Story:The Mind, its Thoughts and Identification

A man who has gone out of his town comes back and finds that his house is on fire. It was one of the most beautiful houses in the town, and the man loved the house. Many people were ready to give double price for the house, but he had never agreed for any price, and now it is just burning before his eyes. And thousands of people have gathered, but nothing can be done.

The fire has spread so far that even if you try to put it out, nothing will be saved. So he becomes very sad. His son comes running, and whispers something in his ear: 'Don't be worried. I sold it yesterday, and at a very good price – three times.... The offer was so good I could not wait for you. Forgive me.'

But the father said, 'Good, if you have sold it for three times more than the original price of the house.' Then the father is also a watcher, with other watchers. Just a moment before he was not a watcher, he was identified. It is the same house, the same fire, everything is the same – but now he is not concerned. He is enjoying it just as everybody else is enjoying.

Then the second son comes running, and he says to the father, 'What are you doing? You are smiling – and the house is on fire?' 
The father said, 'Don't you know, your brother has sold it.' 
He said, 'He had talked about selling it, but nothing has been settled yet, and the man is not going to purchase it now.' Again, everything changes. Tears which had disappeared, have come back to the father's eyes, his smile is no more there, his heart is beating fast. But the watcher is gone. He is again identified.

And then the third son comes, and he says, 'That man is a man of his word. I have just come from him. He said, 'It doesn't matter whether the house is burned or not, it is mine. And I am going to pay the price that I have settled for. Neither you knew, nor I knew that the house would catch on fire.'' Again the father is a watcher. The identity is no more there. Actually nothing is changing; just the idea that 'I am the owner, I am identified somehow with the house,' makes the whole difference. The next moment he feels, 'I am not identified. Somebody else has purchased it, I have nothing to do with it; let the house burn.'

This simple methodology of watching the mind, that you have nothing to do with it.... Most of its thoughts are not yours but from your parents, your teachers, your friends, the books, the movies, the television, the newspapers. Just count how many thoughts are your own, and you will be surprised that not a single thought is your own. All are from other sources, all are borrowed – either dumped by others on you, or foolishly dumped by yourself upon yourself, but nothing is yours.

The mind is there, functioning like a computer; literally it is a bio-computer. You will not get identified with a computer. If the computer gets hot, you won't get hot. If the computer gets angry and starts giving signals in four letter words, you will not be worried. You will see what is wrong, where something is wrong. But you remain detached.

Just a small knack... I cannot even call it a method because that makes it heavy; I call it a knack. Just by doing it, one day suddenly you are able to do it. Many times you will fail; it's nothing to be worried about... no loss, it is natural. But just doing it, one day it happens.

Once it has happened, once you have even for a single moment become the watcher, you know now how to become the watcher – the watcher on the hills, far away. And the whole mind is there deep down in the dark valley, and you are not to do anything about it. The most strange thing about the mind is, if you become a watcher it starts disappearing. Just like the light disperses darkness, watchfulness disperses the mind, its thoughts, its whole paraphernalia.

So meditation is simply watchfulness, awareness. And that reveals – it is nothing to do with inventing. It invents nothing; it simply discovers that which is there.

And what is there? You enter and you find infinite emptiness, so tremendously beautiful, so silent, so full of light, so fragrant, that you have entered into “the kingdom of God.” In my words, you have entered into godliness.

And once you have been in this space, you come out and you are a totally new person, a new man. Now you have your original face. All masks have disappeared. You will live in the same world, but not in the same way. You will be among the same people but not with the same attitude, and the same approach. You will live like a lotus in water: in the water, but absolutely untouched by water.
-From Unconsciousness to Consciousness, Osho

http://www.osho.com/meditate/meditation-tool-kit/questions-about-meditation/what-is-the-meaning-of-identification

Breathing - Relaxation Technique

You take the breath in, and then the body throws the breath out. Reverse it: you will be more normal. Emphasize the outgoing breath. 

Throw the breath out as much as you can, and let the body take in. 

When you take in and you have not released, your lungs become filled with carbon dioxide. Then you go on taking in, and you never release the entire lungs. You go on forcing the carbon dioxide inwards. Then your breathing becomes shallow, and the entire lungs are filled with carbon dioxide. 

First throw it out, and forget about taking in. The body will take care of that itself. The body has its own wisdom, and it is more wise than you. Throw the breath out and forget taking in. Don’t be afraid, you are not going to die. The body will take in, and it will take in as much as is needed. As much as you have thrown out it will take in, and the balance will be there.

Just for fifteen minutes in the dayexhale deeply. Sit in a chair or on the ground, exhale deeply, and while exhaling close the eyes. When the air goes out, you go in. And then allow the body to inhale, and when the air goes in, open the eyes and you go out. It is just the opposite: when the air goes out, you go in; when the air goes in, you go out.

Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa)

Mahamudra, the royal way, is free from every word and sacred symbol.

For you alone, beloved Naropa, this wonderful song springs forth from Tilopa
as spontaneous friendship that never ends.

