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"Busting Loose"...
Posted on Oct 19th, 2007
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Sunyata
Sunyata
This is a letter to my community I sent out about Bob's book that I think you'll enjoy...
Greetings Divine Beings,
If you haven't read Robert Scheinfeld's "Busting Loose from the Money Game" -I strongly recommend reading it. You might think, looking at the cover and by the title, that its about some money scheme -when actually its a great spiritual guidebook in disguise!
The theme of the book is discovering what the differences are between paradigms (old/new phase 1/phase 2) and making a shift in consciousness and our day-to-day awareness to "divine-detachment" -Bob says: 'stepping out of the movie.' ("divine detachment" means to be detached from enmeshment with "the movie" and yet having divine compassion, love, and interest towards that which is being detached from -my phrase not Bob's). Being stuck in "phase 1" or "in the movie" is like sleep-walking and banging into walls, or struggling to climb up a mud-soaked hill that keeps sliding you back down -there's either an ignorance that brings uncertainty, pain and fear, or a frustration of effort that breeds a feeling of futility. Awaking to "phase 2" takes you out of Egoic evaluation and fear, gives you confidence of Being with knowledge of who you really are, and modulates desire with non-attachment to outcome. What's been interesting for me is discovering how much its possible to be enmeshed "in the movie" and realizing the pseudo-security we feel (really: are searching for) in phase 1 reality is part of the illusionary fabric that "reality" is made of.
Add in the concepts of Quantum Physics to this and the extent and magnitude of "maya" (the illusion of matter and form -and the experience of "life" built upon such an illusion) becomes strikingly apparent. Knowing that all matter is energy vibrating at various frequencies and amplitudes and that there is a vastly larger void of potentiality that makes up all existence and that there is one infinite Being that comprises all of that (us, the universe, all dimensional realities) who is having an experience of limiting its awareness of itself and its infinite abundance and rediscovering itself through (in part) our individual expression of "life" that is experiencing this time/space physical dimension -helps to shake us out of our enmeshment to dependence on physical reality for understanding our place in the universe and our value as a Being. It provides a "witness" perspective to our engagement with our life experiences.
Bob helps us to disengage from the maya ("movie" in Bob's metaphor) and develop a divine-detachment to the maya/movie. The critical linkage is in understanding that as the divine Being having all these experiences -we are utterly safe and secure in our "always-is-ness" and completely loved and valued and cherished as this divine Being (the Being-that-all-of-us-are). Realizing this "truth" deep in our soul gives us a calm, complete confidence-in-being and allows our awareness to relax vis-a-vis what is happening in the maya/movie.
As Bob and Quantum Physics point out, all we see and feel and experience in our universe is a hologram -made up- energy vibrations interpreted by our brains and given meaning -forming our understanding of our existence and interfacing with life. Since this is so, everyone/everything you see, taste, feel, hear, smell, and even intuit, are all merely patterns of energy in space (lots of space it turns out -90% or more) and are much less predictable and understood than the values our brain gives to such information. In fact, it may be that the universe doesn't exist unless your consciousness is focussed on it (its particular "section") -and then it comes into form. Imagine that, how illusory -and illusionary- the universe can be!
What is real? What is reality? As Bob points out, the only thing that is "real" is the Being-that-all-of-us-are, the one who is infinitely abundant and created the maya/illusion as a game (or dream, in some cultures) that limit's its infinite power through illusion and rediscovers itself through revelation and experience. The "movie" being played before us is designed to give our individual expression of the divine an individual experience of life. To the degree we identify with the movie (inflated Ego-engagement) we become enmeshed in the movie's "rules" and currents of popular thought, struggles and fears. When we maintain the awareness of our divinity (Being-that-all-of-us-are) and divine-detachment ("its only a movie") we engage with the movie actors with reverence (knowing them to also be of the Being-that-all-of-us-are) and without Egoic desire of manipulation or control -but to merely enjoy the moment and seek its gifts.
Each engagement becomes an opportunity to see how the divine will manifest in that moment -we engage eagerly with life with an open anticipation. We see the movie as a consistent stream of messages flowing from the divine to us. Our life takes on a fuller, mystical form (as above, so below; within/without; macro/microcosm) and the characters in our "movie" have significance and represent ourself in some way. Occurrences and happenings take on seminal significance as we relish every drop of life in each moment. The "wobbles" of life become smaller and/or easier to "transition with grace" and our Egoic triggers dissipate.
The Movie analogy also is good to check and see "Where are you in relation to the movie?" -are you enmeshed in the movie as one of the characters playing out scenes unconscious to your divinity and struggling with the crazy "rules" of the movie, or, are you sitting in the theater seat watching the movie with divine-detachment, enabling you to gracefully engage without getting caught up in the movie's maya/illusion?
So "Busting Loose..." (please read Bob's book!) is the first part, the second part involves how to live in "divine-detachment" and engage with "the movie" without forgetting who you really are and what your relationship to the movie is ...more to come.
