A Resolution for a New You

Although this is being pushed into the eyesight of several tens of thousands of people who are, by their membership, supposedly "interested in this kinda thing," ninety-five percent or more will never even see it, or even read it, or even completely (if they can manage to get that far); not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

The reason the masses are asleep to who and what they are, who and what others are, what is life, being, Humanity, and damn near everything else, is NOT because they are faulty machines. If someone managed to escape their earlier 9-month enforced confinement, that preceded this many-decades-long, and just as enforced confinement (though this time in a maximum security environment, surrounded at all times by guards who do not have the confinee's "best interest" in mind) then they are capable of full-on, straight-up consciousness of the highest order, spoken about at length by many people who achieved it. One thing is certain, there are conscious beings on this planet and they are known to each other, though you and the masses do NOT know them, can NOT locate them, and most likely do not even believe there are any such beings. What is worse, in a sense, is that the masses do not even believe - in the right way, that is - that they could become such a being, while still upright and able to enjoy it.

What is needed is a New Way - not the old, tired, and don't-work-anymore ways, but a New Way. And - as some may have already guessed - it is now to be delivered, in part, in this replacement for that silly end-of-year "plan for the next year" that only reveals, to those just a little more Awake than the average bears still playing that game, that they are not now, and probably CAN NOT BE Serious about This Thing, sometimes referred to as, "The Game of Enlightenment."

This Resolution for a New You is already known by everyone, but they don't realize it yet. Many things must come to pass in order to discover who and what one is, who and what others are, what is life, being, Humanity, and Consciousness - which, when all of that has come to pass, one has access to all times and all spaces in the eternal now of existence.

Fancy words, perhaps, and revealing almost nothing at all to people who have not even begun to use everything they have at their disposal to consider such matters - i.e., the five lower senses, the three lower circuits, plus the higher emotional sense, and the higher intellectual sense. When a person can think and feel rightly about being alive, they already know who and what they are, who and what others are, and all the rest, and a new circuit is thus created.

And, as has been mentioned here MANY times during the last quarter - and missed by ninety-five percent or more - it all starts with what has become for modern man (i.e., since about 2500 years ago, and increasing year by year up till today), the most common and natural thing people do... TALK TO EACH OTHER. Get it? That specific event in the life of living, breathing humans with a language and means to communicate it to other similarly outfitted prisoners in the decades-long confinement in that maximum security prison is the starting point of this New Way. They tap on the walls, on the doors, they write notes, they send texts, messages and emails, and they talk endlessly to the other confinees, all for the exact same reason - without even a glimmer WHAT that reason is. Put another way - specifically the way it has been put here during the last quarter - when you get two or more conscious (or at least, more conscious) beings in a room together at the SAME TIME, in the same "head space" (which means they don't have to be in any kind of physical proximity, but it helps), who can quickly do ONE particular thing, and then do ANOTHER, something on a higher level immediately becomes possible, and quite accessible to all... though for the masses - the confinees without a clue, the ninety-five percent or more - it might as well be IMPOSSIBLE. The next steps are not taken, even though the way is clear simply by their having shown up, i.e., "arrived, on time."

The Resolution for a New You, has to do with just that: Arriving on time, then, Leaving something behind, and then Acquiring something new. Who Arrives? What is Left? What's New? Aaah, that be the question you can struggle with next year if you must, so as to bring the always-easily-accessible back door into direct proximity with the almost-never-accessible escape hatch - creating a temporary, but highly energetic atomic/cosmic "blackhole/wormhole" - and Voilà, the next steps CAN be taken, ARE taken, and taken, and taken again.

It's a thing of beauty, 
but you shouldn't have to be reminded of this
AGAIN! Right?

Falling asleep on a higher level - RU?

Have you noticed while playing in these kiddie sandboxes, that most of the kids have become so involved and engaged in what they are doing with their shovels, buckets and other toys, that they don't even notice the other kids anymore, except when one of them encroaches upon their "territory," and then things begin to escalate, sometimes out of control? Have you?

Is it possible that people start off on the their journey to adulthood and maturity, quite well, but things seem to simply go off the rails, and for the next several decades - usually, till the end of "their time here" - they only BELIEVE they have reached adulthood and maturity, but in fact, are still operating at the level of a child? Of course it is possible! People are not naturally Waking Up, becoming (esoterically-speaking) Conscious and even (dare I suggest it) Enlightened, because their beliefs about themselves and others are getting in the way.

Think about it

(when you hear something, it is being said in your head too)

(in a sense, the thought is coming out of all those within ear-shot)

(Who actually SAID that?)

[transcript for those who'd rather read the words too]

It has seemed clear the last few years that the quality of conversation on these "enlightenment oriented" yahoo, facebook and google groups demonstrates, as a friend recently remarked, that most of the active participants have simply fallen asleep on a higher level.

Now that they have read all hundred plus work books and bibles, including several recountings of their favorite teacher's life as told by friends, family, and followers, and now that they have joined several of these online pseudo-groups, they have come to believe most strongly that they have reached a higher level of development, and have learned so much that there is no where else to go, nothing else to do. They have reached a state where they are no longer interested in disrupting the status quo, and the suggestion they consider mixing things up a bit leaves a bad taste in their mouth. And like the person mentioned earlier, "joining anything gives me the heeby-jeebies." Well that's just too bad.

But consider if you will how easy it is for someone to join one of these "enlightenment oriented" pseudo-groups, and then sit for hours per day or week, quite mesmerized by the reading and reviewing of pictures, videos and the like, while believing they are advancing their knowledge and being on This Thing, that some of us are actually involved in. But, it is much harder, if not almost impossible for those same people to get into a face-to-face meeting, including on a real time video chat, and to engage in useful conversations that don't quickly fall into associative thinking, idle chit-chat, and sometimes even into hurty-hurty feelings.

If you are not participating in such a thing right now, on a regular and disciplined basis, then it is very possible you have "fallen and can't get up", which in this context means, can't see the possibility that you actually have MUCH MORE to learn and discover, than you think you do. Try it, 10 or 15 times at the minimum - without fail, no excuses why you missed the meeting - and you will most definitely discover something about your personality, your quote-unquote work personality, and your imagination about the work and the system you follow, that you never even suspected before.

Or, hey, never mind. You've always got yahoo, facebook and google pseudo-work groups to wrap around yourself, so now you can sleep all the more soundly folks. But for the few of you that have suspected this in yourself for quite some time perhaps, consider this little test you can take. It's a thought experiment. Do you believe there are higher beings walking around this planet, perhaps living in your city, who know more than you do about almost everything, who can do more than you can do in almost every area of being alive in a human body, and who are actually looking for you and the reason they have not found you, is because whenever they show up you fall asleep and miss it. Consider the possibility that you are the problem, not the world.

So, what the hell ARE hangouts, any who?

Stand up performance art of the neural kind
(although, to tell the truth, we are usually sitting quieting
waiting for the ambience to cycle up to operating temperature...)

