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LIBERATION
(Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)
In the relative existence, the problem is always personality identification; moreover, personality always presents in multiples. The personalities - those assigned or assumed ego-states - are always accompanied by the use of ego-defense mechanisms. The non-dual understanding offers an invitation to put an end to belief in egotism-and-arrogance-driven egos by ending all false beliefs in ego-states. [March of 2005]
--f.h.
Nine Relative Existence Actions that Can Help Shift Personas from Unhealthy Stages of Disintegration to Liberation (continued)
Eight of the nine relative existence actions which can help shift personas from unhealthy stages of (1) disintegration to (2) liberation were discussed early.
Yesterday, the first part of “Action Number Nine” (which involves a vision which came to me years ago) was offered for consideration.
[Note: When satsang was being offered here, and when seekers come for a non-dual retreat, what happens with them when the discussion of the vision unfolds is often exactly what happened me we as the vision unfolded originally.
There is almost always an "Aha!" kind of reaction to the clarity that comes with an understanding of the content of that vision.
It was a "game-changer" here and has often a game-changer of seekers who have read it over the years and grasped the message or who have come here and heard it and grasped the message.
That said, please read the following description of a vision and look for the all of the forms of symbolism.]
The gull surfaces further and then begins flapping its wings. Leaving behind the cleansing, baptismal waters, you in the form of this gull fly and play and dart. You feel like a child again, flying high, until suddenly crashing into an eagle.
More truthfully, you feel yourself merging into - maybe even dissolving into - the eagle. For a time, the eagle soars, glides, and mainly just witnesses.
You feel the remnants of the gull; you sense the remains of a raven; you look at “you” seated at a fire and see only a mental image; you look through the arch and see the figment of a body imagined. Another degree of separation.
But now "You the Eagle" have no time to contemplate, for you feel yourself being pulled deeper into the universe through a clear-walled tunnel in the remotest part of the heavens.
You feel yourself accelerating at the speed of light. In fact, at the end of the tunnel, you can see nothing other than light.
Your speed now nearly doubles, and just as you reach that point of mach two, with the deafening sounds of the winds racing by your ears, you crash through a veil of sorts and find yourself in a mostly dark, crystal cave.
You stop abruptly and then are swooped into an upright position, floating near the ceiling of the cave. You feel at this moment as if you are exactly between nowhere and . . . nowhere.
Never have you known such peace. Sensing yourself in only the vestige of a human-like form, you drift toward a lake below that covers most of the bottom of this huge cavern.
You experience a fifth degree of separation - as if estranged from all illusionary roles, as if removed from a phony world left behind, as if moving closer to a degree of connection with the Real.
Your slow descent allows time to study the cave. Across the way a dome glows brightly, the source of the vivid light you’d seen through the arch and more recently at the end of the tunnel.
A huge pipe organ sounds from the highest peak of a cliff on the far left side of the gigantic grotto. To your left and to your right drift millions of forms, and on closer inspection, you see that they are . . . you!
Each looks to be a clone - maybe a transparent clone but a clone nevertheless - of you! As you near the water, you automatically pivot so that your back faces the opposite shore.
Sinking shoulder-deep into the water, you feel your feet rise. Your entire body stiffens momentarily, your feet rise further, you float onto your back and then you bob on the surface of the water.
Now relaxed, you begin to be moved along, gently propelled toward the opposite side of the cave. Your movements just happen, no effort on your part required. The music of the organ - ethereal and mesmerizing and relaxing - sounds softly, beautifully; the waters are now calm and warm.
You float with millions of your likenesses, or so it seems, flowing toward gigantic, granite steps cut amphitheater-like into the opposite wall of the cave. Yet the likenesses aren’t likenesses at all.
They really are . . . you! The steps ascend from underneath the waters, breaking the surface and then rising and narrowing upwards, converging on one point—at the door to the dome.
As you near the steps, you feel your body stiffen again. This time you rotate in the water so that you sail along face down. Just before your head might have bumped into the steps, you are stopped.
Your feet begin to be lowered, and you find yourself in an upright position, standing on steps in chest-high water. You begin to ascend the steps, leaving the water behind.
You, and millions of yous, walk in exactly the same fashion, moving toward the narrowing peak that leads to the door of the dome.
You wonder, "How could so many be entering the dome? It really isn’t that large, now that I can see it more clearly." It seems that much that you perceived as more is really . . . less.
But the nearer you all move toward the door, the more You witness a siphoning effect of sorts. As all near the door, all seem to dissolve into a form of light being drawn inside.
As you approach, you feel the last remnants - remnants of whatever you had formerly thought yourself to be - gradually fading away. The dissolving seems to be occurring in slow motion, and you feel ecstatic.
It’s almost as if you are feeling blissful as your beingness seems to be dissolving into non-beingness.
Finally, you merge with the All, into the light, and it seems . . . it seems over. It seems as if everything is over, is finished, is very near complete.
Then some degree of consciousness seems to linger after this additional degree of separation fades. Even without a physical body or an earthly mind or a spiritual body, a subtle body detects a series of chambers leading to other universes.
All then fades into light. It is sensed that nothing represented in the vision is “the Real.”
It is understood that only by peeling back all the layers of false identities - including the body, the mind, the spiritual identity, the child ignorance, the witness, even the notion of “an Eternal True Self” or “an Infinite Self” - could “that which one really is” be known.
It is understood that what you really are is that, that which is often removed from awareness through many degrees of separation.
In the fading moments, as beingness transitions into non-beingness, you come to know that you are that common building block of all in this universe, in All universes. No wonder some can say, “I don’t even know who I am.”
You finally realize how far removed most are from the knowledge of the original unicity as a result of conditioning, programming, and dogma.
Then, before fading into the perfect peace of rest in the totality, your last consciousness is of the process that had moved “that which you are” from the rest state in the Absolute, past the non-being and into being, and then into whatever the real actually is.
You see how you came to witness, how the learned ignorance corrupted the pure consciousness of the child state, how spiritual and religious roles were assigned, how mental identities were accumulated, and how dominated the existence was by the physical body’s fears and desires.
You understand. And then, even that dissolves. THAT is all there is. [End vision]
Next, reflect on the content of the vision that reveals “The Degrees of Separation from Reality”; then, take “the journey” regularly until its truth is revealed in toto;
until it resonates throughout that “inner resource” which is available to you; until its truth becomes fixated at the very core of your being; until you become liberated from ego and false selves;
until you are in conscious contact with reality (for now, the Is-ness) and with Reality (THAT which actually was never "created" because it always has been, is, and forever shall be, meaning that there was never any such thing as "a Creator" or a "creator");
until you stabilize in an awareness of the authentic and then revel in the bliss of full and final liberation;
or
until you presently become totally content with contentment alone.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
