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Free will is outside of the Program.

"The structure of the human mind has been likened to a computer in that the mind's basic structure is akin to the hardware and its content to the software. The mind has limited control over the content of the programming; thus, the human is simultaneously accountable and responsible yet innocent." David Hawkins.

"The mind has limited control over the content of the programming"…Most of us fail to understand the power of the program that is running inside of our heads. How it sees for us and has us living a life from its base and that we have very very little free will.

Our free will is all within the program, but you do not have a choice outside of what is offered there. It isn't even possible to consider a choice that the program doesn't have. Our limits are our parents limits. It is near impossible to reach beyond the confines while in the confines. The program has a list to choose from, a limited list, we can only select from the list.

What I believe happened to me, is that my whole program crashed. I for some reason was able to see the program and then reality. And how the two did not match. It is a rare opportunity to see outside of the program.

My 'mental breakdown' was actually falling out of the program.

I was the computer and could see the program….instead of believing the program was me.

How I was able to see the truth outside of the program, I can't know, or how that happened, but it did…And I believed IT over the long running program.

Once you see that the mind/program can be wrong, you lose faith in your head.

My head had stories that didn't match reality. My head had definitions that didn't match reality. I saw and felt and experienced first hand how out of sync my mind was with reality.

Once you know you have a defunct operating system running your life, you are aware you have a program operating.

My 'natural' reflexes were actual reflexes of the program…but not of truth.

The program seemed to be built to ward off the truth and reality instead of walking hand in hand with it. And my life was built upon the program and not of my truth or the truth alone.

For seven years now I have been finding threads of the program, beliefs and thoughts that eclipse my spirit.

When the program is running a part of my life, I feel out of control now, and am. The program is driving me and I follow.

Hard to articulate this to folks who have never, not once stepped out of their program, it makes perfect sense to me since I experienced first hand how off the mark it was.

I had believed that I was a program and that the program was of high morals and values, to come and find out it was filled with abuse and lies.

While it was extremely difficult to see the program in its fully glory, it was the only thing that would have gotten me out. I am not sure if there was one thread of truth within the whole thing, for if I had the correct word, I had the wrong definition. Or the right definition but had it placed upon the wrong person or relationship. There always seemed to be one thing that made the whole thing wrong.

Very interesting to investigate your self, your program and place it facing the truth to see where you and reality match.

It seems to me, that unless something huge happens in reality that our program can't handle, we will get left idling along behind the program, content that it is spot on.

Perhaps restless now and again, or a bit resentful, but not with enough volume to send us completely out. Life's little bumps are something that the program can handle.

We can live with mild to moderate stress with spikes of rage and not get tossed out of the program. The moments of great tragedy or crisis are the situations that are set up to toss you out…

I can't know what those are or what programs are running, but what I can seem to tell is where you are compared to reality.

I can see the justifiable lies of the program, you call you.

In dysfunctional homes, the justifiable lies are what holds the family together. Its the glue and the rose colored glasses that keeps you from leaving.

It isn't the truth of there being love and kindness there, but the lies that it is there. And while under the power of the program, you can't tell truth from fiction.

The program is living your life…and calling it a loving family.

I see folks asleep behind the program…living life unaware; Not being aware they are accountable and responsible for choices they are making within the program…for there is no part of them that can reach for a new choice outside of the program..that choice is unavailable to them.

Free will isn't a choice that they have to pick from.

Free will is outside of the program.

March 24, 2012

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A loving God there.

"In the beginning of the research, we were naive. We assumed that anything labeled as 'spiritual' must be of the highest truth, valid, and something that could be corroborated through one's inner experience. We found that this is not necessarily the case, and what is labeled a spiritual teaching might range anywhere over the Map of Consciousness, all the way from the bottom of the Map, where the teaching was written by those who teach hate as the way to truth, up to those who are most infinitely loving. We found that many of the books were of a negative energy field, meaning that one would end up in a worse condition from getting involved in that particular field of learning and would move further away from the truth than before reading it. Almost half the books in a typical spiritual bookstore are actually fiction."