In a short statement from a friend of ours (jm)...

"We want our brains to fire up into extreme fluency on demand 

   (with the sound the furnace makes 

   when the gas hits the pilot light)"

"We want to stay close to the gooey interface, 

   wherein hormones make neurons talk, 

   and language meets linoleum"

"We want to be able to express 

   the hilarity, 

   the absurdity, 

   the wafer-thin profundity 

   of having a 'mind' that is compelled 

   to 'make sense' of 'all this stuff' that 'happens'."

Creation Stories

Creation Stories are one of the most significant creations on this planet, but they are not created by "mankind, the species," they are created only by An Individual Man, a particular adult human being who does it. They are significant creations, but they don't come from ordinary life; that is there is nothing in the external world of things and events that either points to, or would remind one of the significant elements of the Story. For example, if there was some creation story about a 12-foot tall "sky-creature," who came here on a winged white horse, and then interacted with the tiny humans of the day, seeding some of the females with his essential bodily fluids, and that is (supposedly) how "We (I) got here," you can be pretty certain that is NOT what happened... not even close.

But, even more significant than these large, species-wide, or planetary or higher creation stories, are the small, almost insignificant by those standards, Individual Creation Stories - i.e., mine is mine... yours is yours... and theirs are theirs. And, it is up to oneself to discover/invent/create (not necessarily in that order) the story, and not out of whole cloth, but from years and years, perhaps, of observation, experimentation, consideration, pondering and neuralizing the data for heretofore unseen and unknown inter-connections, -relationships, -linkages, such that one finally comes to, as in, Wakes Up To the Individual Creation Story, which answers such questions as " who am I", " what am I", " how did I get here", " where am I going" and a whole host of others things too personal to mention here, and most other places too.

It's one thing (and a very common thing) to not know or even care about one's own Creation Story, but it is another thing entirely (and a very rare thing indeed) to Know it, and to be able to Speak it, with a degree of certainty that befits an explorer who, after many years of traveling in some faraway land, returns one day to a small gathering and Tells The Tale. Only he knows where he has been, and what he has seen, and what he has experienced, and therefore, only HE can speak about it. If that is the kind of thing those in the small gathering want to know about, then HE is the only one who can reveal it to them.

If you don't think, and don't believe this is a Big Deal on several levels, then it is because you have not realized your own Individual Creation Story. Until then, people - and this includes the mass of Humanity, the 99% who have no idea what is being pointed to here, and don't care anyway - will just sit around, aimlessly floundering in the fast-moving stream of thoughts behind their eyeballs (those pesky little neural lightning flashes), arising from who-knows-where, and disappearing to who-knows-where... Or, if they are a little more "advanced", aimlessly talking about their favorite subject of the day that has captured their ordinarily unfocused attention, including on the many "enlightenment-oriented" groups purportedly about some aspirational endeavor, and their named, or unnamed hero(es).

It is necessary to remember first, and realize second and for all time, that no one else can reveal YOUR Creation Story to you. That is a task for you alone, and it was "implanted" into you a long, long time ago (do you remember how it was done, and when?) Since you do NOT remember that initial "implantation scenario", nor the form, manner and sequence of that event, it is fair to consider that the last step on the way to the Discovery of that faraway land that you will then be able to set foot upon and begin to explore in earnest.

Lastly, for now, these highly personal Individual Creation Stories are, without doubt, the source of all so-called, by some, "Esoteric Teachings." Of course, it is up to you, yourself, to determine which is, and which is NOT worth your long time and great energy to pursue, sometimes for a life time.

Sam I Am, 'r U?

In the world we are now living in, 

Y-F-G groups** are for grade-schoolers and lower, while 

Real Time Face-to-Face Encounters 

are for post-grads and higher.

Nothing is easier - and nowadays, more common - than copying some "interesting-to-you" section(s) out of an e-book (or YouTube video(s), or Flickr photo(s)), and pasting them into a Post or Message to your Y-F-G group and then commenting upon the item(s). Everyone will think you are so-o-o-o special for finding it, and putting into the stream (or, the opposite - so-o-o-o UN-special, i.e., typical, routine, ordinary), but in any case, now people have something to write about for another hour, or day or a little longer... to keep that ALL-IMPORTANT stream flowing. 

THIS IS NOT CONVERSATION. 

This is a major distraction from one of the main values of having a three pound lump of gray matter containing a hundred billion neurons and a trillion neural connections capable of comprehending the Cosmos and the Thought of Creation!

"Really? Is all that chitter-chatter 

the best you got, Mr. Sam (U 'r I)?"

Can you even imagine two samurai warriors planning out a "meeting on the bridge" ("meeting of the minds") over email, or sillier even, pony-expressed letter-writing? That's what you've got here on Y-F-G. Delayed-reaction "pseudo meetings of minds" producing nothing but deeper imagination and confusion of tongues in almost everyone, such that the finest among you have already left for "greener pastures." There are no post-grads here, and if you honestly believe there are... then... then, well, look into it a little more.

Samurai Warriors do not need to KILL their opponent on the bridge, nor can they disregard or dismiss their opponent - there they are, ready to do battle against you. The Successful Warrior in This Thing we are doing here, merely needs to get to the other side - over, under, or through - and that requires much more sustained intelligence than is usually possible in a delayed-reaction encounter over email! The timing is all wrong.

Timing is everything, and the main reason people are sound asleep and unable to remain awake even when circumstances arouse them, is their faulty Time Sense. Awakening, is expanding the Time Sense, to include the Fact - and continuing Realization - that all of human history is in me, wired into my DNA, my genetic structure, and the future of human potential is possible, even for me.

Real I is a "point" inside the expanding and contracting time bubble which begins at birth, of about a second or so at most, but over the course of one's life time, expands into years, decades, centuries, and more. Some suggest that "point" is localized in the pineal gland.

 

**Yahoo, Facebook and Google groups

The O.O.C.** and you, and me...

These occasional postings into several assorted, ostensibly "interested-in-enlightenment" Yahoo, Facebook and Google groups (the Y-F-G) - selected primarily for their sample size, which in this case amounts to over fifteen thousand subscribers - has presented only ONE major idea, and it is this:

Today, on this planet, if a person is going to converse with others about their "interest in this", then it is much better to engage with other living, breathing humans in real time - eye-to-eye, ear-to-ear, face-to-face (including videoconferencing) - than it is to chit-chat, argue, complain, criticize and generally quibble about mostly meaningless details over Y-F-G, that realistically - even over considerable spans of time - produce almost NO pertinent, or even relevant feedback to anyone. That is, these groups, for the most part, are a waste-of-time, and the sooner people Wake Up to that little fact-that-is-a-fact, and locate a small, tight "Conscious Circle of Friends" the better.

The main thing missing on Y-F-G is BEING - you all know that term, and even have some notion of its intended meaning - since lying, distraction, convoluted obfuscation, unnecessary talking, and lots of just plain old ordinary chit-chat is presumed by 90+% of those actively participating to be worthwhile ways to spend one's precious time with other living, breathing humans with a similar strong interest in these matters.

