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From “A Course In Miracles”. or ACIM.
.Exercise #`1: One of the two great thought experiments of all time revolves around how we view our world, and our self. In a nutshell, the first “Experiment” posits the existence of a transcendental energy, common to all, yet invisible to the senses. Then the “Experiment” posits that consciousness itself is the co-creator with that higher energy or power. Finally, it reveals the perceptual blocks to the individual’s awareness of higher consciousness and its energies, through perceptual enlightenment, which is the long term effects of understanding the ultimate statement of humility and self-negation:
LIM dT/dt, dt->0, T=Thought(Time, Timeless), d= change in (dt is ” change in time” , DT= change in Thought).
This is a classic “rate of change” equation, and is a form of differential calculus. Thought in its infinite diversity is both a function of the change of time, and of the changeless within the timeless. There are the special few people who understand the dependency of the personal sense of self with the movement of time, and the relative independence of a higher powered self that lives a time-independent life. When the knower, which is our pure awareness, finally releases its self from the moorings and limitations of a time dependent experience, miracles can occur. We can then travel new paths of spiritual consciousness, as our brain concurrently creates new neurons and neural interconnections.
Pilloried to the past, or to the future? We can release ourselves from imprisonment to time, and becoming, and find a more healing relationship with our true being.
The miracle may be nothing more than changing the way that we perceive a situation. When we can see that in a time based reality, “the thinker” and “the thought” are equivalent. Who, or what, is left when we no longer seek for our good in the future, or in the past?
A great example of the interplay between a concept that can be considered both time based and timeless is the movement of consciousness that occurs with the development and experience of gratitude. We can be grateful for something that is happening right now, that is, dependent only upon viewing wondrous activities of this moment, as would occur with sunsets, rainbows, spectacular views, or a newborn baby’s smile. On the other hand, gratitude for that which will be delivered in the future, such as the practice of faith, and hope, postpone that which one seeks for in the present into an unknown future, dependent upon a higher power that one does not understand. This is time dependent gratitude, and only delays ones envelopment into the trust of the present moment, and its infinite gifts. We must let go of the controls, and finally quit wishing for a different future or past.
Prove me now, safety the Lord of Hosts ( from the Bible)
Time independent thinking will not change proportionately or in any previously defined way with the passage of time, and creates a life experience, or “result”, that is undefined, indeterminate, and/or unknowable. Time dependent thought, however, will have a defined relationship with the passage of time itself, and, in fact, under these circumstances both are philosophically equivalent. Yet, time dependent thought will behave in predictable and previously understood or defined ways. until the effects of the change of time are minimized, which then pushes the value towards infinity.
“New paths of consciousness cannot be explored while remaining hypnotized by the older paths of memory, knowledge, and repetition.”
When we stop experimenting with our consciousness, we stop expanding our vision of who we are, and we fail to realize what our true potential might be. Experimenting may involve noting how our whole demeanor changes when we hike in nature, or when we witness incredible beauty, or experience life with an enhanced sense of awe and wonder. Experimenting may also involve exploring our potential for slowing down the thousands of years of momentum of cultural conditioning. It is through witnessing our thoughts, and investigating what might occur, if anything, with the end of thinking processes, that a more all-encompassing vision may be acquired.
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Chapter 5:
I would like to present a rather unique “thought experiment”. This is a both a teaching, and an interior journey, and it can be useful for accessing the One Real Teacher, which lies deep within all of us. Thousands of years of conditioning and education have made our innate capacity to tune into our interior power for personal change and evolution, more of a threatening proposition, rather than the natural avenue towards freedom and discovery that, in fact, they are.
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In the end, it is the mind that has found the present moment, imbued with the healing potential of its infinite, sacred silence, that becomes a Teacher onto Itself.
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This is my own unique verbal bridge, from the deepest part of myself (which is non-verbal in nature) to my conscious mind, and may not work for others, who must make their own unique, ‘direct connection’.
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This is only a template, to be filled in by one’s journey towards Truth. It only points in a direction.
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This ‘meditation’ is not for everybody.
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THE MEDITATION
After quieting the body by sitting down comfortably, let us breathe consciously, and deeply, for a few breaths. Usually, the following of our breathing will quiet the mind a bit, which is important if this “experiment” is to bring any results.
