Hi Vivien,

Thanks ever so much for your advice and guidance throughout this process. It's been sincerely appreciated. It was a challenging but ultimately rewarding process, and it was a pleasure to work through it all with you.

Best Wishes,

Dave.

Hi Vivien.

Thank you Dave for answering the questions. I am going to get other guides to have a look at the thread to ensure that I have covered everything and that my pointing has been clear. This may take a few days. Sometimes, not always, the other guides may have further questions which I ...

Hi Vivien,

The fact that I believed in this illusion all of my life without even questioning it makes me feel a bit of a fool, but at the same time, I understand how it happened.
What is it that believed in the illusion in its whole life?

Nothing. A lifetime of passing thoughts that, when ...

Hi Vivien,

Please answer the following questions with some detail please, and answer what's true for you rather than any sort of 'ideal' answer. Also please provide examples where asked.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form?
Was there ever ...

Hi Vivien,

Are you ready for these final questions?

Yes, I'm ready. :)

Hi Vivien,

How does it FEEL to see that there is no observer and everything is just happening on its own?

It's a feeling of relief. Knowing that things happen anyway despite what we think are our own efforts to make things happen has a liberating quality to it.

Would you say that there has ...

Hi Vivien,

What is it that observe things happening?

Things are being observed but I can't find the presence of any observer. I am looking out of the window and can see the slight movement of the TV aerial in the wind and the light grey skies beyond it, so there is the perception of things ...

Hi Vivien

Is there anything, anything at all, that doesn’t happen on its own?

No, not as far as I can tell. The realisation that all is happening on its own struck me today when I was chatting with my girlfriend on Messenger. I noted that anything I wrote seemed to be written by itself. Although ...

Hi Vivien,

Look very closely.

What is that is done by a me? What is not happening effortlessly by itself?

Nothing is being done be a me, and this is becoming increasingly apparent each day. All is happening effortlessly by itself without any control from anywhere else.

And what about the ...

Hi Vivien,

Is there someone within, controlling the body?

No, there's definitely not a central controller acting inside the body. This concept wasn't encountered once during my observations today.

What is controlling the body? Is there something doing it, or the body just moving on its own ...

Hi Vivien,

When you look at the display before you, is there someone doing the seeing? Can you find even seeing? Or all there are just colors and shapes?

No, seeing isn't being done by anyone and can't be found. All there are are the colours and shapes that are being experienced

I was moving ...

Hi Vivien,

Focus your attention to the felt sensations of the eyes, and inquire:
Do these sensations performing the act of seeing?

No. It becomes clear that they are used for seeing, but do not perform the act itself.

What does experience show?

That seeing is something that is happening by ...

Hi Vivien,

Look at your feet. And while you are looking at your feet, notice that is seems like that one that is seeing the feet is ‘up in here’, in the head. So it SEEMS that the SEER of the feet is located in the head, seen from the head. Can you see this?

I can.

Now, while you are still ...

Hi Vivien,

V: Where is the body experienced/felt from?
D: The only word I can attempt to describe it with is the 'sensorium,' being the body's own faculties of sensing.
This reply is conceptual.

You have to find the exact location where the body is FELT FROM. So where is that location? Is there ...

Hi Vivien,

And what about Dave? What is Dave? Is there an actual Dave breathing, feeling, thinking and living life?


There is something that does all of those things, but it can't be called Dave. Dave is just a series of thoughts that have been believed.

It [body] is being experienced but is ...