Ego as Virus

A virus is an entity that has no life-sustaining capabilities of it's own. In order for a virus to live, it needs to hijack the life-system of a preexisting organism.

Each cell has genetic locks on its surface. The virus has a key on its surface. If the virus's key is similar enough to the original key to fit inside the lock, the lock can be operated. The cell opens up and allows whatever was operating the lock inside. Once inside, the virus takes control of the natural programming of the cell, utilizing it for it's own purpose. It has only one purpose: replication. The virus will produce copies of itself over and over, disrupting the cell's natural programming, causing disease and eventually death. The viruses then leave the host in search of another in order to repeat the process.

Thoughts do not exist of their own accord. The thought “tree” cannot exist without a thinker that gives it life.

One hundred years ago the average human had approximately 5000 thoughts per day. Today, the average human has approximately 50,000 thoughts per day.

If You watch Your own mind and try to simply not think, You will notice, unless You have undergone training in the form of meditation, that You will be unable to stop thoughts from being produced, for even mere seconds.

If we take an objective view of the human species, we will come to the conclusion that our natural “programming” is being disrupted:

• The obesity epidemic.
• Being the direct and indirect cause of the extinction of thousands of other species.
• War.
• Murder.
• Suicide.

Are any of these phenomena found elsewhere in nature?

What is it that makes humans distinct from everything else in nature?

Human consciousness has been infected with the thought virus. One could even say that human consciousness is the virus. If You are finding this hard to believe, remember that a host that is infected with a virus has already accepted it as a part of itself. Virus is the great deceiver.

If the purpose of a virus is to simply replicate, and thought is a virus that has infected consciousness, then left unchecked, thought will spread rampantly throughout that consciousness.

Once again, watch Your mind for just a few minutes. Simply do not think...

Does it seem natural that You are unable to stop thinking? Do thoughts seem to just pop in at random, with very little or no congruency, order, or purpose? When You watch Your actions during a normal day, does it seem as though the mind is continually searching for something to keep it occupied – to keep the thought process going? Is there something unsettling about this?

Observe: Is there the constant need to occupy the mind?

Enquire: Why is there this need? What purpose does it serve?

How many of our actions are a result of trying to keep the mind occupied; to engage in the thinking process? How much of what we create is designed to engage the mind; to make that engagement more accessible, and more effective?

The information age. Always more accessible and always faster.

Honest, objective investigation of Your own actions and the actions of those around You will reveal the degree to which the infection has taken hold.

The species is very, very sick. And we don't even notice.

Transcendence of mind is the antidote.

However, the antidote is being administered via the same pathway that the virus was introduced. The virus, not wanting to die, will do everything in it's power to keep the thought process operating, replicating. There will be a strong push to either reject what is being said or to debate what is being said.

If one rejects what is being said, then all will continue as it has been – the virus will continue replicating unchecked, the rate progressively increasing.

If one debates what is being said, the thought process will continue, only with a “more important” purpose. 

However, the virus cares not what is being thought; as long as the thought process is in operation, thoughts are being replicated and the virus stays alive. So there is essentially no difference between “spiritual” thoughts and every other type of thought process. Whether important or mundane, good or bad, positive or negative, engagement in the thought process, any thinking, is the virus manipulating Your life energy for it's own replication.

If You are finding this hard to believe, remember that a host that is infected with a virus has already accepted it as a part of itself.

Do not let the virus convince You to disregard this information. Of course the virus doesn't want to die, but its death is Your Liberation. If problems/discontentment exist in Your Life, then the cause of those problems/discontentment and the resulting antidote must also exist.

Transcendence of mind is the antidote.

Investigate the thought-free state and come to see the Truth of Your own accord; from Your own experience.

On Reincarnation

Consciousness is a single phenomena. There is no individual "soul" that moves about or transmigrates. There is no real "movement", whether through time or space. It is more accurately described as varying concentration levels. Concentration in both mental and physical senses, as both are two sides of the same phenomena.

Consider being in a crowded room where many conversations are simultaneously taking place. One may, without any physical movement, eavesdrop upon any one of those conversations simply through the shifting of focus. The din of the room is consciousness and each separate conversation is an individual "life". Self is shifting focus within the unified field of consciousness. Each "individual" experience is just a different perspective of the unified "din" of consciousness.

Through meditation one begins to learn how to shift the perspective. Thought-free awareness is focus on the entirety of the din of the room, which is pure consciousness. At this point further introspection reveals Self. This is the point (singularity) where the focused and the focuser merge into__________.

