Getting Back to Clarity In 10 seconds | Rupert Spira 

Beautiful, James! That means your clarity is always there waiting for your attention! :)

Dr. David Hawkins said when we move into the dimension of clarity, which he called "the field", we automatically remove ourselves as an individual, which is subjected to all kinds of suffering.

@@wisdomkindred8388 Why thankyou! And I absolutely adore the late Dr. David Hawkins! His books have been served me greatly in my own healing and spiritual awakening processes.

@@wisdomkindred8388 I particularly love this description of consciousness by the good doctor........ The infinite field of consciousness is All Present, All Powerful, and includes All of Existence. Thus, nothing can possibly happen outside its infinite domain because it is the Source of Existence. Within this infinite field of power, there are decreasing levels of energy fields. As they are expressed progressively in form (linearity), their relative power decreases all the way down to the individual. The giant field could be compared to an immense electrostatic field in which the individual is like a charged particle that, because of the infinite power of the field, is automatically aligned within the field according to its individual “charge.” The charge of the karmic spiritual body is set by intention, decision, and alignment by intention. It appears to naïve perception that what is not intellectually explicable seems to be “accidental,” especially when the event is unpredictable. Inasmuch as the infinite field of consciousness is unlimited in dimension, nothing can happen outside of it. All that occurs within it is under its influence, and therefore, nothing “accidental” is possible in reality.

Similarly, Dr. David Hawkins said, being aware of the silent part, which is much bigger than the noise (thoughts).

Thanks for your feedback, Lila! Yes, I think a compilation will generate a more complete understanding of an issue. Will create more of it!

Great insights. I'm curious on your thoughts about how physical health ties into this. I've been tackling ruminating thoughts and anxiety/depression for well over a decade, and I'm starting to see patterns and gain clarity on how the content of my thoughts are more anxious when my body is feeling "off". I would say ill, or sick, but I'm referring to a feeling that is subtle enough that it seems I repressed it or lost sensitivity to it, because all my attention was on my thoughts instead. I've started to address my diet and poor eating habits because I have a huge suspicion that I am chronically inflamed, full-body, and this is causing my mind to go haywire trying to fix the problem (as it should) but I just end up getting lost thinking about my life situation and what I "should be doing." The more I focus on my physical health, the easier it seems to get to take my attention off thoughts because they aren't so demanding and life-threatening.

