The Burden of Proof The Burden of Proof Lecture 2Lecture 2

The Path to HellThe Path to Hell

What does the story mean?

What does the story mean?

Lost Freedom = Suffering Lost Freedom = Suffering

KabirKabir

Getting out of our Head Getting out of our Head

Antonio MachadoAntonio Machado

Seeing Thru the Monkey MindSeeing Thru the Monkey Mind

Juan Ramon JimenezJuan Ramon Jimenez

The Soul is disguised when?The Soul is disguised when?

You are too tired or stressed

You are pulled outside yourself

Your attention is dominated by externals

You let others think for you

You act of compulsion

You are influenced by fear and anxiety

You struggle and suffer

You are too tired or stressed

You are pulled outside yourself

Your attention is dominated by externals

You let others think for you

You act of compulsion

You are influenced by fear and anxiety

You struggle and suffer

Pop Culture and The SoulPop Culture and The Soul

Death Provides access the domain of the soul,

Death Provides access the domain of the soul,

But Vedanta declares we can excess it right now!

But Vedanta declares we can excess it right now!

Soul is revealed when...Soul is revealed when...

You feel centred

Your mind is clear

You have the sensation time has stopped

You suddenly feel free of boundaries

You are keenly self aware

You feel merged with another person

You feel untouched by aging and change

You feel blissful and ecstatic

You have intuitive flash that turns out to be true

You sense the truth

You feel supremely loved or absolutely safe

You feel centred

Your mind is clear

You have the sensation time has stopped

You suddenly feel free of boundaries

You are keenly self aware

You feel merged with another person

You feel untouched by aging and change

You feel blissful and ecstatic

You have intuitive flash that turns out to be true

You sense the truth

You feel supremely loved or absolutely safe

Ghosts Ghosts

The Self is a GhostThe Self is a Ghost

Every former self you have left behind is a ghost...

So I ask you again... Who dies?

The baby

The child

The adolescent

The teenager

The adult

The older adult

What is the individual?

Every former self you have left behind is a ghost...

So I ask you again... Who dies?

The baby

The child

The adolescent

The teenager

The adult

The older adult

What is the individual?

So what could heaven be?So what could heaven be?

What individual would you pick?

Chopra makes an poignant quote...Our notion of an heaven is an end point whereby definitions, all transformation, stops. Souls lounge around in a blessed state that sounds, frankly, like eternal assisted living.

Why would consciousness all of a sudden stop?

What individual would you pick?

Chopra makes an poignant quote...Our notion of an heaven is an end point whereby definitions, all transformation, stops. Souls lounge around in a blessed state that sounds, frankly, like eternal assisted living.

Why would consciousness all of a sudden stop?

What Dreams May Come Part IWhat Dreams May Come Part I

Akashic FieldAkashic Field

Space beyond the senses where consciousness plays

You are the maker of reality

Space beyond the senses where consciousness plays

You are the maker of reality

Akasha Field,What Dreams May Come...

Akasha Field,What Dreams May Come...

Wide open field

Could be same players

Could be players we have imagined and are eager to see

Could be other worldly beings

Could be emanations of ourselves

Could be embodiments of abstract ideas

In the afterlife we have shed our sense and become multidimensional

Wide open field

Could be same players

Could be players we have imagined and are eager to see

Could be other worldly beings

Could be emanations of ourselves

Could be embodiments of abstract ideas

In the afterlife we have shed our sense and become multidimensional

What Dreams May Come Part IIWhat Dreams May Come Part II

The Invisible ThreadThe Invisible Thread

Death forces outside the walls...

Mind is a repetition...You are convinced you are a you and know yourself.

Really do you?

Who Are You - Who am I?

Death forces outside the walls...

Mind is a repetition...You are convinced you are a you and know yourself.

Really do you?

Who Are You - Who am I?

Who Am I?Who Am I?

