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		<title>The All Important Distinction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by robert cinque Are you the objects of your Awareness or Awareness Itself? Do any of your self concepts match]]></description>
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<p>by robert cinque</p>



<p>Are you the objects of your Awareness or Awareness Itself?</p>



<p>Do any of your self concepts match Who and What you are?</p>



<p>Are you a concept or a Presence?</p>



<p class="has-medium-font-size">Are you a body/mind/self in a world in a universe or are you the Awareness in which these objects appear?</p>



<p>If it is true that you are an Awareness, a Presence and not merely the thoughts and ideas and objects and states of your Awareness, then that means you are free from their limitations. It means that you exist prior to and independently of them. They are states of your Awareness, condensations and localizations and coagulations of your Infinite Nature of Love. You coagulate into things and objects and space and time and the laws of physics because you are Love Itself.</p>



<p>Our bodies and minds and the universe and all that appears to us exists because You are Alive. You are Infinite Consciousness showing up as the sponge on the kitchen sink, the cat, the neighborhood, the world, everything, all are manifestations of your childlike playfulness. </p>



<p>You build fantastic sand castles, then You knock them down. You are so intense an Actor, you get lost in the characters you play on stage.</p>



<p>You are the Eternal Life circulating through all the cycles of birth and death. You are not born and You do not die.</p>



<p>You are always already Happy and Free, Excited to Love and Create, Passionate for and Compelled by Beauty Itself, That Which You Are: the Magnificent Demonstration and Proof of Life&#8217;s Love for Itself.</p>



<p>Think about this the next time you or others apply some crappy label to you.</p>



<p>No concept or context is big enough for You. It&#8217;s not really accurate to say that you are &#8220;big&#8221; because You exist prior to &#8220;bigness&#8221;,  prior to all concepts and measurements. You are Infinite, in which &#8220;bigness&#8221; swims like a tadpole.</p>



<p>My point is that our True Identity and Actual Condition is not an idea, a self concept, a thought, a belief or a thing, an object.</p>



<p>It appears that way to us in the same way water in a vase appears to be identical to the shape of the vase. It is natural and understandable that we identify with our bodies and minds and self concepts. This is God dressing up in costumes and playing characters on a Stage. </p>



<p>The All Important Distinction is between the Actor and the Character. Is the Actor identical to the Character? No. After the show, the Actor goes home.</p>



<p>Does the Character have an existence apart from the Actor? No. The Character is made entirely from the Actor.  </p>



<p>This is the Word made Flesh, the Incarnation of God into Man.</p>



<p>God the Actor became Man the Character.</p>



<p>When the Show is over (ego death and transcendence) only the Actor remains in his Home.</p>



<p>The Actor is not dependent on the Character for His Existence.</p>



<p>Understanding this enables the Character to release his identity as an figure in a costume on a stage and realize its unity with and identicalness to the Actor.</p>



<p>This is called Dying before you die.</p>



<p>This is the Portal for Humanity, the Doorway that has been blocked by those who would stifle human growth and development. Have you ever noticed that every time we make a little progress as a species, catastrophe hits? That&#8217;s not a coincidence.</p>



<p>Our maturity and adulthood and magnificence as a species are constantly being bombarded and tortured to death by the fear based control freaks who run this planet.</p>



<p>Our responsibility as a human family is to recognize that our always existing unity as a single species is constantly being undermined and sabotaged by the powers that shouldn&#8217;t be because they know how powerful we would be if we knew the truth. Our responsibility is to take back the power that we allowed to be stolen from us and stop being willing participants in abuse.</p>



<p>Every one of us are accomplices in our own self abuse and the abuse we tolerate in our beautiful world. Therefore, the first step in our recovery is to stop abusing ourselves with infantile ideas and put an end to all master/slave relationships. </p>



<p>Weak individuals are cultivated by the State and we are all force fed false Narratives 24/7. The truth is that all problems are manufactured and marketed by the State as emergencies that require control grids and lockdowns, for the Public Safety. The provably false Covid Narrative is just the latest example. The looming Lockdowns to mitigate Climate Change is another one.  </p>



<p>We have the ability to Recognize what is always already True and Acknowledge our always already Existing Unity as One Human Family and Wake up to this Undeniable Fact, simultaneously.</p>



<p>Imagine if every soldier, every health care worker, every bus driver and school teacher and carpenter all said No to abuse and domination and division and extortion and fear based control tactics. Disobeying orders from our superiors that are inhumane and loveless is the Revolution we need.</p>



<p>No injections. No masks. No lockdowns. No censorship. No coercion. No domination. No shaming. No attacking. No invalidation. No self righteous condemnation. No invasion. No intrusion. No men in women&#8217;s private spaces. No victim/perpetrator collusions. No co-dependence. No more childish abdication of our adult responsibilities. No more loveless behavior. No more neglect of What Matters.</p>



<p>Instead, we Embrace Life and get it through our thick skulls that Life is a Gift. It&#8217;s even called the Present. Every breath. Every meal. Every beam of sunlight. All Gifts, Freely Given.</p>



<p>Therefore, that is how we should live: Grateful for the Gift of Life, Grateful for the Opportunity to Give the Gift of Life.  Willing to do the work that is required. Willing to be corrected when we have made a mistake. Willing to discard every false notion and belief out of love for what is true.</p>



<p>As a species, we don&#8217;t deserve world peace because we have allowed ourselves to believe lies. There is only one way out: To turn back to our Source. Turn back to the Actor Who became our Characters out of Love. Stop wandering around and loitering in the objects of our Awareness like the Prodigal Son and return to the Father (Awareness).</p>



<p>That&#8217;s the First Step. Everything else will take care of Itself. </p>



<p>The Father welcomes us back with open arms and prepares a Feast  to celebrate our return.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Whatsoever  you do unto the least of my brethren, that you do also unto me&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ Do you really think that the way you treat yourself and others escapes Notice? Do you really think]]></description>
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<p>Jesus Christ</p>



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<p>Do you really think that the way you treat yourself and others escapes Notice?</p>



<p>Do you really think that nothing matters? That you can act with impunity? As if what you think, say and do has no meaning or consequence?</p>



<p>This essay is designed to demonstrate how every single thing we do and don&#8217;t do expresses our not so hidden assumptions.</p>



<p>For example:</p>



<p>If I assume I am a separate thing, a body/mind/person who came into this world (instead of from it), like a leaf which doesn&#8217;t realize it comes from the tree, operating on my own 20 horsepower, then guess what? </p>



