Can we take a closer look at ourselves and understand that all we are we owe to the evolution of ego. Is this a bad thing, the ego? Not in its fundamental beginning, for this is another experiment that Source wanted to play with. It has, however, gotten out of hand and brought us to this precarious state we are in today. So our species must change or die. There is always room for something new in the grand cosmic game. Conscious Evolution will take care of that. So let’s talk about the ego and where we are headed:

…The ego is dominant in only one species, homo sapiens. For all intents and purposes, you invented the separated ego; it began with humanity and ended with humanity. Yes, there are examples of ego in other primates and animals, but by comparison to the human ego, they are as nothing. One might even say that the ego invented you, or at least it was the chief characteristic in developing your full potential. In this sense the ego was a necessary evolutionary step. Its creation was precisely as necessary as its timely dissolution. In the great scheme of Earth evolution, ego’s ascendance to center stage was a very short-term phenomenon, destined to hasten planetary awakening and then step back into obscurity.

The species’ collective self is both the sum of its parts and more than the sum. All egos are essentially unconscious of themselves, in that they function without appreciative awareness. All true appreciation is generated from the deeper conscious levels, beyond the mind. Nevertheless, ego was necessary for triggering consciousness to awaken. It pushed the species to the very limits of endurance for survival. At this point, a dormant mechanism began to awaken within human beings. This is the collective presence of mind I’ve already mentioned.

The ego is a mental-emotional guard dog for the self identity. Once homo sapiens developed its separated awareness, it began to feel quite alone, cut off from the continuum of Life. Instinct gives every other species an innate awareness that it is not alone.

Again, it was a natural development, in that consciousness always demands an exploration of any new situation. This is part of survival of the fittest and fitness for survival. The greater Life was moving toward its own awakening. When the flow of any fluid—including awareness—is restricted or put under pressure, its velocity increases. Evolution needed a vehicle to house this more rapid movement. The human ego was it.

Separated awareness was a new phenomenon for the planet; it had to be explored and tested. Thus, some 50,000 years ago, members of the human species began to realize their individuality. All manner of challenges erupted; questions and fears arose in the mind as a result. Out of this turmoil, human genius was born. Both fear and excitement arose within individual minds and within the species as a whole.

“As you probably know, the word individual literally means ‘undivided’. It seems a strange paradox to me that when humans individualized they became more divided.”

So it seems. However, the individual is an archetype for the whole species as well. This is in fact spirit coming to Earth—the story of all the diviners, prophets and avatars down the ages. Through this archetype, wholeness is reflected into the single unit. When egos began to flourish, the direct connection to greater reality was broken. This was inevitable, but only temporary. The individuated, small self felt isolated and abandoned. Its reaction, not surprisingly, was to shield and defend itself. Hence the ego came into being. Humanity thus fell into ages of relative unconsciousness.

The defensive nature of the ego came to define its relation to the world around it. Its job was self-protection, which led to greed and aggression. This sense of self could also include family, tribe or nation. Animal instinct transformed into intellect in the human mind and thus triggered a powerful expansion of territorial imperative.

The progression from instinct through intellect into intuition is an evolving principle here as well. The appreciative faculty that my species enjoys is an intuitive awareness, transcending yet including intellect. In early homo sapiens, instinct had jumped to intellect. Intellect, however, by necessity was largely cut off from its former instinctual basis. When the next species—mine—arrived, intellect made a similar leap to the intuitive state and recaptured its linkage to instinct. Said another way, intuition is instinct made conscious through intellect.

“But don’t we humans still have some of that instinct in us?”

Yes. Humans were still guided by instinct in subtle ways. Whenever you would rely on an inner guidance from the cellular level, this was instinct—a precursor to activated intuition. As part of the unending progression, Conscious Evolution provided that the human species would be superceded, so that Life awareness could progress.

Over the last hundred years of your time, the risks to planetary survival had steadily increased due to ever more dangerous means of acquisition in the hands of rampant egos. There came a threshold. The aggressive human species had to be transformed, or else there would be wholesale destruction on the planet; much evolutionary progress would have been lost. Bear in mind that all this was necessary. Humanity was a stage in evolution that forced the hand of consciousness. Evolutionary awakening was finally unavoidable. The new species was christened homo evigilo, or ‘awakened man’. We call ourselves vigilans…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT STORM

Before I begin this post I want to elaborate through imagery what our ego has conjured up to bring us down. This is the headquarters of A.I.G. in Los Angeles with an ominous cloud hovering above. Two days after this photo was taken the company removed the sign from the building, trying to hide behind a veil of anonymity.

