Being All That Isn’t

Unity Consciousness is being all that is. However, know that there is a state of awareness that is, all that is not.

Recently I had an experience where I was in a very deep ground state where I was able to see all my past lives. They all were me but also not me at all. Who I am is a thread, as it were, running through all those lives. Each life was colorful, engaging and purposeful. But in another way had little, to no meaning, at all.

Who we really are is an awareness beyond these lives. Even beyond our soul. A presence that was never born or created. An awareness that has always been. Simply resting in Its own Self, forever complete, truly peaceful and absolutely fully content. Perhaps, that peace that passeth all understanding?

The lives I lived were so far away from my uncreated Self that they barely were of interest. Yet, they were there in the distance. Stacked, one on top of the other, each being a holographic layer. To be seen into or to be seen through, as I wished. All of this is being experienced and managed by our soul that is also a layer of Self lesser than our uncreated Self.

The entirety of the material world and even the celestial world, could not touch Me. I am the be all and end all. Anything other than this from this vantage point was/is a distraction. And that distraction is the definition of sin. The taking of awareness away from Its true Self. A simple definition.

Pure Consciousness is what/who we really are. This uncreated Self.

Embrace this and let the rest of our environment and experience fall where it may. Do this and you will never be lost.

With love to all that is and all that is not ❤️❤️❤️

Psychology of Consciousness (Part 3)

I want to make a few things perfectly clear. First, full Oneness can only be had by the extinction of devotion. Devotion is a beautiful habit/addiction that reinforces separation. I don’t say this so you, the reader, actively work to get rid of devotion but rather so you will not be surprised when devotion starts to fade away, naturally. It’s inevitable. If you really miss it, you can bring it back but only as a secondary reality, because as a primary reality full oneness can not happen.

Once, you realize your guru or god isn’t separate from you, you may still seek guidance from time to time to help you convey teaching knowledge to others. Its like the adult child consulting with their parents on parenting techniques. So of course there’s a respect and admiration for the teacher/guru but not so much that one falls into a parent-child relationship again.

Secondly, Oneness is not the end of the road. Its simply the unification of the world of things. We are getting into deep waters now.

As I mentioned in Part 2, Lord Krishna states in chapter 13 v 12 that the highest brahman (consciousness) is Not This. Not That. So where is oneness in Para Brahman? Its gone. Because it doesn’t exist in the highest brahman. A state of absolutely No attributes. Now that’s the end of the road. Hahaha.

So how do we live or function?

Sidebar: That Nothingness can either be perceived as all light or all darkness. Subject for another discussion.

Back to how do we function.

Once, you embrace Nothingness, for a while you will be in a state of not caring because frankly, what’s the point.

You have lost your guru and your god. Everything around you is now known to be an illusion. So it really doesn’t exist. And you are now resting in a state devoid of attributes it can feel like rock bottom so why engage in anything?

By the way, although it sounds like a state of depression but in some weird way you feel a quiet contentment. Completeness. Done. Finished. This state offers its own deep satisfaction.

Gradually, you realize, you still have a body. You still have others depending on you, from a day to day perspective. You still need to eat. Haha. So you participate.

At first reluctantly, because there is a flavor of ‘why bother’ still lively in your awareness. Never the less, you participate. Of course, its a strange participation you are somewhat engaged but as time goes on you integrate. Some quicker than others.

It's like someone having a particular regional accent to their speech then they move to another region. Many people quickly adapt and pick up the new regional accent and some people never do. In that same way the "integration" after such a dramatic awakening can take a while depending on one's ease in shedding attachments.

Summary: In our consciousness development we find ourselves moving past devotion to make room for full oneness. The destruction of separation. The joining of worshipper and worshiped.

We then realize that oneness in the final analysis is really Not This. Not That. Full negation of everything. An awareness devoid of attributes. Para Brahman.

After some time, we notice we are still physically alive and must respect this plain of existence because we are in a state of saying Yes to everything, illusion or not. That’s actually the living of Brahman. Wholeness. Totality. This state is the infamous “integration” many speak of. Where we come full circle. Right back to being an ordinary citizen. Fully assimilated into our day to day but somehow very different.