<p>I become a caricature of myself, a presumptuous and vain overlay of arrogance onto innocence. Its a default position, barely alive.</p>



<p>Let me explain.</p>



<p>The very  moment you identify exclusively with the <em><strong>content </strong></em>of your experience, your body/mind/self and all its perceptions and perspectives. that&#8217;s  the very moment you abandon the <em><strong>Awareness</strong></em> which makes the whole experience possible in the first place.</p>



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<p></p>



<p>Does the Screen of Awareness need the Image of the Body/mind/self/universe to Exist?</p>



<p>No.</p>



<p>Does the Body/mind/self/universe need the Screen of Awareness to exist?</p>



<p>Yes, the Image is made up entirely by the Screen, 100%. </p>



<p>The Image exists entirely by the ability of the Screen to pixelate, to refract its Clear Light into color, shape, space and time.</p>



<p>When we identify exclusively with the Image, we overlook the Screen and subject ourselves to the limitations of the Image.</p>



<p>This produces fear and suffering, competition, strategies and techniques designed to ensure our survival, an impossibility.</p>



<p>But, when we face Reality and the Primacy of Awareness as our True Identity, it doesn&#8217;t matter if Images appear or not. The Screen Exists independently of the Image.</p>



<p>Imposing our temporary, impermanent, mortal identities upon the Eternal Presence of Life is understandable, yes, but it is still a monumental error.</p>



<p>Unless the Image understands itself to be one with the Screen, exquisitely intimate and not separate from it, then a terrible fear and a desperate angst in inevitable.</p>



<p>The character on the stage is made entirely of the actor and his costume. He does not lament when the play is over, nor does the actor who goes home after the show.</p>



<p>Were the character to create an identity for himself, independent of the actor, he would suffer.</p>



<p>He has no identity apart from the actor. The actor and the audience make an agreement to tell a story, to enact roles and to forget that the character is an agreed upon fiction.</p>



<p>Unless the character is seen as an enjoyable and highly entertaining fiction, there will be suffering.</p>



<p>The suffering is a signal to Understand, like pain is a signal to take your hand out of the fire.</p>



<p>The refusal to face the Obvious, the insistence of a prosaic and provincial belief over the truth of our actual experience as Consciousness first/Image second is what creates egoity.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s a kind of sin, a crime against ourselves.</p>



<p>I call this spiritual pedophilia, a molestation of the Sacred by the Profane.</p>



<p>This is a very difficult admission to make, but I admit it.</p>



<p>Please see my essay Confessions of an Egoholic for more detail.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Whirlpool and the River</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Whirlpool and the River by robert cinque The whirlpool is made entirely of the river. It has a unique]]></description>
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<p>The Whirlpool and the River</p>



<p>by robert cinque</p>



<p>The whirlpool is made entirely of the river. It has a unique identity for a while, then it dissolves and another whirlpool forms.</p>



<p>The whirlpool is a feature of the river. It does not and could not exist independently from it. The whirlpool did not create the river and is a natural consequence of it.</p>



<p>The body and mind and our sense of ourself as an independent organism are made entirely of the River of Awareness. We have a unique identity for a while, then we dissolve and another lifetime forms.</p>



<p>The bodymindself is a feature of the Torrential, <strong><em><u>Passionate</u></em></strong> Current of Life, the Conscious Living Intelligence Which Is Alive As All Things. We do not and could not exist independently of Consciousness, the <em><strong>only God there is.</strong></em></p>



<p>Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain and the universe are a natural consequence of Infinite Consciousness. Confusion about this prevents intimacy between God and ego.</p>



<p>Is there a distance between the river and the whirlpool? Between the image and the screen?</p>



<p>No.</p>



<p>And, when the Whirlpool and the Image disappear, do the River and the Screen also disappear?</p>



<p>No.</p>



<p>The Joke is that God is hiding in your Ego. It is literally a Game of Hide and Seek. A Magic Trick of Now you see me, Now you don’t.</p>



<p>The ego forms in the Ecstatic Current of Love just like a whirlpool forms in a River. The problem is not&nbsp; the whirlpool or the ego.</p>



<p>The problem is bonehead ideas <strong><em><u>about</u></em></strong> the ego and all its many limitations and problems. The problem is assuming that when the whirlpool dissolves, Life is over.</p>



<p>This is like saying the river disappears when whirlpools dissolve.</p>



<p>The whirlpool’s fear of dissolving prevents intimacy with the river.</p>



<p>What should we do about this?</p>



<p>Nothing. Just let the River be the River.</p>



<p>This is why authentic Spiritual Life is easier than falling off a log. How much effort does it take to be attracted to what is beautiful?</p>



<p>None.</p>



<p>How much discipline and meditation and practices are required to Notice the Obvious?</p>



