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#4388 - Tuesday,
October 4, 2011 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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http://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Self-Discovery-William-Samuel/dp/1877999040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317771072&sr=8-1
Excerpt from The Awareness of Self- Discovery By William
Samuel
The primary prop upholding the dream is the belief that the
awareness (life) reading these words is the personal possession
of an ego, a personality, a selfhood separate and apart from
Single Isness. The flat-earth belief has been foisted upon us
that we are the recipients of life and the religions of the world
are busy perpetuating that belief by having us worship a
bestowing, life-giving god that doesn't even exist.
Are these atheistic or "Communistic" statements? They
are not! Not even remotely. We are not proclaiming the
non-existence of "God." We are about the happy business
of disclosing that the very life reading these words is the Life
that God IS, Reality IS, Isness IS. We are pointing out the Light
which reveals that life (Life) is "God," closer than
fingers and toes, closer than breathing. A single, divine,
all-inclusive awareness is who and what we are already — and
we do not have to go begging and importuning our way up the leg
of an imaginary god via the rituals and procedures of a world
that is included within awareness.
Since when is the Deific Awareness of Being dominated by that
which it includes within Itself? By analogy, the tail is wagging
the dog, for St. Peter's sake; the images on the screen are
pulling the television set around by its tubes; the dream is
whipping the dreamer to death. Oh, but for a purpose. His growing
nightmare awakens him!
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Thank you for your great letter, dear Rebecca ...
...It is apparent that yours is a happy home. You have noticed
too, that lightness is appreciated wherever love is tangibly
apparent. I have always wondered about the staid presentations of
Truth—the restraining dignity, the whispered utterances, the
voices that never wavered from the sonorous and saccharine when
all the while the Love I felt was bounding like a free-spirited
colt turned to new pastures. Love breaks forth in tender tones,
certainly—and in a serious, dignified manner if that is what
appears appropriate at the moment—but the Joy Truth is
appears unfettered and free to me, unbounded by convention,
incapable of becoming the tool of a dignitary. It laughs and
teases like a child. Tall though they are, my stately pines dance
in a storm. So do your majestic redwoods. And so do you and I and
all the unencumbered and unpossessed.
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A monumentally helpful point for metaphysicians to "get
straight" is the simple, basic and very gentle fact that
awareness—consciousness—is God's Self-perception in
action, not the personal tool of an ego. In our work here,
awareness, consciousness and life (Life) are synonymous terms.
Awareness is the action of God, the activity of Mind, the Life
that God is. Indeed, the consciousness presently reading these
words, that perceives the scene outside, that hears the rustle of
pots and pans in the kitchen and gathers in the evergreen
thoughts and feelings of the Season, is the living that God is,
the awareness that Mind is, the all and only perceiving of Deity
going on. This consciousness right here and now is the life
divine that never ends—the awareness of God.
There are not two awarenesses, one that belongs to Bill, Mary,
John or world, and another somewhere afar off, marvelous and
mysterious, that belongs to God. All there is to "mortal
mind" is the now-to-be-discarded notion that the
consciousness reading this page belongs to a finite personality
with a responsibility for "his" experience.
Consciousness, awareness, "seeing,"
"perceiving"—or whatever else it may have been
called—is GOD'S responsibility and God's consciousness in
action.
Conscious of what? Of all there is to be conscious of: the
infinity of all that God, Reality is. THIS life we are is God's
own Self-appraisal, God's Self-seeing, Self-knowing, Self-being.
Reader, listen softly: awareness and life are one. Relax for a
moment and admit the simple, gentle Fact that All is all, hence
the consciousness that even now surveys this printed page is the
goal of the sages from time immemorial, the LIVING that God is,
the Life Divine that neither begins nor ends. See this!
Comprehend this! Admit this. Rest here and find old fears
vanishing like morning mist before the sunshine.
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Our heritage is the life that Isness is. Who could want more? Who
needs more? What a delight to discover that this seeing, this
hearing, this feeling, this visioning, this listening, this
delighting HERE AND NOW is the all and only action of God being
God.
What can happen to this consciousness, the Life-I-am, the
awareness I am? Naught but what can happen to God. And what can
happen to Singleness, Omnipotence, Purity, Perfection? Nothing,
nothing! I tell you the seeing of these words is God's eternal
Self-witnessing in action, already here, already now. No wait. No
struggle. No suffering. No testing or waiting through the
pendulum's dark swing in order to find a measure of relief at the
other end. The struggle has only to do with the fruitful, but not
necessarily easy, task of letting go the old view of oneself as a
possessor of life, as the grand custodian and manipulator of
experience.
EXAMPLE
Look outside at the sleeping tree there. Who sees the tree? Bill
or Deity? Does a body do the seeing or does awareness,
consciousness, life see it? What sees the tree? Consciousness?
— or a body-centered custodian of consciousness? Where is
the tree. Fifty-seven feet removed from a body-oriented
ego-container of awareness, a judge who likes or dislikes what he
sees? — or is the tree within awareness? Is the seeing of
the tree the activity of a separate-from-the-thing-I-see
recipient-of-life, a so-many-year-old male or female pump filled
organism who looks out through bloodshot eyes and answers to the
name of Bill? —or could it be that it is Deity being the
"seeing"? Indeed, isn't it just possible that Isness,
Reality, God, is the seer "seeing" and being the seen?
Could it just be that "seeing" itself is the identity
"we" are? Could we be Life itself rather than the
recipient of it? Indeed we can! We are!
But lordy, lordy, what this does to the old theological concept
of a bestowing God. What this does to the theological view of a
man born in sin, a recipient of Life—or to the oft expressed
metaphysical view that Self-ignorance, via its own effort, must
lift itself up to Wisdom. We awaken to find the great gulf twixt
God and man has gone. God is no longer remote. We are no longer a
fawning, cringing recipient of Life, worshiping a non-existent
Bestower. This life right here is it. This living, this seeing,
this being is the IT which God is being. "Closer than
breathing," even as the prophet said.
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Reader, there is nothing difficult nor abstruse about this view
of the universe. We shall all grow into such a view—the
world shall-and it is coming rapidly. It comes gently and easily
if we lower the walls and relinquish the old concept. It comes
with a wall-cracking, bud-bursting blast if we insist on
continuing with the wall building ego role of yore—a role
that may seem personally delightful but has been a near-fiction
from the first; a role apparently calculated only to give us the
present wherewithal to speak with authority and be effectively
about the Father's business of removing the restrictions and
tending the New Garden that Now is.
We awaken with joy to find that it really has been the Father's
pleasure to give the kingdom to us. We find Mind's action of
Self-appraisal to be our Identity. Mind knows Itself as Itself,
and this life we are is that knowing going on!
"Seeist thou this?" If so, it is time to "be'est
us this" and begin to live the Millennium it is our heritage
to be.
The Awareness of Self-Discovery by William Samuel
http://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Self-Discovery-William-Samuel/dp/1877999040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317771072&sr=8-1