Be: The Cure for Dis-ease
October 17, 2007 at 12:20 am (Science, Video, Who Am I)
Tags: awareness, being, breathing, consciousness, death, disease, healing, health, life, living, self healing, sickness
Progress…
March 31, 2007 at 5:00 pm (Duality, I Change The World, Who Am I)
Tags: acceptance, awareness, being, choice, Duality, God, nothingness, progress, reality, resistence, self awareness, unity
I often say that “choice” is actually a relatively easy thing to do but that, in an infinite amount of moments, it has to be done often (constantly). I say this because our choice very much changes our direction while we travel through different perceptions of ourselves…just like switches on a railroad. Each choice takes us into a perception where our “self” seems further away or closer. Of course it never really is farther away or even closer, but it seems that way…and when it comes down to it, perception is everything.
Acceptance and Resistance…ultimately the only two choices. But what are we accepting? Reality is the ultimate puzzle and often the answer to our questions are right in front of our face. If we are always trying to accept “something” about ourselves and that always brings us back to more questions then wouldn’t it make sense to accept “nothing”? Seems impossible. How does one accept “nothing” without resisting? It all leads back to that middle ground between duality…neither accept nor resist, simply Be. In accepting that I am “nothing” I am not demeaning myself (though this acceptance definitely requires humility)…I am simply stating that I am not a particular “thing”. I am not a body, a student, a teacher, a good or bad person, or even “God”…I am potentially anything…and everything starts from nothing.
The death of the ego self is the death of our concept of the self. When we stop thinking about what we “might be” then we are just being.
Moment by moment I am choosing to accept my own nothingness…this is progress.
(and I haven’t even moved)
I am.
Without words…
March 31, 2007 at 4:38 pm (I Change The World)
Tags: awareness, being, labels, self, silence, words
It is impossible to simply Be while still trying to be something, just as it is impossible to describe the indescribable.
There is a infinite source of knowledge in silence.
Just listen….you’re already hearing it.
Infinite Reflections…
January 13, 2007 at 6:11 am (Duality, I Change The World, Religion, Science, Thought Vs. Insight, Who Am I)
Tags: awareness, being, big bang, consciousness, Duality, God, I am, infinite, inner conflict, inner peace, perception, reflections, time, ultimate reality, unity
This is intended to be a short post, mostly just because the thought has entered my mind again and I felt writing it down might inspire me to expand on it at another time.
The Nature of Reflections…
I often refer to “pure consciousness” as “God”…I know this label implies all kinds of other “beliefs” or assumptions, but forget those and focus on the meaning that I am intending. “Pure consciousness” is consciousness without the belief that it is separate from itself in any way…it is consciousness that only knows itself (without label or limitation). This consciousness is the ultimate reality of what I refer to as “Unity”…there is nothing but “it”.
All things come from this consciousness…the big bang is nothing more than a way of saying that “one thing” expanded into “many things” (or rather many ways to PERCEIVE “one thing”). All of us, every single living thing, is a reflection of these “many ways”. In essence, we are all variations of the original perception of Unity. We all fall somewhere between complete Acceptance that “I am all that is” and absolute rejection of that idea. Of course this is an infinitely HUGE spectrum…quite literally there is no way to describe how many variations there are because the original “pure consciousness” has no limitations (it is all that is…who else is there to limit it?)..and of course, all things come from it.
Over the course of what we consider to be “Time” the perception of Duality “grows”. Duality itself implies separation between one half and the other (never being simply ONE thing) so each reflection (living being) that is created reflects that denial of Unity. The funny part about the original “pure consciousness” is that it always lies beneath the surface of the perceived Duality…what I mean is that “Good” and “Bad” may be two perceptions of the same thing but the thing itself is still the same. No matter how these “reflections” might struggle to maintain the belief that they are not “all that is” there is the underlying knowledge that they really are (once again, all things come from pure consciousness and therefore KNOW that they are all that is.) God always knows that it is God…but it can experience the perception of denying it truly is God.
I think this also explains the variations of “inner conflict” (and inner peace) that we see and experience…there are some people who very rarely fight their own nature and others who do it constantly.