Seeing The SoulSeeing The Soul

Power’s You Need Power’s You Need

Become more aware of the boundary between “me” and “not me”

Challenging old beliefs

Trust in intuition and intention to know the truth

Feeling connected to other worlds (subtle) following hunches / trust

Accept my own truth as it unfolds (let go of doubt)

Become more aware of the boundary between “me” and “not me”

Challenging old beliefs

Trust in intuition and intention to know the truth

Feeling connected to other worlds (subtle) following hunches / trust

Accept my own truth as it unfolds (let go of doubt)

Two Magical Words Two Magical Words

Netti - Netti

I am that - which is beyond death and time -

Netti - Netti

I am that - which is beyond death and time -

Three Worlds a Map of Eternity - Map 1 Three Worlds a Map of Eternity - Map 1

Consciousness of physical objects

Concrete world verified through senses, linear time, appear to ourselves as having separate bodies, time events birth >>>

death

Laws here are strict, include gravity, matter, energy.

Your powers here include, physical strength, willpower, reason, emotional expression, sexuality, personal authority, becoming successful here attaches us to the physical realm.

Consciousness of physical objects

Concrete world verified through senses, linear time, appear to ourselves as having separate bodies, time events birth >>>

death

Laws here are strict, include gravity, matter, energy.

Your powers here include, physical strength, willpower, reason, emotional expression, sexuality, personal authority, becoming successful here attaches us to the physical realm.

Map 2Map 2

Consciousness of subtle objects

World of dreams, imagination, and inspiration; verified through intuition, detecting qualities of love and beauty, feeling of subtle presence within.

Laws of this world are fluid, events happen forward / backward (archetypes / myths) time isn’t strictly bound

Powers here include imagination, memory, artistic capabilities, spiritual sensitivity, healing abilities, intuition; the more successful and time we spend in this world can see us too attached to the non-physical.

Consciousness of subtle objects

World of dreams, imagination, and inspiration; verified through intuition, detecting qualities of love and beauty, feeling of subtle presence within.

Laws of this world are fluid, events happen forward / backward (archetypes / myths) time isn’t strictly bound

Powers here include imagination, memory, artistic capabilities, spiritual sensitivity, healing abilities, intuition; the more successful and time we spend in this world can see us too attached to the non-physical.

Map 3Map 3

Pure Consciousness

Awareness aware of itself verify this world through “I am”; as an experience, pure consciousness begins as a silent mind this grows in meaning longer as the person has the experience of no-person

Laws of this world are of creation

The seeds of every object and event gestate here is the possibility of space, time, and the physical. No powers are needed to navigate here; concepts such as birth, life, death, have no relevance; their is only existence.

It must be kept in mind that the afterlife is not “after” as we assume.

With experience this becomes a comfortable space on it’s own terms, as it already is for

some artists, intuitives and deeply spiritual people.

Pure Consciousness

Awareness aware of itself verify this world through “I am”; as an experience, pure consciousness begins as a silent mind this grows in meaning longer as the person has the experience of no-person

Laws of this world are of creation

The seeds of every object and event gestate here is the possibility of space, time, and the physical. No powers are needed to navigate here; concepts such as birth, life, death, have no relevance; their is only existence.

It must be kept in mind that the afterlife is not “after” as we assume.

With experience this becomes a comfortable space on it’s own terms, as it already is for

some artists, intuitives and deeply spiritual people.

Shifting Allegiances: Pure Consciousness

Shifting Allegiances: Pure Consciousness

The more boundless your vision the more real you are

When all visions / images disappear we arrive at reality

Creation has showed us everything

We are already God and God is becoming us

The more boundless your vision the more real you are

When all visions / images disappear we arrive at reality

Creation has showed us everything

We are already God and God is becoming us

Shifting Allegiances Shifting Allegiances

Give up world of physical objects and move on to consciousness filled with subtle objects.

We have to navigate doubt - surrender is required

Have to master subtle world in order to let go of the physical

Give up world of physical objects and move on to consciousness filled with subtle objects.

We have to navigate doubt - surrender is required

Have to master subtle world in order to let go of the physical

What Dreams May Come Part IIIWhat Dreams May Come Part III