​@@JoeHiYo I've read that Coue's autosuggestion affects physical health too. It was an article talking about how some big medical school (Harvard?) was teaching eastern forms of medicine, and how meditation or just believing in a cure actually does lead to more positive outcomes than those who don't. (The point of the article was that just 25 years prior they had fired someone for pushing this concept. I think they'd hired him back and he was leading that now.). So, disarming unhealthy, unrealistic self-talk seems like it would have a similar effect. (less cold-anger in the mind. Depression is said to be repressed anger, a cold anger. Or, anxiety for the future is avoidance, kind of what people do when they repress anger -- they avoid expressing it or acknowledging it even exists.). It's all relative. You could say what Coue's patients said without even beleiving it ("ever day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"). Or, you could actually disarm real, harmful, repressive unseen self-talk/narration. You'd think that would be even more impactful than a simple slogan like brainwashing or soemthing. The difference is: the individual narrates their present moment for a _reason_. It's mental thumb-sucking. Take a child's thumb out of their mouth (or their security blanket away), and they have a meltdown. That can be a real stress that leads to physical ailment, toxins in the body due to stress (which can feel existential when disarming that narrated self. Everyone's different. But, the more a person narrates as a distraction due to dis-integrated trauma/shame/anger in the subconcious, the more existential it can feel to take that "coping mechanism" away -- see it for what it is. For some people, the narration really is who they are. They spent a lifetime believing it for an existential reason.). That's where I felt "EFT/Tapping" helped. That's based upon Coue's discovery (To me it is. I don't know if it's recognized as such.). For example, see _"Release Social Anxiety NOW with "EFT" & Be More Confident Around Others"_ (channel: Social Anxiety Solutions). When I was stressed, not feeling well, I did what he does in the video. But, I assured myself that I was exercising my "Agent Self" (a term in psychology). I was accustomed to the false self confabulating itself (and true self going along with it, while my agent self was asleep in the back seat). The party was over. It wasn't a good existence. I'm going to be more realisitic. I was an observer of what I'd always gone along with and taken as being true, and an accurate representation of who I am (have been, will be, could be, should be would've been... thus the narration begins). I affirmed to myself that I knew what was going on, it's ok... it's understandable. It's not the end of the world. I'll get over it. Exact same thing he does, just my realization/awareness was of a different problem than he affirms to himself. I think that's like Coue's discovery (moroever you believe/know it more just a slogan like magic happy talk as his experiment was. If his can have a demonstrable/measurable impact on outcomes. Then certainly EFT/Tapping would (/ knowing what's really going on with you, and the cause of not feeling well, and the more honest existence being better in the end than believing your own lies.). I think it's even more powerful than Coue's discover because of the pysical "tapping" part of it which I think is more of a "reinforcement" to your subconcious. If words can be picked up and taken seriously by the subconscious, and lead to a different conciousness emerging from the subconscious, then being assertive/convincing about it (knocking it into yourself) seems like it would work better than ordinary auto-suggestion. I don't know if the chakra stuff is real. But, it can't hurt. I didn't turn that part into a quest of truth about chakras. I just did it, and it works. I don't really care if the chakra stuff had any merit. I needed to tap somewhere. Those locations were good enough for me. I didn't need to overthink it (which is what I am prone to do, and going on a mission to validate chakras rather than just get the benefit of something people say works). FWIW: The way I got into this was a video "Guided Mindfulness Meditation on the Present Moment. Be Here Now." (channel: MindfulPeace). It just teaches you to reach a stillness where you can recognize thoughts as they enter your mind, acknowledge them (don't judge them, don't fight them, they just "are") and choose to think about it later. You realize you're not your thoughts, and you do have that veto power if only for half a second. That brief moment without a thought is you (not you narrating to yourself who you are, or have been, or could be, or would've been, etc.). After doing that for awhile, you can get there without formal meditation (while working around the house). It's a familiarity that you can find without a "routine" of meditation. You can notice how you're thinking about something, or a vibe comes over you and what was I just thinking, where did that originate from (a thought 5 minutes earlier). It's not autopilot like it used to be. And, you don't have to go through the motions of meditation to have that awareness (the Agent Self watching the thinker). IMO, all these channels that talk about mindfulness/awarness/presence/consciousness: I would have *never* in my lifetime gotten here if I tried to come at it through what they talk about. It was about 1 years after practicing that video (and more all the time without meditation) that I watched an Eckhart Tolle video and instantly "I know what he's talking about!" Over time I realized this was buddhism, or zen, or transcendental meditation. It's this simple. I was lucky to find my way into it through a back door because if I'd come at it through people talking about it who know what it, I would have gotten stuck on "what it is" and who's got the right way (which branch of thought is the correct one. Who's translation is better.). It would have all sounded like mumbo jumbo. "How do I be this person who beliefs this type of stuff?" (Just more narration of who I am.). It's surprisingly simple and real compared to people who know what it is talking about what it is (including me talking about what it is). Transcendental meditation, for example. I thought that meant something spiritual or a "higher plane." Just sit there and wait for it to happen (I just go to sleep when I meditate that way). It's actually transcending *myself*. It's that easy. It's not sitting there waiting for something to happen, but observing myself and transcending it. It's amazing to me how simple it is and I could have done it many years sooner. "I am not my thoughts (and I can experience that by getting to the source of their emergence)." I never heard it explained that way. Or, my ego being as dependent on its narration wouldn't let me hear it. (Probably more the latter. ANd that can lead to physical symptoms as the ego dies a little, or a lot.). If you google "autosuggestion and phyiscal illness" you'll find discussions about it. It's a real thing. You have more insight into why (perhaps) your body reacts with illness. It's more understandable than the average person who needs to understand autosuggestion as a "trickery" to beat an illness. It's more real and causal for you. Detox tea could be good (a organic/health store like Sprouts or Whole Foods has a selection.). My only concern about that is that I would turn healthy eating into a new "identity" and narrative/obsession. Orthorexia nervosa, dysmorphia. Even hypochondria. I could see myself being hypochondriac when invalidating my inner narrative, and the go finding another way to narrate ("you're sick, you're sick. It's worse than you imagine."). You could really be ill. Seeing a doctor is wise. But, for myself, the greater risk would be turning ilness into an identity (and eating healthy into an identity/explanation of who I am). There was much less risk of actually being ill and not seeking real help. But, it's always possible.