Let’s now ask of our self if we are ready to listen for the truth of the moment. Are we willing to travel to a new place in consciousness, and conscious awareness, that perhaps we have never traveled to before?
Ask our self if we can “let go of all thought controls” that keep us in the past, that keep us in judgement of self, or other, that keep us from experiencing a deeper appreciation for what this moment might be able to bring to us?
Now visualize for a moment that we are driving a car, heading to a direction that we feel quite familiar with. Before arriving at the usual destination, ask our self what would happen if we just “LET GO OF THE CONTROLS”, even if it is for just one moment?
Is it possible?
Keep trying, until we can see our self actually letting go of the steering wheel. As we let go of the steering wheel, imagine, now, that the car “disappears” that was around us, and find that we are now being carried into some new, as yet, unexplored realm of experience.
If it is still familiar territory in our interior visual field, we will need to restart the thought experiment, or just give up altogether on this particular thought experiment, and find a different path to the interior dimensions.
If we have “LET GO OF THE CONTROLS”, we are now finding that we are being “guided” by a “teacher” or a “messenger”, who has not revealed who or what it is, what kind of form it might take, or why it might, or might not, exist for us in this new moment.
Yet we know that there is no need for fear, even though we are now being “guided” into a complete mystery, and “unknowable” experience.
There is a sense of exhilaration, because we are no longer secured to our “body of knowledge” anymore, which may also feel like we are having an “out of body” event.
We are free, yet we do not yet know what we are being liberated from. Stay in this “unknowing state”, while still being “guided by our inner teacher”.
We now pass by an amazing, infinite array of interconnected, interlocking “membranes”, which are neither “light” nor “dark”.
We seem to “float through, and then underneath” this web of “who knows what?” – then we reach a place of absolute still, and calm. {Much more will be revealed later, when we have developed the interior fortitude to face our individual and collective demons}
If we are really “there”, we find a silence, which is so quiet, and peaceful, that it may “startle” us initially, yet we quickly settle into it, and appreciate its essence and nature.
A “voice” may appear within our now quiet minds, and may begin to speak “through us” rather than “to us”. We will become the mouthpiece for a teaching, or a message, that we have never heard before, yet we are willing messengers for this new moment.
We begin to recognize an incredibly happy, joyful, laughing voice, and we know we are right where we are supposed to be, in a state that is so natural, and normal.
We might wonder why it was so “unknown” in our past, but we save all questions for later, so as not to miss the rest of the experience.
“Follow the new paths of consciousness” we hear, and speak within our hearts and minds simultaneously, directly and powerfully to ‘our self’.
“No teacher can give to us our salvation, we must work it out for our self”.
“Think no thoughts, especially time based thoughts (memories) about the “you”, as any “YOU”, cannot ever be real here”.
“To return to the “UNKNOWN”, we must eliminate all time based thoughts about our self, and “THE OTHER”.
We now know that this moment, outside of time, has all of the information that we will ever need, and does not need our input to reveal itself and its real, eternal nature.
As the “teaching” ends, we are shown those forces which have attached themselves to our energy fields, which provide “companionship” yet they provide no lasting spiritual value, and will inhibit our future growth and development.
FURTHER FRUITS FROM THE TREE OF LIFE
Be easy on our self, as it will not be immediately obvious what the nature and purpose of these inner/interpersonal forces are.
They served a purpose, yet they will have to leave. But, first, we have to meet them directly, to get to know them better, while further dealing directly with our “conscious” world, and the life we live in it.
Welcome to our Real individual, and collective, self. There is no room here for “you and me”, “us and them”, there is only room for the ONE.
This will trouble us greatly when we return to our ‘normal’ consciousness from this experiment. This is normal, and we will learn from the tension created by this dynamic.
Eventually we learn that we dream through the “collective” mind of mankind, and the “collective” also dreams through us. Yet there is also One Other Option, which has eluded most of Mankind.
As we travel back to this place, over and over, over many years, if necessary, we find what we have always been looking for.
We also find what has been holding back the rest of mankind for all of time. Many of the very structures of thought that have been ‘worshipped’ or unconsciously accepted are seen to be the source of the Shadow within mankind’s heart and soul.
This journey is not for those who want to continue to just worship the past, and all of its dead thoughts, and heroes.
This thought experiment is a technique for shaking the mind free, even if just for a moment, from its lifetimes of its ‘knowns’ or certainties.