<p>None</p>



<p>Any dumbshit, all bonehead, stupid idiots and fools, can become enlightened spiritual masters simply by noticing What Is Always Already the Case.</p>
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		<title>The Hammer and the Nail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 04:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hammer and the Nail The hammer sees only the nail. Everything that is not a nail goes unnoticed. The]]></description>
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<p>The hammer sees only the nail. Everything that is not a nail goes unnoticed.</p>
<p>The ego sees only what it desires.&nbsp;Everything that is not a desire goes unnoticed.</p>
<p>The hammer is designed to drive nails. The ego is designed to get what it wants.&nbsp; There is nothing wrong with this.</p>
<p>Nails comes naturally to hammers and desires come naturally to egos.&nbsp; Changing this is impossible.</p>
<p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>My point is this: If I am only an ego with a hammer, then I can only nail my desires or desire my nails.&nbsp; However, if I am the one who is aware of my ego and hammer, then my experience of life expands infinitely in all directions and I notice everything, not just nails and desires.&nbsp; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
<p>Making this distinction is the beginning of authentic spiritual life. This is because spiritual life is about what is true, not just what is assumed to be true that then becomes a massive context to which everything is now subject.</p>
<p>The ego is an assumption of a separate self that is then overlaid onto life.&nbsp; If I subject my awareness to this assumption, these ego colored glasses, then I will see only what the ego sees.</p>
<p>If I identify with my awareness, then I am open to whatever awareness is aware of, which is a helluva lot more than nails and desires. I’m still aware of them, but am not limited to just them.</p>
<p>Every religious tradition in the world, from Hinduism to the New Age, &nbsp;is based on the assumption of a separate self. Therefore, it is an overlay projected onto life.&nbsp; It’s not about Life, it’s about assumptions about life.&nbsp; It’s the difference between food and pictures of food.&nbsp; If you try to live on pictures of food, you will die.</p>
<p>The Current of Life, the Pulse, the Music, the Passion, the Intensity, the Searing Radiance of Existence is central to Life, not provincial superstitions like ego.&nbsp; It’s understandable that we invent superstitions and project them onto life.&nbsp; It’s understandable, yes, but that doesn’t make them true.</p>
<p>Every religious tradition assumes a separates self that is going from here to there, from earth to heaven, from birth to death.&nbsp; While it is true that lifeforms are born and die, the underlying Reality in which these cycles are occurring is the Real Deal.&nbsp; The fish in the ocean are born and die, but the Ocean remains. Therefore, the Ocean is the True Condition of the fish, not its’ ideas about itself.&nbsp; The fish would say, “What Ocean?”</p>
<p>In the same way, the ego says, What God?&nbsp; I exist, what I say and what I think and what I want are God. In this way, false gods are overlaid onto Real God, Life God, Reality God, Actual God.&nbsp; Beliefs about God replace God.&nbsp; Now, you’re lost. You’re lost and don’t know it.&nbsp; You’ve got your nose so close to the map, you can’t see where you’re going.</p>
<p>The priests say, “You’re not doing it right.”&nbsp; The doctors say, “Take this prescription and come back in 2 weeks”.&nbsp; The therapist says, “Apply this formula so that you can heal and adapt to society”</p>
<p>Ho fucking hum.&nbsp; Religious, medical, and therapeutic prescriptions for a false disease bore me. Not only that, they really piss me off because well meaning people believe this shit and are so buried, you can’t even see the bottom of the hole.</p>
<p>“If you repeat a lie enough, everyone will believe it”</p>
<p>“A lie doesn’t become truth because everyone believes it.&nbsp; A truth doesn’t become a lie because no one sees it”</p>
<p>The individuated self appears spontaneously in Nature, just like stars, planets and galaxies.&nbsp; These are objects OF consciousness.&nbsp; We are aware OF them.&nbsp; Therefore, consciousness is prior TO them. This means that Consciousness is the Principle of Existence, not objects, not thoughts, not ideas, not beliefs, not “your truth”, not mine, not your ego, not mine.</p>
<p>Now, you ask, What is Consciousness? Your awareness of Awareness enables you to ask this question. Consciousness becomes an object to itself.&nbsp; This is called Manifest Existence, the Universe, the Word become Flesh, the Incarnation of the Divine, the Kingdom of Heaven, the Garden of Eden.&nbsp; Where there is awareness of Awareness, the Nature of Reality shines brightly and illuminates the map to the point where you see that you have been eating the menu for the Meal.&nbsp; It’s the difference between pictures of sex and sex itself.&nbsp; Which do you prefer?</p>
<p>Spiritual life is about Truth, Absolute Truth, What has always been True, not absolute beliefs, dogmatic presumptions, or facsimiles of Truth.</p>
<p>No separate self ever realized the Truth. The Truth illuminates the separate self to the point where it is outshined and becomes transparent.&nbsp; Spiritual luminaries like Jesus and Adi Da were not separate selves.&nbsp; They were identified with the Divine Condition.&nbsp; Jesus spoke like God speaks, that’s why he was crucified.&nbsp; He wasn’t a megalomaniac, the separate self was not inflated to grandiose proportions, there was no separate self, only a clear passage for Truth to Radiate.</p>
<p>That’s why he wanted us to contemplate his State and put our attention on It, so that It would duplicate his realization in us.&nbsp; It was never about cultic worship of him, it was about the destruction of the cultist and his or her false presumptions about separateness from Love (God), our Actual Condition. This is true repentance, the renouncement of the false self and its idols, so that Love Intimacy, Heart Communion with Life is possible.&nbsp; Love Communion with Infinite Life is authentic spiritual practice.&nbsp; It’s the difference between a Juicy Kiss and a boring book that you’ve read a thousand times and doesn’t even have any pictures.</p>
<p>Spiritual life is not boring, is not dry, is not effortful.&nbsp; It takes no effort to be attracted to What is True, Beautiful, and Alive as all things. &nbsp;It’s real time love communion, not brain/mind ideas plastered onto Life. Everyone possesses this ability.&nbsp; It may be buried beneath the rubble, but it’s still there.&nbsp; Dig it up.</p>
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		<title>Confessions of an Egoholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;by Robert Cinque &#160; From the shock of my birth and the fear of my death, I doubt and collapse]]></description>
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<p>From the shock of my birth and the fear of my death, I doubt and collapse from Love, my True Condition, and dramatize betrayal, abandonment, and worthlessness</p>
<p>I collapse from love and create suffering through self pity and blame</p>
<p>I blame others and transfer ownership of myself to them.</p>
<p>I create scapegoats and false gods in my rage.</p>
<p>I destroy Love and betray it and accuse others of betraying me</p>
<p>I create doubt and fear.&nbsp; When I fear I want security.&nbsp; When I want security, I empower false gods, tyrants, experts, strategies, and substances to save me.</p>
<p>I am a fundamentalist, a fascist, and a tyrant in an ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I enslave others in my hellish condition of dread</p>
<p>I abuse others with my self pity</p>
<p>I dramatize abandonment and rejection and self pity and fuel all my other lesser addictions with it.</p>
<p>I harm myself and others with my addiction to a false self, an idea, a victim/robot who imagines itself to be separate from Love</p>
<p>I am a cultic worshipper in my exclusive ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I imprison others by my withdrawal from Love</p>
<p>I condemn others to the dungeons of my lovelessness</p>
<p>I betray Life by my withdrawal from Love.</p>
<p>My collapse and withdrawal from Love is sickening and starves all my relations.</p>
<p>I use these conditions to justify my accusations of betrayal.</p>
<p>I use other’s failure to love me to justify my own failure.</p>
<p>I betray Love and blame others for it</p>
<p>I reject love, then dramatize betrayal.</p>
<p>I make others wrong</p>
<p>I impose my agenda</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict because I notice the obvious Beauty and Love at the Heart of Existence <em><u>and the way in which I obstruct it.</u></em></p>
<p>I am not separate from Life and Love</p>
<p>I am free to be in alignment with Life and Love or not.</p>
<p>I am responsible for the consequences of my alignment or non alignment with Life and Love.</p>
<p>I use my non alignment with Life and Love as an excuse and reason for self pity</p>
<p>I am inherently, already unified with what is always already the Case: seamless unity between consciousness and matter, God and self, whole and part.</p>
<p>I am recovering from self pity and the willingness to tolerate lovelessness in myself</p>
<p>I am a whirlpool in a River of Light</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.</p>
<p>I am responsible For and To Love.</p>
<p>I maintain Heartfelt Intimacy with the Truth of Love, the Core of Reality.</p>
<p>I do not withdraw from my Actual Condition as a Whirlpool in this River.</p>
<p>I trust the White-Hot Core of Existence.</p>
<p>I trust Life’s Brilliance.</p>
<p>I am thrilled by the Intensity and Freedom and Love of Life</p>
<p>Life flows from Love, the Condition of all things</p>
<p>I am Always Already one with Life</p>
<p>Life is Love, I am That</p>
<p>Life is Love</p>
<p>Love is Truth</p>
<p>Truth is God</p>
<p>God is Reality</p>
<p>Reality is Light</p>
<p>Light is Love</p>
<p>I Love Life</p>
<p>I am responsible for Love</p>
<p>I am responsible to Love</p>
<p>My revulsion at my failure to love is the beginning of awakening</p>
<p>My responsibility for Love is authentic spiritual practice.</p>
<p>I am responsible for my choice of contexts, concepts, and conclusions, including their effects, outcomes and consequences.</p>
<p>I am free to love and to be what I already am, or not</p>
<p>I am responsible for everything I think, say, and do and their effect, implication, and consequence are my responsibility</p>
<p>I am responsible for the suffering I create.</p>
<p>I am intrinsically intimate with all beings.</p>
<h3><strong>I am a recovering ego addict</strong></h3>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Robert Cinque Finding out that my life has been based upon lie after lie is sickening and painful. I]]></description>
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<p>by Robert Cinque</p>



