Who Am I?
One Life Tutorial for June 2021

One of the first questions you ask yourself when you begin a quest for awareness is “who am I?” There is no ultimate or permanent answer to that question, for in every moment you are someone new. What is the value of seeking to answer that question then? The value is in understanding the process of seeking answers, allowing the answers to arise, detaching from them, and effortlessly landing in One Life Awareness.

The process of diving deep inside and looking at yourself creates the ground for the naturally occurring question of “who am I?” This is a question which everyone has considered, and is used as a part of many meditation techniques. The practice is one in which the awareness of the self eventually disappears in order to discover that simple and effortless awareness, One Life Awareness, is all that remains.

This discovery arises as part of your questioning, as part of your experience, and is not separate from your experience. You cannot become a person asking questions of a self; you cannot separate the inquirer from the inquiry or the object of the inquiry. There is but one field, One Life, All That Is, which can never be truly expressed in words, as words are necessarily dependent on subjects and objects, inquirers and objects of inquiry.

So there is no answer to the question, “Who am I?” and yet you keep asking it because “who you are” is a compelling mystery, as life is a compelling mystery. Perhaps even by formulating that question, you acknowledge the mystery that lies deep within every question and every attempt to live life with awareness.

Asking “who am I?” encourages answers like “I am that,” and “I am not that” in an endless cycle of thoughts. By consistently detaching from these “who you are” notions, even for a moment, you can lessen the influence of your standard beliefs and habits, moods and perspectives, and free yourself from unconscious reactions to circumstances in your life. As you observe your automatic reactions with real detachment, you can begin to experience and interpret the conditions and events of your life with a greater sense of awareness. As a consequence, you can free yourself of many of the limiting assumptions you have unconsciously made about who you think you are.

This is especially the case when your unconscious habit is to describe yourself with terms that automatically highlight illness, wounds and dysfunctional parts of your life. Answering “I am a cancer survivor” while perhaps being true, will always be inadequate. You are always so much more. Learning how to detach from notions like these, as well as notions of self-absorbed or narcissistic identity can open the door to awareness that is no longer bound to ideas and thoughts of “who you are.” One Life Awareness opens up to you to the degree that you detach from old and no longer relevant attitudes about who you are. Opening up to your potential is limited when your attention stays focused on pain, physical distress, depression, anxiety, frustration, anger and apathy. “Who you are” is not determined by what you perceive about yourself, or by what you label and identify as you. “Who you are” is beyond any answer to any question that arises.

Eventually you realize that who you are is not just the amalgamation of “things” you feel, touch and see, but who you are is All That Is. Even though you may indulge in the examination of your thoughts and feelings, you will come to have a deep understanding that any answer to the question “who am I?” is just a fleeting and momentary look at a limiting assumption you have made about yourself.

We are not suggesting that you detach from answers you formulate to eliminate or discount memories or feelings. We are suggesting that in order to identify yourself in some practical or useful manner, you will often lose touch with deeper, non-verbal, All That Is Knowing. Your tendency is to habitually rely on the same old stories and ideas, and losing touch with All That Is Knowing, can often lead to generating more pain and confusion. We are also not suggesting that you should ask yourself over and over “Who am I?” though of course you could. We are suggesting that as that question naturally arises in the course of your thoughts, that you invoke the source from which the question arises. Withdraw the attention and fascination from who you think you are and are not, and allow the One Life Awareness to effortlessly emerge. “Who you are” at that moment then is being rather than discovering. Let it all become effortless and become free. One Life Awareness simply is. You are Aware, you are free, you are All That Is. Instead of strengthening the idea of “who you are” as a separate identity, let it all be. Just “Be Who You Are” even if you still ask “Who Am I?” 

One Life Tutorial for May 1
REALITY TUNNEL
 
Are you flourishing, prospering, and thriving? Or are you languishing, enduring, and dispirited?
No matter what you might be feeling, sensing, or experiencing, a deeper inquiry can lead you to discover what lies beneath your perception of your state of being, or reality. From our perspective, your perception of reality arises from your dependency on beliefs and attitudes you developed a long time ago, and which may not necessarily be relevant now. Your system of beliefs and attitudes is complex and creates a reality tunnel, whose boundaries are defined unconsciously. Your reality tunnel is comfortable for you to live in, and even if it seems coherent or incoherent, rational or irrational, it is always familiar territory.

We suggest that everyone lives in their self-created reality tunnel, but not everyone is aware that they do. Usually there is a sense of “in here” which acknowledges the comfort of living inside of your reality tunnel, and “out there” where it becomes a bit more risky. The challenges seem to be bigger outside of your reality tunnel, and simpler in the comfort of the system you have set up which determines when to feel “good” and when to feel “bad.” You feel happy if you complete a task, find the item you lost, or spend time with a friend. You feel unhappy when you get a flat tire, your internet goes out, or your friend doesn’t call you. All these “things” and many, many others, carry varied levels of importance to you and your perception of your state of being requires that certain conditions like these be met. All of this is reinforced over time until your feelings become sort of locked into place, routine and automatic. In other words, until you get stuck in your reality tunnel.

