Living Through Deprivation, Loss, Lack and NEED Fulfillment

Loss is defined by sacrifice, and you must ask how you can lose when there is nothing you NEED.

There is nothing in your 'world' that can sustain you and valuing it for that purpose only perpetuates your feeling of loss because this is what the world has taught you. Valuing anything as necessary to completion, reinforces your belief in your incompletion... in perpetuity.

All egos are incomplete and must remain so for the duration. If you are an ego-self you will experience deprivation in some form or another.

You have always felt that something was missing. You have lived with an emptiness that your struggles to fill have only served to further deepen. Every “loving” relationship, every moment of pleasure, every object coveted, has left you still feeling incomplete. Your relationships drain and disillusion you, your moments of pleasure fade and all objects lose their value.

You are desensitized to the very reality you make real, simply because nothing can complete that which is already completed. Your search is over before it began, because you have no "needs" and, thus, there is nothing to search for.
However, you do sense something there, beyond your 'perception,' that you believe must sustain and complete you. Yet, you will never seek further than your learned expectations allow and so you will continue to perpetuate your deprivation. As time passes, your expectations become less desirable only because you expect less, yet still hope for more. You will eventually exhaust the search simply because in the end, death is your only prize and this is the most valuable prize you ever learned to expect, since you do not doubt death will one day be yours, while everything else turns to dust. Eventually, you will realize that in your "world," death is the only "need" you're guaranteed to fulfill.

It would indeed be sad if even one aspect of this predicament were true. However, every belief you hold in your mind is patently false and that includes your concept of death. Nothing you see or hear and every thought, based solely on what the body needs or seeks to avoid, is delusional.
The only completion required is the complete disposal of all you have learned that teaches you are incomplete. You are beginning to have faith that there may be something more than what you have learned and this brings truth that much closer. Yet, truth does not require sacrifice, only acknowledgment of its total completion.

Unfortunately, you believe that you can NOT let go of every belief, since how would you be able to interact with others, make money and feed your family. If you let go every belief that you have based on the past how could you continue to function? What would you base your brief episodic "happiness" on? You fear such sacrifices and therefore, your sacrifices in the world merely serve to avoid the ultimate sacrifice of giving up the world.

Fear is your teacher and demands you teach what IT knows, therefore you have no idea of your "function." Look at you world. You teach what you were taught from a world invested in fear. Every thought in your mind teaches what you believe MUST be true.

In relation to the things that you “must” do, there is no reason to discontinue your “doing.” Yet, through a change in perception your "doing" will be transformed, because completion does not REQUIRE doing anything. If you examine your current beliefs, you will see that what you DO must entail some degree of suffering. This is what you WILL experience in everything you DO, as long as you do it to achieve anything of VALUE that you have determined as VALUABLE to your completion.

You have no idea of the reason why you DO anything, although you DO allow the world to determine your purpose and this is why you suffer. The world cannot teach what it does not know, so why allow it this function?

Consistent inquiring into your "purpose" may assist you in processing goals for your future since currently, you do believe in a future. However, the goal must be determined from that part of you that has no investment in the world you believe is real.

Do you set your goals by the voice for truth or are your goals determined by the voices of the world, which loudly proclaims that you are deprived and have NEEDS that must be fulfilled. Each day you must ask “whose goal do I choose?” Inevitably, you must choose, and what you experience determines what you HAVE chosen.

Do you really believe you know what you need? Do you believe you were created incomplete and thereby have needs that must be filled? Look no further then your suffering, or lack thereof, as it proves what you believe.

There is one goal and one function that has been established by your Being. In time, all your goals will attest to your completion, since you will teach it and, therefore, you will perceive it everywhere you look.

Look for it now.

Artwork by Vlada Mirkovich - 'The Man Who Lived in His Dreams"

Jesus Is Just Alright With Me

"Christ" is an archetype within the collective consciousness projected outward as form (which some sad fool named "Jesus").

The problem with embodying archetypes in specific individuals is that it tends to deny that, to be an archetype, it must be in each and every mind. The ego denies the archetype by extracting and stripping itself away from it, thereby, separating and dissociating itself from the archetype.

