Thank you :-) 🙏 xxx

Hi Stacy,
Thank you so much, again, for all your help here.
It feels weird to have finished this thread, as it still feels like there's so much work to be done! But I read through our whole thread yesterday and can see how much thinking has changed, and seeing opened up, through this process ...

Hi Stacy,
Thanks for your reply.
I think I'd like to deepen my experience of this before offering to guide. I would be glad to do it though, to pass on the kindness you've shown me.
With thanks and best wishes xxx

Hi Stacy,
Here are my answers to the Final Questions.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
No.
2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience. Describe it ...

Hi Stacy. Christmas and work have been taking up my time! I will get to this soon.
With love and thanks, Steph xxx

Hi Stacy,
Thanks for your replies. It's interesting to read your thoughts about faith, nihilism and compassion.
I'm working through the final questions again, and will post as soon as I've finished answering them all.
With much love and gratitude xxx

Hi again,
"I see now why doubt is the second fetter 😂"

Yes, some people see, then doubt.
I was thinking of this in terms of faith.
I had a friend who used to say "Everything you know is wrong." In the sense that we never have a complete picture of how things truly are.
Even our direct experience ...

Hi Stacy,
Time Exercise
There is a general assumption that there is linear time that started (if started at all) somewhere very far in the past and advances to the distant future. The present moment (now) is considered to be a very small fragment of time, or an event that is moving forward on a ...

Hi Stacy,
Thanks for all your replies.
"when I stop looking for a self and am just going about my daily activities, or engaging in conversation, the sense of self reappears intermittently"
The accurate way to say this is that you stop looking at Direct Experience and start believing the lies ...

Hi Stacy,
Here are my answers to the other guides' questions.
Please look and write a description of what can be seen right now?
I see a visual field of things. They look much the same as they always did. It's like I understand the things that are seen are just a field of images, but I don't see ...

Hi Stacy.
Thanks for your help with this. Sorry I haven't been posting. I'll PM you xxx

Hi again,

Please look and write a description of what can be seen right now?

I'm not sure what is being asked for here? Are you able to clarify it at all, please?
Thank you 😊 xxx

Hi Stacy,
Sometimes I'm very aware of what Adyashanti describes, yes.
Thank you for sharing your experience of this with me xx
Could you be fooled into believing you are a separate self?
No.
In that case, can you know there's any such thing as "past" lives?
It can't be known. It's just ...

Hi Stacy'
Many thanks for all your replies.
Please forgive me. I missed that you replied to Final Questions 2 days ago!
No worries. I did post another after it. And now I have several from you to reply to :-)
I've been busy today and have family commitments now for a couple of days, but will get ...

Hi Stacy,
Thank you for the time questions. I remember now we did this before. And when I looked for it I found this quote you gave me back then:
"It's a curious place to be (especially in the beginning) not to be driven by anything--pleasure or displeasure, helping or hurting, loving or hating ...