Truth does not come into a mind that has already been crystallized into a structure that does not permit curiosity, and insight.
If we are sincerely seeking Truth, prepare for a real shock. If our minds have not been shocked, we have not yet met our goal.
“YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR”, just don’t give up looking before the Real miracle appears, OK?
Otherwise, we will only find a continuation of our past, as it extends into an all too familiar future.
Final thoughts: I found that there are tricksters within each of our consciousnesses that tell us lies, and make us want to reject life in some obvious and subtle ways. I have found two tricksters.
#1: Life has already rejected me, and has told me that I am unworthy of love and attention. There are many fascinating aspects to this infantile “realization”. Trust in others does not come quickly, and it is easier to reject others, often for vague or specious reasons.. Not everyone will experience this trickster, as I had a fairly unique upbringing. I learned to try to use the threat of my own death, to try to control my life, and to even help open the door to some sort of meaning..
“Unless I find meaning, unless life improves, I will kill myself outright” is the anthem this trickster sings.
I have found this trickster is active whenever I become unconscious. In previous years, I have suffered one relapse from drug addiction and a brief foray into legalized cannabis as a result.
#2: My voice will never be heard, and my cries and words have no value. Welcome to the conspiracy of silence, where we all stop talking, or listening, with integrity, understanding, and mutual compassion. Its effects are pervasive, to the point that the truth of others, especially those who have previously brought harm to us, are minimized, or ignored, because they are too threatening.
I have written a book or three about this one, as it has ultimate collective and individual importance.
I have faced my demons, and I now invite them to tea, so that I can more deeply understand my unique, yet universal in nature, trcksters
We must become a light unto ourselves
Spiritual Experience of July 21, 1987 (maybe make this a chapter, perhaps a prelude to this one)
The year was 1987, and I was still quite new to the path of healing and transformation. I had left my old life behind, and I was open to the experience of spiritual connection, and mastery. I had developed quite a meditation practice, eschewing committed relationships with others in order to develop a deeper spiritual practice. I remained excited about the possibilities for my life, as I had finally made “conscious contact with the God of my understanding”. I had recently experienced dramatic, if not miraculous, healing of my body and my mind, and a new energy permeated my being. I felt like I was finally “swimming in the sea of meaning”, though I still had not “connected the dots”, or started consciously rebuilding the new self. But, I could have never anticipated the experience I was about to have, on this particular day, July 21, 1987.
“Master Teacher of the Light, Master Teacher of the Light” I repeated within myself several times during an evening meditation, which is a mantra that I had developed to aid my focus for my meditation practice. I was meditating several hours a day, and though my life was bearing fruit from previous connections with the Spirit, I remained driven to find deeper and deeper layers of meaning, and experience of my true nature and being. Well, this meditation was to become Truth’s “bell ringer” for me. Without warning, I was lifted from my body awareness, and I then had a sense that I now had a decision to make. It was like I was driving an automobile, and I realized that I could continue steering, and heading in my usual direction for life, or I could “let go of the controls” and experience something totally different and unique. Well, I released the “steering wheel” of my mind, and my conditioning, and there was an exhilarating inner “rush” whereby I was totally released from myself and my burdens, and my body! My essence traveled into a great unknown, neither “light or dark”, and it was like I passed through some sort of great matrix of information/being until I came to a place of complete “darkness”, or emptiness. I felt totally at home here. Almost immediately, a “laughing, happy voice” seemed to be speaking to me, or, more precisely, through me. As I/we spoke, it said
“No teacher shall effect your salvation, you must work it out for yourself”.
Then, “we” said:
“think no thoughts”;
“Follow new paths of consciousness”;
And then, a mathematical formula for re-entry back into the great unknown was given to me. It was a differential equation that I could understand, and which stated (in layman’s terms) that with the total elimination of the movement of time based thought, the direct perception of reality was possible. The limit, as delta T goes to zero (T is thought as a function of time), divided by delta t (t is time itself), or lim dT/dt, as dt approaches zero, and T=f(t). The solution of this equation is the great unknown (and, in fact, equals INFINITY), or that which I sought.