There are many archetypes within the collective consciousness. However, there is only one archetype of truth, although the ego cuts itself off from that truth through numerous forms (living and dead).

If the ego-self is separate and dissociated from the truth (since the ego has given it a form separate from "you") then you're under no obligation to live out and personify in your own form what is separate from you and not a part of you. Truth is therefore, available only to other forms (made "sacred" by the ego) but not the form you identify with as "you." To the ego, "you" are guilty and anything but "sacred."

Therefore, you're off the hook and need not take responsibility for truth in any way whatsoever.

The ego conveniently does this by making forms "supernatural" and "sacred," which is alien and unattainable by "you." Examples of such sacred forms are Christ and Buddha.

Christ could love the 'garbage' and even become the garbage. This is because we made "him" a supernatural embodied incarnation of God, rather than simply an embodiment of a collective consciousness that your localized consciousness is indelibly linked to.

The ego requires sacred forms for two reasons. First, bodies must be conduits to truth, in order that your existence as a body be upheld and reinforced and, second, truth can only be limited to a scarce few bodies, which aids in denying that it is available to all.

Thus, it's easy to resign your 'self' to the fact that you could never do what they did and this is why, after 2000 yrs, no one else ever has and as long as you believe "Jesus Christ" existed...

...you never will.

There never was a form (person) called Jesus Christ nor one called Buddha. However, they both mythically represent archetypes that we all have access to, but must egoically deny. This "story" is in every mind, but if every mind believes only a few can have it, only a few ever will and, as 2000 years demonstrates, only a few ever have. You demand truth and so the ego gives it to you, but only through specific forms, which makes it a very scarce commodity and unattainable by you.

This is the "revelation" that we will eventually realize and "awaken" to and when we realize this collectively, then I imagine there will be nothing we can't do, since all the powers inserted into the forms "Jesus Christ"or "Buddha" will then be available to all of us. Unfortunately, until we can engage in it together, we'll continue to perceive it in only a few "sacred" forms.

Until then, the forms will continue to dazzle the mind with the miracles we could all perform if only we end our idolization of the forms.

Jesus is just alright with me

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright with me

Jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say

I don't care what they may do

I don't care what they may say

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright Woh oh oh

I don't care what they may know

I don't care where they may go

I don't care what they may know

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus, he's my friend

Jesus, he's my friend

He took me by the hand

led me far from this land

Jesus, he's my friend

I don't care what they may say

I don't care what they may do

I don't care what they may say

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

(Doobie Brothers)


Image by Salvador Dali

Integral Christianity: We're ALL as Guilty as Sin

You have been taught that forgiveness is a gesture of compassion that brings a sense of "peace" to those who "trespass" against you. Unfortunately, the world’s “forgiveness” does not convey innocence, but only reinforces guilt.

The very fact that you can choose to “forgive” my sins, simply reinforces a world where "sin" is possible and ALL are guilty. Notice how the ego-self constructs experience before hand, which informs what can be 'perceived.'

Your forgiving me simply raises up your innocence on the back of my guilt and for you to be innocent, I must be guilty. The ego will never lose sight of this distinction, all appearances to the contrary. Guilt and innocence created the world you perceive and "perception" was constructed to differentiate the parts from the whole, thereby, missing the whole entirely.

Make no mistake, when you grant me 'forgiveness,' you will maintain my indictment deep within the recesses of your mind...and I must never lose sight of that fact, because you have ways of reminding me. Your eyes continue to see guilt, although you may not speak it. You will “forgive,” but how can you forget and why should you... I'm as guilty as sin!

This merely reinforces your innocence, keeping us both fixated on our division and separation that is an immense canyon never to be bridged as long as any part of the world is guilty. "God" does not define guilt, you do.

True Forgiveness asserts that it never happened and therefore, it is NOT seen. There is no need to forgive since you have not been harmed. Perfection cannot be harmed, therefore, if guilt does NOT exist how can it be seen?

However, a separate, illusory self is easily violated and therefore, SEES guilt everywhere it looks, since that's the purpose of 'perception,' to seek out contrasts.

But, if nothing is external to mind, then your indictment of me, indicts you. My guilt is yours, as we are ONE and it is our mutual guilt that keeps us apart.

“Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone,” simply means that no stone need be "cast" as everyone is innocent. However, if you choose to believe in guilt, then the inverse must be true for you and all of us. If you are guilty, then so is the world and, whenever you perceive the 'world' it will be guilty as charged.

We are either all guilty, or completely innocent. There can be NO in-between, although the ego enjoys applying levels and degrees to guilt. We are all either "sinners" or without sin of any kind. This is the experience of non-duality available to Christ Consciousness.

The world believes in “sin” and therefore, forgives to crucify. Without this value-system to differentiate your world, what would you perceive?

If you can be violated, then the guilty must pay and “the wages of sin is death.” The guilt you impose on me enslaves us both to a world outside the mind and, inevitably, outside control . Guilt holds us hostage to beliefs that violate our perfection. Your inability to truly forgive your transgressor, indicts the world and everything IN IT (including your 'self').

When you perceive the truth, you then realize that we are all innocent, therefore, truth denies guilt and has no need of forgiveness. True Forgiveness sees perfection and perfection is guilty of nothing. True forgiveness is resurrection and that was the message of Christ Consciousness, which overcame death to prove that, what is perfection, cannot be harmed in anyway. How could it be?

Eventually, the choice must be made between the laws of the world, that "you" made up to limit your 'self,' and the laws of NO limitation. Making this choice is the point of your spiritual journey.

The forgiveness that will bring you complete and total peace is the forgiveness that has no need to forgive. You cannot be harmed, because you are more a mind than a body and mind is infinite. Therefore, no forgiveness is required. How can that which is infinite, be harmed, unless eternity is denied.

Have you denied eternity today?

“But if my child is killed by the drunk driver, how do I forgive that! Someone must pay for my suffering!”

Someone will pay, and make no mistake, it is ALL OF US.

The world’s justice requires that a price must be paid and this price is vengeance. Nowadays, vengeance is on everyone’s mind. Therefore, how can it NOT define the world?

You may feel that such perfect forgiveness is impossible to attain. I must agree with that feeling, as I am no enlightened master. Yet, if you can even slightly “perceive” the truth of this, then you are in the process of “knowing” it. You can feel confident that the “Kingdom of Heaven Within” merely awaits your awareness of perfection.

Perfection is guilty of nothing and neither are YOU.

The moment you see the world through the eyes of true forgiveness is the exact moment you claim your perfection as you were meant to BE.

Otherwise, we're ALL as guilty as sin.

Christ Returns...When "you" Leave

Christ Consciousness simply does NOT consider form, or body, as superior to mind. Yet, the fact that you conduct your life entirely based on the body indicates that you take little consideration of Christ Consciousness.

That you do conduct your ‘life’ based on a body is indisputable, since you consider death of the body, the death of “you.”
 Christ Consciousness does not deny awareness of form. However, it recognizes that “life” is not in any way contingent on form. The chief dualistic distinction is not that of body versus no body, as if the experience of a body was simply to be nullified in order to attain freedom from form (which many ‘spiritualists’ claim).

Actually, the distinction we make is that without a body there can be NO mind. This ultimately creates fear and fear then becomes the chief determining factor of ‘living.’

If we were certain that the mind did not end upon expiration of the body, the experience of ‘living’ would be quite different. Christ Consciousness realizes that the body is merely an appendage of mind and that mind is not in any way determined by the body nor is the mind controlled by the experience of a body in a ‘world.’

However, we believe that a body experienced as ‘in a world’ must take precedence and demand the minds total attention.

Christ Consciousness simply reverses this order. As a result, mind is the controlling aspect, and the originating factor, of both body and world. There is nothing external to mind that can in any way control or victimize mind and this is the realization of Christ Consciousness that many report is an encounter with indescribable freedom.

The world is full of enlightenment paths and programs that seek to empower the individual through reducing the controlling aspects of body and world. Unfortunately, these programs continue to maintain that body and world determine direction of thought and, thus, the content of mind. Many claim that all you can ever do is seek to reduce the extent of this conceptual bondage, but never be free.

