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The Spiritual Journey as Expression

           Lately in these articles it has been explained that the spiritual journey isn’t from truth or to truth but is the effect on ego (I, me) and the person of truth rising to conscious awareness. It is an expression rather than an aspirational journey for a soul (disembodied ego). Truth rises to conscious awareness and one finds themselves on a journey of personal and spiritual growth. In most cases, one seeks validation of their experiences in spiritual teachings that are already around. In rare cases, one is moved to bring forth a new spiritual teaching or practice or religion. Some have expressed confusion about this, so an analogy arose in this mind, and clients have found it helpful. Imagine the ocean, vast and deep and powerful and seeming never-ending. On the surface of the ocean is the usual debris, plant material from shores, like palm fronds and coconuts; items that have fallen off boats, like rope and seat cushions; plastics and other hu...
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The 4 Habits for Inner Peace are Validated

           Sometimes I’m asked by clients, considering what I now see and know since the shift in consciousness, looking back to before the shift, are there practices that I had then that prepared me or that I would now encourage in others given what I know now? Even before the shift, the practice that I had was not a recognized practice for me, but behavior that arose spontaneously. It was so natural I did not think of it as having a practice . The 4 Habits for Inner Peace that became a book and suggested practice for readers and clients came about when clients asked what I did to stay at peace. I had to think about it because they were natural habits for me, not something I set out to do. I now understand that they were the effect of truth rising to conscious awareness in this mind. (They were also a consolidation of suggested practices from A Course in Miracles .) In fact, I’m often surprised looking back how much truth was here and how this mind’s p...
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Where Truth Comes

            This is an attempt to explain something that perhaps can’t be explained. It is in response to those who are disappointed in teachers they expect to be enlightened and discover them to be just people, moreover, people who sometimes do the crappy things that people do. Expecting an enlightened teacher indicates the person with the expectation does not understand what enlightenment is. It means they would be surprised to find out for themselves what it is if it happened to them. In fact, it often does and they miss it! Often in these pages it is stated that “When truth (peace, love, oneness, etc.) comes to conscious awareness it does not come to the person or ego.” Also, “There is no such thing as an enlightened person.” This is saying the same thing. This is what is hard to describe: When truth (pure consciousness) comes to conscious awareness it comes to, well, conscious awareness, not to the person or ego. The person and ego are only appeara...
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All Lack is Ego, An Illusion

           Once upon a time it was mistakenly thought here that the longing one has for fulfillment or love or perpetual happiness or to find oneself is truth longing for truth. But, this cannot be so because truth is whole and it is never not truth, meaning, it is always whole. All lack (need or want) is a false idea, ego, appearing. Ego is a condition of perpetual lack and fear. It is never fulfilled. It is meant to be this because it is the idea of not-truth, or not-wholeness. Some clients and readers will say, “I have this peace with me, I feel I will always be okay, that all is always good, but…I still sometimes doubt, I still get angry, I still get afraid, I sometimes feel lack, etc.” These are two different things in conscious awareness, not one thing slipping from wholeness to lack. The wholeness is real. It is what consciousness is. The doubt and fear and lack are ego; they are the illusion. Wholeness and lack never join, so ego’s sense of lack ...
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Being Conscious

             For over seven years now, since The Break when the ontological aspect of ego, the experience of ego as a being, the “I”, which was conflated with the person, fell away in a moment, the psychological ego, the ego thought system, has been falling away in a process. This started off as very dark and uncomfortable, disorienting, and unclear. It eventually became obvious that what was occurring was the ego thought system was rising fully to conscious awareness before falling away. It was as though ego was a tree which had been slowly chopped down since the enlightened mind (pure consciousness) came to stay in conscious awareness seven years before The Break, and since The Break what has been occurring is the stump and roots have been pulled out, bringing it all to the surface to be disposed of. In time, the intensity of the darkness and discomfort eased off a bit and later in larger chunks. During that time, there was a curious experience tha...
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Seeing the Expression

            Since the shift in consciousness here, there has been a 180-degree turn in understanding what is unfolding in consciousness—what the experience of a person and a world is. It used to be seen as an aspirational journey, an attempt for an “I” (ego) to get somewhere or to attain something, either personally or spiritually. Now it is seen that what is appearing in consciousness is an expression of ideas that have already occurred. What look like personal journeys and attainments are how these ideas are expressed. There is no one here who needs to get anywhere, to make anything, or to attain anything. The idea that that was real is an illusion. What is an expression ? It is a process of revealing , representing or depicting ideas. A painting is an expression of ideas in the painter’s mind. A novel is an expression of ideas in a writer’s mind. A movie is an expression of ideas in the minds of writers, producers, directors, and actors. Ideas oc...
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Facing Illusions Does Not Lead to Enlightenment

              Last week’s article had this paragraph:   “There is a difference between the illusions of ego and the illusion that is ego. If you become aware that ego is an illusion, you will become aware of ego’s illusions as well. But becoming aware of ego’s illusions does not lead to becoming aware that ego is an illusion. Ego can be taught to see its illusions. But ego cannot be taught to see that it is an illusion. That awareness comes only when truth (pure consciousness) rises to conscious awareness, which it does of itself. This is not something that ego can make happen. And the awareness does not come to ego. Ego only senses that there is something else in consciousness and claims it for itself, which is how it makes its religions and spiritualities.”   Let’s unpack this. What are the illusions of ego that ego can come to see? These illusions are what one faces throughout life to some degree. These are not just opinions and...
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