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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: I think you like to push the envelope.
F.: WHO is it that claims a "mind" that allows thinking to happen? WHO believes that there is an envelope (with boundaries) to be pushed when this speck speaks of boundlessness, timelessness, limitlessness? Now, to continue:
Only personas (roles, personalities, stage characters, false identities, ego-states, etc.) have wants or desires and fear. The questions then become, "WHO wants self-ness?" and "WHO desires Self-ness?" and "WHO fears no-self-ness and no-Self-ness?" All of that deals only with the personal, which is rooted in personality and which, in turn, is always marked by fears and desires. Maharaj said, "this knowledge is for those who have no desires."
And it is for those who have no fears - no fear of "losing face," of losing identity, of forfeiting relative identifications, or of abandoning lofty or superior or "Supreme" identifications beyond the relative ones adopted.
WHO rejects Maharaj's pointer that "you have no identity" (and that would include no phenomenal identity and no noumenal identity)? WHO is opposed to no identity at all?
One sign of Full Realization is that accumulating stops and de-accumulation begins, so how can some claim that they have Realized and in the same breath lay claim to all sorts of "new and improved and even grand roles," associated with the THAT-ness or with something "Supreme"? WHO desires something that is thought to be "Supreme"?
WHO are those still attached to some forms of WHO-ness, which they take to be their "advanced" identity? WHO has accumulated a new identity that is supposedly "different from" and "on a higher plane than" all former identities? WHO rejects that which is simply natural in favor of that which is thought to be supernatural but is not?
Most persons believe that their phenomenal roles define them and expand them and make them more than they would be otherwise; similarly, most persons who assume noumenal or spiritual or supernatural identities believe that their "noble" and even "elevated" identities make them different and special and better.
The irony among some claiming that they have Realized fully via their understanding of non-duality are actually allowing their allegedly "noble" and even "elevated" identities to generate dualistic beliefs. How? By inspiring them to conclude that they are "separate from" and "better than" and "know more than" and are "on a different and higher plane than 'others'."
In the end, such identity assumption will block any opportunity to understand the bliss.
Louise wrote: "Bliss is what follows having been immersed in this 'River of Truth'; bliss is having been exposed to the 'bubbles of dissolution' that allow for identification with the nothingness until even that identity falls away."
Only after such dissolution can the following pointer from the book From the Absolute to the Nothingness be totally understood:
The Realized can taste what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” The Fully Realized will shift even beyond that and will understand something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period. Trace your roots. Go beyond self and Self, beyond Consciousness, beyond Awareness, and even beyond the Absolute to the seminal Nothingness. Abide as such.
Abiding as such allows for Pure Witnessing to happen as the Pure Consciousness (the "True Self") sees Reality and sees all realistically and clearly; yet even that True Self - that pure witnessing - can only happen during the manifestation.
Contrary to popular belief, both "self-ness" and "Self-ness" are conceptual products of the relative. That which is Real is label-less. The Truth can be known but can never be stated, so to state that one is "this identity" or "that identity" cannot be Truth. Join the deer and make no claims about identification.
Only personas (roles, personalities, stage characters, false identities, ego-states, etc.) have wants or desires and fear. The questions then become, "WHO wants self-ness?" and "WHO desires Self-ness?" and "WHO fears no-self-ness and no-Self-ness?" All of that deals only with the personal, which is rooted in personality and which, in turn, is always marked by fears and desires. Maharaj said, "this knowledge is for those who have no desires."
And it is for those who have no fears - no fear of "losing face," of losing identity, of forfeiting relative identifications, or of abandoning lofty or superior or "Supreme" identifications beyond the relative ones adopted.
WHO rejects Maharaj's pointer that "you have no identity" (and that would include no phenomenal identity and no noumenal identity)? WHO is opposed to no identity at all?
One sign of Full Realization is that accumulating stops and de-accumulation begins, so how can some claim that they have Realized and in the same breath lay claim to all sorts of "new and improved and even grand roles," associated with the THAT-ness or with something "Supreme"? WHO desires something that is thought to be "Supreme"?
WHO are those still attached to some forms of WHO-ness, which they take to be their "advanced" identity? WHO has accumulated a new identity that is supposedly "different from" and "on a higher plane than" all former identities? WHO rejects that which is simply natural in favor of that which is thought to be supernatural but is not?
Most persons believe that their phenomenal roles define them and expand them and make them more than they would be otherwise; similarly, most persons who assume noumenal or spiritual or supernatural identities believe that their "noble" and even "elevated" identities make them different and special and better.
The irony among some claiming that they have Realized fully via their understanding of non-duality are actually allowing their allegedly "noble" and even "elevated" identities to generate dualistic beliefs. How? By inspiring them to conclude that they are "separate from" and "better than" and "know more than" and are "on a different and higher plane than 'others'."
In the end, such identity assumption will block any opportunity to understand the bliss.
Louise wrote: "Bliss is what follows having been immersed in this 'River of Truth'; bliss is having been exposed to the 'bubbles of dissolution' that allow for identification with the nothingness until even that identity falls away."
Only after such dissolution can the following pointer from the book From the Absolute to the Nothingness be totally understood:
The Realized can taste what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” The Fully Realized will shift even beyond that and will understand something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period. Trace your roots. Go beyond self and Self, beyond Consciousness, beyond Awareness, and even beyond the Absolute to the seminal Nothingness. Abide as such.
Abiding as such allows for Pure Witnessing to happen as the Pure Consciousness (the "True Self") sees Reality and sees all realistically and clearly; yet even that True Self - that pure witnessing - can only happen during the manifestation.
Contrary to popular belief, both "self-ness" and "Self-ness" are conceptual products of the relative. That which is Real is label-less. The Truth can be known but can never be stated, so to state that one is "this identity" or "that identity" cannot be Truth. Join the deer and make no claims about identification.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, you will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right.
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Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
With either teacher, you will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right.
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Now you can receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).
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DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."
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The Sequel to The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
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