The Burden of Proof
Lecture 2
The Path to Hell
What does the story mean?
Lost Freedom = Suffering
Kabir
Getting out of our Head
Antonio Machado
Seeing Thru the Monkey Mind
Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Soul is disguised when?
You are too tired or stressed
You are pulled outside yourself
Your attention is dominated by externals
You let others think for you
You act out of compulsion
You are influenced by fear and anxiety
You struggle and suffer
Pop Culture and The Soul
Death Provides access the
domain of the soul,
But Vedanta
declares we
can excess it
right now!
Soul is revealed when...
You feel centred
Your mind is clear
You have the sensation time has stopped
You suddenly feel free of boundaries
You are keenly self aware
You feel merged with another person
You feel untouched by aging and change
You feel blissful and ecstatic
You have intuitive flash that turns out to be true
You sense the truth
You feel supremely loved or absolutely safe
Ghosts
The Self is a Ghost
Every former self you have left behind is a ghost...
So I ask you again... Who dies?
The baby
The child
The adolescent
The teenager
The adult
The older adult
Thus ... what is the SELF?
So what could heaven be?
What individual would you pick?
Chopra makes an poignant quote...Our notion of an
heaven is an end point whereby definitions, all
transformation stops. Souls lounge around in a blessed
state that sounds, frankly, like eternal assisted living.
Why would consciousness all of a sudden stop?
What Dreams May Come Part I
Akashic Field
Space beyond the
senses where
consciousness plays
You are the maker of
reality
Akasha Field,What Dreams May
Come...
Wide open field
Could be same players
Could be players we have imagined and are eager to see
Could be other worldly beings
Could be emanations of ourselves
Could be embodiments of abstract ideas
In the afterlife we have shed our sense and become multidimensional
What Dreams May Come Part II
The Invisible Thread
Death forces outside the walls...
Mind is a repetition...You are convinced you are a you and know
yourself.
Really do you?
Who Are You - Who am I?
Who Am I?
Seeing The Soul
Power’s You Need
Become more aware of the boundary between “me” and “not me”
Challenging old beliefs
Trust in intuition and intention to know the truth
Feeling connected to other worlds (subtle) following hunches / trust
Accept my own truth as it unfolds (let go of doubt)
Two Magical Words
Netti - Netti
I am that - which is beyond death and time -
Three Worlds a Map of
Eternity - Map 1
Consciousness of physical objects
Concrete world verified through senses, linear time, appear to ourselves as having separate bodies, time events birth >>> death
Laws here are strict, include gravity, matter, energy.
Your powers here include, physical strength, willpower, reason, emotional expression, sexuality, personal authority, becoming successful here
attaches us to the physical realm.
Map 2
Consciousness of subtle objects
World of dreams, imagination, and inspiration; verified through intuition, detecting qualities of love and beauty, feeling of
subtle presence within.
Laws of this world are fluid, events happen forward / backward
(archetypes / myths) time isn’t strictly bound
Powers here include imagination, memory, artistic capabilities, spiritual sensitivity, healing abilities, intuition; the more
successful and time we spend in this world can see us too attached to the non-physical.
Map 3
Pure Consciousness
Awareness aware of itself verify this world through “I am”; as an experience, pure consciousness
begins as a silent mind this grows in meaning longer as the person has the experience of no-person
Laws of this world are of creation
The seeds of every object and event gestate here is the possibility of space, time, and the physical.
No powers are needed to navigate here; concepts such as birth, life, death, have no relevance; their
is only existence.
It must be kept in mind that the afterlife is not “after”
as we assume.
With experience this becomes a comfortable space on it’s own terms, as it already is for some
artists, intuitives and deeply spiritual people.
Shifting Allegiances: Pure
Consciousness
The more boundless your vision the more real you are
When all visions / images disappear we arrive at reality
Creation has showed us everything
We are already God and God is becoming us
Shifting Allegiances
Give up world of physical objects
and move on to consciousness
filled with subtle objects.
We have to navigate doubt surrender is required
Have to master subtle world in
order to let go of the physical
What Dreams May Come Part III