Accessing the Transpersonal Witness
By Ariel Spilsbury
Voyagers Quatrain:
All phenomenon is illusion. Neither attracted nor repelled Never making a sudden move.
My patterns will carry me through.
From Life in the Labyrinth
The mind is like a beloved dog that is best kept lovingly on a leash or it will run away and act on its own with no intention or overview. Mind is the servant, not the master you may have given it the power to be.
What is the difference between higher states of consciousness and ordinary awareness?
Mind doubts.
Mind grasps.
Mind compares, analyzes, dissects..
(What apparently makes you doubt? What apparently makes you grasp/contract? What apparently makes you compare?)
The small mind does not believe the present moment and that which it witnesses it will ever be enough! Mind is a self reflective loop that in the very wanting to see itself, the mind can by nature, only see the shadow of itself.
To know what mind is, become aware of what seems NOT to be mind. That is the short cut to the ecstasy of seeing through the eyes of the transpersonal Witness.
Mind is NOT: surrender, stillness, peace, present moment awareness, parabolically open perception, no answers, no questions, no reactions, the omniscience of the music of the spheres, fluid awareness assemblage points, joy and ecstasy for no reason.
What is the inducement in your consciousness to turn the reins over to Witness from small mind? Is there one? Better get that one answered by soul voice or small mind will make it seem like NOT a good idea.
Ego/mind is guilty of hubris, thinking it is the driver rather than the vehicle. The ego mind is certain that the antidote to the disquieting uncertainty of doubt is control. If the very nature of small mind is doubt, doesn’t that seem like trying to put fingers in the endlessly leaking dyke to you?
The chariot card in the tarot demonstrates how it feels to navigate in pure awareness without the small mind driving the vehicle. (Take a look at that card to investigate.)
What apparently stands between you and the pure awareness of the transpersonal witness?
To learn that, we simply follow the flow of consciousness without question . ...Because if your mind stops to question, you are already far behind where consciousness is already leaving nothing but tracers of light.
What do you doubt?
Doubt stands between you and Unity consciousness, the Emptiness of the Witness..
Doubt is the error illusive. Bring all the struggle of rebellious mental vacillation, giving up asking the concept/question “Am I free?” and simply being it, for example.
What is not small mind then?
Seeing through the eyes of the transpersonal Witness, which is impartial, beneificent, empty, compassionate, because it knows that all moments, like egg shells, burst with new life and possibility, leaving what is “still born”, that is, born of stillness, intact eternally at the center of the golden egg of pure Being.. If moments are not born from stillness/emptiness, doubt has a willing host.
What do we need to know in order to navigate Identification/ Attachment/Pattern Dissolution:
1) Discover what patterns need to be dissolved by answering the question: “What am I trying to control through denying, resisting, compromising, avoiding?)
2) Ask yourself which masks you are mostly powerfully identified with (those you feel you cannot live without.) If you can’t figure that out, simply observe what seems to make you REACT. This directly pinpoints what the identification is.
(With the identified mask then answer the following.. “This means I am.........)
3) Then ask “What is my attachment to that mask?” (Answer .If I wear (or don’t wear) this mask.. then I will....... (something about the ego getting something it thinks it wants.)
4) Before you find that the pattern is clearly operating or in progress,. Set up a PATTERN INTERRUPTER.. a physical, kinesthetic cue/anchor like clapping, tapping on yourself, jumping up and down, making a sound..something to very viscerally bring consciousness when and where you are identified/attached in the reaction.
5) Then with awareness you are in a position to make a
new choice from the transpersonal Witness..from fluid consciousness, rather than reaction.
What are some graceful ways to dissolve patterns?
Toning, tickling, trance, laughter, saying “I don’t know”.
Stepping into opening and vulnerability rather than contraction and closing. Allowance.
Acceptance of what Is. Feeling and giving voice to what you are feeling.
Surrender, loving contractions as they are happening.
What does heart have to do with pattern dissolution? The heart is a parabola.( A moving point that remains equally distant from a fixed point.) When open, the heart is like a camera lens which has the capacity to expand the dilution of consciousness like before an eye exam, which at some point one discovers that the “I” they are looking through is actually the cosmic eye of Atum that is being both simultaneously seen through and observed.
What makes a new choice “permanent press”?
Presence in the present moment.
Awareness focused on what you want...(rather than what you don’t want).
Using the mind in its intended purpose, like a crystal skull..as a vigilant focusing lens to make prophylactic investigations and loving embrace of any remaining reactive/contractive behaviors. Witnessing., allowing and accepting dispassionately what is.
If need be, attend Pattern Dissolution Summer Camp and Un- Attachment Family Reunions without denial, control, compromise or resistance coming along for the ride to keeps us distracted from the open bellied trust of our Divine Selves, we’re been avoiding by not wholly, vulnerably, passionately loving to dissolution, any reactions/contractions or self judgments in the hot flames of the alchemical crucible of our hearts.