“Evolution” is believed to be the process of advancing our understanding and interaction with reality…I think what we forget is that in the “beginning” there was perfect harmony with reality because the original “pure consciousness” knew that it WAS reality…there was no separation because it was “all that is”. With this in mind, it seems like our pursuit of evolution is actually the process of returning to that “pure consciousness”.
It seems as though we are abandoning “Duality” more and more…insights, events in our realities, conversations, etc…all of these things seem to be turning more and more of us towards inner knowledge. Eventually this search for “inner truth” is going to lead us back to pure consciousness. Eventually someone, somewhere, is going to take a “leap of faith” and explore the possibility that it might be “just them”. After that possibility is opened other reflections will share it and take it a step further…this process will continue until one reflection no longer sees it as a possibility, but as absolute truth.
Eventually, a reflection of “God” (pure consciousness) will experience reality without the denial that it is “all that is”. This reflection will cease to be a reflection by its own choice…it will choose to be the source. What came from Unity will always return to Unity.
Just letting my thoughts take me (no actual destination in mind),
A Forgetful God
The source of our Need
December 31, 2006 at 7:53 pm (Blogging, Duality, I Change The World, Thought Vs. Insight, Who Am I)
Tags: all one, alone, awareness, being, Duality, God, I am, let go, myself, need, responsibility, self awareness, source of need, surrender, unity, why we need
Throughout the last 2 months of blogging I have often referred to myself as “God”…I do this a few reasons, mostly because it’s the closest “label” I can find without limiting myself. I would like to make something perfectly clear though…”God” is just a label. It’s an idea, a concept, and a word…it does not and will never truly describe the “nothing/everything” that I truly am. So why do I use the word? Well, I like the shock value (mostly the shock to my own beliefs and limitations) and if I didn’t use words there wouldn’t be anything here for you to read. Now that I’ve explained that, let’s talk about what we’re all trying to accomplish here…what are we trying to figure out or let go of?
In my last post I discussed Christmas and how we’ve completely bastardized the original idea behind it by using this “holiday” as an excuse to justify our desires and wants. One Guy left an interesting comment to that post and so I’ve decided to use this one as a response. He expressed a curiousity into a “deeper need” behind all of our needs and desires…why do we need/want all these things? Well, here’s my attempt at an answer.
Often I find myself being “gentle” to those around me…I don’t mean compassionate (often being gentle and being compassionate are two very different things). What I mean is that I tend to “coddle” those around me…I keep things to myself for the sake of not upsetting them. When someone complains about their ailments or problems I’ll often just listen instead of saying “You’re choosing to perceive things this way…stop it or stop complaining about it”. Whether or not I should be “to the point” is a topic for another discussion…for the purpose of this discussion though I am going to be straightforward. If you don’t like my answer, that’s okay…but that doesn’t mean it’s not the truth. (it just means you don’t like the possibility that it might be true)
So here’s the question….why do we need or want anything?
Obviously the entire basis for the belief that we need something is the belief that we don’t already have everything we need…this makes sense, right? right. Now, you are the same “nothing/everything” that I am…you are “God” and therefore the creator of your reality and experience. Most people will automatically dismiss me here…they’ll ignore me, argue with me (which never works out well), or simply stop talking to me. Why do they (I) do this…because what I’m talking about is ultimate responsibility. Think about it…I am responsible for EVERYTHING that happens in my life…good or bad, painful or pleasing. Have you ever noticed that people are more than happy to take credit for the good things in their life but they’ll pass the bad things off to “God”? Admitting that you ARE God kinda takes that option away doesn’t it?
So why do we need/want anything? Distraction. We need a lot of things….we need to believe we’re seperate from others, we need to think of the future and the past, we need to have “things” to survive, we need to judge, we need to have power, we need to have control, we need to believe we’re good or bad…hell, we even NEED to label ourselves. Why all these needs? Because it’s distracts us from ourselves…all of these things are meant to bring our focus outside of ourselves.
I have often said that the best thing anyone could do is sit in a dark room alone for as long as possible…why? Because there is nowhere to escape to. You are stuck with yourself at this point and therefore you HAVE to face the things you desperately want to avoid. The fact is that we don’t NEED any of these things…we just choose to believe we do. In believing we “need” something we are, once again, choosing to believe we don’t have everything already. And what do we have? We have ourself (and as “God” that IS everything). Do you see the logic here? Everything we’re doing…all the beliefs and ideas, concepts and escapes, time or labels…all of it is meant to be an escape. If we’re not “thinking” or escaping we’re left Here and Now with Myself…we’re left with ultimate responsibility for how we perceive ourself (reality). This is the core reason we choose to believe we need things…
As long as we “need” something we can pass off responsibility and choice.