…First of all, God does not exist—not in the way you want him to. I say ‘him’, masculine, to emphasize the non-existent quality. God does not exist as an outside benefactor, some ascendant personage, waiting to attend your needs, ready to answer questions or calm your fears. However as I’ve pointed out before, the creative, intelligent quality of the Cosmos does exist. It is Conscious Evolution, and it exists within the very essence of all awareness. Nothing exists outside of this awareness.

“But this is my point. I’m not aware of it when I want to be aware of it.”

Yes, indeed, you are not aware of it. But you know it. The problem re-stated, is this: You are not aware of your own inner knowing. I’m talking about the essence of your awareness. This knowing is a deep instinct, hidden from your current waking mind. I understand your frustration, now more than I did at the beginning. The problem, for all humans, is one of alignment with your authentic being.

“I have recurring fears that I am not connected to anything. That is my real question. Is my sense of self and appreciation, to use your term, part of some larger consciousness that goes on after I die? Does that sense of self-awareness go on? Is there anything in me now that will continue, or go back into spirit? Has my life experience contributed to that something? Or will it all just fade and dissolve away into nothing at the end? This is my fear in a nutshell.”

The fact that you even have the fear of losing your awareness, or of being abandoned and meaningless in the greater sphere of creation, is evidence of the inner knowing I refer to. It is likewise evidence of your disconnection from it. Without the inner sensitivity, the question would never be raised. Without the inner connection you would not be having this conversation with me. I am an example of what you seek, right in front of you. But what you are really searching for is not assurance of your existence after death. You really want to know whether you truly exist at all, right now!

“That’s absurd. Of course, I exist!”

But you don’t, you see. You are just a figment of Cosmic imagination. We all are. We are a projection from Source, out onto the screen of illusion that it has created to experience separation from oneness. We individuals are the embodied experience of divine detachment—a synonym for ‘projection’ in this case.

The vigilan sense of appreciation is, at its root, this knowing of paradox. It is acceptance of separation in the midst of oneness, and individuality within an undivided whole. But understanding of this is hidden from the human being. That is why you ask about continuation of your awareness after death. You, the thinking individual—ego and mind—exist only ephemerally, as an illusion. The real you lies hidden within the formlessness.

The awakening process of evolution is entirely about this question, the uncovering of your hidden awareness. Here is the way it works: You are God, my friend. We all are, universally, and in particular. The energy of collective awareness that pervades and incubates the Cosmos in us, is what you are calling God. For the purpose of answering you, I will use your term God, though it is a name I rarely use.

God, if it’s any consolation to you, is in the same boat you’re in. The infinite divine intelligence took on aloneness and separation as a great experiment; Conscious Evolution has done this for the sake of its own awakening and feeling. That was a major turning point. God, as homo sapiens, broke off from its own divine being and sense of oneness to immerse itself here. The motivation behind this was a desire for feeling—the avenue into awakened presence.

“I’m not sure your explanation is helping. It does serve to distract me from my fear. But it doesn’t quell my fear.”

Distracting is the same as quelling, for your state of mind. I am giving you a means to remove your awareness from its attachment to mental musings. My explanation will not rearrange your emotions, if that’s what you’re looking for. But it will give you a way of feeling through your predicament, and God’s.

“All right. Proceed.”

Consciousness cannot truly desire to be anything it already is. The awareness-of-oneness had to break apart, if it was to reveal itself, to itself; it needed a mirror. That is the essence of being and feeling lonely and separated. Your kind, my sapiens friend, was a great trial in separative awareness and the form-identified intellect. The feelings of aloneness and emptiness you described are perfectly natural to your species.

“Nice!”

Humans always felt cut off, unfulfilled, like there was something enormous missing from their lives. There was. The awareness of connection to divinity was missing. This disconnect was embedded in your genetic structure, and it gave you the feeling of aloneness any time you paused to reflect on your fate. Still, this genetic passage was a necessary evil, if the intellect and hominid evolution were to proceed.

“So, I’m perfectly natural to be feeling meaningless and hopeless. That’s a big help!”

Believe it or not, I am helping you—into freedom. Feeling the emptiness and the desire for what was missing within was in fact the driving force in your entire evolutionary history. It was that sensation of abandonment in the midst of abundance and emptiness in the presence of everything that moved you to become who you are. Out of that feeling arose your mind and ego—and your identity as a species. All the coping and defense mechanisms of homo sapiens grew from this root.