  

The Ecstasy of Being

All of human activity is engagement in relative existence. The fundamental reason for everything we do is to re-affirmation our own existence. Thought and everything it creates is to serve this purpose. So what is it like to live beyond the constraints of relative existence? Consciousness reliant upon relative existence equates such a state to non-existence. However, it is the exact opposite.

Absolute existence is existence itself. Abidance as such is perfect contentment, bliss. Immersed in the ecstasy of Being, there is nothing to be done, nowhere to go. In this sense Being is spiritual completion. Once Self is found, karma ceases, for where is there to go from perfect contentment? This completion is not an ending so much as a simple recognition that All is, and has always been, whole, complete, perfect. Nothing is lacking; nothing is required. Nothing can be taken away from Self and nothing can be added to Self. It is complete.

What ends is the ego; the illusion projected by mind. What begins is a new perspective. It is a perspective that includes the observer. It is All at once. Where to go? What to do?

Bliss...

   

The illusion.

Our own consciousness, via scientific enquiry, has revealed the following:

The reality we experience is an identical process to that of watching a show on a screen.

Upon viewing a show on a screen from normal distance, it appears as though there are separate objects moving, interacting, affecting one another. When we move in and view the screen very closely, we will see that the image on the screen is made of tiny dots, or pixels, of color which are either on or off. The smaller the frame of reference – the fewer pixels being observed – the less the larger image is recognizable and the less one will be able to predict when the pixels will turn on and off and also the duration of the on and off periods. When we look at a single pixel, there will be no way of determining any type of sequence and therefore no way of making any type of accurate prediction. It will appear as though its actions are random.

When we look behind the screen, we find the signal, the information wave, that “tells” the pixels to turn on and off and when.

So, looking at the process from three different perspectives brings about three different models.

Model 1: From the normal perspective it appears as though there are separate objects moving around, interacting and affecting each other.

Model 2: From the close-up perspective we see that what is actually happening is that pixels are flashing on and off in a predetermined sequence. It is the ordered sequence of flashing pixels that gives the illusion of movement and interaction. At a more fundamental level there are still separate objects, in the form of the individual pixels, but there is no interaction between them, or movement of any kind.

Model 3: From the most fundamental perspective – beyond the pixels, behind the screen – the cause of the pixels turning on and off is the signal, the information wave, that hits the back of the screen. The signal strikes the screen all at once at a certain frequency. Causality at the screen level is an illusion, as one pixel turning on or off is not the cause of the adjacent pixel turning on or off.

The following is what physics (the study of physical reality) has discovered:

From our normal every day perspective, it appears as though there are separately existing objects moving around in space, interacting and affecting each other. However, when we look at the most fundamental level of our normal everyday experience, we find that physical reality operates precisely as the show playing on the screen. Just like the pixels that make up the screen, the subatomic particles that make up our physical realm pop in and out in a certain predetermined sequence, which, when experienced via our nervous system, gives the illusion of objects moving, interacting, and affecting each other.

As much as it goes contrary to how we describe our experience, there are no objects, no movement, no interaction. Everything that happens in the physical realm happens all at once and is predetermined by the signal.

The only difference between “our” show and the screen show is the complexity of the screen. Where the screen show has two dimensions (length and width) experienced via two senses (sound and sight) the physical reality screen has four dimensions (length, width, depth, time) experienced via six senses (sound, sight, smell, touch, taste, thought).

Consciousness, in the form of quantum physics, has looked behind the screen of physical reality and discovered the signal, the information wave, that “turns on” and “turns off” (pops in and pops out) the subatomic particles.

This wave of information that “tells” the particles to pop in and out is called the “wave function”. The wave function is the more fundamental cause of all physical phenomena. The wave function is all possible outcomes existing simultaneously. It is the timeless All from which the illusion of time, separately existing entities, and causality, arises. Just as the entire scene of the show appears on the screen, in its entirety all at once, so does the physical realm arise all at once.

The body that You associate “I” with is not a separately existing object moving through space. All notions of an “I” that is controlling the actions of the body is an illusion. All appearances of physical phenomena causing the effect of other physical phenomena is also illusion. To believe that the Self is the body and that there is an “I” that is controlling the actions of body, or that other physical phenomena are affecting the actions of the body, is the equivalent of believing that the earth is flat. The wave function is controlling the show. All of it, all at once, all the time, in perfect unity.

Of course, the question arises: “Where does the wave function come from? If the wave function is the cause of physical effects, what is the cause of the wave function?”

Itself.