Therefore, it is no wonder these programs have been ineffective in making the slightest dent in the current collective structure of the world and man’s inhumanity to man. Christ consciousness miraculously and radically alters your experience of a ‘world’ by fully realizing that the body does not determine the content of consciousness.

Such consciousness need not conform to the world’s dictates, since the world’s value system is entirely oriented to the body. Christ Consciousness has NO need to seek to control the world nor does it seek to withhold or surrender control. This is because Christ Consciousness restores the natural order which ego-self has denied (but cannot eradicate).

Christ Consciousness merely realigns the mind with itself, thereby, negating control by the body or the world. Christ Consciousness does not deny that there is a “you” associated with a body ‘located’ in a world. Christ Consciousness merely affirms this a result of free-will.

Christ Consciousness affirms free-will, as opposed to the body and world’s negation of free-will, in the recognition that you are NOT victim to the objects of consciousness (body and world) because you are 'source.' Nevertheless, obviously, source is not “you” in any way you could conceive of yourself. Therefore, the biblical message accurately prophesies the return of Christ, but only upon the disappearance of “you.”

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
- Jesus Christ

Sorry, But You Cannot BECOME "Awakened"

What do you 'see'? Make no mistake, what you see is what you expect to experience, otherwise, you would not experience it or its opposite. The ego manufactures experience based on expectation and experience does not leave the mind of its maker, even when defined as a product of ‘perception.'

You will never stop manufacturing constructs for which to experience 'existence.' Even an ego determined to experience “beingness,” or “oneness,” manufactures that experience based on expectation. Experiences are ‘constructs’ because you make them up.

Your ego actually processes ‘beingness’ as a finite outcome for future acquisition or ‘becoming.’ The ego constructs finite experiences because they aid in promoting a fixed ‘self’ to contrast with your fixations of others and the world.

The self can never stop manufacturing personal constructs as experiences through which to identify and know itself. There seems no way out of this, because the ego-self must employ finite constructs to further perpetuate itself as becoming.

The problem with pursuing finite outcomes of ‘becoming,’ like non-dual, beingness, oneness, awakening, enlightenment, rapture, salvation, satori, nirvana, etc, etc, etc, is that the ‘self’ must be rigidly fixed in order to interpret these finite outcomes.

You cannot transcend the ego-self simply by dissolving its experiences through constructing more finite experiences for which to ‘become.’ However, you can perpetuate your 'existence' through infinite constructs that have no outcomes. Of course, infinite constructs are also beliefs, however, they tend not to attach to a predetermined past, but actually look to reinterpret the present moment without reliance on the past and thereby, create an entirely different experience.

To live infinitely is to exist through experiences that have no outcome, since all fixed, time/space outcomes are interpreted as meaningless. But this only asserts that you withhold your meaning and not that meaning is absent.

Make no mistake every guru, enlightened master or “non-dual” claimant you meet, is rigidly attached to a fixed ‘self’ if they teach ‘becoming.’ Whether it be enlightenment, awakening, realization, non-duality, etc, etc. They are teaching finite constructs which are processed as outcomes and those “transcendent” outcomes are considered rewards to be achieved.

INFINITE CONSTRUCTS

Infinite constructs are not bound or supported by past beliefs and require no teaching devices or conceptual subterfuge. Infinite constructs expect no rewards by eschewing all anchor points from the past. They are permeable and immediately open to change, because they are not rigidly attached to any particular ideology or conceptual belief system that requires 'becoming' or any other outcome. You cannot ‘become’ an infinite construct, because it is NOT fixed or predetermined. This can be frightening to an ego relying on its fixations to define itself, yet it can also be 'surprising.'.

You will manufacture and dissolve numerous experiences throughout your life completely of your own volition. However, most will be directly associated with some past ideological fixation, whether it be the monetary-value system (material wealth) or the spiritual-value system (awakening, enlightenment, salvation, non-duality etc), finite constructs are experienced as outcomes or goals to be attained. Make no mistake, anything taught as an outcome to achieve, acquire or become is undeniably a finite ego construct.

You can continue to play ego-games freely and the ego will eventually dissolve itself, but not in anyway you (or it) could ever know. No one owns the truth nor can it be taught and, therefore, no preparation is needed, contrary to popular opinion.