The completely open nature of all dimensions and events
is a rainbow always occurring yet never grasped.

The way of Mahamudra creates no closure.
No strenuous mental effort can encounter this wide open way.
The effortless freedom of awareness moves naturally along it.

As space is always freshly appearing and never filled,
so the mind is without limits and ever aware.

Gazing with sheer awareness into sheer awareness,
habitual, abstract structures melt into the fruitful springtime of Buddhahood.

White clouds that drift through blue sky, 
changing shape constantly, have no root, no foundation, no dwelling; 
nor do changing patterns of thought that float through the sky of mind.

When the formless expanse of awareness comes clearly into view,
obsession with thought forms ceases easily and naturally.

As within the openness of universal space shapes and colors are spontaneously forming,
although space has no color or form, 
so within the expanse of awareness realms, relations and values are arising,
although awareness possesses no positive or negative characteristics.

As the darkness of night, even were it to last a thousand years,
could not conceal the rising sun, 
so countless ages of conflict and suffering cannot conceal the innate radiance of Mind.

Although philosophers explain the transparent openness of appearances
as empty of permanent characteristics and completely indeterminable,
this universal indeterminacy can itself never be determined.

Although sages report the nature of awareness to be luminosity,
this limitless radiance cannot be contained within any language or sacramental system.
Although the very essence of Mind is to be void of either subjects or objects,
it tenderly embraces all life within its womb.

To realize this inexpressible truth, do not manipulate mind or body
but simply open into transparency with relaxed, natural grace intellect at ease in silence,
limbs at rest in stillness like hollow bamboos.

Neither breathing in nor breathing out with the breath of habitual thinking,
allow the mind to be at peace in brilliant wakefulness.

This is the royal wealth of Mahamudra, no common coin of any realm.

Beloved Naropa, this treasure of Buddhahood belongs to you and to all beings.

Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy
will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness,
because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience
inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

The one who fabricates any division in consciousness betrays the friendship of Mahamudra.

Cease all activity that separates, abandon even the desire to be free from desires
and allow the thinking process to rise and fall smoothly as waves on a shoreless ocean.

The one who never dwells in abstraction and whose only principle
is never to divide or separate upholds the trust of Mahamudra.

The one who abandons craving for authority and definition,
and never becomes one-sided in argument or understanding,
alone perceives the authentic meaning hidden in the ancient scriptures.

In the blissful embrace of Mahamudra,
negative viewpoints and their instincts are burned without remainder, like camphor.

Through the open door of Mahamudra, 
the deluded state of self-imprisonment is easily left behind forever.

Mahamudra is the torch of supreme liberty shining forth through all conscious beings.

Those beings constituted by awareness who try to ignore, reject or grasp awareness
inflict sorrow and confusion upon themselves like those who are insane.

To be awakened from this madness, cultivate the gracious friendship
of a sublime sage of Mahamudra, who may appear to the world as mad.

When the limited mind enters blessed companionship
with limitless Mind, indescribable freedom dawns.

Selfish or limited motivations create the illusory sense of imprisonment
and scatter seeds of further delusion.

Even genuine religious teaching can generate narrowness of vision.
Trust only the approach that is utterly vast and profound.

The noble way of Mahamudra 
never engages in the drama of imprisonment and release.

The sage of Mahamudra has absolutely no distractions,
because no war against distractions has ever been declared.

This nobility and gentleness alone, this nonviolence of thought and action,
is the traceless path of all Buddhas.

To walk this all-embracing way is the bliss of Buddhahood.
Phenomena on every plane of being are constantly arising and disappearing.
Thus they are forever fresh, always new and inexhaustible.

Like dreams without solid substance, they can never become rigid or binding.
The universe exists in a deep, elusive way that can never be grasped or frozen.
Why feel obsessive desire or hatred for it, thereby creating illusory bonds?
Renounce arbitrary, habitual views. 

Go forth courageously to meditate in the real mountain wilderness,
the wide open Mahamudra. 

Transcend boundaries of kinship by embracing all living beings
as one family of consciousness.

Remain without any compulsion in the landscape of natural freedom:
spontaneous, generous, joyful.

When you receive the crown of Mahamudra, 
all sense of rank or attainment will quietly disappear.

Cut the root of the vine that chokes the tree, and its clinging tendrils wither away entirely.
Sever the conventionally grasping mind, and all bondage and desperation dissolve.

The illumination from an oil lamp lights the room instantly,
even if it has been dark for aeons.
Mind is boundless radiance.
How can the slightest darkness remain in the room of daily perception?

But one who clings to mental processes cannot awaken to the radiance of Mind.
Strenuously seeking truth by investigation and concentration,
one will never appreciate the unthinkable simplicity and bliss
that abide at the core.

To uncover this fertile ground, cut through the roots of complexity
with the sharp gaze of naked awareness, remaining entirely at peace,
transparent and content.