"As a result we had to look at the value of the research itself. In looking at the field of spiritual research, we found there are no real guidelines for the person approaching spiritual work for the first time or going back into it later in life with a renewed interest. Each approach claimed that it represented the truth, so the self-claims were no indication of validity. We also found that the number of followers and the glamour of riches the teacher of a certain pathway had no correlation with its validity – the number of followers meant nothing, and best sellers were frequently purely fictional."

"A purported teacher could have a great many followers, and yet we discovered that the energy field was in a negative direction, with calibrations being very low. As we got closer to the truth of the great enlightened beings that were acknowledged by all of mankind, the energies always moved upward in a positive direction. The calibrations were always over 600 and on up into the 700's. Therefore, we see how the great teachers -those called avatars – who were on the planet for only a short period of earthly time, changed the face of the world and the belief systems of mankind, breaking new ground and creating a whole new context and set of values because the power and energy of their words were of a such high caliber."

"That which is truthful carries greater power and calibrates at a higher number. It is a higher frequency, and in physics, the higher the frequency, the greater the power. Electrical power, for example, is not transmitted across the countryside at 120 volts; it is transmitted at 30,000 volts or higher. The higher the frequency the greater the power. This is why the words of the great teachers have transformed mankind for thousands of years. Their words are still active and powerful and continue to transform the consciousness of mankind thousands of years later, even though their bodies have left the plant. When we calibrate the energy fields of their work, we see that they are of enormous power, so it is not just what is said, it is the power of the being who says it."

"It has been discovered that, historically, there has really been no safe context or orientation available for people approaching this field, so the way to avoid spiritual crises and the need for spiritual first aid in the future is to back up a bit and do some individual research. The first question to ask about any teaching is, "What is the level of the teaching?" This is helpful because the child within continues to be naive and innocent. The innocence, on the other hand, is twhat leads to error because the innocent mind of the child has no means of discernment. It needs some way to determine what is going to be beneficial."

"it is obvious that if one is involved in a teaching that as an energy field below 200, one will have negative experiences. In contrast, a teaching that has a positive energy field and calibrates at a high level is going to lead into a lovingness, which is the best insurance against spiritual catastrophe. One can ask if the teaching, teacher of the teaching, or the books of the teaching are reflecting a high level. This is not to say it is right or wrong; it is just beneficial to determine its level."

"If a teaching is below 200, at Hatred, for example, it will say that God hates you, your behavior, your impulses and your humanness. Thus, this is a God of Hatred, and the energy field is negative, calibrating even as low as 20, 30, or 40. At that level is hatred, the killing of others and suicide. Thee is a God of death rather than of life. Self-hatred and an inner feeling of being destroyed come from this teaching. If one wishes to follow such a pathway, at least one is going with their eyes open (e.g. terrorism)."

"There are teachings of existentialism that focus on man's hopelessness. They are based upon worshipping the past in which there is a great deal of grief and self-pity toward what has befallen this group of people. There are teachings and teachers who express and exploit the energy field called Fear, in which case the person experiences a fear of God as a punitive God. The energy field is in a negative direction and continues to engender fear."

"All these negative fields have proponents who sound convincing. They are like politicians in the religious or spiritual world and very adept at their convincingness."

"As we move up into Anger, we see those positions that promote anger, conflict, hatred, and religious wars because they are competitive and usually champion a politicized god of retaliation. Because it is a polarized position, it is always viewed that God will punish the nonbelievers, which is usually one of the traditional teachings. It is important to know where this calibrates on the scale so we can see how it correlates with things that are truthful." David Hawkins, "Healing and Recovery".

What I find so discerning is that the word or subject of God and Spirituality can be used and manipulated by fear and the "innocent child" goes along believing.

The FALC, due to its belief that the nonbelievers will be punished, leaves its teachings at the level of Anger. Stunning in its horror as a child of that church.

He goes on to say, " How can we heal what comes up in our lives unless we hold a healing position? It is obvious how critically important it is to know the energy field of a given teaching. If it requires forgiveness, the teachings of the Christ is based on forgiveness. If it requires compassion and understanding, then the teaching will have to be at calibration level 500 and over because healing begins at 540. That which the world call sin is obvious something that requires healing, does it not? Then a healing that is at least at the level of 540 is needed."