Infinite constructs seek no attainment whatsoever and are unattached to outcomes. Thus, egoic constructs become more associated with simply relating, or ‘relationship’ to other experiences, since all personal experiences are interdependent within an experiential fabric of ‘existence.’ Finite constructs impede relating by perceiving the world through rigid belief systems and associated value systems. It’s as if you knew the truth and this fixation devolves into a compulsion to repeat the past. History is replete with such repetition and this is the world you experience.

Infinite constructs naturally reject outcomes by making them meaningless. Without outcomes relationships are free to emerge as they will and reinterpretation of the ‘self’ is not restricted to past renditions. In addition, the ‘others’ experienced in your ‘world’ are also free to emerge, as no demands need be made by you upon them. Infinite constructs allow the world to BE not as it is, but as it WILL be and your WILL is the deciding factor, because you have freed it from a need for outcomes.

Infinite constructs replace finite constructs in the realization that purposes and functions are unknown to you. Not determining, and applying, purposes and functions to others, you free yourself and them. Thus, you will not ‘perceive’ your personal constructs (world and others) as conforming to expectations because you have none. There is nothing you can do to experience truth, because truth is not constricted to experiences the ego interprets and does not conform to your personal constructs of "awakening." Isn’t that a breath of fresh air?!

Currently you believe everything is open to question except the finite constructs that you have determined are truth. Yet, relative truth has many levels and degrees. Accept that you do not know truth and allow yourself to learn of it because it has no outcome. As long as you remain fixated on your finite constructs, you remain mired in the past. Finite constructs predict the future based on the past and so you will experience what you expect.

Infinite constructs can miraculously change your reality because of your refusal to manufacture experience based on past precedent. Unfortunately, non-reliance on the past will make you seem a little ‘crazy’ in contrast to all the sane and intelligent people seeking rewards through outcomes.

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” - Buddha

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES: There is NO "Unconscious"

Every part of your world; every tiny detail you experience, is purely a product of your mind. Knowing this, and living from that knowledge, is freedom beyond your wildest imagining.

Student: I believe that the problem is that many of my thoughts and beliefs are unconscious to me. Therefore, what obstructs knowing my Source are the thoughts in my mind that I am not conscious of.

Teacher: You have invented imaginary “places” in the mind for which to conceal your fear. These places, or layers of your mind, are not real, but you do believe that you have much to hide. There are NO unconscious "levels" of the mind through which to safely lock away your fear.

You simply project it "outward" and there is where it is revealed to you as separate from you. However, in your refusal to accept ownership of the parts of your mind that you fear, you refuse to acknowledge parts of YOU and this is the purpose of your projection. This refusal is what you call “unconscious.” But, make no mistake, you are aware of all the thoughts you idolize as "truth."

Student: You’re saying that I do not have an unconscious and that the things of my mind that I do not wish to know because of fear, I do not repress, but project outward into my consciousness and it is there that I see it apart from me.

Teacher: The world IS you and you are your world, but you have projected your belief that the “experience” of a world is external to you and thus, you hide from what you fear. Therefore, it remains where you place it and, although you frequently suffer from it, you believe it is not your responsibility simply because it is NOT a part of YOU.

If you continue to believe in the "experience" of an outside world, there is no doubt you will fear what you believe is "outside" and, therefore, it must continue to victimize you. This must continue until you take responsibility for the origin of what you SEE and see differently. Essentially, in seeking freedom from victimization, you seek freedom from yourself, because you are victim and victimizer.

Student: What about the "pleasure principle" and my need to reduce inner tension?

Teacher: You have no idea of what is pleasurable, so why take the trouble of assigning it to some vague and unknowable place that you have labeled as “unconscious.”

How could you know what is in your best interests when you have no idea who or what you are? I continue to ask this question and you have yet to answer, although you continue to "live" as if the answer is known to you.

Conducting your “life” based on self-deception is unreliable and has failed to bring you pleasure of any permanence, but has clearly allowed you to fluctuate between pain and pleasure, often in complete confusion as to which "state" you experience. Do not rely on your old and worn out mental constructs of what you believe is in your best interest. Merely admit that you do not know and leave your ‘self’ open to learning, otherwise you will remain confused and victimized.

