[Continued from 15 December 2005]
Witness: That impartial, objective observer that witnesses all happenings in the relative existence without attachment or reaction or emoting; in the early going, object-subject observation can happen. At the True Self level, Pure Witnessing happens without any subject-object delusions, with full knowledge of the lies of the relative eixstence, and with full awareness of the truth of the Absolute and the Oneness of all.
Subject-Object: A dualistic perception, believing that separates exist and can be seen, such as, “I” (subject) see “you” (object). The Realized, aware of the Oneness, see no separates and know that all is One.
Relative existence: The existence that persons take to be the real; unlike the Absolute that is completely pure and unadulterated and unchanging, all in the relative is marked by change and instability and misperception; persons taking the relative to be real live with a limited, three-dimensional perspective, focused only on five-sense experiences; persons in the relative live with no conscious contact with Reality and with no awareness of the sixth sense.
Absolute: The Ultimate Reality or the Great Reality, meaning simply…that which is real; that "field" in which consciousness is at rest; that "field" from which consciousness has been drawn into manifestation; that "field" to which consciousness returns once no longer manifested; THAT Which All Is; the conscious-energy Itself; that purest, unadulterated "whatever" that All Is; that lowest, tiniest common "something" which All in this universe and all universes IS, without beginning and without end...never-changing; the conscious-energy that All Is, whether manifested or not.
Manifestation: Conscious-energy-light can be reflected off objects without a nervous system or absorbed (manifested) into something with a nervous system; on earth, the consciousness-bearing energy is absorbed into plants that can be consumed by humans/animals that are merely a space in which the consciousness manifests temporarily.
Programming and conditioning: The process whereby pure consciousness, manifested in what is primarily space but is called a "human" or "person" by the non-Realized, is contaminated with ideas, concepts, dogma, teachings, preachings, ad infinitum, all of which are false; the process whereby the ignorance of the masses (which they call their "knowledge") becomes the learned ignorance of their offspring.
The mind: The storehouse of those contaminants of the originally pure consciousness; humans are born with a brain but not with a mind; the mind is that storehouse of all the lies and concepts and knowledge/ignorance that persons accumulate; once filled with the nonsense that persons dream up, it becomes the source of all misery, constantly in movement, constantly imagining desires/fears as a result of programming and conditioning. Persons each believe that they have what they call "my mind," but there is only "their mind," the mind that is created by programmers who pass along their ideas, their beliefs, and their concepts that the programmed then take to be their own.
Natural living: Living that happens without agenda, unfolding from a position of neutrality; it is the type of existence that unfolds for the Realized since they are free of all false identities and ego-states and thus are not driven to manipulate, to accumulate, or to control (or to seek and manipulate imaginary, supernatural power in an effort to control).
Supernatural living: Living that is based in magical thinking rather than fact, marked by constant attempts to bargain with or manipulate or appeal to an external power that they believe can grant their wishes or share power with them in their efforts to control; living marked by spiritual and emotional intoxication of the type that only ego-states can experience; the lifestyle followed by persons, so dominated by desires/fears and efforts to control people, places, things, and events that an imagined power (created in the imagination and the image of men) is endlessly sought and petitioned; a life lived by persons who are out of touch with reality; a life lived by persons who believe the Great Reality is a person (with supernatural powers); that which can be a transitional "stage," not quite halfway along the seven-step "journey" to Reality that can move persons from their belief that the "I" is real to knowing the Absolute Which Truly Is the Real; a lifestyle adopted by the masses during times of greatest fear or perceived attack; a lifestyle marked by rigidity and closure to alternative explanations; the type living that prohibits questioning and thus locks persons into believing in all of the false teachings of their culture; the type of living marked by beliefs that leave persons unaware of their inner resource and inspires dependency, especially on imaginary outer resources.
Subject-Object: A dualistic perception, believing that separates exist and can be seen, such as, “I” (subject) see “you” (object). The Realized, aware of the Oneness, see no separates and know that all is One.
