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[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, “Unlearning with Floyd Henderson.”
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
The interview is available for viewing by clicking on video “NUMBER THIRTEEN” in the column to the right. Also, by clicking on NUMBER FOURTEEN,” visitors can also see the introductory discussion on non-duality on Walter’s non-duality site and then a Q and A session which followed.]
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“DO NOT SEARCH FOR THE ANSWER TO ‘WHO AM I?’ IT IS ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND ‘WHO / WHAT YOU ARE NOT’.”
THE FIRST DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY:
Body Identification (con’t.)
F.: “Now it is seen that consciousness cannot be 'lost.' I do not have consciousness. I Am the consciousness - the consciousness currently manifested in what you perceive to be a body. Understand that I AM the consciousness refers to the conscious-energy which is part of a three-part composite unity of conscious-energy and oxygen and elements all cycling through a space formed by ingesting elemental plant food.
When you recall that the physical elements of the entire body can be reduced to the size of a small urn, then you understand that the body is mainly space. The space / elements in which that consciousness is manifested is temporary, but the consciousness is eternal since neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed.
I am not the body. I Am the conscious-energy that is aware of its presence; thus, I am eternal to the degree that all forms of energy and all matter are forever, though the body in which I am presently manifested is temporary.
The form of the body (like the form of the ice cube) is not forever, but that which is real (like the atoms of the cube) are forever. What is Real is forever; thus, the body cannot be the real. The charges jumping across the synapses between the neurons of your brains right now are all part of the movement of electrical energy-consciousness.
Consider, for example, the EEG. It measures electrical impulses as it charts consciousness. Consciousness is ‘electrical’ or a form of ‘energy’ in its nature, so I cannot be destroyed. Neither was I created. I am, infinitely.
Now, having done the ‘Arms-Legs-Organs exercise’ and having sensed that you would still be you even if you 'lost' more than half of your original physical body parts, the consciousness should be seen as perceiving its presence. At some point, the consciousness will be released through the process the masses call ‘death’ as the combined elements return to dust - to the earth.
Just as the elements might recycle to form 'new' bodies (or not), the energy can recycle . . . or not; however, those same elements will never re-form to make the same body with the same mind with the same consciousness. But more importantly, when the body ends, you cannot destroy the ‘freed’ ashes or the dust of the body and you cannot destroy the ‘freed’ consciousness.
For now, grasp this: your body is only a manifestation of plant food. It is sustained by plant food (or, for many Westerners, by animals that eat plants and gain the energy-consciousness that can be passed to you when you eat them).
As long as the body takes in the plant food, it shall experience consciousness if the breath is also cycled. At the ‘death of the body,’ the body components shall eventually return to the pool of universal elements, the breath shall join the reservoir of universal air, and the consciousness shall enter into the vast 'field of consciousness.'
During the process whereby a body was formed, whereby consciousness became manifest, and whereby a so-called ‘birth’ of a body happened, eventually breathing also began. In that entire process, from the frictional activity to the slapping of a rear to inspire breathing, no earth elements were created. No air was created. No consciousness was created.
So what is this talk that associates ‘birth’ with ‘creation’ but ignores natural and simple cycling? The elements, the air and the consciousness merely cycle. And of those three, the consciousness is that which can know itself / Reality when it is manifested, and itself / Reality are not two. That is what non-duality is offering to you: the understanding of not two.”
Q.: "Then why does consciousness not Know Who or What It Is in the case of every human?"
F.: "Because of the faulty programming and conditioning by your cultures - the processes that contaminate the pure, universal consciousness and bastardize it with lies and roles and personas and false identities and beliefs and emotions and attitudes and fears.
What we have seen is that body identification is the first illusion that serves as an obstacle to separate you from knowing what you truly are. It is The First Degree of Separation from Reality. The “I Amness” is first separated from knowing itself by body identity. Pure consciousness knows it is not a body, and knowing that much allows us to consider the next of the multiple Degrees of Separation.
If you complete the ‘journey,’ all that you are not shall be known so that what you truly are will be known. Of course, there is no actual journey to make since there is no one to take that journey. There are no real degrees of separation.
All aids only point to that knowingness (that is, understanding) which already is. Seek 'within,' not without. Eventually, no aids will be needed. All concepts will have been discarded, including these offered in the sessions that will guide you along this multi-step ‘path.’
The shift from not knowing who / what you are to the knowing
of what you are is a transitioning by
degrees from a dark, contaminated state of consciousness (resulting from all
the conditioning and programming and assumption of lies) to an elimination of
that darkness with the light of Full Awareness of THAT which you are.
In the next session, we’ll discuss the second of the obstacles - the ‘mind’ - that stands in the way of clearly perceiving what you are.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
To watch the most recent talk and Q&A with Walter and his guests, click:
Walter Driscoll and Floyd Henderson
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