Another thing missing on these ostensibly esoteric "work language based" delayed-reaction email/messaging groups, is the near-inability by most to speak in simple English words, phrases, concepts, rather than in the particular "work language of the group". That is, in reality, if you can not express your highest and most meaningful (to you) ideas to another, presumably interested person who is OUTSIDE the framework of your "work language", then you do not understand it. This is similar to the concept everyone has heard/read before, that if you can't explain something to a child then you don't fully understand it. Another example of this is, if the idea can't be written on the back of a cocktail napkin, folded in half, then you don't understand it. And - you guessed it - there are many more examples not indicated herein... (thought experiment.)

And yet another thing... what we have learned/gleaned from the twenty some odd people from these groups who have attempted to make it to a weekly meeting ON TIME, with their BEING on, and their personality/resume/preparation left temporarily outside the door (where they can find it again quickly if that is their desire), who are quite ready to work for a few short hours with other conscious friends who CAN DO the same on a weekly basis... is that NONE, so far, has been able to make it to the second meeting, or the third, or the fourth, etc., and most never even made it... are you ready for this... to the FIRST! (Everyone always has an excuse!)

Not surprising of course, but very indicative of the way personality fears, concerns and general inability to simply overcome the technology and requirements of the room (the "rules of engagement") keep most everyone back at the beginning of the path they only imagine they are pursuing in their imagination. If you can make it to the FIRST, and then some, reply here with an email address, and wait patiently.

The **O.O.C.

The obviously oblivious clueless...

...and other sundry sillinesses 

Lest anyone actually quibble with the selection of terms here, just check out "News Radio & TV shows" from both the right, left and upside down, as well as all the "Conspiracy shows" running non-stop on YouTube and elsewhere. The problem with ALL OF IT, is that the authors/creators of these shows do NOT have access to the WHOLE story, just a tiny fragment disconnected from all the other fragments and can not put it all together. Thus, they trade in partial-truths, pseudo-facts, and other sundry-sillinesses not worth one's time after all dontchaknow.

If you really do NOT see what is being pointed to herein, then perhaps you need to rethink something or other. The "malady", or "disability", or just plain old "childishness" of many people nowadays filling up the Radio, TV, and Internet airwaves is not lessening by the year, or month, or day (as one might wish) - not even a little bit! It is, of course, increasing everywhere and includes all the small- and high-minded Twitter, Facebook, Google groups etc., that millions and millions of people read and contribute to almost religiously... as in, daily (by most), hourly (by many), and minute-by-minute (by the tragically addicted)... including right here, if you can be honest enough with yourself to see it!

One reason for all this "backwardation" (versus "contango" - two terms which have been "ripped off" from commodities trading for this ad hoc usage), is that people are becoming MORE AND MORE gullible about everything (knowledge is cheaper, and less effort is necessary regarding its acquisition because it's not worth the paper, or air, it was written on.) That is, they are LESS AND LESS possessed of an Inquiring Mind about everything and then some (understanding that Higher Knowledge is perhaps the most valuable thing on this planet, as there is less and less for everyone, so more effort is required to obtain it because, intrinsically, it is worth so much more than ever before.

Don't believe George, or Jan, or Chandra, or Maruti, or Sid, or anybody else as you walk the esoteric path to Higher Knowledge, Expanded Consciousness, Enlightenment (or whatever you call, basically, the same thing), but look into, around, and through Everything with that genetically-created Inquiring Mind, that should really be getting Stronger, more Expansive and more Inclusive, as every day passes into the next one... rather than weaker, less reasonable and less objective, day after day till death.

One possible "reason" for this tendency in most people to settle for MUCH LESS, is their inability to understand the VALUE in Inventing, Discovering and Creating the NEW in all things, and then putting mind to neural activity and motor activity on a frequent basis.

What are YOU doing...

...TOMORROW?

(or later today, depending upon where you live.)

Sleeping, like most of the masses (i.e., wasting time), or 

Awakening, like the few of the few (i.e., making time)? 

... (cont'd here)

Choicer Bait (for this Turkey Date)

Regarding recent news coming out of Ferguson, Mo. - which some might even call disturbing (the many who can't help "taking sides", and even defending it to the death!), but others enlightening (the few who can, and don't) - if you (the one currently tasting this choicer bait) didn't feel/experience yourself moving from the many (your usual abode - admit it) to the few (not so often - admit it), and soon afterwards (no more than a few seconds, really) find yourself newly eloquent, or extremely fluent on the topic in question, then your "way" is not the Real Way out of the nearly barren pond of minnows in which all humans reside, but just more of the same pond forevermore. (Hey, if not then, then when?)

Perhaps you heard, if you actually are able to Hear yet (and, if not now, then when?) the creaking of the back door opening just a tad, as you began slipping out the back, failing to realize - yet again - that a back door is NOT an Escape Hatch... here is the sound of the back door in creak-mode: "Of course, I had an enlightening moment, since MY way IS the REAL WAY, but ah'll be damned if I'm gonna prove it here, to you of all people (or even to myself... since I'm quite sure I know what I would say... well... if a gun was held to my head.")

Life inserts these minor bookmarks into the thick, thick, thuper-thick Book of Life (Larry hath a bit of a lithp,) marking all those "Wake Up People!" moments, that the many (99%) will miss, yet again, and only a few (1%) will Awaken within, thus slipping through that particular Escape Hatch revealed only for their sake, apparently, since only they were able to slip through unnoticed by the rest who stayed behind. Funny thing about the 1%'ers, but quite unknown by the 99%'ers: they've discovered how to recognize others of their kind, while everyone else still sees mirrored images of themselves (i.e., clueless without a care for consequences.) It's the same as a person walking through the party-house after the big bash last night while everyone is still sound asleep sprawled all around the place. They are clueless behind their eyes - trapped inside their silly dreams - without a care in the world, while the Awakened are quite able to locate all the other Awakened Ones.

Dig It! Or die as you were born.

Minnows or Sharks?

(Perhaps a companion to: "Flightless or Soaring?")

Having moved away almost entirely from all these, somewhat stale, and oh so similar watering-holes (fishing-ponds) with the prevailing conclusion that, either the bait was wrong or the fisherman inept, it was decided during our last "hangout" to revise the bait and see what happens. At the end of the, quite typical for us, 3 hour meeting, all proclaimed: "Boy oh boy, it's another b.o.y!"  which has occurred so frequently over the last few months, usually just a wink, and a nod suffices. Of course, that is code not for this particular water-hole, but the still-standing fishermen, though there may be found the code-breaker somewhere down below, so keep alert little fishies, keep alert.

That is, Be Alert outside of your school of sameness,
if you really expect to See something NEW.