You need not expend great effort nor store up extensive spirtual power.
Remain in the flow of sheer awareness.

Mahamudra neither accepts nor rejects any current of energy, internal or external.

Since the ground consciousness is never born into any realm of being,
nothing can add to or subtract from it. Nothing can obstruct or stain it.
When awareness rests here, the appearance of division and conflict
disappears into original reality.

The twin emotions of anxiety and arrogance vanish into the void from which they came.
Supreme knowing knows no separate subject or object.

Supreme action acts resourcefully without any array of instruments.
Supreme attainment attains the goal without past, future or present.

The dedicated practitioner experiences the spiritual way
as a turbulent mountain stream, tumbling dangerously among boulders.

When maturity is reached, the river flows smoothly and patiently
with the powerful sweep of the Ganges.

Emptying into the ocean of Mahamudra, the water becomes ever-expanding light
that pours into great Clear Light without direction, destination, division, distinction or description.

Winston Churchill Quotes

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.

Continuous effort -
not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; 
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The truth is incontrovertible. 
Malice may attack it, 
ignorance may deride it, 
but in the end, there it is.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all,
grow strong.

He who dares, wins.

There is nothing wrong with change,
if it is in the right direction.

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Attitude is a little thing 
that makes a big difference.

You will never reach your destination
if you stop and throw stones
at every dog that barks.

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.

IT is not enough that we do our best;
sometimes we must do what is required.

Success is going from failure to failure
without a loss of enthusiasm.

Success is not final.
Failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue that counts.

If you're going through hell,
keep going.

Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Life begins on 
the other side of despair.

In love, one and one are one.

We do not judge the poeple we love.

Commitment is an act,
not a word.

If a victory is told in detail,
one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Every word has consequences.
Every silence, too.

Words are loaded pistols.

I confused things with thier names,
that is belief.

All things are born withut reason
and die by chance.
Therefore there's no meaning in life nor death. 

There may be more beautiful times, 
but this one is ours.

To know what life is worth 
you have to risk it 
once in a while.

All human actions are equivalelnt
and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Like all dreamers, 
I mistook disenchantment for truth.

If you are lonely 
when you are alone,
you are in bad company.

No finite point has meaning 
without an infinite reference point.

Being is.
Being is in itself.
Being is what it is.

Do you think I count the days? 
There is only one day left, always starting over;
it is given to us at dawn 
and taken away from us at dusk.

We must act out passion 
before we can feel it.

One cannot become a saint 
when one works sixteen hurs a day.

Only the guy who isn't rowing
has time to rock the boat.

Man is nothing else 
but what he makes of himself.

I fix nothing; I let it go.

Matsuo Basho Quotes

Do not seek to follow in the footsetpss of the wise.
Seek what they sought.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Every day is a journey,
and the journey itself is home.

Every moment of life is the last,
every poem is a death poem.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

The temple bell stops but 
I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Heracllitus Quotes

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The only thing permanent is change.

Those who are awake all live in the same world.
Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

If you do not expect the unexpected,
you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

Those who love wisdom 
must investigate many things.

Big results require big ambitions.

God is day and night, winter and summer,
war and peace, satiety and want.

Hide our ignorance as we will,
an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The universal cosmic process was not created 
by any god or man;
it forever was, is, and forever will be,
an Ever living Fire.

Out of every one hundred men,
ten shouldn't even be there, 
eighty are just targets,
nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them,
for they make the battle. 
Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, 
and he will bring the others back.

Everything changes but change itself. 
Everything flows and nothing remains the same... 
You cannot step twice into the same river, 
for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

Diversity leads to perfect harmony.

Abraham Maslow Quotes

What a man can be, he must be.
This need we call self-actualizatin.

Boys will be boys
as long as there are no gilrs in the picture.

Self Acutalization chart
Self Actualization - Morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts
Esteem - self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others, respect by others,
Love/Belonging - friendship, family, sexual intimacy
Safety - security of body, of employment, of resources, of morality, of the family, of health, of property
Physiological - breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion

Flow as a "Peak Experience"
Achieving unique inner potential
Being Values 
Wholeness, perfection,
completion, justice,
aliveness, richness
simplicity, beauty
goodness, uniqueness
truth, self-sufficiency
effortlessness, playfulness

To make a growth choice instead of the fear choice
a dozen times a day is to more a dozen times a day
towards self-actualisation.

A musician must make music, 
an artist must paint, 
an poet must write, 
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. 
What a man can be, he must be.
This weed we call self-actualization….
It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, 
namely to the tendency for him to become actually 
in what he is potentially: 
to become everything one is capable of becoming.

It isn't normal to know what we want. 
It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

The ability to be in the present moment 
is a major component of mental wellness.

If you plan on being anything less than 
you are capable of being, 
you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean 
and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, 
I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

'I suppose it is tempting, 
if the only tool you have is a hammer, 
to treat everything as if it were a nail.

