From a site visitor: You might remember that I ordered a copy of FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE not long ago. I agree with Tyla that it’s the most important book I’ve ever read, but two questions came up while I was reading. 1. When the manifesting is taking place, the conscious-energy, as you referred to it, is moving from the field and headed toward manifestation in some physical form or matrix. You show its movement from the Absolute to the True Self to the witness to the Child Ignorance stage. First, what is the difference in the True Self and the witness? Also, it seems that the True Self and witness would come after the Child Ignorance stage. Why do you teach the reverse? (This is not to debate your teaching, just to understand it.) Thank you. Randall
F.: [Continued from yesterday] In fact, all that happens in the “reproductive” process—whether the process involves snakes, rats, roaches, humans or anything else—is this: suddenly, spontaneously, beingness happens, followed by impartial witnessing. Later, among humans, speech follows and programming results in corrupted consciousness, biased witnessing, assumed personas and identification with personality and mind and body. Polling indicates that nearly six billion on the planet have either adopted religious or spiritual personas or, more often, have accepted as identities the religious personas assigned during childhood by adults. That statistic gives you an indication of exactly how many have been programmed to believe the great lie and are therefore living the great delusion.
[Why, you might ask, are the masses so asleep and so uninterested in awakening? The answer lies in understanding which persona is the most widespread and the most influential on the planet, namely, the religious persona (or, in some cases, the spiritual persona). The false identity of "The Religious Person" has become the most widely-held persona on the globe and has resulted in the widespread belief in the duality of “timeline thinking” (beginning-middle-end-judgment-eternal reward or punishment). That has led to the loss of awareness of the non-dualistic cycles and to a replacement of that awareness with the erroneous belief in dualistic timelines that are based in “good vs. bad” here and “reward vs. punishment” there. Today, six billion persons take their time-bound identities and believe that they can overlay timeless existence upon temporary forms and false personalities. All insanity is rooted in (a) such willingness to accept false concepts as truth in a desire for continuity for the body, mind, and personality which have no continuity and in (b) the failure to understand what does—and what does not—cycle. You, Randall, are pondering the order of the last steps in the cycle prior to Full Realization, but the masses don’t have the slightest clue about the steps required to move from being delusional to being in touch with reality; moreover, the masses don’t have the slightest interest in forfeiting their magical thinking, in discarding their fictitious dogma, in awakening to truth, or in being cleansed of their corrupted consciousness. To the contrary, they have a desire to force their beliefs on all others and, as a result of the influence of their dogmatic beliefs, are driven to solicit, manipulate, coerce, fight or even kill.]
So, one-half of the complete cycle (from the Absolute to manifestation to the Absolute) has been reviewed, showing how the pure consciousness manifests and becomes corrupted. The second half of one full cycle is pointed to in the subtitle to the book you’re reading: FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality). The second half of a full cycle is the “journey” you’re undertaking in order to Realize. (NOTE: Of course, the un-manifesting is going to happen, Realization or not). Realization is merely that which can accelerate the second half of a cycle. Meaning? At the point that the non-Realized call “death,” body and mind and personality identification will end; attachment to concepts will end; suffering from the relative effects of programming and conditioning will end; belief in all learned ignorance will end. Selfness will end. Infatuation with the consciousness will end. Heaven and hell and earth and the world will fade away. Realization simply moves You (“fast-forward,” so to speak) through the cycle process so that all of the identification and attachment and suffering and effects of programming and conditioning and learned ignorance can end…NOW. Once all seven steps have been completed in the exact order outlined in the book, Realization happens. Afterwards, the consciousness remains manifest during the post-Realization period, You abide as the Absolute, and You are freed of false identifications and attachments. That frees You of suffering and the effects of programming and conditioning and learned ignorance, so true freedom happens.
