Forever Expanding Awareness In Liberation

This world — your world, my world, the worldthat each of us seemingly lives within and experiences from day-to-day — is highly symbolic in nature. In fact it is COMPLETELY symbolic in nature. Just as words are symbols — a language created and understood by a culture that agrees to use it — for the purpose of conveying a message, so too the manifest world is a language used to convey a message. This is a point about reality that most people are unaware of. For those that wish to wake up within the Dream — those that are consciously on the Path of Power — it is vital to come to a clear understanding, and eventual experience and feeling for, the fact that the world is an entirely symbolic expression. It is, in a sense, the language of the soul — a soul that has a very important and pertinent message to convey.

I call this “learning to read the world”. Society will at best teach a child how to read and write in the language of its choosing. English, Japanese, Maori, Hopi, etcetera. This language has its uses. For instance gives you and I the capacity to share the message conveyed by the words I am now writing and which you are now reading (some time in my apparent future !). For the most part, the language of a culture or society is constructed in such a way that it is most apt and geared towards conveying the message embodiedwithin that culture. That message is very often a self-serving one. It is based on preservation of the known and agreed upon parameters of the culture. Parameters that — certainly in the case of the Anglo-Saxonculture I was born into — are extremely limiting relative to the massive scope of That which I Am.

It is much like a religion or cult. Well, in fact it is a cult — in the true meaning of that word (a word so misused by Christian fundamentalists and the likes), the source of the word “culture”.Any cult has an agreed upon language and particular way of using the language at hand in order to convey the message it adheres to. Most religions, for instance, go to great lengths to maintain the exclusivity, stability, and purpose for which they stand for. All those that do not adhere to the ways of the religion (a theocentric cult) as conveyed through the message inherent in its use of language (symbols) are cast aside until they one day (if ever) decide to repent.

Society is also a cult — a sociocentric cult. It operates in exactly the same way as a religion, just with broader terms and boundariesthat are not as obvious as those seen in the smaller cults created by religions. It too will use language in such a way as to keep the minds within the society rigidly adherentto the parameters set down by that culture as acceptable and “okay”. It is the task of those on the Path of Power to break free of this insanity.

This brings us back to learning — actually it is more appropriate to say “re-member-ing” — the language of the Soul, as woven into the world we each individually and collective co-create. As mentioned above, language is used to convey a message. So the obvious questionis, “What message does the world convey?”. Now realise, that each layer will convey a slightly (or dramatically) different message. The message the layer of the ego-mind conveys is one of separation— suffering, war, chaos, evolution, failure, hatred, emotionally conditional love, starvation, inequality, victimisation, external power, etcetera. AdmittedlyI’ve painted a somewhat grim picture of the ego’s world view, but I think you will find that these are ultimately the things that the ego-mind hones in on and keeps at the forefront of the human experience. A brief and honest look at human history will give apply evidence to support that fact.

So it is of great import to realise the implications of the above paragraph. The primary implication is this: So long as I continue to perceive the world through the eyes of the ego-mind I will be forever locked into the experience of that which it’s language is designed to convey — which is essentially perpetual and cyclic suffering. Okay, there are some rosy moments in the midst of it all — I am not trying to deny that — but I feel that anyone who is truly self-honest will see that these apparent rosymoments are really just small carrots the ego keeps dangling out in front of us as we blindly walk through a field of rotten corpses and manure… and then wonder, “What the f*#k is that horrid, ghastly smell. I think I’m going to puke”. Puke, of course, projects out in front of the face. Thus the nice juicycarrot the ego was holding out there is now covered in something that makes it anything but “rosy” and appealing. Admittedly, many of us has learnt to suffice with this sort of existence, and have talked ourselves into a rather limited world where this scenario, “ain’t that bad mate”. Yuk.

Okay… so if you’re ready for the message I am conveying, then I am sure you get the point of all of the above. If you don’t get the point of the above then I will suggest you are not ready… that the ego has you firmly locked into it’s pathetic excuse for fun and happiness, and it might be best if you return to this material at some later date. Oh, okay… read one, read on… let’s see where we get to in all this. Something got you this far. Perhaps you’re more ready than you’d like to admit — more ready than the ego is wanting to let you admit.

The message the world is conveying to you is ultimately something like this:
“You are eternal. You are vast. You are an incredibly powerful creative force. You are powerful. You are pure love. You are a Divine Being, that is whole, holy, and complete in all ways. You are perfect, and in that Perfection you are no less than God, and have NEVER diverged from the way God created you”.

