Tuesday, October 01, 2024

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

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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.]

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]

2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about “god,” the “Son of god,” the “Holy Spirit,” “Buddha,” “Krishna,” etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today’s post for the full meaning and implications of that.

3. A newer video (“Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018”) has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of “The Awakening Together Group.” (See the details in the blue text after this post.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

5. Would you like to have us send to someone as a gift from you a copy of any ebook in our inventory?

 6. You may purchase a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd’s store which might be of assistance to them.

7. You may click here to visit Floyd’s bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, and financial budgeting.

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

THE FOURTH DEGREE: MOVEMENT TOWARD REALITY

(Excerpted from a 2004 Satsang session)

F.: “To be disillusioned is to be disenchanted or disappointed. For any person who has ever felt disillusioned, the remedy is to become ‘de-illusioned.’ Only for the sake of discussion will we talk of ‘illusions within’ and ‘illusions without.’ In truth, there is not an ‘inside’ vs. an ‘outside.’

All illusions are illusions, and all illusions are within the corrupted mind. They are the corrupted mind. For purposes of discussion, though, since many students of the Teaching have seen the difference in stages, let’s review the illusions taken to be of an ‘inner’ nature.

The 'inner' illusions involve taking the body to be an actual identity, taking the mental (ideas, beliefs, attitudes) to be real, taking emotional intoxication to be justifiable or normal, and taking false personas to be real.

Through the first four levels, the goal has been to allow all of those identities and beliefs and personas that are held ‘within’ (within the conditioned mind) to dissolve. That having been accomplished, one enters into the Child Ignorance Stage or the Child No-Knowing State.

For full realization to happen, what we must see all the lies that we ever believed about ‘self’ / ‘selves’ as well as all the lies believed about others and about who they are and about all else seen that is supposedly outside myself."

Q.: “Such as?”

F.: “Such as ‘seeing a spouse.’ You were struggling early on with the perceived 'loss' of a 'wife'."

Q. : "I'm amazed at how I've shifted away from all that."

F. : "The shift is not amazing at all. It's so simple when a person sees that all she or he believed was a result of warped programming, distorted conditioning, etc.

But to the point: you have an image of yourself. You also had an image you showed her when you were dating. She had an image of you. That's three images of you to start with. The same three images were in place with her. The ‘honeymoon was over’ when you were together long enough for both to begin seeing that the images weren’t real. 

(It's the 'Ted Bundy' Syndrome: "Oh my gosh! Look how handsome! Look how charming." But for those who stayed around long enough or lived long enough to witness how false the charm was and what the unseen, underlying truth was about him, Gadzooks!")

If a person can look at a coiled rope and believe that it’s a snake, then a person can look at a snake and believe it’s just a coiled rope.” [Laughter] The point is, when you ‘die,’ she ‘dies’; when she ‘dies,’ you ‘die.’ Why?

Because that personality you call 'wife' is just the image in your mind of who she is, but she is not that at all. Your detailed description of her would differ completely from a detailed description of her provided by your children, from a description provided by a stranger . . .

from a description provided by her mother and father, from a description provided by friends or by former lovers that she ended relations with, etc. If you ask one thousand people who know her what she’s like, you'll find that there are one thousand images of her.

When those thousands eventually ‘die,’ each of their singular, unique images of her will dissolve. There are as many images of ‘her’ as there are people who think they know her. That's an example of a so-called ‘outer’ image that is an illusion;

of course, as I said, there is no ‘inner vs. outer’ duality since the images of that 'external wife' are not external at all. They are really internal images in the conditioned minds of those who think they are seeing her for who she is . . . but are not. 

The same was true in your case.

Thus I say there are no inner or outer images - all images are internal, held in the conditioned mind, perceived via corrupted or blocked consciousness. There are the images of self that are held within the corrupted mind and there are the images of others or other things held within the corrupted mind.

The realized will see only the oneness of it all. Now, let’s return to the vision as we see the eagle enter into the setting and begin to witness.

(As a child, all you could do was witness. Everything else was provided and controlled by adults. Abiding in the Fourth Step level, you will also just witness.

