TheBlackLight
Rising Star
This is dedicated to a cat that I lived with that died today, December 3, 2012: his name is Thomas, he was very old, 13 years old. So, my old friend, eating Pearls in Heaven, this one is for you . . . . . . . .
Yeshua said, "Let thine eye be Single and thy body full of Light."
I am not the body
I am not the mind
I am not the emotions
There is but One Incarnation
There is but One being
What can I say of male of female,
This and that, right and wrong?
What can I say of male or female,
This and that, right and wrong?
What can I say of relationship?
Mother father brother sister; all are not mine
Void and world are One
I have neither need nor lack of need
I have neither family nor friends
Yet all beings are my family and friends
There is neither a self nor is there not a self.
There is neither a you, me, superior being, a teacher, or student.
I am the unchanging Self, the same in everyone.
One cannot even speak of something separate from the Self
How can there be two in the One?
One cannot speak of what does not exist
How then can I speak of similar, or dissimilar?
I have never been formless, or with form
I have never had a beginning or end
This is the peace that lies beyond understanding
The stillness where all understanding arises from
Here, everything is eternal
Everything is consciousness
Aham Purushottam ekam sarvam Om
***
Thomas was the Apostle for India, sent there by Yeshua as his natural character and disposition was most suited to the nondual teachings of Oneness. These teaching for him were centered on Purusha: Limitless, universal essence, not subject to nature, nurture, relationship, and polarity--a totally detached witnessing of light and presence.
Purusha is seen in the Indian tradition that Yeshua was so much a part of as a cosmic man straddling and encompassing the entire cosmos: a Christ figure. When we forget this essence, when we identify with limits and with the body-mind, we suffer from grasping, fear, and attachment. We can lose ourselves, identifying with the appearance rather than the presence that underlies all appearance.
However, nature, the material world, the body-mind impulses, and the experiences it offers (known as the feminine Prakriti) provide Purusha with the enjoyment and delights of the world; Purusha enjoys the world through Prakriti. Prakriti is the temporal hologram presenting Purusha with experiences blissful and painful that are played all over and over, lifetime to lifetime, until Purusha remembers the rules of the Game (the Divine Play or Lila) .
Purusha then realizes that, confused and deluded, he has mistakenly identified his consciousness with Prakriti's activity. He remembers and regains his true nature, which initiates a return to the first level of enlightenment.
This realization is the result of Purusha's power to separate the real from the unreal, and to stand alone, all-one. To do this, he withdraws from Prakriti, realizing he is pure and can never be affected by the swirling, ever-moving desires and raw material for experience that Prakriti is, bu polarities such as good and bad, pleasure or pain, as he lies beyond the pair of opposites in what is never created, never destroyed or affected.
When this happens, Prakriti becomes redundant, for her reason for existing has been to provide experiences for Purusha so that after enjoying the world he may, through discriminative knowledge, return to his original state. When Purusha recognizes Prakriti in this way, he loses interest in her, like a dancer who, having performed, leaves the stage. He enters the Light of Freedom, but not complete Freedom.
**WHAT IS THE WITNESS?**
Thomas embodied Purusha through the Witness. Witness keeps one detached from the body-mind, and thereby allows the highest outcome and action without personal attachment or agenda to manifest. Thomas's position as Witness allowed him to calibrate the consciousness of the group mind of the Twelve, just by the very fact of him bearing in mind certain questions in relationship to all he silently observed, allowed the navigation of the Christ Blueprint into manifestation.
Witnessing is detached awareness of the whole playing field of consciousness and all its movements. Your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions may be a part of the event, but it does not affect you. In this context, Thomas saw the underlying interplay of energies in the Christ Mind, and its energetic infrastructure or geometry. This then enabled him to synthesize these interconnections through complete detachment, while simultaneously seeing the inherent unity of each unique aspect of Christ Consciousness.
The Witness sees that who you are is nothing but a set of personalities, arising and disappearing so quickly that you cannot see it when under the influence of your thoughts and emotions. The Witness innately knows that it is not any of these continual processes. In this instance, the Witness that Thomas is "saw" the Perfection of the Christ Blueprint, and this act of observation allowed it to manifest fully on Earth.
The Witness prefers nothing. to prefer one thing over another, be it people, organizations, or countries, is to value life in subjective patterns that consist of the ego's need to belong, to feel special, to feel needed or validated, driving it to search constantly for love on the surface that offers a transient, illusory sense of intimacy, rather than the essence behind the surface.
