The conflict of the 3 current states of self

 

There appear to be 3 states of self. Instinctual, incorporating body and basic functioning, self as a perspective of humanity aka the conscious mind and personality, then SELF which for all intended purposes we shall call a soul. So Soul sets up this lifetime with this Body and a fresh localized mind.. Everything is set. The body is the perfect instrument for SELF to be able to explore with, and localized mind is all sorted to take care of the day to day stuff. 

The issue starts when the mind through interaction with it's environment begins to perceive that it is not good enough for its role. 

SELF didn’t come here to improve self. Self is unique to this lifetime. SELF came here to enjoy the fruits of it’s labours. Self doesn’t need to do anything, change anything etc.

Religion, and potentially other avenues such as the education system and the competitive sporting system all contribute to the perception that self is not good enough and therefore should strive to become good enough. In my case, so I perceived, so that SELF can come through and then Self can experience the abilities of SELF as if it were their own.

Self exists relative to Instinctual programming. It can see a difference between itself and instinct. This is what separates the human experience from an animal perspective. There is “self” awareness. But this “self” awareness is of the perspective, (the experiencing perspective of the SELF including body, mind and environment) being aware of itself, but does not see itself as a perspective. This is a very, very important point. If instinctual consciousness is capable of interacting with Conscious awareness (individualized self), and each can recognize their individual states of consciousness, then, self must also be able to recognize SELF. It may not KNOW self, but can recognize there is a higher state there, in the same way that instinctual self, recognizes self is there, but cannot KNOW self. To instinctual Consciousness, self, could well feel like a god. To self, SELF will also feel like a god, but the reason there is no urgency nor any natural state of relinquishing, of control of the perspective is because everything is perception, and therefore implied. Effectively it is belief. On that basis at each point, the lower states of consciousness must relinquish their control of the perspective to the higher states in order for evolution to progress. This perhaps is what the true term of FAITH means.

Did the perspective lose the instinctual consciousness, nope. Will self lose it’s state of existence when it relinquishes control to SELF. Nope, because SELF, doesn’t want to do the day to day things. Just like self doesn’t want to manually breath.

Should instinct be comparing itself to self? If it did, ……if it felt it had to…..or if it felt it had to become self, it would be unaccepting of itself and be in conflict. In the same way, self is not meant to become SELF. Self, is meant to be self, and accept its role, and do it well.

Does self have to become the best version of itself? If it perceived it had to do this, then it would be trying to achieve something…it could also begin to feel like it was not good enough. Did self expect instinctual self to become the best version of itself? No…it was already perfect as it was. So too with self. As far as SELF is concerned, self is perfect exactly as it is. It just needs to acknowledge SELF and relinquish control.

I think that was what the conflict was stated in the original human condition. The conflict was, that instinctual self, needed to let go so self could take over. Instinctual self, did not cease to exist when it relinquished control…this is very important. Self will not cease to exist but it must relinquish control. To do this, it must accept that it is already perfect exactly as it is, and thus it’s journey is now complete.

Evolving towards "Whole"

 Today is a pile of scattered ideas, some link, some random.

When we are truly one…..then we are God.

For now, we are many…..we are every different perspective that has a different reaction.

We are a good perspective on one day, and a negative one on another. One day we are  hero, another we are a villain. We are happy on one day, we are sad on another, each a different character exploring their perspective of SELF. Over time, I will respond…I am not this…..I am not that….I AM.

Slowly these different characters will fade until at last there I stand….the reflection of all others.

For now, I am all these different characters looking for the field/others to reflect for me, what I (as these various different characters) want to experience. When at last I am ONE, then you will find me in service….content to be as a reflection for others.

When I stay aware of who I am behaving as, then I can see the many Characters. I can see my displacement from being Whole. If my purpose becomes being aware, I empower myself. Purely through observation…change occurs.

Being present when a desire arises, enables the desire to be experienced as a feeling, without the automatic conversion to action, to manifest it.

The day after you die, nothing matters. Learn to bring that forward to today, now. This puts you in charge of what you decide to manifest. We manifest because we perceive the manifested object is the source of our happiness. Yet the desire is more pleasurable than the experience in many cases, and is certainly more valuable than when the manifested object has been experienced, as now you have a carcass to drag around or store.

Where does the desire arise from? Is it the mind or is the mind simply the channel to access me.

Is it the field calling for a connection to self? Is it a call to be experienced by the object itself?

Is it indeed a call to radiate, and this is “an example” ?

Suffering is wanting things to be other than what they are. By learning to BE with how things are, then we are able to be ourselves. Only when we are fully ourselves can we radiate to our brightest level. Seeing things as neither good nor bad, but all a perfect reflection of what is, helps.