Know this my friends, no matter how ordinary you look or feel, you will always radiate a subtle but beautiful light that the angels, gods, and gurus eternally rejoice.

With so much Love to All …

❤️❤️❤️

Psychology of Consciousness (Part 2)

Let’s continue on with our discussion.

After this realization of oneness and it is a realization, because we suddenly become aware that this new understanding has always been there. Psychologically, we feel both found and lost. We hear a lot about the “found” part of being awake so let’s discuss the “lost” part.

Where has my god gone, is a common expression in this new state. We may experience a strong sense of Nothingness, even loneliness. No guru. No god. No reference points of any kind. Psychologically, you’re a mess.

If you choose to say to yourself I am now everything then that works for a while. However, at some point you also wake up from that because in the final analysis Everything-ness is realized as being an illusion of stuff you have ignorantly given value to. So what’s left? Basically, nothingness (haha).

In chapter 13 v 12 of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states, that the highest (para) brahman is (na sat) not existence, nor (na asat) non-existence. This is an understanding of the highest state of awareness from the prospective of negation. Not this. Not that. It really bends the psychology. This is the “lost” I spoke of earlier. It’s really hard to live in such a state, that's why the enlightened usually don’t accept it.

Wow, here you have been gifted the ultimate state of awareness and somehow you say “no” to it?!

Yep, I see it in so many truly enlightened souls.

So what’s happening?

Even in enlightenment many of us are pulled back by habits and environment. All our lives we have lived by our own private world of nature and nurture. Those habits go deep and when faced with this new state of huge nothingness with no real reference points it’s not uncommon to step back from it. We step back into a place of psychological safety. Safety in religion or politics are common landing zones. Yeah, I know that's weird especially the religion choice. You have experienced being god how can you now allow yourself to listen to an interpretation of god but it happens.

I personally find it comical to witness. The seeing of a highly enlightened soul trying to make religion or politics fit their new realization. However, I can understand the reason. In the world around us there is very little that supports this grand state of nothingness. And if you are a person of action with strong conviction it’s tough to find a place of safety in nothingness. So you end up putting that beautiful enlightenment to use on a lesser plain or cause. In some ways it's like fighting an addiction. An addiction to ignorance.

Those that find a way to cope use surrender as their tool. Relax into the uncertainty and witness the happenings. You end up becoming very ordinary. With basically no attachment to any one thing. It’s all fine wherever you go. Sure you have options and preferences but usually you aren’t really attached to them. When life around you changes you change too. No big deal. I like to say I’m fully engaged and fully not engaged, simultaneously. Sounds impossible but it’s not.

Psychology of Consciousness (Part 1)

This blog is about a step of consciousness development seldom addressed. If you haven’t experienced it yet this discussion may cause confusion. If you have experienced it but haven’t embraced it you will now understand why. Let’s begin.

At some point in our evolution we will find that our devotion to our guru, god or goddess is becoming less. We internally know we have attained a good level of evolution but we find ourselves less bound to our icons.

Some time back when I spoke to an enlightened friend about this, he acknowledged having that experience and felt guilty about it. Thinking, how can I be so ungrateful and lose devotion for those that have brought me to this level of consciousness?

Truth is that at some point in our development devotion becomes a hindrance. Wow, what a thing to say.

Devotion is based on a parent/child relationship. But at some point in our development the child grows up. We are no longer in awe of the parent, our teacher, guru, god, goddess. Why? Because we quietly become aware that they have served as guidance even pathways to the divine essence which in the end is our own nature. What now can the guru or god give you. Literally, Nothing.

To maintain an air of devotion at this point would be to falsely support separation were there is none. What now is the difference between you and god. Nothing. You are both of the exact same nature.

In the commentary to chapter 6 verse 32 Maharishi states it nicely by saying, “…devotion reaches its fulfillment in it own extinction…” He continues, “leaving worshiper and worshiped together in perfect oneness…”

From a psychological prospective while in the early stages of our own growth we naturally look outside of ourselves for growth. Someone or something greater than ourselves. Thinking, how could I have or be the answer to my own development so why look internally?

