The dream self is a doer that is doing things now to achieve other things later. You believe that you must meditate to evoke relaxation or reach enlightenment. You believe you must pray each morning so that God will give you or your loved ones a longer life, better relationships, more money, or a better living situation. You go to spiritual teachers who will tell you how to become more present, surrendered, open, aware, loving, or awakened.

All of this doing assumes that you have control of your life. The idea of personal choice/will creates the story of self in time. The story goes, “I lack something now but if I do this particular thing, I will find wholeness later.” The story perpetuates the sense of lack. It traps you into seeking future.

Instead of blindly doing things in order to bring about some later awakening, notice what is already being done. Notice all the ways the doer is busy looking for a later moment. This is not a suggestion to stop doing things. It is an invitation to notice that all doing feeds into the story of self, which is a story that you lack something now but that the future will bring fulfillment.

Enlightenment is simply the realization that there is already enlightenment now under the story of the doer doing things to reach enlightenment.

~ From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

Questions and Answers

157) An Invocation To Our Deepest Understanding

Hello Rupert,

I am have a nagging question. It appears that “we” as separate entities are not the doers, but only make the story that we are the doers after the experience takes place. All action appears to come from awareness-consciousness directly. What my intellect is grappling with is this: How do we account for what seems like unthinkable human actions such as rape, murder, abuse, child molestation, slavery, etc.?

Is it true that these actions have nothing to do with the individual’s ”mind”, but actually come straight from Awarenes/Consciousness? If that is so, is there any insight for the limited mind to help me to understand why awareness would manifest these actions on the human level? Why do these things take place?

Warmest regards,

Alex

Dear Alex,

Alex: It appears that “we” as separate entities are not the doers, but only make the story that we are the doers after the experience takes place.

Rupert: If we are not the ‘doers,’ how can we be the ‘makers?’ The ‘we’ that apparently does and the ‘we’ that apparently makes is the same fictional, non-existent entity.

Alex: All action appears to come from Awareness/Consciousness directly.

Rupert: Yes, from an absolute point of view that is true. However, at a relative level we could also say that some actions come, as it were, directly from Awareness/Consciousness and others come via the belief, as it were, in being a separate entity.

Alex: How do we account for what seems like unthinkable human actions such as rape, murder, abuse, child molestation, slavery, etc.?

Rupert: Very simply: If we think that we are a separate entity, that is, if the thought that we are a separate entity arises and, as a result, seems to obscure the true knowing of our own being, all subsequent thoughts, feelings and actions will come from the inevitable sense of alienation, fear, desire, conflict etc. that are inherent in this belief.

This belief alone makes it possible to imagine an ‘other,’ that is, someone that is not our Self and, as a result, to treat that imagined one as though what we do to it, we do not do to our Self.

The actions you mention would be inconceivable if the apparent other were known and felt to be our own self.

The simple Christian doctrine of ‘doing unto others as we would do unto our Self’ is based on this understanding.

It is not an instruction to an apparent person. It is an invocation to our deepest understanding that we are all one Being and to live accordingly.

This one simple understanding would resolve all psychological conflicts whether personal, national or international.

Alex: Is it true that these actions have nothing to do with the individual’s ”mind,” but actually come straight from Awareness/Consciousness?

Rupert: Ultimately yes, but that Awareness/Consciousness must first have been seemingly veiled by the belief in separation for such an action to take place.

That belief takes place in an individual or limited mind (because all mind is, by definition, limited) but there is no entity that owns that mind. Such a mind is one more expression of Awareness/Consciousness.

Alex: If that is so, is there any insight for the limited mind to help me to understand why Awareness would manifest these actions on the human level? Why do these things take place?

Rupert: It is very difficult to answer the ‘Why?’ question satisfactorily on the level on which it is asked, because the ‘Why?’ presumes cause and effect (duality) which, upon investigation is found to be non-existent.

In other words, the mind first imagines its own view of reality to be true or real and then asks for the cause of its own version of reality.

However, upon investigation the mind’s view of reality is found to be erroneous and as a result the ‘Why?’ question loses its meaning.

With love,

Rupert Spira

http://nondualityamerica.wordpress.com/

An Experimental Approach

Video Presentation with Richard Lang

Ancient wisdom claims that we are not simply human. Outwardly we are human, but inwardly we are divine. According to this wisdom, the purpose of life is to awaken to our divine inner self. If we awaken to ‘who we really are’, our lives will be blessed.

