Prisoners of Perception

[DoktorGreen]

Just some speculation born in my personal experiences. What do you think?
The dilemma, or paradox if you will, of mankind is the result of his assemblage of awareness; the condition of incarnation. No one initially escapes this condition, but overcoming it is my sincere objective.
The collection of fibers that constitutes the AP are exactly like all the other fibers in the Nahual! Once assembled and fed, this intricate soul is individualized. Self-aware. Separate. The cocoon is established very quickly, providing modes of perception, yet also another separating barrier. And it doesn't take long to fill up with trash in this age.
Being part of an infinite web of energy, these fibers feel the pinch of being assembled as an AP. Restrictions begin to reflect in other layers. We go through life, feeling a real and tangible desire for freedom in every way. We seek it, but our programmed pattern of assemblage creates more and more obstacles! We want FREEDOM..... to have "our own rights", "our own stuff", "our own name", " our own room", "our own space", "our own home"; complete with Windows to look out at the various worlds, (just like the cocoon), "our own yard, or property" complete with fences, "our own city", "our own race", "our own country", "our own opinions", etc. WE WANT THE UNLIMITED FREEDOM TO BUILD BARRIERS AROUND OURSELVES! Thus, we reflect our cocoon and assemblage in everything we do and seek. Yet never once do we consider that we are "prisoners of our own perception". To perceive is to be imprisoned....., separate; walled in. When one perceives, one is apart from that which is observed.
And that inner striving for freedom? It is a reflection of the infinite fibers trapped as our assembled awareness. True freedom and enlightenment are the result of releasing the awareness. Surrendering the AP. Only the integrity of awareness remains.
The dilemma of humanity CAN be summed up in a single word. Perception. Even so, most traditions proclaim that their ultimate objective is to retain the individual awareness beyond death! In retrospect, this might be nothing more than another act of self-indulgence! Continuing the pattern of imprisonment beyond dying! The king of all perceptual traps!
Our individual awareness is a combination of our physical history, our mental inventory, and our spirit. It cannot extend beyond the physical.
Blessings,
Dok

[Bob May]

You bring up, again some very interesting ideas and I think you may be right on the money about the freedom that we seek reflecting the barriers that we have experienced,..the assemblage point within the lines, etc.
But there is a "perception" or "awareness" that is beyond these examples. Pure existence, I Am, or whatever other term might be best used, I don't know. But I do know that it exists, I have been there, experienced it, or perceived it. There, the Ego is left behind, as also is what I term the "soul", or (everything that you know feel or have learned).
I guess this change is one of spirit rather than soul or mind. It is characterized by becoming one with what you are aware of. Being inside of it and at the same time being It.
The key to experiencing this in my opinion is to suspend the faculty of judgement, or assessment, preconceived notions, and stop all internal dialog.
I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion about. And that is why we do not find it.
Only by the practice of stopping the internal dialog we are able to suspend the faculties of assessment, judgement and preconceived notions. (And we actually cannot even recognise that we are doing this without stopping the internal dialog.) Only in this way will we breakout of our "cage" to witness pure existence.
I have witnessed it, and I think that the memory of that experience can actually become part of my Tonal or cage. To supend those faculties is the way to break free from my "larger" cage to experience what will be next.
To become "one with" what will be next.

[DoktorGreen]

Hi Bob,
you said-
"I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion about. And that is why we do not find it.
Only by the practice of stopping the internal dialog we are able to suspend the faculties of assessment, judgement and preconceived notions. (And we actually cannot even recognise that we are doing this without stopping the internal dialog.) Only in this way will we breakout of our "cage" to witness pure existence."

It seems that everything we can say; everything we can describe is so far from what the experience of the Nahual is that its offensive!
It defies words. Every book. Every person. Every video. All so far from the real thing!
I like metaphors. They can offer a 'hint'. For example, I can say all universes/frequencies are consuming lessers". That relays nothing. But if you are a spec of life; a mite in a flower, a bee becomes the predator. If you are a galaxy, a black hole becomes the predator. The consumption produces a transformed energy. My lunch is exactly like another dimension eating this one via a black hole.
You can get the concept across with this method, but to see it is still miles apart from a mental grasp. Gotta go there and do it.

[Bob May]

Hi Doktor,
I said; "I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion. And that NOTION is why we do not find it.
I had to rephrase that slightly. It bothered me that it did not say exactly what I meant,... and that is the dilemna. Words do not say exactly what we mean.
You are right parables and metaphors are best because they force us to use a part of our mind which deals with recognizing a "behind the scenes" process or pattern And these patterns are what all things hold in common. These interactions that are going on all around us.
This looking "behind the scenes" in life trains our minds to live a bit closer to abstract Reality.
When Jesus was asked what the Kingdom of heaven was like, he never even tried to describe it. He offered a parable of how a person was growing into it so that we would recognise it when it happened to US. One on One.
"It is like leaven (yeast) that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal..." (three measures = heighth, depth, and width = physical universe)"..until the whole is leavened.
"It is as if a man planted a seed he rises and sleeps day and night and he knows not how it comes..." "
"...grain of mustard least among the seeds...when it is grown it becomes a tree so great that all of the birds of the field lodge in it.."
Jesus knew to describe the indiscribeable is a block in our path. Instead, he gives us puzzles which train our minds to think, (meditate) differently.
A few similies from my teacher;
"..Becoming "One With" a Sephirah (an aspect of God on the Tree of Life) in meditation is like bowling a three hundred game."
" Revelation comes like remembering something. That's the best way I can describe it. It wasn't there, and then it is."
Hints as you call them. They are the patterns. They point the way.
A mite cannot describe a bee, but it can experience one.

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