Relative existence: The existence that persons take to be the real; unlike the Absolute that is completely pure and unadulterated and unchanging, all in the relative is marked by change and instability and misperception; persons taking the relative to be real live with a limited, three-dimensional perspective, focused only on five-sense experiences; persons in the relative live with no conscious contact with Reality and with no awareness of the sixth sense.
Absolute: The Ultimate Reality or the Great Reality, meaning simply…that which is real; that "field" in which consciousness is at rest; that "field" from which consciousness has been drawn into manifestation; that "field" to which consciousness returns once no longer manifested; THAT Which All Is; the conscious-energy Itself; that purest, unadulterated "whatever" that All Is; that lowest, tiniest common "something" which All in this universe and all universes IS, without beginning and without end...never-changing; the conscious-energy that All Is, whether manifested or not.
Manifestation: Conscious-energy-light can be reflected off objects without a nervous system or absorbed (manifested) into something with a nervous system; on earth, the consciousness-bearing energy is absorbed into plants that can be consumed by humans/animals that are merely a space in which the consciousness manifests temporarily.
Programming and conditioning: The process whereby pure consciousness, manifested in what is primarily space but is called a "human" or "person" by the non-Realized, is contaminated with ideas, concepts, dogma, teachings, preachings, ad infinitum, all of which are false; the process whereby the ignorance of the masses (which they call their "knowledge") becomes the learned ignorance of their offspring.
The mind: The storehouse of those contaminants of the originally pure consciousness; humans are born with a brain but not with a mind; the mind is that storehouse of all the lies and concepts and knowledge/ignorance that persons accumulate; once filled with the nonsense that persons dream up, it becomes the source of all misery, constantly in movement, constantly imagining desires/fears as a result of programming and conditioning. Persons each believe that they have what they call "my mind," but there is only "their mind," the mind that is created by programmers who pass along their ideas, their beliefs, and their concepts that the programmed then take to be their own.
Natural living: Living that happens without agenda, unfolding from a position of neutrality; it is the type of existence that unfolds for the Realized since they are free of all false identities and ego-states and thus are not driven to manipulate, to accumulate, or to control (or to seek and manipulate imaginary, supernatural power in an effort to control).
Supernatural living: Living that is based in magical thinking rather than fact, marked by constant attempts to bargain with or manipulate or appeal to an external power that they believe can grant their wishes or share power with them in their efforts to control; living marked by spiritual and emotional intoxication of the type that only ego-states can experience; the lifestyle followed by persons, so dominated by desires/fears and efforts to control people, places, things, and events that an imagined power (created in the imagination and the image of men) is endlessly sought and petitioned; a life lived by persons who are out of touch with reality; a life lived by persons who believe the Great Reality is a person (with supernatural powers); that which can be a transitional "stage," not quite halfway along the seven-step "journey" to Reality that can move persons from their belief that the "I" is real to knowing the Absolute Which Truly Is the Real; a lifestyle adopted by the masses during times of greatest fear or perceived attack; a lifestyle marked by rigidity and closure to alternative explanations; the type living that prohibits questioning and thus locks persons into believing in all of the false teachings of their culture; the type of living marked by beliefs that leave persons unaware of their inner resource and inspires dependency, especially on imaginary outer resources.
Magical thinking: Thinking based in non-fact, superstition, myth and belief in other-worldly powers; the belief that a micro-managing power in another realm (usually conceived as male in gender) is the single cause of all happenings on the planet; thinking inspired via religious or “spiritual” programming; thinking often inspired by abuse and trauma suffered in such a degree that a desire for rescue by some external power is wished or hoped for; thinking inspired by ego that wants control and therefore also wants a power at one’s beck and call that can grant wishes; the fanciful thinking that leads persons to believe that they can petition a power in another realm that can then grant them control over people, places, things, weather, and all events; the type thinking that believes disasters are not events in nature but are punishments or signs delivered by an angry, other-worldly power; the type thinking that dismisses scientific facts and endorses blind, unquestioning faith; the type thinking that blocks all awareness of Reality and imprisons persons in the confines of the false concepts of "a mind." Please enter into the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