​@Michael Hawk Essentially you're defining where duality stops. You object to my definition of the experience, and insist your experience is the real non-dual. Ultimately, if you experienced it, then there was an experiencer. There's no way to escape the fact that that is dualistic in its very nature & definition. You may say that if enough people agree that your definition of experience isn't dual, then it's not dual. But, if enough people agree that sacred underwear has magic powers, they'll start a religion (too). I'm comfortable with your experience. I don't need you (or anyone else) to have my experience, or agree with my terms of describing what it is. Usually when someone needs to label things so intensely, and manage orthodoxy, and define terms that still don't add up as concretely as you say my definitions don't.... that's a warning sign that consciousness is not present. I believe it's something that can't be explained/defined/labeled. As soon as anyone starts to, that's guaranteed to not be it (in its entirety, or most essential nature). To you, that's destructive (of something your ego is attached to: your experience, which implies duality.). Peace.

@Michael Hawk Sorry for replying twice, but "flying yogis" remind me of the "non-dual" religion. They hop around on mattresses insisting that they're flying/levitating. The fact that it only lasted 2/10ths of a second doesn't matter. They flew! I often feel that that sort of mindset is at work within the more religiously non-dual. Someone explains their experience, and "no, no. You're all wrong and hurting people with that explanation. If you can explain it that way, it's all dual. Let me explain it more purely...." But, who's to say that that experience wasn't just as dual as the first one? It's still an experience being recounted. There was an experiencer for their to be an experience. The only points of difference are the words used. I.e., the story of blind men touching different parts of an elephant, emphatically abusing each other that they're wrong. "You have to explain it like I do, or you're...."). It always seems to be more about the other person, not the experience. The experience becomes rehearsed orthodox terms. And then the importance is upon maintaining orthodoxy of definitions, experiences. Flying means flying. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. There's some non-dual preachy channels that seem very wordy/profuse for something that can't be described, is beyond such dualism. They seem very dual, and often clickbait'y. They preach simplicity and dissolving, then spend incredible effort editing videos, choosing backgrounds & thumbnails with "gotcha" memes. There seems to be a lot of thought (and monetization) put into something so basic and pure. There's a lot about it that seems overdone, or more group-identity (another form of ego, membership). But, I do believe the experience is real. I'm not saying such is phony. Just: what better place for the ego to hide than in the pursuit of destroying one's own ego. "I've experiened egoless existence... and you haven't! Mine's real. You're isn't." I'm not saying that's you. But, you at least have to admit that that is a real risk of awakening. The ego is slippery and will hide where you least expect it. That's a risk everyone has. I feel like "non-dual" turns into that for many people. It's a new identity. (Not that the experience isn't real. Just that it turns into more than an experience. An identity, and separating wheat from chaff, etc.).

I am in exactly where you are at in life. I am 43 years old and have never had a partner, I haven't had any friends since high school, and my life outwardly seems like a total failure. All throughout my life I have sought so many ways of masking these inner feelings of despair and loneliness ranging from drugs and alcohol, a myriad of destructive behaviours, indulging in mindless entertainment's and distractions,, involving myself in political matters etc etc etc and all in hindsight to escape from what I believed to be myself. But in the last year I have discovered something within myself that truly transcends all the pain, all the loneliness, all the notions of failure and regret that I always saw as entirely being myself. I don't know if you are spirituality minded or not and it doesn't really matter but there are some books and RU-vid video's I could recommend that have totally changed the way I see myself, my life and my role in the world. So feel free to leave a reply if you're interested and ill be more than happy to provide some links to these. And it doesn't matter what your spiritual beliefs are or if you are more agnostic or even atheist as these books and such aren't about specific belief systems.

