming that it is apart from itself, looking all over the place for that which is already Everything. It is the hypnotic dream of separation which, for the dreamer, is very real. The dilemma for the dream seeker is that the feeling of separation drives the seeking for resolution, which further fuels the sense of separation. The development of an intelligent understanding 'mind' apparently brings with it the ability to make choices and take actions in an attempt to negotiate with 'the world' lived in. These negotiations are not always successful and the individual seems to experience its own pain and pleasure. It also develops a great respect for the guidance and control apparently emanating from the understanding 'mind'. However, as long as there is a sense of separation, there is a sense of disquiet or loss and there is a seeking to dispel that sense. It seems logical that the much respected understanding 'mind' must be capable of investigating the cause of this disquiet and discovering ways of dispelling it. The separate entity can only try to imagine or project an idea of what it must be like not to be separate. What is sought is the possibility of a future goal or state that can be realised and therefore, logically, must be approachable. Consequently, the function of seeking and the teaching of becoming locks the seeker into a state of continuously approaching something that it cannot comprehend. All of this is the expression of Being, arising as the good, old, dependable and reliable understanding ‘mind’ functioning as it can only function . . . in continual movement and anticipation. It is this activity of becoming which very effectively keeps the seeker in the hypnotic dream of reaching out for something it cannot grasp. Of course, Liberation can apparently happen despite all of this effort. The only other hope for the dream seeker is to believe that another benevolent energy (say God, Consciousness or a so-called enlightened teacher) would be motivated to guide and influence the seeker along a path which would eventually lead them to fulfillment. All of these ideas of becoming, purpose and destiny arise in the dream. But the paradox is that although Being appears as the dream seeker, Being is not a state that can be imagined, conceived of, attained or even realized by the seeking of it. Being requires absolutely nothing … it is the Nothing and Everything that is already immaculate fulfillment and wholeness. Nothing needs to be changed or attained, lost or found, for Being to simply Be. The appearance of separation is simply the expression of Being. The very idea of something needing to approach that which it already is, is wonderfully futile. Being is a comedian with an audience which never laughs.
The dream seeker feels a sense of loss and unworthiness, and so is very attracted to dream teachings which involve purification, hard committed effort, surrender, devotion and the development of renunciation and detachment. There is a kind of logical inevitability and worthiness about these ideas which resonates with the sense of lack. The almost endless path of striving happily ensures the continuation of the individual experience. These ideas seem to arise out of a very substantial and reliable history of traditional wisdom which surely must be respected, even though it is only available as words on bits of paper. Two traditional ways which seek resolution, or escape, from the sense of separation are meditation and self-inquiry. In meditation it seems possible, through apparent choice and guidance, to reach certain states of stillness or bliss which seem better than feeling separate. The belief is that continuous effort with meditation will solidify the state and eventually make it permanent. But these states are only refined personal experiences happening within the dream-story. So like all other time-based activities they come and go away.
Self-enquiry is a similar process in that the goal is for the individual to choose to take action or make the effort to reach a place called awareness which, its teachers promise, will bring personal peace of mind, happiness and the end of all suffering (?).
There is a great emphasis on the need for properly carried out investigation of thought processes etc, and the necessity for vigilance from “being distracted by self-centred thoughts”.
All of this activity is based on the principle of the enquirer “getting oneness” and maintaining personal possession of it.
The effect of the state of awareness is apparent movement into a place of detachment which at first feels very freeing, powerful and safe . . . rather like being in a glass box from which life can be watched without the watcher being affected. It is still a subtly dual personal experience within the dream-story of separation and so it is transitory.
Awareness of life happening is not 'Being life'.
Predictably the state of awareness (Buddhist mindfulness) is easily forgotten or mislaid, or it can be overwhelmed by dream thinking or any powerful emotional situation, for instance. The glass box shatters and the place you seemed to be in seems lost again. The dream seeker either starts self-enquiring again, for another boost, or it is realised that awareness is just another refuge from within the dream of separation. All of this is simply the expression of Being.
Another way for the dream seeker to avoid simply Being is to try to understand or develop clarity about its own nature. It is very easy to get stuck in ‘Advaita’ or ‘non-dual’ concepts. The singular and unrelenting reiteration of such ideas as “all there is is Being", “everything is the expression of Being” or “there is no one” are an arid and simplistic form of communication. It doesn't address or illuminate the dream seeker’s apparent dilemma and it obviously ignores the primary energetic essence of the implicit aliveness of simply Being.