Activities can continue, but they too will be witnessed from a point of neutrality. No identities are operating to trigger desires or fears. So just witness. All among the fully realized happens automatically and instinctively and mindlessly.)

To continue:

In preparation, envision an eagle, soaring above the arch-desert-mountain-ocean location of the vision. The eagle could see a mouse scampering among the trees that border the stream that runs through the arch. If it were hungry, it could swoop down, capture the mouse, and eat.

Furthermore, it might see a stick that is casting a shadow that might look like a mouse . . . that might appear to be a mouse. The eagle, however, is so observant and so knowing that it does not mistake the shadow for a mouse and attack it. 

The non-realized all cast shadows. They are not involved with reality at all. 

In the case of the shadow, the eagle is not really witnessing any 'thing' but is recognizing an illusion as an illusion. It does not react, attack, or even waste another moment with the image, once it notes that it’s just an image.

Such is the possibility when you are abiding in the Fourth Step level and witnessing impartially. That having been said, let’s move to today’s segment of the vision. Close your eyes and enter the realm of the vision.”

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 once imagined to be 'you.'

But now abiding in the style of a witnessing eagle, you have no time to think or to contemplate, for you feel yourself being pulled deeper into the universe through a clear-walled tunnel in the remotest part of the heavens.

F.: “Keeping your eyes closed, I ask: are you sensing the detachment of the eagle as it merely witnesses? Is it possible that everything that appears in the material realm is nothing more than an ‘outer’ image registered ‘within’ your consciousness and misinterpreted as a result of all your programming and conditioning and beliefs? 

(Images on a screen appear to be real, but the only thing real is the screen and images cast via projected light.)

If you have given up all your beliefs and ideas and attitudes that were mistakenly taken to be the real by your conditioned mind, is it also possible to take everything you see with your eyes and admit that it is not at all what you thought it was?

Is it possible that when the last belief is allowed to dissolve, and when the last illusion of ‘things seen’ is allowed to dissolve, then - and only then - can you turn and see that which is real and that which was not real and never will be?”

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

To watch the interview when Walter and Floyd discussed the fact that the Ultimate Sickness is a mental / mind sickness and why learning more is not the answer and why unlearning is the answer, click:

UNLEARNING

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Monday, September 30, 2024

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

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  ANNOUNCEMENTS

[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.]

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]

2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about “god,” the “Son of god,” the “Holy Spirit,” “Buddha,” “Krishna,” etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today’s post for the full meaning and implications of that.

3. A newer video (“Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018”) has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of “The Awakening Together Group.” (See the details in the blue text after this post.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

5. Would you like to have us send to someone as a gift from you a copy of any ebook in our inventory?

 6. You may purchase a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd’s store which might be of assistance to them.

7. You may click here to visit Floyd’s bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, and financial budgeting.

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

THE FOURTH DEGREE: MOVEMENT TOWARD REALITY

(Excerpted from a 2004 Satsang session)

Before we complete the discussion regarding the Fourth Step which is where seekers are shifted to a movement toward reality by having abandoned all body-mind-personality-identifications, it’s time to share with you  a few parts of a vision which came years ago.

The vision will address the understanding of the four levels we’ve transitioned. I’ll be offering the vision in parts, and I suggest that - after reading each part - you enter the silence of contemplation.

The goal will not be to reach a bogus “superconscious” state at this point. The goal will be to become so awake, so aware and so conscious of what is being revealed through the vision that you know the truth of the pointers offered regarding each level we have discussed.

Eventually - via your meditating upon the content of the vision - you will complete the journey on your own through the remaining levels.

In today's part of the vision, see the first of the shifts as you leave behind on the journey all which you’ve believed defined “you” and begin discarding belief in all of that which is not you.

After reading today's segment of the vision, you’re invited to close your eyes, feel your presence in the vision as you walk through it again on your own, and contemplate the content until you know the truth of what it reveals.

Parts of THE VISION

Envision yourself standing at one end of an open field in a very remote area. At the far end of the field is the edge of a forest. See yourself moving across the field and toward the woods. As you walk closer to the edge of the forest, see a gap in the trees that allows clear access to a trail.