Student: I certainly know when I am in pain as opposed to pleasure.

Teacher: Once again, you have confused the body WITH the mind in your denial that the body is a delusion OF the mind. Pain, as a bodily stimulus, is easily recognizable since you do believe you are a body and the body must survive for the self to "live." Pain merely informs you of this obscure and confusing need to "survive" and, in that function, you embrace it.

Imagine if you were infinite and had NO end; what use for "pain" in that which cannot die? Obviously, pain would have minimal effect in alerting you to bodily needs, since a body that “lives” forever could not embody a "self" that believes in death.

Yet, physical pain does NOT concern you as much as the "suffering" that you require in order to maintain awareness of your "existence." Would you choose to suffer, if suffering were completely under your control? I teach that it IS, simply because you cannot die. Only that which dies can suffer.

Pure, unconditioned joy is impossible to that which is concerned with survival and you interpret suffering as symbolic of your being “alive.” Imagine if you did NOT suffer, how would you know your “self”? If the self could NOT suffer, it would experience only joy. Essentially, this is our goal because you do demand unconditional joy and there is NO reason why you should NOT have it, since it is the gift that awaits your acceptance.

Nothing else exists.... except in your mind.

Student: But there is no doubt that we perform irrational behaviors based on reasons we are not aware of?

Teacher: There is much you are not "aware of," but denial is a choice and not some deep dark place of unknown and unknowable “drives” and “motivations” that victimize you against your will. Look to your world and there you will clearly see what you contend is unknown to you. "There" is where you placed it, in fear of what you made that contradicts what you ARE.

You cannot hide from the mind through the mind. But you do believe you can hide from the mind through a "world." I teach that there is nothing to hide FROM. Nothing you now believe makes any difference to the Truth.

Student: But what about my upbringing and social conditioning? Clearly, these early factors influence my behavior.

Teacher: Once again, this is only true because you require it. Make no mistake, you require your own victimization. The self-identity that you worship must suffer from a past that will culminate in a future that you have determined must include your death. This is what you fear more then anything in your world and this is what you “repress” and defend against by simply projecting it outward INTO your world. However, recall that I teach that there is nothing outside your mind.

Student: But what about the ego? You have frequently used that Freudian term to indicate what it is that I must transcend.

Teacher: You seem very committed to “transcending” what you believe is REAL and, make no mistake, your self or "ego" suffering makes it very REAL for you. But if you did NOT suffer through it, how real could it be?

Your suffering makes it REAL!

I ask that you transform what you believe, otherwise you will experience sacrifice and this will only serve to intensify your commitment to an "ego." To "transcend," or rise above, merely asserts that you are somehow below "something" that must be above you. You are below NOTHING, not even God.

I have used the term “ego” because you know it well and we can only work with what your mind provides. You believe you are a mind in a body and within that mind is an ego that you associate as your “self.” This association serves only to dissociate from Truth. That was the purpose you gave it and now I teach a new purpose for the BELIEF that you demand be “you.” Do not become confused by your own absurd concepts, but allow me to aid you in transforming what you once believed was true.

I only provide that which you desire to know, WHEN you desire to know it. I can provide all that you would ever need. As to "when" you need it, that is your choice.

I teach that all the contents of your mind are available for observation and you observe these “unconscious” processes in every moment. Yet, WHAT you observe is not as important as HOW you observe it. There is only one way to see your "world" and that is what you require I teach you. I will fulfill my function, because it is your purpose that I do so.

The Non-Duality of Christ Consciousness

Essentially, there is nothing external to mind.

However, you believe a part of you resides externally from mind and have split experience into two parts, body and consciousness. Inevitably, this results in a divided experience of mind distinct from body. Therefore, everything the body ‘seems’ to come into contact with is automatically considered as separate from ‘mind,’ because it is in mind that the ‘self’ resides and all else must be dissociated from ego-self in order to maintain ego boundaries.