"To ask people to bring up something from within into a negative energy field is to bring about upset; therefore it is unsafe to go into any spiritual teaching whatsoever that suggests introspection, soul searching, and purification unless that energy field of that teaching or pathway is positive and at 540 or higher. It is evident how dangeous a lower-level teaching could be – it would be like putting oneself on the operating table and letting one's abdomen be opened by a surgeon who does not have the skill to handle what he is going to discover when he does so. We don't allow a second-year medical student to open abdomens on the operating table. Instead, it is done by someone who has the power. These energy fields have power. It requires a great deal of power and knowledge to open up someone's insides and investigate them."

"We don't advise introspection in the beginnings of the inner process of purification until it is determined tht the teacher, teaching, and those around a person are in the energy field of at least 540, a field that is nurturing, supportive, and forgiving and has the purpose of healing through understanding and true compassion. The God of that kind of energy field would therefore be a God who loves us because healing only occurs through loving, and His love would be unconditional." David

All I can say is wow. Trusting in someone to help nurture you with anger is an impossible feat.

Not only the teachings of the FALC, are preached from the level of anger, but what of the ministers themselves?

There is no way a child in that religion WHO has been abused as a chance in hell of recovering while in that system. None. To operate on their soul while anger curses through their veins and cells.

What a huge affirmation this is for me and why I was so repelled and flung back from this system…It would be impossible to find a loving God there.

January 23, 2012

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Who is in charge of our Free Will?

Another interesting section from Power vs Force by David Hawkins…as it relates to getting out of the negative field of energy.

"The entire field of philosophy is merely evidence that man has struggled and failed for thousands of years to arrive at the simplest recognition of what's true and what's false, or the discourse would have reached some consensus long ago. And it's clear from common human conduct that even if the intellect could reliably arrive at this basic conclusion, it still lacks the power to stop the effect of negative fields. We remain unconscious of the causes of our afflictions while the intellect dreams up all kinds of plausible excuses, hypnotized by these same forces. Even when a person knows his behavior is self-destructive, this knowledge has no necessary deterrent effect whatsoever; intellectual recognition of our addictions has never given us the power to control them."

"In scripture, we're told that man is afflicted by forces unseen. In this century, we've learned that silent invisible rays of energy are emitted by innocent-looking objects – the discoveries of radium paid for this realization with their lives. Roentgen x-rays are lethal; radioactive emissions and radon kill silently. The attractor energy fields that destroy us are equally invisible and no less powerful, but are far more subtle."

"When it is said that some is "possessed," what's meant is that his consciousness has become dominated by negative attractor fields. By this definition, we can see that entire segments of society are so thoroughly "possessed" that they themselves are totally unconscious of their motives. Wisdom tells us that one worships either heaven or hell and will eventually become the servant of one or the other. Hell isn't a condition imposed by a judgmental God, but rather the inevitable consequence of one's own decisions – it's the final outcome of constantly choosing the negative and thus isolating oneself from love."

"Enlightened being have always described the general populace as being "trapped in a dream"; the majority of people are driven by unseen forces, and for a great deal of our lives, most of us are in despair over this fact. We pray to God to relieve us of the burden of our sins, and we look for relief through confession. Remorse seems woven into the fabric of life. How can salvation be possible, then, for those who have unwittingly become ensnared by such destructive forces?"

"In fact, even from a merely scientific viewpoint, salvation is indeed possible; in truth, it's guaranteed by the simple fact that the energy of a loving thought is enormously more powerful than that of a negative one. Therefore, the traditional solutions of love and prayer have a sound scientific basis; man has within his own essence the power of his own salvation."

"Humanity is an "affliction" that we're all burdened with. We don't remember asking to be born, and we subsequently inherited a mind so limited that it's hardly capable of distinguishing what enhances life from what leads to death. The entire struggle of life is in transcending this myopia. We can't enter into higher levels of existence until we advance in consciousness to the point where we overcome duality and are no longer earth bound. Perhaps it's because of our collective will to transcend that we've earned the capacity to finally discover an inborn compass to lead us out of the darkness of ignorance. We needed something very simple, which could bypass those traps of the wily intellect that we've paid such an enormous price for. This compass merely says yes or no – tells us that what's aligned with heaven makes us go strong and what's aligned with hell makes us go weak."