Put simply, the thought process goes something like this…
If I “need” this thing to be complete then anything I choose or do will be flawed because I am incomplete…it isn’t my fault, it’s “Gods” fault for not giving me this thing I THAT CHOOSE TO BELIEVE I NEED.
Needing nothing and taking responsibility are the same thing…after all, it is only when you take responsibility for your own Choice that you can Choose to stop needing.
The twisted part about this is that “Choice” can only happen in the Here and Now…I have to stop “needing” to make the choice and I have to choose to stop needing all at the same time.
This is not a battle, this is not an attempt to control…this is what is already happening at the deepest core of myself…I am already “God”, I just have to let go and be myself…the choice and responsibility takes care of itself. It sounds so hard, doesn’t it…it’s not. In fact, your reality has been telling you the secret throughout your life. Through every hard time, every frustration, and every hardship you keep hearing the same message over and over…Relax. Just let go.
A Forgetful God
Why do we Want?
December 29, 2006 at 7:01 am (Blogging, I Change The World, Thought Vs. Insight)
Tags: appreciation, being, being complete, christ, christmas, doing, giving, happiness, have everything, receiving, want nothing, wanting
It’s been a while since I’ve made any posts so I thought now would be a good time. To be honest, I’ve been completely absorbed in the whole Christmas thing…not “the gifts” but rather the people and how we all seem to react to this so-called “Time of Giving”. Now that it’s all over, I figured I’d write a bit about what I’ve noticed.
It seems to me that Christmas is no longer what it was originally intended to be. The very purpose of “Christmas” was to honor Christ…of course Santa came into the picture at some point but even the idea of Santa was meant to honor what Christ stood for…unconditional love and giving to all. So what happened? Suddenly everyone is frantically pushing and shoving their way through the stores, stressing out over gifts and money, and even arguing more than usual with the people they love. Somehow this behavior doesn’t seem to fit in with the whole “Christmas Spirit” idea.
The funny part about all this stress is that very little thought goes into the actual “gifts” anymore…more thought is spent on the value of the gifts and how they might “impress” the recipient. Truly, people seem to focus more on their own need to be recognized and “thanked” than the spirit of giving for the simple joy of giving. My favorite example is when the person actually TELLS YOU what the gift cost them…did you want to know? Does it matter? If anything, it takes away from our appreciation of the actual object and limits it to a monetary value.
I think the main problem is that we all go into this time of “giving” with specific ideas of what we want…I don’t just mean “presents”, I mean feelings and emotions as well. When it comes right down to it, the only reason we truly want anything is because we believe it will make us happier…but it doesn’t work that way. Simply by wanting something we are convincing ourselves that we don’t have enough right now…we want money, toys, appreciation, recognition, etc…all for the simple purpose of fulfilling our need to be happy. And what happens when you get these things you thought would make you happy? Nothing…your still left with this feeling that something is missing.
It seems that the very practice of “wanting” does nothing more than convince us we are incomplete without that thing. This belief is the root of our unhappiness, not the lack of that “thing”. So what happens when we stop wanting? How do we stop wanting? Stop believing you need anything to make you happy…start believing you have everything you need right now. (What do I have? Myself)
Would this simple belief change anything about Christmas? I think so. We would find appreciation again, we would have no reason to stress or argue because we’re not trying to “get” anything…in the end, we would find happiness even with a lump of coal (at least you have a way to keep warm if you need it). Giving for the sake of giving can only happen when we don’t desire a thank you…when we don’t desire a boost to our self-esteem. In the end, you have to stop wanting to want things…you have to believe you have everything already.
“When you want nothing…you will have everything”
It seems like a twisted little joke, but only when we stop “wanting things” to make us happy do we actually find happiness. When we stop focusing on what we don’t have, we realize what we DO have and we find appreciation (and thus, joy).
