This is cool! Thanks Paul :)
with much love

Thanks Gem. I've cut and pasted your answers to the five "final questions" we have at LU so other guides can review your answers and ask additional questions if needed. I've added one to the end for your comment as well.

Question1: Is there a separate entity "self", "me", "I" at all, anywhere in ...

just everything unfolding as a matter of course

Ok, great. You seem to have it.

Question: What was the last bit that pushed you over, made you look?


It was you bringing my attention to two things in combination: the Middle of the day alarms to notice agency, and pointing towards the fact ...

I realise this is all narrative.

Good. OK.

Question: Describe intention, free will, choice and control. What makes things happen? How does it work? What are you responsible for fore? Give me some examples from experience.

Thanks!


Intention, free will, choice and control are (so far as I can ...

No there isn't anywhere in any form..

Good.

there are things in language which designate real things, and there are things in language that are just useful concepts

Good

Question: How does it feel to see this? What is the difference from before you started this dialogue? Please report from ...

Question1: Is there a separate entity "self", "me", "I" at all, anywhere in any shape or form? Was there ever

No there isn't anywhere in any form, and there wasn't ever, nor could there be.


Question2: Explain in detail the illusion of separate self, when it starts and how it works from your ...

There's still the sense of the doer, but I guess I just look through it now, as not real.

Question: Are there any doubts at all about seeing through the illusion of the separate self?

nope!

It's just a thought coming from nowhere, sustained through unexamined belief and identification. Doesn't refer to anything real, never did, never can.

Yes indeed.

Question: A you say, the self does not refer to anything real, never did, never can. What comes up when you see that statement ...

they appear from nowhere and go back to no where

Good noticing.

Question: What is self?

It's just a thought coming from nowhere, sustained through unexamined belief and identification. Doesn't refer to anything real, never did, never can.

Exercise: Remember the house that you grew up in. Picture the rooms and the furnishings in them. As they appear tell me where the images come from? Where do they go?

They appear I guess from my memory, but in experience they appear from nowhere and go back to no where

I think I see what you mean. There's nothing there, there's just experience, whatever's happening. Everything else is just thought/story.
I don't know why but I feel tremendously sad (or: 'there is a tremendous feeling of sadness!) Is that normal?

Sorry, spellchecker got me.

Question: What is the "sense of separate self?"

Ok so that's a thought too but what about my perspective, or the perspective-ness of experience? That isn't a thought, the fact that experience is orientated around a perspective?

Based on their evidence I guess they just need to realise what had occurred all along.

Question1: Based on the evidence you have, is there a separate self?

something once thought of as true

Question2: If the self is like Santa Claus, what happens to it when we see it does not exist?

Q1: A ...

Question1: When a child who was raised believing in Santa Claus finds out that Santa does not exist, does that child need to see something to understand what happened wrt Santa?
They don't literally need to see something but they need to understand something, at the gut level. Based on their ...

No they are the same sensations.

Ok, good noticing.

Question: What is happening when the Gem slideshow arises? What causes it?

Thanks!

I am tempted to say that it's always there. It's a background thing that I just always have going on. It seems quieter at times of concentration and ...