Whether there are forms or no forms to cling to, essence remains the same.
The Witness does not emphasize one over the another, comparing or contrasting. The Witness is all-inclusive, so aware of the unity that it does not prefer this or that; everything is equally acceptable. The Witness gives detached observation as the way out of the personal perspective, yet this can only become real in your experience if you no longer give credence, time, and energy to the personal perspective, needs, desires, and the idea of a separate, personal life. With the willingness to surrender, let go, and expose this perspective, the Witness becomes more obvious, gently pointing a way to the Eternal.
Witnessing the choices, thoughts, and statements that you make in your daily life, and the subtle judgements that come with them, can be gently corrected through forgiveness. Forgiving creates the spaciousness for the One to reveal and manifest itself. You bless your Creations, and set them Free. By watching what you create, you also watch its potential dissolution. In watching both these movements, you enter Eternity.
The body becomes something you no longer possess. The thoughts that you hold become meaningless, as you watch them drift by like clouds in the blue sky, without attaching any meaning, any value, any going towards the thought, or any pushing away of the thought. There is neither gain nor loss. The mind is a blank canvass, an empty page. Here, as you thought yourself to be, have never truly existed.
Everything is a neutral canvass. What you observe around you is neutral, until you make the a decision as to what it will mean for you. This decision allows you to stand back and see this mental process, of naming and defining what values and associations are true for you for for that object or person. Witnessing this allows you to let go of what you think, allowing you to be present, rather than what you thought was present.
In Witness consciousness, one actually observes the movements, actions, thoughts, and feelings that the "I" has without involvement. It is pure detachment from any sense of self, dispassionately observing all that the body-mind thinks, does or sees. The idea of "you" is removed from your ideas, attachments, and judgements about what reality is, which colors the surface of our perceptions.
**THE GATEWAY**
The Witness is the Gateway, the Portal, to Oneness. the Witness sees the big picture like an eagle, without judging , categorizing, labeling, separating, and placing people or events in boxes. The Witness leads into the underlying unity of all that is, and is in itself not separate from the dynamic ever-flowing ocean of movement that creation is, but is rather an integrated part of this flow, arising when necessary.
The Witness is clear perception without any personal distortion, leading to an all-inclusive seeing, a Gateway to Christ Consciousness. As Yeshua said, "Before you remove the speck out of your brother's Eye (or Pineal Gland) , remove the log out of your own."
You can experience this. Try this practice with a friend whom you feel open with. Sit quietly, center yourself, and follow your breath. Open your eyes, the windows to the soul, and truly gaze at your friend, eye to eye: you will see, as you do every day, that they have a form, a body. Keep gazing, and you will see them blurring, becoming indistinct, a mass of colors, shapes, and gently vibrating patterns. As you keep gazing and concentrating, you will eventually come to see that he of she is a blank canvas, an empty space, not even "existing" as you would perceive "existing." They disappear completely into emptiness.
Witnessing this, what is already and always here, allows one the direct perception of reality behind the dream of form, of matter, of appearance. When one experiences this, and literally sees another person or object dissolve, how real can this body-mind, this reality, be?
**THE DREAM**
The Witness sees the Dream. the dream of life is a group of images generated by perception, with a lot of emotional associations. Everything and everyone in your dream is am expression of the symbols and images your own nature is dreaming up: your own reflections. As soon as you identify with this dream figure, the body-mind, then it identifies with the images within the dream.
The Dream is the Veil. And the Key to the Dream is not to Judge the Dream as good or bad; the Key is to come to the observer, the dreamer, the witness state, and to see it as a dream.
The Witness is the Key to extract yourself from the dream of the body, thought, and feelings being the only reality. It lifts you out of this suffering, of being identified with this perception, and allows you to realize you are not trapped in this Dream.
The Dream dissolves when one Knows that they are dreaming, Think how happy, how free, how defenseless you could be if you were watching this dream, with monsters, or a whole army coming at you, and you are in the back, in the position of dreaming, so your know you are dreaming. And what does it mean to Know you are dreaming? It is to know that what you are watching is not real.
And therefore the Witness knows that it cannot be harmed. No matter what the content of the dream is, the Observer Knows that it is not affected by it. You are the dreamer who is Imagining everything, and everyone, in this dream. We appear to be many individuals in the dream, yet as separate individuals we are all expressions of One Awareness that is Dreaming Itself to be Everyone and Everything.