If the field is indeed the reflective consciousness of SELF, then everything that I am experiencing is happening because I have chosen for it to happen. Local mind not having the view of everything, will not understand, but it doesn’t need to, it just needs to accept that everything is perfect. Sometimes tracks change because they need to in order for something new to happen.

The question is, does it require WILL of self/Decision of Self, before anything happens?

If everything was pre-ordained before entering this lifetime, then it is like a rollercoaster, that I simply need to sit back and enjoy., sometimes ups, sometimes downs. If it is a case of living in the now, then nothing will happen unless I WILL/Decide for it to happen. Then there is the other possibility, which is my contribution is on the feelings I produce and radiate. The field’s contribution is the choice of reflections that it puts in front of me as the observer to then experience.

Setting my focus on the types of energy I aspire to radiate, will ensure I am then getting the experiences that would make living this lifetime a fulfilling experience. I would like what I was experiencing, because I liken what I see/am experiencing to the state of self I am radiating. That likeness is what I define as happiness. Unhappiness is looking for the image to generate the feeling.

What if it is a fictional character of mind, that was created to enable continuity of similar experiences to previously enjoyed ones. So each character sets about automatically desiring, and manifesting and acting upon, or interacting with the object manifested or in some cases the idea imagined. This goes on automatically until the conclusion of the experience, then the character relinquishes control of the mind space and once again I am present.

If I see this coming, I can explore the character, and even the use for that character, perhaps dissolving that programme so it no longer needs to play. These characters are just Programmes in the mind. They are not real characters.

We are Consciousness. Consciousness is shaped and moulded by patterns within the mind.

To become aware of these patterns, and dissolve the need for them, liberates me and leaves me present in the moment for all my experiences.

Perhaps it leaves me in service to be the experiences of others.

These patterns had a purpose at an earlier point in my evolution. They served the purpose of igniting radiance. Doing so via objects or ideas is very, very fleeting and temporary, but potentially functional like the spark of a gas burner. But it is not efficient to use as the source. The ideal is to increase my regular waking state of radiance which occurs without external provocation.

One way to do this, is to recognize that each experience is unique. Like  opponents in a competition, No matter how often you have played a competitor, today they are a different combination of feelings, state of mind, state of health, state of conditioning etc.

The purpose of these programmes is to effectively automatically create something that I perceive gave me pleasure once or twice before.

Fact is nothing outside of me gives me anything. I instruct pleasure or not depending on my combinations for today.

2ndly given that every experience IS unique, then I can break the pattern by seeing this experience as a new one, designed to be explored as if having it for the first time.

Look at the differences between this time, and the first time? There are differences. In the first time, everything was unexplored, fresh, unique. Once experienced I perceive the same experience can be had again by simply engaging with the object again…ie eating a pie again, would give me that pleasure again. However, when something is new, you are fully present. When you engage in something on auto pilot, it is almost always over before you experience anything. (that WAS nice, you will often hear people say, as they are only becoming present at the end of what they are doing)

Lets talk about the 8 limbs of Yoga.

This is a very interesting exercise. The first one says…Abstain from lying. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have told you I was one of the most honest people I know….but that is a lie!

So here in I will explain how deep the deception goes so as to learn.

The first lie is that I am this or that. Every time I engage that lie, (I am a coach, I am the owner, I am a man, I am Ritchie) I create a start point for a lie to grow from, effectively I plant a seed, which grows into a tree, with many, many branches. To be truthful I would have a need to look back to the seed.

Every time I behave in a manner that is in line with a perception of self, I am propagating a lie. Because I am disconnected from my awareness of True Self in that moment, everything that follows that initial perception is hollow and empty, yet I will not admit it. Instead I will go looking to fulfil that hollowness. This will lead me to other limbs/vices. Ie greed or attachment.

To become truly Truthful, I must BE only that which I am. That means, experiencing only that which is in front of me, without judgement of it (certainly not through comparison to a previous experience….because as learnt earlier, these experiences are NOT the same ones, even if they look the same on the outside. )

This means not engaging any speech that reflects that illusionary perception of self. This means abstaining from speaking, and if I do, then it should be a question to help someone learn something for themselves.

All of my wants were previously motivated from this perceived self. This is then a major stage of detachment. The theory of wants, is a linear approach to life. If I want something, I set a goal, I draw a line between where I am based now in any given situation, and seek to solve the dilemma of emptiness or lack that separates me from that want. Ie go get a job, earn money, buy item.

In this new state of BEING, I am not in a linear environment anymore. Everything can occur simultaneously. I don’t go out and get anything, which doesn’t mean I don’t experience anything, quite the opposite…I radiate, and many, many reflections, like the sparkles of the surface of a well cut diamond shine through needing only one light source.

I am that light source. The field is that diamond. As I radiate the field reflects back to me in an abundance of avenues, as long as I don’t instruct it to be linear, and therefore reflect back something that involves time, sacrifice, cost, etc.