There is a phenomenon known to some called, "mind-blown!" or even "spaced-out," which has been suggested elsewhere has nothing to do with being "dopey" or "out of touch" (as in being too high on drugs to know what's going on.) Originally, it referred to a state of extreme lucidity in which consciousness expanded and time itself was perceptible as another dimension, which was either the result of, or synonymous with this expansion of consciousness. Thus the "space" being referred to was the perception of an additional dimension, which seemed somehow intrinsically spacial, yet distinct from normal space - thus "time" - as the "spaced-out," or "mind-blown" ones were now operating outside of time, or had expanded their now, or were partially in the next dimension above time, sometimes even referred to as eternity. Hey, it works for me - often, every week, and then some - and is certainly worth considering during YOUR next "hangout" (if you ever make it to one, that is, even as your chances for finding or creating one are dwindling day by day.)

Who knows, one or more of you might 

actually proclaim your time together as:

"Boy oh boy, it's a b.o.y!"

(having discovering what a "B.O.Y." actually IS!)

A "Flyer" on the Wall

Having released our "Flyer" into the dusty and windy climes of delayed-reaction email/message groups for the last couple months or so, we have been rather surprised (not really of course) by a couple things. Of the ~12000+ members of the 10 groups in the experiment, only ~30 people have been able to "figure out" how to get to the next step. Of those, only two have actually made it to the time and place in question - well, nearly, but not exactly, on time, and not quite ready to roll. As for the rest, they were asked a couple "vetting" questions in advance and either failed to reply or answered in the "negative" ("no," "not interested," "wrong time," etc.) and so were removed from the final invitee list. (Yes, it is necessary to "qualify" for admittance - surprise, surprise - as seats are limited.)

One might ask, "What the heck does that have to do with my favorite teaching/teacher and all that it/he stood for?" All right, fair question - so far as it goes, which is not very far at all, but par for the course for ordinary minds to query. Well, it has everything to do with it. Namely. Humans do not understand the process by which they either DO ARRIVE into any particular time and place, or they DON'T, but in each case, with all their explanations, excuses, justifications and rationalizations firmly implanted, and well-rehearsed in their fore-brains, just in case somebody other than themselves asks... "Hey, wha' happened? Thought we would be (or wouldn't be) seeing you here!"

Time is a notion that is simply (or more complexly) outside our wheelhouse. That is, we can't think about it at all. Even with a detailed question like, "Okay, why didn't you arrive ON TIME like you promised?" Now, that one is tough enough for the questioned, but this next one is even harder: "Why are you here? How is it that you arrived here today?" That's the stumper. Even harder than that is this: "Why are you still wasting hours of your life, almost every day without fail, wading through the superficial silliness streaming by your eyeballs (again, with all your explanations, excuses, justifications and rationalizations firmly implanted, and well-rehearsed in your fore-brain), when you should really know by now, that it is long since past time to kick your addiction to it?" Answer that one with a straight face.

Consider, FATE didn't bring you here today to read the stream (i.e., the world streaming by your five lower senses), and DESTINY didn't bring you here, and WILL didn't either. A better word for what is happening to people all over this planet as they literally FALL into each moment, completely unaware and unconscious of the processes occurring within and without... is GRAVITY. And then when they arrive "into the moment" (you know, like this next word I am about to write for your eyeballs... here it comes...) they(you) are moments late and dollars short of a full comprehension. The now (today's version, right now, right here for example) only "dawns" upon people sometime after-the-fact, and even then, they can't remember what happened, having only a vague glimmer of a partial memory of, for example, what the first four words of THIS message/post were. (Come on, strain your brain!) And if you get that easy one, what was the rest of the sentence?

The Flyer suggests most emphatically (but with a soft touch), that the addiction to reading Yahoo/Facebook/Google groups supposedly discussing "the enlightenment game" (which has, for most people, supplanted their previous strong desire to read books,) is stifling their activation of higher circuits where Thinking, above thoughts and words and images, becomes a real possibility - akin to what is called, KNOWING.  Only then can one perceive the Thought of Creation which is embedded within the Thought Stream surrounding this planet. Each human is connected neurally to it by birth, but because of several decades of effectively walling themselves off from it, they have become confined to the cell of their ordinary sensory existence, and they can not perceive a bit of it. We humans are like bugs, insects, crawly things scratching out a short existence at the bottom of Death Valley, surrounded by High Mountains - far, far off in the barely perceptible distance - rising almost to the Sun, which is their rightful home could they but "Get There."

Regarding what is actually being pointed to herein, consider this famous unanswerable question: How is it, that the Six-foot tall five-bulb electric lamp cord becomes correctly situated in an available, and hot Wall Socket? That is, what is really going on here?

The Work is not just one thing

And, this is true whether or not one is referring to the living or the dead: including Gurdjieff, Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Maharshi, Yogananda, or any other Awake and Conscious and Enlightened Individual (to use all three if it makes you feel better.) As for the rest of the naked planetary bipeds today, there are very few (pitifully few, perhaps) such Individuals. After all, The Work consists of work on all three centers, not just one or two or even zero - that is, the body, the emotions, the intellect.

What it is not, is killing the ego, or the personality - which can't be done anyway, except by drugs of one kind or another, or massive injury, leaving the poor fool in a sorry state at best. Taming it, perhaps, but with higher emotional intelligence involved.

What it is, however, is Awakening, becoming Conscious of the Thought of Creation, which is not just a 3-centered conception consisting of mere (in our case) English words, but a 5-dimensional or more conception spanning time and eternity - two more concepts scarcely understood by anyone alive (making five, including the other three.)

Furthermore, unless one is truly extraordinary in so many ways, they will not be able to reach the Awakened, Conscious Thought of Creation on their own, no matter how many chants they re-repeat, mantras they a-humm, movements they mangle, holes they dig and re-dig, questions they ask or re-ask yet again, or books they read fourteen times. Why? NOT ENOUGH DATA. Simple as that. Such an awakened thought requires more data than one person can acquire during their way-too-short life span of extremely limited sensory capabilities. The Solution is easy (can you extraordinaries out there think of it?)

In order to hear it spoken out loud, in your presence, you will need to accomplish something that very few have ever been able to, because they are too fearful, too shy, too weak, too argumentative, too negative, too angry, too identified with their "self and i's," or worse, too identified with their favorite living or dead guy/gal, and too many other things to mention here... (still thinking?)

Solutions to the problem of increasing available data are extant, and there are those who are an intrinsic part of their own living versions. You are welcome to discover more about this, but you first must make THE effort mentioned here and elsewhere many times before. We await your responses.

One final thing to consider: master (hey, even expert) fishermen do not need to remain at the same pond, stream, river or part of the ocean, to know whether or not there are any viable fish in there. A few drops of the line reveals much. And though there may be a lot of critters swimming around down there, they are quickly discovered to be "of the wrong kind, variety, maturity, plumpness, tastiness, inquisitiveness, curiosity, etc."

Catch the drift before the fishermen 

depart for other suitable locations.
LOOK AROUND and DOWN 

(some fishees want to be hooked!)

