Hi Bert
(I've being trying to post this all day but each time I do my internet crashes before I get the chance to submit it)

Sorry for the delay in responding it’s just that I’ve been very ill, and still not revered significantly. Although test-results to date have been inconclusive and therefore ...

Hi Bert

Thank you for giving this long and careful contemplation. I appreciate what you’re saying and you are on the right lines for a deeper expansion. However, all we need to do at this stage is to know there is no such entity as an ‘I’ existing within you (sorry for the repletion about this ...

Hi Bert

Great work, Bert, you're doing well, I'll leave you to your contemplations. No need for me to add anything else it will only overload at this stage - and in any case it's only the ego-mind that would would benefit by adding more.

Chris

Hi Bert

Though I still have not found an I that is the controller/manager, I do find awareness again and again

As I mentioned before, there is a sense of a ‘you’ an awareness unique to you in the same way as I have an awareness unique to me and as does every other human being. As the knowing of ...

Hi Bert

Thank you for letting me know where you are in the process. Whether or not you are aware you are making progress, you cannot help but make progress.

Just a quick reminder (just in case) that you are not trying to destroy the ‘I’ just see that it doesn’t exist and it never did exist.
In a ...

Hi Bert

I realise it can be difficult. Yes, initially it is intellectual that’s where the seeking must begin. If it is then left to the mind a battle will ensue as the mind uses logic and will want the riddle/puzzle solved and once it is it will come back with more objections but will never agree ...

Hi Bert

Bless you, I how hard you’re working for this and I can certainly empathise with you’re frustrations.


Yes, I can see this. I can't control my thoughts, but I can only see this when I really focus. During the day I notice I keep identifying with my thoughts.

Yes, mind does this it has a ...

Hi Bert
Thank you for giving the mindfulness a try. It isn’t easy initially to do I appreciate that. Sometimes as you have seen it lasts only a few seconds before mind kicks in again.

What this should show you however, is further proof there is no ‘I’ that actually exists. Your thoughts take over ...

Hi Bert

Sorry I haven’t got back sooner I don’t think I mentioned before that I don’t have the best of internet connections, (although it’s been quit good of late) and it sometimes drops off for hours or even for a day or two, unfortunately I again lost connection until this evening.

In answer ...

Hi Bert

I believe that I can see myself, but then again I think this is not possible. I must be believing in this perceiver-'me', because I cannot see it directly.

Of course you cannot see it because whatever you can be aware of isn’t ‘you’ it’s not possible.



The specific brain activity that ...

Hi Bert

Are you saying that the perceiver-'I' that I think I am is awareness witnessing individuality?

Not really, I’m saying there is a FEELING of an individual perceiver but there is not a separate individual entity within you that acts as a controller – a captain of the ship. Yes, there is ...

Hi Bert


But I am only conscious of the programs that are running in Bert's brain, not the programs that run inside other brains. That makes me feel like I live inside Bert.

Yes, that’s true, but remember, we’re not saying there is no feeling of individuality, the human being is designed to feel ...

Hi Bert


I don't understand what you are saying here. I get the first part; if the brain creates the 'I' then the brain can't be the 'I'. But I can't figure out what you mean in the second part.

Because the brain isn’t the ‘I’, the individual manager/controller then nor can it create the ‘I ...

Hi Bert

Thanks you for giving this some consideration and you are right not to make this intellectual.

The point of this was to show how brilliant the mind is of creating and maintaining the illusion on an ‘I’.

What I was wanting you to see is that if the brain creates consciousness then the ‘I ...

Hi Bert

It feels like this I is this consciousness in my brain. My brain creates the perceiver. I am this perceiver.
I beleive that I am this entity of consciousness that is created by the activity of brain

What we are looking to show here is the ‘I’ doesn’t exist in any way, shape or form. BUT ...