In any given moment we have two options: 
to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

If you deliberately plan on being less than 
you are capable of being, 
then I warn you that you'll be unhappy 
for the rest of your life.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

One can choose to go back 
toward safety or forward toward growth. 
Growth must be chosen again and again; 
fear must be overcome again and again.

We fear to know
the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, 
but we fear even more to know 
the godlike in ourselves.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. 
One's only failure is failing to live up
to one's own possibilities.
In this sense, every man can be a king, 
and must therefore be treated like a king.

Self-actualized people...
live more in the real world of nature than 
in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, 
expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that 
most people confuse with the world.

16 Distinguishing Characteristics of Self-Actualizing people
from the writings of Abraham Maslow
1. They are realistically oriented. 
2. They accept themselves, other people, and the natural world for what they are. 
3. They have a great deal of spontaneity. 
4. They are problem-centered rather than self-centered. 
5. They have an air of detachment and a need for privacy. 
6. They are autonomous and independent. 
7. Their appreciation of people and things is fresh rather than stereotyped. 
8. Most of them have had profound mystical or spiritual experiences, although not necessarily religious in character. 
9. They identify with mankind. 
10. Their intimate relationships with a few specially loved people tend to be profound and deeply emotional rather than superficial. 
11. Their values and attitudes are democratic. 
12. They do not confuse means with ends. 
13. Their sense of humor is philosophical rather than hostile. 
14. They have a great fund of creativeness. 
15. They resist conformity to the culture. 
16. They transcend the environment rather than just coping with it.

Peak Experiences 
According to Abraham Maslow, powerful meaningful experiences in which people seem to transcend the self, be at one with the world,
and feel completely self-fulfilled;
A musician must make music, 
an artist must paint, a poet must write, 
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Eric Fromm Quotes

'Infantile love follows the principle:
I love because I am loved. 
Mature love follows the principle:
I am loved because I love. 
Immature Love says
'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says:
'I need you because I love you.'

The inability to act spontaneously, 
to express what one genuinely feels and thinks, 
and the resulting necessity to present a pseudo self to others and oneself, 
are the root of the feeling of inferiority and weakness. 
Whether or not we are aware of it, 
there is nothing of which we are more ashamed 
than of not being ourselves, 
and there is nothing that 
gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, 
to feel, and to say what is ours…
If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity
and thus relates himself to the world, 
he ceases to be an isolated atom; 
he and the world become part of one structuralized whole.

Love is an act of faith.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer
to the problem of human existence.

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

Modern man lives under the illusion that
he know what he wants,
while he actually wants what he 
is supposed to want.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence
is a problem which he has to solve.

Most people die before they are fully born.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone
is the condition for the ability to love.

Creativity requires the courage
to let go of certainities.

A dream is a microscope through which
we look at the hidden occurrences 
in our suol.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have
who then am I?

There can be no real freedom
without the freedom to fail.

The only truly affluent are
those who do not want more then they have.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, 
to give oneself completely in the hope that 
our love will produce love in the loved person. 
Love is an act of faith, 
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning.
Uncertainty is the very condition 
to impel man to unfold his powers.

That millions of people share the same forms of 
mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Not he who has much is rich,
but he who gives much.

Only a person who has faith in himself
can be faithful to others.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. 
The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

The psychic task which a person can and 
must set for himself is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

If a person loves only one other person and
is indifferent to all others, 
his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, 
or an enlarged egotism.

The mature response 
to the problem of existence is love.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, 
not because it is a deprivation,
but because in the act of giving
lies the expression of my aliveness.

In love the paradox occurs 
that two beings become one 
and yet remain two.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Do one thing
that scares you everyday.

People grow through experience 
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.

It is better to light a candle
than curse the darkness.

We do not have to become heroes overnight.
Just a step at a time,
meeting each thing that comes up,
seeing it is not a dreadful as it appeared,
discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Well behaved women
rarely make history.

Justice cannot be for one side alone,
but must be for both.

Happiness is not a goal;
it is a by-product.

He who loses money loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more,
He who loses faith, loses all.

You must do the thing 
you think you cannot do.

No one can make you feel inferior 
without your consent.

The purpose of life, after all,
is to love it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure
you have no security unless you can live bravely,
excitingly imaginatively.

Your ambition should be to get as much life 
out of living as you possibly can,
as much enjoyment, as much interest,
as much experience, as much understanding.
Not simply be what is genreally called a "success."

No matter how plain a woman may be,
if truth and honesty are written across her face,
she will be beautiful.

A woman is like a tea bag;
you never know how strong it is
until it''s in hot water.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do,
and damned if you don't.

When you have decided what you believe,
what you feel must be done, 
have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.

The future belongs to those 
who believe in the beauty of thier dreams.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right
- for you'll be criticised anyway.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence 
by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face do the thing
you think you cannot do.

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

If someone betrays you once,
it's their fault.
If they betray you twice,
it's your fault.

In the long run, we shape our lives, 
and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make 
are ultimately our own responsibility.

