That's great thanks Hannah!

xx

Thanks for taking the time with this.

Is "consciousness" intended as an entity?

To clarity I don’t mean consciousness as an entity which is aware of the universe more meaning existence is consciousness.

So say we take an apple, the apple is consciousness but I don't mean there is a separate ...

Was also wanted the add one the pieces of advice you gave me in all this that really helped was 'Stop thinking and just look!"

Simple but it was powerful when you realize the 'seeing is the doing'. Seeing it 'as it is' created the shift in perspective.

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

No, all is consciousness. The personality, mind, thoughts, the idea of a separate self is all this same consciousness. Nothing can be separate.

2) Explain in detail what the illusion of ...

Hi Hannah,

That sounds great and I would certainly be interested in ongoing discussion as part of the LU groups. Also good news that it is not just me who has experienced the memory thing and what you said about it 'balancing up' certainly makes sense here.

I will look at these questions and come ...

I find the Santa metaphor helpful at this point:
Yes I like this metaphor as that describes how it is.

Yesterday I read something I wrote a while back which was personal and painful. I could feel the words on the page turn to thoughts and images. Emotions arising. Then it struck me it’s just a ...

Wow. Looks like something has 'shifted' to me...
big smiles here :)

Yes it feels like there has been a shift and then a pull back in. Or rather a clear seeing and then thought stream occurs again. However it feels like it's left a crack, a shift in perception with the mind laid on top it trying ...

Is there a cellphone in your pocket right now?
Is there a seperate self to be found in your experience right now?

It's mind boggingly, waltz straight over it, blindingly simple....
When you sit on a bus for 10 mins and then get up... was that 'your' seat for the last 10mins? Where was the ...

After I just read your last post a feeling of lightness appeared and I wrote the following down... it just came out. Feels like a just wrote it with no thought which was weird.

It's all just consciousness, even thought. The delusion is that mind combines senses to create a illusion of a physical ...

don't understand how you are using these 2 terms here. can you clarify?
Direct experience is this that is appearing right now. Dead simple really :)
Sorry ignore this for now. I was just trying to clarify for myself what is in and out of the parameters of direct experience. I guess also within ...

well in direct experience the 'unconcious' is just another thought arising...talking about an unconcious... see where i'm going with that?

Well I was thinking about the subconscious, procedural memory and then there is Declarative memory, Topographic memory and so on and on. They are all how the ...

Hi Hannah,

There has been so much to cover.. the last couple of things I would like more time to look at. Is it possible we can look less areas at once as I am finding hard to look at it all in one day the way I would like too. What do you think?

There was the experience at the weekend of “I ...

Hi Hannah,

Thanks for your time on all this and yes alot has been covered! I am still going through all this and will report back on what I find.

xx

Find me something that concious thought controls over the next 24 hours and bring me that instead.
Try this...

What caused the finger to tap? Anything? See what can be discovered in experience rather than thought.


Looking nothing can be found that conscious thought controls directly. It is ...

Yes! Thoughts can't feel.
Can they 'do' anything except be thoughts?
For instance a common perception is that the 'i' thoughts control the body...

like
'i'm going to walk into the kitchen and get a sandwich'
How is that seen now?

It never really occurred to me but it seems like thoughts don’t ...