I'm Simon Mundie - host of ‘A New Way of Being’ and author of 'Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself', published by Bloomsbury. Welcome to my RU-vid channel A New Way of Being - which is about recognising that we are all innately enough.
So much stuff out there - including the so-called 'high performance' culture - comes from a place of inadequacy. If we are not enough as we are, of course we will expend vast amounts of energy trying to BECOME enough in the future. But that's a trap. We cannot become what we already are, and the search obscures this recognition.
Does this mean we become passive, lazy, indifferent and don't look to do big, important things in the world? No. But crucially, the intention is different. We are not seeking to prove our worth. We are choosing to express it.
All is one, there is not two. You know it already, you know it’s true. You can look and look but there’s nothing to find The truth’s just been hidden by the chatter of your mind. Oneness is here, now - not somewhere above Oneness is All, oneness is LOVE. See it and a smile on your face will appear Your life filled with JOY and nothing to fear.
Good to see the 'A Team' again - but as @alisonsalter8352 says - bring on the women! 🙏PS - great sound from all 3 on Zencastr but why the cans Simon? Phil (in the Tiny House in the Derbyshire Dales)
no experience means no wisdom. So X you will find in any experience which is all lasting happiness, many lasting happiness that you will recall when required. Can you imagine not recalling a relationship in your youth when you are in old age. Now that recall is your wisdom due to experience. The point is, what is promoting the seeking and what will carry out the effortlessness. Remembering that the inception of ones lineage was initially FORMED not BORN. Therefore the FORM within is always seeking it's surrounds for it's survival and to evolve the BORN ( your physical being). The FORM has always informed/conditioned the BORN to effortlessly achieve, after all how do you think your lineage has come thus far. Therefore your brain can seek the effortlessness path prior to carrying out the FORMS request to seek for the end result. Each individual request to seek by the FORM within requires a different effortlessness. Seeking IS NOT an effort until that which is being requested to seek becomes the effort, which means one must seek that particular effortlessness path from that FORM source within. That means effortlessness is not present before the seeking begins. Your innate FORM operates 24/7 ( your iteration function) whether you realise it's presence or not.
My female mind simply cannot go there. And doesn’t need to. My heart just knows Oneness to be True. 50% of the population don’t need to make their mind jump through these hoops. It’s a tremendously arduous long way round to Self Realisation! However, women may be conditioned to follow male gurus, because ‘men always know better’. And in this way women get sucked back into the matrix of the mind.
We identify individual aspects to everything. So a table and a chair as two separate things in relation to everything. But when we are not doing that, there is already everything. Free from the need for individual aspects to be identified. The identification of individual aspects is knowing, we are searching to know everything. Everything is already free from the need to be known. There is just absolute freedom, covered over by that search for knowing.
All experience is inside our head, our experience of everyone, everything is inside our head. Originally Awarness, which languages ( symbols) enabled us to split up Awarness into consciousness. Part of this is an observer to witness itself. Our journey is to make the unconscious conscious. No gods needed.
"Evil" is merely a human ego label. It seems silly that BK is so caught up in that concept in relation to an ontological theory or explanation of reality and the universe
That’s because you assume that consciousness is already bound to the body in a necessary way and is a product of it. If that isn’t the case, then consciousness is already not bound to the body. We could also bring in NDE experiences where consciousness is outside of the body and reports verifiable things to support the claim. The biggest issue with claiming that consciousness is a product of brain activity is the realm of idea or qualia is experientially as real as the realm of material phenomena. In other words, it is already true that ideas are real and are not the same things as material things. This is evidence that the psyche, while being bound to the body in some way is actually a separate entity. Pneuma or Spirit is another thing and is be definition uncaused because it isn’t bound to a causally infinite regress. What I mean is simply this: if Spirit or consciousness or awareness or whatever you want to call it is a product of material processes, then how could it exist in a meta level above what is going on, a level beyond which there by definition can’t be anything else? Can anything else exist which isn’t preceded by awareness? So if that is the case, if consciousness was a product of brain activity, it wouldn’t be an unchanging thing and there wouldn’t be meta awareness of phenomena. We would be automata.
INCREDIBLE ZEN MOMENT: I once was in a conversation with a sincere friend and he was pro corporal punishment. And then, I asked how he might feel if his daughter or his son grew up to deliberately become an executioner. My friend practically lost his breath, almost couldn't breath and couldn't look at me. He'd innocently never had the opportunity to see the entire picture and the entire thing really caught him off guard. He'd never had the opportunity to really look at the bigger picture (which is typical of the greater percentage of us). And, then there's the capitalist perspective: it's too expensive to take care of them and they're not worth it - again, entirely understandable in its own extremely mundane way, in the same category as my buddy. From a typical worldview, this issue is very difficult for many to grasp and, quite understandably, for those who've been transgressed against (no matter how profound their insight). This is a great conversation that gets right to the point! But, good luck with it in this world of greed, hate and attempting to make oneself happy at the expense and sacrifice of others. ✨♥️👋🥴👍✨
Bernardo never says anything that is not just common sense. Especially to women. We live this experience what he speaks of (as if he is some kind of authority) every day in a world dominated by men. I don’t get why people look up to him. He also just repeats the same thing several times.