In this understanding, there are no believers and nonbelievers, no enlightened ones or ignorant ones. In the Witness, everything and everyone is Lit Up, because everything is unified. The Witness sees the dream as designed to make you more conscious; the more you wake up, the more you become conscious that life is like a dream. Knowing this is the secret of Enjoying the Dream.
This leads to Peace. Peace arises when we Surrender Unconditionally to the dream of the Dreamer. Peace is the hallmark of the witness state, the gateway into genuine, permanent states of Enlightenment. A quality of Inner Silence becomes permanent, present in the midst of all activity. There is no longer a dependency on external states, and no anguish of what comes and goes. There is no longer a sense of anxious striving, or need to get. Blame and praise are felt as equally and inconsequential, and the Fear of Death, of the body-mind perishing, dissolves. The body becomes an empty tool and vessel for the actions of your True Self to flow through.
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from the book The Christ Blueprint: 13 Keys to Christ Consciousness
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank a few very special Human Beings, without whom none of this would be possible:
*Maynard James Keenan and all his band mates and friends and fans alike.
*All Musicians, Writers, and Artists, whatever form your Creation has taken.
*The Prophet Elijah, for living the Truth of his convictions despite all his persecution.
*The Poet Charles Bukowski for unapologetically following his heart and writing his Truth.
*To all the Comedians who bring Laughter to the world, for Laughter is God.
*To all the People of the Nexus reading these words: You are Chosen if you Choose Yourself
*To The Traveler for starting this Victory of Light Tour
*To Bear Gryls who showed us Earth is Everything.
*To the Indigenous Humans of the world, who know more than Any of Us, for they Know One.
*To the Pleiadians, who answered the Prayer of One who thought he was Forgotten but never was, nor will we ever be again.
*To All of Humanity for Being One
*To the Archangel Michael for bringing this Prophecy into the world: "You will Square the Circle or Die," in the book The Key, by Whitley Strieber
**And, finally, a HUGE thanks goes out to the Witness Thomas, who inhabited the body of a skinny grey cat for 13 years, and on 12-3-2012, at 6:11 p.m. Eastern time, passed from Fiction to Legend as he bore Witness to the Son Shining.
Chapter 23: Thomas the Witness
Yeshua said, "Let thine eye be Single and thy body full of Light."
I am not the body
I am not the mind
I am not the emotions
There is but One Incarnation
There is but One being
What can I say of male of female,
This and that, right and wrong?
What can I say of male or female,
This and that, right and wrong?
What can I say of relationship?
Mother father brother sister; all are not mine
Void and world are One
I have neither need nor lack of need
I have neither family nor friends
Yet all beings are my family and friends
There is neither a self nor is there not a self.
There is neither a you, me, superior being, a teacher, or student.
I am the unchanging Self, the same in everyone.
One cannot even speak of something separate from the Self
How can there be two in the One?
One cannot speak of what does not exist
How then can I speak of similar, or dissimilar?
I have never been formless, or with form
I have never had a beginning or end
This is the peace that lies beyond understanding
The stillness where all understanding arises from
Here, everything is eternal
Everything is consciousness
Aham Purushottam ekam sarvam Om
***
Thomas was the Apostle for India, sent there by Yeshua as his natural character and disposition was most suited to the nondual teachings of Oneness. These teaching for him were centered on Purusha: Limitless, universal essence, not subject to nature, nurture, relationship, and polarity--a totally detached witnessing of light and presence.
Purusha is seen in the Indian tradition that Yeshua was so much a part of as a cosmic man straddling and encompassing the entire cosmos: a Christ figure. When we forget this essence, when we identify with limits and with the body-mind, we suffer from grasping, fear, and attachment. We can lose ourselves, identifying with the appearance rather than the presence that underlies all appearance.
However, nature, the material world, the body-mind impulses, and the experiences it offers (known as the feminine Prakriti) provide Purusha with the enjoyment and delights of the world; Purusha enjoys the world through Prakriti. Prakriti is the temporal hologram presenting Purusha with experiences blissful and painful that are played all over and over, lifetime to lifetime, until Purusha remembers the rules of the Game (the Divine Play or Lila) .
Purusha then realizes that, confused and deluded, he has mistakenly identified his consciousness with Prakriti's activity. He remembers and regains his true nature, which initiates a return to the first level of enlightenment.