Next, see how the un-manifesting is the exact reverse of the manifesting: if the un-manifesting is marked by following the “path” as laid out step-by-step (as you're seeing by reading From the I to the Absolute), then identification with the body ends first. Next comes the end of having one’s behavior controlled by that conglomeration of lies and false beliefs and false concepts known as “the mind.” Accompanying that, identification with all personas will end, the last personas to be forfeited being the religious and/or spiritual roles assumed by so many on the planet. A state much like that of the early Child Ignorance stage happens as all ideas and beliefs and attitudes are absent once again. Consciousness of beingness happens without assumption of identities. Then, objective witnessing begins and, as the consciousness purifies even more, Pure Witnessing happens via the True Self that sees the unicity, that knows the Absolute, and that understands the functioning of the totality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: The Conclusion]
F.: [Continued from yesterday] In fact, all that happens in the “reproductive” process—whether the process involves snakes, rats, roaches, humans or anything else—is this: suddenly, spontaneously, beingness happens, followed by impartial witnessing. Later, among humans, speech follows and programming results in corrupted consciousness, biased witnessing, assumed personas and identification with personality and mind and body. Polling indicates that nearly six billion on the planet have either adopted religious or spiritual personas or, more often, have accepted as identities the religious personas assigned during childhood by adults. That statistic gives you an indication of exactly how many have been programmed to believe the great lie and are therefore living the great delusion.
[Why, you might ask, are the masses so asleep and so uninterested in awakening? The answer lies in understanding which persona is the most widespread and the most influential on the planet, namely, the religious persona (or, in some cases, the spiritual persona). The false identity of "The Religious Person" has become the most widely-held persona on the globe and has resulted in the widespread belief in the duality of “timeline thinking” (beginning-middle-end-judgment-eternal reward or punishment). That has led to the loss of awareness of the non-dualistic cycles and to a replacement of that awareness with the erroneous belief in dualistic timelines that are based in “good vs. bad” here and “reward vs. punishment” there. Today, six billion persons take their time-bound identities and believe that they can overlay timeless existence upon temporary forms and false personalities. All insanity is rooted in (a) such willingness to accept false concepts as truth in a desire for continuity for the body, mind, and personality which have no continuity and in (b) the failure to understand what does—and what does not—cycle. You, Randall, are pondering the order of the last steps in the cycle prior to Full Realization, but the masses don’t have the slightest clue about the steps required to move from being delusional to being in touch with reality; moreover, the masses don’t have the slightest interest in forfeiting their magical thinking, in discarding their fictitious dogma, in awakening to truth, or in being cleansed of their corrupted consciousness. To the contrary, they have a desire to force their beliefs on all others and, as a result of the influence of their dogmatic beliefs, are driven to solicit, manipulate, coerce, fight or even kill.]
So, one-half of the complete cycle (from the Absolute to manifestation to the Absolute) has been reviewed, showing how the pure consciousness manifests and becomes corrupted. The second half of one full cycle is pointed to in the subtitle to the book you’re reading: FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality). The second half of a full cycle is the “journey” you’re undertaking in order to Realize. (NOTE: Of course, the un-manifesting is going to happen, Realization or not). Realization is merely that which can accelerate the second half of a cycle. Meaning? At the point that the non-Realized call “death,” body and mind and personality identification will end; attachment to concepts will end; suffering from the relative effects of programming and conditioning will end; belief in all learned ignorance will end. Selfness will end. Infatuation with the consciousness will end. Heaven and hell and earth and the world will fade away. Realization simply moves You (“fast-forward,” so to speak) through the cycle process so that all of the identification and attachment and suffering and effects of programming and conditioning and learned ignorance can end…NOW. Once all seven steps have been completed in the exact order outlined in the book, Realization happens. Afterwards, the consciousness remains manifest during the post-Realization period, You abide as the Absolute, and You are freed of false identifications and attachments. That frees You of suffering and the effects of programming and conditioning and learned ignorance, so true freedom happens.
Next, see how the un-manifesting is the exact reverse of the manifesting: if the un-manifesting is marked by following the “path” as laid out step-by-step (as you're seeing by reading From the I to the Absolute), then identification with the body ends first. Next comes the end of having one’s behavior controlled by that conglomeration of lies and false beliefs and false concepts known as “the mind.” Accompanying that, identification with all personas will end, the last personas to be forfeited being the religious and/or spiritual roles assumed by so many on the planet. A state much like that of the early Child Ignorance stage happens as all ideas and beliefs and attitudes are absent once again. Consciousness of beingness happens without assumption of identities. Then, objective witnessing begins and, as the consciousness purifies even more, Pure Witnessing happens via the True Self that sees the unicity, that knows the Absolute, and that understands the functioning of the totality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [Tomorrow: The Conclusion]
