WHO AM I? REALLY? TELL THE TRUTH!

What does it mean to AWAKEN and remember WHO WE ARE? I’ve been going through this process for YEARS and every day brings deeper and more profound understanding of what this means. Simply stated, Awakening is the process by which we recognize our Conditioned Personality Self (the EGO SELF) as a GRAND ILLUSION and remember the “I AM” presence as the TRUTH of who we are.

It’s new for all most all of us. And it’s certainly not something that happens over night. This experience is why we incarnated in this current time/space reality. If ANY of us had already mastered this KNOWING and living as our TRUE SELF, there would be no need for our Consciousness to experience the contrast available here on Earth.

We are all here to WAKE UP and REMEMBER that we have NEVER been separated from the Truth of ourselves. We are ONE, PURE EXISTENCE of BEING. We are PURE AWARENESS. The “I AM” presence. The subjective experiences of our awareness (I am woman, I am angry, I am fearful, I am Muslim, I am a murdered, I am loving, etc.) are simply illusions or distortions of the “I AM.” We are AWARENESS having INFINITE subjective experiences of our Selves.

Our Earth experience, in particular, allows us to experience ourselves as Separate so that we may expand into a knowingness of ourselves as Connected—as ONE. No matter what any of us is subjectively experiencing ourselves as in any moment of NOW, we do so from the same point of reference: “I AM.” Whenever we are able to see through the veils of Illusion (the different subjective experiences that arise) and see only the objective Truth that connects us all, ALL conflict, disagreement, disconnection, separation, instantly fades away and only this Truth remains. When we experience ourselves from this state of being of Oneness, the only experience that can arise is that of Unity and love for all.

In order for this to make sense so that it really hits home, I should make clear what REALITY “really” is. Reality is nothing more, nothing less than what we Experience as “real.” In other words, The ONLY THING THAT EXISTS IS OUR EXPERIENCE. That is it! It seems like it should be much more complicated than that, but it’s not.

We’ve been lead to believe through the illusion of our perceptions that there is some objective material world that exists outside of ourselves. The limitations of our perceptions really makes it seem that there is something “out there,” but all that exists is our experience of an illusion. There is nothing “out there” there is only INTERNAL REALITY. It’s pretty easy to understand if you stop to think about it for a moment. When you pet your dog, you are having a subjective experience of yourself petting a dog. Regardless if there could be some “objective” dog, the ONLY aspect of the dog that can ever be “real” is the subjective interaction with the dog—our internal experience of the dog. The dog is either soft, mean, vicious, adorable, good, bad, etc. If one person sees the dog as threatening, while someone else can see the dog as lovable: What is “true” of the dog? It can only be lovable and vicious at the same time if what is true is the experience and not the dog itself. Nothing “exists” externally. These are all internal experiences. It’s impossible to conceive of an external experience, because the very nature of experience is that its subjective and internal.

When you touch a table, which seems very objectively “real” and separate, all you can EVER have is a subjective experience within yourself of the table. You experience it as hard, rough, cold, big, small, etc. IT’S ABSOLUTELY impossible for there EVER to be an objective reality because each and every one of us can only ever subjectively experience something. And we certainly can’t experience someone else’s experiences. So REALITY can only be understood as a subjective INTERNAL EXPERIENCE. NOTHING ELSE. EVER. Science can go on and on trying to understand the fundamentals of the material world, but all there can ever be is our internal experience of it.

Hence, REALITY is nothing more than the Experience of ourselves in different states of being, “I AM EXPERIENCING MYSELF AS “fill in the blank.” I am experience myself touching a dog. I am experiencing myself as learning something new. I am experiencing myself as insecure in a relationship. I am experiencing myself as unloved. I am experiencing myself as One with all things. This is the nature of Reality. The only thing “true” is the experience itself. We have different experiences and different perceptions but the experience is always TRUE for the individual. Its not possible to have a FALSE experience, because there is no objective Reality from which to judge. Therefore, we all share the TRUTH OF OUR OWN EXPERIENCE. What we share in common is the “I AM” that has experiences, and what’s unique is the subjective “state of being” that does the perceiving.

With this in mind, it’s easy to see how nothing can ever be False. All is TRUE from some perspective. Therefore, when we communicate with each other and interact all we ever need to do is seek to understand the true perspective of others. We may have a different perspectives, but all perspectives are true and valid, so there is nothing EVER with which to agree or disagree. We all share the SAME TRUTH of our experience.

This also makes it easier to understand what is meant by the phrase “We create our own reality.” It would be more accurate to say, “We create our own EXPERIENCE of Reality.” Its not that I can decide to experience a television as an elephant while someone else can experience only a television with each of us creating a completely separate reality. But rather, my experience of the television and your experience of the television will always be different because we are each perceiving through subjective filters of Self.

Therefore, our experience of reality is always determined by the State of Being or State of Awareness from which we are doing the experiencing. Again, we have been lead to believe that there is an OBJECTIVE reality and an internal, subjective experience. But there can only EVER BE ONE REALITY—which is our personal Internal Experience.