Hi Alison! ✨♥️👋🥴✨ Besides the personal concerns about the people, what's your take on the information being discussed? Many have come to the same conclusion, but getting us to a functional application is the problem (throughout history). A pure drop of water is contaminated when it's placed in a mud puddle.
@@Da_Xman good point for me yeah, I’m a teacher too and often these days am more concerned about the HOW rather than the WHAT is being discussed. I’ve lived through the WHAT and have a felt experiential understanding of it. I have done exactly what Bernardo speaks of. I speak from the fire of that place. It has required immense growth to get there. Fast growth in a very dangerous and desperate situation. I’ve had to be the one to grow beyond revenge and separation in dia circumstances. So yes I agree with him. The bigger question of ‘why does evil happen’ is a much bigger question. And inevitably the ‘why’ question can only EVER come from the mind and be answered by the mind on that relative level. Dr David Hawkins also gave over his personal life to ‘serving consciousness/god’ and he speaks of there being war so that mass proportions of humanity can move into seeing the world through a courageous lens. It takes courage to lay down one’s life on the front line. Consciousness through doing so, comes back to its true nature. Or a major step closer anyway. The courage is what is needed to move beyond the sense of self and separation which starts war in the first place. The dance is only ever moving in an impersonal way for consciousness only. Or one could say ‘for All’ if we credit the 8billion appearing humans. If we don’t credit there being humans at all, so at the most ultimate level, consciousness knows no good and evil. It just IS. Just dancing. “There is nothing good or bad in this world; only thinking that makes it So”. Hamlet act 2 scene 2 But that is not much practical use to know that. I think I have given three different levels of veiled consciousness above. 1) the level of the people: we must do something at an impersonal level to stop evil 2) that evil is happening to help consciousness remember itself and only for that reason. 3) that consciousness just is. Beyond the mind made reasoning of why’s and wherefores. Please do engage further. My understanding is always open to not being the highest or most comprehensive understanding. ❤
When you talk of loss of information, are you saying that we, sort of, lose concentration?! Why do we only have "partial" information, please?? Could we change our "projection" so that it didn't "lose information"??? Btw, does this finding imply that planning's futile, in a sense?
People think they know by eating the forbidden fruit, causing externalisation and the belief in a devil, for thought ís the forbidden fruit. So they think they know good and bad, but the truth is thought is causing it. And the mind cannot know or see what it causes, thats were Consciousness comes in. Thought is merely a degredation of that which is one, chopping in into pieces. ✌
A wonderful question. I would have liked to interview Francis and I sent him and email but he doesn’t seem to be seeing my email. Anyone has his email ? @simon ?
it's nice. first he addresses the consciousness of a reality and the consciousness of a body. he asks for the evidence that shows that consciousness is limited to a body. then he suggests going a little deeper, and recognizing that consciousness is the reality of our human experience, and at that moment the image freezes. reality jokes at my level. it's really good.
That's a very good point! 5.25: FL:...this body is part of the world that surrounds it , because of that its reality has to be the reality of the world, the world and the body in it ,share the same reality. So even if i say this Consciousness is dependent upon this body the reality of this Consciousness is the reality of this body, which is the reality of everything and then already we have moved out of this very unexplored belief that this Consciousness is limited to, or by, this human body.
In Albert Camus' novel "The Stranger," Meursault's response to his cellmate about wanting to remember this life if there was an afterlife underscores the idea that memories are essential to personal identity. Without memory, any new existence is effectively a new person, which is equivalent to death. Camus suggests that it's our memories that give our lives meaning and continuity. Bernardo Kastrup's theories propose that individual consciousnesses are parts of a universal consciousness, and personal memories might persist in some form after death. However, if these memories are not accessible to the individual, it still feels like the end of personal identity. Without the ability to remember, the essence of who we are is lost. What are your thoughts on this perspective? Does losing memory equate to losing one's identity?
Yes if one is looking through the intellectual male mind, you’re right, it is indeed very complicated. Hence I recommend the merging of male with female. Women are by nature, more loving and nurturing. They know their oneness by nature much easier. The world gets nothing from the male intellectual mind anymore. It feels so past its sell-by date. The world operates in the heart these days. Not in the mind. ❤
I have reason to believe recently, that it does 'end'. When awakening reaches the point that it realises that there never was an ego, and that what we used to call ego, never existed anyway...and everything was always perfect...even the stuff we called ego behaviour (after all, how many lessons have been learnt from ego behaviour?!), that is the end of awakening. When you realise you are back at square one and it was really just 'much adieu about nothing. Literally all that needs to be learnt is that the person is not ALL we are and that there is another 'level'. We don't need to awaken from the ego, or get rid of it. On the contrary, we need it. We just need to see it's not all we are.
The problem is that non-duality is not an understanding, it cannot be applied by our conceptual mind at all, otherwise it will be the same trap we are all repeating for centuries.....full stop
I am very much looking forward to the new govt we have here in the UK which, in my opinion, seems very promising. We look like being one of the few Centre-Left countries in Europe judging by the direction taken by Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and now France and Germany. Interesting times.