"The ubiquitous human ego is actually not an "I" at all; it's merely an "it". Seeing this illusion reveals an endless Cosmic Joke, where the human tragedy itself is part of the comedy. The irony of human experience is in how fiercely the ego fights to preserve the illusion of a separate individual "I" – even thought this is not a metaphysical impossibility but the wellspring of all suffering. Human reason exhausts itself ceaselessly to explain the inexplicable. Explanation itself is high comedy, as preposterous as tyring to see the back of ones's own head, but the vanity of the ego is boundless, and it becomes even more overblown by this very attempt to make sense of nonsense."

"The mind, in its identity with the ego cannot, by definition, comprehend reality; if it could, it would instantly dissolve itself upon recognizing its own illusory nature. It's only beyond the paradox of mind transcending ego that what Is stands forth, self-evident and dazzling in its infinite Absoluteness. And then all of these words are useless."

"But perhaps from compassion for each other's blindness, we can learn to forgive ourselves, and peace than can be our assured future. Our purpose on Earth my remain obscure, but the road ahead is clear. With the consciousness level of humanity finally above 200, we may expect great transformations throughout human culture, as mankind becomes more responsible for its knowledge, and thus its deeds. We've become fully accountable whether we like it or not. We're at the point in the evolution of our collective awareness where we may even assume stewardship of consciousness itself. Humanity is no longer resigned to passively paying the price for ignorance, or its communal consciousness wouldn't have risen to its new level. From this time forth, man may choose to no longer be enslaved by darkeness; his destiny can then be certain." Gloria in Excelsis Deo David Hawkins.

While this may seem very wordy and beyond comprehension, my brother and I talk of this often, how is it that some of us are granted the awareness the rise in levels of consciousness and others seem to be frozen in the negative attractor fields.

He and I have often stood on two sides, that God gives us the grace he will say, and I will speak more from the side of choice.

What I believe David Hawkins is saying is that when man chooses to no longer be a slave to the negative energies, he will then seek to be free.

But, in my experience, many are willing slaves. They seem to enjoy the lifestyle of the negative, they are not trying to escape or find an answer, in fact they use their intellect to form plausible excuses as to how it is impossible to be free.

An interesting debate, who is in charge of our free will?

January 15, 2012

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Fear into Love

In a Card from a Sister Friend, she quoted Constantine Peter Cavafy

"As you set out in search of Ithaka pray that your journey be long, full of adventures, full of awakenings. Do not fear the monsters of old…you will not meet them in your travels if your thoughts are exhalted and remain high, if authentic passions stir your mind, body, and spirit. You will not encounter fearful monsters if you do not carry them within your soul, if your soul doesn't see them up in front of you."

I love that we will not meet the monsters of old…the old lessons we learned are not recycled.

Lessons not learned grow bigger trying desperately to gain our attention, to bring into our awareness the things we are doing to hurt ourselves and others; to raise us from fear into Love.

The center of this quilt was from a wall hanging I had made my parents in the very early stages of my quilting. It hung in their porch, and one winter while they were in Texas, the mice chewed the quilt fabric surrounding this saying. I took it back and a few summers ago turned it back into a wallhanging for me. (our estrangement didn't bode for gift exchanges anymore)

What is so foretelling is the saying on this quilt.

"May those who love us, Love us. And those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so we will know them by their limping."

My mother had used a walking cane to hang this on the wall.

I am getting better at discerning love.

December 31, 2011

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To be me…perfectly.

There seems to be a time in life, where you get off the karmic wheel of your childhood, where you finally come to the end of the road where old beliefs, thoughts and ideas run dry, where you have uncovered, discovered, and recovered all parts of your self.

And you have decided what stays, what goes, what has value or no value, what is something I will use in my future and what is best left in the past.

As each old thought and belief came to surface, I had to replace it with a new one, one more suited for my self and was often less comfortable for the ‘other’.

Most of my replacement ideas, thoughts and beliefs are much more flexible and fit my spirit. They are filled with potential growth and expansion, unlimited space for creation.

