I Didn't Do It, I Did: A Conversation with Consciousness a Roadmap to Truth
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I Didn't Do It, I Did: A Conversation with Consciousness a Roadmap to Truth
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Overview
This Truth is not new. Every Illumined Individual throughout the ages has discovered It. Religions have been built on It. For most of us, though, the Promise of sustained Harmony and Happiness is lost to the bubble time and time again. Why the Truth retreats and how we can contact It again is the subject of this book.
In a deeply revealing conversation between human consciousness and Spiritual Consciousness, answers to questions such as "what am i doing here?" and "why am i in this body?" are explored. Ancient teachings are dusted off, linked together, and made more available and relevant. Our core assumptions, beliefs, values and objectives are profoundly challenged. However, if we are willing, Truth takes us by the hand and leads us to a higher Understanding where True Hope is offered in an increasingly chaotic, despairing and dangerous world.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781504309851 |
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| Publisher: | Balboa Press AU |
| Publication date: | 02/23/2018 |
| Pages: | 322 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d) |
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CHAPTER 1
i is for intellect
What am i doing here? Why am i in this body?
you've been asking those questions for a long time.
Ever since i can remember.
Getting any answers?
Most people i ask are busy, or look at me sideways and change the subject. Then something told me to ask and wait.
That "something" was your Intuition.
Then maybe it can answer me. What am i doing here? And, why am i in this body?
you are discovering what You are not.
What do You mean? i want to discover what i am, not what i am "not"!
you will discover that too, but trying to discover what-You-are hasn't worked very well so far.
How come?
Because what-You-are-not has been blocking the way to the Realization of who You Really are. you block the way when you ask "what am i doing here?" because it's the little "i" asking the question. And by asking, this "i" has unknowingly put up a wall between you and your goal of finding the Real You and your Purpose for being here.
i don't understand.
Don't worry, I don't expect you to yet. We will get to it.
The first point is to realize that "i" is the identity that we, as human beings, have unwittingly adopted. Unfortunately, this adoption has prevented us from Knowing our True Self.
If i am not my True Self, who is the Real me?
The Real You Is Me, the One you are Listening to Now through your Intuition.
my Intuition is the Real me?
Not your Intuition, but Its Source.
Why haven't i discovered this fact sooner?
Because, before now, it hasn't occurred to you to question who you are.
The "i" asking these questions is the only self you know. Consequently, this little i's first instinct when it is told that the Real You is Me is to doubt the Idea. But doubt doesn't change the Truth.
doubt doesn't change what Truth?
The Truth that I Am Your True Identity. More importantly, the Truth that I Am Permanent and Perfect. And if I Am Permanent and Perfect and I Am You, You are Permanent and Perfect.
You're right. i do doubt that. In fact, i totally reject it!
doubt and rejection are natural reactions because you look to your imperfect and impermanent world to provide answers that only Truth can verify.
Why can't the world provide the answers?
Because the world is a product of your unconscious rejection of the Ideas of Permanence and Perfection. Not only does this circular thought exclude Truth, it keeps what you think is an imperfect and impermanent "you" within its temporary and intrinsically flawed boundary. Think about it. From your position in what you see as a finite and uncertain world, could you ever accept that Permanence and Perfection are Real? Or, rather, that there could be an Infinite Source of Renewal and Replenishment of the world that Is Permanent and Perfect? Could you pick up from your material existence in the world that My Timeless Presence has actually been accompanying you through life, walking ahead of you making the crooked road straight, and Lovingly Providing for your every need?
No, the world doesn't tell me that. i haven't noticed You there. Actually, i would argue that if You have been providing for me You haven't done a very good job.
As you will come to See, it's not for Me to push My Self on you. you have free-will to focus on the world of matter for its own sake and see it as lacking. But this is why you keep the door to the Consciousness that you are Really Me securely locked and all My Benefits at bay.
It sounds rather counter-productive. Can't i open the door?
you can but you won't because the wider the door opens the more the little i disappears.
i don't want to lose my self. i don't want to disappear.
That's why we must go slowly. Even though you are now curious about what's behind the door, your fear of losing your self becomes the gatekeeper that prevents you from fully opening the door.
Eventually, however, you will push the gatekeeper aside and discover that your fear was totally unfounded, for the door of your Consciousness is your own Mind, and It is not scary. Besides, only through It are you able to discover that I Am your only Hope, in Fact, everyone's only Hope of lasting Peace, Safety, Health, Prosperity and Happiness.
I will lead you along. It's enough that you are taking steps towards letting My Influence direct the Mind.
What has been directing it up to now?
your intellect. Quite understandably, you have come to rely on the intellect to protect and defend this imperfect and impermanent, fearful "you". it encourages you to devise ways to get what you need and want, or avoid being affected by the world's many perceived failings; its diseases, tragedies and lacks.
You say that like it's not necessary.
your lack of Consciousness makes it necessary, for the intellect does not have the foresight to know that the Real You already Has what you need, and these "failings" are misperceptions "caused" by your mistaken identity's belief in failings. Unaware of any alternative, you listen to the intellect and let it lead you down a blind alley to believe that you are deprived, alone and vulnerable in a dangerous and arbitrary world.