Why do we lie? On the surface we will say because we don’t want to hurt the person we are lying to. But in fact if is more complicated than that. Actually in the beginning, we are undefined/locationless, because we don’t have a definition of who we are. So in order to be able to guide others to a definition of who we are, we create a perception firstly in our minds, of who we want to be, and then in the minds of others, of how we want them to see us.

Every single day we work on this perception, like a spider works on it’s web. Is it our goal, to release the need for others to see us in a particular way, and most importantly for us to see ourselves in a particular way, because both are illusions……and are the basis upon which the rest of the branches of the tree/rest of the lies are fabricated from.

So what is the Truth? Is it whatever we want it to be? Or is Truth unmoving? Is Truth nothing or everything? Is Truth evolutionary, or is illusion evolutionary and Truth is returning to Nothing/One.

Does it even matter?

Enlightenment seems to be the en lightening or unburdening our SELF of illusion.

If I imagine someone with a beautiful laugh, or I hear someone with a beautiful laugh it changes how I feel. So what is the difference between imagination and physical realm. Is it not then the same? Somewhere there is something relating to how this loops, ie I see something beautiful, I respond with a connection to SELF, thus I feel good; but up until now I have then associated that feeling to the image, imagined or physical and thus “wanted” it, or more of it. 

Another option, is to be aware of the whole field when a perspective of it shines/reflects. So I see the whole diamond, not just the one perspective. 

A third option is that I see the whole SELF. 

 What if I am the totality of all aspects, divided into 3 parts, observer, perspective and reflection. When all 3 come together in one point, then this is what I experience as Joy/Love/Happiness.

This would explain the attraction to “things” all the time, using them to give myself a sense of wholeness. Learning each time that this doesn’t work, because it is missing a part. If there are 3 parts, and I only ever connect two together, then I am always going to feel like I am missing something. 

Connecting all 3 requires me to be present as the Observer in the Now, Aware of the Feeling radiating, watching the reflection without attachment to the reflection through the perspective (local mind). 

Its a mouthful, but it's worth contemplating. 

Add, Subtract or Remain the same

For every interaction there is a consequence. If we look closely we will see we are entirely responsible for that interaction and for therefore the learning experience (consequences/karma) that will come from our choices. To live as a victim is a choice. To interact with our environment as a victim is a choice. I am going to explore what happens when I turn this responsibility into an advantage.
The first thing I need to do is look at the different situations where interaction occurs.
Food is an obvious one. Lets start there.
If I accept that I am an energy being and that all experiences I interact with are energy being also (note the difference between these two even though the wording is the same), then it is fair to say that if I take something in to my energy field, I will interact and it's energy will have an impact on mine abeit in most cases a relatively small one. However, what happens is we have 1000s of these relatively small ones and they accummulate in us.
Unless you have reached some level of awareness and awakening, then most of the time we intact food/energy without any thought whatsoever as to it's benefits us in terms of energy value. I am not here referring to calorific energy value of course, but it's energy signature.
What I am proposing to do is to assessed the food before I eat it. I am going to assess it based on 3 criteria. 1. it adds value to my energy field. 2. It subtracts value from my energy field. 3. My energy field will remain the same as it has a neutral energy value or is currently equal to mine.
The theory goes of course that if I were to eat fresh, it would be of value, but of course even fresh food has sprays and things. If I cook the fresh food I lose most of the nutrients, if the fresh food is several day old and in any form of decay then also the energy value of that food is negative.
So preparation and freshness are important factors. Obviously home grown, fresh out of the garden, or farmers market fresh veges that are picked and consumed in one or 2 days are ideal.
We can look at packaged goods. Some maybe neutral such as rice or rice crackers, or some forms of wholesome hand made mueslis or breads made from old grain or non grain sources.
The we can go further and look at other items particularly processed items where the energy value of the item is negative. Perhaps it contains chemicals or compositions that are harmful, or simply has no life left other than the originating mineral content of the chemical compositions of the components.
Being mindful of what you are taking in, can prevent you from automatically consuming negative energy foods and give you the space to make a conscious decision to consume it....knowing its energy status. If our energy field is used to sustain the life of the body, and we keep on taking in negative energy foods then we are effectively using up this life energy rather than adding to it.

There is more of course. The next thing to look at is our thought processes. Our emotions. Our actions which attract energy.
Our thoughts are real energy. These pass through our individual energy field and into the Common Field. These like food are a perspective of energy. So like food our thoughts have an energy value which will ADD, SUBTRACT or leave our ENERGY FIELD the SAME.
 If we were mindful of our thoughts we could control what type of influence we had on our energy field and indeed the COMMON FIELD.
Next is our Actions. This is an interesting one because this is our interaction with the Common Field where we get a REACTION from the field rather than an INTERACTION.
Food is us taking from the common field into our individual field. Thoughts are us giving to the common field. Actions are us causing a reaction with the common fied so we receive from the common field.
Something like this. I have to think through it a bit more but it seems to gel, abeit it needs a bit more thought. I will add to it over the coming days to see if I can work through it, plus I will update you on my personal progress of

If I was ever asked for a quote, this is what I would want to remember to say.