Follow that path through the woods, noticing the sounds along the way. Walk until you reach the side of a small creek bed.

Turn to the right and see yourself walking along the bank of a “branch,” one of those small, usually V-shaped mini-gorges, cut into the ground ten to twelve feet at its deepest, not as much by rainwater as by constantly flowing springs that surface from below.

Observe an emerald-green moss that covers the walls and the bed; it seems to shine with a luminescence in spite of the fact that the thickness of the overhead foliage prevents much sunlight from striking the creek bed or the sides of the chasm.

The earthen walls look rough-edged, for stones jut out all along the way, their tips exposed by years of erosion. Colors typical of the region come into view along the way: earth-tones, rust-colors, and sometimes blackness, but always brightened by the ever-present grayish and fluorescent-green moss.

As you parallel the edge of the creek on the beginning of this journey, see yourself reaching a place where the land slopes sharply, and the watery swath cut into the earth follows the oblique contour of the land.

Next to the slanting branch rests a series of natural, sandstone steps descending to a granite arch twice the height of a human. From the arch shines a pure white light. An illumination this bright should easily blind you, but instead it soothes you.

It seems to spotlight the steps, and as you move down the stones, first your feet and then your legs and then your torso become bathed in the glow.

Eventually, by the time you reach the dead-flat area at the bottom of the natural walkway, you stand before the arch, and the luxuriance of the light bathes you fully in its warmth. The clear spring waters from the branch flow through the archway, and you follow.

Stepping inside, you look over your shoulder to see that your physical body has remained outside the arch. You sense some degree of separation from the material.

Keeping your eyes closed, I now invite you to consider: are you fully convinced that you are not a body?

After you read the next part of the vision, close your eyes and picture yourself in the setting. Relate the content to the level of separation that we discussed earlier.

When you turn to see where the arch has led, you notice that the spring waters have suddenly multiplied into a slow-moving stream. The stream runs the length of a plateau and then cascades over the edge at the far end.

You will soon see that the waters drop from the highland and then flow, in waterfall fashion, down the cliff side and into a pool some twenty feet below. 

Trees line either side of the stream, and you begin walking through them toward the sounds of the water crashing below. Astonished, you noticed that you are literally walking through the trees.

As you progress, fauna of several species join you: a black bear rubs against your leg in the manner of a docile house cat; a cougar does the same on the opposite side, and each playfully swats at the other as if to proclaim dominion over both of your legs; a lamb skips along ahead as a heron brings up the rear.

The heron walks as if on stilts, taking more time than needed, looking rather judgmentally, it seems, at the wasting of energy by his peers.

As you near the edge of the cliff, you walk across the top of the water, not becoming wet at all; your new companions either lead or follow.

As you approach the left side of the plateau, the animals nudge you toward a winding walkway of sorts, cut from the stone side of the cliff naturally, definitely not made by man.

After swinging down and around and back to your right, you find yourself on a level piece of ground jutting out from the side of the cliff. You see that a pond is overflowing, part of its waters cascading down the cliff side and pooling in another flat below.

That same pattern repeats itself until the waters reach a level valley. You watch the falling waters eventually form a river that winds its way across the desert basin.

Along the river has sprung up a variety of shade trees. All else appears brown and dry. Then in the far distance, hills grow into mountains. In the forefront arise huge columns of stone, cathedral-like, forming spires of varying shapes and heights.

The colors vibrate 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 stand even grander mountain ranges. Puffy clouds float slowly across the sky. You focus attention on a fire burning next to the pool, and you feel yourself being nudged there by the bear, nudged in a very persuasive way.

Then, from behind, the cougar lifts its front paws onto your shoulders and forces you into a cross-legged, seated position before the campfire. Finally, all four animals form a semi-circle around you, from your left side, behind you, and to your right.

Looking at the animals quizzically, you notice that each is focusing on an object in the distance. Allowing your eyes to follow the path of theirs, see a bird of some kind flying directly at you, drawing nearer by the second.