This is not so, but while the intellect monopolizes the Mind, you are trapped in this total misrepresentation of Truth. For without Truth to Guide it, the intellect cannot Know about, and therefore cannot accept, an extra dimension that Reveals Permanent Harmony. I Am this extra dimension. And, as you will discover, this dimension is not really "extra" but the only dimension. When you become Aware or Conscious of Me, I uncover the Truth that you are not the insecure physical being you think you are at all. you are never deprived or alone, and you are always Safe.
Until you get to Know Me, though, the activity of the intellect effectively hides Me and forms an impenetrable bubble around you that you know as your physical universe, the universe you depend on, despite feeling insecure.
* * *
The intellect hides You? How does it do that?
The intellect can hide Me when you don't know what the Mind is Really for or how to use It correctly. We will explore this topic later at length, but it is appropriate and important for you to Know now that your Mind is My Mind, and It Is the control-tower of the perception you call the physical universe. Without Consciousness of this Fact, your universe is like a ship without a captain. The intellect, unqualified, but believing it has the skills, marches onto the control-tower and starts steering the ship of the universe with thoughts based on your sensory view of that same universe.
Not knowing that you have rejected the Truth and shut My Safety out, you trust this brazen pseudo-leader and follow its directions. Buoyed by its confidence, you are carried along, completely oblivious that you are being led into stormy weather. Basing its expectations on past experience, the intellect justifies worry and appoints you and your anxious thought to take over the helm on its way to a series of tragic wrecks ending in death.
Why do i let it do that?
you don't know any better. While you lack Consciousness of Me, you unwittingly allow the intellect to run your life. Needing a mind through which to think and a body through which to act, you ignorantly offer your self. This involuntary relationship has gone on for so long that you don't even realize you are being manipulated. Like a puppet-master and his puppet, the intellect pulls the strings and you automatically jump. From your position, you don't see the strings, so you believe you thought of the jumping all by yourself. In this way, the intellect's sense-generated thoughts have become integral to who you think you are.
The philosopher Descartes was right when he said;
"i think, therefore i am."
What you think about determines the tone of your existence and who you think you are. But there's more. For it is equally true that you must have existed before you could think. And if you don't objectively examine the nature of the i that thinks, your thought processes shrink down to the narrow range dictated by the intellect and become distorted as a result. you think about what you think about because you don't know you are the puppet of the intellect.
So who i think i am determines what i think about just as much as thinking determines who i am?
Yes. It's circular.
How do i escape the circle?
There is a way. What i thinks about exposes its circular thought-process and shines a light on you, the thinker. Stop, then, and consider what it is you think about. Not the subject-matter, but under the surface to the thought that shapes all other thought. Then we will have something to work with.
What is this thought?
Deep down at the core of your mind is the universal assumption that you are "in" a particular body. your initial question "why am i in this body?" demonstrates this tightly held conviction. In fact, it is part of the unscrutinized foundation of your identity.
i never really thought about it?
you see? And that's the problem, because "thinking" becomes an adjunct to the body and limited by that very thought. Now what if you could discover that you were never "in" any body? What would that do to the thinker and its thought about who it is?
Wait a minute — i am not in a body?
It certainly feels like you get around this world in your physical body.
you see with your eyes, hear with your ears, touch with your hands, taste with your tongue, smell with your nose, and think with your brain. you and your body live together. But the belief that you can't live without your body is up-side-down, for the body can't live without you,
What are You implying?
The idea that you are "in" your body means you don't look under the assumption you have made. you don't see that this is how the intellect maintains its control. it needs you to depend on and associate this container with your existence, which in turn guarantees its existence. But look what you have signed up for. Doesn't "my body" and "me" form a progressively unsatisfactory and morbid alliance? When my body needs food, i amhungry; when my body needs rest, i am tired; when my body gets a disease, i am sick; when my body has an accident, i am injured; when my body ages, i am old; and, when my body fades away, i die."
That's just the way it is.
This way is the consequence of associating your "self" with a temporary and flawed container. Not only are you trapped in the prison of a failing body, all your ideas about life are built on a false assumption. By allowing this fatalistic thought, you have made your self subject to a self-imposed grim and foreboding future. Instead, wouldn't it be great to Know that You are the Captain of a perpetually Inspiring, Peaceful and Joyous Universe? The Real You is not dependent on an unpredictable and harsh universe for Its existence, it's the other way around. The Universe is dependent on You, and Its appearance becomes dependable as a result! As a further consequence, when you become Aware of the Truth, the intellect loses the foolish little i that carried its limited and limiting beliefs. Suddenly you are Free, because there is no i to be hungry, tired, sick, injured, old or dead.
* * *
But the body does get hungry, tired, sick, injured, old and dies!
The body can't do anything in isolation from Me.
Then it must be my mind that tells my body it is these things.
The mind can't do anything of its own accord either. The mind is your instrument of consciousness, the consciousness that doesn't know that I, the Real You, Governs the Mind, the Body and the Universe in Permanent and Perfect working order.