(and if they look down far enough they will.)

Life is real only when I am...

In this moment, 

and this moment, 

and this, and this...

"Moment," is code for (the fabled) "Conscious Circle of Humanity." This place - referring now to Yahoo/Facebook/Google groups and all similar places where people are reading, posting, chitting and chatting with other similar hairless bipeds about who knows what! - is not the "Conscious Circle of Humanity," no matter how one might try to convince themselves otherwise. It is a gaggle of children playing with words (in their personal sandbox of words - between the ears,) trying to construct sand castles (ideas, theories, suppositions, and other big mounds of "hopium") that don't immediately topple under their own weight, in order to while away the hours while believing they are still "on the way." For them, it is all just a hobby.

So where ya gonna find One?

Yes, there is a conscious circle, and you too can be admitted therein (while you are still alive), but you must "do the work." Yes, there is Work involved, because it doesn't just happen - even though many believe the silly idea, "when the student is ready the teacher will appear," which is only half true, and just barely. The half that is true, is simply being able to read between the lines and rise above judgment, criticism, doubt and fear, even without the supposed "benefit" of teachings, like 4thway, buddhism, sufism and others. I know a few who did. 

Leetle teeny hint for those still (rightly) considering: yes, there are three centers, or three circuits, but there is a 4th and a 5th, and perhaps a 6th, and they go by different names and descriptions. The "conscious sphere" is up there, out of the way of the noise of the lower realms but not disconnected from it. The sphere "takes form, shape and structure" over time and could be "seen as" (grokked as)...

Thinking Feeling Sensing
Higher Thinking, Higher Feeling, Higher Sensing

It is "comprised" of highly-charged, highly-energetic, highly-magnetized particles that "Come together, right NOW, over 'me'" (shades of John Lennon, who probably knew about this, without KNOWING he knew about it.) But, more later for those who "have an interest, and know how to make themselves 'known'.

The Neighborhood Park

Anyone who has been around these delayed-reaction email/message groups - particularly the "enlightenment game" bunch - should know that the main thing going on with all of them, is hiding. Hiding behind this or that piece of supposedly useful information produced by somebody else - usually a long, long time ago - in order to appear as someone of equal stature. Oh, most won't admit that, because that would require coming out of hiding, but they know who is being called out here. So long as the group has some high-minded moniker - like AdvaitaForEveryone, or ZenBuddhistPhilosophy, or GurdjieffWork, or EnlightenmentNow, or WhatEVER - then all the members, who consciously chose to join and hang around for sometimes years - can believe they are coming out of hiding (even though, in fact, 99% don't even realize they are now, and have always been, IN hiding.) Another way this has been expressed over the years, is "Asleep on a higher level."

It all reminds one of a neighborhood park (with a clever name), that has a rather large fenced-off sandbox, and there are always many children in there with their shovels, and their pails, and their smiling faces, and they are all simply doing what children do: PRETENDING. It's cute while it lasts, unless it lasts way too long (some of them have been there for decades!) But the children in the sandbox will never figure it out. That would require an adult in the place, who can usher the children out of the sandbox, and into more suitable surroundings for those who honestly want to Grow Up.

Growing up simply means: retire from your delayed-reaction email/message groups with fancy, esoteric names purporting to "discuss" (which often turns to disagreement, argument and more confusion) the "enlightenment game," primarily because they never found (or were never invited to) more suitable surroundings... namely face-to-face conversation with their grown up peers, who consciously choose - each and every time - to Be there on time, to leave their personalities at the door, to stay for the duration, and be fully prepared (even technologically) for active participation in order to elevate themselves and the room. When this happens - and it's not hard, but it is an effort - it's something to behold, and few there be who have access to such a place.

Keep your eyes open and your ears perked up.
You never know who might appear...

It can happen.

Two Month Experiment Concludes

Everything about this Earthly "prison planet" is endlessly fascinating. Everybody knows that, even if this or that part still makes one angry, depressed, and off-their-A-Game... but that's all right, so long as their ordinary mind and emotions are thoroughly occupied from morning till night (and then night till morning) reacting to it. What that has come to mean for the masses (you know, the 99%'ers) is automatic thinking and feeling about everything, utilizing 99% of the energy generated by the food, air and impressions that come into their body during each and every day, until dead and left for the living to dispose of.

Do you understand that? Your thinking and feeling centers/circuits are prisoners of the physical world, and therefore you have, maybe, 1% or less time and energy to "consider" the Higher "FREE ZONES", which is more than just endlessly "fascinating, interesting, enlightening," but "mind-blowingly epiphanic," if not even orgasmic in their potency. The "Music of the Spheres" is more beautiful than any Bach (or pick your favorite) piece.

This, one should know by an early age - EARLY - but most don't, even after many decades of reading, talking, and wandering around their assigned cell on this prison-planet, while meaninglessly rearranging the furniture, pictures on the wall, and floor coverings in an "effort" (of sorts) to change something. And with the passing of each and every day, month, year and decade, they have less and less interest and energy in pursuing it. The masses are doomed to live out their days (their daze) on this prison-planet, never even discovering that the KEYS to their FREEDOM were always - from day one or so - (as if) in their back pocket to use, at will, to escape... but, sadly for them perhaps, they never even knew they HAD that back pocket. Perhaps the joke was on them? And, they didn't "Get It!" Get it?

The masses judge their "success in life" in terms of possessions, primarily, and some semblance of satisfactory business, family and social relationships, but, what about SUCCESS of a HIGHER ORDER? What of that? Most can't even think about it, let alone talk about it, let alone make real progress daily, and for the rest of their lives. They are quite satisfied with the status quo in almost everything, and because of that, they mistake falling behind as some sort of "success." A few, however, can't stand such a menial life, and must find a way to rise above the walls and escape - not in imagination, but in Reality.

So, why "preach to the choir" (those 11000+ members on the various Yahoo/Facebook groups I post these things to, who are ostensibly involved to some degree with these essential matters)? JUST BECAUSE one is membered-up to one or another such group, and read or post once in a while or all the time, that alone does NOT mean anything at all. 95+% of them are not regulars in any case. In general, people everywhere are equally beggars/beginners in relation to the Higher Knowledge that is not ordinarily accessible by the masses whatever they do. Either they can't recognize it, or can't use it (limited senses, limited circuits, limited experience, etc.), so for them it doesn't even exist. For the few who CAN and DO use it (having expanded/extended their senses, circuits, experience), we are always looking for you... to join a face-to-face weekly gathering of a small number of people who also CAN and DO. Either one already understands what CAN and DOES result from being in the presence of similarly "prepared persons," or one does not. Believe this or not: Yahoo/Facebook delayed-reaction email/message groups are NOT the way, never were, never will be. They are semi-enjoyable (perhaps, hopefully) diversions from facing reality head-on, because they push fantasy and imagination and a lot of "conscious" and unconscious lying to the willing diners who keep coming back for more of the same. But what is served up is less than nutritious, often being days or weeks late to your input table. Not tasty. Ugh!

