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LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)
“After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions [false identities] are by hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj
READINGS AND CONSIDERATIONS (Continued)
Reading #2: From p. 96 of The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, an action-adventure novel offering a non-dual message through the lead character named Kirk Wildman.
[Kirk saw . . . ] saw a series of natural, sandstone steps descending to a granite arch twice the height of a man. From the arch shone a pure white light. An illumination this bright should have easily blinded Kirk, but instead it soothed him.
Consideration 2: Enlightenment
involves the casting of enough light on any ideas, emotions or beliefs that one
can no longer avoid evaluating them, can see that they are not one’s own, and
can allow one to examine them critically and objectively and cast aside any
that are not really benefiting that individual. Are you ready for the light to
be thrown on your ideas and beliefs, or more accurately, on their ideas and their beliefs which they began imposing on you as early as during
your childhood years?
Reading #3: It seemed to
spotlight the steps, and as he moved down the stones, first his feet and then
his legs and then his torso became bathed in the glow. Eventually, by the time
he reached the dead-flat area at the bottom of the natural walkway, he stood
before the arch, and the luxuriance of the light bathed him fully in its
warmth. The clear spring waters from the branch flowed through the archway, and
he followed. (p. 96, The Twice-Stolen
Necklace Murders)
Consideration 3: Our many readings to this point have had one goal
in mind: to prepare you for the truth of the vision that we’ll be discussing
during the coming days. Are you ready? Has your mind been opened enough to
question all your past concepts and to consider something totally new? Are you
ready for a completely new understanding? If not, are you willing to prepare
yourself for that?
Reading # 4: Stepping inside, he
looked over his shoulder to see that his physical body had remained outside the
arch. (p. 96, The Twice-Stolen Necklace
Murders)
Consideration 4: First, you are invited to place yourself in the
character. As he “steps inside,” you “step inside.” Become the character so
that you can have your own first-hand experience. Do not read about him. As of
now, read about you . . . entering the arch, looking over your shoulder, etc.
Next, if the vision is going to be a journey to authenticity, what do you think
the symbolic message of the action described above might be? What could it mean
for you to move forward and to leave your body behind? We are seeking their “Real
Identity.” What must be cast away to find that there is no such thing as any
authentic identity / Identity?
Reading #5: Trees lined either
side of the stream, and he began walking through them toward the sounds of the
water crashing below. Astonished, he noticed that he was literally walking
through the trees. (p. 96, The
Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 5: If one leaves the body behind as happens here, what is walking through the trees?
Wouldn’t that really be something that you could only do mentally, imagining
that? Is it possible that if you are not your body, you could also be something
other than your mind as well? Could the mind and its trapping just be
imaginings? Recall all shared here about images and how much of what we see is
not the real? Remember the snake in the rope? What are you realizing now?
Reading #6: As he progressed,
fauna of several species joined him: a black bear rubbed against his leg in the
manner of a docile housecat; a cougar did the same on the opposite side, and
each playfully swatted at the other as if to proclaim dominion over both legs;
a lamb skipped along ahead of the threesome, and a heron brought up the rear.
He walked as if on stilts, taking more time than needed, looking rather
judgmentally, it seemed, at the wasting of energy by his peers. (p. 96, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 6: Have you been for a walk in the woods lately,
alone? Just you? When we are seeking to live naturally, where better could one
begin the practice? Are you beginning to see how natural living is a
prerequisite for being ready to see the false and being ready to see what is
real and what is not? In the vision, continue becoming the lead character.
Experience the shifts and changes and separation from false identities. Are you
willing to participate in order to have a chance at finding out Who /
What You Really Are?
Reading #7: He saw that a pond
was overflowing, part of its waters cascading down the cliff side and pooling
in another flat below. That same pattern repeated itself until the waters
reached a level valley. He watched the falling waters eventually form a river
that wound its way across the desert basin. Along the river had sprung up a
variety of shade trees. All else appeared brown and dry. Then in the far
distance, hills grew into mountains. In the forefront arose huge columns of
stone, cathedral-like, forming spires of varying shapes and heights. The colors
vibrated with life, offering images of the blues and oranges and browns and
beiges like those of Venetian palazzos when reflected in the waters of the
Grand Canal. In the far distance to the left stood even grander mountain
ranges. Puffy clouds floated slowly across the sky. (p. 97, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 7: As we have recently discussed, the ancients - as
well as the indigenous peoples of “the Americas” - spoke of a Medicine Place, a
place where true mental and emotional healing can begin. All have a vision of
that Medicine Place, and one need not travel the world to find its duplicate.
It is within, and the journey to the Medicine Place can be experienced there.
That place is a natural setting; it is near water, it offers natural sounds but
no human or fabricated sounds; it is a place of peace and quiet. Once you come
to know it, you can go there at any time. Would you try going there now?
Reading #8: Kirk extended his
arms and, with the sides of his hands touching and his palms up, he formed a
landing area for the fowl. A raven, the bird of death as most people know, now
slowed as it approached even nearer. Why had he not made that association
between death and this bird? It swooped upward to curb its flight and, with
only a slight, backwards fluttering of wings, settled gently into Kirk’s
outstretched hands. (p. 97, The
Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 8: If the raven is the bird of death, what other
false identity must die in order for us to shift away from the belief in false
identities? Do you see that the conditioned, programmed, thinking mind is as
little a true identity of Who You Are as is the limiting body identification?
Reading #9: The bird stared at
Kirk, and Kirk at the bird. Kirk sensed the bird drawing something forth,
flowing out via Kirk’s eyes and directly into the eyes of the bird. Kirk
watched as the bird left, but he felt that he had left and that his mind had
stayed behind. A second degree of separation he seemed to detect. (p. 97, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 9: Many who detach from a body identity or a mind
identity shift into a spiritual mode and assume a spiritual identity. In the
vision, the essence beyond the body and mind leaves your false image behind.
Another level of freedom manifests. You are moving closer to identifying what
is real and what is not real. Are you sensing something different in terms of Who
/ What You Are versus what you are not? Is it becoming clearer about what THAT is and
about what is not, including all who-ness and all WHO-ness?
Reading # 10: The raven soared
over the valley, flying high, then flying low, and then flying high again.
Soon, it made a direct course for the mountains. Kirk no longer watched from
the cliff but saw everything below through the eyes of the raven. (p. 97, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders)
Consideration 10: People often “soar” for a time when they take on
a religious or spiritual identity. So be it. But that is merely another stage
that must be transitioned. It is a false identity, an ego-state. How do we know
that? Because we have learned that if one is emotionally intoxicated, he is in
an ego-state, assuming and protecting a false image which she / he thinks is
being hurt, threatened, or interfered with. Persons fixated in religious and / or spiritual identities
still do not have any clue at all about Who / What They Really Are and what they are not.
To be continued.
Please enter 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.