Its speed accelerates as it moves dart-like across the skies, aimed at your chest like an avian arrow. Yet you feel very calm. As the bird approaches closer and closer, you extend your arms and, with the sides of your hands touching and your palms up, you form a landing area for the fowl.

A raven (in literature, the “bird of death”) now slows as it approaches even nearer.

It swoops upward to curb its flight and, with only a slight, backwards fluttering of wings, settles gently into your outstretched hands. The other fauna watch but do not react

The bird stares at you, and you at the bird. You sense the bird drawing forth something from within you that is flowing out via your eyes and moving directly into the eyes of the bird.

You watch as the bird leaves, but you feel as if you have left and that your mind has stayed behind. A second degree of separation you seem to detect.

Keeping your eyes closed, I now invite you to consider: how convinced are you that you are not your mind?

The vision has exposed what must be understood during the first two steps of the journey.

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

To watch the interview when Walter and Floyd discussed the fact that the Ultimate Sickness is a mental / mind sickness and why learning more is not the answer and why unlearning is the answer, click:

UNLEARNING

EBOOK VERSIONS OF ALL 56 OF HENDERSON'S BOOKS 

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

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 Had two granddaughters over for a two day visit and a sleepover. Will continue posting 30 Sept 2024. THX.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

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  ANNOUNCEMENTS

[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.]

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]

2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about “god,” the “Son of god,” the “Holy Spirit,” “Buddha,” “Krishna,” etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the green text after today’s post for the full meaning and implications of that.

3. A newer video (“Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018”) has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of “The Awakening Together Group.” (See the details in the blue text after this post.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

5. Would you like to have us send to someone as a gift from you a copy of any ebook in our inventory?

 6. You may purchase a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd’s store which might be of assistance to them.

7. You may click here to visit Floyd’s bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, and financial budgeting.

"SEEK NOT TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. INSTEAD, SEEK TO FIND ALL YOU ARE NOT."

THE FOURTH DEGREE: MOVEMENT TOWARD REALITY

(Excerpted from a 2004 Satsang session)

 Q.2 : “Is ‘marriage’ a concept?”

F.: “Of course. Anything you can name is a concept.”

Q. 2: “So, if all has to dissolve and one has to give up every concept, must marriage be abandoned in order to continue this journey?”

F.: “I invited you to allow all personas to dissolve. Just because the role of 'husband' dissolves does not mean that a series of happenings must stop. Sex, reproduction, work, house-sharing, child-rearing . . . all that can continue to happen. 

The difference is that after realization, all those happenings  may continue to happen or not, but no person will be involved with the happenings; also, the absence of ego-states will herald an absence of emotional intoxication.

Moreover, when realized, one understands what is permanent and what is not. Energy and matter are permanent, including conscious-energy. The body is not; thus, energy-matter is real and the human body and mind and personalities are temporary and are not the real. Is marriage forever?

Q. 2: “I suppose not.”

F.: “You suppose? Have you seen any divorce rates recently?” [Laughter.]

Q. 2: “But some people stay married until they die . . . uh . . . until they take mahasamadhi.”

F.: “And after they die, does their marriage continue?”

Q 2.: “You’re trying to trap me.”

F.: “Hardly. I’m trying to free you from the trap you are already caught in. Let’s review. What is the composite unity?”

Q. 2: “I need to review my notes.”

F.: [Look of resignation] “See why we were told that ‘Jesus / Yeshu’a wept?’ After all his time and energy, his disciples still did not get it; that is, did not get freedom from their earlier programming, conditioning, etc. 

The composite unity is a combination of plant food elements which have come together temporarily and which have formed a space through which oxygen can cycle and conscious-energy can cycle. Those two are never fixed inside the body. 

They must constantly be cycled, coming and going. And when mahasamadhi is taken, the elements return to the universal pool of elements, the oxygen returns to the universal pool of oxygen, and the conscious-energy returns to the universal pool of conscious-energy. And never again shall any of those meet.