To continuously say that being awake or being asleep is not relevant because “Being is all there is” is like telling a blind person that it’s OK to be blind because “seeing is all there is”. This is pure idealism. Of course, there is no such thing as being asleep or being awake, but this is not seen until there is no one looking.
This message communication is not dependent on clear concepts, however much they may expose confused concepts. Speaking happens and words can only point to another possibility which is beyond verbal expression. It is the eternally new message which is hidden within the scriptures and either overlooked or rejected in the ‘mind’.
The idea of prescriptive teaching, guidance or the offer of any kind of help simply does not arise. This is a message without hope or comfort of any kind for the individual, but invariably the dream seeker will still believe that something is on offer … this is the function of seeking. It is also possible that all that will be left is nothing, and then another possibility could arise. However, there is no agenda or motive because nothing is for sale.
It is possible that clarity could arise, but absolute understanding is not liberation. Nevertheless, all of this conceptual communication is secondary to the primary element that is most illuminating. That primary element is energetic, impersonal aliveness … the implicit, vibrant wonder of simply Being. It is an energetic shift, apparently out of contraction into boundlessness. This boundlessness cannot be owned and so cannot be given. Its simplicity utterly confounds the ‘mind’, but what arises is an impersonal recognition that there is no-one and nothing to be liberated. All ideas of separation, individual suffering, free will, choice, meaning and purpose, destiny, hierarchy and tradition, are simply seen by no-one as the dream-play of Being.
It seems that the seeking ‘mind’ is fascinated by struggle and complexity. The whole fabric of seeking is full of stories of great edifices, seemingly arising out of simple beginnings. Buddhism, Christianity and so many other dogmas, arise and grow and fight each other over having better gods. Catechisms of sin and worthiness, degrees of awareness and levels of enlightenment are investigated, dissected and struggled over.
The mind loves the idea of enlightenment being some kind of distant, virtually unobtainable, perfect place of permanent bliss, free from suffering and full of omniscience, omnipresence and lots of other important ‘omni’s’ stomping around, shouting the odds and saving the world. And of course, because all this glory and specialness has to be attained, it seems there has to be a long haul through the dark night of the soul, endless past karmas, original sin, right-thinking, right action and preparation for the bardos. “It is a tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Yet Natural Being is such an ordinary and gentle constant. When it is seen it is. When it is avoided it is. It requires no effort and demands no standards. Being timeless there is no path to tread, no debt to pay. When this is heard and confusion collapses, when the contraction of struggling to get something falls away and the vibrant energy of being aliveness becomes apparent, something else is seen, very naturally of course, because it is already all that is.
Seeing and Not Seeing
A simple, direct, but fundamental shift in perception reveals that all there
is is liberation. But oneness does not become apparent through
something gained, rather through something lost. Many will come across
this rare and radical message and quickly shuffle back to that which they
think they can know and do. But there are those with whom this
communication will resonate . . . and there will be a sudden seeing and
falling away of all seeking, even for that which they have called
enlightenment.
All there is is this. Oneness is being this . . . whatever is apparently
happening . . . reading these words, breathing, blood coursing through the
body, sounds being heard, thoughts coming and going and feelings in the
body the sense of sitting on a seat maybe. Here is oneness being
aliveness as this.
No effort is needed for that aliveness to be. Nobody is doing aliveness. Is
anybody doing sitting on a chair? Thinking is oneness thinking "I don't get
where this is going", or "this is too simple". All is simply aliveness,
oneness, being. It cannot be taught or achieved. Who is apart from being
to achieve being? Who can lose or gain this when this is all there is?
Resisting oneness is oneness resisting. Seeking oneness is oneness seeking
itself.
Aliveness is oneness apparently happening. Aliveness is being alive. There
is only being and the nature of that being is emptiness and fullness,
nothing and everything, movement and repose.
In that wholeness arises the idea "I am a separate individual". This seems
to be the beginning of a dream called "me being someone in a world with
which I have to negotiate".
Here in this separation is the root of all fear and feeling of disquiet coming
out of a sense of loss. Again it is the appearance of oneness, and in that
appearance we embark on a journey in which we meet parents, teachers,
maybe priests, bosses and lovers, and learn how to get what we think we
want seemingly through personal choice and effort. The pursuit of
pleasure and the avoidance of pain generate transient experiences of
gratification and disappointment. The whole manifestation that we call
life is simply the drama of oneness looking for itself, for all desire is the
longing for oneness.
