Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
presence itself, life itself. And it's doing a perfect job, it's infallible,
and we're told to, we're here spiritually, to live in the presence, live
as presence, live in the Now. And at first, (I know because I did
it), seemingly, there's still a sense of a me who's separate in one
sense. Okay, I've learned about this thing called the Now, or
presence, and now I've got to do a better job of holding to it. I get
distracted by my thoughts during the day, I run off with my five
senses in the visual sense of this and that, and I'm all over the
place, and I've got to bring myself back to Now. I've got to do as
good a job of being Now as Now itself is doing, is basically what it
amounts to.
TRIP: God, you are so good. Man, you're good.
WIZARD: It's hard to remember going to sleep.
TRIP: He's great at this stuff. Go, baby.
PETER DZIUBAN: So what happens is, what we'll do in our
meetings for fun, and we can do a little bit right Now, is,
okay…now turn it around. Rather than trying to connect a little
more deeply with Now-ness or presence, or trying to goose it a
little bit and make it a little more in the foreground so to
speak...what we do is reverse it. We ask for a volunteer, and
preferably somebody's who's new and hasn't seen this before.We
say, "Okay, your job is to make Now go away. Rather than try to
become more present, would you please make Now go away?
Come on." And the last time it got funny because I was teasing,
and then I'd say, "Okay, now look, I mean from day one I have not
had a moment of privacy, (speaking as Peter, as a personality).
This Now is always here, doggone it, can't I please get just a single
moment of privacy?" And then of course the point is that Now
simply can’t and won’t go away. In Consciousness Is All, these
words just came out in the writing, and they’re funny, they're
strange, but they really say something. But they're words for Now
like un-go-away-able [Laughing]. And this un-go-away-ableness,
this is the one who is presently conscious, and this is you, the
real you, so to speak, and the would-be Peter thinking, you can
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