Saturday, November 04, 2006

DETACHMENT, NON-ATTACHMENT, EMOTIONS, and FEELINGS

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From a site visitor: [Received 29 Oct ‘06] "I found your site while you were on vacation and some of the items in the glossary helped me understand some things that were not clear before. But today when you were talking about the Type Nine personality you hit on exactly what I’ve been afraid of about letting go and realizing. You said,

Contrary to what many persons imagine Realization can lead to—such as “not feeling anything” or “being fatalistic” or “never having any pleasure”—the Realized Nine (as is the case with all that Realize) can become truly free and independent. And only if truly free and independent can the fullness and pleasures and joys of AS IF living happen.

I’ve been afraid that I could end up so detached that I wouldn’t feel anything and who wants that? Can you explain more about that?

F.: Welcome to the site. First, those same concerns have been expressed by many in the past and their questions have been addressed. For more on the subject, you can find a search engine at the top of this home page. Type in “feelings emotions” and then click on “search this blog.” If you read those entires, you’ll find that the AS IF existence post-Realization can be marked by a full gamut of feelings that are witnessed as they rise and fall; however, you will see that only personas (those who are trapped in false identities and ego-states) can experience emotions and the subsequent emotional intoxication that always follows.

For now, the pointer offered for your consideration is this:

Acceptance of The Void, the Oblivion, the Nothingness is not about being “detached.” It is about non-attachment. Detachment does result in the robotic state of having no feelings, which you understandably want to avoid. Non-attachment involves feeling...but feeling without attachment to the feeling, without attachment to any circumstances, and without attachment to any false identifications (which leads to emotional intoxication).

The state of non-attachment happens when you reach the fifth of the seven steps on the “journey” to Realization and function as an objective witness to happenings in the relative existence. One new perspective that comes at that stage in the “re-purification-of-the-consciousness” process [outlined in the book From the I to the Absolute] is this: “Anything can be…but nothing has to be.” That’s non-attachment, but non-attachment does not imply that no feelings can ever be felt during the remainder of the manifestation. Next, as the consciousness reaches total purity, Pure Witnessing happens as the True Self sees the unicity from a "condition" of complete non-attachment. The two witnessing "states" happen simultaneously during the manifestation as the I AM awareness happens via the objective witness and the I AM THAT awareness happens via Pure Witnessing. Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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