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Obtuse Kineticist
Welcome to the New Age
We are living in an unprecedented time. Across many traditions and disciplines there is a sense of a new age of consciousness emerging right now. I share this optimism based on nine plus years of experiencing direct guidance that in no uncertain terms has made me aware of the paradigm shift taking place. This shift can best be described as taking a step forward from "being here now" to the new lucidity of "doing here now". It is the recognition that at least four thousand years' worth of Self awareness disciplines have been in large part based on a perceptional inaccuracy. What follows is entirely an opinion on my part, but an opinion based on experiences with both passive & active states of being.
Some thousands of years ago adept meditators made a discovery. They refer to it as pure consciousness, and some as non-duality - where there is no Self, but only undifferentiated being as the ultimate reality. This was based on the experience of the Self dissolving into this ocean of pure emptiness. They then set into motion entire philosophies based upon their findings, and thousands of years later - although some rough edges may have been smoothed out - these boundaries set by these founders are still for the most part intact. The disciples of the furthest reaches of Self awareness are perhaps the most dogmatic and least willing to explore further than what has been defined for them. This is unfortunate because their Self awareness is based upon a perceptional fallacy, and often an exoteric reading of esoteric ideas.
Having spent some time in the aforementioned ocean of being, it was never assumed by me that I was a part of what I was experiencing. To experience, one needs a form. Mind (Self) cannot exist without a body (form), and a body (form) cannot exist without a mind (Self). So to make a perceptional statement of the experience of non-duality, obviously there must be a witness to it. A witness to anything (even no thing) denotes duality. If at every attainment of transcendence there was non-duality, then there would be no record of anyone ever experiencing it. Someone had to experience it in order to report back the first time this state was experienced.
What I experienced was exactly what I have read that others have experienced - with one exception - because I was not told what to define the experience as, but allowed to simply witness it without filters, I came away knowing I had experienced "pre-form". I had backed away from creation to the point of undifferentiated substance. The reason why it is unnamable, and undefinable is because it had not become any thing as of yet. It requires a mind (Self) in a body (form) to witness any thing (think of the correlation of the wave-particle phenomena). The body arises from that undifferentiated substance, so if the mind (Self) goes "pre-form", then no thing exists for its sensual perceptions. This is what these early philosophies are based upon, the idea that because no thing was experienced, then no thing truly exists. They simply missed the fact that they were witnessing no thing, and therefor they were separate from all things.
As I have been led to understand, I am a cell of creator, and not of creation. Duality is ultimate reality. Consciousness arose from a marraige of body (passive principle as source) and mind (active principle as source). There is no such reality as pure consciousness, unless it is defined as its initial state of being empty (void of thought) and inexperienced. It is not an evolutionary goal to be nullified as a Self. The new age is arriving where the Self will no longer strive to be dissolved back to a state 10+ billion years ago along its evolutionary climb to awareness, but will endeavor to become lucid in its waking reality of the present moment. The world is not an illusion. Our perceptions of it were. The sentient world is simply the bodies that consciousness has evolved within. And the "pure consciousness" of these disciplines was not awareness of the active principle (mind's source), but awareness & attachment to the passive principle (form's source) - which is not Self, but historical self.
The perceptional error was that these explorers made the mistake of thinking they could look back at themselves from their own perceptions. The Self is unidirectional in perception - outward only. It is like an onion , where you can peel away the false layers of Self, but the Self cannot look at itSelf - Self is not physical, so the only perception it can have of itSelf is in its reflection within form. These non-dualists were experiencing their form dissolving, but not their Selves. They witnessed the dissolving, but they did not experience it as Self, but as body or form. Self cannot experience Self, as it only perceives outward. It can experience form, and once form returns to its undifferentiated state, then the witness is no longer able to do anything but return to a state of undifferentiated being. These are the two states of transcendent meditation that I think are often confused for each other. In one state the Self experiences undifferentiated substance (pre-form), and in the other state the Self ceases experiencing altogether (pure consciousness). They are not the same state. The first is being body (egoic), and the second is being mind (Self).
These philosophies of Self awareness are attached to the idea that a return to pure consciousness will mark the end of all suffering. They are correct in their perceptions, but is it the ideal? Not only will all suffering cease, but all conscious being will too. No body = no consciousness. The world is the sensual body that all variety of Self perceives from. Without the world, Self would never have become aware. There is another way to end all suffering, which is what I understand our awareness is slowly evolving towards.
Self does not need to dissolve into the pure (unconscious being) ocean of 10+ billion years ago to end its suffering. Self only needs to become lucid within its form, and then a subtler form can emerge that does not require food or reproduction or base mobility - because a lucid creator (Self) would no longer be subject to the unconscious creation of forms it has been up to now housed within. No more gross physical form by default, but subtler form to house this consciousness by choice. No more being here now once it is experienced and understood, but a new awareness of doing here now - lucid subtly incarnated Selves that can explore the properties of being Self without the limitations of mortality and consumption.
The new age is not about what is going to happen in this body, but is about what is already happening at a subtler arena of form as we type and read our concepts. Who do you think is calling us? An ocean of non-experience and formlessness, or our brothers and sisters (not referring to garden variety spirit guides here) who have already made the transition to lucidity on the other side of the veil? When enough awaken then a slinky-walking-downstairs-effect will happen - where the whole will finish the jump that the few are out there doing right now. That is my perception based on what that which guides me has communicated non-verbally during contemplations. It is not fear of death...it is an unacceptance of it.