<p>Finding out that my life has been based upon lie after lie is sickening and painful. I threw up, like Neo in the movie The Matrix, when he discovered that his so called life was a dream, a nightmare of horrors, lie upon lie.</p>



<p>His awakening was bloody and painful. He did not greet it with a smile, he had to recover from it, his own awakening! The truth is so massive, so crushing, no one can endure its weight.</p>



<p>The Truth literally crushes you to death, and that is why Awakening is about It, not “me”. Your identity as a separate entity will not survive the journey to enlightenment. The Truth hurts, but it’s still the Truth, still Life Giving. There is no need for beliefs when you have the Truth, or rather, when It has you.</p>



<p>In our world, it’s not only the tyrants who lie their asses off, it’s the priests and doctors too, unwitting administrators of torture and falsehood. They promote lies they sincerely believe.</p>



<p>But does the truth care about my beliefs about it? No. Do my ideas affect the truth? No.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Maps are not the Territory. Menus are not the Meal.</h3>



<p>Eat the Real, Live the Territory.</p>



<p>The Territory is the Radiant Conscious Field of Intelligent Light, the Impossible Wonder of the Presence of Life. The Meal is the ecstatic Whole Body Enjoyment of this undeniable Truth: the entirety of Reality Itself is your most fundamental identity now, we are absolutely inherently identical to Whatever the Fuck It Is that became us, little ole you and me, go figure. When we finally come to grips with the mind shattering reality of our Actual Condition, now, we will be able to manage our lives and this planet without conflict.</p>



<p>The Map is a compilation of our scientifically materialistic, religiously psychotic, politically constipated, culturally anemic ideas about It. Our job is to move from the Map to the Territory.</p>



<p>In my last essay, Whatever Destroyed the Towers Could Power the Planet, I identified 3 lies, 3 social memes that infect the body of Humanity and regulate its behavior just as surely as our genes rule our bodies.</p>



<p>Here is one more, the most basic lie of all, the one that most enables our domination by the Matrix.</p>



<p>Ego.</p>



<p>The so-called ego is born from an assumption. It is not an entity, but a belief in one, a belief in a separate self, one that is marooned on an island of flesh. Belief in the ego is the result of a confusion about uniqueness, where individuation becomes the equivalent of separation. The ego is a belief, a primitive superstition, a cult of one, an emotional recoil dramatized as abandonment and betrayal. Every ego is a fundamentalist, a fascist, and a tyrant in a drama of perpetrator/victim. I call it the Poor me/Fuck you syndrome.</p>



<p>The truth is, I don’t have an ego and neither do you! We have a belief in ego, an assumption about our state that has no basis in Reality itself. A belief in something doesn’t make it true, no matter how devout we are, no matter how dedicated we may be to that belief. Pious devotion to falsehood turns people into fools. When you unpack your “self” and all its contents, it turns out to be just a pile of old books and dirty laundry.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The One who did the unpacking, That’s Who I Am. You too.</h3>



<p>There is only one Reality, not two. The One became the “two”. Still, no “objects” actually exist, only Consciousness Exists. You are That, showing up like a Fish in the Ocean.</p>



<p>You are the Ocean, the Fish, and the Observer, all at once. How can this be? No one knows.</p>



<p>It just is.</p>



<p>You showed up out of nowhere because two people you didn’t even know had sex, now you’re an expert on everything because of all the great things you believe in. The problem is, you don’t know jack shit and not only that, you don’t know that you don’t know jack shit, a very dangerous situation. It’s important to know when you are confused. Well, I’m telling you. You’re confused, you don’t know jack shit and neither do I. That’s our situation. All we know is what we think we know. Reality Itself is unknowable, because finite minds, local space/time perspectives on the Whole just don’t cut it! How could they? This sounds like really bad news because if I can’t know It and I don’t know jack shit, how can I survive? How can I control things?</p>



<p>This question and the answer we provide is the birth of the so-called separate self, the “ego”.</p>



<p>The separate self is born when I imagine myself to be threatened by the awesome forces of birth and change and death. The appropriate heart response to this Infinite Current is a Gasp That Takes My Breath Away, not fear, not doubt, not withdrawal. That’s right. Who am I to judge or criticize or condemn Life? What the Fuck do I know?</p>