Physicist John Wheeler, a pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics and who also coined the phrase “black hole”, designed the following model:

This “Self-actualizing universe” model is Wheeler's attempt to describe the reality revealed by quantum physics, and the role consciousness plays in the process.

The v shape at the upper right corner represents an event. Wheeler was specifically referring to the Big Bang, but any singular event will apply. The large U shape represents the event propagating in an unmanifest, potential state. This is the wave function – the information wave, or signal, that has not yet been translated. The yet unmanifest potential event gives rise to a consciousness (represented by the eye) capable of interpreting (the dotted line being the interpretation) the signal. The interpretation in turn manifests the non-thing of the signal into separate “things”.

The Self-actualizing universe model is exactly the same system of a camera relaying an event to a screen for viewing.

In this re-presentation, the physical realm is represented by a television screen, the eye is the camera, the U is the signal between the camera and the screen, and the dotted line is the focus of the camera.

From this model we can see that the introduction of the television monitor/physical realm is redundant. 

There is no purpose to the intermediary step of the translation of the signal/wave function into pixels on the monitor/the physical realm, as it is merely the resulting image/event that is transmitted back to the monitor/physical realm.

Here is the crux of the matter: The Self/Presence is the only frame of reference, therefore, all models are models based upon the Self/Presence. What is being spoken of is not other than the reality You are experiencing right now. The redundancy is the ongoing internal dialogue that takes place in/as Your mind. The using of a symbol to re-present that which is, is redundancy. Conceptualization and language is symbol. The appearance of separately existing objects arises only upon conceptualization. It is as Self-evident as this: The thought “tree” arising in Your consciousness brings about the appearance of an object that is separate. When there is pure witnessing, without conceptualization, the appearance of separation does not arise.

The state of samadhi is that where one experiences unity with/as the universe. There is no sense of a separate Self, no separate objects, no time, and no individual volition. All occurs as a single entity, a singular event, in complete unity, all at once. This is not merely some imaginary made up idea, it is a very real state.

Samadhi is the direct experience of the wave function; of pure, unfiltered consciousness. It occurs when reality – this very reality – is experienced in/as the thought-free state.

Like an explorer who has circumnavigated the earth, consciousness has come full circle in its investigation of reality and discovered – itself. The findings of quantum mechanics can not be further interpreted by conceptualization because it is the final concept. Quantum mechanics is the finger of concept pointing to the moon of experience.

Sometimes that which is hardest to see is that which is the most obvious. The conceptualizing mind will keep trying to find deeper meaning. The natural state of samadhi has become foreign to us. As soon as our children are born we teach them how to focus on the screen (the ever-increasing manifestation of our species being addicted to screens is yet another re-presentation) rather than direct experience. Our minds are constantly labelling, measuring, conceptualizing. The thought-free state is not even recognized.

It is this Self-evident:

In order to directly experience wave function/consciousness as the state of samadhi, experience reality thought-free.

The validity of the statement is tested only in/as the realm of experience. It may take some time to refocus the mind, as it has been staring at the screen for many cycles/generations. Until You tear Your gaze from the literal screen of man's creation and the figurative screen of conceptualization, You will remain in the lower state of consciousness and will experience separation, duality, illusion.

Humanity's Greatest Fear

The greatest fear is that of non-existence.

If one derives their sense of existence relative to physicality or thought, then the ceasing of sensory input from physicality and mind would appear to be non-existence. Human consciousness is aware of death of the body, and if the body dies so does sensory input and thought processes. From a relative existence perspective this is non-existence.

The deeply ingrained fear of the inevitability of this state is what drives almost all of human action and activity. The ever-increasing need for more physicality (possessions and experience) and thought process (everything to do with interaction with a screen) is a desperate attempt within consciousness to keep the pyramid scheme alive. But it is not working. It cannot work because neither physicality nor thought are ultimate Reality. Human consciousness that remains at this level of awareness will be pulled into the vortex into a deeper level of delusion.

How do people go mad? Seriously. How do people lose touch with Reality? This is what is happening with human consciousness as a whole. Human consciousness as a whole is sinking deeper into delusion.

Don't go with it.

Reality is the closest thing to you. It is you. Your world is your own. You are the ultimate authority of your Life. The more you get in touch with the "I" that is beyond conceptualization, the less you will fear death because you will see/experience that you are existence itself. How can you exist in the present but not sometime in the future? There only is the present!

There is no need to hold on to relative existence any longer. Your existence is Self-evident.

Abide as the Self.

There is not nothing to fear.