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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.
F.: To seekers at certain steps on the "path," the teaching is that there are two types or levels of witnessing. Similarly, some speak of levels of consciousness or "higher vs. lower consciousness" or "God-consciousness" and "pure vs. impure consciousness."
Even Maharaj offered the pointer to one seeker that there are two levels of witnessing, but the approach was used ultimately to distinguish between the distorted and illusory and dualistic "subject-object witnessing" vs. the only real (but rare) witnessing that there is, namely, pure witnessing.
Likewise, to assist some seekers at certain points on their "journey," there can be talk of "the pure consciousness vs. the impure consciousness"; however, seekers farther along the "path" are offered the understanding that
(1) there is only one level of witnessing because only one of the two that are discussed is real; and that
(2) there is only one form of consciousness - the pure consciousness - which can be blocked, or not.
[Recall that when Louise moved into her present cottage, the former occupant had left the window overlooking the garden in a dirty, contaminated condition, blocking any chance for seeing clearly. When she cleaned the contaminates away, she did not turn impure glass into pure glass. The glass was glass before the purging and the glass is glass now after the obstacles to seeing clearly have been removed. The same applies to consciousness.]
Thus, advanced seekers can come to the understanding that "levels" of witnessing are a myth and that "varying forms" of consciousness are a myth (as referenced in this reaction to the pointers offered in the previous series):
FROM A SITE VISITOR: What about Christ-consciousness?
F.: Christ-consciousness and God-consciousness and higher-consciousness are all concepts generated by false ego-states. If studied objectively, it would have to be asked, "What does Christ-consciousness even mean?"
Does it mean that one is a religious person / persona that claims to be conscious throughout the day of what Christ would have him / her do? Since there is not and never was a personal "Christ" ("The Christ" originally being a title meaning "The Messiah," a title which some now think was a name or surname), that would be a delusion-based claim.
Or does it mean that there is some "higher" form of consciousness and that "The Christ" had that higher level and that his followers can attain that level, too? Or does it means that one is conscious of the teachings of the one referred to by some as "Christ"?
It's all nonsense that is based in the belief of things personal, including the belief that "The Christ" was a person rather than a title misused to refer to a speck of temporarily-manifested conscious-energy. The fact is, there are many types of energy, and one type happens to be consciousness, but the very word "Advaita" (meaning, "not two") makes clear that there are not two (or more) forms of consciousness, nor are there two (or more) forms of witnessing.
To understand the "not real vs. real" distinction is to know that there are not two parts being debated in either category. There is only that which is real, and the Realized do not give any credibility to mirages and images. It would be, as Maharaj noted, like discussing the child of a barren woman. There's nothing to discuss. There is only the Real, period, which can be discussed...and nothing more.
Therefore, there is either (a) witnessing that sees that which is real or there is (b) the illusory type of "seeing" / misperceiving that leads persons to believe that they are seeing what is real when they are not seeing the real at all; similarly, there is either (c) the pure consciousness or there is (d) the pure consciousness that is blocked from seeing the Real, from seeing the Truth.
Blocked by? By false ideas and false beliefs and false concepts, all set in place in the fiction-filled "mind" via the distorting processes of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation.
Maharaj taught that the perceived cannot be the perceiver. That which is perceived in the mirror is not the perceiver. The witnessed is never the witness unless the consciousness has been unblocked completely and the Pure Witnessing (a.k.a., "The True Self") sees ItSelf, yet even that is temporarily manifested.
If one can affirm that (A) "I would still be me, even without my arms and legs and even if I have a heart transplant and even if I have a lung transplant," and if one can answer the question,
"Who / What is making that observation and that affirmation?" by answering (B) "It is I, the pure consciousness, the Pure Witnessing, that knows ItSelf and knows that Self is beyond the physical body,"
then only is it clear that what is perceived (in this case, a space formed by temporarily-combined elements that is reflected in a mirror) is not the perceiver (the Pure Witnessing that can distinguish between form and substance).
At that same point on the "path," it becomes understood that in Reality there are no dualities at all, including no dualities of witnessing and no such dualities as a "higher vs. lower consciousness" or as "God-consciousness vs. non-God-consciousness" or as "Christ-consciousness vs. no consciousness of Christ" or "pure consciousness vs. impure consciousness."