<p>Once I recognize my profound ignorance in the face of Infinite Life, I suddenly, unexpectedly, become identified with It, bonded to It, not separate from It. My knowledge about It ceases to be an obstruction to its Fierce Power and I see that It is not an “Object”, not “other”, and that I am not only inherently intimate with It, I am It, It is “me”. It’s a profound, mysterious and terribly passionate Love Affair, in which I am happy to Drown.</p>



<p>It is my true identity, not “me”. The “me” suddenly becomes weightless, transparent, and extremely sensitive to literally everything.</p>



<p>Enlightenment is perfect non- obstruction to the White Hot Core of the Living Current and results in a deeply felt emotional sensitivity to literally everything, a vulnerability to and passion for Whatever the Fuck It Is. I don’t know What It is, all I know is that I love It, I am in Awe of it, I trust It, I align myself with It, beyond and before the mind and its ideas. I am prior to the mind, a realization which makes the mind useful, otherwise, it’s a real bitch, as you know, your mind and everyone else’s. This is what Jean-Paul Sartre meant when he said “Hell is other people”, the basis of his play, Nausea. Hell is “me” and “you” grotesque and monstrous impersonations of our Real Condition, a Frankenstein run amuck in the Kingdom of the Real, the Infinite Heart of Love.</p>



<p>But, instead of mystical euphorias and other caricatures of enlightenment, you get complicated and painful ordeals of the heart. Instead of gleeful happiness and “fulfillment” you get a bleeding, oozing wound that never heals. Instead of glamorous rewards for your search for God, you get the utter destruction of the searcher.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">This is not what I expected.</h3>



<p>I thought I would be adorned in shining robes and bathed in light when I became enlightened, but I am being crucified on this cross of light and dark. Still, I do not suffer, even though Awakening really hurts. How can this be? Pain without suffering? What? Yes. How can this be? I do not know. All I know is that I trust the excruciating Pain. Do you? Or do you turn it into blame and self pity?</p>



<p>Now, as a result of recovering from your illusions about yourself, your Actual Condition at Infinity becomes painfully clear. You start to become animated, humorous, and irreverent. You poke fun at very serious issues and you crack jokes about really painful subjects. People can’t understand you, what the fuck is wrong with you?</p>



<p>You woke up, that’s what.</p>



<p>Now, you have to deal with it. So do they. Their job will be much easier than yours though, because they can just ignore you or write you off as a nutcase. They would be exactly correct. According to the rules of this world, you are a nutcase, thank heaven.</p>



<p>Your true, actual, always already existing identity, is not a separate self, but the very One Who Is Alive As All Things. You are That, me too. The ego idea is a preposterous and ridiculous lie, an assumption, not an “entity” that needs to be overcome. No such entity exists, never has, never could, it’s impossible. Stop making the presumption of egoity, and your life will get better, stronger, more fundamentally true and alive. This is not a prescription for a real disease, only for an imaginary one, but one with real and deadly consequences.</p>



<p>Overcome your belief in a separate self, then, What is already true, What has always been the Case, will become perfectly Obvious. The Truth is the Truth, now. Also, our Singularity as a species has always existed, it’s just that it has been overtaken by ego insane ideas, just like our personal identities.</p>



<p>Our job is to restore our sanity, our personal and common humanity, by recognizing what is absolutely, fundamentally true: one, singular Consciousness is the nature of Reality. There is no inherent problem with Existence, no dilemma, no threat. All things, all worlds and universes are absolutely coherent and perfectly coincide with the Eternal Radiant Transcendental Being of Existence Itself, the Person of Love. Creating problems where none exist is the ego hell of ordinary life. It is arbitrary and unnecessary. Ego belief is easily transformed when the nature of Reality becomes apparent. Whirlpools don’t exist without a River. The bodymindself is a whirlpool that becomes an ego when it can’t Find the River.</p>



<p>This is the same message as the Original Gospel of Jesus: prior, already existing unity with the Divine Reality, and is the very message that got him killed. The world is based on the ego lie of separation which necessitates salvation schemes and atonement rituals which Jesus routinely condemned in public. They strung him up as quickly as possible and crucified him as a dangerous heretic. Later, he became the poster boy for blood sacrifice. This is an example of how the Truth is weaponized. Jesus had great credibility among the people, he was intensely loved, he was the greatest mouthpiece the Pharisees and Rome could ever hope for, so he became the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”. In this way, the ego lie was kept in place and Jesus was used like a nail in that coffin.</p>



<p>The ego lie is the most fundamental premise of the world, which is why we have scientific materialism, the idea that consciousness comes from the brain, and religious superstition which imagines parental deities who must be placated and obeyed, a clearly childish context. An adult context would be heart felt love communion with That, not mommy-daddy appeasement rituals.</p>



<p>Humanity is like a child who has been severely used and abused. Our task is to recover from the lies we believed and the abuse we both endured and participated in and enabled. We must mature in this way on both a personal and a planetary level.</p>