The purging of my old self was difficult and painful at times and extremely liberating as well, the dying and rebuilding co-existing, the undoing and the re-doing. Each loss I mourned came with a new birth.

Just as they flip houses, I flipped myself, changing me from a worn out pattern into a more creative one.

I can’t imagine getting left in the old mind patterns and beliefs, stuck and unable to step out line, locked by fear and unable to shake off the chains of conditioning.

I feel at times I have forgotten from whence I came, and have a hard time remembering the darkness with so much Light, forgetting what it is like to live under the shadows of others, never finding your own spot in the sun…

My thanks all go to the Universe whose wisdom I seen in every lesson, gift and miracle, and who synchronized it all.

As I continue forth with my awareness my artist’s prayer is;

to remain faithful to the wisdom of my body,

to always pay attention to the gut feelings,

to stand with the truth no matter the cost,

to have faith and follow my own feelings,

to reach towards new experiences fearlessly,

to be a student of the Universe,

to accept all lessons with grace,

to never lose sight of what is,

to find my purpose,

to know who I am,

to be me…perfectly!

July 27, 2011

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Towing others around.

Last night I dreamt I was peddling a bike that was pulling a big trailer. On the trailer was my husband a lot of junk. Behind me sharing a seat was an unidentified stranger whose feet kept getting in the way of me peddling, impeding our progress.

It was sooo frustrating and exacerbating and we stopped and started and started and stopped. The hardest part was getting going again, and I hated stopping.

I kept my head down watching my peddling feet always alert for those big work boots stopping the pedals.

It was like that man was unaware of his feet, and I was forever letting him know.

I am in shock and awe, that I didn’t get off the bike and let the two of them be!

In another dream a few nights before that I was trying to get my son off the floor, and he was immoveable. The harder I tried the more dead weight he became. And I kept finding him in different places and would try and move him.

Instead of a rock picker I was forever trying to pick him up and the frustration I felt when I tried to get him to help me, and he cared less! Again, why didn’t I just let him lay?

The struggles showing up in my dreams seem to carry the energy of me in other’s lives, dragging them around with their un-involvement allowing them to ride my coattails or me totally carrying them.

It shows me hauling them around, while they sit in a relaxed pose watching the world go by.

Honest, it was like the two of them were looking for interesting places to stop, and I hated stopping, while I was struggling to keep moving.

I wonder what this metaphor is all about?

Am I the big boots getting in the flow?

Am I dragging others when they could move themselves?

Am I allowing others to get in my way of doing my life?

The overview and the feelings of how others can drag you down if you believe you should be dragging them is unreal.

What an energy zapper!

And more importantly, how can you live a life of a free spirit while towing others around!

January 9, 2011

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You are What you Love.

“Don’t just make up your mind, make up your heart” Argisle

I am reading a book, “You are What you Love” by Vaishali, and it is interesting to read that we have two choices, listening to our minds or listening to our Hearts.

And what you are listening to you love.

Page 42, Chapter Ultimate Truth & Ultimate Lies.

“The ego will always direct us towards the limited outcome just like we trained it to do. These ego-based stories, conclusions, thoughts and beliefs are now charged with the energy of our attention, which makes them the wound in the wave. The use of awareness that makes this impression or mark on the psyche is an incomplete action. In Hinduism and Buddhism, incomplete action, or incomplete cause and effect, is called karma.

We can visualize the impressions as a kind of karmic map of mind. If we want to know our biggest nastiest karma, just look at what our biggest nastiest belief is about ourselves, about life, about relationships, about others and we’ve hit pay dirt. The ego is a lot like CNN but without commercials. If you watch your mind, your wave, it will parade in front of you all the news you have trained it to program and air over and over and over again, ad nausea.

There is a relationship between unconscious and accumulating karma, and being conscious and burning off karma. It all depends upon what you are doing with your awareness. Let us approach understanding what happens when we are unconscious as the accumulation of incomplete cause and effects. When we are unconscious, we are not in the present moment, we are not accepting what is from an open Heart. When we are unconscious, we are listening to the ego’s limited, tiny version of reality from the head place. This is not what we came her to do with our will, love, service, and life purpose. It is therefore and incomplete action.