Love and Light -Divine Self! *grin*
Sunyata
--
Accept What's Present,
Release What's Not,
Consciously Create
-Sunyata Satchitananda
Greetings Divine Beings,
If you haven't read Robert Scheinfeld's "Busting Loose from the Money Game" -I strongly recommend reading it. You might think, looking at the cover and by the title, that its about some money scheme -when actually its a great spiritual guidebook in disguise!
The theme of the book is discovering what the differences are between paradigms (old/new phase 1/phase 2) and making a shift in consciousness and our day-to-day awareness to "divine-detachment" -Bob says: 'stepping out of the movie.' ("divine detachment" means to be detached from enmeshment with "the movie" and yet having divine compassion, love, and interest towards that which is being detached from -my phrase not Bob's). Being stuck in "phase 1" or "in the movie" is like sleep-walking and banging into walls, or struggling to climb up a mud-soaked hill that keeps sliding you back down -there's either an ignorance that brings uncertainty, pain and fear, or a frustration of effort that breeds a feeling of futility. Awaking to "phase 2" takes you out of Egoic evaluation and fear, gives you confidence of Being with knowledge of who you really are, and modulates desire with non-attachment to outcome. What's been interesting for me is discovering how much its possible to be enmeshed "in the movie" and realizing the pseudo-security we feel (really: are searching for) in phase 1 reality is part of the illusionary fabric that "reality" is made of.
Add in the concepts of Quantum Physics to this and the extent and magnitude of "maya" (the illusion of matter and form -and the experience of "life" built upon such an illusion) becomes strikingly apparent. Knowing that all matter is energy vibrating at various frequencies and amplitudes and that there is a vastly larger void of potentiality that makes up all existence and that there is one infinite Being that comprises all of that (us, the universe, all dimensional realities) who is having an experience of limiting its awareness of itself and its infinite abundance and rediscovering itself through (in part) our individual expression of "life" that is experiencing this time/space physical dimension -helps to shake us out of our enmeshment to dependence on physical reality for understanding our place in the universe and our value as a Being. It provides a "witness" perspective to our engagement with our life experiences.
Bob helps us to disengage from the maya ("movie" in Bob's metaphor) and develop a divine-detachment to the maya/movie. The critical linkage is in understanding that as the divine Being having all these experiences -we are utterly safe and secure in our "always-is-ness" and completely loved and valued and cherished as this divine Being (the Being-that-all-of-us-are). Realizing this "truth" deep in our soul gives us a calm, complete confidence-in-being and allows our awareness to relax vis-a-vis what is happening in the maya/movie.
As Bob and Quantum Physics point out, all we see and feel and experience in our universe is a hologram -made up- energy vibrations interpreted by our brains and given meaning -forming our understanding of our existence and interfacing with life. Since this is so, everyone/everything you see, taste, feel, hear, smell, and even intuit, are all merely patterns of energy in space (lots of space it turns out -90% or more) and are much less predictable and understood than the values our brain gives to such information. In fact, it may be that the universe doesn't exist unless your consciousness is focussed on it (its particular "section") -and then it comes into form. Imagine that, how illusory -and illusionary- the universe can be!
What is real? What is reality? As Bob points out, the only thing that is "real" is the Being-that-all-of-us-are, the one who is infinitely abundant and created the maya/illusion as a game (or dream, in some cultures) that limit's its infinite power through illusion and rediscovers itself through revelation and experience. The "movie" being played before us is designed to give our individual expression of the divine an individual experience of life. To the degree we identify with the movie (inflated Ego-engagement) we become enmeshed in the movie's "rules" and currents of popular thought, struggles and fears. When we maintain the awareness of our divinity (Being-that-all-of-us-are) and divine-detachment ("its only a movie") we engage with the movie actors with reverence (knowing them to also be of the Being-that-all-of-us-are) and without Egoic desire of manipulation or control -but to merely enjoy the moment and seek its gifts.
Each engagement becomes an opportunity to see how the divine will manifest in that moment -we engage eagerly with life with an open anticipation. We see the movie as a consistent stream of messages flowing from the divine to us. Our life takes on a fuller, mystical form (as above, so below; within/without; macro/microcosm) and the characters in our "movie" have significance and represent ourself in some way. Occurrences and happenings take on seminal significance as we relish every drop of life in each moment. The "wobbles" of life become smaller and/or easier to "transition with grace" and our Egoic triggers dissipate.
The Movie analogy also is good to check and see "Where are you in relation to the movie?" -are you enmeshed in the movie as one of the characters playing out scenes unconscious to your divinity and struggling with the crazy "rules" of the movie, or, are you sitting in the theater seat watching the movie with divine-detachment, enabling you to gracefully engage without getting caught up in the movie's maya/illusion?
So "Busting Loose..." (please read Bob's book!) is the first part, the second part involves how to live in "divine-detachment" and engage with "the movie" without forgetting who you really are and what your relationship to the movie is ...more to come.
Love and Light -Divine Self! *grin*
Sunyata
--
Accept What's Present,
Release What's Not,
Consciously Create
-Sunyata Satchitananda
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