WHAT’S GOING ON
#150 JANUARY 2007
ALONG THE WAY: A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are IT!
THIS MONTHS THOUGHT:
So, what is, is living by reporting ‘what is’ to X and seeing ‘what is’ as good, or valuable or worthwhile. And X operates upon it. In this way, man recognizes his oneness with X, with Spirit. If he could foresee and could change the future and change all the events in it he would have no comprehension of X. He would never realize his oneness with X, that he was a function of X. So, ‘what is’ is so designed by an almighty loving creator that one would be given every opportunity to discover one’s oneness with X. (From Lesson 11 Science of Man)
SCIENCE OF MAN: Lesson five
(continued from last month)
It is impossible for I that has been asleep, dead or blind, as so many parables and stories uses it, so long, to suddenly to be 100% capable. So, I will frequently go to sleep. But, when it wakes up again, I merely says, “I’m back on the job and reporting to X”. Now there will be a host of accusing “Not-I’s” the self-improving “I’s” that say you ought to believe and do as you’re told by authority and that is a very large family of them, because there’s been many authorities. One says you ought to be different. They will all accuse I for having gone to sleep from time to time. But I does not identify with them. Does not accept their accusations or their condemning and does not talk back to them. He merely reports there is accusing “Not-I’s” saying that the observer should never have gone to sleep. And X renders them inoperative. One does not contend with these “Not-I’s”. I is an observer and reporter to X and nothing else. It does not argue or play the lawsuit part with the “Not-I’s”. It only observes and reports. Now we will talk on these many times. But, do observe that a “Not-I” will jump up and try to give I a hard way to go because suddenly I wakes up and realizes it has not been observing self for several hours or maybe even days, who knows.
The tricks of the “Not-I’s” are many and very cunning, even seeming to be helping with the work of trying to straighten I out. Merely observe the many, many “Not-I’s” and totally dis-identify from the self. I am observing John and John is doing so and so. John is getting angry. John is dreaming up a story he’s going to tell to put himself in a good light. John is blaming Mary for making him mad. And I observes all of this going on within self, in the self, as something entirely separate. And it really is something separate. It has been something that’s added on. It’s not the real person at all. It is conditioning. It is a group of Pinocchio’s and I is reporting the Pinocchio’s to X.
Now, what is the function of awareness. It is to be an observer first and report what is. It reports what is true without any condemning or justifying. It merely reports. And the other thing it will do later is to begin to place relative values. It never judges. Only the self or conditioning judges. The judges says it’s good or it’s bad, according to whether it made me comfortable or not. Or whether it produced pain. It says it’s true or false according to how close it agrees with a given opinion of a “Not-I”. The I, the real observer, the function of X, reports what is, and later it will report its relative value. But, right now it’s merely reporting what is.
The function of the physical body is an instrument of the expression of X. The body is a function of X like the awareness is a function of X. And its function is to express into physical activity that which awareness said was true and valuable. And the body is the instrument of X, like the awareness is. Its first function is to maintain the instrument in existence. X keeps it in a state of repair. It prepares it for whatever awareness said was the actual circumstance. If awareness reports there’s great danger because someone disagreed with it, X prepares it to fight or run. And as we have seen, it must adapt to that. And if that adaptation is seen as a danger and not the work of X, then again, it is prepared to fight or run. And this gradually goes on to a deterioration. And the body falls apart. But if I is awake and aware and reports the body is functioning, it is adapting to your adaptation, it is burning up the mobilized and unreleased energy that one time when I was asleep one of the “Not-I’s” reported to you it was in danger. Then you see all the physical symptoms are over with very quickly and very shortly the body is being completely renewed, if correct information goes to X from I and the conditioning is dis-identified from, the body undergoes a rejuvenation the same as the awareness is a new man. Because it is no longer being used for purposes which do not exist, but which was reported by a “Not-I” in the name of I to X. Now as we observe this we will see how the body completely changes as I observes self and does not identify with self. Self owns houses, cars, opinions, bank accounts, viewpoints, rights, and I only observes. I am a function of X that observes the self and X renders inoperative those various bits of conditioning one by one as they are observed and reported to X. One does not have to judge, condemn or justify the “Not-I’s”. X knows what to do, the same as it knows what to do if the house is afire, and one reports it, X gets the being out. If one hears from the body that water is needed, one only reports to X – water is needed – It doesn’t say it is good or bad, and X gets the drink. Gets up, walks to the tap, to the refrigerator, pours out a drink, swallows it. All of which are miraculous happenings if one ever observes. Do you know how to walk, or are you only aware you want to go to the door and all of it just takes place and you experience the walking, you are aware of the walking. But if it was left up to one of us to figure out which muscles to move in sequence, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, in order to bring about the act of walking, there would be no walking.