The final messages, however, were the one most difficult to reconcile within my life, and the ones which sometimes were troubling. First, there is this component: “YOU CAN’T BE REAL”. When it was stated, it was stated through me, with a joyful, laughing voice, yet when I re-entered my normal way of being, it became an almost threatening statement, and one that continued to challenge myself, and my ego daily for quite some time. And yet, to see again, as God, or Truth, sees, I must be mastered by this truth. The ego is the sum total of all of my judgments, the sum total of my human experience, my acculturation, my conditioning, my “separation from God, Love, my fellow-man, and Truth”. The ego looks out from itself, and sees everything, and everyone, as if they are separate from its self, while totally failing to see that “all that it ever sees, unto eternity, is itself”. There really does not exist the “you” that I have formed, my perception of “you” is an incomplete mental creation that only exists in my mind (and which may or may not be shared by others, and most certainly is NOT shared by you). Once again, the human race tends to confuse the verbal description (or mental image) of the person with the actual experience of the person, who, regardless of appearances, is infinitely more complex, and worthy of love and acceptance, than the human mind can readily accept. Yes, my ego is the sum total of all of my time based thoughts about time based behaviors of myself, and others. If I want to see clearly, I must accept that my main mode of viewing the world was through the ego’s eyes of unreality. To die to this mode of living is to truly be reborn of the spirit. WOW!! That was too much to digest in that moment, in that year of 1987, and for quite a period to follow.
Lastly, a most confusing revelation came, as well. I could see the field of energy that constituted my “body/mind awareness”. I saw embedded in it two almost complete thought forms, or identity forms, which I recognized as two distinct “entities”. Yes, I had two ‘extras’ attached to my field, and they were not there for my greater good, for sure. I came to regard these two unwelcome components to my life force as “tricksters”, though I noted that their presence seemed to allay the feelings of loneliness of my ego, perhaps only because they seemed vaguely familiar to me. I sensed that I was supposed to let go of these “illusions of self”, but I did not know what to do. The two extra identity vortices in the ‘human energy field matrix’ that constituted my conscious sense of self did not really ever disappear, they just became unconscious again, for me. Little did I know that they were to become the most critical components to understand in my desire to stay alive and be more present for this moment, and have a better ongoing human/spiritual experience.
Many more profound experiences have both preceded, and followed, the summer of 1987 spiritual events. I owe a profound debt of gratitude to my wife Sharon White, who helped midwife a life changing “birth” during the week of March 4, 2017. That was the experience that allowed for me to bring “healing” to both of the dark unconscious companions that I carried with me for my entire life, resulting in a higher measure of peace with my tricksters. Trickster number one is that I cannot be heard, which takes on many forms, and Trickster number two are the control dramas around death itself, which also appears in a multitude of forms. Writing a story around my recovery, called “Grandfather, Great Spirit, Thank You”(which was actually written by the Creator Within), is the direct outcome of facing both vortices simultaneously.
Chapter 6: You Can’t Be Real (revisited-maybe make this one a separate chapter)
I have always known that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that we, as humans, live our lives, and communicate with each other. I have not always known what the source of my own disease was, however. My disease of misunderstanding drove me to the brink of death, into insanity, drug addiction, despair, loneliness, and suicidal ideation. My life could only be characterized, by the time I had turned thirty years old in 1985, as a committed search for the grave.
In 1987, I experienced a series of real spiritual transformational events, resulting in the miraculous healing of my body and mind. There was such a huge disconnect between the consciousness of the “old ways”, the “diseased”, the “dying” aspects of myself, and a new order of being that was trying to discard the “old me”. My old misunderstanding of life, and of myself, was to be replaced by another version of my infinite potentiality. It was a remarkable time, and people who knew me then could feel the energy that was bubbling up within me. I had found a newborn enthusiasm for life, living, and a healthy re-integration back into the flow of humanity, Humanity, alas, did not collectively share in my inner experience, nor could it.
I traveled all around the City of Portland, much like I did when I sank into its underworld, on my original search for truth. I no longer visited the drug dealers, manufacturers, itinerant thieves, motorcycle gang hit men, or any of the other characters that helped to enlighten me while I traveled the road of darkness. I now met with, literally, thousands of people who were new to me, in a multitude of different group experiences, to engage with and get to know “my people”. When I literally, and spiritually, came off of the mountaintop on June 22, 1987, an intention planted into my heart was to locate “MY PEOPLE”. My life had changed, and so did the nature of the people that I was to become interested in , and who became attracted to me, as well.