Life was meant to be lived, 
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.

The giving of love is an educaton in itself.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choice one makes.

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.

What is to give light
must endure the burning.

When you cease to make a contribution, 
you begin to die.

Friendship with ones self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends
with anyone else in the world.

To handle yourself,
use your head,
to handle others,
use your heart.

Framework 1 and Framework 2 by Seth, Jane Roberts

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

You decide which of these adventures you want to take part in — and those you will experience in normal life, or in Framework 1. The inner mechanisms that happen prior to your experience will take place in the vast mental studio of Framework 2. There, all the details will be arranged, the seemingly chance encounters, for example, the unexplained coincidences that might have to occur before a given physical event takes place.

Events occur as a result of individual beliefs, desires, and intents. There is no such thing as a chance encounter. No death occurs by chance, nor any birth. In the creative atmosphere of Framework 2, intents are known. In a manner of speaking, no act is private. Your communication systems bring to your living room notices of events that occur throughout the world. Yet that larger inner system of communications is far more powerful in scope, and each mental act is imprinted in the multidimensional screen of Framework 2. That screen is available to all, and in other levels of consciousness, particularly in the sleep and dreaming stages, the events of that inner reality are as ever-present and easily accessible as physical events are when you are awake.

It is as if Framework 2 contains an infinite information service, that instantly puts you in contact with whatever knowledge you require, that sets up circuits between you and others, that computes probabilities with blinding speed. Not with the impersonality of a computer, however, but with a loving intent that has your best purposes in mind — yours and also those of each other individual.

You cannot gain what you want at someone else's detriment, then. You cannot use Framework 2 to force an event upon another person. Certain prerequisites must be met, you see, before a desired end can become physically experienced.

I will say then that man's emotional identification with nature is a strongly-felt reality in Framework 2. And there we must look for the answers regarding man's relationship with nature. There in Framework 2 the nature of the psyche appears quite clearly, so that its sweeps and rhythms can be understood. The manifestations of physical energy follow emotional rhythms that cannot be ascertained with gadgets or instruments, however fine.

The world's ideas, fantasies, or myths may seem far divorced from current experience — yet all that you know or experience has its origin in that creative dimension of existence that I am terming Framework 2. In a manner of speaking your factual world rises on a bed of fantasy, myth, and imagination, from which all of your detailed paraphernalia emerge.

In Framework 2 the interior power of nature is ever-changing. The dreams, hopes, aspirations and fears of man interact in a constant motion that then forms the events of your world. That interaction includes not only man, of course, but the emotional reality of all earthly consciousnesses as well, from a microbe to a scholar, from a frog to a star. You interpret the phenomena of your world according to the mythic characteristics that you have accepted. You organize physical reality, then, through ideas. You use only those perceptions that serve to give those ideas validity. The physical body itself is quite capable of putting the world together in different fashions than the one that is familiar to you.

While our meetings take place in your time, and in the physical space of your house, say, the primary encounter must be a subjective inner one, an intersection of consciousnesses that is then physically experienced.

These frameworks, while I speak of them separately, exist one within the other, and each one impinges upon the other. To some extent you are immersed in all realities.

The recognition of Framework 2 would bring you from that point to the production of great art, where words served to express not only the seen but the unseen — not simply facts but feelings and emotions — and where the words themselves escaped their consecutive patterns, sending the emotions into realms that quite defied both space and time.

Each private reality has its existence in an eternal creativity from which, again, your world springs.

Your world, then, is the result of a multidi-mensional creative venture, a work of art in terms almost impossible lor you to presently understand, in which each person and creature, and each particle, plays a living part. Again, in Framework 2 each event is known, from the falling of a leaf to the falling of a star, from the smallest insect's experience on a summer day to the horrendous murder of an individual on a city street. Those events each have their meaning in a larger pattern of activity. That pattern is not divorced from your reality, not thrust upon you, not apart from your experience. It often only seems to be because you so compartmentalize your own experience that you automatically separate yourself from such knowledge.

Creativity docs not deal with compartments. It throws aside barriers. Even most people who are involved in creative work often apply their additional insights and knowledge only to their art, however — not to their lives. They fall back to cause and effect.

Your Framework 1 life is, again, based on the idea that you have only so much energy, that you will wear out, and that a certain expenditure of energy will produce a given amount of work — in other words, that applied effort of a certain kind will produce the best results. In the same way, it is believed that the energy of the universe will die out. All of this presupposes "the fact" that no new energy is inserted into the world. The source of the world would therefore seem no longer to exist, having worn itself out in the effort to produce physical phenomena. In the light of such thinking, Framework 2 would be an impossibility.

Instead, the energy of life is inserted constantly into your world, in a way that has nothing to do with your so-called physical laws. I said (14 years ago) that the universe expands as an idea does, and that is exactly what I mean.

The greater life of each creature exists in that framework that "originally" gave it birth, and in a greater manner of speaking each creature, regardless of its age, is indeed being constantly reborn.

