[The following responses to a site visitor’s e-mail will serve as a final review of the subject]:
VISITOR: So any "One" and any "Who" that is present and 'who thinks they are doing something' or 'experiencing something' would be one or all of the "mind-body-personalities"?
F.: Yes. WHO's are always personas/personality, erroneously believed by the "mind" to be who one is, but such beliefs are always lies since the “mind” is just the aggregate of all the learned ignorance that makes person assume lies to be true as a result of programming and conditioning. If “wife” reports to “husband” that she is leaving and he feels like he's dying and needs to kill her because she won't stay, he hasn't a clue that it's the false identity of "husband" that is thinking—via the corrupted consciousness—that he is really "losing" something, that he is really under attack, and that he must take action. That's why the relative existence is so miserable for persons—they have no choice, they are being driven by illusions to behave as they behave, and they haven't a clue about why they are doing the things they do. Post-conditioning, Pavlov’s dogs didn’t have a clue that they had been programmed, didn’t know that salivating because of a sound rather than a scent was unnatural behavior, and didn't know that they were not choosing to do what they were doing but were blindly and automatically doing what they were doing because of conditioning rather than choice. So it is with persons.
VISITOR: There would have to be an "agenda of sorts" in effect?
F.: Ego-states always have an agenda, and the agenda includes the desire to last forever. Husband wants to be forever; the body wants to be forever; the religious person wants to last forever. The illusion is that the temporary can have continuity. Belief that such an impossibility is possible makes fools of the planet's population, and the foolishness of the nonsensical rituals they engage in to insure their continuity (and continuity with reward) are observable to any objective witness.
VISITOR: The 'spontaneous living in the NOW' or 'being' is a movement closer to reality?
F.: Yes and no. along the "path," proteges are invited to focus on the NOW in order to free them of the illusions of such concepts as "the past" and "the future" and "time." Ultimately, though, even the NOW is an illusion. To know that You Are the Absolute is to know that You have always been, so even the NOW ends up an illusion. The realized understand that there is no such thing as time. They understand the circular reality of cycles as opposed to the linear lie of "time."
VISITOR: So any "One" and any "Who" that is present and 'who thinks they are doing something' or 'experiencing something' would be one or all of the "mind-body-personalities"?
F.: Yes. WHO's are always personas/personality, erroneously believed by the "mind" to be who one is, but such beliefs are always lies since the “mind” is just the aggregate of all the learned ignorance that makes person assume lies to be true as a result of programming and conditioning. If “wife” reports to “husband” that she is leaving and he feels like he's dying and needs to kill her because she won't stay, he hasn't a clue that it's the false identity of "husband" that is thinking—via the corrupted consciousness—that he is really "losing" something, that he is really under attack, and that he must take action. That's why the relative existence is so miserable for persons—they have no choice, they are being driven by illusions to behave as they behave, and they haven't a clue about why they are doing the things they do. Post-conditioning, Pavlov’s dogs didn’t have a clue that they had been programmed, didn’t know that salivating because of a sound rather than a scent was unnatural behavior, and didn't know that they were not choosing to do what they were doing but were blindly and automatically doing what they were doing because of conditioning rather than choice. So it is with persons.
VISITOR: There would have to be an "agenda of sorts" in effect?
F.: Ego-states always have an agenda, and the agenda includes the desire to last forever. Husband wants to be forever; the body wants to be forever; the religious person wants to last forever. The illusion is that the temporary can have continuity. Belief that such an impossibility is possible makes fools of the planet's population, and the foolishness of the nonsensical rituals they engage in to insure their continuity (and continuity with reward) are observable to any objective witness.
VISITOR: The 'spontaneous living in the NOW' or 'being' is a movement closer to reality?
F.: Yes and no. along the "path," proteges are invited to focus on the NOW in order to free them of the illusions of such concepts as "the past" and "the future" and "time." Ultimately, though, even the NOW is an illusion. To know that You Are the Absolute is to know that You have always been, so even the NOW ends up an illusion. The realized understand that there is no such thing as time. They understand the circular reality of cycles as opposed to the linear lie of "time."
VISITOR: I recall in From the I to the Absolute that even the "Who" that wants the realization, peace, or freedom of 'mind' to stay in place has to (or would) disappear.
F.: Of course. Upon Realization, ALL WHO's disappear, including '"that one." The Realized have no desires or wants, yet happenings still happen.
VISITOR: So there would be no "WHO" or any "One" present that would fear 'losing'.
F.: Exactly.
VISITOR: And what is there to "lose" or "seek" when I always have been and always will be mySELF—understanding that there is no-thing and nothing to add.
F.: Exactly, if the “I” you refer to is the conscious-energy, whether at rest or manifested. Can the energy at the wall plug in your kitchen have anything or lose anything? No. Can it manifest in a vacuum cleaner and cause the vacuum to seem to be doing something? Yes. If it is one of the latest models, can it be turned on and then allowed to move about a room "on its own" as a result of the energy and the internal programming? Yes. Is it really making its own choices as it moves about? No. Does it appear to be doing that? Yes. Will the vacuum deteriorate someday and return to the form of its basic elements? Yes. Can the energy be destroyed? No. Do you understand the comparison? Please enter the silence of contemplation.
