THE CHILD IGNORANCE STEP MUST PRECEDE THE WITNESSING STEP WHEN TAKING THE SEVEN-STEP JOURNEY TO REALIZATION, Part Three

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From a site visitor: [Received 05 January 2007] Would you talk more about that Child Ignorance you mentioned to Luca today? Thank you.

F.: Yesterday, the cycling of the conscious-energy was described up to the point when…

…in those early days of manifestation, I witnessed. At that point, only a full stomach and dry clothing were required for bliss to happen. All was still fairly simply at that point.

Now, to continue with the process of consciousness manifesting and being corrupted, see that the experiencing of that bliss is always short-lived. That simple state of I-Amness (wherein there was only an “awareness of being”) would soon be followed by learned ignorance as the consciousness would be subjected to parental programming and conditioning. It would also be subjected to programming in schools, in the culture, and in churches by those whose tool kits included lies and distortions and illusions and by those whose agenda included using those tools to try to control behavior by controlling thoughts and beliefs.

The foundation for all eventual difficulties had thus been laid, and once the programming was forced upon the consciousness, it triggered the shift away from that Child Ignorance stage and the shift towards misery and suffering as body, mind, and personality identification replaced objective witnessing and peaceful beingness. The mental and emotional misery and suffering that would soon come would be rooted in the learned ignorance. The physical miseries and sufferings would eventually happen as accidents, age, a contaminated food supply, and the laws of thermodynamics began to exert their effects on the elemental body. The misery and suffering continued as "the world" was taken to be real, which resulted in the experiencing of stress and trauma as dealing with the widespread mental and emotional illness among persons took its toll.

For those persons who are so arrogant as to proclaim they have never experienced misery and suffering and never will, the invitation is to…be patient. Should the manifestation of the consciousness continue for a long-enough period, both shall be visited upon you…upon you, the corrupted consciousness. (That misery and suffering shall be visited equally upon those who think their religion or spirituality has made them “good” or “better” as well as upon those who they label as “the bad people” or “the ones who are worse than us.”)

To return to that earlier, blissful state, see everything that has been accumulated between (a) those earliest stages of witnessing and Child Ignorance and (b) this very moment. All of that accumulation is what must be discarded in order to lighten the load and move freely through the remainder of the manifestation. Such lightness of being happens only if abidance as the Absolute happens, even as the consciousness is yet manifested. Please enter the silence of contemplation.

THE CHILD IGNORANCE STEP MUST PRECEDE THE WITNESSING STEP WHEN TAKING THE SEVEN-STEP JOURNEY TO REALIZATION, Part Two

From a site visitor: [Received 05 January 2007] Would you talk more about that Child Ignorance you mentioned to Luca today? Thank you.

F.: In order to understand the way that consciousness becomes corrupted, in order to understand the way that consciousness can be re-purified, and in order to understand the functioning of the totality, you must understand the cycles that are repeated over and over. You must realize that (a) conscious-energy can cycle into and out of manifestation and that (b) if it manifests via the space called “humans” it will undergo seven steps of corruption that separate it from being in touch with reality and that separate it from knowing THAT Which It Truly Is. The bastardization of the consciousness among persons will be so complete that they not only do not know Who/What They Truly Are but will eventually believe that they are what they are not.

Here is the way that one cycle of manifesting began: first, there was that period when I did not know that I was. Prior to manifestation, this energy that I Am was within that vast and unadulterated pool of unmanifested energy wherein I was not conscious of myself. (How could I be? There was no self or Self or being that afforded an opportunity for Me to be aware of Me…or of anything.) Spontaneously, the conscious-energy manifested in a plant that was consumed by those who would come to be called “my parents.” As pointed out last Thursday,

On this planet, the fount from which the Is-ness “springs” is in every vegetable and in every grain of wheat and in every leaf on every tree and in every piece of grass.

That act by “my parents” of consuming a plant in which I had manifested was followed by various cell formations within the space called “their bodies.” Two of those cells were a sperm cell and an egg. An act of friction set off a chain of spontaneous events whereby consciousness (and eventually “self”-consciousness) would be forced upon this space called “floyd.” It was not asked for, it was not sought, and no sacred contract was arranged in advance of the manifestation. (Only after the total bastardization of the consciousness can a person become so ignorant as to dream up such nonsense or can a person become so ignorant as to believe such nonsense as that.)

Eventually, even as an infant, I became aware of my presence. I knew I existed without being told that I exist, just as the consciousness labeled “a bird” knows it exists and will flee from perceived threats in order to sustain the manifestation. (Similarly, a loud noise in my presence would cause me to jump in an automatic fashion, already having being “wired” in a natural way to take action to try to sustain the consciousness.)

However, no words had yet been taught at that point so no thoughts happened at that point so no concepts has been acquired and accepted as “truth” at that point. In those early days of manifestation, I witnessed. At that point, only a full stomach and dry clothing were required for bliss to happen. All was still fairly simply at that point. To return to the Child Ignorance stage is to return to that stage of simplicity wherein such contentment can happen again, but to reach that stage requires reproducing the exact conditions that existed at that time, namely, being free of concepts and beliefs. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

THE CHILD IGNORANCE STEP MUST PRECEDE THE WITNESSING STEP WHEN TAKING THE SEVEN-STEP JOURNEY TO REALIZATION, Part One

From a site visitor: [Received 05 January 2007] Would you talk more about that Child Ignorance you mentioned to Luca today? Thank you.