Function is to bring about the play of X in awareness, bringing about the ever changing series of events that continually gives man all the values and the joys of living when he can report accurately. When he has been taken over by usurpers and they’re talking in his name, that function demonstrates very clearly that error is being reported to X. But X only accepts as fact everything that the awareness reports to it, whether it be from a “Not-“I” or an I. So we see very excellent reasons for observing the “Not-I’s”. They’re speaking in your name to the source of all energy.
A STORY: Inertia, resistance (they are the same) are the big ones for me. Daily walking and exercise are vital to my continued good physical health. I know that. However, all sorts of delay tactics take over. Instead of exercising, I go to the fridge for a drink of water, then on to the bathroom. I might as well tidy up the bathroom while I’m there. I hear the mailman stop at my box, so off I go to pick up the mail. This goes on and on and before I realize it, the sun has set. Hmmm. Too late to start an exercise program. I’ll do it tomorrow.
If I wait until I feel like doing it, it will never happen.
The Teachings remind me that we act ourselves into whatever feeling we want to feel. We do not feel or think ourselves into the action. I know this works because I have experimented with it. The resistance is sometimes more powerful than my intention!
Bottom line: I put more value on being non-disturbed than on the benefits of exercise/walking. Since I have openly and candidly admitted all of this, perhaps X will remove the huge “Not-I” that is intent on destroying this living being.
“ …second force (resistance) comes along to obstruct in some way, resist what the origination was. But without this second force there would be no strength, no power…”
Science of Man Lesson 11
I will remember.
FROM DR. BOB:
The whole thing is that we will choose to say from now on: “I am spirit having a human experience and none of these human experiences are important.” Can you remember that? Think you can do that? You can play that role from now on. Nobody can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are spirit having a human experience. But if we check it out we see that we are spirit, really, and humans are on this planet to gain experience, to understand humans. One of these days you will be something other than what you are today. And maybe your chore would be to work with people invisibly. And you would understand all human experience so you wouldn’t criticize the guy. You could understand him and work with him. When you know you are spirit having a human experience I don’t see any reason to get upset. This prevents the upset, not what to do about it. So what. It is just an experience and it really doesn’t matter. It will pass real quickly. Everything comes and goes. We can experience it freely.
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We can be integrated and function as ONE. The authorities and the assurances have to go. This is the kingdom of heaven. It is right here, right now. Not in some other time or some other place. We first see that we are responsible, therefore free to act and use all the power of the universe. This will not work if we want to be “safe” or “do it right”.
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The only way I can be angry with you is to believe that you knew better, but went ahead and did wrong anyway. This is anti-agape.
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We are the observer and the observed. We are the accuser and the accused. We are the tempter and the tempted. We are the frightener and the frightened. It is all inside us. All is in the picture of man.
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We have one basic instinct – the urge to union–the oneness with Spirit. We try to find it in others, sex, food, knowledge, etc. This is the marriage: the marriage of awareness and spirit. We can only get there through self-knowing. There are no shortcuts.
THE GREAT LIE: THAT CIRCUMSTANCES DETERMINE OUR INNER STATE!
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To all of you: Thanks for allowing me to bring this letter into your home. May you have a happy, healthy, peaceful and conscious New Year! Donna 2007 / Tanya 2021
