F.: Some have asked, “How can ‘floyd’ be an appearance or apparition and not be the one creating some meaning or purpose in his life by writing these postings?” These postings are not being written by “floyd." The postings happen spontaneously. If sessions on the “Seven-Step Journey to Reality” are conducted, “floyd” is not presenting them. No “I” presents them. Consciousness speaks. Consciousness is present; “floyd” is not. Consciousness speaks; “floyd” does not. What some take to be “floyd” is a temporary cycling of elements that resulted in a space in which consciousness is manifested and through which the air circulates as breath. How could such space have any purpose or meaning? How could that which is nothing more than a figment of other persons' wrong seeing have meaning and purpose? At “the end of floyd,” the only thing that will happen is that the conscious-energy shall return to the universal pool of consciousness; the breath shall join the universal pool of air; and the dust shall return to the universal pool of dust. That act will have no significance, meaning, or purpose, and nothing that the space does prior to that will have any significance, meaning or purpose—outside of mere entertainment. All of the brief, petty happenings involving "floyd" will occur between Nothing and Nothing. All life-forms “live” between Nowhere and Nowhere. Only ego is driven to inflate gaps between nowhere and nothing into…“Something,” into something really important and significant. Much ado about nothing becomes much ado about something in the wrongly-programmed "minds" of persons who have no ability to perceive clearly. For persons, the rope is always a snake, the most powerful snake ever, and if only that snake can be subdued by persons, they will have saved the world. From what, actually? From an insignificant rope. That is how the ego-driven “mind” works to distort all, to blow all out of proportion, and to prevent going with the flow. Buy into the advice of those stuck at the third, magical-thinking level and (even as they promise they’ll teach you how to relax and take it easy) you’ll work like never before. You’ll be “frustrated” and you’ll be "up all night, writing, seeking answers” to the questions they inspire. [Note, if it applies, how the ego and the threatened ego-states hate these words.]
An humbling assertion that “the planet will function as the planet is going to function—even without your ever having discovered a meaning or a purpose”—seldom satisfies the limitless ego of persons. Here’s a specific example: the WHO (the false identity) that most wants a purpose or meaning is the ego-state called “The Helper.” Persons/personas are driven by one or more of the “nine personality types” that the Sufis identified. Of those nine types, five of them can be driven to one degree or another to adopt the persona of “The Helper.” Yet in the relative existence, the only thing that can be labeled “helpful” is that which removes an individual’s misery and allows happiness and peace to manifest.
And what removes misery and allows happiness and peace to manifest? Only the elimination of all false identities, the elimination of the egotism that fights to preserve false images and roles, and the casting aside of all ideas, concepts and emotions that result in emotional intoxication. Then Realization (and happiness) can happen. But you cannot do any of that for anyone, so how can you help anyone? If you get frustrated enough and spend enough sleepless nights, you might be moved to do it for yourself. If you do, that’s as meaningful and purposeful an undertaking as is possible in the relative existence. Yet the ego inspires persons to try to give away to others what they themselves have not even attained.
An humbling assertion that “the planet will function as the planet is going to function—even without your ever having discovered a meaning or a purpose”—seldom satisfies the limitless ego of persons. Here’s a specific example: the WHO (the false identity) that most wants a purpose or meaning is the ego-state called “The Helper.” Persons/personas are driven by one or more of the “nine personality types” that the Sufis identified. Of those nine types, five of them can be driven to one degree or another to adopt the persona of “The Helper.” Yet in the relative existence, the only thing that can be labeled “helpful” is that which removes an individual’s misery and allows happiness and peace to manifest.
And what removes misery and allows happiness and peace to manifest? Only the elimination of all false identities, the elimination of the egotism that fights to preserve false images and roles, and the casting aside of all ideas, concepts and emotions that result in emotional intoxication. Then Realization (and happiness) can happen. But you cannot do any of that for anyone, so how can you help anyone? If you get frustrated enough and spend enough sleepless nights, you might be moved to do it for yourself. If you do, that’s as meaningful and purposeful an undertaking as is possible in the relative existence. Yet the ego inspires persons to try to give away to others what they themselves have not even attained.
It is a reasoning fallacy to believe that you can make someone happy. It is fallacious to believe that you can make someone eliminate ego, that you can make anyone cast aside all erroneous beliefs, that you can make someone stop becoming emotionally intoxicated, or that you can make someone Realize. Only the person willing to walk the seven-step “path” can be rid of “self” and find the True Self, so the only thing that can be considered “helpful” or “meaningful” or “purposeful” cannot come from without. It is “within” already.
Thus, “help” yourself, relatively speaking, but forfeit the notion that you can help another attain that which one can only attain alone in the silence of contemplation: freedom from the bondage of false roles, knowing the True Self, and then the bliss of the Absolute while the consciousness is yet manifested. How can that happen? Find the seven-step “path,” contemplate each step until all lies are seen and until the truth around each step is clearly perceived, then Realize fully. After that, You will witness the fact that relaxing and taking it easy just happen, automatically. The emotional and spiritual intoxication that currently have you in their grip will end. You will feel, but You will not emote. Peace will manifest. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