This realization is the result of Purusha's power to separate the real from the unreal, and to stand alone, all-one. To do this, he withdraws from Prakriti, realizing he is pure and can never be affected by the swirling, ever-moving desires and raw material for experience that Prakriti is, bu polarities such as good and bad, pleasure or pain, as he lies beyond the pair of opposites in what is never created, never destroyed or affected.
When this happens, Prakriti becomes redundant, for her reason for existing has been to provide experiences for Purusha so that after enjoying the world he may, through discriminative knowledge, return to his original state. When Purusha recognizes Prakriti in this way, he loses interest in her, like a dancer who, having performed, leaves the stage. He enters the Light of Freedom, but not complete Freedom.
**WHAT IS THE WITNESS?**
Thomas embodied Purusha through the Witness. Witness keeps one detached from the body-mind, and thereby allows the highest outcome and action without personal attachment or agenda to manifest. Thomas's position as Witness allowed him to calibrate the consciousness of the group mind of the Twelve, just by the very fact of him bearing in mind certain questions in relationship to all he silently observed, allowed the navigation of the Christ Blueprint into manifestation.
Witnessing is detached awareness of the whole playing field of consciousness and all its movements. Your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions may be a part of the event, but it does not affect you. In this context, Thomas saw the underlying interplay of energies in the Christ Mind, and its energetic infrastructure or geometry. This then enabled him to synthesize these interconnections through complete detachment, while simultaneously seeing the inherent unity of each unique aspect of Christ Consciousness.
The Witness sees that who you are is nothing but a set of personalities, arising and disappearing so quickly that you cannot see it when under the influence of your thoughts and emotions. The Witness innately knows that it is not any of these continual processes. In this instance, the Witness that Thomas is "saw" the Perfection of the Christ Blueprint, and this act of observation allowed it to manifest fully on Earth.
The Witness prefers nothing. to prefer one thing over another, be it people, organizations, or countries, is to value life in subjective patterns that consist of the ego's need to belong, to feel special, to feel needed or validated, driving it to search constantly for love on the surface that offers a transient, illusory sense of intimacy, rather than the essence behind the surface.
Whether there are forms or no forms to cling to, essence remains the same.
The Witness does not emphasize one over the another, comparing or contrasting. The Witness is all-inclusive, so aware of the unity that it does not prefer this or that; everything is equally acceptable. The Witness gives detached observation as the way out of the personal perspective, yet this can only become real in your experience if you no longer give credence, time, and energy to the personal perspective, needs, desires, and the idea of a separate, personal life. With the willingness to surrender, let go, and expose this perspective, the Witness becomes more obvious, gently pointing a way to the Eternal.
Witnessing the choices, thoughts, and statements that you make in your daily life, and the subtle judgements that come with them, can be gently corrected through forgiveness. Forgiving creates the spaciousness for the One to reveal and manifest itself. You bless your Creations, and set them Free. By watching what you create, you also watch its potential dissolution. In watching both these movements, you enter Eternity.
The body becomes something you no longer possess. The thoughts that you hold become meaningless, as you watch them drift by like clouds in the blue sky, without attaching any meaning, any value, any going towards the thought, or any pushing away of the thought. There is neither gain nor loss. The mind is a blank canvass, an empty page. Here, as you thought yourself to be, have never truly existed.
Everything is a neutral canvass. What you observe around you is neutral, until you make the a decision as to what it will mean for you. This decision allows you to stand back and see this mental process, of naming and defining what values and associations are true for you for for that object or person. Witnessing this allows you to let go of what you think, allowing you to be present, rather than what you thought was present.
In Witness consciousness, one actually observes the movements, actions, thoughts, and feelings that the "I" has without involvement. It is pure detachment from any sense of self, dispassionately observing all that the body-mind thinks, does or sees. The idea of "you" is removed from your ideas, attachments, and judgements about what reality is, which colors the surface of our perceptions.
**THE GATEWAY**
The Witness is the Gateway, the Portal, to Oneness. the Witness sees the big picture like an eagle, without judging , categorizing, labeling, separating, and placing people or events in boxes. The Witness leads into the underlying unity of all that is, and is in itself not separate from the dynamic ever-flowing ocean of movement that creation is, but is rather an integrated part of this flow, arising when necessary.