It’s just not possible to have an experience that differs from what we experience ourselves as being because “reality” is nothing more than the DIRECT EXPERIENCE of own internal state of being. For instance, if my state of being is one of unhappiness I can only ever experience myself as unhappy. It’s simply not possible to experience sad and happy at the same time. If I want to experience Happiness, the only way this is going to happen is if I experience myself this way.

Similarly, if I want to experience having lots of dollars, this can ONLY happen if I experience myself as someone who has lots of dollars. There is no separation. There is no external “objective” reality and a personal, internal experience of reality. There is only ONE REALITY—what we believe ourselves to be and what we experience ourselves as being are always the same. How could they be different? It doesn’t make any logical sense.

This is why our experience of “reality” is considered a mirror. It’s a pure undistorted reflection of how we internally EXPERIENCE OURSELVES AS BEING. This makes total sense when we understand that “Reality” isn’t “objective,” but rather, an internal experience emanating from our current INTERNAL State of Being. Who we believe ourselves to be in any moment is what we experience ourselves living and experiencing… its always a perfect one to one match. Thus, the more we are willing and able to BE WHO WE TRULY ARE the more we are able to experience “reality” from the perspective of our nature state of being—which is Peace, love, oneness, unity, etc. As they say, “garbage in, garbage out, love in, love out, fear in, fear out.” It simply is not possible for it to be any other way.

So those moment where we find ourselves questioning WHY we’re having some crazy experience, if we wonder why we’re experiencing pain and suffering, if we can’t figure out why we’re going through all the challenges we’re currently going through, all we need to know is that our experiences are reflecting back to us who we currently experience ourselves as being. If we’re experiencing unhappiness and disconnection, it’s because its our current Internal State of Being; we believe that who we are is disconnected and unhappy. If we’re experiencing struggle and hardship, our current State of Being is one of struggle and hardship. If we’re experiencing ourselves as not having enough money, its ONLY because WE believe ourselves to be someone without enough money. Again, it is not POSSIBLE to experience anything that we don’t first believe is true of who we are. Our REALITY is the totality of who and what we internally experience as the TRUE of ourselves, and we are constantly living out these experiences; We are experiencing who and what we imagination ourselves to be. As such, we are always creating the experience of our own reality. And when we KNOW the Truth of who we are we can define the experience rather than allowing the experience to define us.

We have all lived many, many lives and taken on many CONDITIONED PERSONALITIES (Ego Selves). We believe these experiences of ourselves are REAL and we accept them as who we are. But these Conditioned Personalities are not real. They are illusions that WE ALONE have created and only BELIEVE to be real. CHOOSING to experience the TRUTH of ourselves requires recognition of TRUTH from the ILLUSION. It feels very much like peeling away layers of the onion... just as one layer peels away there’s another layer and another and another and each time we let go of another layer we feel ourselves getting closer and closer to our TRUE ESSENCE. The I AM PRESENCE that gives life and experience to all of us.

All of the false perceptions of Conditioned Personality Self are recognized for what they are—emanations from a Mind that believes the illusions are really WHO WE ARE. But who we are is the EXPERIENCER and NOT the experience itself. We are the AWARENESS that creates experience. The Awareness is TRUTH, the experience is the ILLUSION.

Once we recognize who we REALLY are, all the layer of onion disappear. The layers are illusion, there is only the “I AM” Presence. Every moment is a new opportunity to recognize the false barriers we’ve created that hold us apart from one another, to let them go, and to allow the UNITY and LOVE that CONNECTS us to flow through. This is the path to Spiritual Enlightenment…just a simple willingness to REMEMBER the Truth of Unity and our inherent connection. We ARE NOT A PERSONALITY. We just “Are.” We ALL share the SAME “sense of Self” that desires to be understood and loved, and therefore, we are all share a common desires at our core, the recognition of the “I AM” within all of us.

Anything that distorts that Truth is just that… a distortion. An illusion. Therefore, returning HOME requires NOTHING more than a REMEMBRANCE of who we are. WE ARE BEING. WE ARE…PERIOD. Nothing else. We are AWARENESS itself. As Such, we are all exactly the Same. There is no difference amongst us. WE ALL EXIST. We are all AWARE that we exist. I AM THAT I AM . That’s it. To AWAKEN is to wash away all the illusory beliefs and false personalities and JUST BE ONESELF. RIGHT NOW, in the moment. From there, we can CHOOSE to create any experience of ourselves we desire to experience. BUT WE CAN ONLY CHOOSE WHEN WE REMEMBER THE TRUTH of WHO WE ARE. The experience of the Personality Ego Self is one of limitation, lack, and unconscious reaction, while the experience of the I AM TRUE SELF is one of absolute free will, and INFINITE CREATION. When our internal experience of Self is free from limitations, than the ONLY possible experience we can ever have is FREEDOM OF CHOICE. And with that I say: Welcome HOME TO PARADISE!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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