For some the idea of enlightenment seems to offer the promise of
fulfilment. However, the separate individual can only dream individuality.
That is its function. Inevitably in the search for enlightenment, the dream seeker is attracted to a dream teaching that promotes and reinforces the idea of individual choice and effort, which, through discipline and sacrifice, can lead to the promised ultimate experience of enlightenment. But this teaching
reinforces the illusion that there is such a thing as an individual who has
free will and the choice to become.
What is inseparable from the dream of individuality is the idea of
ownership. "What is happening is happening to me. I have a life called me
and I can, or even should, do something with my life in the time allotted; I
have to succeed; I am an individual and personal endeavour can bring me
what I need." This misconception promotes the continuation of the dream
of personal enlightenment.
The idea that presumes the possibility that dualistic practices can lead the
apparent seeker to the nondualistic perception is similar to the idea that
with sufficient effort and determination you can teach a blind man to see.
To quote "Doctrines, processes and progressive paths which seek
enlightenment only exacerbate the problem they address by reinforcing
the idea that the apparent self can find something it presumes it has lost.
It is that very effort, that investment in selfidentity that continuously recreates the illusion of separation from oneness. This is the veil which we believe exists. It is the dream of individuality."
Out of all the many awakenings that have been described to me, it is
continuously confirmed that one of the first realisations that arises is the
seeing that noone awakens. And yet we see that the majority of teachings,
both traditional and contemporary, are constantly speaking to an apparent
separate seeker (subject) and recommending that in order to attain
enlightenment (object) they should choose to meditate, selfenquire,
purify, cultivate understanding, still the mind and the ego, surrender, be
honest, seek earnestly, give up seeking, do therapy, do nothing, be here
now, and so on . . . the ideas are as endless and as complicated as the mind
from where they are generated.
These recommendations arise from the belief that the "enlightenment" of
the "teacher" has been attained or earned through the application of
choice, effort, acceptance or surrender, and that other seekers can be
taught to do the same.
Of course there can be nothing right or wrong with earnest seeking,
meditation, selfenquiry, understanding and so on. They are simply what
they appear to be. But who is it that is going to choose to make the effort?
Where is the effort going to take the apparent chooser to? where
is there to go if there is only oneness?
If there is no separate individual there is no volition, and so how can an
illusion dispel itself?
There is no person that becomes enlightened. Noone awakens. Awakening
is the absence of the illusion of individuality. Already there is only
awakeness, oneness, timeless being, radical aliveness. When the dream
seeker is no more it is seen (by noone) that there is nothing to seek and
noone to become liberated.
Here is oneness, the realisation of wholeness that cannot be attained or
owned. This is the awakening in which the awareness of what is arises
together with the dreaming of that which cannot be known. There can be a
dance between dreaming and being, and in that dance there can be a
return to the fascination of personal ownership.
However, the realisation that the dream seeker is also oneness is
liberation, the uncaused, impersonal, silent stillness which is the
celebration of unconditional love. This is all there is.
There is no me or you, no seeker, no enlightenment, no disciple and no
guru. There is no better or worse, no path or purpose, and nothing that
has to be achieved.
All appearance is source. All that apparently manifests in the hypnotic
dream of separation the world, the life story, the search for home, is one
appearing as two the nothing appearing as everything, the absolute
appearing as the particular.
There is no separate intelligence weaving a destiny and no choice
functioning at any level. Nothing is happening but this, as it is, invites the
apparent seeker to rediscover that which is . . . the abiding, uncaused,
unchanging, impersonal silence from which unconditional love overflows
and celebrates. It is the wonderful mystery.
March 9th, 2007
- Here is a site to visit. Remember: each of you has your own particular path that you will resonate with. So there is no one path back to God, or the Divine. So just explore, ok?
December 9th (Saturday)
- Here is a great link that has an explanation on a non-dualistic teaching: Advaita-Vedanta, one of the oldest Teachings on this particular planet.
October 23rd (Monday)
- The below was sent to me by a reader of mine: Karen.
It is for your discernment.
I would also urge you to go to your bookstore, or go to
amazon.com and order the two books by Gary Renard:
"The Disappearance of the Universe" and "Your Immortal Reality
or How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death". Yes, go
see the movie, but then read the two books. Seriously.
For the Spirit page and your new yahoo forum....Karen
A SPIRITUAL CLASSIC COMES TO THE SCREEN
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD opens in theaters this coming Friday,
October 27, 2006 and in Canada, November 10. I highly
recommend that you go see the film this weekend. We need
more films like this in theaters and the best way for us to
support the filmmakers is to show up on opening weekend!!!
