Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
transcends all the layers of consciousness into the magnificence
that you genuinely already are.
WIZARD: That I-thought keeps stealing the show [Laughs].
PHILIP: Constantly, it's veracious.
TRIP: You know the word, Faith, has been abused in our culture,
but you say that enlightenment does not require a leap of faith and
is readily accessible for our direct realization. I was wondering
does abiding as self aware being, which is your term for
enlightenment, in the face of whatever life has to offer, and life
dishes out a lot, does that not require a supreme Faith in the
Mystery as it's unfolding?
KATIE DAVIS: Yes, that is true and this is a really good question,
yet it is important for everyone to understand that you are not a
psychological self in the process of becoming something more. You
are this aware being now. There is nowhere to go and there is
nothing to become. In fact, becoming is the apparent obstruction.
When you identify with that word “I”, you are “becoming” an
object. The ego-I is only a separating idea, one tiny letter, and that
first personal pronoun is suffering. Separating and identifying
with it, ties a knot between the body and the transcendent
consciousness that you are.
WIZARD: I noticed when I'm completely present, I can't find that
“I”. But as soon as I get into yesterdays and tomorrows, here it
comes flooding in.
KATIE DAVIS: Exactly, the false sense of self needs time.
PHILIP: And needs a linear paradigm, time paradigm.
WIZARD: Yes.
KATIE DAVIS: The ego-I is mind, its time and that equals
suffering. So first, fully in your body, like right now, really aware of
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