F.: The manifestation and corruption of consciousness results in seven degrees of separation from Reality and leads to persons identifying with the false “I.” In order to once again be in touch with Reality, the same seven steps must be taken, but in reverse order. Ultimately, all beliefs and concepts must be abandoned as one discards both body identification and “mind”/personality identification.

Freedom from “mind”/personality identification begins when the focus is on the I AM, but no further movement toward reality can happen unless every instance of following “I am” with a word is abandoned. That means not only must the belief end that “I am this body” or “I am a spouse” or “I am an employee,” ad infinitum. It also means that “I am…a religious person” and “I am…spiritual” must also be abandoned because those are also nothing more than “mind”-generated personas/personalities/roles. On the “path,” they are usually the last two personas/ego-states/false identities to “go,” but their abandonment makes way for the shift to the Child Ignorance stage.

With that abandonment and the return to the Child Ignorance level where freedom from concepts happened then and can happen now, all beliefs and concepts can fall aside readily. The re-purifying consciousness is returned to that stage which was prior to programming and conditioning. At that Child Ignorance stage, the manifestation of consciousness had happened but that stage was prior to the bastardization of the consciousness…prior to programming and conditioning and the teaching of concepts.

As the reverse order process to Realization is followed step-by-step, the Child Ignorance level is the transitional stage between freedom from beliefs in concepts and the (newly-recovered) ability that You--at the unprogrammed child level--had: the ability to merely witness without judging, without drawing conclusions, without becoming emotionally attached to power, without trying to use power to control others and the world and the future, and without trying to influence outcomes. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

TAKE THE SEVEN STEPS TO REALIZATION IN THEIR EXACT ORDER

From a site visitor: Caio floyd, Here is not the first time I wrote also a long time ago. For December was much travel so now reading your new writes with help of friend who englishes better and tells it in my language. Something other teachers and you say is now the better understand how “parents pleasures becomes my pain.” Now the better seeing is they fool us--I don’t blame--somebody fool them (that is mainly found to the church Cattolico here in Italia). Parents and church Cattolico both fool to me and to my brothers and to my sisters, but am more seeing progreaming and condition you talk about in book I buy. Now the know is--for to be free must be free of at all they taught. If other information serve me I beg you to do me that to know. Grazie infinite, Luca

F.: Caio, Luca. Yes, the content of your earlier letter remains fresh. Thanks for writing again. Possibly when I am in Tuscany this coming summer, a visit might be arranged with you and your friend who englishes better than you. [Just a joke. Your meanings come through clearly enough.]

When you wrote last, the response was sent to you off site since you mentioned that your struggle with Catholicism was “private” at the time and you did not want the issues discussed on the web. (By the way, the influence of Catholicism in Italy can be overwhelming, but religion's impact is worldwide. You could have been exposed to their programming anywhere on the planet.) Now, it seems that you have transcended that stage and may be flirting with the witnessing stage, so the response will be posted on the site. As far as your request for additional information that might now be relevant, the following is offered:

1. Do not lose sight of the fact that (a) yes, what you have believed can—in considerable measure—be attributed to the programming and conditioning you received via your parents and via “organized” religion, but (b) focus on the fact that what You Truly Are has nothing to do with any parent or any beliefs or any concepts espoused by any institution. That Which You Are simply happened to manifest spontaneously (and temporarily). That’s all that happened.

2. Having transitioned your religious and/or spiritual personas—so it seems—the call now is for you to focus on the Child Ignorance stage and then the witnessing stage.

3. Do not attempt to skip the Child Ignorance stage and move directly to the witnessing stage. First, belief in every concept must be abandoned—not just the ones received from parents or from organized religion. You have followed, so far, the “path” as detailed in the book you bought, so stay that course and complete the steps in order. (Regarding your leaving religion behind, even the Advaitan Christ abandoned the inconsistent message of organized religion and the inconsistent practices of its adherents, and it was only by abandoning organized religion that he thereafter found the Advaita teachings and passed those along to those who would listen during the last years of that manifestation.)

4. Freed of concepts, your witnessing will be objective and automatic. Focus on the fact that the witness—that re-purifying consciousness that observes in a subject-object fashion—is different from all things that are supposedly being witnessed and from all the doings that are supposedly being observed. Function as the eagle in the vision, flying above it all and realizing that nothing is really as it appears.

Once the witnessing is seen to be happening automatically and spontanoeusly, write again to the site; then, pointers will be offered on transitioning beyond the objective witness to abiding as the Pure Witness. From that stage, the shift to abiding as the Absolute can happen.

Best regards for now. (The address of the apartment used in Italy will be sent to you before that trip in order that a visit might be arranged.) Peace and Light. Please enter the silence of contemplation.