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I got this practice from Jed McKenna's Notebook, which contains everything he left out of his "enlightenment trilogy". The idea is simple. Watch yourself throughout the day from a 3rd party, detached perspective. I've been doing that, and it's more the "dreaming me" (Or 2nd attention in DJ's terms), that is observing. Also Jed suggests watching the you that is watching you.
To me, this practice feels like it's helping to bring my dreaming and waking self closer together, (merging the two attentions aka "reaching out for the 3rd point" or "achieving the totality of oneself" in Casteneda terms), and I like it enough to pass it on to others who might be working on merging themselves as well.
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wolfndown wrote: Jed McKenna's 'real' name is Kenneth McMordie. Has written books... most accounts are fiction He is physically a smallish male in stature who lives in Cambodia. He habitually pays for little girls in the sexual smorgasbord there. Presumably a sex addict. Oh, well.....
Okay words... but major ****, so you know. Perhaps, proves the point.
The idea is actually very simple. It's totally fine. When you're being a pedo sex tourist in Cambodia, just watch yourself throughout the day from a 3rd party, detached perspective. When you're banging little Cambodian girls semi-voluntarily with the profits from selling your new age self help books, pretend it isn't you that's doing it, and watch the you that is watching you.
This practice will definitely bring the dreaming and waking selves closer together and is a quick and easy shortcut to "achieving the totality of oneself".
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Of course the real spiritual insight here is how easy it is to take a Zen 101 book, add some bones and feathers, call it Shamanism, and resell it at a profit.
You don't need much profit, just enough to keep soul and body together and continue the Great Work. I imagine life is pretty cheap, in Cambodia.
If he was a better sorcerer and a smarter guy he'd make a website with himself all over Asia doing shamanism on the barely legal ones, and then he wouldn't have to bother selling books at all.
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"merging themselves", lol.
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This reminded me of this dude and his teachings. They're pretty similar. You might like it.
http://enlightened-people.com/ramana-ma ... ent-story/
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Nice timing
Oracle this a.m. had very specific message about separating the dreamer from the dream. Which is the same, IMO, as merging the dreaming and waking self, as JJ puts it. The key is, for me, seeing through the dream (including the day time dream), to apprehend the perspective of the dreamer....and then bringing that central overriding awareness into the dream. Separate to distinguish...and then merge, so that I don't become lost within the dream
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This practice is imo a good thing to practice. I too have observed the observer - already in my teen years. At that time it was quite a mystery as to who is observing me. I even thought that maybe vampires (or some such beings) are indeed real. I did not have the concept of spirit or the double in my repertoire then. Of course in this example it was not my own conscious awareness that was doing the observing of me... and my conscious awareness was aware of the observer and observed him/her/it.
Many years later, my awareness did a loop thanks to shamanic travelling. At first I would just see things as me and or watch my body do things I did. I did not think much of it until one time my perspective changed when I was in the branches of a tree observing myself - for some reason that was quite different and made me aware of all these 'splits' again.
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