01-09-2013, 10:06 PM
It's interesting that looking back one can see how aversions and desires lead to catalyst. As a teenager in the 90's my suffering was a result of, like many, interaction with peers with a strong desire of, and from, the opposite sex. My craving was always for the body to be attractive, yet paradoxically I had a deep fear of and aversion to being vulnerable sexually. It was a constant pull/push growing up that left me unfulfilled and others confused. When others had enough of the rejection, I felt I had to make up for it to recover their attention.
This craving and aversion push/pull lead to my most serious problems I encountered thereafter. I went through anorexia as a 14 year old thinking I needed a better body to attract, and after recovering, then taking drugs/parties etc to be 'cool'. After high school I moved out of home while going to university, and living with a guy who sold drugs in a highly fear based environment - it was heavy. Needless to say I abused a lot of weed and alchohol, with some episodes of speed that covered up the fear.
Then one day when I was 19, the house was empty and I was actually sober. I had an intense feeling/message for immediate change from this very externally-orientated, fearful, intoxicating environment. I looked at myself in the mirror and halucinated whereby I saw my face as being an anceint old man with half his skull caved out and scars all over - he was tired and battle weary. I thought 'My god is that my soul'?? I had an intense feeling/message to contact my Dad for help and that this request had to be before midnight on this particular day - I simply knew the choice to contact or not would have a dramatic effect on my life path. And I did contact him with about 10 minutes to spare. This was a major cross-roads where I definately had two paths on offer...
After that day, suffering from mild paranoid schizophenia my parents offered intensive energetic healing for about 2 weeks, at their home cut off from the world, where that's all I did and stayed at home quietly being/healing/meditating. Then the schizophenia left after a commitment to letting go of all old ideas about me, acknowledging that what my head as telling me was an old pattern of unsubstantial reality, and embraced giving love to others - despite my mind feeding me an intense fantasy/paranoia storyline at the same time that was very hard to disengage from, for a period of time.
After months of meditating and healing completely, that's when I felt an impulse to just start writing in that exact moment. I looked over and there was some paper and a pen. So I auto-wrote a text, very fluently with no thought, just the next word popping into my head to be written. Never been able to do it since, but haven't really tried or been inclined to. That text has been a guiding force in my life for the 17 years since then to refer to and is special to me. In April 2012 I created a short animation video from the text for my children to understand this simple philosophy call 'The Shell - The Release'. You can check on You Tube - watch?v=0IhR-EX3GSU. I think it relates very closely to the Law of One and when I found the Ra Material and the Q'uo/Aaron material it resonated very much for me. From the time I wrote this I have always had a pressure in my third eye charkra that comes and goes, which I take as some sort of activation.
After many years of casual meditation, career development and 'normal life' with family and kids, I found 2012 to be an amazing year of fast forward spiritual growth. Very syncronistically I discovered the Ra Material in the first half of the year, studying it along with the teaching of Advaita Verdanta and A Course in Miracles - all working off one another in a beautiful symphony of truth within. Then towards the end of the year, I decided to do a 10 day intensive Buddhist Vipassana meditation retreat whereby I had an experience late in the course that I only found out later was described by Q'uo in a session.
As some background I found that Vipassana offers a condensed microcosm of experience in transcending 3rd density condtioned thought-form. At these 10 day intensives, one is required to meditate for 10-11 hours a day, with no speaking at all, minimal vegan food, and no interaction with others. When in meditation after the anticipation of the first day has worn off, the mind really wants to escape. You sit there following the technique in silence hour after hour, and the conditioned mind resists. The mind - when it wants out, it wants out now! However there is no option for this, that option is cut off deliberately by the Vipassana teachers and course designers. So you then realise you have another option. To simply observe this tendancy and observe it come and go, come and go. And it does and peace comes as you remain in pure consciousness. When resistance comes you can observe it, from an awareness beyond egoic mind where there isn't any resistance at all. But you notice that if you do identify with the mind and resist, the suffering stays. It doesn't move. Then on the 4th day they introduce 3 x 1 hour intensives of absolutely no movement. None! Then the physical pain crops up, screaming for movement. But again you just observe it, it comes and goes, comes and goes. You remain as you are. You notice again if you resist in the mind with aversion to pain, the pain remains and intensifies! In resistance the pain becomes unbearable as the pain is not only in the body but also in the mind. But observe the resistance and accept moving consciousness into the pain, observing it detached, you observe its unreality. First the pain halves as the mind's half is gone, and then over time often it dissappears physically.
Then as the course progressed into the second half, many pleasurable experiences came and went. It was vitally important to remain simply aware of them, but not to crave them once you notice they are not there. To remain equanimous. To enter into craving would be to succumb to the patterns of suffering.
Finally on the 8th day I had this amazing experience that Q'uo described in a podcast I found. During meditation on this 8th day a light being with no features releating to the 5 senses was evident, just a light humanoid shape (maybe for my benefit) silent, but fully aware. I knew it was completely aware of every molecule in the universe, but with absolutely no reaction to any of it, and a presence of profound peace. This being meditated with me and as it did, my sence of presence increased ten-fold. At then end of this particular session, I saw a vision of a lotus flower unfolding in my heart.
In the 2005/06 Sunday Meditations incarnations veiwed from time/space, Q'uo mentioned that the higher self is simply one's 6th density being before retuning to the fold of the One Infitinte Creator revisiting itself in all densities in one final act of remembering and gifting itself in time/space on its path to unity through density. I believe this being was my higher self in 6th density assisting me in time/space to release the conditioned mind, so that I can naturally express service to others with love, and without fear or sense of separateness, and thereby aid in my graduation from 3rd density.