<p>We can do it and we must.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Robert Cinque Humanity’s endless dramatization of rejection and abandonment in the face of simply being born an individual creates the]]></description>
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<p>Humanity’s endless dramatization of rejection and abandonment in the face of simply being born an individual creates the conditions for tyranny, slavery, and endless impoverishment.  The emotional withdrawal and collapse from love into fragments or mere ideas about ourselves (divisions, cartoons, facsimiles, psychosis, victims, self pity, and blame) is easily exploited by the Meme Makers who use our confusion and weakness as fuel for domination. Feeling separate from love creates suffering and fear.  The so-called ego is built on the shock of birth by turning it into “you don’t love me”.</p>
<p>Empires and Ecclesiastical Salvation Schemes are built on “rescuing” this “victim”.</p>
<p>This is extremely plain to see. And, when there are not enough victims, they are created. See Original Sin and 911 and countless other false flags, for details.</p>
<p>Planetary control is maintained by Shock and Rescue. 911, the number we call in an emergency. This is nothing new, just more sophisticated. It’s a racket, and the dynasties who own the banks run the planet through their secret clubs and private banks and debt ridden governments who wage their wars. They are thieves and traitors to humanity. They have trillion dollar assets and are com- puh-letely devoid of human empathy and warmth and do not give one rat’s ass about you or me. They are parasites and vampires and hide like cockroaches. It’s a master/slave scenario for them, sold as benevolence to us. I know you think this is paranoia, but it is not. They create wars and finance both sides, been doing it since Napoleon, works great. People are ruined, land is confiscated, power is maintained.</p>
<p>In my opinion, the only solution is for humankind to take back its’ power and issue its’ own currency, like the Constitution mandates, and not borrow it from thieves who stole it from us. That’s collusion, is it not? They lie, we believe it. It’s voluntary suicide through capitulation. We have to overcome our addiction to bonehead ideas about ourselves and stop being so exploitable and “tolerant”.</p>
<p>Tolerance of abuse is not love, it&#8217;s collusion. Anger at abuse is love. Respect your righteous indignation at violence and domination and your fury at abuse. Use it to clear the field for love to flourish. Anger is fire and exists to establish the conditions for love to grow, to burn the junk and gunk out of the way, plow through the rock hard shit of inequality, master/slave, victim/ego, self pity/blame, vanity, arrogance, domination, and injustice.</p>
<p>Then we can Plant the Seed of Love, build a fence around it, place guards around it 24/7, and arrest anyone who trespasses on this Sacred Ground, as an act of love. That&#8217;s authentic human culture and it springs forth when the Ground has been cleared and the Sacred is at the center, and not until.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s our job to hold the Ground for the Sacred. By taking that responsibility, we will grow up and we will dissolve the mountains of Lies by the Radiance of our Hearts. That Radiance appears as all the emotions. Anger has been especially demonized because people misuse it and create violence. True anger prevents violence. Righteous anger is a virtue, until it becomes an excuse for violence,  a weapon.</p>
<p>The fire can heat your home, cook your food, and burn the house down if you&#8217;re not careful.</p>
<p>My point is that we ought to be angry at ourselves for telling and believing lies, and to stop. Use the anger and disgust to clear the Space for Love. You are not an idea. You are not a thing, a self. You are the Aliveness of Infinite Existence. This awareness has been buried by cardboard ideas, props, assumptions about &#8220;me&#8221;. Who you are is beyond and before any assumption. You are the Awareness of the assumption. Awareness is not a thing, it&#8217;s a Situation, a Condition. It is what Existence is, a vast endless Ocean of Awareness. And, every person&#8217;s awareness, every frog&#8217;s, every cat&#8217;s, is the same Ocean. A king at the surface of the Ocean and a slime worm at the bottom are in the same Ocean. The king is not more in the Ocean than the worm, just because he&#8217;s a king and is near the surface. Life is equal. Bullshit ideas about ourselves make it unequal and unjust. There is nothing to fear when you&#8217;re eternal. You are the Eternal splashing through the cycles of birth and death. What&#8217;s the problem? Let Life Be the Way it Likes to Be. Eternal and Mortal, simultaneously. Who are you or me to criticize that? What the Fuck do we know?</p>
<p>So, here is my solution for suffering and fear and what to do about how the world works: Stop believing lies. Use your anger at abuse to create Life and Love. Establish the Sacred at the center of your Life. Notice how Life is completely without ego, self division, or dilemma. Life is Free. Life is Love. Life is Light. This Light always Shines above the clouds of ego. When this is realized planet wide, tyrants go broke, priests have to get real jobs, and ordinary, decent people inherit the Earth.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[I Found the Culprit Obsession with 911 led me right to the culprit: me. By believing their lies, I empower]]></description>
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<p><strong>I Found the Culprit</strong></p>
<p>Obsession with 911 led me right to the culprit: me.</p>
<p>By believing their lies, I empower tyrants to enslave me.</p>
<p>Through my willingness to subjugate who I am and what is mine, I enable addicts of domination to control me.</p>
<p>By believing that the official pronouncements about realityare equal to Reality itself, I betray the truth.</p>
<p>To hide my complicity, I blame big government and corporations and the banks who plundered what belongs to everyone.&nbsp; I let them.</p>
<p>I let religious and scientific and political experts to tell me what is true.</p>
<p>I let the public debate descend into trivialities and ignore the fundamental obligation of freedom: responsibility and accountability for what is true.</p>
<p>I am responsible for what I believe.&nbsp; When I equate stories about the truth with the truth itself, I default and betray that truth. Ideas are maps of the truth, not identical to the territory they describe.&nbsp; When I fail to make this distinction, my ideas become idols and I become a cult of one. My silence about my actual condition is collusion with the tyrant.&nbsp; This is why what really happened on 911 must be exposed.</p>
<p>For now, I want to look at the Perpetrator side of the equation.&nbsp; In my sheep costume, I am the Enabler, and the Perpetrators are the wolves, the Rothschild/London/Israel/US financial/military/pharmaceutical assault weaponry being employed against the people of the world.&nbsp; The Mossad and CIA stage events like 911 for the sake of blaming their enemies and invading their countries to “hunt down terrorists”.&nbsp; The tyrant always appears as a Protector.&nbsp; He needs something to protect against.&nbsp; That is what CIA/ Mossad do.&nbsp; Bin Laden was a CIA asset, as are all the Mujahadin, perfect patsies, just like Oswald. These agencies control the context in which the news is presented.</p>
<p>I have been fed lies from the beginning.&nbsp; At my birth, criminalized by the Doctrine of Original Sin and all throughout my life, I have inherited truly monstrous and grotesque lies.&nbsp; Worse, much worse, I believed them.&nbsp; I learned to confuse official stories about reality with reality itself.&nbsp; That’s how I became an Enabler.</p>