In order to feel truly alive, you have to unlock your feelings and inform your perception of your state of being with more nuanced information of your experience. You have to allow yourself to become more sensitive. You become more sensitive by stepping outside of your reality tunnel where you shift the primary way you feel and experience life from being determined by the situations and circumstances of life to being based on your deep knowing of One Life—All That Is. Without the boundaries of your familiar reality tunnel, there is nothing but One Life.

Now this notion might cause you to think that we are suggesting you must become more vulnerable. While that may be a result of becoming more sensitive, it is not required. Becoming more sensitive to who you are without the attachment to a carefully constructed notion of reality that is personal and inflexible can allow you to feel much more engaged with life, more available to varied experiences, and able to accept the impermanence of it all.
Letting yourself respond to life without relying on old patterns of thought and belief allows you to escape your reality tunnel, or at least to open up to having a flexible reality tunnel which can allow other reality tunnels to intersect with yours. This sense of an intersection permits empathy and understanding. If your reality tunnel is fixed and uncompromising, and you do not share it consciously, you will remain in a fixed and uncompromising reality continuing whatever program is running.

​It is time to realize that your reality tunnel can be limiting and that you may not be aware of how limiting it is. What you have considered “reality” is actually a set of unconscious beliefs and ideas which you have interpreted and called your experience. You often don’t even know that you are dealing with your interpretations, thinking there is a fixed and absolute objective state of reality that you must adhere to, while a deeper dive will reveal that your notion of reality exists within a tunnel you created and is not an objective and total understanding of “All That Is.”
An opportunity has arisen for all reality tunnels to dissolve into One Life Awareness. This opportunity is always here, and yet it seems as if a threshold has been reached at this time. It has become so obvious that everyone lives in their own reality tunnel and that previously built intersections and places of overlap have separated further than ever. It is not the time to continue fortifying your tunnel, instead, it is the time to come out into the light of One Life Awareness and All That Is. End the languishing, enduring and dispirited experience in favor of flourishing, prospering and thriving. Be who you are and love and be loved, now.

Tutorial for March 24, 2021
No Self, No Form, No Goal

What happens when the separation between the one who experiences something, the object of the experience, and the experience itself disappears? One Life Awareness, Liberation, Enlightenment, Awakening, are just four of the many terms used to express the same thing—accepting the absolute reality of no self, no form, and no goal.


No Self
To have no self does not mean that you do not exist, to have no self means that there is nothing that is you that is independent from All That Is, from One Life. When you look at what you call You, you see a version of a body-mind—an image that you have cultivated over time. Yet what you are is the universe. There is stardust, the ocean, the mountains and skies contained within you. No self means that the self that you identify as You, is just a momentary description of something that could never actually be You. There is no permanence in a self that you identify as You, there is no reliable independent substance that is You. Nothing exists separately. Everything is connected.

Though the illusion of a separate self is profound, the first door of One Life awareness asks for the acceptance of the truth of no self. This is not a nihilistic denial of being, but a liberated understanding of One Life. In order to understand the value of letting go of your illusion of self and embrace the knowing of no self, it is wise to become clear with the nature of this illusion. By looking deeply into the illusion of self, you find that it is basically a belief in an unchanging essence that you think is the real You. At the same time there is the You that is the mind-body apparatus, and probably all sorts of Yous that constitute You. No single version of you is ever all of you. You are truly much like a mirage. You appear to be substantial, and seem to be real, yet, you cannot locate You, reproduce an experience of You, nor can you rely upon a You that fixed. Just like the mirage, the notion of a self that is timeless, unchanging and knowable is a misinterpretation of the momentary perceptions of sensory input that create an illusion of a body of water in the case of the mirage, or an illusion of self in the case of You.

No Form
When the deeper understanding that there is no self arises, the experiencer is no longer a separate entity, and maintaining an object of the experience is no longer possible. This is the understanding of no form. This is the opening of the second door where you can appreciate that nothing has intrinsic form, nothing is what its form indicates, everything is formless. The outer appearance of things are not the things themselves. In the world of things that seem to be solid and have color and shape and form, quantum physics exposes the universe to be energy without form. At the fundamental level, incredibly small particles seem to enter into reality for a fraction of a moment then vanish even more quickly. When this is realized, it becomes easy to accept impermanence and that everything is ever-changing.

Knowing there is no form that exists as a solid, while acknowledging transitory and superficial illusions of form in your relative existence, allows you the opportunity to see “behind the curtain” and release any attachments you have to form. It is impossible for form to be experienced by no self.
 