Happy Holidays,
A Forgetful God
What is
November 28, 2006 at 7:26 am (I Change The World, Thought Vs. Insight, Who Am I)
Tags: acceptance, being, description, here, I am, known, labels, moment, now, philosophy, resistence, unknown, what is
This is going to be a fairly short entry but I thought it was worth writing. In pretty much all branches of “philosophy” the acceptance of what is seems to be the key to understanding ourselves and reality. This seems fairly easy at first, and we are very happy to accept what we think “is”. The problem with this is that our very mind if based on labels, ideas, and concepts…truly, we never really look at anything without referring to our idea of what that thing is.
For example, looking at a tree you would immediately think of the label “tree” and all the things you have “learned” about trees. The problem is that your idea of a tree is not the tree itself, it’s just an attempt to understand and define what you are seeing. So how do we accept “what is” if we cannot label or define “what is?” Simple, stop trying to define it…it only limits the experience.
I’ve often said that our need to define and label anything comes from our need to make things “solid”. If we can say that “this thing is this” then it can no longer be anything else and thus, we no longer have to question it. It’s very comforting to limit things because, in defining the thing, we are escaping the “unknown”. Once we have a solid idea of something it is no longer believed to be “unknown” because now we can classify it as “known”.
But what are these things without their labels? “Energy”, “matter”, even “thoughts” or “illusions” are all labels implying a specific meaning…and thus denying any other possibility.
But without the labels we are simply left with “what is”…we are left with an ever-changing amount of perceptions of everything. That “tree” could teach you about life, about death, about your own inner turmoil or the thoughts of people around you, it could even teach you lessons about water or chocolate…but only if it is not limited by the definition we have given it. Truly, without definition, the tree could be nothing at all, or everything possible…and this is how we can truly “see”.
In accepting the unknown we are no longer limited by the known. The unknown is the door to infinite perception and thus infinite and endless growth.
Glad to be unknown,
A Forgetful God
Choice
November 24, 2006 at 8:24 am (Duality, I Change The World, Who Am I)
Tags: awareness, being, cause, choice, Duality, effect, free will, God, here and now, moment, predeterminism, self awareness
The problem with choice is that often we don’t realize that every choice is based on other choices…tiny minuscule choices that we are usually unaware of (or we’ve convinced ourselves we’re unaware of by choosing to believe they weren’t important). These choices are in everything…everything we say, think, or even do. It’s all very complex and twisted, but then again it’s really not because of the simplicity of it. Choices go one of two ways…always. Accept or Resist, Surrender or Hold onto…that’s it.
Simon, if you’re reading this, I’m glad because it’s your comment that made me think about it. (by the way, I’ve responded to your comment, please see below). In all of my articles I speak of ultimate choice…it sounds very grande and very difficult but it’s the simplicity that’s tricky. Truly, there is nothing complicated about choosing to be God, BUT that doesn’t mean we don’t have a million other little choices in the back of our mind that denies that. Every single day I am faced with a choice…fear or faith, accept or resist, surrender or fight. These choices come up with everything…but it always comes down to choosing one way or another…or not choosing either way at all.
I think that as long as we choose one side of Duality or the other we are still choosing to be in Duality. Horrible joke, eh? Any opinion, bias, concept, or idea is based on Duality…so where does that leave us? Here. The one choice we never have to really make….we’re always here. We can choose to deny that, we can choose to believe we “don’t know what that means” but that’s just because we want to make it complicated and a “process”. In the end, we are left with only one choice…be here, or believe you’re not here.
It is the simplicity itself that confuses us…here and now mean absolutely nothing, there is no way to describe it or label it…it’s not an idea or concept…it’s the only thing that truly exists. We cannot be here by trying to be here…we cannot choose to be here (we have no choice we are here)…but we can choose to stop fighting that one simple fact…we can choose to surrender.
Being God is not a mission, it is the abandonment of our need to “better” ourselves…it is the realization that we have always been exactly what we wanted to be…and we always will be.
Sincerely,
A Forgetful God
The Medical system is designed to Kill You
November 20, 2006 at 11:01 pm (I Change The World, Science)
Tags: awareness, being, causes, chi kung, disorders, homeopathic medicine, medical system, perception, psychology, reiki, self awareness, self healing, state of mind, symptoms, tai chi, unity
For a long time I’ve had an issue with the Medical system…I’ve always wondered why it’s there and what could be the possible downfall of “playing god to others”. Please don’t misunderstand me, I have been to doctors, I’ve had surgery, and I’ve even been on anti-depressants…all of which harmed me more than helped me. Sure, the “symptoms” lessened but the cause of those symptoms worsened.