<p>Truth is the authority.&nbsp; What is real is the proof.</p>
<p>First it was Original Sin, then mommydaddygod who punishes humanity with disasters, so you better watch out, you better not pout.&nbsp; He’s in control of everything too, it’s all “His will”.&nbsp; When I was a kid in Catholic School, I secretly figured that, if this is true, the Almighty ought to be fired and let’s get somebody else in there, this world is a catastrophe.</p>
<p>Now, it’s the ”War on Terror” and getting all those bad guys.&nbsp; Sure is great to have big brother and the Patriot Act with all those terrorists running around and all.</p>
<p>The tyrant is disguised as protector.&nbsp; He creates disasters so that he can save us.&nbsp; He is the terrorist and he creates catastrophes that he blames on his enemy.&nbsp; This is what secret intelligence agencies like the CIA and Mossad do for their country, they blow things up and kill people and then blame it on the “enemy” so that we can go invade their country and hunt them down because we’re the good guys and they’re evil.&nbsp; This is a weaponized cartoon,&nbsp; presented as reality.</p>
<p>The Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 911, are all false flag psy-ops perpetrated on a gullible humanity.&nbsp; Now, it looks like Fukushima, too.</p>
<p>Lies kill.&nbsp; The lie of America being the innocent victim of Japan led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.&nbsp; 911 has led us to the militarization of the planet.&nbsp; Surveillance industries and prisons are by far the greatest growth sectors of the economy.&nbsp; This is because we believe the perpetrators even when they tell us about 19 hijackers and how they melted the towers.</p>
<p>Original sin is the lie I hate the most, the one that criminalizes birth and locks us into a prison of mind ruled by guilt and shame, now I need salvation.&nbsp; The real sin is believing this shit. Repent.</p>
<p>The movie, The Matrix depicts a real situation:&nbsp; mankind born into a prison he cannot see.&nbsp; Not until he chooses to see, that is.&nbsp; Neo was driven by an intuition that something was dreadfully wrong, but he could not see what. He was compelled to find a teacher, someone who knew what was really happening. which led him to Morpheus, the ancient Greek god of&nbsp; Dreams.</p>
<p>Neo <strong><em>chose</em></strong> to take the red pill. This is risky and dangerous, but the alternative is much worse, so he jumped down the rabbit hole and found out how the world really works.</p>
<p>In the same way, we jump down that hole and see the naked truth, to see that we collude in our own suffering, as individuals and as a species and then, to stop.&nbsp;&nbsp; The world does not have to be this way, it is the way it is because of the way that we are;&nbsp; it reflects our slavish servitude to lie upon lie upon lie.&nbsp; Suffering is voluntary, unnecessary.&nbsp; It exists through our default on ourselves and on Life Itself.</p>
<p>Repentance from the sin of believing lies is the first Office of authentic spiritual practice because it requires responsibility for yourself, for what you believe and for what you do and don’t do.&nbsp; It requires devotion and the commitment to finding out what is true. Life is precious.&nbsp; Life is love.&nbsp; We desecrate life with false beliefs and plaster them on to the Innocence of Reality, and its perfect absence of ego.&nbsp; Life has no ego, has no other, no opposite.&nbsp; Only Life exists.&nbsp; Life is God, Real God, not mommy daddy god, parental, creator god.&nbsp; These are idols of That which is God: the Radiant Wonder and Person of Love, the Unfathomable Mystery of Life.</p>
<p>If Reality is infinite, then it stretches outward and inward in space and forward and backward in time.&nbsp; If Existence is eternal, there is no beginning, no end, go figure.&nbsp; How could anything be eternal?&nbsp; How could anything come from nothing? How could what exists have no beginning?&nbsp; Its impossible, illogical, preposterous, but here you are reading this, hurtling through space around the sun, and&nbsp; around the center of the galaxy.&nbsp; This is one fat Mystery.&nbsp; Why does anything exist?&nbsp; What’s my relationship with this Wonder?</p>
<p>Default conclusion infecting humanity:</p>
<p>I’m fucked, nobody loves me, I’ve been abandoned, betrayed, marooned, and I’m pissed.&nbsp; This life hurts, I didn’t ask to be here, it’s bewildering, who knows what the truth is, let’s go get laid.</p>
<p>It’s a bit more complicated than this, but you get the picture.&nbsp; You know how complicated it is&nbsp; A human life lived from the perspective of an isolated island in a vast sea, emotionally disconnected from its source, is a horror full of suffering.&nbsp; This is a false belief, was never true.</p>
<p>Truth is not belief.&nbsp; Truth is Reality, Whatever that is.&nbsp; The truth is, we don’t know.&nbsp; No one knows what Reality is, or where it is, or how or why.&nbsp; Logically, rationally, there should be nothing, but the universe appears, our bodies and minds appear.&nbsp; From where?&nbsp; How could anything come from nothing? And, if it didn’t come from nothing, it had to always be here.&nbsp; How could something be eternal, without a beginning or an end?</p>
<p>People say, I know! God made it!</p>
<p>Question:&nbsp; Where did God come from?</p>
<p>I know!&nbsp; The Big Bang!</p>
<p>What was before the “Big Bang”?</p>
<p>The bare, stark Presence o Llife is an astonishing, impossible wonder.&nbsp; It is a stunning, staggering, miraculous beauty of paradox and duality and unity. It’s impossible to comprehend because the comprehension would have to be as big as Reality, which has no opposite, no equal.&nbsp; Every belief is only a map of this territory.&nbsp;&nbsp; Every living system from atoms to galaxies to human beings, is a fractal of the Whole Life, the one living presence appearing in and as all things.</p>
<p>This Current of Life is what people call God.&nbsp; We project our beliefs and assumptions onto life.&nbsp; When the ancients were flooded and lightning bolts cracked the earth, they thought God was mad and was punishing them.&nbsp; The priests told them they were sinful and must have a scapegoat to atone for their sins.&nbsp; The lie of blood sacrifice was born, and a completely false premise was created that has been used a weapon against an unsuspecting humanity for centuries.&nbsp; It’s like debt currency, counterfeit money.&nbsp; Real money is issued from the Treasury to represent Nature’s wealth and to facilitate the commerce and industries that develop to harvest and mine this freely given bounty. Real money has no debt, no interest, it is not loaned, it is spent by its owner, humanity, the one and only custodial beneficiary of Nature’s wealth.&nbsp; This wealth has been stolen by private banking cartels that then loan it to governments who pay the interest through taxes and subject their citizens to debt slavery, an economic weapon.&nbsp; The idea of blood sacrifice is no different.&nbsp; You are already, always, inherently one with whatever originated you now, not later when you have been atoned for.&nbsp; This was the original Gospel of Jesus. That’s why he was murdered, then he became the poster boy for blood sacrifice, a practice he vehemently condemned.&nbsp; Radiance, Coherence, Unity, Oneness, the Onlyness of Life, of Consciousness is the nature of Reality.&nbsp; This is not an ego belief.&nbsp; See for yourself.</p>