Regarding the experiment that has ended (until we begin again), we received many "replies," of a sort, numbering about 30 in total, and after a simple "vetting question" or two, only TWO finally showed the courage to step up and be there; 25 who initially said they would be there, never followed up on the day/time, nor emailed the reasons (lame excuses) why. Many said something like, "Oh, I am beyond all of that... i.e., not interested in such as that, unless you tell me precisely what the topics are in advance and what I will get from it." REALLY?!? But, that is the dead (completely transparent) giveaway that they are NOT beyond a damn thing at all. Chatting up a Yahoo/Facebook group is the painfully stepped-down, delayed-reaction version of Real Time, Face-to-Face Speaking with a small number of semi, or even actually conscious men and women who know each other and are trying to be present to the room, and active, non-negative, non-judgmental participants. What happens in the best case (which for us regulars, is weekly, for over a year now) is something new and exciting to all the senses and circuits.

More to disregard and dismiss later... (yeah, bet'cha can't wait!)

Flightless or Soaring?

Are you a barnyard chicken, or a soaring golden eagle? 

Are you still running with the herds, pecking around on the ground for bits and pieces of this or that for your meager "nutrition", only to be culled from the herd in the prime of life when one of your masters sees fit to have a chicken dinner?

Or, do you soar the high heavens, wandering where and when you will? Always scanning far and wide, while looking for only the choicest prey for you and your "family?" If so, you have no masters, and can escape almost all manner of attempts to capture you - but one.

Well, if you are the latter, and NOT the former, we have been looking for you. We have ALWAYS been looking for such as you - scanning the environment, poking here, prodding there, pushing, pulling, twisting, turning, whatever it might take to rouse them from their hapless sleep, their apathy, and their inner resistance to everything new.

Or, perhaps you are an "eagle-in-potential," but still see yourself as merely, "chicken."

You've heard the call, 

and you will hear it again... 

but will you ignore it forever?

Ten Days and counting...

"Why am I here?"

If "it" responds in the ordinary way and you believe "it", then you have made very little progress in your supposed "search for the something" that got this whole thing started so many years ago. People always start rather well, with ample energy in most of the right places to make some small movements, but over time - from many months, to many years rolling into decades - most people start retreating from their imaginary goal without even realizing it...

Experience is The Thing

There is a belief in most people that they have to read books, watch videos, listen to audio tapes, join groups, talk to their priests, rabbis, gurus, parents, teachers, friends, and many other things, to "discover/learn" precisely what is required to Evolve in this lifetime (or even to become Enlightened, if that term is preferred,) primarily because they don't know what these words even mean. So they have to ask others to explain everything to them. But... good luck with that. It rarely works. Most people just become more confused about everything, not less so. Those who ARE evolving, KNOW it and probably know WHY and HOW, and they do so in spite of all that supposed "preparation" - which is, more often than not, nothing more than distraction at best.

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In every cosmos containing living beings, there are the "beings" (the many), and there are the "super-beings" (the few, of which there may be only one). The "beings" are stuck on their home planet for the duration, but the "super-beings" can and will leave under their own power. "Beings" have some small or even great amount of focus and/or attention and/or awareness, but no consciousness - certainly not like the "super-beings" which ARE Consciousness. Of course, all things being relative, "super-beings" in one part of the universe could be insects, or germs in another.

On planet Earth - you know, the lucky one, a "Goldilocks Planet" - homo sapiens sapiens, also known simply as human "beings", are the "super-beings," albeit in gestation. Most of them are, presently, only at the level of "beings" - which means they are not much more evolved than dogs, bears, lions, elephants, etc., and in far too many cases, even less evolved. In any case, what is necessary for a human "being" to evolve during its life to the level of a "super-being" is part of its genetic code - which means, no particular teachings from "out there" are specifically required. Each human "being" can achieve their true level of being just by living, experiencing life, and paying attention to all things. Some (a few) attain the status of "super-beings."

In the case of Earth-bound human "beings," they are only partially wired up to become "super-beings," so very few of them actually do. What that means is, that only certain connections have been completed, but many, many others have not yet been. Hence, the need to acquire, and remember, and think about their "life experiences," in order to complete those connections for oneself. Only then can the "being" begin to discover those Great Secrets known only to "super-beings", by extracting them from the noise going on, inside and outside, that masks them. This world - in here and out there - is VERY noisy to say the least, and it requires attaining, and maintaining, a high degree of inner silence to even begin to hear those secrets, let alone to put them into continual, daily, hourly practice.

And what does "attaining silence" (in order to hear the secrets) actually mean? That's simple. Stop thinking about what you've read, or heard, or seen - from out there in the world of ordinary "beings" - particularly in the way of descriptions, methods, instructions regarding your OWN Evolution. (And while you're at it, stop talking mindlessly, to yourself and others, about personal nonsense and silliness to the best of your ability; make THAT a habit.) Ones' OWN evolution is one's own responsibility, and one does NOT need advice from other people on this. Reach that necessary level of silence; dwell there for awhile hourly, daily, and repeat; and the secrets will come, do come, and soon you may be able to Speak them coherently to yourself, and to others. That is when the FEAST of a lifetime can be shared with all your Real Friends.

What people have never understood rightly, is that hearing and reading and watching youtubes and television and movies does NOT evoke those secrets from the core of their being which contains them. Only Speaking from Silence can do that. Not chit-chatting with your office mates, not talkin' trash with your bro's, and not conversing with your friends and families about your day or your job or your life in general. That's a start, sure, because it trains the mind to form, at least, semi-coherent sentences and paragraphs that may actually convey something useful. But there is a long way to go from that which any middle-school person should be able to do, to that which could be called Speaking one's Truth.

The bottom line here is this: one's OWN experience while living an ordinary life on Earth (sans all the nonsense and silliness from others who think they know MORE than you), is more than sufficient to provide the user with all that is necessary to EVOLVE, if they can just see what's going on, connect-the-dots, limit all their unnecessary talk (inner and outer) about almost everything, and of course, THINK! But, in reality, evolution of consciousness - or, conscious evolution - is the work of "super-beings." Everything else is simply the ordinary life of the ordinary "beings."

There are few who can, or will "get" anything from this story - which admittedly sounds almost "made up," right? - because what people can "GET," of any enduring value, is that which they unlock, discover and HEAR rumbling around and bubbling up from the depths of their OWN inner being, such that they - sometimes later perhaps - can formulate into something useful for a Friend in This. And of course, SPEAK!

Blogging is fun; Hanging is funner.

Does anyone really believe they are accessing their own higher centers, or others, when interacting on the "facebook thing" (a catchall for all the delayed-reaction email/message social media groups on the Internet)? Most likely, nobody even cares about such a thing given the rather low-energy level of people nowadays, especially those who have become part of the "facebook thing". On the other hand, those who prefer to increase and expand access to their own higher centers - or senses, or circuits, or powers - have already found better outlets for their intellectual and emotional creativity, and probably see the "facebook thing" as something they do NOT do anymore.