To have a a fulfilling life one must have a real sense that one contributes to meaningful relationships.

If one recognizes that there is a need for a meaningful relationship with your body, your mind, your soul, your community, your planet, and your version of God and one sets about deliberately with one's WILL to invoke a sense of appreciation in each of these perspectives of life then fulfilment is within your grasp.

The great illusion

If we are indeed the essence of Love in our natural state of being, and if indeed our purpose is to define ourselves with the intention of expressing this perception of who we perceive we are/what we perceive love to be, so that we can experience our perception then we would be living in a perpetual cycle of express and experience, otherwise called Karma. After all is Karma not a system of experiencing what you do/how your express yourself to others relative to your true nature.

If you were willing for a moment to accept the idea of the above, then I have another proposal to suggest. What if your energy field in which your mind sits at it's centre, was in fact a protection mechanism for not just yourself, but all others. What if that energy field actually filtered what your mind thought, catching all the products which were not reflective of your true nature, and letting pass that which is. In some literature namely Alice. A. Baileys writings the Tibetan often refers to the "ring-pass-not". This his a layer by which an entity or energy cannot pass beyond until certain standards are met.

What if these negative thoughts we have which are not reflective of our true self, where trapped in the periphery of our energy field unable to pass through. Imagine how many of them will have accumulated there over 40-50-60 years. Thinking then that our energy field is reflected by the physical body, is it no wonder then that we all get sick. Isn't sickness the opposite to Love.




If our lives are a reflection of how we see ourselves, then it would make sense that we are experiencing the product of the sum total of everything we think, say and do.
What if we have it all wrong. So when we have a bad thought about someone else, that thought leaves our mind, but it doesn't get past our own energy field. Not being a reflection of how we see ourselves as Love. So we don't hurt the other person...we hurt ourselves. Hence there is the quote, do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.

hmm,

Food for thought. How well would you watch what you say and think if you knew that each time you perceived something that was not reflective of your true nature, that you would reap the result in your health, and or in your own experiences.

Accessing our Potential 2

If the observer is housed in a veiled environment, that observer will only know and treat as factual, that which enters into its environment. The section of mind housing the observer will have a potential reach beyond the veil that gives the observer the perception of a specific pathway of experience.
We may interpret this reach as our imagination. This of course is fact to the observer once the current veils are lifted at the "death" of the current veil. Given that we are the greater mind and soul, to which a tiny aspect is veiled, then all potential that can be imagined is currently at our disposal to bring into the veil. Why then is the tap of potential flowing into humanity/ourselves so slow? There seems to be an evolution to growth of experience-able potential. We use time to slow this process down by deciding things will take time. When all power is gained in one moment, the beauty of the challenges faced down in an evolutionary process of gaining the same power would be lost. The existence of such power would be pointless as no challenge would exist to create grow from that point forward. Thus we have created the illusion of existence we have now...one of great weakness, that requires exploration to discover strengths and solutions to problems which in our state of pure unlimited potential could not exist.

If Adam evolves, he has a fulfilling life. If Adam was instantaneously God Adam would be unfulfilled for he would have no idea who or what he was as there would be no reference for him given that we define ourselves by our decisions and actions in the face of the problems that we come into contact with.
It is an interesting quandary. There is an innate spiritual calling back to our whole Self. It is our human nature to look for short cuts, but perhaps it is in fact as the many wise men have quoted us in the past...the quality of your life is not found at the end, but rather it can only be experienced in the journey.

7 Keys to success as I currently understand them.

1.       Abundance is about paying it forward and doing things in advance. This creates a feeling of wealth through having a surplus of the things I value including time, money and opportunities.

2.       Appreciation unlocks the value locked up in the things I have and lets me experience it in my present moment.

3.       Brotherhood is an acknowledgement of being a part of a greater whole that is made better by my participation in assisting others for any reason in any form and my abstinence of pushing them away in any form. for any reason.

4.       Unconditional Love is the act of giving what cannot be valued by money,  to those that need it, in a way that will benefit them without any possibility of a physical, mental or emotional debt being incurred.

5.       Creating is the act of contributing as a channel to that which is ready to manifest on the mental or physical plane. Unconditional creating is recognizing that you don’t own the ideas nor the energy that will fuel them any more than you can take them with you when you leave. They are summoned by the whole....they belong to the whole.

6.       A quality light shines brightly and makes the path easy to see for others. Be a grand light, but understand that not all will wish to follow the path your light falls upon.  

7.       Life, like water is potential. Water like Life can potentially quench a thirst you have. But first you must drink long and deeply.