Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Healed Moment of Vertical Time





A healed moment is one in which you have escaped from the concepts of your mind, which imprison others and cause you to suffer because they fail to meet your criteria. The concepts are still there, but they cease to capture you based on what you demand from others and the 'world.'

We could say that in a healed moment the 'world' still exists. However, you no longer experience yourself as its victim because of how you now ‘see’ it and others in it.

When two or more share perfect equality, in a ‘world’ of confusing hierarchies, levels and degrees, time is experienced as vertical and not horizontal.

This does not negate ‘time’ just allows it to be realized from a Deep Spirit perspective. Vertical time takes up no space and everything needed is contained in one moment and experienced in one moment. But it cannot be experienced alone, since that continually reestablishes the incompletion of your autonomous egocentric identity, which continues to require time and space, or horizontal time, for which to achieve its completion.

A healed moment is entirely absent of all conflict, because there is no right or wrong for which to distinguish needs. A perspective that emphasizes lack or deficiency seeks to blame the world for what is lacking in the belief that what is needed must be found in the 'world.' This is always cause for conflict and is why all true 'awakenings' involve the world. No one awakens alone, because "it takes a village" to teach and learn fear.

Therefore, only a collective can awaken to its own unified completion in order to end all fear and conflict for its members. This literally alters the physical landscape because space/time is useless to those who need nothing because they experience NO lack or deficiency.

If you experience a world of lack and deficiency, make no mistake, that experience is entirely 'within' you and is not contingent on an external world and in no way related to anyone but your ‘self.’ However, dissolving that experience must involve another; otherwise, it only serves to reinforce your egoic construct of autonomous fear. The ego will always fear what it experiences as apart from itself and this is why you often experience the world as a very fearful ‘place’ to be.

Examine closely any problem you experience and you will understand the causal interdependency of collective consciousness. All conflict must involve another and every individual problem is intricately interrelated to your experience of a world full of other minds interacting with yours. This is because every problem you experience comes from a lack and the ego will always recognize what it lacks based on what it believes others HAVE.

Did you find the “soul mate” who will finally complete you? Did you seek your completion through another only to find that they could not give you what you lacked, even though you perceived them as having what you needed? Does someone you 'love' reinforce your lack by what they have? Are they withholding from you because they believe you withhold from them? Do you really have what they need?

The ego seeks to claim from others what it lacks in itself and this is often misinterpreted as complementarity. Unfortunately, the ego that fails to access Deep Spirit will fail to realize the futility of such a search and only continue searching more persistently.

You lack nothing. However, the ego-self is nothing more than a belief in lack and everyone who has what you need, also wants what you have, because lack and need is how an ego-self defines “love.”

A healed moment experiences no lack because, in desiring to see another as complete, you immediately experience your own completion. In fully trusting another, you trust yourself. In seeking to experience perfect peace with another, perfect peace becomes yours and an experience of perfect peace is a healed moment of vertical time.

Although a healed moment is an experience of perfect peace through unified equality, the commitment to time returns. Nevertheless, the desire for another breathe of infinity is irresistible and you will seek out others for which to share in it. This results in an increase that exponentially magnifies its effects in the world each and every time it is shared.

The only resistance encountered is by those who still wish to awaken alone and pursue a continuance of that autonomy.

But resistance to truth is a futile endeavor and merely delays time. The non-dualism of unified atonement is an unbreakable chain that grows with the linking of each 'individual' mind and this provides an experience of accelerating time. You cannot know what is rapidly approached, but you feel it is ultimately momentous and profound and this feeling is always available when experiencing from Deep Spirit.

Therefore, since it is only a matter of ‘time,’ why delay?

2 comments:

  1. Hi Mike~

    Quote: "No one awakens alone, because "it takes a village" to teach and learn fear."

    This makes sense, yes. It seems to beg the question, however, why does the village fear the one who deviates from it? Why does it fear the rebel or the lonely or the gifted?