So no part of any human or animal or bird or fish body survives the taking of mahasamadhi.” [Q.2 raises his hand.] “Put your hand down, please. I'll head off your objection right now: there never has been, and there is not now, and there never shall be ‘a soul’ inside the space formed by plant food elements. [Q. 2 twists up his face. I twist up my face like his and then laughter follows.]

So no, souls cannot go to heaven and continue a marriage. And what if one partner is allowed into heaven and the other is sent to hell? I guess God divorced them? And what about those who have have 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 marriages? 

Which of all those mates would they end up with if they all make it into heaven? And be honest. After a couple spends years together, do you believe that both would be equally as excited about continuing that prospect forever? When  Maharaj’s wife died, there were people in Bombay / Mumbai who were constantly trying to 'fix him up.'

Finally, one frustrated matchmaker asked, “Are you ever going to marry again?” He replied, “I am already married again. I am married to freedom.”

That said, husband, wife, etc. are roles, so they are not real. Can ‘husbanding’ still happen? Sure. Can ‘wifing’ still happen? Sure. Just not with all the strum and drang that come if persons believe in those false roles. They are forever an instance away from ending.

Realize and then no images believed before to be real will be taken as the real after understanding the functioning of the Totality, but the full array of all those happenings can, nevertheless, still occur. With no persona to experience anything, the experiencing of the fears and desires that accompany the assumption of false identities will end.

 Persons experience; consciousness experiences nothing. Impure consciousness believes experiences to be real; pure consciousness simply witnesses.

Reaching the fourth level we’re discussing involves purifying, filtering, removing obstacles in order to see clearly. It’s about returning to that state when the child was conscious of its presence but not conscious of any beliefs or ideas. 

The consciousness was pure, devoid of lies and fabrications and prior to programming and conditioning. This is the point at which the effects of your learned ignorance, your conditioning, and your programming should be seen and cast aside, once and for all. You are within a step of reaching a state of authenticity.

Obviously, the understanding can only be understood when truth is seen, and truth can only be seen when all of the false has been noted and discarded. Then authenticity can springs into view when the last state-of-being dissolves. The shift to the earliest Child Ignorance Step or the No-Knowing State begins to purge the corrupted, variable mind of all false identities and beliefs so that you can understand the truth.

We are looking at all that you take to be ‘within’ and see it has always been false, as is all which you take to be ‘outside.’ In truth, none of it is anything more than movements in contaminated or blocked consciousness. 

Moreover, there is no triad of perceiver, perceived, perceiving. The first two are illusions and even the perceiving will dissolve when consciousness is no longer manifested.”

Q. 2: “So, how to be rid of all my ideas and beliefs once and for all?”

F.: “See that there are no ‘my’ ideas or ‘my’ beliefs. They are 'theirs ideas,' and 'theirs' are dreamed up . . . not real. They are false. 

Accept that and then let all ideas and beliefs dissolve, including mine after realization. Now, enough talk about forfeiting the learned ignorance. We’ve reached a juncture where meditation is called for. I suggest you spend time now in the quiet.

Focus consideration on where we have been so far on the journey: review our discussions regarding the misery of accepting the limiting view that you are your body, of taking a corrupted mind's beliefs as real, and of the various personalities you’ve assumed. 

Review the power of two personas in particular that - if assumed to be who you are - will prevent any further movement along the path, namely, ‘The Super Religious One’ and ‘The Spiritual Giant.’

All knowledge has availed you nothing, so you’re being invited to try something different: let it all go. If you reach that no-body, no-false identities, no-false beliefs stage, then you’re ready to return to the Child No-Knowing State. 

Remember, the non-dualist Yeshu’a was reported to have said, ‘I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never be able to come unto me.’ Go now and meditate on all these words. See the body lies, the mind lies, the personality lies . . . see all the lies and abandon belief in them completely.”

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

To watch the interview when Walter and Floyd discussed the fact that the Ultimate Sickness is a mental / mind sickness and why learning more is not the answer and why unlearning is the answer, click:

UNLEARNING

EBOOK VERSIONS OF ALL 56 OF HENDERSON'S BOOKS 

ARE AVAILABLE AT

Henderson's Books.

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