| The ideas of ghosts, saucers, aliens, poltergeists | | | | subtle sounds, your attention will be brought |
| and Sasquatch do not seem so strange when one | | | | squarely and succinctly back to the only measure |
| looks from a vantage point of omnipresence. And | | | | of time there actually is. This moment. All |
| you can witness from this vantage point and | | | | transpires within it. All arises and falls within it. |
| furthermore, you already are and always have. | | | | Trees, cars, apparitions, people, sounds, craft, |
| Realizing this removes the veil; a wispy shroud of | | | | lightness, darkness and you are this at once all of |
| forgetfulness that is so frail as to suggest the | | | | it as well as the emotions brought about by its |
| merest breeze could dispel it. Realization is the | | | | conscious witnessing. Even boredom! Your gentle |
| breeze that blows all notion of Other Than away. | | | | and nonjudgmental gaze falls upon all of it. Only |
| Most go through life thinking that all around them | | | | the mind makes a critique of things. Awareness |
| is without them. This is inside out perception. | | | | does not. Let the mind do as it will and do not |
| Literally. All, and I mean ALL, is within YOU. All | | | | listen to it. It will settle on its own accord once it |
| comes to you. All comes from you. You do not | | | | finds you are no longer interested in what it has |
| understand? Rest in that which does not | | | | to offer for you are not your thoughts you see |
| understand and that is still it (thank you Ken | | | | as you are beginning to gently find out. If you |
| Wilber). There is nothing YOU are not. | | | | witness a flying saucer, anomalous lights or a |
| I am not suggesting that you take up a | | | | strange beast, how imaginative and creative YOU |
| meditation practice to reveal your true nature. | | | | ARE! |
| Unnecessary. Meditation is not going to reveal | | | | It is by this approach of gentle subtlety and kind |
| anything more to you than what you already are | | | | embracing of my Self that I witness the |
| and always have been. This is not to say that | | | | paranormal for it is all paranormal. There is no |
| meditation is a bad thing. It's just that when I | | | | Other Than. How could there be? |
| mention meditating to most folks they take it as | | | | By bringing the light of awareness to shine on the |
| just another act of seeking. There is nothing to | | | | phantoms of the subconscious, you may find that |
| seek for you are already that which is, no matter | | | | they no longer hold any mystery or specialness |
| how mysterious or how frightening or how vague. | | | | to you. The new mystery, very suddenly, is |
| The looking around within for answers is no | | | | realized that you were able to manifest them |
| different than looking without. The act of looking | | | | within a manifested reality of your own making. |
| is nothing more than an egoic trick of distraction | | | | You are the game and the pawn simultaneously. |
| in which the ego tries to prove its own existence | | | | You are responsible for every single thing around |
| as you. It fails miserably time and time again. You | | | | you and in you. |
| will know the ego by its easily identifiable | | | | Who am I? I AM! What am I? THIS! Where am I? |
| earmarks. Those being separation, confusion, fear | | | | HERE! |
| and anything of a covetous nature that believes | | | | Once this is realized, you can go back to the |
| you are without or lacking. This is the ego's game. | | | | game of grasping and reaching anytime you want. |
| The Grand Deception. It likes to have fun that | | | | Knowing that you don't know affords you |
| way. | | | | everything. Wanting to understand and wrap a |
| What I would suggest is that on any particularly | | | | thing up in logic is to loose it entirely like trying to |
| nice day to you, that you go to your favorite | | | | hold a fistful of water. It continues on while you |
| quiet spot, indoors or out and just sit down there | | | | stay trapped in your confounded confusion yet |
| in a comfortable position. No need to burn a mile | | | | your confusion didn't change the water in any |
| of Nag Champa incense or drag around a samadhi | | | | way. Such is the nature of the paranormal. By |
| cushion. A park bench or a nice patch of soft, | | | | trying to get a hold of it, you find that time and |
| green grass or a sunny hillside affording a | | | | time again, it only runs through your fingers. Why? |
| magnificent vista will do just fine. No need either | | | | Because your fingers, just like the craft or ghost |
| for memorized mantras or prayers or rituals of | | | | or yeti, are just as illusory. Now you are trying to |
| any kind. More stroking of the ego. It likes to feel | | | | capture water with air when all inside you is just |
| important. Just bring you and your breath. | | | | malleable space, infinite and ever expanding. The |
| Now just sit. Look around you. Listen intently. Do | | | | silly putty for your mind. |
| not let the mind attach to any of it. Just let the | | | | You only get stuck once you believe that what |
| images roll by your awareness like your own | | | | you have created is real and by necessity, once |
| movie inside the home theater of your mind's | | | | you believe it is real you must believe it is |
| eye. Slowly and deeply breathe in the scenery. | | | | separate and so again by its being separate it is |
| Take in the smell, the sounds, the colors and all of | | | | now a thing to be feared. Existence only appears |
| the subtle nuances of shade and shape. Breathe all | | | | in that which is created. Beingness requires no |
| of it in and sink it deeply into your pelvis. Exhale it | | | | such construct. YOU are prior to all creation. YOU |
| back out and recreate the scene. As you do this, | | | | are prior to life. Prior to death. Prior to time and |
| feel how it fills you, feel the emotions behind the | | | | prior to space (thank you again, Mr. Wilber). All of |
| beauty or the terrible. Feel the body's reaction to | | | | those things exist within you because of you. |
| all of this intentional observation. Just note it and | | | | They are your children and they look to you the |
| do not analyze it. We are just being aware. That | | | | same way you look to Creation with the mind of |
| is the reward. That is the journey. That is YOU. | | | | a child. Only now, in this moment, all is borned of |
| If you find your mind wandering and not paying | | | | YOU as it always has been. |
| attention to your Self, just focus on listening again. | | | | Look no further for you are here. |
| Do you hear that distant bird; the one just slightly | | | | *Snap!* Wakey, wakey... |
| out of earshot? By focusing on listening to the | | | | |