Phew!

Thanks for your eye for detail and skillful pointing Stacy - I've enjoyed working together. I don't know when it all clicked, but the slow settling into place was defintely spurred on by following your instructions.

I don't use social media, but I have your email from the PM you sent. Thank ...

Oh! I understand now, and it's a good question.

Was there a "self" at birth?

If not, how did the illusion, the story, develop & when?

I've thought about this. What seems likely is that we are born as organisms with no ideas about self or about anything else - just mammals hanging out in direct ...

when in a person's life this "self" begins to clarify question 2
Could you rephrase this?

Who "intends?"
Nobody is intending. If an intention means some kind of action waiting to be performed, then intention is only thoughts and feelings - and the thoughts and feelings belong to no one. In the ...

Morning Stacy.

I might start by clarifying what I meant about control. No one is there who could do controlling. But feelings of importance are guides to action for the organism - sensations of hunger being felt as important motivate it to seek food. But the decision to act, like feelings of ...

Cool. My heart says complete at this point, but it would be good to go through these again.

I'm on my way to bed and will devote some time to these questions tomorrow.

Thanks Stacy.

Hey Stacy, no clarification needed but thank you for these great supplements.

How does it FEEL?
Lighter, especially around the shoulders and upper chest. Things, while the same, don't seem so serious. While reflecting on doubt I realised it presumed right and wrong (decisions or beliefs). When I ...

Hey Stacy,

Sorry for being remiss - and thanks for the nudge!

I've listened to 2 of the tracks you sent me. I wasn't clear in the instructions - do you want me to post any responses I had to them?

I had a good experience with Perceiving Receiving. It felt similar to states I've encountered with ...

Hi Stacy,

I'm in Berlin, a great city close to my heart!

I've been reading Gateless Gatecrashers and there's been some more clarity recently. I notice that when there is the question "Am I through the gate?", the I is already in there in question. The mind will never lose the ability to doubt ...

Hi Stacy sorry for the delay getting back to your last message.

Who is this "I" that "knows?"
Of course there is no I who knows. In direct experience there is a relaxed feeling in the chest and body when there is the thought "there is no self".

I'm travelling and will probably miss a few days ...

Could you say something about the seeing? I have understood so far that it is like an obvious knowing.

I can know there's no self, and I can know in the moment that feelings are happening without any feeler. When a feeling arise I can look at it and notice there's nothing behind it, inside it, or ...

Hey Stacy,

That's a lot of expectation there. Expectations & fear are the only things that can keep you from SEEING.
I think there's something to what you're saying. Yes, there are actually expectations I was less aware of - I have ideas about what seeing is based on what I've heard / read ...

So this relaxing into direct experience is something I'm familiar with from spiritual practice. Although I could go a lot deeper with this (and these pointers are helpful to do that!) I'm wondering about an all-in, full strength seeing. I can get a taste of it, notice it, keep attention towards it ...

It has been found that tightness, heaviness, or contraction, usually in the gut or heart, indicates a lie. Relaxation, lightness or expansion indicates something true.
Thanks for this Stacy. I've been pointed towards expansion / contraction before but having it laid out like this makes a lot of ...

1. Is one truer than the other, and If so, which one?
The second one, without an I, is truer. If there is any experience at all, like sitting, to say "I am sitting" is to add something extra.

2. What is here without labels?
Just sense experience, sensations, movements of attention.

3. Do ...

Hey Stacy, going through a few pointers sounds good. I haven't had the chance to get around to giving this the appropriate time so I'll respond tomorrow when I do and answer these questions.