It goes like this: 

"Been there, done that!"

You see, one thing This is all about is enabling greater and more frequent access to higher centers, because it is NOT one's lack of finding the "right book," or the "right Youtube," or the "right picture-with-words-on-top" that is holding one back in This. It is one's own inability to access their own higher centers.

It goes like this: 

"Without that, you've got nothing. 

With that, you've got everything."

When one is functioning from their ordinary lower centers - particularly the mechanical, automatic, routine, standard-issue aspects of thinking and feeling - they can NOT understand "higher ideas" even if they come packaged in beautiful wrapping paper. That is, even with all of that, one can't understand enough about the idea(s) to benefit one. Generally, though they may "sound right," they do not produce consciousness in the hearer/reader. However, when one is functioning from their higher centers - Thinking and Feeling - they not only can understand "higher ideas," they can start producing them... at will... which means, they have learned where Creation, Discovery and Invention live. These three terms are thrown around in conversation all the time, but almost no one has a clue how to get from Here (total inability) to There (mastery).

There is no way, really, to verify any of this except to observe what ordinary thinking and feeling does to your capacity to understand - what you think and say, and how you think and say it - and then to make certain kinds of efforts that result in increasing that capacity to understand - i.e., activating higher centers. This is like sticking your entire body in the fire, so that the nonsense and silliness are burned away, leaving an intensely heated core of consciousness capable of escaping the gravity of ordinary human functioning.

This is Freedom, and if it was easy, 

everyone would be doing it, 

but sadly, almost nobody is.

Hangout with the gang - UPDATE (too late!)

In case anyone wonders 

"Wha' happened?" 

"Where is everyone!"

Here is a bit o'news: We are opening our weekly video-conferencing "hangout" to those who would like to investigate what we've been doing there. We are not arguing dogmas, doctrines, strongly-held beliefs or otherwise, but rather, experimenting with Discovery, Invention and Creation, up there between the ears and behind the eyes. Frankly, Honestly, Seriously folks, it is more interesting, and way more fun to share information in real time with those who are capable of hearing, thinking, and more importantly responding, than it is to "Talk to the Hand" (i.e., posting to blogs, and email/message groups). Which is not meant to say that this place is shutting down - no way - but that all the "good stuff" (the really good stuff from my viewpoint) is being saved and then expressed inside those "hangouts," and this place is going to be for less frequent messages.

Here are the links to the Invite: 

30-days and counting

25-days and counting

20-days and counting
Hangout w/us in five days
Eighteen hours and counting

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Cause 'n Effect, vs. Enlight 'n Discovery

Remember the old bit about the guy who lost the key to his car,

standing under the street light and looking only there

because the light is better? 

Well, anyway, there is nothing one can do out there in the world that will reliably cause any great positive changes in Humanity in general, or in someone specifically. We only think it might because we believe "cause 'n effect" is how such changes would occur. However, the only positive changes that will take place in Humanity in general, or in someone specifically, are those that come entirely from within: "Enlight 'n Discovery."

One can post drawings, photographs, you tube videos, pithy quips and aphorisms, copy-and-pasted sentences and paragraphs from presumably more highly-evolved people, and all of it will, from very likely, to most definitely fall on deaf ears, and blind eyes... mainly because Everyone in general, and most people individually are deaf and blind when it comes to what This is all about: 

"Enlight 'n Discovery."

Oh, one could suggest to oneself and other people (until blue in the face) that one must learn to meditate, chant, pay attention to one's breath, remember oneself, and many other kinds of so-called "advice", but it will come to nothing, as usual, because everybody in the world already knows about these things - hey, they have already heard it ALL before - and yet Humanity is still on a descending octave toward the grave, having accomplished NOTHING but the destruction of this planet and most of the species that live here.

If one person can awaken, then all people can awaken, and it only takes about "this long" (a few seconds of Real Seeing, that becomes Constant Seeing) and what prohibits this is not something one did or did NOT do in their lifetime, but what they SAW versus all they never even imagined or speculated or conjectured about. That is, their highest potential for This never fully activated, and that is exclusively an individual thing. The enlightening of our species will occur only when enough people are enlightened - how many, specifically, is unknown, but it's at least one. And you must know right now, without being told about it, WHO that one is.

And, you can't stop there... 

there is much more work to do.

It is necessary at some point to fully realize at a deep level that what you "think" you are ("you" - i.e., "me, myself and I") is personality, through and through, made over years and years of accidental causes and resulting effects, and that "YOU" is too fat, bloated, heavy, dense, and thick - not "small enough" - to squeeze through any "escape hatch" that presents itself. No, only Real I, made over months and months of conscious intention and enlightened discoveries, is capable of LOCATING an "escape hatch" and making the requisite effort to step on through to the other side.

The Secret Book of Stuff

(you never heard before)

No matter how far our species progresses in its long "journey to the stars," The Secret Book of Stuff  will remain out of one's reach - as if it never existed, or was never even written. It has to be that way, of course, so as to not stifle that part of each person's brain responsible for "thinking" (in the ordinary way), and Thinking (in the extraordinary way.)

Nothing of significance is achieved by a species that can not 

Think in an extraordinary way.

It remains only at the level of the animals.

The same thing can be seen out there in the world. Hyper socialism, in all its varied forms - that is, giving everything to everyone whether they make effort or not - usually produces the opposite of what might have been intended. People may live a little longer, but they never progress past the stage of a rather sad, and defeated child at best. People NEED to struggle. They need to smarten up, about everything "known," and "unknown," so as to begin, and succeed in their long "journey to the stars."

Struggle comes in many forms and flavors, and it looks very different to different people: what is experienced as extreme struggle for one, may be experienced as the opposite for another - if not actually FUN. But, the result is the same, though in different degrees - Smartening up - because as humans are born, they are just about as dumb as the other animals on this planet. They certainly would die as infants without many years of parental care. But, at a certain crucial point, children need to be "set free" from their overseers so that they can learn how to survive and prosper entirely on their own - in both ordinary and extra-ordinary ways - even if that means losing easy access to regular meals, reasonable shelter, etc., so that they are forced by necessity to discover and implement viable solutions. And... the younger the better! This always requires activating higher ends of the nervous system - from the bottom of their feet, to the top of their head, and all points in-between - so as to bring greater consciousness, awareness and understanding to every moment in their heretofore semi-conscious (if not nearly un-conscious) life.

This, of course, is when the REAL FUN begins for one as they set out on their celestial journey acquiring/activating those skills, talents, and other gifts that Life bestowed upon each and every one, though only a very few ever succeed at This. 

They soon begin to WRITE 

- which means, think, speak and write - 

"The Secret Book of Stuff " 

(they never heard before)

The Weirder and Stranger the BETTER!