It is perhaps quite obvious that this is not the general impression most of us get when we look at the world, and go through our day-to-day lives. Why is that?
Well, for a start, we have forgotten how to read the world, and have got heavily engrossed in the horror movie being conducted by the ego-mind. That’s not an inherently”Bad” thing. No, not at all. It just ain’t that much fun after a while — say a few millions years for some of us — and it really does little to reflect to you and I the shear magnificence of out True Nature. Basically we live in the Kingdom of Heaven — yes, right here on Earth, or wherever else we find our self situated — and yet from moment to moment we perceive and experience what some might aptly call Hell, with perhaps a few glimpse of what some might call “Heaven” (there’s that bloody carrot rearing it’s ugly green head again !)

Once you are remember how to see the world through (increasingly) true perception — the Vision of the Soul and of God — then it will all start to look rather different. Suddenly you are living in Heaven, having a splendid adventure in experiential creativity, where life is just one big juicy “carrot” (way to big to puke on in way that is of any significance), with brief moments of being in the field of dead corpses and manure simply to keep you moving along at a healthy pace. We don’t, after all, want to lounge around, get lazy, and forget why we are here. Thatis in fact what has happened, and that is in fact why the flashes of the putrid field of corpses has taken president over the vast carrot in the sky.

Okay… I’ll put that stinking metaphor to rest now. I’m sure you got the message a number of iterations ago. Please forgive me.

How does one learn to read the world?
Simple.
You cease identifying with your human mind (and its endless stream of thoughts). You cease identifying with your emotions (which will never stop dancing around), and you start to live from a place of intuitive feeling.

“Easier said than done”, I hear you say. Granted. It is easy to say, are relatively tricky to actually pull it off.

All of what I write is conveying one message… and that message is something along the lines of, “This is how you might be able to break free… read on, apply what you read, fasten your seatbelt, and let’s enjoy the ride”.

So I am not going to attempt conveying the answer to such a question here in this piece of writing. My point here was simply to draw your attention to “Re-cognising the symbolic nature of the world”…

Blessings,

Jonathan

A friend has recently brought the content of a particular translation and interpretation of the famous Bhagavad-Gita to my attention. That, and also a relatively well known — although perhaps now dead — Indian Guru that taught the content of the Gita to his students (the modern Hare Krishna movement). I was reading through some of this edition of the Gita and also a book by this Guru on “Bhakti Yoga” (the path of devotional yoga — the attainment of enlightenment through devotion to a Guru).

As I read this book I was starkly aware of what to me come across as major limitations in this sort of Eastern doctrine. In my experience, a dominant slant in these two books (this version of the Gita and the Bhakti Yoga book) was towards the notion that the soul of he who is unenlightened is tainted, impure, unable to contain ANY light, and essentially condemned to living hell until such time as this person finds a true Guru/Teacher and devotes himself entirely to such a Guru. This Guru will then guide the poor fellow toward his salvation. Without such guidance he will get nowhere and will remain forever tainted as a soul, stuck in the perpetual cyclic illusion of life in the material world. A pretty grim view of things, I would say, and one that sounds awfully similar to the Fundamentalist Christian view that we are all born with original sin, condemned to an afterlife in hell (for ever) unless we surrender ourselves to this particular fundamentalist version of Jesus Christ out Saviour, amen.
According to this particular Guru, the “three gateways” to certain hell are Lust, Desire, and Ignorance (I think I’ve remembered that correctly). The aspirant must be sure to renounce all Lust and Desire (oh, it may have been Lust and Greed), and to purify himself. Only when he is completely pure will he be ready to meet his Guru. As soon as he is 100% pure his Guru will appear and help eliminate his ignorance, so that he might be “saved” from this hellish world of the material plane.

Gosh. What an interesting thing to invest ones belief, energy, and personal power into. Sounds rather horrific to me.

My friend pointed out that it reminded her of the Bible. Hmmm… not wrong there.

What is it about man and the ego, that can take the words of an Enlightened Being and mash those words up to the point where they so completely contradict what that Being was on about that we’re left with nothing but fear inducing and condeming tripe? No wonder so many people get one taste of religion and run… swearing to avoid anything remotely spiritual for ever and a day. I don’t blame them.

Well… I can only come back to the point and the Truth — as I experience it — that EVERY-THING has a perfect purpose and function in the grand scheme of things—that of Forever Expanding Awareness in Liberation. Everything (such as spiritualist views such as those I experience in this teachers work) also has its place in the world of each man and women who invests their attention into it.

Blessings…

Jonathan

Whilst sitting a morning or two ago I started to have some realisation with regards to “time”. I experienced “time” more objectively than is usual and in that space I was able to note various qualities. How accurate these observations are I can’t say. They certainly seemed pretty “real” when I had this experience — although for now I put them forward as a hypothesis.

