The Ego, The Soul, and The Illusion

Ego is self awareness. 

Ego has a stigma to it. 

The real definition of Ego is what you (and the world) are calling the Soul. 

It’s ok to call it a Soul but I will now explain why it might get complicated later on as you discover or aware of new parts of the self. The Soul can be detected by science, it is the aura around you. If it can be detected that means it is part of the physical world and therefore subject to change. Of course I struggled with this issue for a long time. I will now begin to explain the different parts, people usually think it’s one and the same, that the soul is us and also what gives life to the body. But now let us look deeper: 

Soul animates everything in life: plants and animals, including humans, What sets the human apart from other life is our self-awareness and the uniqueness in character. That self awareness that comes with a character is the Ego which is NOT THE SAME DEFINITION as the Soul. Those are 2 different things and here is why: 

The self-awareness has a character to it that are nonphysical so it cannot be seen and therefore is constant. If it is constant that means it governs the physical world (which CONSTANTLY changes), that means the self-awareness and character is who we are. Can you change your character?? We are each unique in character. Not one is the same from the other in character otherwise we would be robots! If we had to have the same character, we would also look exactly the same. But even our physical body is different from another, even a twin. Really observe this. So although there is a stigma when it comes down to that word ‘ego’, no apology needs to be made when it come to the truth, even if everyone is misplacing, misidentifying things, and labels and stigmas and so forth, that will not change how a truth should be explained. Truth shall be explained as it is – after all it is only fair for you and for me that we see it exactly how it is. So there is a Soul and an Ego. The Soul animates and gives life to the body, like it gives life to plants and animals. What sets us apart from plants and animals is the quality of us being self-aware and having a special character in this awareness. So there is a kind of vibrancy to this mysterious self-awareness, this urge within us, this determination, it is what gives you your intentions, it was what makes you decide, it is your motor, it is the part of you that swims and creates. The Ego is who you are, which is self-awareness. 

The Illusion (or what people are mistakenly calling the ego I would like to be careful here so that no confusion happens since we are discussing different definitions of phenomena so bare with me) is you believing the thinking mind is you.  We believe that a thought is 'WHO I am' instead of just a thought. We then believe emotions are 'WHO I am' because it reacts to the thought, instead of just an emotion. And then with no one to blame, we were conditioned to learn that thoughts and emotions are either 'bad for the I' or 'good for the I'. Everyone goes through this! NO ONE IS TO BLAME. Because we react to thoughts with emotions it starts a domino effect where we lose control of emotions. We are traumatized to learn something is bad within us, and that thoughts and emotions have control over us. And so we get CONFUSED. And then SCARED and we setup a warrior within our selves that acts as the self-defense system within our own mind, we begin to look at our thoughts, magnify them, we analyze them, and we now have to judge them out of Fear of what is now the 'good for the I' and what is not the 'bad for the I'. Then we pointed at others for being 'good' or 'bad'. We began to blame and deny or ourselves and expressed outwards towards others. Then we began to lie (which is neither a 'good' nor a 'bad', it's just a lie protecting, to keep you happy, no one is to blame as we feel have no choice to for self-preservation) in order to create a Story of our Selves, which acts as a self-defense system that guards our own Story, which we now have to keep up with. This then expresses itself outwards CAUSING us to now self-defend our Story from others. This is an internal causing the outward struggle -- Cause & Effect!  Your thinking mind will LITERALLY create a reflection of the real you, the Lie, the No Thing, that serves to blame and deny the Self (so your Story can be at its happiest). This is simply an Illusion! So what we are doing is judging a thought which is just a thought and neither 'good for the I' nor 'bad for the I'. You begin to understand thoughts will say anything you would now have to judge (because you are taking it to be who you are) and the result is that you react to the thought with emotions and this is why we lose control of emotions. If we are not the arm not the heart not the leg not the kidney not the thought not the emotion we are NOT the thinking mind. The thinking mind is PERFECT. But when we believe we are the thinking mind instead of the Ego, the thinking mind will be forced to create a reflection of itself, which will conflict with the Ego when you believe you are the reflection. It is the complete ignorant side of us that serves to judge (it is 2-Dimensional, never the whole truth) and cannot see the true Essence, since reflection is NOT ALIVE and doesn't have an Essence. It can’t it is totally blind to it. Simply put it is not us. Why would the Ego be called an Illusion when you can just say it’s an Illusion? But it doesn't matter, the point is that there is a Soul, Ego, and Illusion. None have anything to do with the other, 3 separate things. 

The Illusion is the story of who you think you are which began because of blame and denial, a lie of your Self, because we think there is a 'good I' and a 'bad I'. 

As a child, we learn that there is a 'good for the I' -- which encourages praise; and 'bad for the 'I'', which encourages punishment. Then believing in 'good for the I' will earn praise and the ‘bad for the I’ will cause harm, we begin to lie in which we create a Story that we now have to keep up with in order to safeguard our happiness. We begin to separate the Self, causing a split. This disconnects us with all that is and we become confused. This is INNOCENCE LOST. 

This split is then expressed as a Reflection which begins to create a Story that we will have to keep up with in order to protect our happiness. So a Reflection will arise that will now be searching for the 'good for the I' and ‘bad for the I’ within you and now needs to keep up with the Story. We then look at our own thoughts and begin to analyze them as either 'Good f'or the I or 'Bad for the I' instead of just a thought. We then have an emotion that reacts to that thought out of the Judgment you gave it (which is either 'good for the I'; or 'bad for the I'. We then begin to believe emotions are 'WHO I am'. The Story continues to grow as it eventually takes full control over you. You will be believe who you are is your Story. You are automatically making choices according to the Story which will NOT ONLY look to either enhance it or deflate it, but having to self-defend it in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE. This gives rise to all afflictions.

By Cause & Effect, this is an internal struggle causing the outwards struggle which is:

Our behavior and actions are looking for the ‘bad’ and ‘good’ out in the world such as other people’s behavior or actions that either enhances or deflates our Story. We will also need to self-defend our Story from others in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE.  

The Story is looking at you/judging you and the Reflection of the Story will look at others/judge others which will Cause the illusion of Separation. So we first separate with our own Self because of confusion, then we separate with others causing more confusion. We each fall in a dream-like state the stronger our connection to our Story is. 

This is happening with every person. This is why there APPEARS to be Bad in this world. But in reality there are ONLY Bad Choices. In Absolute Reality there is only GOOD. The Story controls us and the World.   We are in a dream-like state as long as we are in the World of the Story Glasses Plane. We must let go of our Story to cease separation with the Self and become whole again. We must return the separate back to the whole in order to cease confusion and return peace back into our lives. This is our INNOCENCE RETURNED.

We have on the Story Glasses which is a dream-like state, it will give rise to physical and mental perceptions that will literally blur our world; It will blur what is true and what is false. It has several reflections that you will need to remove in order to see Absolute Reality, the Looking Glass. Please read here to learn about The Story Glasses.

The Ego has no story it is does not require to be defined by a story, because you just ARE. So an illusion is an illusion NOT the ego. What the Buddhists call the ‘I’ for example is not the Ego. Even Jesus said to sacrifice the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the illusion of the self -- the Story of the Self. Illusion is not your character as it is not alive. The Ego has the control and the body knows how each parts of it functions all by itself without our help except you need to give the body sleep and nourishment. So the split between Illusion and Ego is why we are not at peace 100% of the time. In film, The Never Ending Story calls this Illusion that has taken over the world “The Nothing”. In The Matrix, they are The Machines, because machines have no soul, they are not alive. When we do not have peace 100% of the time that means we have no control over thoughts and emotions. Emotions are still felt but they are understood as not who we are, i.e. "I FEEL sad" instead of "I AM sad"; just like the arm, "this is my arm" instead of "I am my arm". What we do now is choose the emotion with full control, you are the guide (as the Ego, which means it requires you to be in full awareness in order for this to happen, why full awareness? because the Ego is …. “self-aware”!). We choose the emotions and thoughts like the piano of the body, with total control, we do the guiding of the body (body includes the thinking mind) and this takes ZERO effort since we (Ego) are CONSTANT (unlike the thinking mind which uses plenty of effort since it is physical and therefore subject to change). The 'CONSTANT' phenomena is what we must be acquainted with because we are accustomed to using all kinds of efforts and accustomed to changing all the time. We are not the piano. How can a piano play itself?? Well that’s exactly what happens when you are connected to your thinking mind, which is the piano. Which is chaos. The hands (the Ego!) plays the piano, the Ego is the creative artist! We are like Beethoven.

AllYouAreisHeaven

Your thinking mind literally FILTERS Reality the way it wants to. It then automatically filters sight and sound. So you will see and hear only what your mind wants you to see and hear. You are watching a TV screen, literal 2D.

Heaven in Music: Pyramid Song by Radiohead

Radiohead - Pyramid Song

The Thinking Mind is a Storyteller

The Never-Ending Story

The thinking mind will do several things to get your attention and to keep you listening to it by telling stories:

• Greed - desiring for the self to enhance/inflate our story, 'good for the I'
• Hate - deflating our Story, want as little as possible, do not want for the self things that do not not fit into our story, 'bad for the I'
• Ignorance - creating ignorant stories of your self, taking an ignorant thought to be true because it is convenient to your Story construct. Denying (including avoiding) truth by thinking ignorantly. Useless talking (mumbo jumbo) usually because of mental boredom

The Buddhists call these the 3 poisons. The snake represents greed; the bird is hate; pig is ignorance. They are all connected to each other and manipulated by the 5 senses as long as we identify our actual identity with any of the 5 senses.

Every thought or emotion that arises will put together stories to explain the identity of your self, other people, situations, and phenomena as WHO I am in order to fit in with your version of reality. Because you believe you are your thinking mind and not the Ego (which has the conscience), the thinking mind can only replace or imitate the conscience by deciding for itself by JUDGING what is good or bad according to its story and logic. The story may be true but it is never the entire truth and therefore bias, it can be a half truth or a version of the truth or just completely ignorant of the truth. You need the Ego to see the entire truth and the entire truth is always in all cases much much better. The thinking mind can not understand the true essence of  people, phenomena, situations, it can only resort to judging what is 'good' and 'bad' for the Self (your Story) and therefore has to create a story to explain it. Short reading: The Real Definition of the Ego

So in a way, the thinking mind is only a storyteller. And we are choosing to believe in stories. The story uses emotional justification and will be stubborn that it is the ONLY story that is true! A story can not define phenomena because the story is not alive. We must separate the story from the actual phenomena that is alive, such as human beings, the actual being, where the true essence can be found. A story may be important but it still does not take away the real identity of a being unless we choose to believe that others identity or our own identity is the story. 

The World of the Mental Plane/The World of 'Good for the I' & 'Bad for the I' can only put together stories that we refer to in order to explain everything at any given moment. Please go to this short reading to learn more about the 'story' concept: The Addiction to Your Story

Your Vibrational Information is GOOD

IMPORTANT These are subtle things that are happening within us, some are more subtle than others:

 As a child we are conditioned to believe that a thought is 'WHO I am' instead of just a thought. We then believe emotions are 'WHO I am' because it reacts to the thought, instead of just an emotion. And then with no one to blame, we were conditioned to learn that thoughts and emotions are either 'bad for the I' or 'good for the I'. Everyone goes through this! NO ONE IS TO BLAME. Because we react to thoughts with emotions it starts a domino effect where we lose control of emotions. We are traumatized to learn something is bad within us, and that thoughts and emotions have control over us. And so we get CONFUSED. And then SCARED and we setup a warrior within our selves that acts as the self-defense system within our own mind, we begin to look at our thoughts, magnify them, we analyze them, and we now have to judge them out of Fear of what is now the 'good for the I' and what is not the 'bad for the I'. Then we pointed at others for being 'good' or 'bad'. We began to blame and deny or ourselves and expressed outwards towards others. Then we began to lie (which is neither a 'good' nor a 'bad', it's just a lie protecting, to keep you happy, no one is to blame as we feel have no choice to for self-preservation) in order to create a Story of our Selves, which acts as a self-defense system that guards our own Story, which we now have to keep up with. This then expresses itself outwards CAUSING us to now self-defend our Story from others. This is an internal causing the outward struggle -- Cause & Effect!  Your thinking mind will LITERALLY create a reflection of the real you, the Lie, the No Thing, that serves to blame and deny the Self (so your Story can be at its happiest). This is simply an Illusion! So what we are doing is judging a thought which is just a thought and neither 'good for the I' nor 'bad for the I'. You begin to understand thoughts will say anything you would now have to judge (because you are taking it to be who you are) and the result is that you react to the thought with emotions and this is why we lose control of emotions.

We are so accustomed to listening to our thoughts that we are accustomed to taking them to be WHO we are and, therefore, REAL. This is why it will take some time for you to figure out that thoughts are just thoughts -- thoughts are thoughts, they are part of the body. There are no 'good for the I' and 'bad for the I' thoughts and emotions. How is this so? I've given this example before: Take a situation where someone offends you: you could judge an angry emotion as good and then a happy emotion as bad in that situation. The belief in what's a good thought/emotion and bad thought/emotion become blurred, to reveal that there is only GOOD. 

Thoughts are just information floating around which is how the brain NORMALLY functions. But when we have given responsibility over to the thinking mind to automatically tell us WHO we are, it will do ALL the thinking for us. It will then be forced to develop a system of beliefs that will create your Story in which you will always need to go back and refer to in order to explain reality. You will believe you ARE your thoughts and that you ARE your emotions -- as in directly connecting who you are to them. You have so many thoughts going on at the same time but for some reason you pluck certain thoughts that you will automatically take to be WHO you are as it falls under this belief system. So when we take thoughts to be who we are, this is precisely why you are analyzing them as either a 'good for the I' thought or a 'bad for the I' thought which then involves an emotion. Emotions are the piano keys of the body, we have all of them in our wonderful library of emotions that gives us freedom of Choice. Emotions are just piano keys. They are JUST emotions, neither 'good' nor 'bad'. So if you believe who you are is that thought, you will also believe who you are is that emotion. It can start out such as 'I am upset because he offended me' in which now you believe he offended you when in reality it is your Story of your self that he offends. And since you believe you are Story that thought you now believe to be you automatically comes with an emotion because now you believe you are upset and who you are is now 'upset' and accordingly your nervous system is disrupted and affected and will not function properly. You are running on auto-pilot, with little control. Thoughts and emotions belong to the body and everything in the physical world is ALWAYS CHANGING. Because everything including your body and thoughts and emotions are always changing it is IMPOSSIBLE to find lasting peace for very long. The only way to begin to understand that thoughts and emotions are NOT who you are is if you slow down to real time until thoughts are moving at a slower speed so that you can have some sort of 'control' over what is happening. In the very back, as you keep working your body and thinking mind to slow down to real time, there is a silent watcher. That is YOU. That is your Ego (please please please read this short post: The Real Definition of Ego). Another way to 'see' this is to use what I call the Russian Doll Metaphor: the larger doll (your awareness) is overlooking the smaller doll (your thinking mind/emotion/body).

Russian Doll, the larger doll encloses the smaller doll.

Now what you are doing is making this silent watcher look at your thinking mind -- which contains our entire library of information -- as who you are (because of conditioning) and anything that a thought throws, you are taking as you. Would you take a thought such as 2 + 2 = 4 to be YOU? The thoughts you are choosing (but it happens automatically) to take as you immediately is followed by an emotion which then affects your nervous system (cause & effect) which will make the thought and the emotion APPEAR even more real and therefore alive. Slowing down will make it easier for you to observe all the impulses in your body.

1. Slow Down your thinking
2. Calm down your nervous system
2. Russian Doll Metaphor
3. Watch all thoughts and emotions that arises

Mind moves MUCH faster than real time. You need to slow down to 'see' the realness. You need to also slow down because thoughts and emotions you take to be as you affects your nervous system. The nervous system will need to calm down also.

So you need to learn in order to cease CONNECTING thoughts and emotions to WHO you are, to your Story (Short reading: The Addiction to Your Story) which will help you to cease connecting who you are to your thinking. They are just thoughts, just emotions, just images in your mind that we are JUDGING. Cease the addiction as they are just information. We live in LITERAL Darkness if we keep analyzing our own information.

The Rye Metaphor

At all times the Thinking Mind has no conscience. It holds your Story including ideas we have about the world and our reality. But in Reality, since the Thinking Mind has no conscience, then all the thoughts and emotions that arise that you think is you are JUST PIECES OF INFORMATION. What do you mean 'pieces of information'? There is one image I can use to perhaps 'explain' this:

'Pieces of information' from the film The Matrix

They are vibrations that are blocking the Soul (which is what animates our body) and hiding the Ego, when you take the information to be who you are and will result in weakening your nervous system. When the Ego pushes through you will sense the pieces of information or the vibrations that are blocking the way, you have to 'brush' them away. The metaphor to describe this is: 

Like you are inside a field of rye on a cloudy day. The rye represents your pieces of information/vibrations. The field is the Soul. You need to not JUDGE and analyze INSIDE the rye to see the clearing. The rye is just pieces of information and is not 'bad for the I'. So you thinking the rye is 'bad for the I' represents the clouds. So you can stop judging the rye as either good or bad it's just GOOD. Otherwise you will remain in the rye in darkness if you believe the rye has a conscience -- which is INSANITY! The rye is NOT 'evil'. When you cease analyzing and judging the rye, like a bright sunny day the Ego will be revealed! You are the Sun. Like the sun shining down on the clear day giving vibrancy to the field -- your Ego -- gives character to your Soul without defiling it. 

When we think we are the rye, the rye controls us. They are just information but as long we think we are the rye then hardly any new rye can grow. Expanding knowledge and understanding in this life needs new rye. So the sun illuminates the field of rye and the rye is GOOD. But If we think we are the rye -- as in connecting who we are to the rye itself -- we give 'life' to the rye, we think the rye has a soul and then the rye controls us. This is Frankenstein! But 'pieces of information' doesn't have life/soul because it is just info, therefore there appears to be life but life is our Being which has the soul -- not the information.

The sun (Ego) makes itself known and its light illuminates and gives vibrancy to the field. It is our UNIQUENESS that gives it color.
It's up to YOU to now figure out what is real and what is not real.

The Thinking Mind's Illusion is Like Your Inner Child

[Advice: the 'Inner Child' is just a tool/technique/method you can use in order to pinpoint the illusion, the tool will just serve its purpose until you don't need the tool anymore. When you find it is no longer necessary you can drop the method and continue on]

Cause & Effect

The Ego (not the thinking mind!) is Constant. (Short-reading here that explains what the Ego is, please refer to: The Real Definiton of Ego) The moment we began here in this world cause and effect started the process. This will continue until the final transmutation = Death. But the Ego continues. So everything is changing at all times, our bodies. The mistake is that we believe we ARE the change and that we ARE the body, including the thinking mind and emotions. So Ego is part of the Unseen World which is not physical and so therefore is constant and is not under the law of cause and effect. Rather cause and effect is under the law of constant because the physical world is constantly changing. So the Unseen World is constant. Constant = Peace. So we PEACEFULLY choose a thought or we PEACEFULLY choose an emotion. But instead we think we are the change. We do NOT become the thought nor become the emotion! Because they change all the time and therefore can not be who we are. 

So when the Illusion takes over our life (when we believe we are our vibrations: thinking mind + Story + emotions, instead of the Ego because we were conditioned by parents and teachers and society with no one to blame), we become traumatized and the mind literally SPLITS. You have a battle between the Reflection of your Self vs your Ego now. The Reflection/Illusion has no conscience and can not decipher what is happening, it can only MAKE A JUDGEMENT on what is 'good for the I' and what is 'bad for the I' and will put together stories to explain the identity of situations, your self, and others. There is no such thing as good and bad only GOOD. As a child we are conditioned to believe that a thought is 'WHO I am' instead of just a thought. We then believe emotions are 'WHO I am' instead of just an emotion and then began to realize we had no control of emotions. And then with no one to blame, we were conditioned to learn that thoughts and emotions are either 'bad for the I' or 'good for the I'. Everyone goes through this! NO ONE IS TO BLAME. We are traumatized to learn something is bad within us, and that thoughts and emotions have control over us. And so we get CONFUSED. And then SCARED and we setup a warrior within our selves that acts as the self-defense system within our own mind, we begin to look at our thoughts, magnify them, we analyze them, and we now have to judge them out of Fear of what is now the 'good' and what is not the 'bad'. Then we pointed at others for being 'good' or 'bad'. We began to blame and deny. Then we began to lie (which is neither 'good' nor 'bad', it's just a lie protecting, to keep you happy) in order to create a Story of our Selves, which acts as a self-defense system that guards our own Story. This then expresses itself outwards CAUSING us to now self-defend our Story from others. This is an internal causing the outward struggle -- Cause & Effect!  Your thinking mind will LITERALLY create a reflection of the real you, the Lie, the No Thing, that serves to blame and deny the Self (so your Story can be at its happiest). This is simply an Illusion! So what we are doing is judging a thought which is just a thought and neither 'good' nor 'bad'. You begin to understand thoughts will say anything you would have to judge (because you are taking it to be who you are) and the result is that emotions begin to control you. The innocence (pre-Split) has been compromised and this is the tragedy of humanity and why there is so much chaos -- like the chaos of an emotional dream. Then the addiction to your Story starts to grow (please please please inform your self with this short reading: The Addiction to Your Story). 

So it begins with Fear. The Reflection/Illusion is like your Inner Child that you are lugging around. It contains your 'Story': fears, frustrations, desires, traumas, past etc. It will act like a child: it will use emotional JUSTIFICATION (put a story together) and be very stubborn that it is true! It will blame others, it will deny, it will enlargen your idea of your self (superiority) to be a big warrior and shrink to a defeated warrior (inferiority). It is you mistakenly believing you are your thinking mind and not the Ego. The child will stay a child if it does not grow to fit with the maturity of the Ego, in other words the real learning of the Ego gets damned because now we make choices according to the Reflection which has no conscience. The Inner Child is exactly the tiger Richard Parker in Life of Pi (the earthly, physical-only identity, the WARRIOR!). The Inner Child is ignorant and only trusts the physical world because that is all it knows. So in other words as long as you believe you are your Inner Child you will put all your trust on logic and the physical world. The Inner Child needs to catch up and become an adult and lock in with the Ego which can perceive the real truth using strong intuition. The Ego has strong intuition and conscience, like a Father and Mother. So do not blame anyone or your self for this as you can see that the Child only served to protect your Story. If you do blame anyone (anyone or your own self) it's the Child who is blaming. The Ego will teach the Inner Child (vibrations/thinking mind/emotions/beliefs/story/etc). Now you will rely more on the Ego and begin to trust the Unseen world rather than the physical-only/logical-only world, your Inner Child. You BECOME the Ego because that is WHO YOU ARE but of course be vigilante when it comes to the Inner Child wanting to take control of the 'machine', your body. Just like a child, the child will react out of impulse. The key is to slow down.

The state of the Ego or the World of the Awakened/the state of the Here&Now becomes CRYSTAL CLEAR. You 100% KNOW this is reality. It is Freedom. The state is not confused and lost and scared as the Inner Child which is the World of the Mental Plane/World of Good for the I & Bad for the I. Again the Inner Child has no conscience, it is not alive, you are! Chi immediately starts to move around your upper body, where the chakras are and clears all the pathways. This will keep going until all chakras have been healed with life force (since we have been feeding them poison with our thoughts and emotions being who we are). This is your nervous system healing itself so it can function normally, the way it is naturally supposed to function. The end result is that you are also crystal clear as a body and not just as the mind. It is like wind can move through your body and through your head. The parameter of awareness will shift from head-only to around the body and even further around it, so it can be metaphorically described as sitting on the mountain top and even from space. 

WARNING: Do not attempt to change the Inner Child

Do not attempt to change the Child/Illusion/Reflection by replacing a thought with a thought or emotion with another emotion (remember change vs constant). If there was a child in front of you you would not force the child to change. It cannot. We tend to PUNISH/DENY the child just as we do to our Selves! We tend to force the child to change. The correct way is to have compassion for the child (Please please please inform your Self with the short-reading: Illusion is Your Friend). See how this works in the physical world too, instead of parents/teachers/society punishing/denying children they should have compassion and GUIDE the child to see the Reality by making us understand. So do not attempt to change or fix the child, because it is 'Bad', in other words do not deny it, it is only just ignorant and not to blame. No thing is to blame. Instead move your awareness to your Ego (which is beyond the thinking mind) and LET THE CHILD SEE the entire Reality. The Child, through understanding, will grow up very quickly, it is not a long process at all. You have to change the direction the Child is facing to see what you see. Because the Child is looking in or at you, kind of like holding on to you, grasping you, wrapping itself around you. Turn the Child around. The Child will be like a lost and scared child stranded in the forest if the mother or father is not there to do the guiding. The mother or father (your Ego) will act as caretaker, so your Inner Child should not be left alone, it always always needs the parent around. You become the Ego, Prince Deer of the forest like in Bambi. You now become the Adult, the Master = your Ego. Vibrations (which is information and which is constantly changing) now gives us Choice and we have infinite choices to choose from, the Ego (which has a conscience!) chooses. All thoughts are GOOD, all emotions are GOOD. The World is GOOD. It is only because people are brainwashed that gives the illusion that BAD exists. Vibrations will be explained in an upcoming post.

Back to what was explained first part in this post: Cause and effect is under the law of constant ------> that means the Inner Child (physical) is governed by the Ego (non-physical/Unseen). Be FREE!

AllYouAreisHeaven

The Nothing

If we remove names and limited definitions off phenomena, names and limited definitions we have about our own self, and every belief or idea society has taught us, everything starts to make sense and all is truly magical. 

Nothing needs to be defined. And only in that nothingness can the Infinite be found.

Building Your Foundation

(continuation from the post "The Illusion is Your Friend")

"If you think a foundation involves having money, involves having a lover, involves beauty or fame or whatever material ‘goal’ you have in mind? Then you are nothing. Any of those gets taken away from you, your foundation topples. Your castle is made out of glass, very fragile. Foundation can only be built within. Your castle is made out of diamonds. Everything else, the money, the beauty, the fame, the lover, etc are nothing but bonuses." 

- AllYouAreisHeaven

A question is a hole in our reality truth which we usually mistakenly answer using the thinking mind’s ignorant and hasty judgement, which will do nothing but cause you major confusion now and down the line -- we fill the hole with false information. Instead, we must patiently wait for the answer to reveal itself which will fill the hole with an accurate answer without thinking it. It is a downward energy. The questions that arises within us uses the upward energy (WONDER), and the accurate answers which reveals itself requires a downward energy (KNOWING, aka rooted). This creates a foundation. This requires no effort (only thinking causes effort). We tend to either put all our energy in the head: female energy/Mother Earth reaching for the Sun); Or around the bottom of the spine: male energy/Father Sun driving energy down/gravity; Both are needed to maximize life force, EQUILIBRIUM. Our real centers are located in the solar plexus and heart chakra, refer to following image.

Both diagrams explain the tetrahedron (aka merkaba) quality of the human energy system. The tetrahedron is sacred geometry, the basic geometry found everywhere in nature, including the human body. Upper pyramid (energy directed up): Wonder; Lower pyramid (energy directed down): Knowing, Rooted. This doctrine is found in Gnosticism, Masonry, and Judaism, and most possibly in others religions. Our Awareness extends in all outward directions of the body and not trapped in the skull or the confines of the mind. (Please ignore the 'female merkaba'  written on the first diagram and just look at the general idea of the image)

Questions cannot be answered using the same energy as the question, which is the upward energy. The answer can only be REVEALED using downward energy. There are infinite questions and therefore infinite answers, which means one thing: that you DO NOT NEED to have all the answers now! Every question about yourself (and also the real world) will be eventually answered. In your observances about the Self, every discovery leads to a question which leads to the discovery of an answer and so on, discover the hidden treasures within you, your Real Self is all there waiting for you to discover. So we must fill the holes in our reality WISELY, one by one, as each question presents itself (upward) in order for each answer to reveal itself (downward).

The more holes we fill with an ignorant answer (having to use the thinking mind, which is using effort), the more a part of your reality slides away to form pockets of illusions, which is why we become so confused. Our reality easily topples with the illusion of a foundation -- a confused foundation. This pockets of illusions turns into a system of emotional beliefs that now you have to constantly refer to (using the mind of course) and have become accustomed to live by. This causes tunnel-vision in which you can’t perceive anything outside of the emotional beliefs, giving you the illusion that you have no choice but to be controlled by your system of emotional beliefs. You are controlled by the mind because you have given it the responsibility of answering all your questions about yourself (and about the real world) and will search for anything which affirms it, according to its logic. This is the Grand Illusion.

The balance of the upward reaching out towards the heavens and downward energies, rooting firmly into the ground, Earth. You need both energies, simultaneously (you will experience balanced breathing: inhale upwards; exhale downwards). So we fill the holes with real information instead of the Illusion's information. You can eventually fill all the question holes with the accurate answers/information about the Real Self. You most likely need to discard a belief that is blocking you from discovering the answer, which is hidden behind the false belief(s). We have to fill the holes we have about our selves and replace it with the real information. When all Self-doubt and any weaknesses in your beliefs have been removed and is replaced with KNOWING about the Real Self, we become WHOLE, ALL-KNOWING. 

PEACE fills the body, then STRENGTH fills the body, then DRIVE fills the body, then REAL POWER is acquired. Thus you have built an immovable foundation of your Being, your diamond castle.

"Know that the body is a fragile jar,

And make a castle out of your mind.

In every trial

Let understanding fight for you

To defend what you have won."

- The Dhammapada, The Sayings of the Buddha

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Mind wants the Answer. This is why we should not set enlightenment as the Goal, which is the mistake of many. There is no Answer, nor Goal. There are only questions which leads to answers which leads to more questions which leads to more answers, and the joy is wondering the question with the joy of discovering the answer ... Because wisdom is infinite, it has no end.

The Illusion is Your Friend

The Illusion is your self-defense system that protects your definition of who you 'think' you are and your 'Story' (the story of your past, the story of your future, your fears, frustration, desires). There is a battle within you that is ongoing: It is the battle of the Real Self vs the Illusion (some falsely call this the 'ego', when it's actually the ego's illusion). We must come to the understanding that the Illusion just wants to protect our 'Story", that it just wants us to be happy according to its definition of happiness. Let's break this down further. When we are angry, we are at our happiest choosing to be angry. When we are jealous of others, we are at our happiest choosing to be jealous. When we are afraid, we are at our happiest being afraid. This is why there thoughts and emotions are neither 'good for the I' nor 'bad for the I'. How are all thoughts and emotions neither 'bad for the I' nor 'good for the I'? Take a situation where someone offends you: you could judge an angry emotion as good and then a happy emotion as bad in that situation. The belief in what's a 'good for the I' thought/emotion and 'bad for the I' thought/emotion become blurred, to reveal that there is only GOOD. This is the reality that we must come to terms with: we are at our happiest choosing thoughts and emotions and beliefs at any particular moment. 

Now again the Illusion just wants us to be happy. So does the Real Self, which is a given. This is where we unite the real Self with the Illusion. That is the bridge for friendship.

The Illusion has its own definition of happiness. So we are happy being angry, we are happy being depressed, we are happy self-sabotaging our selves, etc. So if the Illusion has its own definition of what makes you happy, then it should NOT BE TREATED AS AN ENEMY, therefore you should not fear it. 'See' this truth. 

Peace can be found when the 2 -- the Illusion and the Real Self -- are reconciled towards the same goal, which is Happiness. Herein is where Choice comes in, in which you have full control over choosing an emotion, thought, and belief at any particular moment, knowing that all of them is NOT WHO YOU ARE but simply just an emotion, just a thought, and just a belief. Your 'Story' is also not who you are but just a story. If I am not my arm, I am not my leg, I am not my heart, then I also am not my thinking mind, nor my thoughts, nor emotions, nor beliefs, nor story. You choose the thought, you choose the emotion, and you choose the belief (and NOT that the thought tells who you are and what to think, not the emotion tells you how you feel and therefore who you are, not the belief forces you what to believe and therefore is who you are -- you are handcuffed to the Illusion). Who you are is right here and right now, the Being. When we believe we are the Illusion, we are controlled by the Illusion -- and the illusion that we have no choice. We have no control when we have no choice: now I AM angry, I AM depressed, I AM what my thoughts are telling me, I AM always something else at any particular moment. How can you be identified as any of those when you are a Being. We are no longer controlled when we can clearly see that we are a Being and actually have a Choice, and therefore control, and therefore peacefully choosing a thought or an emotion (be it happy or angry, emotions are not bad but only bad when we connect them and believe it is who we are; emotions are just emotions) or peacefully knowing. We have infinite choices to choose from, which is different from the Illusion which has infinite ways to make you believe in your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs it projects to you. Choice gives us consequences. We can choose the Illusion or choose the Real Self/Truth.

Because we are happy making choices -- however your definition of happiness may be -- this means we can be happy 100% of the time.

What is your choice?

Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.

In The Matrix Neo has a choice between the Red Pill (the Real Self/Reality) or the Blue Pill (the Matrix/the Illusion of the Self)

Begin to Explore Your Thinking Mind

The thinking mind is limited in its capabilities because it takes information from your 5 senses but then turns it into a 2D image inside your mind. The more you rely on the thinking mind for answers, the more 2D everything becomes and then you are literally in a dream state. A dream is not alive! This is the World of the Mental Plane. Awakening means to see the world in its actual form in 3D + Intuition, it is where true life essence of ALL phenomena that cannot be felt or known in a 2D world. It is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STATE then what you are accustomed to! This is the World of the Awakened. Wake up from the dream.

Begin to explore how your mind works following this in order. Continue to explore this blog and Psychegnosis.com

1. The Ego, The Soul, and The Illusion

2. Slow Down pt 1

3. The Puppeteer and Your Mind pt. 1

4. Duality & Desire: How to Begin to Be Free of Your Mind pt. 2

5. Your 'Story'

6. There is no 'good' or 'bad' only GOOD

7. Judge the Judgement

8. The Illusion is your Friend

9. The Real Definition of Ego

10. Choose Reality

11. Eradicate Beliefs Including Subtle Beliefs

To familiarize you with terms frequently used on this blog:

No apology needs to be made when it is about truth, even if everyone is misplacing, misidentifying things, and labels and stigmas and so forth, that will not change how a truth should be explained. For a truth is one, perfect, it is what it is. Truth shall be explained as it is – after all it is only fair for you and for me that we see it exactly how it is. We are in the 21st century where we have access to information technology to help us explain the truth in ways that fit in today's evolved language and level of understanding. Let us begin with the basics of the blueprint:

Innocence  it is the self as a WHOLE. State of total union of the self and reality as we move along linearly with all things in Life. It is true freedom because it takes zero effort due to harmonized connection.This is a state you can observe in little children. It is the state we were before the split of the mind. 

Confusion a state we are in as a result of the split of the thinking mind from the Ego which causes the illusion of separation with the self and the world around us. We divide the Self into parts and begin to judge the parts as either 'good' or 'bad'. Our innocence is sensitive and breaks because of shock of the phenomena of fear/trauma. We begin to control our parts (which never needed fixing). From believing thinking mind is 'WHO I am', to a thought is 'WHO I am', to an emotion is 'WHO I am', to the Story is 'WHO I am', to the body is 'WHO I am'. Decision-makings are done according to each of the separate parts as we attempt to fix and analyse each. By cause and effect this is then expressed to the world in which we continue to separate even further instead of seeing it as a Whole. We are now using lots of effort to control our Story. Confusion becomes much more apparent as we become teenagers and will continue to be with us until we conquer the illusion of our selves. It is like trying to play every instrument in an orchestra, it just ends up in chaos! The orchestra plays as a Whole. We have the illusion of restricted choice, false freedom. This is Confusion. 

World of the Mental Plane / World of the Story Book Plane / World of 'Good for the I' & 'Bad for the I' is the World of There which is a state all us brainwashed people are in as long as they believe and identify themselves with the thinking mind and Story, which includes thoughts and emotions and information and body. We believe there is a 'good' and a 'bad'. There is confusion as each part is separated as we forget about the Whole. All afflictions reside here. This is a dream world, illusory world. It is the tragic cause for all the chaos and destruction we see today.

World of the Awakened / The World of GOOD is the World of the Here & Now and is a completely different state than the World of the Mental Plane. People in this state are not identified with the thinking mind nor refer to their Story anymore. All becomes crystal clear as there is no Confusion. This is a completely different state not known to the 'World of the Story Book Plane'. But it is here and can be remembered. All separated parts belong to the WHOLE. The thinking mind now works in harmony via the Ego instead of separating the thinking mind, thoughts, emotions, story, nervous system. We experience peace and therefore happiness as the Ego has the real control (not emotions). Innocence has been returned. This is the real world.

Real definition of the following is NOT how the mainstream world defines it, there is a DIFFERENCE (misconstrued!) so it must be clarified to not cause any confusion:

Soul is the life energy that animates all things such as plants, animals, humans. It is seen in the physical world and therefore subject to cause & effect. 

(vs The world defines Soul as what animates our body + who we are)

Ego is the same meaning as Real Self/True Self. The World thinks the word ego is Pride, Pride is only part of the Story. Ego has nothing to do with Pride nor the Story. The world thinks the Soul is who we are and ego is the pride. There is a war on words that is going on, be cautious!

There are 4 parts to us, not 2: 

- The world thinks there are only 2 parts: 1. Soul: animates body + who we are; 2. Ego: Pride/illusion.

 - In Absolute Reality there are 4 parts to us: 1. Soul: animates the body;(plants, animals, humans) 2. Ego: character, our self-awareness; (humans) 3. The thinking mind which just thinks; 4. Story (the thinking mind's illusion of who you 'think' you are: Illusion/Pride). 

The soul only animates the body (like plants and animals) and who you are is the Ego (character sets us apart from animals, which has different laws then plants and animals), which can't be the soul since the soul is part of the physical world, it is the aura that can be detected by science. You may have heard of 'prana' in Sanskrit or 'chi' in Chinese. Soul means life force! If it can be detected that means it can be seen.  The Ego is UNSEEN, and therefore not subject to cause & effect since it is not physical: human self-awareness + character. You can't see those as they are not physical. It does not age, that's why the voice in our mind feels like it does not age. It is only the physical body that does. Self-awareness is what sets us apart from plants and animals. It also comes with 'colors' which is the uniqueness of our individual character. Ego is who we are, ego asks the questions, and makes the decisions. Human beings are not homogeneous, otherwise we would be robots. This is why we do not look like each or have the same character. Because we tend to 'think' we are supposed to be homogeneous is why we will always fail and remain confused. This is because we can not change our core character as that is who we are. Because we attack this by thinking it is the enemy, is the reason for all destruction and afflictions we see abnormally happening in such an astounding universe today. We are a wonder as we each have a unique character, it is the color of the self-awareness. it's what makes us create, it's what gives us humor, it's what gives us drive. No one and no thing can tell you WHO you are, as they can not add or juxtapose things onto your core (real) identity, this includes your thinking mind. If you were shot into outer space, where no one and no thing can no longer tell you WHO you are, all of those things will mean NO THING! The 'clothes' do not make the man. They can only serve to show you WHO you are NOT. This is neither 'bad' nor 'good', it is what gives you the freedom to know YOU. You are here to explore your spark and to express this spark through exploration of the Ego. We are the most beautiful garden with so many beautiful and unique flowers sharing the same garden. You can see this spark in little children, every child has a unique spark. It cannot be changed because that IS who you are. If you try to change this INNOCENT character (please read meaning of innocence on this page) by defiling your self, all afflictions arise and we experience guilt, suicide, jealousy, anger, offense, pride, self-doubt, depression, .... all afflictions. <------ Confusion. You will be surprised with this definition of ego because you are accustomed to hearing the world's definition of it. This post will explain it in more detail so that it becomes very clear for you: The Ego, the Soul, and the Illusion (vs The world defines ego as the Illusion)

The following can NOT tell you WHO you are as in they can not be added juxtaposed onto your Ego, please read the following before proceeding:

We are doings things the other way around:

- We are doing things Inside Out inversion of our selves, which is the separation and dissection: analyzing emotions, analyzing thoughts, analyzing thinking mind, analyzing stories, analyzing beliefs, analyzing others, analyzing your past, analyzing your world, and analyzing the world around you, each separately being WHO we are, the nervous system gets affected .... this is like trying to play every single instrument in an orchestra -- it is endless effort, causing disorder and chaos; 

- Instead of Outside In: Ego is WHO you are and emotions, thoughts, thinking mind, story are under its expression ... although all are a part of the orchestra, none of the parts (each instrument) can tell you WHO you are as you are the Composer of the orchestra, 

the nervous system now functions normally

 ----  it is effortless, you are in PEACE & HARMONY -----> the Whole.

Story is just a story. It is neither 'good' nor 'bad' as it is just a story, it is therefore GOOD. The Story is what you tell your self based on your past, beliefs, and who you 'think you are. because we have been conditioned to believe there are parts that are 'good for the i' and 'bad for the I'.  It is the Grand Illusion which figureheads are Blame and Guilt due to coping with our identity which we replace with Pride (instead of the true self, since we are unable to 'locate' it). In this story, Pride is the judge and the verdict is our emotional reactions. This happens in our entire life, it is perpetual. We constantly do this internally and expressed outwards to the world. It ranges from extremely subtle to extremely obvious. We begin to blame and deny ourselves which led to us having to lie, which is neither a 'good' nor a 'bad'. It is just a self-preservation lie that protects us in order to keep us happy -- no one is to blame since we have no choice due to self-preservation. This lie then has to create a Story of our Selves -- which acts as a self-defense system that guards our own Story --  in which we now have to keep up with. The believing in 'good for the I' and ‘bad for the I’ will cause a Reflection to arise that will always be searching for the good and bad within you and now needs to keep up with the Story. The Story eventually will have control over you as you begin to believe you are your Story in which you make choices according to it and now you are automatically looking for what will either enhance it or deflate it, to keep the Story alive. We become unaware to true freedom of choice as we go along in Life, instead we 'think' we have restricted or no choice because of confusion, because we don't question the Story. We begin to protect and self-defend the Story to our own selves. Through cause & effect, we  protect and self-defend our story from others. We protect the Story, not the person behind it. There are Reflections of the Story that will look to judge which is ‘good’ which will be looking at anything to enhance our story (our definitions are all different; again every person has a unique way to define what is ‘good’ for themselves). it will look to reject or resist anything that goes against our Story, our happiness. The Reflection of the Story is looking at you/judging you and the Reflection of the Story will look at others/judge others which will Cause the illusion of Separation. Separation gives rise to confusion of what’s real and who you really are. We fall in a dream-like state the stronger our connection to our Story is. The Story controls us. You can see this begin to happen in children, after conditioning of 'good' -- which encourages praise -- and 'bad' -- which encourages punishment -- begins to set in. They will start to lie in order to receive praise and avoid punishment. Fear makes it difficult for people to let go of their Story controlling them. Fear is because of confusion that your story might be right, due to emotional control. If the Story is asking the questioning instead of the Ego, the Story will give you a hollow answer and you will stay confused. Ego absorbs the solid answer. Because the Story runs us, we do all types of things to try and control it. (vs The world defines Story as Ego) 

Illusion and Reflection and Inner Child are the same meanings. Illusion/Reflection/Inner Child is the self-defense system of your Story. This can internally assist you in pinpointing who/what controls decision making your Ego vs the Story.

Thinking Mind is designed perfectly and just designed to think. It is neither 'good' nor 'bad' it just thinks so it is GOOD. It is physical It is not designed to tell us WHO we are. It works in harmony with the Ego (nonphysical) as long as the Ego is the one that is driving the car (the physical body).

Thoughts are just thoughts, they function normally, they are neither 'good' nor 'bad', but GOOD. It is when we take them to be WHO we are that causes chaos. For example would you take a thought 2 + 2 = 4 to be WHO you are? Of course not. They will then turn on us, we are being chased by thoughts.

Emotions are the piano keys of the body, they function normally, they are neither 'good' nor 'bad' they are just emotions which is GOOD. It is when we take emotions to be WHO we are that causes chaos and loss of control over emotions, it is the cause of destruction in all human history if we continue to take them to be WHO we are. They will then turn on us, we are being chased by emotions.

Nervous System is affected if you divide your self into parts as each being WHO you are which consequently affects the natural function of the nervous system causing damage to the harmony and peacefulness of the body. Those who are familiar with chakras, chakras are part of the nervous system.

Body everything in the body is designed perfectly and functions the way it is designed to without us trying to control it. All we do is nourish the body and give it rest.

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Why do I have to 'think' I am when I already AM?

 #Descartes #Error #False

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If most of the thoughts and judgements that arises out of our minds are False, then the view of the world we are taking to be as true is actually False and therefore, an Illusion.

Your mind is constantly making judgements that are based on your 5 senses. Your 5 senses, however, are ignorant because if it were telling you the truth, for example, your eyes would be able to see the atoms in your own skin. Therefore most of the things that your mind is judging are false. The more false judgements you make, the more deep into your own illusion you will fall into. Your mind will base everything according to its logic. Find out what your mind is judging here: Judge Your Judgements

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The concept of 'Positive Thinking' is the same thing as 'Negative Thinking' or a belief in a 'Bad' and is also dangerous because it still requires the need to think by using the mind.

Heaven in Thought: Alan Watts

"The brain is not a muscle, and is thus not designed for effort and strain."

- Alan Watts 

Steps to Awaken to the Here & Now

Please read the following article very carefully and very slowly. 


SCIENCE and PSYCHEGNOSIS;What PREVENTS us from making CHANGES in our BEHAVIOUR?:

http://www.psychegnosis.com/index.php/psychegnosis_news/articles/current/science_and_psychegnosiswhat_prevents_us_from_making_changes_in_our_behavio/

One must understand that following this to the very detail as in 100% Humility if you keep letting go of everything absolutely everything you believe in and everything you are questioning and every fear and worry and frustration, you will be awakened into the here and now and experience Peace. So there is a definite change of state and one that you are not in right now as long as you are holding on to any kind of belief. Reality can only be seen when all beliefs are let go of and it is an actual physical state and not a mental state. In this state there is no mind but the whole presence of the being and the being is seen from the heart, not the mind NOR emotional thoughts. It is only in the here&now where you can see the Essence of things. These are 2 completely different states: which I identify as The World of the Awakened/The World of GOOD (seen from the heart/solar plexus and only exists in the Now) vs the World of the Mental Plane/The World of 'Good for the I' & 'Bad for the I' (seen from the mind and emotional thoughts, everything mental). A belief literally blinds a part of your reality because a belief uses the mind and then the mind juxtaposes this mental belief onto the Here & Now. Literally so long as you believe it to be true. Let go of all your own ignorant ideas and interpretations about the world and the truth is right there, it is constant it is always there, only the mental states attempts to 'think' Reality. How can one logically 'think' Reality when Reality is right here?? You either 'think' or you KNOW. Stop thinking what you see, stop thinking what you hear. Just let light come to you instead, let sound come to you instead. We think everything we do, we think to function. In the World of the Awakened you will understand that you don't need to think everything. But this is NOT POSSIBLE to understand as long as you are still inside the World of the Mental Plane.

1. Slow Down (get on Real Time. Use techniques like going on the same time as a floating cloud or same time of a flower or ocean, whatever is in your surrounding that you can ride on)

2. Let go of your Story (past, traumas, fears, frustrations, desires, beliefs about yourself or what you always tell yourself, the need to have a story-line)

3. Surrender to RIGHT NOW (make no excuse, complete #2 and keep on letting go) and you will SEE from the heart, from your actual BEING without the need to think or be emotional! Right now is the real REALITY!

Be Free. Free your mind.

Heaven in Thought: "Lucy" film

"Humans are more concerned with Having, than BEING." 

- Lucy film by Luc Besson