In the human race, God was missing from its own being. The divine essence contrived to abandon itself, to separate from and divide its own integrity. This is, of course, an impossibility—hence the illusion of it all. But nevertheless, the infinite intelligence determined that illusion was worth the price.

God developed a craving for what it could not have—a process of its own awakening. To accomplish this, it contrived to not know itself. That desire was so profound that God was willing to sacrifice its natural sense of well-being and oneness, in order to experience separation. This was the only way it could know itself fully—from without and from within. All the isolation, pain and anxiety in the world is a product of God’s craving for this experience.

The Christian Bible story describes it as God sacrificing his ‘only begotten son’ for the salvation of humanity. In my words, God sacrificed awareness of its own oneness through the agency of homo sapiens, its offspring. Homo evigilo, by the grace of this metaphor, is your promised salvation.

Yet there is a deeper truth buried in the feeling of aloneness and emptiness. In one facet of truth, God does not exist at all, as I have pointed out. In reality there actually is Nothing—no matter, no spirit, no Cosmos. All forms are illusions, separations out of oneness. They arise and they dissolve, having no permanence, and therefore no actual reality. There is no one and no thing to worship or to obey, nothing to entreat and to seek out, nothing to aspire to. Nothing at all exists outside of who you are in your inner knowing, this very moment.

“I don’t like the sound of this. I want there to be something greater than myself.”

Only in accepting this nothingness, do you eventually realize you are All That Is! This is a lonely passage, I understand. You, dear friend, are experiencing this in your individuality. All members of your race are in the same state. Your God—your collective being—is experiencing it along with you. From my point of view, your whole species was that lonely passage, and that phase of evolution coming to understand itself. Humans experience separation from within the separated state. Vigilans feel the same separation, only it is from within the connected state; hence no fear arises out of the feeling. For my species, and for any other awakened species who may follow us, you were the benighted bridge into our illuminated well-being…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

…“You still have nations, then?”

Yes. However, our nations are not like those in your world. Our nations are more like cultural and ethnic configurations, based on appreciation of some common heritage, sensibility and destiny. This has come about because we are aware of our purpose in life and our various destinies in ways that you were not. Many of your visionaries, dreamers and activists longed for a world like ours. Those dreams of a better world were not in vain; they played an important role in the creation of what we now have. On the shoulders of your dreamers we now stand.

Unlike your time, we have few boundaries between our nations; the same model obtains among individuals. Just as you began to witness the intermingling and co-existence of races, nationalities and cultures in every corner of your globe, we have intermingled the very territories and assets of our nations. Each nation shares actual land with others in the most creative and interesting ways. The words ‘country’ and ‘nation’ are no longer synonymous.

Challenges and disputes arise amongst us at times. Our world does not manifest uninterrupted peace and presence. But we have much more connection to that Source than you do. We have no war or crime. Our disputes generally arise out of paradoxical occurrences—two contradictory truths being embraced simultaneously by different individuals or groups. People can still feel passionately about their viewpoints and interests. This is enlivened by the residual ego influence we feel at times of passion or excitement.

“This is surprising. How can it be, if you’re all appreciating everything equally?”

We do not appreciate everything equally. We are still individuated beings, not omniscient. It is possible for us to have wide variations in our perspectives and sensibilities. One group might appreciate in a conservative way; another might take a more progressive stance; yet a third might be motivated more to activism. The unfolding experience of these groups might even move into a full-fledged dispute. This would not become a confrontation. Our egos are too impotent for that. We move, rather, toward a direct inquiry and exploration of what the dispute is about.

We have a strong, appreciative desire to learn from our differences, to learn about them and to build that learning back into our society. The shared appreciative faculty we have motivates us to find peace and presence in the midst of our disputes. We feel a drive to do this, just as the human species felt a drive to compete and differentiate. Your species’ goal was to develop the ego, the mind and individual genius. My species’ goal is to develop the soul, the acceptance of oneness, and the collective genius. Our first loyalty lies not with the separated, individual self, but with the whole shared being. This is not to say we are automatons. We still maintain unique abilities and actions. But our individuality leads us together, not apart…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

At this point in time I feel it is necessary to re-introduce the main character in this unusual dialogue. In doing so I am posting now from Letter Two which gives descriptions of our future home on this planet and the type of consciousness that the beings who live there exude. Again, this may seem to be a startling revelation on our future species, but this is what we believe could exist and what we hope we can achieve. I will be posting more from this Letter in days following. And if you want to read the entire story please click on the book cover to the right of this post. I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.