Here are the notes I made that morning…

To the Self (”I”) what we perceive as “past” and “future” are actually the same “thing”. It is only the time related perceptual centres in the brain (a reality creating machine) that puts our experience of time into an apparent linear continuum running from part to future. I suspect this only comes about as a human being takes on an conceptual framework of self-definition during early childhood. Time, as we perceive it, is a product of the ego-mind.

The so-called and apparent “past” has an apparent impact on my future simply because they are the same “stuff”. For instance, if a person maintains that in the past he/she was abused at the age of four and this impacts on that person’s future in such a way that it results in them constantly attracting abusive situations, it appears that the past is affecting their future. What I am suggesting is that a way that is slightly tricky for the mind to comprehend, the past and the future is essentially the same collection of “stuff”. My “now” / current experience of that “stuff” in determined by what my attention is currently fixated on. Because of the cyclic nature of the collective Dream, it is highly likely that patterns will arise as I cycle through that various “stories” within this “stuff” from which past and future appear to arise and take form.

So-called “Karma” is — as previously pointed out — all here and now. Some of us say that past action creates future reaction — or “as you sow, so shall ye reap” — yet really what we are dealing with is the nature of my dream configuration here and now. The degree to which I am unconscious / ignorant is the degree to which life will seem to uncontrollably “happen” to me. If in my apparent “past” I took (unconsciously” certain life-taking actions then, of course, in my apparent “future” I will experience certain similar life-taking events… because nothing leaves it’s source. I simply project out my story into this “stuff” from which the events of my life disappear into (past) and emerge out from (future) as I sit here experiencing the now.

That which is created can not leave its source. The source of that which I appear to do and experience here and now (in this apparent world) is WITHIN.

The secret — as far as I can ascertain — is to wake up to what is going on. This is where awareness comes into the picture. Awareness sheds Light on these aspects of self that were previously in the dark (as far as my perception was concerned), due to ignorance and unconsciousness.

Desire/craving and aversion were recognised as two “impurities” or “defilements” of a person’s “self-hood” that we must get free of simply because these qualities of mind can only arise from and be perpetuates by an ignorant mind. Once I am awake to the fact that EVERYTHING that appears to be taking place in my world is extending out from WITHIN and that it can not leave its source, I will cease to crave or avert what I see in my world.

Rather I will turn the world around and use what I perceive to bring me back to the source from which it all extends — my SELF.

Thus, reality as I experience it right now is exactly what I need in order to set myself free.

Everything is happening for me and not to me, and is ultimately created by me. This we have explored before now. The purpose of everything that I experience is to bring me back to the source — back to Self so that I may reconcile with the Truth That I Am… with Love… with God.

If past and future are composed of the same “stuff” then trying to influence the course of events in my apparent future independent of my memory of the apparent past is just folly.

To bring about a configuration change in the “stuff” that past and future are “made” of I can focus on either — past and/or future. For instance, if something terrible happened to me when I was six — or in some past life thousands of years ago — then until I have reconciled that experience within myself it will continue to exert an influence on and play a part within my apparent future. My memory of the so-called and apparent “past” will influence my “memory” of the future — for they are the same thing. What I appear to be experiencing here and now is simply whatever aspect of my “memory” (past/future memory) I happen to be fixated on with my attention, here and now.

I don’t mean to suggest that if a person is 40 and is going to die at 80, that their 40 years of “future” is going to look exactly like their 40 years of “past”. Rather, what I am suggesting is that what they perceive as their 40 years of history and then experience as the next 40 years of future (prior to death) is just a perceptual illusion generated by the mind as they look outward into their creation (their world). There are many details that will appear to be different, as there are many other influencing factors playing out in a person consciousness that I am not elaborating on here. Also, the choices the make and the intentions they actuate will influence the “stuff” from which their past and future is composed.

My In-tension (intention) will direct my at-tension (attention). Hence it is the power of my In-tention that allows me to consciously (and unconsciously) “create” (or co-create?) my reality. The question that begs to be asked, however, is “do I really wan to?” So long as my focus is “out there” on what I am consciously or unconsciously creating, am I not potentially going to miss the point of it all — namely its function of returning me to God if only I was willing to turn the world around and own and reflect on my role in it all ?

I have a picture I have drawn the illustrates the nature of time as I saw it this morning, compared to time as most people in the “Western” culture perceive it. I will endeavour to transfer this onto my computer and add it to this article.

Blessings… Be well…

Jonathan

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