Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
to be. To somehow get a feel of that, it might require some
intuitive approach to it, rather than just strictly a discursive
approach. Or maybe it's both the reflecting upon it, storing it and
using high reasoning, at the same time sensing it, remaining open
to it that possibility that this entire play is a dimensionless play.
TRIP: I had a question for both of you guys, and you were just
now speaking right to this question, which is that there's a method
that is embraced or a way of looking at being and at the false sense
of I, and the whole method is called Self Inquiry. And you wrote
on that, "There is no person, there never has been a person, and
there never will be a person. No matter the impression, no matter
how strongly you feel otherwise, look directly without relying on
thought and notice these very words, where are they seeing? Is
there any limited entity in the seeing right now? Isn't seeing
occurring seamlessly all encompassing?" That's your question.
And I want to take just a moment to ask a long question, it's an
important question because of the importance of Self-Inquiry as a
method that you were just touching on.
You spoke about the discursive method, and then you said perhaps
intuition, but one stops asking that kind of question after a while.
I've stopped asking it, because I knew I could never really get
satisfaction. This idea that just because the “I” cannot be located, I
don't really see that as a constituting of proof for the lack of
existence of the separate person. Because, for example, just as an
analogy, like the human brain is a crackling cloud of non physical,
electrical, activity, there's no one place in the brain that recognizes
or has the identity, me. Like when you send a document up to the
cloud, you can't locate it, can you? No. But you know for damn
sure it's captured on some silicon somewhere, on a limited
mechanistic system. So I feel there's nothing inconsistent with a
mechanistic view of life, and the non-localized nature of sentience.
I say you only come to that conviction to the direct experience of
what might be called a profound spiritual experience. It seems to
me like Self-Inquiry is an after the fact method of confirming a
previously directly experienced Truth. And I'm wondering what
do you guys have to say about that? I mean, can you really
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