Sunday, December 10, 2006

CYCLES, BEINGNESS, NON-BEINGNESS, AND BEYOND, Part Seven, The Conclusion

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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] As was the case when the conscious-energy was “coming into” manifestation, so it is as the conscious-energy is “going out of” the manifest state. Exactly as the consciousness functioned in the plant during the “coming into” manifestation stage (merely witnessing and functioning without hindrance of identity or “mind”) so the consciousness functions in the True Self state. Exactly as the consciousness functioned in the plant during the “coming into” manifestation stage (when all happened spontaneously without words or thought) the same happens at the Pure Witnessing step: silence begins to prevail, and thinking ends because the Realized are out of their “minds.” (That is, they are free of being influenced by that source of fiction called “the mind,” free of being influenced by that storehouse of fantasy, free of being influenced by that spring of magical, supernatural thinking and that author of beliefs in the supernatural.) Natural, AS IF living then happens for the remainder of the manifestation. The I AM has “merged” into the I AM THAT, so not even a hint of duality survives: no body survives, no “mind” survives, no religious or spiritual persona survives, no personality at all survives. Just as mirages disappear with the leaving of the light, so the mirages of body, mind, and personality disappear with the coming of the Light.

That is the order in which the manifesting and unmanifesting happens as the conscious-energy cycles “in” and cycles “out.” It is suspected that by way of this response to your questions, You now understand. For other visitors who might not yet understand, the invitation is to go into the quiet and continue to ponder (a) how it happens that the body and mind and personality come to be blindly accepted as identities among persons and (b) how those assumptions are abandoned during the Realization process. Entrapment in body identification (that false “I”) is the point that is "farthest removed" from the Absolute, but it can be the beginning of the end of entrapment if forfeited as an identity.

Reflect on the way it was in order to understand the way it can be. Reflect on that first stage of manifestation as You, the conscious-energy, were manifested in a plant. That is where You were days prior to conception. Recall how You—the Pure Consciousness—were functioning, and know that Realization will allow You to function in that same free and natural manner again. To Realize is to discard all “learned ignorance” and then return to Your original, earliest state of manifestation and function now as You functioned then: conscious-energy functioning naturally in conjunction with the life-force of circulating oxygen, all moving within the space of temporarily combined elements.

If that happens, You will once again identify with nothing. Once again, no thinking will happen since You will have rejected the “mind” (realizing that it is a cesspool of contaminated ideas and concepts and beliefs). All that happens will merely happen, and it will all happen spontaneously and naturally. The consciousness will witness, but the never-ending flow of words will begin to taper off, and eventually (as the consciousness ripens and matures) “thought-words” and “mind”-stuff will end. As the state of Pure Consciousness is reached, You will observe both the consciousness and the Absolute. The very act of being able to observe the consciousness evidences that ultimately You are also apart from that consciousness which You are observing. You have transcended even the I-Amness. As You observe the Absolute, You become aware of the Wholeness and become aware that You are actually apart from nothing. At that True Self level, You have reached the state of Full Awareness.

For all protégés that are still seeking, focus on each of the seven steps, understand each in its order, and contemplate the stages until You complete “The Seven-Step Journey to Reality.” Please enter the silence of contemplation. For more, see FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality) at www.floydhenderson.com.

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