In this film Richard Lang doesn’t ask us to believe this ancient wisdom. Instead, he invites us to test it using modern experiments – experiments which contrast our regional appearances with our central reality. Directly seeing our boundless, timeless centre, our innermost self, we then explore the varied and profound implications of saying Yes! to this Vision.

In 1970 Richard Lang met the philosopher Douglas Harding, author of this experimental approach. Since then Richard has devoted his life to being awake to who we really are and to sharing this Vision as widely as possible. He has published two books and a CD, and conducts workshops around the world. He hopes that this film will make awareness of our innermost self even more widely available.

The video is presented below in eight parts via Youtube.

Part 1A:

Part 1B:

Part 2A:

Part 2B

Part 3A

Part 3B

Part 4A

Part 4B

Video Presentation with Richard Lang

Here’s an inspirational little video for you my fellow artist.
“An artist is not a different kind of person. Every person is a different kind of artist.” Eric Gill

“One of the forms your freedom shall take is the freedom from sickness. For in your realization that the body is simply a means, that the body is simply a vehicle of experience, which is the product of Mind, you shall find, in your realization that everything comes from Mind, that never shall you choose sickness. For sickness is nothing more than a device, a carefully laid plan that you use to substantiate your belief that you can be separate.”

“If ever, hear me well, if ever you are sick – from the slightest bodily sniffle, to the worst bodily disease you can imagine, from the worst psychiatric disease you might define, back to the slightest sigh that is not joy – if ever you experience any of those, you are believing that the body is an end.”

“How is it that so? As you believe that the body is an end, you believe, as I have told you, that it has existence of itself. And thus you believe that your body can become sick, somehow independent of you. And thus you believe that you, separate, isolated being, can be the victim of your body. While without the belief in separation, it could not be so.”

“Arising out of mind, it would be possible for you to choose what the world would call physical symptoms. But in your awareness that the body is but a means, and that everything comes from Mind, there would never be resistance. Because there could never be the belief that you were the victim of your body. And therefore, your perception would not be of illness. It would simply be of experience.”

Namaste
The Other Voice by Brent Haskell – Chapter 8, Sections VII – IX – The Body as a Means

A teleconference call recorded July 11, 2010 with Scott Kiloby and Jeff Foster.

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Scott Kiloby

You cannot know that your ego and the world are unreal until you experience Reality. A direct Revelation of God, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Holy instant, and the Holy relationship are the experiences that lead you to this awareness. You must experience your Real Self, and you must experience Oneness, to know that what you have been experiencing is not true.

Many students reach a point where they try to accept the intellectual idea that the world is not real without having experienced Reality. They end up deeply conflicted, because they still value the world. Sometimes, they use this idea as a form of denial so as not to deal with painful issues in their life. They will say things like, “I shouldn’t feel this grief/depression/anger, because it’s over something that isn’t real, right?” or “I shouldn’t want a special relationship/money/material objects/recognition, because they aren’t real, right?” But you wouldn’t feel these emotions or desires, except that they are for things that have value for you – which means that they are very real to you. No one values what they know is not real, and you cannot force yourself to accept something is unreal until you have experienced it as unreal.

You are not asked to give up your values, but to invite the Holy Spirit in to “purify” your values. They will not be taken from you, but, rather, used by the Holy Spirit to teach you what parts of them have real value, and what parts do not. When you learn what does not have value, it will naturally fall away from you. You cannot force this.

“You have regarded the separation as a means for breaking your communication with your Father. The Holy Spirit reinterprets it as a means of re-establishing what was not broken, but has been made obscure. All things you made have use to Him, for His most holy purpose. He knows you are not separate from God, but He perceives much in your mind that lets you think you are. All this and nothing else would He separate from you.” (T-14.VI.5)

A Course in Miracles is meant to be used in the course of an ordinary life. You are not asked to live a life of deprivation and denial. You are not asked to hide away from the world, but to live right in the middle of it with an awakening mind. You are not asked to be a hypocrite, pretending to not value what you do value. You are asked to invite the Holy Spirit to help you sort out what has real value, and what does not. This is not something that you can do without the Voice for Truth guiding you. If you decide for yourself what is real and what isn’t, what has value and what doesn’t, you are doing the Holy Spirit’s job.

~Liz Cronkhite

This is an audio recording of a Living Realization meeting held June 19th, 2010.

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Living Realization Text – Chapter Five. . . .

Living Realization
Scott Kiloby