Some portion of each individual is in direct contact with the very source of its own existence. Each individual is innately aware that help is available in every situation, and that information does not need to come through the physical senses alone. Many illnesses are cured, then, through quite natural methods that not only involve physical healings, but bring into play other events — events that have great bearing on the psychological elements that may be involved behind the scenes. For those interactions we will have to look to Framework 2.

Framework 2 is the medium in which your world exists. It represents the vaster psychological reality in which your own subjective life resides.

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. Therefore, Framework 2 has always been represented in one way or another as a source of your world. Christianity saw it as heaven, inhabited by God the Father, His angels, the saints, and [the] deceased faithful.

Once scientists theorized the ether as the medium in which the physical universe existed.1 Framework 2 is the psychological medium in which the consciousness of the world exists.

The word "ego" is much bandied about, and in many circles it has a poor reputation. It is directed outward into the physical world. It is also aware, however, of some of your "unconscious" activities. It is the you you identify with, so it is as aware of your dreams, for example, as you are, and it is quite conscious of the fact that its existence rests upon knowledge thai it does not itself possess.

As you have an ego, fully conscious, directed toward the physical world, von also have what I call an inner ego, directed toward inner reality. You have, in other words, a portion of yourself that is fully conscious in Framework 2. The ego in your ordinary world, which again we will call Framework 1, is uniquely equipped to deal with that environment. It manipulates with rules of cause and effect and consecutive moments. It deals with an objectified reality. It can stretch its capacities, becoming far more aware of inner events than it is normally allowed to do, but its main purpose is to deal with the world of effects, to encounter events.

The inner ego is fully conscious. It is a portion of you, however, that deals with the formation of events, that glories in a rather rambunctious and creative activity that your specifications of time and place physically preclude. The unconscious, so-called, is — and I have said this before2 — quite conscious, but in another realm of activity. There must be a psychological chamber between these two portions of the self, however — these seemingly undifferentiated areas, in which back-and-forth translations can occur. Dream periods provide that service, of course, so that in dreams the two egos can meet and merge to some extent, comparing notes like strangers who perhaps meet on a train at night, and are amazed to discover, after some conversation, that they are indeed close relatives, each embarked upon the same journey though seemingly they traveled alone.

In those terms the undifferentiated area is actually filled with motion as psychological transitions and translations are made, until in dreams the two egos often merge into each other — so that sometimes you waken briefly with a sense of elation, or a feeling that in dreams you have met an old and valued friend.

Your world is populated by individuals concentrating upon physical activities, dealing with events that are "finished products" — at least in usual terms. Your inner egos populate Framework 2, and deal with the actual creation of those events that are then objectified. Since "the rules" of Framework 2 are different, that reality is not at all bound by your physical assumptions. It contains, therefore, the inner ego of each individual who has lived or will ever live upon the earth.

There is a great give-and-take between the two frameworks — your regular working one, Framework 1, and this other more comprehensive reality.

You will ignore as information certain stimuli that another person, for example, will latch on to immediately. Even in your own world, then, your interests and desires serve as organizational processes that screen out certain information. The information available in Framework 2 is in your terms infinite.

It is the source of your world, so therefore it contains not only all knowledge physically available, but far more. You think of course of the life that you know as LIFE, in capitals. It is, however, only the manifestation of what in those terms can only be called the greater life out of which your life springs. This is not to compare the reality that you know in derogative terms to the other-source existence, either, for your own world contains, as each other world does, a uniqueness and an originality that in those terms exists nowhere else — for no world of existence is like any other.

The inner ego is a portion of the self, for example — is the portion of your self — that is aware of your reincarnational activities. It is the part of you that exists outside of time, yet simultaneously lives in time. You form your own reality. The ego that you are aware of obviously could not form your body for you, however, or grow your bones. It knows how to assess the conditions of the world. It makes deductions. Your reasoning is highly important, yet alone it cannot pump your blood or tell your eyes how to see.

The inner ego does the actual work that brings about the events you have decided upon. In very simple terms, if you want to pick up a book, and then do so, you experience that event consciously, though you are quite unaware of all of the inner events that occurred to bring the motion about. The inner ego directs those activities.

If you want to change your job, and hold that desire, a new job will come into your experience in precisely the same fashion, in that the inner events will be arranged by the inner ego. A body event involves the working of numerous muscles and joints and so forth. An event involving a job change concerns motion on the part of many people, and implies a network of communication on the part of all of the inner egos involved. Obviously, then, a mass physical event implies an inner system of communications of proportions that would put your technological communications to shame.

You may then, again, unknowingly acquire an illness and recover, never aware of your malady, being healed because of a series of events that would seemingly have nothing to do with the illness itself — because in Framework 2 the inner ego, knowing both the reason for the illness, and its cure, brought about those precise situations that remedied the condition. Such events happen automatically, when nothing hampers recovery at your end.

