The Seer

Sometimes the question arises, ‘If all is one, then why don’t I know what you’re thinking?’

The problem appears because of our life-long experience as an ‘individual.’ We totally identify as an individual and see others as individuals too.

Once it is understood that I am Awareness and not just this human form, it is also seen that there really is no-one here or there – no ‘me’. The ‘me’ who believes it has control and power is in reality imaginary.

Einstein talked about the mind of God. This can be expressed as if ‘God’ is dreaming and we are all dreamed characters.

The ‘individual’ is imaginary — a belief only — and a dominant belief, as beliefs tend to be. This whole imaginary world is within a belief system.

What we (all) are is the awareness of a human experience. The individual experiences which are yours and mine appear as you and me in awareness. This experience can’t hear your thoughts and that experience can’t know mine.

Awareness is all there is, everything else is an appearance in or on it. In growing up we have been taught to identify with the perceptions of the human form that we came to think we are, that we’ve identified as. With the development of the ‘me’ belief as a central idea it is then thought that ‘I’ exist as an individual in a big world.

The perception is from a ‘me’ perspective that receives its thoughts just as different TVs around the world are receiving different images. My TV can’t receive a programme that’s airing in Newfoundland and vice versa. ‘My’ thoughts, which aren’t mine anyway, appear to me — to this dream figure. That dream figure receives its own thoughts and sometimes different figures receive the same thought but react to them differently. And we don’t ‘think’ anyway — thoughts appear.

The important thing is to understand, at least theoretically at first, that I am the awareness of everything that happens to this human. We ask the question, of ourselves, WHO AM I? And notice the answers that arise in the mind. At some point we may simply notice that the real ‘I am’ is watching this whole process (as if from above or behind).

There is nothing intellectual, philosophical or difficult about enlightenment although it often appears so and is usually treated so. The truth of who you are is unbelievably simple — it’s the mind that complicates it. Right now, whether you know it or not, you are awareness and it is as if you have stepped forward into (and identified with) the character you thought you were.

Now it’s time to metaphorically step back to what you have always been in essence — infinite, eternal, limitless, spacious Awareness..

~ by Roy Townsend