Good (your) afternoon, Stacy!

It's been a joy working with you too! Again: thank you SO much for the very kind and generous gift of your time and guidance - making the world a better place, one mind at a time. :)

I'll make sure to check out the video calls and the FB groups (thanks!), and am very ...

Are you the Jana who just friended me on Facebook?

Yes, that's me. :)


Does it still FEEL like you are intending or choosing to do things?

No, it's not intentions in a sense of doership that I meant - those are seen to be an empty thought construct. It's intentions in a feeling sense ...

Thanks for the video links, Stacy - that sure resonates and has also been my experience with previous insights. It just takes some time for them to integrate and dismantle old belief structures and habitual patterns.

Would you like to "percolate" before I share your answers?

No, it's fine ...

...yeah, the ‘intention’ answer turned out to be pretty convoluted, I agree. :D
And I also agree that overcomplexity usually is a red flag. Ok, so...

Can you please take a look and see what you find? Is there "intention" or just a thought story to make it seem like "intention" exists? Who is ...

Hi there, Stacy -

here we go, then:


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

No, no such entity can be found.


Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own experience ...

...just a quick note to thank you for the questions – it's a busy weekend here, so I won't get around to answering them now, but I'll be on it as soon as the busyness has subsided!

Sending much love across the ocean,
Jana

Hello again, Stacy :)

Thanks for the links - and for your patience and guidance and support! It's been such a fruitful and interesting 'conversation' (if we want to call it that), I'm so grateful for it all.

I haven't finished all the pointers in the files yet, but will keep working through them ...

Or go friend me, StacyAnnClark in Colorado.

Great, thank you, Stacy, I will do that! :)


Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever? Sure, there's a thought story, but is that a "self?"

No, no, and no. There’s a compelling thought ...

Hi Stacy,

Only habit. It has no power.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. I need to keep reminding myself whenever the gravity of habit attempts to drag the mind into its orbit.


As far as I can tell this is a lather, rinse, repeat operation. As long as we're "alive"(whatever that is) there ...

Hi Stacy,

this investigation felt easy.

Is there any connection between the felt sensations and the image in the mirror? Or just thoughts (and/or mental images) suggest that there is?

No, there is no actual connection between the felt sensations and the image in the mirror – just thoughts ...

Hi Stacy,

here is what I found:

Can it be known how tall the body is? Does the body have a weight or volume? In the actual experience does the body have a shape or a form?

No – when only relying on pure sensation data, there’s no sense of height, mass, or shape.


Is there a boundary between ...

Hi Stacy,

Do you FEEL any different since we started this dialogue? Are you still seeking?

That is a good question (or two good questions rather)! The first one is more difficult to answer, as it would have to be both a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’; the perceived shift feels subtle (and hard to pin down ...

How about vision?

No noticable change in vision (yet?), no.

That's an expectation about "life-changing answers." That can be dropped.

Ah, that was only a reference to the guy in the recording instructing people to ask a question receiving the answer to which would forever change their lives ...

Remember this from one of our first pointers?

Yes, of course. I wasn’t sure in which format & in how much detail I was expected to answer, and if I were to basically answer the intructor’s questions in the recording. I’ll do my best to stay on the straight and narrow!


Now, are these Sensations ...

Hi Stacy,

okay, so I looked at the ‘Beginning Thinking’ exercise, and here is what I found:

When tracking thoughts back to their beginning, I was unable to find any point at which their ‘non-existence’ became existence – do they pop into existence, do they fade into existence? I don’t know. They ...