©2004 DC Vision
We are living in an unprecedented time. Across many traditions and disciplines there is a sense of a new age of consciousness emerging right now. I share this optimism based on nine plus years of experiencing direct guidance that in no uncertain terms has made me aware of the paradigm shift taking place. This shift can best be described as taking a step forward from "being here now" to the new lucidity of "doing here now". It is the recognition that at least four thousand years' worth of Self awareness disciplines have been in large part based on a perceptional inaccuracy. What follows is entirely an opinion on my part, but an opinion based on experiences with both passive & active states of being.
Some thousands of years ago adept meditators made a discovery. They refer to it as pure consciousness, and some as non-duality - where there is no Self, but only undifferentiated being as the ultimate reality. This was based on the experience of the Self dissolving into this ocean of pure emptiness. They then set into motion entire philosophies based upon their findings, and thousands of years later - although some rough edges may have been smoothed out - these boundaries set by these founders are still for the most part intact. The disciples of the furthest reaches of Self awareness are perhaps the most dogmatic and least willing to explore further than what has been defined for them. This is unfortunate because their Self awareness is based upon a perceptional fallacy, and often an exoteric reading of esoteric ideas.
Having spent some time in the aforementioned ocean of being, it was never assumed by me that I was a part of what I was experiencing. To experience, one needs a form. Mind (Self) cannot exist without a body (form), and a body (form) cannot exist without a mind (Self). So to make a perceptional statement of the experience of non-duality, obviously there must be a witness to it. A witness to anything (even no thing) denotes duality. If at every attainment of transcendence there was non-duality, then there would be no record of anyone ever experiencing it. Someone had to experience it in order to report back the first time this state was experienced.
What I experienced was exactly what I have read that others have experienced - with one exception - because I was not told what to define the experience as, but allowed to simply witness it without filters, I came away knowing I had experienced "pre-form". I had backed away from creation to the point of undifferentiated substance. The reason why it is unnamable, and undefinable is because it had not become any thing as of yet. It requires a mind (Self) in a body (form) to witness any thing (think of the correlation of the wave-particle phenomena). The body arises from that undifferentiated substance, so if the mind (Self) goes "pre-form", then no thing exists for its sensual perceptions. This is what these early philosophies are based upon, the idea that because no thing was experienced, then no thing truly exists. They simply missed the fact that they were witnessing no thing, and therefor they were separate from all things.
As I have been led to understand, I am a cell of creator, and not of creation. Duality is ultimate reality. Consciousness arose from a marraige of body (passive principle as source) and mind (active principle as source). There is no such reality as pure consciousness, unless it is defined as its initial state of being empty (void of thought) and inexperienced. It is not an evolutionary goal to be nullified as a Self. The new age is arriving where the Self will no longer strive to be dissolved back to a state 10+ billion years ago along its evolutionary climb to awareness, but will endeavor to become lucid in its waking reality of the present moment. The world is not an illusion. Our perceptions of it were. The sentient world is simply the bodies that consciousness has evolved within. And the "pure consciousness" of these disciplines was not awareness of the active principle (mind's source), but awareness & attachment to the passive principle (form's source) - which is not Self, but historical self.
The perceptional error was that these explorers made the mistake of thinking they could look back at themselves from their own perceptions. The Self is unidirectional in perception - outward only. It is like an onion , where you can peel away the false layers of Self, but the Self cannot look at itSelf - Self is not physical, so the only perception it can have of itSelf is in its reflection within form. These non-dualists were experiencing their form dissolving, but not their Selves. They witnessed the dissolving, but they did not experience it as Self, but as body or form. Self cannot experience Self, as it only perceives outward. It can experience form, and once form returns to its undifferentiated state, then the witness is no longer able to do anything but return to a state of undifferentiated being. These are the two states of transcendent meditation that I think are often confused for each other. In one state the Self experiences undifferentiated substance (pre-form), and in the other state the Self ceases experiencing altogether (pure consciousness). They are not the same state. The first is being body (egoic), and the second is being mind (Self).
These philosophies of Self awareness are attached to the idea that a return to pure consciousness will mark the end of all suffering. They are correct in their perceptions, but is it the ideal? Not only will all suffering cease, but all conscious being will too. No body = no consciousness. The world is the sensual body that all variety of Self perceives from. Without the world, Self would never have become aware. There is another way to end all suffering, which is what I understand our awareness is slowly evolving towards.
Self does not need to dissolve into the pure (unconscious being) ocean of 10+ billion years ago to end its suffering. Self only needs to become lucid within its form, and then a subtler form can emerge that does not require food or reproduction or base mobility - because a lucid creator (Self) would no longer be subject to the unconscious creation of forms it has been up to now housed within. No more gross physical form by default, but subtler form to house this consciousness by choice. No more being here now once it is experienced and understood, but a new awareness of doing here now - lucid subtly incarnated Selves that can explore the properties of being Self without the limitations of mortality and consumption.
The new age is not about what is going to happen in this body, but is about what is already happening at a subtler arena of form as we type and read our concepts. Who do you think is calling us? An ocean of non-experience and formlessness, or our brothers and sisters (not referring to garden variety spirit guides here) who have already made the transition to lucidity on the other side of the veil? When enough awaken then a slinky-walking-downstairs-effect will happen - where the whole will finish the jump that the few are out there doing right now. That is my perception based on what that which guides me has communicated non-verbally during contemplations. It is not fear of death...it is an unacceptance of it.
©2004 DC Vision