you just described the "upper layer" that covers the feeling of depression, as Rupert said....so you are on the right path! :) remember that no matter what your life situation is or your life stories are, even if you in the end fulfill all these "life failures" that you think bring you pain, an untrained mind will ALWAYS find reasons to create new depression out of the situation it is in no matter what it is. we have everything we need right here and right now to heal without needing anything in our life situations to change or fulfill first....that is just another trick of the mind to keep you in the feeling of hopelesness to perpetuate the depression

@@jamesmoore4827 That would be great, James! I'd be happy to see what helped you change your sense of identity and your life!

@@wisdomkindred8388 First and foremost the 'Rubhu Gita'! Along with the 'Bhagavad Gita'. 'I Am That' Nisargadatta Maharaj. 'Who Am I' Ramana Maharshi. 'All Is One' unknown author but a text Ramana Maharshi would advise seekers to read. The books by Dr. David Hawkins especially 'Letting Go'. Allan Watts was instrumental when I first started getting into spirituality. I owe a great debt to Terrence McKenna for opening and blowing my mind with introducing me to the wonders of psychedelics (especially DMT). Also Eckhart Tolle 'The Power of Now' which I just got round to reading quite recently. And I'll mention just one more 'Science and the Akashic Field' by Erwin Laszlo. Oh and I can't leave out the collected works of Swami Vivekananda which I'm just getting into and just WOW!

@@jamesmoore4827 I'm interested. Yes, please.

Yes, Pulse! I watched that video and really liked it. I asked Rupert if I could post it on the WisdomKindred channel and he agreed. For those who want to watch the original videos, the link is in the description.

Natalie, you already have a powerful habit but you seem not to recognize its immense value. When you go back to yourself, you already step out of the mind's territory with all kinds of thoughts and emotions. Although you may not feel anything rather than not feeling the grip of the emotion, you're already in the plane of clarity, wisdom, creativity, and subtle energy. (this is the kind of energy mentioned in Tao Te Ching: "when looked at, it is not much to see; but when put into practice, it is inexhaustible.") Eckhart Tolle said at that moment you are in the vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. If you do something at that moment, to find a solution, for example, you will see the value of the state of clarity. Not only that, Deepak Chopra said, every time we go back to emptiness (what you called yourself here), our pattern or karma gets cleanser; it gets weaker over time and thus has lesser control over us. But the process is gradual, so you may not appreciate enough the powerful thing you often do. Another thing is that, as long as we think "I want to get rid of this feeling." this is exactly the memory that invites the feeling to come back. The same thing happens when you think you need to avoid something, you will notice it everywhere, and thus your consciousness will meet with it everywhere. That is interesting about how our mind works! :) As long as we think something is bad, our mind will come back to it repeatedly in order to "fix it". My experience is that, whenever I don't want anything, I just say "it's not necessary, not important." and my mind releases it and focuses on something more helpful to my life :) ; or whenever my mind doesn't want to meet with something, I just tell it "it's fine as it is. let it be there.", so my mind "accepts" it and leaves it alone. To me, acceptance really means seeing a bigger scenario, a bigger context, so my mind doesn't get stuck with some annoying things. When Rupert talked "don't rationalize it", I think he meant don't try to change it by switching from negative to positive. It's in fact a kind of trying to get rid of it. It seems to work for a while but then the negative "swings" back based on the law of the opposite. But I agree that we do need to see the wastefulness, the stupidity, and maybe the danger of unhelpful habits, so we can drop them. Dr. David Hawkins talked about an effortless way to give up something we don't like about ourselves through the Heisenberg principle: just notice and write down how often we do what we don't want to do, but don't try to change it. Just track it. Gradually it disappears of its own accord. How nice! I really like this way and posted a video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dgCX0pHQh4o.html I think the power of the practice is that we still can go back to the mind's plane to enjoy a sense of "human pleasure", but we can "fly" out of it when we want to. How free we are and how wonderful life is! :)

And I think you have the ability to help others relieve their pain too.