As such, we naturally fall into a child/parent relationship. Once we find someone or something to follow we submit to them/it. Here in lies the seed to devotion. As the child, we are happy to be directed. No need to think. To try and figure out who or what we are. Simply listen and follow.

But one day we Wake-up. Things literally get turned upside down. Although, you are in a state of great bliss you are also totally confused. It’s a new game with new rules you know little about. You are in direct communication with Source. No middle man. No translator. No guide. No pathway. Absolute direct contact. So direct that it's hard to tell the difference between you and the divine. You are the divine. The divine is you. No one needs to tell that because you are living It. Yep, the rules have changed. Now you’re the whole thing. Both sides of the equation. Simultaneously. Its impossible but somehow It is. Its your new reality.

Love. Love. Love. To All ❤️❤️❤️

Healing 2

What can healing 2 be?

Healing 1 provided knowledge of the subtle structure of the body, our veda body and a method for enlivening, actualizing of that treasure (Ratna - the 8th word/sound of RK Veda, meaning treasure or gems). This actualization was done with determination or intention. That focus of attention on the spiral of our veda body.

Healing 2, in contrast will show you how to activate this beautiful layer of veda body without intention via the release of intention thereby enabling the process of surrender.

There are two ways to gain consciousness development, one through focus or intention or two through surrender. Try them both then decide.

Know that this beautiful layer of your own self/Self has its own mind. We are both individual and communal simultaneously. We are in the game and are the game simultaneously. So let’s try to allow the whole thing to play itself/ourself.

This requires faith - maybe. Trusting that there is an intelligence, in reality an aspect of our own communal intelligence that knows more than our individual intelligence. So in someway we are looking at it as having faith but on the other hand it’s more like trusting in our more comprehensive Self. We are the whole show.

Enough with the chatter let’s get to it.

Allow yourself to feel this multi colored, comfortable vibe of spiraling, lively, veda body. Let yourself see it, then be it. Rest there without intention just feel the vibe. Smell the roses.

Allow your own cosmic intelligence to select what it/you need. Allow the process to guide itself.

The devatas, the tiny helpers in this deep subtle layer of spiraling, single helix, veda body will take over. They know what to do. Let them go to work.

Rest in this state of activity without activity.

Enjoy my friends. Enjoy ❤️

Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita (Part 2)

Those 3 examples of the Gita, mentioned in the previous blog, really denote steps of enlightenment.

Chapter 2 v 45 is really about Cosmic Consciousness. The state of awareness where one becomes acutely conscious of the silent witness, aspect of our selves that is always there resting behind our thinking and actions that quietly observes everything we do. We become so keen to that state that we simply rest there and notice how our thoughts and actions carry on there functions, automatically. That which was silently in the background, is now in the foreground as our primary state of awareness. 

Chapter 6 v 32 is Unity Consciousness or the Unity of God Consciousness as Maharishi terms it. A state of consciousness that allows the individual Self to realize that ultimately its nature is identical to that of God. As such, the worshipper has risen to the level of the worshipped. One’s psychology is found initially to alternate between identifying with one’s supreme state of Self and God. Over time that alternation matures and that state grows into a simultaneous state where these realities live in perfect oneness, thus the term Unity Consciousness. 

Chapter 13 v 12 is about para brahman - Brahman without attributes - the highest Brahman. Much high level commentary on "param brahman is neither existence nor non-existence" have said it’s “neither” because it’s both. I say, not so. If that were the case we'd be right back to UC which was expressed in chapter 6 v 32. 

Chapter 13 v 12 is clearly a step up. Its approach is from a level of negation. Not this. Not that. Its the removal of any form of identification not of small self but of Big Self, universal Self. That's a whole different zip code. This is not a UC level of experience. 

This level of negation speaks to the very heart of identity. It’s beyond Self. Even the word Self denotes ego, identity. Yeah, its Big Self a great state of awareness but it’s still a form of identity. As such, there is still a sense of attachment. Lord Krishna is bringing Arjuna to the ultimate non-attachment - Param Brahman. Brahman without anything else. Not even Self. 