Christ Consciousness is the unification of the parts by dissolving boundaries through realization that neither mind nor body, self nor world, is outside conscious experience. However, it does not engage in this non-dual realization through negating or dissociating from any parts of experience. In fact, the non-duality of Christ Consciousness embraces all the parts in realizing wholeness. Absolutely nothing is, or can be, excluded and to do so would be to maintain ego boundaries, thereby, projecting the self away from the self's own constructs of reality. Splitting reality is cause for suffering because you are actually dividing a unified, non-dual mind and such is the nature of duality.

You believe that ‘perception’ proves duality “real” and, thereby, rely exclusively on bodily sensation as “knowledge.” However, you cannot deny that all experience is ‘within’ consciousness and this tends to evoke doubt that the body even exists, since it is in consciousness that the body is experienced and not vice versa.

Subsequently, this causes doubt, or fear, that “you” even exist (simply because you associate exclusively with a body).

Therefore, to reinforce and maximize existence, you have come to rely almost exclusively on ‘perception,’ and the body’s capacity for ‘sensing’ a world, to provide you “knowledge” of who and what you are. Rarely do you consider that this “knowledge” is actually provided by yourself to yourself within consciousness through your own self-concept. A self-concept that also defines life as primarily of the body, while being solely contained in consciousness.

You conduct your 'existence' as if nothing enters your mind that has not in some way come to you through the body. Even that which may enter consciousness completely devoid of bodily mediation is rationalized to conform to bodily sensation. This is why so much is poorly interpreted and that which somehow sneaks past bodily mediation (sensation) is then defined as "mystical."

Christ Consciousness is concerned with knowledge that is not mediated by the body, but that does not negate or deny the body, nor the ‘self,’ but includes it within the whole. This is what the majority of "non-dualists" struggle with, in their desire to experience non-dualism by negating the experiences of ego-self, body and world.

Christ Consciousness is merely the realization that perception is nothing more than an outward projection 'within' consciousness that is not external to consciousness, as there is no division to mind. In fact, in this sense we could say that mind does not exist, since there is no split between an inside or an outside (mind/body) to the experience of “you.”

Christ Consciousness is the realization that you are your world, but also that your world is you. No projected split can occur and this is the delusion of a separate self seeking self-maximization by reinforcing the boundaries delineating it.

Christ Consciousness is a unified “Trinity” in which no part is subordinate to, or in contrast with, any other part. This was the message of “I and the father are one.” Yet, this does not deny an origin or source, but includes all as joined with that indivisibility.

There is really only one indication of Christ Consciousness and that is a complete cessation of fear.

Fear identifies with the dualistic conflict of disunity, but is actually the manufacturing of contrasting parts, seeking to idolize some parts over others. This creates dualistic levels and degrees to a 'reality,' in which some parts are feared, while others are made sacred and we are often confused between what is to be feared and what to be idolized.

Christ Consciousness perceives neither sacred nor profane, because there is neither fear nor idolatry of any parts. However, the recognition of Chris Consciousness is realized through another and this is the most difficult part for ego-self to accept.

Nevertheless, it does not require the physical presence of another and could even be the memory or image of another (since any such contrast between real and illusionary is egoically delusional). However, it does require that you 'see' your ‘self’ as not separate from another and this is only possible when you do not assign or apply any purpose to another whatsoever.

When they no longer need conform to a purpose you have determined, contrasts dissolve between you and an instant equality emerges naturally, without need of any capacity for judgment.

Yet, this is fearful to an ego-self that knows itself through the manufacture of delusional contrasts and value hierarchies, which it employs to inflate or aggrandize itself as ‘existing’ through exclusive boundaries. To experience a complete lack of contrast is often referred to as an experience of non-duality and it is without fear on any level or degree. This is what some refer to as “perfect peace” and, through a complete absence of conflict/fear, Christ Consciousness is realized as the extension of being in mind and not the projection of ‘self’ in consciousness.

(of course, this is all just theoretical metaphysics and has no resemblance to 'reality')

Hahaa!
mikeS

You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack

You may find yourself in another part of the world

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile

You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

You may ask yourself; Well...How did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by/water flowing underground

Into the blue again/after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground

You may ask yourself

How do I work this?