Unknown to all but a tiny few, is that one does not need to run toward the strange, the weird, the conspiratorial, the mystical, etc., etc., to find the Real, but only to LEARN (in the right way) how one ordinarily misses virtually everything going on around and within themselves, because they think and believe that everything is "so damn OBVIOUS (it's not worth thinking anymore about it."

No, it is not obvious, it only SEEMS that way to the ordinary mind of man. In fact, everything out there and in here is totally mysterious, and even when one gets closer to discovering the "truth," it recedes even further into the totally mysterious. All is Mysterious. There is more to find out. And learning to move within that scale of "the apparently known," to "the totally unknown," is what approaching the Real is all about.

Therefore, forget about the strange, the weird, the conspiratorial, the mystical, etc., etc. There is generally nothing worth pursuing there but a lot of confusing nonsensical silliness. Instead, SEEK to penetrate the obviousness of human life, and the world at large, because it simply is NOT obvious at all, but quite mysterious.

Very few people can even start to investigate the obviousness, because they can't even hear the questions, let alone see the blatant in-your-face signs. That is, when one of them suddenly arises in their thinking center - usually because someone else asked it, or pointed it out - they instantly believe they already know and understand everything about it, and so their personal investigation terminates before it even begins. This goes on for decades, with no end in sight.

For example, here is one that always causes a rise in people: "Why are you here... again?" People will typically ignore this question internally, due to such thoughts as, "Hey, that's obvious... I want to be here.") Really? Are you sure? Ask yourself: "Why are YOU here... again!?!"

Actually, it is harder to get to the bottom of this question than people suspect, because the real question being asked is this: "Why are you ANYWHERE... again!?!" People believe they know - "Hey, it's obvious... because I want to be here, I chose to be here." Really? Are you sure? But, once you begin to Do This Thing being pointed to here - investigating the obviousness of human life - you will SEE that nothing is obvious, especially - though never limited to - that which you think is obvious... because nothing is obvious, everything is mysterious and you won't get anywhere until you BEGIN to discover something about what is being pointed to herein for yourselves.

Never Fear! Ideas are here...

(to distract you!)

Can you understand that fully, or even partially - or... OR, not at all, thus falling back into the popular, almost firmly-held belief that, regarding that which has come to be called Enlightenment, "Ideas are Really Important," and "One can NOT achieve anything without them."

If you believe that "story" then you have considerable work to do in this regard, because the "higher ideal" is this: (watch it, here comes yet another "idea") Learning to disengage from your ordinary thinking brain - to "think with ENERGY," not words - at will, and very often, leads to Higher Truths, Deeper Understandings, than you will EVER find in an idea you got from a book, a video, or somebody else's mouth. If you don't understand that fully, or even partially... keep observing.

One can awaken in one lifetime, 

but only IN SPITE OF all these "ideas" 

that have been continuously thrown at you since birth.

Ideas are the primary DISTRACTORS 

to anything REAL one might be able to achieve while alive.

Most here and there are already saying/thinking, "WTF you talkin' bout, Willis?" Such people - and that includes most of the people alive today - simply do not understand how their ordinary thinking brain works, nor, more importantly, what their ordinary thinking brain DOES to DISTRACT them from getting to the "bottom of things," particularly, their so-called "THINKING." Only that kind of deep realization regarding the operations of their thinking center/circuit can UN-DISTRACT them from the glaze-over-their-eyes (read: 'identification') that comes over them every time they read a book or transcript, watch a video or listen to an audio... and then, attempt to "think about the (apparently interesting) ideas" contained therein.

One Huge Clue to all this is when they attempt to talk about the author/writer/speaker and his (supposedly important/meaningful) ideas. It is a dead giveaway, and most people can't see it, can't feel it, and certainly can't rise above that level of ordinary thinking on their own. Even when one who CAN see it, feel it, and rise above it, tries to "enlighten them" as to that ordinary thinking activity, they usually will NOT get it - and, not even close! Often, they just get angry, or miffed, or "off their game even further!"

There are MANY MORE CLUES, 

but it is best to discover them for yourselves, 

rather than hearing/reading about them. Get It?

Responsibility

Let's say, just for the sake of this piece, that your "evolution" (such as you presently understand that very hard to define concept) is one hundred percent your responsibility. That is, you are in a pickle, always have been, and very likely will continue to be, and you are wired up to fail at this. Plus, you can't rely upon some "god," or spirit, or force, or grace, any other outside-your-physical-body "entity-of-sorts" to push you, or pull you, or provide any assistance at all, beyond what any other person born in the last several thousand years received.

Let's say, just for the same sake, that the "evolution" of humanity (also hard to define) is one hundred percent your responsibility. That is - if you can't readily see that - humanity is in a humongous pickle jar, always has been, always will be, and our species is wired up to fail with regard to the kind of "evolution" suggested by the mystics of old, the masters of note, the names of which very few people alive today even know (let alone admire and respect,) but who lived on this Earth, walked around, and spoke quite seriously about "individual human potential and attainment."

Quick now... Test, if you care to read it and consider it: When you personally (as you are, right now, today, as you live-and-breathe, and hope to live-and-breathe another day) are in the physical "head-space" (which includes non-physical as well, like while on an audio- or video- phone-call,) is it your feeling, sensation, understanding (and other things too) that THEY are at least, if not more so, EQUAL to you mentally, emotionally, sensorially, spiritually, potentially -  and all the other "ally" words you can come up with, including... hell, even consciousally (ok, ok, consciously) - OR do you (as do most people alive on this tiny blue planet) see them as less so, if not much less so?

Walking and Talking Nervous Systems

One and All.

Same thing, Many versions.

Get it? Well, consider this, if the evolution of the world of mankind, our human species, is YOUR responsibility (just as your own is), then you must not, CAN NOT see them as less than you. In fact, being in the same "head-space" as other human beings - known or unknown to you, though in this particular way... eye-ball to eye-ball... ear-hole to ear-hole... that is, each one there sees and acknowledges the presence of the others also there, and can talk to any one or more of them personally (i.e., being in the same "head-space") - IS, when you come right down to it, the set and setting for ALL to ascend, even if only a little bit, but definitely to do that, to experience that (right now, today, as you live-and-breathe and hope to live-and-breathe another day.)

But, this is a Mission Impossible that only the few-of-the-few even care to choose to accept, because it necessarily involves the Active Mentation of the highest-of-the-highest parts of one's nervous system, each and every day for the rest of your life.

You need to always remember,

a "back door" is NOT an "escape hatch." 

"Back door?"  

"Escape hatch?"

All of this is somewhat easy to write, somewhat easy to say, but EXTREMELY hard/difficult to implement, but when you have 1) written it all down for others to read, and 2) said it out loud to one more people you admire and respect, then it is 3) EASY-as-HELL to remember when you have "blown it" - which means slipped out the "back door" - which is NOT the same thing as stepping through your own, self-created, "escape hatch."

Think about it.
It won't kill you, or
slow you down any.