The communication between the inner and outer egos should obviously be as clear and open as possible. As a general rule, the inner ego depends upon your assessment of physical events. Your involvement in the private aspects of your living, and your participation in mass events, has much to do with your estimation of the physical situation, and with your beliefs and desires regarding it.

The inner ego is perfect as a term to suit my purposes. Let me stress again that the "unconscious" is indeed conscious — and by conscious I mean that its reasoning is not irrational. Its methods are not chaotic, and its characteristics are not only equal to those of the known ego, but indeed are more resilient and knowledgeable.

Frameworks 1 and 2 obviously represent not only different kinds of reality in normal terms, but two different kinds of consciousness. To make this discussion as simple as possible for now, at least, think of these two frameworks or states of consciousness as being connected by "undifferentiated areas" in which sleep, dreaming, and certain trance states have their activity. Those undifferentiated areas are involved in the constant translation of one kind of consciousness into the other, and with energy transferences. You constantly process those data that come to you in your private life, and that information includes bulletins from all over the world, through your news broadcasts and so forth.

The inner ego has access, again, to a much vaster amount of knowledge. It is aware not only of its own private position, as you are of yours, but it is also familiar with the mass events of its reality. It is intimately involved in the creation of your own private experience.

The inner ego reasons, but its reasoning is not restricted to the cause-and-effect limitations that you apply to the reasoning process. The action of the inner ego within the wider sphere of Framework 2 explains many events and seeming coincidences that otherwise seem to make no sense within your world.

On any given day the events of your private lives fit within the larger pattern of world events, in which they have their context. On any given night the intimate events of your dream lives also exist in the greater context of the world's dreams — in which they have their reality.

Reality as Framework 2 is organized in a different fashion than it is in the Framework 1 world, and the processes of reasoning are far quicker. In Framework 1 the reasoning processes work largely by deduction, and they must constantly check their own results against the seemingly concrete experience of physical events. The reasoning of the inner ego is involved with the creative invention of those experiences. It is involved with events in a context of a different kind, for it deals intimately with probabilities.

Each of you, with your beliefs and intents, tell the inner ego which of an infinite number of probable events you want to encounter. In the dream state events from both frameworks are processed. The dream state involves not only a state of consciousness that exists between the two frameworks of reality, but also involves, in those terms, a connecting reality of its own.

What appears to you as chance or coincidence, however, is actually the result of the amazing organizations and communications active in the psychological reality of Framework 2.

Framework 2 will not be a dry, intellectual exploration, because the intent itself will begin to trigger within your lives the emergence of hints and clues as to your own immersion in Framework 2's creativity.

Without the particular plants, animals, people, or even individual cells or viruses, nature has no meaning. Your physical universe, then, had a nonphysical origin, in which it is still couched. In the same manner your individual consciousness has an origin in which it is still couched.

Framework 2 represents the inner sphere of reality, the inner dimensions of existence, that gives your world its own characteristics. The energy and power that keeps you alive, that fuels your thoughts — and also the energy that lights your cities — all have their origins in Framework 2.

Children however know quite well, automatically, that they have a strong hand in the creation of the events that then seem to happen to them.

The child in you sensed more, of course: It sensed its own greater reality in another framework entirely, from which it had only lately emerged — yet with which it was intimately connected.

The child knew "that it came from somewhere else" — not by chance but by design.

Children experiment constantly in an effort to discover not only the effect of their thoughts and intents and wishes upon others, but the degree to which others influence their own behavior. To that extent, they deal rather directly with probabilities in a way quite foreign to adult behavior.

Children understand the importance of symbols, and they use them constantly to protect themselves — not from their own reality but from the adult world.

The origin of your universe is nonphysical, and each event, however grand or minute, has its birth in the Framework 2 environment. Your physical universe arose from that inner framework, then, and continues to do so.

You were born with the impetus toward growth built in — automatically provided with the inner blueprints that would lead to a developed adult form. Not only the cells, but the atoms and molecules that compose them contained a positive intent to cooperate in a bodily formation, to fulfill themselves, and they were then predisposed not only toward survival, but with an idealization leading toward the best possible development and maturity.

All of those characteristics have their sources in Framework 2, for the psychological medium in Framework 2 is automatically conducive to creativity. It is not simply a neutral dimension, therefore, but contains within itself an automatic predisposition toward the fulfillment of all patterns inherent within it.

Reasoning by itself can only deal with deductions made about the known world. It cannot accept knowledge that comes from "elsewhere," for such information will not fit in reason's categories, and confounds its cause-and-effect patterning. The power to reason comes from Framework 2.

The mother could not consciously control the bodily processes that lead to birth. In the truest sense, the birth magically happens, as miraculous in those terms as the so-called initial emergence of life upon the planet itself. Scientific analysis of the brain will tell you nothing about the power that moves your thoughts, or hint at the source of the brain's abilities. However, the constant activity between Frameworks 1 and 2 is constantly apparent in the very existence of your world, and in the relationships involving your imagination, feelings, and beliefs, and those private and shared events that compose your experience.