You may ask yourself

Where is that large automobile?

You may tell yourself

This is not my beautiful house!

You may tell yourself

This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by/water flowing underground

Into the blue again/after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...

(Talking Heads)

Defining Death Denies Life and Demands Sacrifice

The Jesus myth is pervasive to all cultures and this is why all cultures revere a 'person,' as serving up salvation, and miss the message that until you die to your definition of "death," living must elude you and therefore, you will die in exactly the way you define life....as eventually ending.

Well, heck, if "Jesus" is nothing but a conceptualization of your mind, then he did not suffer on the cross, YOU DID.... and most likely still do.

The concept of Jesus is the distraction just as the concept of Buddha is nothing but a distraction. It is the message that is supposed to save the suffering mind. But we miss the message and therefore, fail to live it. These "people" never existed, but then neither do "you." (I can't help it that you presently 'believe' you exist, but I imagine we all will eventually replace that distorted interpretation for something more equivalent to "truthiness").

This is something we have in common with the atheist. Only the atheist completely runs from the archetypic message, while we simply twist and distort it.

Savior myths/stories comparable to "Jesus" have been found in numerous ancient civilizations long before the Christians ever adopted it (remember Gilgamesh?). Most likely each civilization tailored the archetype to conform to its own cultural power structures (recall that Buddhism and Christianity went through numerous revisionistic councils until the approved stories were finally given to us in all their distorted glory).

The sacrifice that the cross symbolizes is played out day after day in our modern world. Note that, ironically, Christianity employs the symbol of death (cross) as primary to symbolic resurrection. Nevertheless, resurrection eludes us, since we believe we have not yet suffered enough. It seems we have learned nothing from the archetype but that it is a myth of supernatural and, thus, unattainable proportions for us mortal, weak and feeble humans. So, onward christian soldiers...rejoice in your suffering! Yet, never fear, one day we will all come down from the cross.

No wonder we chose to worship the personae, rather than live the message!

We have been stuffed with 'sacred' sacrifices until we are ready to burst and I suppose that when we do finally burst we will immediately recognize that all our seeking of purpose through suffering has been for naught. No sacrifice is necessary.

Nevertheless, even if you see it as a myth, in recognition that there was no Jesus or Buddha, it is a myth that evidently has been deemed to serve the betterment of humanity. Yet, the primordial problem is, why would humanity adopt resurrection when it has become so utterly fascinated with sacrifice?

Resurrection certainly seems to be the ultimate purpose of the savior myth. Yet, in 2000 yrs of idolizing the myth as 'true,' have we seen any tangible results, individually or collectively? Seems a bit of a time-waster, if you ask me.

"But, based on the "resurrection," didn't Jesus showed that that there is no death?"

Well...not exactly.

The real message we tend to miss is that Jesus was dead before he was nailed to the cross. And so are we, until we accept that our sacrifices are not longer necessary and we finally take the nails out from our hands (symbolically speaking, of course).

The resurrection symbolized rebirth not that "there is no death." This might seem insignificant, however, "no death" and rebirth are conceptually different. Therefore, you may 'die,' but you probably won't 'end' and this redefines the concept of death, because for most of us it symbolizes an ending to life and that's why we live our lives consistently vigilant in thwarting death. Our definition of the end of life (death) keep us consistently in fear. Thus, a life lived in fear is NO life at all.

If life is death, and that was the one and only message of the sacrifice, until you 'die' to your definition of death, you have yet to LIVE.

Jesus resurrected in order to prove there is no death and we need to stop living as if there were. But note that he didn't hang around too long afterward and many continue to expectantly await his return. (I suppose heaven is a bit too irresistible!)

Of course, return is imminent. Yet, contrary to popular opinion, it will be the return of a 'state of mind' and not a person of human form. Your resurrection is formless and of no substance, because your mind is that and when you completely join with formless and substanceless mind you will finally live free of bodily limitation. This is because, regardless of the U.S. constitution's proclamation of your inalienable rights and inherent freedoms, until the body no longer enslaves the mind, YOU ARE A PRISONER. This essentially means YOU ARE DEAD.

That's because, as most convicts will proclaim, living in prison is no life at all.