Lets show the media and the studios that we will turn out to
see a movie about love and compassion, not the Hollywood
formula of fear and violence.
The film chronicles the dramatic journey of a down-and-out
man who becomes a spiritual messenger and bestselling
author. Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that
inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide,
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD tells the true story of Walsch
(brilliantly portrayed by Henry Czerny) who, at the lowest
point in his life, asks God some very hard questions. The
answers he gets become the foundation of an internationally
acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies
and been translated into 34 languages.
"An incredibly emotional journey."
--Deepak Chopra
Watch the trailer: www.cwgthemovieonline.com
"This movie is a marvelous illustration of how a life can
transform, from something so seemingly hopeless to something
miraculously good."
-- Marianne Williamson
MORE HIGH PRIASE:
"Conversations with God is a movie that allows one to
re-discover their relationship with God. This movie is
passionately directed, passionately acted and passionately
delivered. It will force you to have your own Conversations
with God."
- John Kerhli
"Brilliantly and poignantly illustrates how life's greatest
gifts can arise in our darkest hours."
--Debbie Ford
"Conversations with God is a movie that will touch your
heart in a very deep way. It's a story about the power of
the soul to
triumph over any adversity and it's a beautiful reminder
that we are all
connected and that our willingness to relinquish pride for
humility will give us the gift of knowing we are never
alone. I highly recommend you see this movie."
--Cheryl Richardson
Watch the trailer: www.cwgthemovieonline.com
Please feel freee to forward this to your friends and
family.
www.TheMasterKeySystem.us
- Update from Joe Vitale...
The Secret movie, it is here: http://www.TheSecret.tv
This is so exciting!
NEWS FLASH: Dates for Larry King Live Show!
I just moments ago learned when my appearance on Larry King Live will air.
Get out your calendar and mark down the following --
Larry King Live airs on CNN at 6 p.m. pacific and re-airs at 9 p.m. pacific and 12 midnight,
which is 9 p.m. eastern, midnight eastern and 3 a.m. eastern.
Part 1 to air Nov 2nd
Part 2 to air Nov 16th
Guests on Part 1 (Nov. 2nd) are -
Bob Proctor
John Assaraf
JZ Knight
Rev Michael Beckwith
Dr. John DeMartini
Guests on Part 2 (Nov. 16th) are -
James Ray
Jack Canfield
Joe Vitale
George Pratt
Jayne Payne
www.TheMasterKeySystem.us
October 19th. (Thursday)
- "The Decision for God
Do you really believe you can make a voice that can drown out God's?
Do you really believe you can devise a thought system that can
separate you from him? Do you really believe you can plan for your
safety and joy better than he can? You need be neither careful nor
careless; you need merely cast your cares upon him because he careth
for you. You are his care because he loves you. His voice reminds you
always that all hope is yours because of his care. You cannot choose
to escape his care because that is not his will, but you can choose
to accept his care and use the infinite power of his care for all
those he created by it." T-5.VII.1
"Decision cannot be difficult. This is obvious, if you realize that
you must already have decided not to be wholly joyous if that is how
you feel. Therefore, the first step in the undoing is to recognize
that you actively decided wrongly, but can as actively decide
otherwise. Be very firm with yourself in this, and keep yourself
fully aware that the undoing process, which does not come from you,
is nevertheless within you because God placed it there. Your part is
merely to return your thinking to the point at which the error was
made, and give it over to the Atonement in peace. Say this to
yourself as sincerely as you can, remembering that the Holy Spirit
will respond fully to your slightest invitation:
I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.
I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.
I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the
consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.
I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me." T-
5.VII.6-7
This is not magic or wishful thinking, this is God's will for His
children. When you have turned your thoughts back to your own
reality, your life will never be the same.
I am praying for you, and I am praying for myself. Together we will
remember the truth.
October 3rd. (Tuesday)
- Some interesting reading for you. Not the highest Teaching... but some facts nevertheless.
“Another Time And An Inner Place Pt 5
By Peter Farley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/4truthseekers
This knowledge of the gods had been handed down from time
immemorial through the mystery schools, the secret societies, the
Emerald Tablets of Thoth, and even the crystal-like computer wisdom
of the `An-gug stones'—the Tablets of Testimony spoken of earlier.
These are what Gilgamesh, the hero of one of the earliest surviving
works of ancient Sumeria, circa 2900 BC, finds i |