…Another purpose in writing to you is to establish a link between our two species. This connection is important for the conscious continuity of evolution. This will be a first-time event on planet Earth—a descendent species consciously linking with an ancestor species. Making it firmly conscious in your minds and your appreciation, and doing the same on our end, unifies and merges our destinies in ways that will be wonderfully beneficial and creative.

I’ve mentioned the term evolution a number of times, and for good reason. If there is a God in the universe, it is Evolution, Conscious Evolution. And why shouldn’t there be a God? There is plenty of room for everything in All That Is.

Evolution is consciousness in its most elaborate and limitless expression. As all things in creation change and grow, the storehouses of understanding fill ever more fully. The change and growth includes, of course, dissolution and death as well. All forms come and go. Evolution remains. No lesson in all of the multi-trillion living forms, over multi-trillion eons, is ever lost. Each and every happening in the universe becomes a lesson the Cosmos is learning about itself, a lesson it uses to push yet further the boundaries of consciousness. We are integral to all this. We, the students, are in fact our own teachers. We are the Cosmos, the Now and the presence. We are evolution itself.

“This is rather boggling my mind. Maybe the mind is supposed to be boggled by all this! You’re saying, We are the Cosmos?”

Don’t worry! It is a simple matter. What else would we be, if we weren’t the Cosmos?

“I can see being a part of the Cosmos, of course. But not the whole thing.”

The Cosmos is wholeness; if you’re part of it, you’re all of it. In essence, it is not really a thing. You are not a thing either. You and the Cosmos are the consciousness inhabiting things, like a galaxy, or like your mind and body. You are the essence of creation, existing beyond and behind forms, beyond dimensions, beyond concepts, yet also inhabiting a small, seemingly insignificant form. The true you, the consciousness that has no boundaries, is limitless.

“All right, I’ll work on that! The biggest question, right now for me, is what do you mean we are not the same species? What happened to humanity? Where did we go? Where did you come from? How did it come about?”

This is a large story, the underlying purpose of this whole communication. I would prefer to wait until Letter Three to begin it. Suffice it to say, for now, that my species evolved out of yours. The transition was tumultuous for a while. The old ways usually do not pass away without a fight. This was a classic struggle for supremacy, but not in the way the world had ever seen before. The new species was emerging from within the old, into a truly conscious being. The ego-mind was being turned inside out, even as it fought to survive and maintain its structure. Ultimately, it was a battle for who would appreciate reality more.

“Appreciate reality! Well, to be honest, I’m not sure any of this is real. Before you get into that, however, can we climb down a bit from the philosophical heights. I think I get what you’re saying about the need for evolutionary change. But how about telling me something more concrete about your world. What does it look like, for instance?”

All right. It’s green and blue and brown and white, very little grey, compared to your world. Nature abounds everywhere. Nature is a very important part of our lives. We cooperate with it, and it returns the favor. Natural consciousness determines the way we live.

“Do you live in towns, cities, or villages, or just out in the wilderness?”

We have done away with cities for the most part. We found them to be inefficient in terms of relationships, ecology, and eventually even economy. They were fine for some functions, like expressions of individuality, exploring opportunity, and meeting people. But we now have other, better means for accomplishing this. We maintain a few large cities around the globe for ceremonial purposes and as memorials.

Cities were, by and large, constructs of separative and acquisitive mental activity. They tumbled along, over the centuries, without a collective compass, building themselves up in most unconscious ways. People became lost in them, anonymous and disempowered, feeling alone and separated, even while searching for a sense of community. Yes, they provided hubs of culture and centers of learning, commerce and governance. In our time, however, we have ways of maintaining the best of what cities once produced without the tangled mass of urban decay.

“Where do you live then?”

In general, we live in small communities in close proximity to other like settlements. We have town centers of culture, much like your own communities, but they are interwoven with green, natural lands and wildlife habitat. We take much time to appreciate all the life forms of our world. Even though we live in small community settings, we have much intercourse with the world at large, and are very social creatures.

I live near the shore of a beautiful ocean, with three-dozen like-minded, like-conscious fellow souls. We have technology that allows rapid communication, interaction and travel, at any time and to any place we wish. Compared to your world we have made spectacular advances in living comfortably and peacefully.