What a year is all I can say! Now I can observe any craving/aversion as a figment of the egoic mind, without identity or reaction, and what a release that is!! Onward and Upward!
This craving and aversion push/pull lead to my most serious problems I encountered thereafter. I went through anorexia as a 14 year old thinking I needed a better body to attract, and after recovering, then taking drugs/parties etc to be 'cool'. After high school I moved out of home while going to university, and living with a guy who sold drugs in a highly fear based environment - it was heavy. Needless to say I abused a lot of weed and alchohol, with some episodes of speed that covered up the fear.
Then one day when I was 19, the house was empty and I was actually sober. I had an intense feeling/message for immediate change from this very externally-orientated, fearful, intoxicating environment. I looked at myself in the mirror and halucinated whereby I saw my face as being an anceint old man with half his skull caved out and scars all over - he was tired and battle weary. I thought 'My god is that my soul'?? I had an intense feeling/message to contact my Dad for help and that this request had to be before midnight on this particular day - I simply knew the choice to contact or not would have a dramatic effect on my life path. And I did contact him with about 10 minutes to spare. This was a major cross-roads where I definately had two paths on offer...
After that day, suffering from mild paranoid schizophenia my parents offered intensive energetic healing for about 2 weeks, at their home cut off from the world, where that's all I did and stayed at home quietly being/healing/meditating. Then the schizophenia left after a commitment to letting go of all old ideas about me, acknowledging that what my head as telling me was an old pattern of unsubstantial reality, and embraced giving love to others - despite my mind feeding me an intense fantasy/paranoia storyline at the same time that was very hard to disengage from, for a period of time.
After months of meditating and healing completely, that's when I felt an impulse to just start writing in that exact moment. I looked over and there was some paper and a pen. So I auto-wrote a text, very fluently with no thought, just the next word popping into my head to be written. Never been able to do it since, but haven't really tried or been inclined to. That text has been a guiding force in my life for the 17 years since then to refer to and is special to me. In April 2012 I created a short animation video from the text for my children to understand this simple philosophy call 'The Shell - The Release'. You can check on You Tube - watch?v=0IhR-EX3GSU. I think it relates very closely to the Law of One and when I found the Ra Material and the Q'uo/Aaron material it resonated very much for me. From the time I wrote this I have always had a pressure in my third eye charkra that comes and goes, which I take as some sort of activation.
After many years of casual meditation, career development and 'normal life' with family and kids, I found 2012 to be an amazing year of fast forward spiritual growth. Very syncronistically I discovered the Ra Material in the first half of the year, studying it along with the teaching of Advaita Verdanta and A Course in Miracles - all working off one another in a beautiful symphony of truth within. Then towards the end of the year, I decided to do a 10 day intensive Buddhist Vipassana meditation retreat whereby I had an experience late in the course that I only found out later was described by Q'uo in a session.
As some background I found that Vipassana offers a condensed microcosm of experience in transcending 3rd density condtioned thought-form. At these 10 day intensives, one is required to meditate for 10-11 hours a day, with no speaking at all, minimal vegan food, and no interaction with others. When in meditation after the anticipation of the first day has worn off, the mind really wants to escape. You sit there following the technique in silence hour after hour, and the conditioned mind resists. The mind - when it wants out, it wants out now! However there is no option for this, that option is cut off deliberately by the Vipassana teachers and course designers. So you then realise you have another option. To simply observe this tendancy and observe it come and go, come and go. And it does and peace comes as you remain in pure consciousness. When resistance comes you can observe it, from an awareness beyond egoic mind where there isn't any resistance at all. But you notice that if you do identify with the mind and resist, the suffering stays. It doesn't move. Then on the 4th day they introduce 3 x 1 hour intensives of absolutely no movement. None! Then the physical pain crops up, screaming for movement. But again you just observe it, it comes and goes, comes and goes. You remain as you are. You notice again if you resist in the mind with aversion to pain, the pain remains and intensifies! In resistance the pain becomes unbearable as the pain is not only in the body but also in the mind. But observe the resistance and accept moving consciousness into the pain, observing it detached, you observe its unreality. First the pain halves as the mind's half is gone, and then over time often it dissappears physically.
Then as the course progressed into the second half, many pleasurable experiences came and went. It was vitally important to remain simply aware of them, but not to crave them once you notice they are not there. To remain equanimous. To enter into craving would be to succumb to the patterns of suffering.
Finally on the 8th day I had this amazing experience that Q'uo described in a podcast I found. During meditation on this 8th day a light being with no features releating to the 5 senses was evident, just a light humanoid shape (maybe for my benefit) silent, but fully aware. I knew it was completely aware of every molecule in the universe, but with absolutely no reaction to any of it, and a presence of profound peace. This being meditated with me and as it did, my sence of presence increased ten-fold. At then end of this particular session, I saw a vision of a lotus flower unfolding in my heart.
In the 2005/06 Sunday Meditations incarnations veiwed from time/space, Q'uo mentioned that the higher self is simply one's 6th density being before retuning to the fold of the One Infitinte Creator revisiting itself in all densities in one final act of remembering and gifting itself in time/space on its path to unity through density. I believe this being was my higher self in 6th density assisting me in time/space to release the conditioned mind, so that I can naturally express service to others with love, and without fear or sense of separateness, and thereby aid in my graduation from 3rd density.
What a year is all I can say! Now I can observe any craving/aversion as a figment of the egoic mind, without identity or reaction, and what a release that is!! Onward and Upward!