@Jacky H I think those people may need holistic treatments, with the help of medication, hypnosis, and so on. But they also have advantages that others don't: their motivation for freedom is stronger than ever; that helps them break through the thick wall of the separate self... J. Krishnamurti is an example. But being aware of being aware is the "plane" we want to be. I don't think there will be reliable freedom if we still "stand" on the human mind.

A short talk by J.Krishnamurti very well explained when suffering ends (on another channel) ru-vid.compU9hBUg-6zU

@Wisdom Kindred Thank for your response. I was just hoping people with chronic depression could break free of it without medication since their motivation for freedom is stronger. And even if they take medication for a while then one day could still break free and be happy with out them. But I guess I'm searching for proof it can be possible so I can be hopefully and optimistic.

Thank you for your beautiful poem about our True Nature, llonka!

@@wisdomkindred8388 ☺️😁

@John, Osho used to say the same: "No mind is peace. The mind itself can never be peaceful, silent."

Meriem, "accepting the situation" is just another way of saying "seeing the situation clearly as the whole picture". You won't be able to see the situation clearly if you don't return to the Center of your being (your True Nature). If we're depressed, everything we see will be colored by depression. To see things as they are, we have to see them from the "glasses" of Clarity. And the only way to be in the state of clarity is to return to your True Nature (not to any mind patterns) Hope that helps.

I agree. I largely credit cannabis with exposing myself to myself. That and practicing a guided-mindfulness video (for no other purpose than being aware of thoughts as they enter my head; just be familiar that I am not my thoughts, and how they turn into a force of ruminating egoic existence). I think people who say "I tried cannabis, and I didn't like how it made me feel" are the people who need to keep trying it (once a month, whatever). I think that feeling of anxiety or panic, loss of control is symptomatic of relying on being too in control. That's how it was for me. It felt like death. It was like my mind was saying "I've worked a lifetime to keep you away from this stuff, and you're tearing down this wall? Putting yourself closer to it?" Utter terror. To me, cannabis is like dreaming while awake. It puts you closer to your subconscious. I think that's what I had worked a lifetime to put up a barrier around, and be in control everything (and constantly ruminating my existence through thought/story). Like a movie in my head to explain reality, operate in reality as if that is reality. Cannabis nullified that (for a few minutes). It can feel rough. But, I kept going back to it and trying to be mindful then, and experience the moment for what it is. It wasn't going to kill me. It would go away in a few minutes. But, doing that gave me more insight into me with ruminating thought, and me without. Guided mindfulness was a way to get there too. I've wanted to try mushrooms, but I've been afraid to do that. I don't have someone to do it with. I'd worry about dosage. I knew someone who said she and her husband did it and ended up in the hospital for a few days with dysentery or something (coming out both ends). Maybe some microbe in the soil the shrooms grow in. I'm curious to try it. But, cannabis was huge for me. I don't feel like I need more insight. (But, I'm curious.).

@@markfuller Hey. I'll keep it simple cuz youre clearly on the right path. Yeah weed is great. Much more powerful than people realize and after 20 years and massive mushroom trips my weed smoking has become very seldom and very powerful as i now treat each time as a religious sacrament so to speak... Now as far as mushrooms are concerned I would say it will be the most profound experience of your entire life. Bar none. Dont believe any negative stories. As long as you are sure you have the correct mushrooms there is no health concern. I would say do your research but nothing will prepare you lol. Like weed but nothing like weed. When youre starting out you dont need anybody with you... This life is your trip and experiencing it on your own is just fine. At much higher dosages having a friend is good but at lower doses its not necessary. If you are interested in understanding more feel free to hit me back. I would highly recommend taking that next step if you really want to peel back the veil of illusion

@seamus heaney :)

@@wisdomkindred8388 op simply meant "woh thank you"

It is simply a concession to say it this way.