The Witness is clear perception without any personal distortion, leading to an all-inclusive seeing, a Gateway to Christ Consciousness. As Yeshua said, "Before you remove the speck out of your brother's Eye (or Pineal Gland) , remove the log out of your own."
You can experience this. Try this practice with a friend whom you feel open with. Sit quietly, center yourself, and follow your breath. Open your eyes, the windows to the soul, and truly gaze at your friend, eye to eye: you will see, as you do every day, that they have a form, a body. Keep gazing, and you will see them blurring, becoming indistinct, a mass of colors, shapes, and gently vibrating patterns. As you keep gazing and concentrating, you will eventually come to see that he of she is a blank canvas, an empty space, not even "existing" as you would perceive "existing." They disappear completely into emptiness.
Witnessing this, what is already and always here, allows one the direct perception of reality behind the dream of form, of matter, of appearance. When one experiences this, and literally sees another person or object dissolve, how real can this body-mind, this reality, be?
**THE DREAM**
The Witness sees the Dream. the dream of life is a group of images generated by perception, with a lot of emotional associations. Everything and everyone in your dream is am expression of the symbols and images your own nature is dreaming up: your own reflections. As soon as you identify with this dream figure, the body-mind, then it identifies with the images within the dream.
The Dream is the Veil. And the Key to the Dream is not to Judge the Dream as good or bad; the Key is to come to the observer, the dreamer, the witness state, and to see it as a dream.
The Witness is the Key to extract yourself from the dream of the body, thought, and feelings being the only reality. It lifts you out of this suffering, of being identified with this perception, and allows you to realize you are not trapped in this Dream.
The Dream dissolves when one Knows that they are dreaming, Think how happy, how free, how defenseless you could be if you were watching this dream, with monsters, or a whole army coming at you, and you are in the back, in the position of dreaming, so your know you are dreaming. And what does it mean to Know you are dreaming? It is to know that what you are watching is not real.
And therefore the Witness knows that it cannot be harmed. No matter what the content of the dream is, the Observer Knows that it is not affected by it. You are the dreamer who is Imagining everything, and everyone, in this dream. We appear to be many individuals in the dream, yet as separate individuals we are all expressions of One Awareness that is Dreaming Itself to be Everyone and Everything.
In this understanding, there are no believers and nonbelievers, no enlightened ones or ignorant ones. In the Witness, everything and everyone is Lit Up, because everything is unified. The Witness sees the dream as designed to make you more conscious; the more you wake up, the more you become conscious that life is like a dream. Knowing this is the secret of Enjoying the Dream.
This leads to Peace. Peace arises when we Surrender Unconditionally to the dream of the Dreamer. Peace is the hallmark of the witness state, the gateway into genuine, permanent states of Enlightenment. A quality of Inner Silence becomes permanent, present in the midst of all activity. There is no longer a dependency on external states, and no anguish of what comes and goes. There is no longer a sense of anxious striving, or need to get. Blame and praise are felt as equally and inconsequential, and the Fear of Death, of the body-mind perishing, dissolves. The body becomes an empty tool and vessel for the actions of your True Self to flow through.
****
from the book The Christ Blueprint: 13 Keys to Christ Consciousness
****
We would like to take this opportunity to thank a few very special Human Beings, without whom none of this would be possible:
*Maynard James Keenan and all his band mates and friends and fans alike.
*All Musicians, Writers, and Artists, whatever form your Creation has taken.
*The Prophet Elijah, for living the Truth of his convictions despite all his persecution.
*The Poet Charles Bukowski for unapologetically following his heart and writing his Truth.
*To all the Comedians who bring Laughter to the world, for Laughter is God.
*To all the People of the Nexus reading these words: You are Chosen if you Choose Yourself
*To The Traveler for starting this Victory of Light Tour
*To Bear Gryls who showed us Earth is Everything.
*To the Indigenous Humans of the world, who know more than Any of Us, for they Know One.
*To the Pleiadians, who answered the Prayer of One who thought he was Forgotten but never was, nor will we ever be again.
*To All of Humanity for Being One
*To the Archangel Michael for bringing this Prophecy into the world: "You will Square the Circle or Die," in the book The Key, by Whitley Strieber
**And, finally, a HUGE thanks goes out to the Witness Thomas, who inhabited the body of a skinny grey cat for 13 years, and on 12-3-2012, at 6:11 p.m. Eastern time, passed from Fiction to Legend as he bore Witness to the Son Shining.