This is total renunciation. An absence of attachment. A field of awareness that contains zero influence's. Lord Krishna has allowed the psychology of Arjuna to be devoid of everything. He now will simply and directly do his duty, his dharma. His skills are free to be expressed at their highest level. Lord Krishna, the charioteer, will deliver Arjuna, the archer, to where they will be most effective and the action will happen, automatically, with perfection. Such, a beautiful metaphor for life in this glorious state of awareness. 

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Be Anywhere

In my last blog we discussed time now let’s examine space (akasha).

There are 5 elements, earth, water, fire, air and space. Each is associated with a sense of perception. Earth with smell, water with taste, fire with sight, and space with hearing (sound).

Let’s peel back the layers of space/sound. When we sit quietly you may notice that you can hear the nothingness. It comes as tones. Some are high pitched and others are of a low drone. If you listen closely you’ll hear several tones at the same time one within the other. If everything in creation is vibration then you are hearing the sounds of creation over and over again. “Curving back on my own nature, I create again and again”. Lord Krishna says this in the Bhagavad Gita. 

Maharishi Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, has a section entitled, Powers. In that section in item 43 Patanjali provides the formula for levitation. The first part of it is based on the creation of a relationship between one’s body and the ether, as Patanjali puts it. When I feel into this ether/space/akasha I sense being space. My identity is not of the body so in a way I’m nowhere. However, I am endless space so I’m everywhere. As such, this really doesn’t feel like a sutra/formula for levitation but rather one for teleportation. A way to find your body anywhere in the universe, virtually instantaneously. I honestly think the mastery of this technique is the principle by which advanced civilizations in the universe travel. 

If I wish to experience levitation I find it more useful to use the association of body with air or vayu, the sanskrit name for air/wind. Feeling into this, although not as stable as the creation of a relationship with space, actually causes the body to bounce/float. It seems that a blend of vayu and akasha works best. Yes, very fine points but we are talking of mastery and control. A perfection of the basic technique. 

Yet another fine point of creating a relationship between body and space is in the act of identification with space. We will find our body to be less material in nature, adopting more of a space nature. Less material means less visible. I believe this is the fundamental component to both space travel and the phasing in and out of materialization. 

All of this may sound fictional in nature but believe me it’s where our consciousness development is headed. We may as well start to investigate it. I love that each of us have all the equipment for this journey. It’s pretty much a matter of attention and identification. Safe travels my friends. 

Wave Function (part 2)

Many feel this wave as an impulse or a breathing. There is a back and forth to it. Its rhythmic. To me its like a tidal wave moving so strongly that I’ve considered taking dramamine (ha).

Be it a pulsation or tidal wave its consciousness on the move. This undulation has been symbolically expressed as a snake. 

The snake of maya wrapped around Shiva’s neck. The seven headed snake that Vishnu reclines on. Even the snake in the garden of eden. All symbolic of maya but more about that in another blog. 

When I feel into this wave I notice that the very top where the wave crests actually disappears into nothingness, samadhi and when it reappears its changed direction and it’s on its way down. At the trough the wave again disappears into nothingness and so it goes. 

The path up and the path down on close examination happens in stages, eight of them to be precise. The eight tumblings of prakriti. Tumbling up then tumbling down. At each turn, the wave has a pause and disappears into nothingness but in a general way all we really notice is the wave or pulsation. So much for amplitude, let’s discuss frequency. 

When the frequency is high the up and down part of the waves are closer together and the pulsation is rapid. So much so, that many experience both the up and the down virtually simultaneously. This accounts for the sense of kundalini rising while simultaneously Grace is descending. 

This is what yields enlightenment. This is why high frequency consciousness is sought. But it’s not just high frequency, it’s high amplitude too.  

I know this sounds completely abstract but simply take away what you can digest. Knowledge of this phenomenon is not a prerequisite for enlightenment it just helps to explain it. 

Most people live their enlightenment quietly resting in its peacefulness and these finite details are of no use to them and I respect that. However, others continue to derive joy from the endless unfoldment of the layers of consciousness and I respect that. I find myself saying, Yes, to all of it. 

Take away what gives you joy.