I never truly understood what bothered me about the medical system until I began to explore my own mind. In the perception of Unity there is only one thing responsible for everything that happens to me…me, I’m responsible. I may not like it, but that does not make it any less true. Knowing this, I have to wonder how much of my own personal responsibility I have willingly given up to doctors and other “specialists”. When did it all start?
As always, it started at the beginning…my beginning anyway. From day one I have willingly believed what others around me have told me to be the truth. I’m not blaming them, by any means, because it was my choice to believe them without looking for myself…but what was I choosing to believe? Labels and Concepts have been surrounding me for my whole life but it wasn’t until recently that I started to look at them for what they are…limitations.
For example, I was brought up to believe that I am “Human”. This word in itself doesn’t seem to mean much, but the implications are huge. A “Human” is made up of cells, blood, and tissue…this implies that we are “separate from reality”, “fragile”, and are in danger of getting “sick”. To be human, your body must be its own entity…basically, your body is not under your control because it is separate from your mind (not brain…mind). Doctors love this idea because it gives them the right to tell you what will go wrong and when…of course, because we’re afraid for our “human bodies”, we never think to question them or where their information comes from.
And so we go to the doctors, listen to what they have to say and agree to buy whatever “medication” they recommend…all the while never thinking that perhaps our body might not be separate from our minds. This realization changes everything…in fact, it makes the profession of “doctor” completely obsolete.
In the perception of Unity all things are reflections of my own mind…circumstances, lessons, meetings, conversations, and even the weather. This also means that the body is not a separate entity at the will of the world, it is completely and utterly under my own control. The body is made up of energy and all energy is created and influenced by my mind. My belief dictates the bodies actions…if I believe I’m sick (or can get sick), I’ll experience sickness.
Most people will disagree with me here for the simple reason that they do not want to be responsible for the things they consider “bad” or “unfair”. This is reasonable, but without this responsibility they will always be playing victim. I do believe in compassion, but how compassionate is it to tell someone they are sick and then let them continue to create that belief in reality? Quoting medical books and doctors will not help, that simply makes these “illnesses” more real because you are labelling them. Psychology is my favourite example of this…I’ll explain.
In psychology there are a thousand and one terms to describe someones “State of mind”…all of these terms are meant to be negative. Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and even ADHD…all labels for what was, at one time, simply an experience. But how does labelling these experiences change them? If you were to tell someone who is having a rough time that they are “depressed” and that it’s a “medical condition” do you think they’ll have an easier time dealing with it or a harder time? I’d say they’ll have more trouble dealing with it because now they have an easy escape from being responsible for the own choice of perception.
“I’m not depressed because I choose to be…it’s a medical disorder!” and poof, no more choice…you’ve already chosen.
Medical science is no different, it’s just easier to scare us with the idea of “death”. Truly, the only reason we go to the doctor is because we believe that “without them we would get sick and die sooner!” – Are you sure? Can you prove it? Historical data cannot be used here because we’re not in history, we’re here in the moment.
To be honest, the belief in my own “eternal being” has changed everything. I rarely get sick anymore (and only when I have first doubted my own divinity), I no longer have problems with asthma or allergies, and I’ve saved a lot of money on useless medications that are only designed to “treat the symptoms” but continue to encourage the belief that I’m sick.
Healthy is a state of mind, when nothing is perceived as Bad or Good there is only experience…without fear of that experience there is no consequence. As a consciousness able to reflect my very nature into both reality and this thing I call my “body”, can I ever truly get sick? Is death possible? Only if I believe so…and only if I listen to the “Experts”.
Happily without Medication,
A Forgetful God
NOTE : I highly recommend any books by Deepak Chopra if you are interested in pursuing recent studies on “mind healing”. It seems that there ARE “experts” who are willing to look into this possibility…what they are finding is extraordinary (and exactly what I’ve just told you…though in greater detail). “Ageless body, Timeless Mind” is one of my favourites.