Even Maharaj offered the pointer to one seeker that there are two levels of witnessing, but the approach was used ultimately to distinguish between the distorted and illusory and dualistic "subject-object witnessing" vs. the only real (but rare) witnessing that there is, namely, pure witnessing.
Likewise, to assist some seekers at certain points on their "journey," there can be talk of "the pure consciousness vs. the impure consciousness"; however, seekers farther along the "path" are offered the understanding that
(1) there is only one level of witnessing because only one of the two that are discussed is real; and that
(2) there is only one form of consciousness - the pure consciousness - which can be blocked, or not.
[Recall that when Louise moved into her present cottage, the former occupant had left the window overlooking the garden in a dirty, contaminated condition, blocking any chance for seeing clearly. When she cleaned the contaminates away, she did not turn impure glass into pure glass. The glass was glass before the purging and the glass is glass now after the obstacles to seeing clearly have been removed. The same applies to consciousness.]
Thus, advanced seekers can come to the understanding that "levels" of witnessing are a myth and that "varying forms" of consciousness are a myth (as referenced in this reaction to the pointers offered in the previous series):
FROM A SITE VISITOR: What about Christ-consciousness?
F.: Christ-consciousness and God-consciousness and higher-consciousness are all concepts generated by false ego-states. If studied objectively, it would have to be asked, "What does Christ-consciousness even mean?"
Does it mean that one is a religious person / persona that claims to be conscious throughout the day of what Christ would have him / her do? Since there is not and never was a personal "Christ" ("The Christ" originally being a title meaning "The Messiah," a title which some now think was a name or surname), that would be a delusion-based claim.
Or does it mean that there is some "higher" form of consciousness and that "The Christ" had that higher level and that his followers can attain that level, too? Or does it means that one is conscious of the teachings of the one referred to by some as "Christ"?
It's all nonsense that is based in the belief of things personal, including the belief that "The Christ" was a person rather than a title misused to refer to a speck of temporarily-manifested conscious-energy. The fact is, there are many types of energy, and one type happens to be consciousness, but the very word "Advaita" (meaning, "not two") makes clear that there are not two (or more) forms of consciousness, nor are there two (or more) forms of witnessing.
To understand the "not real vs. real" distinction is to know that there are not two parts being debated in either category. There is only that which is real, and the Realized do not give any credibility to mirages and images. It would be, as Maharaj noted, like discussing the child of a barren woman. There's nothing to discuss. There is only the Real, period, which can be discussed...and nothing more.
Therefore, there is either (a) witnessing that sees that which is real or there is (b) the illusory type of "seeing" / misperceiving that leads persons to believe that they are seeing what is real when they are not seeing the real at all; similarly, there is either (c) the pure consciousness or there is (d) the pure consciousness that is blocked from seeing the Real, from seeing the Truth.
Blocked by? By false ideas and false beliefs and false concepts, all set in place in the fiction-filled "mind" via the distorting processes of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation.
Maharaj taught that the perceived cannot be the perceiver. That which is perceived in the mirror is not the perceiver. The witnessed is never the witness unless the consciousness has been unblocked completely and the Pure Witnessing (a.k.a., "The True Self") sees ItSelf, yet even that is temporarily manifested.
If one can affirm that (A) "I would still be me, even without my arms and legs and even if I have a heart transplant and even if I have a lung transplant," and if one can answer the question,
"Who / What is making that observation and that affirmation?" by answering (B) "It is I, the pure consciousness, the Pure Witnessing, that knows ItSelf and knows that Self is beyond the physical body,"
then only is it clear that what is perceived (in this case, a space formed by temporarily-combined elements that is reflected in a mirror) is not the perceiver (the Pure Witnessing that can distinguish between form and substance).
At that same point on the "path," it becomes understood that in Reality there are no dualities at all, including no dualities of witnessing and no such dualities as a "higher vs. lower consciousness" or as "God-consciousness vs. non-God-consciousness" or as "Christ-consciousness vs. no consciousness of Christ" or "pure consciousness vs. impure consciousness."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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.
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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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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.
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[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.
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(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.)
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3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
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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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