The coincidences that seem to happen, the chance encounters, the unexpected events — all of these come into your experience because in one way or another you have attracted them, even though their occurrences might seem to have insurmountable odds against them. Those odds — those impediments — do not exist in Framework 2.

Your Framework 1 existence is immersed in Framework 2. Again, your body itself is constantly replenished in Framework 1 because of its simultaneous reality in Framework 2. Framework 2 is ever exteriorizing itself, appearing in your experience as Framework 1. You concentrate so thoroughly upon exterior reality, however, that you often ignore the quite apparent deeper sources of your own physical existence. As a result you deal with methods of division and categorization so completely that you lose sight of associative organizations, even though you use them constantly in your own most intimate thought processes.

You must understand that in a manner of speaking, Framework 2 is on the one hand an invisible version of the physical universe. On the other hand, however, it is far more than that, for it contains within it probable variations of that universe — from the most cosmic scale, say, down to probable versions of the most minute events of any given physical day.

Your body has an invisible counterpart in Frame-work 2. During life that counterpart is so connected with your own physical tissues, however, that it can be misleading to say that the two — the visible and invisible bodies — are separate.

In the same way that your thoughts have a reality in Framework 2, and only for the sake of a meaningful analogy, thoughts could be said to be the equivalent, now, of objects; for in Framework 2 thoughts and feelings are far more important even than objects are in physical reality.

You possess a unique kind of consciousness, in which each individual has a hand in the overall formation of a world reality, and you are participating at a level of existence in which you are learning how to transform the imaginative realm of probabilities into a more or less specific, physically experienced world.

In a way you choose from an infinite, endless, uncomputable number of ideas, and sculpt these into the physical fragments that compose normal experience. You do this in such a way that the timeless events are experienced in time, and so that they mix and merge to conform to the dimensions of your reality.

I try to strongly state the pristine uniqueness of the individual. I also say that there are no limitations to the self.

Each person forms his or her own reality, and yet that personal reality must also be shared with others, and must be affected by the reality of others . ...

Man has free will within the framework of his existence, and that all other species do also within the frameworks of their existences.

I would like to reinforce the fact that life is indeed a cooperative venture, and that all the steps taken toward the ideal must of themselves be life-promoting. For a start you will acknowledge your existence in the framework of nature, and to do that you must recognize the vast cooperative processes that connect each species with each other one. Every time you affirm the Tightness of your own existence, you help others. Your mental states are part of the planet's psychic atmosphere.

The inner self, which is the source of your present being, speaks through your impulses. They provide in-built spiritual and biological impetuses toward your most ideal development (underlined). You must trust the self that you are, now.

If you would know yourself in deepest terms, you must start with your own feelings, emotions, desires, intents and impulses. Spiritual knowledge and psychic wisdom are the natural result of a sense of self-unity.

Again, impulses are inherently good, both spiritually and biologically. They emerge from Framework 2, from the inner self, and they are based on the great inner webwork of communication that exists among all species on your planet. (Pause.) Impulses also provide the natural impetus toward those patterns of behavior that serve you best, so that while certain impulses may bunch up toward physical activity, say, others, seemingly contradictory, will lead toward quiet contemplation, so that overall certain balances are maintained.

The patterns for the earth and for its creatures were as real before their physical appearances, and far more real than, say, the plan for a painting that you might have in your mind.

Your conscious mind can only accept a certain sequence of probabilities as recognized experience. As I have said, the choices among probabilities go on constantly, both on conscious and unconscious levels. Events that you do not perceive as conscious experience are (pause) a part of your unconscious experience, however, to some extent. This applies to the individual, and of course en masse the same applies to world events. Each action seeks all of its own possible fulfillments. All That Is seeks all possible experience, but in such a larger framework in this case that questions of, say, pain or death simply do not apply, though [certainly] they do on the physical level.

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

The universe was created in the same fashion that your own thoughts and dreams happen: spontaneously and yet with a built-in amazing order, and an inner organization. You think your thoughts and you dream your dreams without any clear knowledge of the incredible processes involved therein, yet those processes are the very ones that are behind the existence of the universe itself.

You are the unique creative manifestations of a divine intelligence whose creativity is responsible for all realities, which are themselves endowed with creative abilities of their own, with the potential and desire for fulfillment—inheritors indeed of the divine processes themselves. Spontaneity knows its own order.

The world's parts come spontaneously together, with an order that basically defies the smaller laws of cause and effect, or before and afterward. In that regard, again, your dreaming state presents you with many clues about the source of your own lives and that of your world.

An inner (pause) "psychological" universe, from which your own emerges, and that inner universe is also the source of Framework 2 as well. It is responsible for all physical effects, and is behind all physical "laws."

Now in the greater framework of reincarnational existences you choose your roles, or your lives, but the lines that you speak, the situations that you meet, are not predetermined. "You" live or exist in a larger framework of activity even while you live your life, and there is a rambunctious interplay between the yous in time and the you outside of time.