Let me hasten to add that my world is not perfect; it is not utopia. We experience challenges and imbalances regularly; we make mistakes. But we do not fear or dread our challenges. We look forward to them, as opportunities. They are part of our active appreciation, entertainment and growth. Most of these challenges come in the form of maintaining and furthering relationships, between individuals, groups and nations…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

…Notice this. If you would know your true reality, your formless identity beyond form, consider my second suggestion:

Turn not-resisting into active acceptance of the moment; accept Now as your true identity. It is only logical. If there is only one Now and no other, then everything is within the Now, in the same space. Everything belongs to it. We are all simultaneous, as I’ve already asserted at length. We are all one, both in essence and in substance. All the boundaries in the world, in nature, in the Cosmos, are just permeable membranes; we are literally liquid beings, flowing into and through one another. We all flow continuously through our environments.

There are many examples of this fluidity. Look at breathing for one. It is the most fundamental life-sustaining action we can take. Stop eating and you live a few weeks; stop drinking water and you live a few days. Without breathing, the body and brain die within minutes.

The breath we breathe sustains our life in the physical body more essentially than any other function. Yet we are giving it away in great exhalations several times a minute. We draw in and breathe out. Where is the boundary between our bodies and the air, the room, the person beside us, the sky? Our skin is highly porous, especially at microscopic levels. Our minds are continuously receiving and digesting the ideas of others, and in turn giving them away again. The heat and cold outside invade our bodies without hesitation. We take in food and give off waste products. We touch each other and feel comfort, irritation, or excitement.

Our boundaries are, in truth, arbitrary. We construct them and use them for good and understandable reasons, but that does not make them real. We could just as easily see that there are no permanent boundaries, and no one would be the worse for it. In fact, with awakening, we are a lot better off. It is our knowing of oneness, integration and sharing of the fabric of existence with all else, that gives vigilans health and abundance. We see boundaries as elements of functionality, not identity.

“What does this have to do with non-resistance though?”

It is all about using the energy humans have been putting into resisting reality for acceptance reality. Oneness itself is a profound acceptance if you can imagine it—the simultaneity of the atom and the Cosmos, the tree and the bird, the human and the vigilan being, indeed all forms of creation. We are one consciousness that experiences and expresses itself through infinite forms, through infinite degrees of realization.

To accept this in your body and your being is to identify with all, and to release the illusion of resistance and separation. These forms can seem separate indeed to the thinking aspect of limited awareness, but these forms can also be known as intimately integrated and interwoven, physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. They are one vast organism, the only one in reality! There is no organism but us, all together!

And again, there is no other Now. The oneness inherent in the organism is identical to the oneness in the Now. There cannot be two onenesses. Therefore, who we really are is the Now! We are the spaciousness, the stillness, the peace, the Life! Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the Life. No man comes to the father but by me.” He was telling us of his identity with the oneness, the Now, the Source. Awakened, we can each truthfully say these same words. No man comes to the Source who first does not identify with oneness. Mohammed taught the ‘Oneness of Allah’; there is no other One but this. When Buddha explained his Four Noble Truths—for moving out of suffering into freedom—he referred to this same way into the formless Source.

The religions of your day formed elaborate belief systems to explain the situation. But the reality is much more profound and simple than those beliefs. It isn’t just holding the idea of a heroic figure or ideal in your mind and emotional memory. It is about interposing your awareness, seated in the deepest integrity of your being, upon the being of All That Is. This means fully identifying with that being as your Self. This is the Allah That Is.

The winds and thunder of the Great Storm gather the greatest resistance that the world has ever seen. It is around you and upon you. You will weather this tempest well if you accept in your heart that you are at one with the Storm. It cannot be avoided or dismissed. It is a manifestation of your own deep being, collectively and individually. Welcome it! Knowing, in the space of Now, that there is no future or past or present time, you will look through the turbulent events before you, into the power of your own creative peace. Acceptance and living without resistance, if followed to their logical conclusion, lead inexorably to oneness…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

Because I find this Letter one of the most poignant and informative for our Self Survival I am continuing on from the last post. As the days follow I will be giving still more of this Letter. And should you want the full impact of this amazing material one click to your right will get you the book.

…“How can there be more than one peace point if they represent the state of oneness?”

Don’t take me too literally. I speak in metaphor when I refer to the formless. There will be seeming contradictions and paradoxes. When you feel such a reaction, instead of following your mind into doubt and skepticism, I recommend using your inner senses to track the paradox down to its own point of oneness. There you will always find a portal into Source.