<p>The bug thinks it’s a bug.&nbsp; The water in the glass thinks it’s a glass.&nbsp; Just because the water fills the glass and takes its shape doesn’t mean that its no longer water, that now it’s a glass.&nbsp; No, it’s still water and will always be water no matter what shape it takes, bugs, you, me, the universe.&nbsp; Life is like the water.&nbsp; Only Life exists.&nbsp; This is the truth that sets the heart free. Whether it fills a glass or a galaxy, it makes no difference, its still water, still the same infinite life showing up everywhere in and as all things.&nbsp; You, me, we’re waves of patterns in the infinitely high pitch of life’s intensity.&nbsp; Think about that.&nbsp; You’re not some poor slob who showed up here by accident, just another insignificant speck on an endless beach.&nbsp; You’re a speck, you’re a glass, yes, but the glass, the body/mind/self, the local space/time coordinate we call you, is intimately, inherently coherent with the literal infinity of Life Itself.&nbsp; That means that who you are, your actual identity both transcends and includes the individual we call you.&nbsp; You are infinite consciousness, now, not just when you get enlightened.&nbsp; Enlightenment is the perfect realization of this, that which is already true, now.</p>
<p>Therefore, authentic spiritual practice begins with becoming responsible for the fact that I monkey wrench life up when I believe lies about myself and about Reality itself, whatever that is.</p>
<p>Lies like:</p>
<p>1 I have an ego (No, I have a belief in ego, the cult of the separate one)</p>
<p>2 Since I’m separate from whatever originated me, now I need salvation and rescuing by priests and scientists and experts.</p>
<p>3 Since I can’t figure things out, I’d better rely on the authorities to tell me what’s true</p>
<p>4 Belief in authority and the conventional models of existence is better than reliance upon my own inherent discriminating intelligence that recognizes truth (love) perfectly well without the need for any kind of priestly or scientifically sacramental ritual.</p>
<p>5&nbsp; I should believe what the authorities say instead of what I observe.</p>
<p>6&nbsp; I was born into sin and need the sacrifice of innocent beings to atone for my guilt and shame for having been born</p>
<p>7&nbsp; 911 was evil Muslims attacking America, now we are morally obligated to bring the terrorists to justice.</p>
<p><strong><em>Overcoming lies is authentic spiritual practice.&nbsp; </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong><strong><em>Being responsible for and to what is true is the foundation of truly human culture. </em></strong></p>
<p>Being appropriately related to the Wonder that lives us all is true religion, and it outshines all the mommydaddy appeasement rituals that are indulged in by the people and then used by the state to legitimize the conquest and domination of others, “God’s will” and all that.&nbsp; Poor God, gets blamed for everything, lies are constantly being put into God’s mouth and we believe it.</p>
<p>This is our work: to utilize our intelligence and our ability to do something more life giving than be slaves to ideas masquerading as truth.&nbsp; What does it say about us as a species, that we eat the shit we are fed?</p>
<p>How about this as a constant practice: Let us become appreciative of and deeply emotionally responsive to That What is Truly Great instead of our chronically constipated, doubt ridden, fear based, ego driven, scientifically materialistic, religiously psychotic, state funded, boneheaded ideas about It.</p>
<p>Then, truly human culture and Fundamental Whole Body Ecstatic Intimacy with the Radiant Core of the Living Current will be widespread, but not until we run away from home and set up camp in our own hearts.</p>
<p>Soon after that, the tyrants will be laughed off the planet, or go broke for lack of work.</p>
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		<title>The Spontaneous Outshining of Egoity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Cinque]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From shock and fear, I dramatize betrayal, abandonment, and worthlessness</p>
<p>I collapse from love and create suffering with self pity and blame</p>
<p>I blame others and transfer ownership of myself to them.</p>
<p>I create scapegoats and false gods in my rage.</p>
<p>I destroy Love and betray it and accuse others of betraying me</p>
<p>I create doubt and fear. When I fear I want security. When I want security, I empower false gods, tyrants, experts, strategies, and substances to save me.</p>
<p>I am a fundamentalist, a fascist, and a tyrant in an ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I enslave others in my hellish condition of dread</p>
<p>I abuse others with my self pity</p>
<p>I dramatize self pity and fuel all other addictions with it.</p>
<p>I harm others with my addiction to a false self that imagines itself to be separate from Love</p>
<p>I am a cultic worshipper in my exclusive ego cult of one.</p>
<p>I imprison others by my withdrawal from Love</p>
<p>I condemn others to the dungeons of my lovelessness</p>
<p>I betray Life by my withdrawal from Love.</p>
<p>My collapse and withdrawal from Love starves all my relations.</p>
<p>I use these conditions to justify my accusations of betrayal.</p>
<p>I use other’s failure to Love to justify my own failure.</p>
<p>I betray Love and blame others for it</p>
<p>I reject love, then dramatize betrayal.</p>
<p>I make others wrong</p>
<p>I impose my agenda</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.<br />
I notice the Obvious Beauty and Love at the Heart of Existence and the way in which I obstruct it.</p>
<p>I am not separate from Life and Love</p>
<p>I am free to be in alignment with Life and Love or not.</p>
<p>I am responsible for the consequences of my alignment or non alignment with Life and Love.</p>
<p>I use my non alignment with Life and Love as an excuse and reason for self pity</p>
<p>I am inherently, already one with what is always already the Case: seamless unity between consciousness and matter, God and self, whole and part..</p>
<p>I am recovering from self pity and the willingness to tolerate lovelessness in myself</p>
<p>I am a whirlpool in the River</p>
<h5>I am a recovering ego addict.</h5>
<p>I am responsible For and To Love, I maintain Heartfelt Intimacy with the Truth of Love, the Core of Reality. I do not withdraw from my Actual Condition as a Whirlpool in this River. I trust the White-Hot Core of Existence. I remain vulnerable, I trust Life’s Brilliance. I feel the Intensity and Freedom and Love of Life</p>
<p>Life flows from Love, the Condition of all things</p>
<p>I am Always Already one with Life</p>
<p>Life is Love, I am That</p>
<p>Love is God</p>
<p>God is Reality</p>
<p>Reality is Truth</p>
<p>Only God Exists</p>
<p>I am in Love with Life</p>
<p>I am responsible for Love</p>
<p>I am responsible to Love</p>
<p>My revulsion at my failure to love is the beginning of awakening</p>
<p>My responsibility for Love is authentic spiritual practice.</p>
<p>I am responsible for my choice of contexts, concepts, and conclusions, including their effects, outcomes and consequences.</p>
<p>I am free to love and to be what I already am</p>
<p>I am responsible for everything I think, say, and do and their effect, implication, and consequence are my responsibility</p>
<p>I am responsible for the suffering I create.</p>
<p>I am a recovering ego addict.</p>
<p>I am intrinsically Intimate with all beings. My family of Humankind upholds the truth of our deepest natures and our Inherent Coherence with all of Life. We Create Temples of the Heart and Establish Love and Freedom at the Center of Human Culture.</p>
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