But it's irrational to make that assertion.
When you depend on material evidence alone, it certainly is irrational to contradict it. But what if I told you that your rejection of Me altered the perception of the world you count on to tell you the truth? Wouldn't your accusation of irrationality be misdirected?
It would if that was possible.
It seems impossible because "physical evidence" is the product of the intellectual rejection of Me that precedes the physically evident reason to reject Me. i, the intellect's puppet, is therefore not in a position to discern that its assumptions are skewed. it can't know that it has used the control tower of the mind to make its assumptions appear true. Indeed, the intellect would never concede that its assumptions are assumptions. To the intellect, they are absolutely true! In turn, i, the puppet, has no choice but to accept that it has little control of its ultimate fate. If it is lucky enough to escape death by injury, hardship or negligence, in the end, it will deteriorate into old-age, succumb to sickness and die because its body will follow this pattern.
i can accept that i die because the body doesn't last forever, but why would the intellect tell the mind and body to be sick? i don't want to be sick.
Of course not, but the intellect doesn't believe it is possible to be Permanently Well, therefore sickness becomes a universally accepted belief that lurks in the dark corridors of your mind waiting to link arms with the belief that you are vulnerable.
Surely a belief can't make me sick?
When we examine how the Mind works, we will discover that this is the only thing that can make us, the believer, sick.
But you should know that it is not only your health that is affected. This outright rejection of Permanence and Perfection extends to, and accounts for, every other discord of your experience. it "causes" accident, poverty, crime, injustice, tyranny and tragedy, just to name a few.
i feel like a victim.
you are, of your intellect.
* * *
So my intellect and i are closely related.
The intellect is synonymous with humanity, collectively and individually. i, the "me" of us all, is a product of intellectual thought produced by lack of Consciousness of Me and My Permanence and Perfection.
But i thought my intellect was my consciousness. Certainly i am conscious of some things.
Sure, but your definition of "consciousness" is limited to the intellect who says consciousness depends on you being awake. your dictionary says the word "conscious" is to be;
"aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc".
This definition only applies to your waking hours, and you will note, your waking hours happen to be the only time the intellect functions as the "conscious" you. you don't have a definition for a greater Consciousness, because the intellect has no access to what it means to be more Conscious than its understanding of what it means to be "awake", and, therefore, has little use for such a definition.
Yet while we are asleep, there is "something" that is Awake or Conscious; our bodies manage to turn over a few times, our bladder holds, our stomach digests, our lungs breathe, our heart beats, and our brain synapses, all while maintaining an even 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). So it seems that our bodies function very well without our "conscious" awareness, without the intellect.
Doesn't the body do these things on its own?
The body's arm can't lift itself. Nor can your legs decide to walk by themselves. Yet we think the heart, the lungs, and the myriad of other miraculous bodily functions work automatically and autonomously. It's inconsistent thinking. we haven't thought it through. Clearly, there must be something else going on that the intellect is incapable of Understanding or considering. Though now we should Notice that the intellect doesn't include this "something else" in its definition of consciousness, yet we Trust this "something else" to look after our bodies while we sleep and to wake us up in the morning. This "something else" is Consciousness, and we should distinguish it with an upper-case "C" because It makes our awake-consciousness unconscious by comparison.
Is this Consciousness only active when we sleep?
Not at all. But sleep, a state of unconsciousness by i's standard, allows this Consciousness to do its job without any interruptions from the socalled "conscious" us. Once we wake up and become "conscious", we forget this Trust. Worse, we immediately begin to override the Trust with our daily worries and concerns until we put our head on the pillow again the next night.
i must say, i do feel better after a good uninterrupted sleep, and i feel irritable if i don't sleep.
(Continues…)
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Table of Contents
Dedication, vii,
Don't skip this bit, ix,
How this book came about, xi,
Acknowledgements, xv,
Part 1 – What We are not,
Chapter 1: i is for intellect, 1,
Chapter 2: i is for ignorance of Truth, 13,
Chapter 3: i is for in a body, 28,
Chapter 4: i is for ill-informed, 39,
Chapter 5: i is for in fear, 47,
Chapter 6: i is for inconsistency, 59,
Part 2 – Discerning what is not from what Is,
Chapter 7: i is for incorrect use of the Mind, 69,
Chapter 8: i is for illusion of separateness, 77,
Chapter 9: i is for immersed in duality, 90,
Chapter 10: i is for inevitable, 99,
Part 3 – Why we don't deactivate i, and how we can,
Chapter 11: i is for in doubt of Truth, 129,
Chapter 12: i is for incorrect identification, 143,
Chapter 13: i is for incremental, 155,
Chapter 14: i is for immoral, 175,
Chapter 15: i is for injustice, 197,
Part 4 – Conscious Trust,
Chapter 16: i is for insecure, 211,
Chapter 17: i is for illness, 228,
Chapter 18: i is for impoverished, 254,
Chapter 19: i is for isolated, 270,
Chapter 20: I is for Illumination, 278,
Glossary of Terms, 285,
Bibliography, 289,
Index, 293,
Reader's guide, 299,