    A friend from Scotland said the thing she disliked about America was there was no sense of community, but then she lived in a suburb of a major metropolitan area where there is no community, only an ideal, a picture of prosperity and independence without heart or soul. I think I have mentioned her observation before, somewhere.

    Awakening and enlightenment seem to almost become a cliche of suburban proportions. A refuge of security before the bills start coming in and demand to be paid. Finding the holy grail where the disagreeable all magically goes away. Until even the myths of awakening and enlightenment are dispelled there can be no real manifestation of these two concepts.

    I think the inherent problem is that we exist in a culture which is so individualized and yet at the exact same time prone to such extreme hero/myth worship that we actually fear anything remotely connected to altruism, decrying it as socialism. It is always looked on materialistically. Why should that guy share in my hard won abundance? Why should that guy reach some state of bliss when I have meditated endlessly for it and still it eludes me? The sense of personal entitlement goes deep, deep within the well of this culture and until that is broken down, how can we begin to heal?

    And if some giant Buddha, or Christ, or Allah or Krishna or Bridget or Isis descended from the heavens for all to see, there would still be the clash of "I was cheated. This is a false Deity, the devil, a hypnosis, a mirage."

    So, how to come together and heal, yes. It all breaks down to trust. And how do we know this is not some state of purgatory in an effort to learn that trust? To even earn it? We just naturally assume this world is the story we have given it, and yet, the reality may be as far removed from that story as we could ever conceive of it being. Mass insanity before the mass awakening?

    Then again, what is the use of breaking down the ego so much it can no longer discern? The beauty of transformation is that while the mechanism of navigation remains, the clutter and debris is, by all good measure, wiped away.
    We no longer need to be astounded by the seemingly profound.

    Blessings of the Autumn~
    Nahnni

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  2. Nahnni,

    "It seems to beg the question, however, why does the village fear the one who deviates from it? Why does it fear the rebel or the lonely or the gifted?"

    There are levels and degrees of fear and maybe we fear more those who do not subscribe to our levels (collectively speaking). Generally I think we fear everything, even, and especially, the concept of love without condition.

    "...she lived in a suburb of a major metropolitan area where there is no community, only an ideal, a picture of prosperity and independence without heart or soul."

    Yes, our values of prosperity are very skewed, to say the least, and simply perpetuate a deep-seated sense of loneliness and many begin to question - "can this be real?" Then they begin to question the rules, almost to a point of losing reality.

    "Awakening and enlightenment seem to almost become a cliche of suburban proportions. A refuge of security before the bills start coming in and demand to be paid. Finding the holy grail where the disagreeable all magically goes away. Until even the myths of awakening and enlightenment are dispelled there can be no real manifestation of these two concepts."

    Ha! Wonderfully said.
    Yes! I want the truth...only just not that truth, thank you very much!

    "Why should that guy share in my hard won abundance? Why should that guy reach some state of bliss when I have meditated endlessly for it and still it eludes me? The sense of personal entitlement goes deep, deep within the well of this culture and until that is broken down, how can we begin to heal?"

    Yes, the paradigm of individualism even impedes equality with the ones we choose to love. Peace is always absent with inequality.

    "We just naturally assume this world is the story we have given it, and yet, the reality may be as far removed from that story as we could ever conceive of it being. Mass insanity before the mass awakening?"

    And it seems that because there are so many levels and degrees, we need to find the common denominator to serve as foundation. Possibly some form of mass insanity, or at least mass disillusionment, might be order.

    "Then again, what is the use of breaking down the ego so much it can no longer discern? The beauty of transformation is that while the mechanism of navigation remains, the clutter and debris is, by all good measure, wiped away.

    Discern what? The ego is conscious of what it gives meaning to and I believe this is why there is the need to compulsively repeat the past. Maybe once the ego stops trying to navigate the direction will become clear. Ack! I merely speculate in metaphor.

    "We no longer need to be astounded by the seemingly profound."

    Yes!

    I take great pleasure in your keen penetration of the games!!
    mikeS

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