Since there are no forms within this space, there are no numbers. You are correct, there cannot be more than one point. But this ‘one’ is not the number one. It is the undifferentiated Absolute. What introduces quantity is your mind, your sense of time and your perspective, from the realm of duality and multiplicity. If you prefer, you might simply look at one peace point appearing and reappearing in your space. Yet, there is also a benefit to seeing these points as many: It is the notion of pure abundance of opportunity for reaching into Source.

From your individuated perspective, these seem to be arising; they seem to be something new. There are two reasons for this: One, you have been cut off from the knowing of your oneness by virtue of the human stage of evolution, and the Veil of Forgetfulness; so you seem to be encountering a phenomenon that you’ve never seen before. Innately, however, you will recognize this experience of peace as a return to the authenticity of being. It feels like coming home, simultaneous with moving into new territory.

Two, the quality of newness is the hallmark of the living Now. As you reacquaint yourself with your true nature, with this livingness, you are tapping into its perpetual creative force. It is always new, always beginning, without end; this is another paradox. It is eternally moving into greater expression and consciousness in the essence of stillness. This is the sublime stimulus for all the passions of Life.

As your awareness rises and simultaneously descends, you enter the peace or bliss state. You feel invigorated and renewed instantly. You feel the silent power radiating from the dimensionless point. This changes everything! The more often you can enter these points, the more changed you will be. It will transform your feelings about the world, about what to do in the world, and about who you are. This is ultimate empowerment. It all starts with simple noticing, bringing out the known from the unknown.

“You make it sound so easy. Yet for most humans, sitting that still and feeling that peace is beyond the ability to achieve.”

Remember, this is not about achieving. You cannot accomplish what I’m talking about. To achieve it would be to make it a thing. It is not a thing at all, this peace. It is formless essence, without boundary, definition or structure…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter

A continuation of the post of October 31, 2009.

…As you improve your capacity to actively notice what you are feeling and thinking, and what is happening around you, turn that noticing into the expansion of awareness. Invite into your being a new openness and allowing that will begin to dissolve barriers around the little self. The focus of this is the release of your identity with form, and that which is separate from the Cosmos.

You may use noticing as a technique within your meditations. Observe, for instance as you sit still, that there are holes within the fabric of your thinking. There are occasional brief pauses in the streams of thought. There are openings between all the streams as well, loopholes if you will.

Use your imagination to zoom down to microscopic levels in these holes. There, if you are patient, you will recognize what we call points of peace. Now apply your awareness to these points. Center in on them. Relax into their spaciousness. They feel enormously peaceful. When you enter their orbits, you feel blanketed by the most refreshing and calming influence. If you do this, you will find that they are not only supremely serene, but they are also internal power generators of great strength.

Peace points are always within your reach; they are built into every conscious inner being. Normally, in humans, they’re layered over by the jumble of thoughts, emotions and physical vibrations. The belief that you are an isolated individuality reinforces these distractions in your head. The point here is to make conscious what already exists. You do not have to go searching for peace. That would be a mental activity, and it would only cover the points over with another layer of mind stuff. This is what spiritual seeking does, by the way. It layers over the very thing you think you are looking for, and leaves it perpetually hidden. Seeking does not reveal what is sought; only that which is sought can reveal itself. Instead of seeking, allow yourself to be patient, and notice.

“But that sounds like it would take an eternity. And besides, I have found many things in my life by searching for them.”

What you have found is not what you sought, my friend. It is a mental facsimile of that. Searching for things only creates more things in your life. If you are seeking the spirit, the soul, you will never find it in the mind.

“Hmm. I guess I always knew that somehow.”

To resume: The loopholes in thought will inevitably slide by, entirely unnoticed by the mind. As strange as it might sound to your ears, noticing is not a mental function; it is actually the way out of mind. It does not take long for the openings to appear. A few minutes is often enough to observe one of these peace points. Most likely you will feel it rather than see it, but every person senses them in a unique way. You know when you’ve found one because it feels like you are being drawn into a vacuum of stillness. Bear in mind, this is subtle. Many humans have trained themselves to enter these points without knowing exactly what they are. People who meditate regularly are bound to be acquainted with the feeling of them.

What I recommend is to not let them pass out of your awareness. This is difficult to express in words and thoughts, so please bear with me. There is an essential paradox here. You are focusing your awareness indeed. But awareness also is focusing you! Awareness actually arises out of these points; it arises out of peace and bliss, and so do you. It is the background oneness for all activity in the physical universe. Even the word ‘arise’ is misleading. Nothing arises really, because this peace already exists. It has forever existed within the within…

Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter