The Seer

“Deep down we all long to love being. It’s only when we’re in love with life that the hollow feeling inside is filled, and our constant craving gives way to satisfaction. But when we’re lost in the story of separateness, we look for love in all the wrong places. We expect to to find satisfaction in the world, but everything is impermanent and any fleeting satisfaction is soon replaced by a new desire; that is, until we realize that what we really long for is know our true nature. And when we do, we simply love being who we are.”

~From: “The Gospel of the Second Coming” by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy

Down in the depth of my nature
Where the issues of life are born,
From that aware numinous realm,
Surviving through ages of storm,
A call is forever rising —
But its language I cannot speak.
It was born ere I had being,
’Tis the call of deep unto deep.

Down deep in the Heart that is God,
In mystical regions sublime,
In the void that’s potentially all things,
Long before our world or our time,
An answer was fully prepared
Every pain, every ache to meet,
In ‘I Am’ — God’s truly begotten,
Is answer to deep unto deep.

~ based on some verses by John Wright Follette
“Deep calleth unto deep at the noise (call) of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” Psalm 42:7.

Two Aussie merchant seamen found themselves adrift in a life-boat following a dramatic escape from their freighter that had caught fire and sunk.

While rummaging through the boat’s provisions, one of the men stumbled across an old lamp. Secretly hoping that a genie would appear, he rubbed the lamp vigorously. To the amazement of the castaways, a genie suddenly appeared!

This particular genie, however, stated that she could only deliver one wish, not the standard three.

Without giving much thought to the matter the man holding the lamp blurted out, “Make the entire ocean into beer!”

Immediately the genie clapped her hands, and with a deafening crash, the entire sea turned into the finest brew ever sampled by mortals.

A moment later, the genie vanished to her freedom. Only the gentle lapping of beer on the hull broke the stillness as the two men considered their circumstances.

The other man looked disgustedly at the one whose wish had been granted. After a long, reflective pause, he spoke:

“Nice one, Ray! Now we’re goin’ to have to pee in the boat.”

You may like to know that David (our son) & Vanessa (our lovely daughter-in-law) now have a baby boy. His name is: Hudson Stafford Sumner, and he was born on Mon. July 20th (the birthday of one of his great grandfathers, Willie Welsh) at 10.20am at the Epworth/Freemasons hopital in East Melbourne, Australia. Hudson was 7lb 5oz at birth, with blonde hair and blue eyes — mother and child are doing fine. Vanessa was in labour for only 8 hours, and has recovered remarkably well. My wife, Pearl, is in Melbourne to greet the new arrival … I had to stay in Perth for some eye-treatment etc., but will go to see our latest grandson asap. All because we loved so much.

The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how it is.

You have to be larger than thought to realize that however you interpret “your life” or someone else’s life or behavior, however you judge any situation, it is no more than a viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is no more than a bundle of thoughts.

But reality is one unified whole, in which all things are interwoven, where nothing exists in and by itself. Thinking fragments reality — it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don’t realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

~ From: Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle.

BTW: Since Eckharts visit to Australia back in March, at least ten new ET groups have sprung up spontaneously around the country. You can find the locations and contact details for these and other ‘awareness’ groups >>>Right Here. It’s really encouraging and helpful to all concerned when you hang out regularly with friends who are becoming more conscious (awake) like you are.

In recent years the science and practice of psychology has been moving gradually away from the medical approach that focuses on pathology towards an approach that focuses on what makes a healthy, happy and resilient mind. This new approach is known as Positive Psychology. Prof. Martin Seligman, who was the president of the American Psychologists Assoc. is now the leader of this movement and this is how he described the paradigm shift:

“The new century challenges psychology to shift more of its intellectual energy to the study of the positive aspects of human experience — hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility and perseverance. A science of positive subjective experience, of positive individual traits, and of positive institutions promises to improve the quality of life and also to prevent the various pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. … this century will see a science and profession that will come to understand and build those factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish”.

Positive Psychology (the truth about Who or What we really are) can give us ‘different eyes.’ Eyes that are not shaped by the past but by a fuller appreciation of the present moment and the future with all its possibilities.

As we become more ‘conscious,’ our attention will be shaped less by your conditioned self (biography, culture, social roles, biology) and more by our core BEING, who we truly are. When attention is stemming from BEING, our eyes are as fresh as a child’s eyes, our choices are more authentic: they are right for us and owned by us.

We will see, understand and relate differently to all the parts within us that create the whole sense of who we are. We will experience a greater sense of wholeness, of inner peace, of knowing and accepting Who or What we really are.

As a result, the essence of our ‘BEING’ nature — such as joy, connection, curiosity, gratitude and abundance — will be more expressed.

We will feel more connection and flow with others. Less of our psychic energy will be wasted on regret, shame, self doubts and worry. Returning to NOW will free a lot of energy for optimal functioning.

We will be truer in expressing ourselves (e.g more assertive) and in pursuing our goals. We will be more flexible shifting attention to notice the brighter and funnier aspects of life. We will be inspired to see possibilities in challenges and hardships.

~ From the Web site: Return to BEING, by Hagai Avisar.

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“Be conscious of this Consciousness — that is the only meditation one needs”

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Timothy Freke has recorded a fantastic interview about oneness, gnosticism and lucid living on the fab Urban Guru Cafe site, which you can listen to for free by >>>Clicking Here

International best selling co-author of “The Jesus Mysteries”, Tim, gives his views on Non Duality and integrating the sense of separation in this third part of a single interview.

‘Part Three’ of this interview will complete this trilogy. Enjoy.

“Gnosticism,” Tim says, “is all about the simplicity of knowing, the naked, unadorned knowing that is present as you right now.”

Many seekers seem to think that there actually is a radical change from seeing the world as separate and dualistic, literally to seeing the ‘oneness in everything’. But it is not quite like this. When we wake up from a dream, we no longer see the dream creation at all and know it for what it was – a creation of our mind. But the world is not a creation of our mind. It is, if you like, a creation of the Cosmic Mind. Just as the sun still appears to rise and set, even after we have acquired the knowledge that this appearance is caused by the rotation of the earth, so the world-appearance continues after enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the acquiring of the Self-knowledge that the non-dual ‘Beingness’ (God?) is the sole reality; that the world is Beingness made manifest and that I am non-other than Beingness. (This is the translation of the sentence that sums up the teaching of the historic Indian sage, Shankara: “Afterwards, the appearance of the world continues but I know, without the shadow of a doubt, that it is all simply name and form of Beingness.”)

This was the always the case – before enlightenment as well as after. Nothing has actually changed. But, as far as my mind is concerned, the outlook has totally changed. It has taken on ‘the form of the whole and I now know that I was never a separate entity in an alien world. I now know that I am ‘everything’.

One might be tempted, then, to say (as some neo-advaitin teachers do) that there is not really any problem at all. After all, it is true that we are ‘already free’. But there is a very real problem, namely that we believe we are ‘bound’. We think we are the aging, ailing body or the mind losing its acuity and memory. We believe that happiness will only be gained through becoming rich, meeting the ideal partner and so on. As it is usually put, we are ‘identified’ with these or with the roles that we happen to be playing in life. Enlightenment entails the realization that I am not ‘a man’, ‘a woman’ or ‘a writer’, not a body or mind but simply ‘I am’.

Here is how the late Jean Klein puts it:

“…it lies beyond duality and cannot be grasped by language. One can however, endeavor to describe it by saying that the realized man is one who has reached a pure and full consciousness of ‘I am’. For the ordinary man, such a consciousness is always confused because it is impure, that is to say, accompanied by qualifications. ‘I am this or that’, ‘I have to deal with this or that’.

In reality this ‘I am’ is ever there, it can’t be otherwise. It accompanies each and every state. To return to the ‘I am’ in its complete purity, there is no other way than the total elimination of everything that accompanies it: objects, states. Then that consciousness which hitherto used to turn to the innumerable companions of the ‘I am’, sees them all to be lifeless, finds itself, and realizes its own everlasting splendor.”

~ by Dennis Waite, Quote from the book: Be Who You Are, by Jean Klein translated Mary Mann,