When we are conscious we are in the present moment with what is from an open Heart. When we are conscious it is the Flame of Pure Awareness, the Heartfelt wisdom from the feeling place within, that observes with gratitude the perfection of every given moment. Since this level of conscious practice is the highest function behind the design and creation of the physical world, it is what we came here to do. It is therefore a complete action. Witnessing what is from the Heart is the conscious action that burns off negative and incomplete karma, which accumulates when we listen to the ego from the head.

Incomplete action or duality happening within the wave would look like this: I give my attention to thoughts and beliefs about who and what I am; I give my attention to thoughts and beliefs about who others are, what life and relationships are; I understand myself, life, world and value system through the deeply trained habit of seeing everything from the subject/object perspective. This would appear internally as an inner dialogue that sounds like, “I am a successful attorney, superior to the dregs I squash in court. My power is that I command respect and am a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, even though I respect no one other than myself. I drive a sixty foot long Mercedes and I live in a multi-million dollar mansion, in case you are interested in seeing my value and worth measured against yours. This behavior and these possessions make the appropriate statements about my obvious superiority and importance.” The dialog could run in the reverse direction, “I am a lowly piece of shit that no one could possibly love or respect.”

With incomplete action, a person’s awareness goes out into the exterior world and touches an object: another person, house, care, whatever. Incomplete action occurs when the awareness coming back to the person tells them that whatever they perceive is exactly what they think and believe it is. No one came her to listen to the ego’s version of reality; that is an incomplete action. In doing so, we re-create a story of duality; another person with so much power and worth, who in turn affects my sense of power and worth. It is all cause and effect: thoughts and beliefs, which re-creates more limitations. It just keeps spiraling downwards until it is out of control.

Action is incomplete because it is not witnessed by the aspect of mind we recognize as the Flame of Pure Awareness. The action was witnessed instead by the ego, by the disease of duality. So when action is witnessed, by the disease we are here to get over, it fragments the mind. It creates more duality, which in turn drives every known and unknown disease and limitation even deeper into the wave. We’ve created our own personal hell.

The action needs to be witnessed by the aspect of mind that has the inherent power to return our mind to a state of wholeness, beyond the illusory grasp of duality, which fragments mind into tiny pieces. This action can only occur when we give our awareness to eternal consciousness for solving our eternal problems, without a thought or belief, because that is an action we came to the rock to complete. That is the sole action that makes the Flame of Pure Awareness the senior witnessing force in our lives.

The action is made complete only when awareness going out into the exterior world touches something, and the awareness coming back to the person is then run through the Flame of Pure Awareness in the Heart, not through the ego-head filter. The Flame of Pure Awareness keeps the person in witnessing mode. Without it, we would fall immediately back into the limitation of what we think and believe life and self are. The Flame of Pure Awareness is beyond duality intelligence, beyond subject/object orientation. It is in unifying, indivisible quality of authentic intelligence, which reveals, recognizes, and realizes the interior through the process of witnessing it in the exterior.

The Flame of Pure Awareness is the intelligence that sees and gets real about how the mind is organized by witnessing itself reflected back in the medium of the physical world. “This is what Jesus means when he refers to “those who have eyes to see;” those who see not illusion, but rather the movement of realized love, movement of the One everywhere.

When awareness realizes itself, it is purified, and that is the action we came here to complete. When mind becomes self-realizing the action is complete. The purpose of all created life, the purpose of a physical world is for self-realization. It is to fully realize we are what we love, and we love whatever we are giving our attention to. Once we realize what we are doing with our love, manifesting either Heaven or hell on a moment to moment basis, then the action is complete. The purpose of being here is realized.

When the mind realizes it is looking at itself, the seeds of karma become purified, or roasted by the Flame of Pure Awareness. Then, no karma sprouts up and grows from this action. The action is complete because we go from what it came here to realize. Karma is repeating whatever you need to, until you get it. In future chapters we will refer to karma of an incomplete action as re-creation. Anything born from a limited intelligence, such as the ego, will only have the capacity to re-create what is already here, which is itself limiting. Only healthy God consciousness is unlimited and can therefore create something new, manifest something from nothing. We all came here to create a new response to ultimate lies, to end the limitations we are all here to get over. Eternal consciousness has the power to create a new response to any old or new problem. The ego on the other hand, can only re-create over and over again. It cannot create something new. It is a limited form of consciousness. What do you want from it? If the ego is providing answers to all of your eternal problems, there is only one possible outcome for you. Look up the word futile in the dictionary, if you have not already guessed what that outcome will be.