On one of my journeys, I visited a crystal store, which was a new-age rock shop on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. The owner of the store stocked books which promoted some of the speculative spirituality of that time. Every day, many people congregated at that store. They appeared to be part of a well-meaning group of spiritual aspirants, yet I could not quite grasp the ideas that “spiritual masters”, or even ultra-evolved aliens, were communicating to the human race through these crystals, many of which were originally located in Brazil. Books had been written about them (such as the Starseed Trilogy), and there was a popular, though misguided, attraction to the possibility that these crystals had special powers. Even some of these supposedly evolved people had evaded the truth that their enlightened minds were the source or cause of special powers, and not any objects in the world of effect.
I had several conversations with Jack, the owner of the shop, as I visited the shop at least three times to look at books, and be conversant with this “new-age” community of people. I challenged him about selling some of these crystals to naive purchasers for several thousand dollars each. Jack, quite the economic and spiritual realist, claimed that he was only meeting a need, and not promoting an idea or agenda. After all, he is a capitalist now, and he needed to pay his bills.
One of our conversations had to do with what our responsibility as evolving, healing beings is to the rest of humanity, which continued to struggle with its own broken truth, as it had since time immemorial. Jack listened with great interest in what I had to say, as he always did. Jack had the capacity to listen to what was being said, acknowledge the person where they were, and point to a direction where they might want to look. In some sense of the word, Jack was a GURU. I was not attracted to GURU’s, however, as my nature tended to rebel against so-called authority figures.
My own “Master Teacher”, which revealed itself within me on July 21, 1987, in a most spectacular fashion, rejects the notion that any teacher can deliver to another their salvation. The inner message, received as if delivered by thunder in the silence of my being, was that “no teacher can bring salvation to others, it must be worked out within the self”. There were a few other messages delivered, as well as a few visions, but I did not have the context at the time to fully interpret and understand the totality of its life-changing, life-affirming message.
That is where personal experience must rise up and become incorporated within a new narrative, a narrative informed by the new energy, an energy that is more inclusive, and universal in its application. Without our personal story becoming married, as it were, to the new truth, life changing wisdom could not become part of our nature, nor could we become verbal around a new world order that was trying to reveal itself to all receptive beings.
I pondered with Jack the possibility of bringing healing to others, as I felt so blessed by my own healing, and I felt that I had something unique and precious to share with the world. Jack listened intently, as he always did, thought for a moment, then with a BIG SMILE stated simply:
“FUCK THE WORLD!”
I was confused, and asked for clarification.
“Bruce, the world could care less about your healing, and what new truth or messages that you might be able to bring to assist others in their journey. The world, as it now exists, exists for a reason. The whole fundamental consciousness has been established to make the common man feel OK about being less than who they are, in truth, and to limit and control those who might develop the insight to rebel against the established disorder. The whole of religion, and philosophy, was designed to help keep people in their darkness, while telling them that they are on the path to their own salvation through the belief in powers greater than themselves. It has always been about disempowering, and controlling, the population. Could you imagine how the powers of the age would respond if everybody sought for, and found, the Truth?, There would be chaos, and the world would collapse into a form of Armageddon. The world of religion, and this bastardized Christianity that Americans practice, is the ultimate form of oppression. And the oppressed BELIEVE that they are the chosen ones, while they subject themselves to the fantasies and hypnotism of their faiths”.
One of his final statements set me back in my chair, and I almost fainted.
“The “world” has created its own dysfunction, and revels in swimming in its own cesspool of misunderstanding, and there is NOTHING a sane man can do about it, other than just laugh at it.”
Though I felt a part of myself feel rejected by his statement, I also felt a resonance with his statement of truth.. I had lived a life of little or no value up to my transformation, and I felt that I finally had something to contribute to the world, yet here was a prominent figure lecturing me to turn my back on the world, and to just go out and enjoy my life, and LAUGH AT THE WORLD.
Here is the eerie part:
In the spiritual experience of July 21, 1987, when I first reached the “Master Teacher” within my own being, I had traveled, without my body (of thought, past consciousness, etc.) to a place of silence so deep and powerful, and which was subsequently perceived to be the very “womb of creation” of consciousness itself. It was there that I heard my own Master’s voice.
“You can’t be real”
was the message, laughingly expressed through the deepest silence, peace, and love that I had ever experienced. For a moment, I was allowed to “look through the eyes of God” and see that the entirety of the matrix of consciousness of the human experience was unreality itself. All that the “Truth” can do, is to laugh at it, and dismiss it.