Understand what this whole shootin’ match was created for the convenience of your enlightenment. As God consciousness, as eternal consciousness, if there were a better faster way to reach enlightenment, you’d be doing it. You’d already be there. If you do not understand that everything you are experiencing here is the exact, perfect reflection of the relationship you have with your own mind, then you will be destined to re-creating what you think and what you believe it is. That would be re-creating the limitation you are here to get over. This will continue until you realize that what you are looking at is your own mind, and then choose to move on from that place of truth.”

Vaishali

December 18, 2010

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Affirmed by His Experiences

Maha Mudra, a chapter from Waking by Matthew Sanford.

“When I return home from the hospital, everything seems the same – my blue velvet chair, the sounds of my fridge, the creaking of my wood floors. Everything except for the feeling that I have recently chatted with aliens. That’s how my body memories strike me. How could my body have memories? Bodies don’t have memories, minds do. Not only did I believe this growing up, but my philosophical studies reinforced it. Now, in the span of a few days in the hospital, my sense of who I am, where I begin, and where I end once again has broken wide open. My body interacts with the world and records it regardless of whether my mind is having any experience.” Matthew

This is so reassuring to someone like me who has no memories of the actual molestation, the rape that my friend witnessed, and yet my body has given me the feelings of it, the paralyzing terror.

While Matthew couldn’t recall the accident where he was paralyzed, his body was aware of the whole ride and recorded it and stored the information in feelings.

It is the storage that I find remarkable. It is stored until we are strong enough or willing to seek deep inside of us and explore the feelings that seem to be there at odd times, or feelings that don’t match our thoughts in reality.

When my body responded physically to the news that my father was a pedophile, there wasn’t any thing I could do but follow its lead. I knew by the second day that I too was a victim; I just didn’t know how I knew, for my mind was still as blank as ever.

Yet deep within my cells, I felt the truth of it all.

I knew that he molested me, I knew that all the times I feared him were justified and I felt this to be true, with emotions and feelings that were beyond an intellectual thought.

Matthew continues.

“ This seems simple enough. For example, at any given time, the back of my head is visible to the world during every instant that I am awake. My body is also present in every second that I am alive, even while I am sleeping. Both of these thoughts are easy to grasp intellectually, but to feel them – that is different altogether. I felt those body memories in three dimensions. They went beyond the two-dimensional mental experiences and instead expressed themselves through the three dimensional experience of my body. That my body could be a possessor of memory made me confront something that was undeniable. My body – not just my mind was also conscious. How does one truly open to something like that?”

“The act of “opening” consciousness makes us feel both uncertainty and the onrush of silence that comes with it. This is one of the reasons that becoming aware is often painful. There are many stunning things about the Grand Canyon. One of them is the eerie silence that accompanies its vast expanse. It is both awesome and unsettling – one knows not to stand too close to the edge. The feeling of openness and a confrontation with silence are deeply related.”

“Opening to the fact that my body was conscious caused me intense grief. I took advantage of my thirteen-year-old body so many years ago. It was subjected to profound violence and I abandoned it in the process. Did I really need to? Was it really my only option? The existence of these body memories made me confront the silence and uncertainty of recognizing my own mistakes.” Matthew

I know the grief that follows this awareness of consciousness within the body, the neglect we feel for not knowing it was alive and filled with feelings and how it awaits for our cue. I am humbled by this body and I am now trying to release it from any other feelings that are lodged within.

Yoga seems to be a vehicle for doing this. Matthew also speaks of his experiences with yoga…

I will write more on that tomorrow.

For now, I am affirmed by his experiences.

August 13, 2010

body, consciousness, Matthew Sanford, memories, neglect, recalling, releasing, Waking, Yoga