And now Jack, two weeks later, was parroting the very idea that my “God” had revealed to me.
All that I knew was that I was a “guided missile” of the truth, and I was to have many more remarkable connections with evolving people over the next several years. These connections helped me to “flesh out” what had been revealed within myself by my own “Master Teacher”, or source of wisdom common to all of mankind when it chooses to access it.
I chose to be silent about my experience, for many years to follow. I carried a grin on my face that the despair of the world could not erase for several of the following years. I stopped “laughing at the world” when my responsibilities to my life increased.dramatically in the mid 1990’s, while, concurrently, my new, more spiritually inspired, persona developed. I was not to live the life of an acetic monk, or live the artificial, though idyllic, life of a member of an ashram. Traveling through the diseased world of form, with one’s need for eating and gainful employment, while witnessing the world’s corruption, its sin, suffering, and dying, tends to distract one from the truth that “all that is human, is illusion”.
And having watched the drama that continuously unfolded from within the Trump White House from the Anti-Christ himself tends to be quite disturbing, and shows how twisted human consciousness may become. I am still attempting to “laugh at the world”, though my “God consciousness” appears to have dramatically ebbed, at least for now, and all that I can do, many times, is be anxious, and cry. I have known, at times, the darkest night of the Soul.
Unlike the years from 1987-1993, when I meditated up to six hours a day, and lived in a continuous blessed state, I am unable to meditate for longer than a half hour now. And, yes, the continuous blessed state is only a memory for me. I could return to it if I abandoned the world, but I love too much of the world and its infinitude of sights and sounds to do so at this time. Reading, writing, integration into nature, exercising outdoors, and conscious meditation upon day to day life now fills my day. Most days, I am at peace, and I feel fulfilled. The daily news remains a source of information, and I tend to avoid conservative points of view, opting for more liberal and progressive interpretations of reality.
I have recently attempted to write several books about the potential for the transformation of consciousness. To the best of my ability, I have translated the message from the ‘Master Teacher”, but I am not an adequate messenger, for sure. Publishers dislike my style, and editors have a problem with my tendency towards verbosity. Yet, potentially, we are all containers for Infinite Spirit, albeit broken ones, and that can be more than enough to bring a blessing to our self, and to others.
All that I can now say is this:
Welcome to the ILLUSION.
Please, enjoy yourself while you are here.
Discard all of our knowns and conclusions into the universal dumpster, and live from the state of “unknowing”, where insight and new knowledge may be spawned. There is only one Mind, and it can only be experienced in the “unknown”. Intelligence and its active agent, curiosity, only thrive when one is not permanently committed to a point of view.
Changing our consciousness is a natural and normal experience, when we are not suffering under the infinite weight of the oppressive nature of collective consciousness. Drinking alcohol, using drugs, spinning madly on a merry-go-round, jumping out of airplanes, or even traveling to outer space is the expression of our natural need for change. The key is not to become addicted to the avenues chosen for release, for then they become new forms of oppression for our hearts. Permanent release, liberation, or enlightenment, occurs, when one loses attachment to the world of form and effect, its accumulated verbal constructs, and all forms of release, with its accompanying pleasure and pain.
If you are not enjoying the show, remember, you are the co-creator of it. Try changing the channel, and see what happens.
Pain is inevitable, though many forms of suffering are optional
There must be the DEEPEST of desires to find the truth, and the DEEPEST of intentions to not neglect it in the face of attacks from others.
The human “Conspiracy Of Silence” points to the FACT that mankind covers itself with illusory verbal constructs, and worships the illusion as if it is fact. The Truth remains forever buried, thus, the foundation for the “conspiracy” is created, and maintained, throughout eternity.
The truth that I live is the only truth that I can give.
I have saved the world from myself, and there really is nothing more for me to do, save witness the suffering of others, and point my finger to a potential new direction for those who choose to awaken.
Those that do not choose to awaken, will remain stick figures in other people’s dreams of world domination.
Hildegard of Bingen, the great German mystic and writer from the 12th century, became ill whenever she did not write. The same experience has become the truth for myself, and, potentially, may be the truth for all of mankind. Collectively, we are terminally ill. We are all participants, to varying degrees, in the self, and other, destructive attitudes that have plagued mankind for over 300 generations
Please, save yourself.
And write a great story, or book!