 No Goal
Without an object to experience, you become free of objects of pursuit. Goals fall away, and if you have no goal, then you are finished seeking outcomes. The third door of One Life awareness opens. Suddenly everything is as it is, with all that you need right here, right now. Then there is no need to struggle, to strive or search for something that does not exist in the here and now. Great happiness results in the simple knowing that competing is unnecessary, and that you lack nothing. 

For many, it is difficult to recognize that their life is actually perfect exactly as it is. This is not an idea of static perfection, but a notion of everything being exactly as it must be. Accepting life as genuine, and knowing ultimately that there is no self, no form, and no goal is all there is.

​So, what happens when the separation between the one who experiences something, the object of the experience, and the experience itself disappears? Nothing actually happens, but everything occurs. Nothing needs to be done, everything is done, and it all becomes simple: just be as you are.

Have you ever thought that you didn’t have enough time? Most likely, the answer is yes. Enough time to do this or that, enough time to relax--enoughness is most likely an ongoing theme in your life. You may have asked yourself questions about the nature of time, wondering whether it has substance, whether there is a beginning or end to time, whether it is linear or cyclic. Time has been a mystery explored by philosophers, scientists and seers throughout the millennia.

Time can be understood as a series of successive moments that are always in motion and seem to be one continuous flow. While it often seems like time flows like a river, from another perspective, the river, unique in each moment, also seems to reveal unlimited possibility in its aleatory movement, and thus there may be more of a sense of the infinite diversity of moments, than the continuity of moments conveyed.

When tracking time, you are generally tracking events and ordering them in a sequential fashion, causing time to seem to have a direction—events line up from the past to the present to the future. You agree to this convention as a matter of practicality in navigating the relative world. Yet, even though there is general agreement about this conventional ordering of moments of time, there is significant variance among individual perception of the passage of time. Different individuals will report a wide variety of experiences in their perceptions of the same events occurring.  Time segments seem to pass slowly sometimes and quickly other times, while some past events seem to be very close to the present while others seem far, far away, regardless of when they “actually” occurred. We suggest time is what you allow it to be.

You often allow time to serve you. You order the events of your life according to a sense of meaning. You allocate time for all the most important things you might do and allow time to be a friendly assistant in the unfolding of your life. On the other hand, you often think about what you can and cannot do according to your idea of what is “enough” time. You run out of time to complete projects, you are usually late rather than “on time.” And when you think about time, it causes you may feel uneasy, conjuring up visions of the “end” of all time, and your belief of “not enough time” gets reinforced. In this case, you allow time to contribute to your limiting thoughts and beliefs.

Your perception of time is associated with presence. You must be present to master your time. We use this term, presence, to indicate a state of mindfulness, a way of being attentive to the circumstances and surroundings as well as attentive to your sensory experience of the moment. When you are present, your perception of time expands and you have mastered your time. You will more likely feel that you have enough time for the experience to be complete. If you have no focus, no attention to the moment, time will be your master.

Your perception of time is also associated with memory. Since every moment experienced quickly becomes a moment of the past, you incorporate your memory indexes the timing of the experience. Generally, you experience moments of various duration in particular sequences that are woven together into the tapestry of your life. Events overlap and hide or reveal other events. If you allow those events to seem crowded and loaded with urgency, you will likely believe “you don’t have enough time.” However, if you allow the events to be spacious and you are present with them, you can experience the enoughness of time. Allow all experiences to align in peace and presence, and you will know beyond a doubt that you have enough time.

​Enoughness is the foundation of abundance. You cannot experience a state of abundance concurrent with a feeling of “not enough.” Enough means sufficient or adequate or ample, which we suggest is always the case in everything. There is always enough, because you are enough just as you are. When this is your identified state of being—you know it with certainty—you have the confidence to approach your life with room for abundance on all levels of being. One Life is always enough, add your presence to this enoughness, and dis-satisfaction disappears. Let go of not-enoughness, declare it an impossibility, let all be as it is. And “know one has enough time” will become your deep understanding of what is here and now.

A Time for Equanimity
Tutorial for February 2021 

When you look around at your self and your world you see all sorts of people and things, with some you feel an attraction, and with others you do not feel an attraction. You naturally gravitate towards the people and things that bring you joy and comfort, and naturally try to avoid those things that bring you pain and unease. It is easy to develop a strategy for living life based on indulging in what you perceive will bring the greatest joy, and avoiding what you perceive will be challenging or painful. This is the strategy most people employ without consciously knowing they are using it.

This is the strategy that uses desire as the greatest motivator for the creation of your experiences. You desire or want this, so you go after it. You don’t want this, so you reject it and anything that resembles it. This is a flawed strategy principally because it is mostly about the ego taking charge seeking  aggrandizement and protection. The ego is a mental construct, an idea, that can be useful for navigating the relative world, but is not a reliable substitute for being motivated and informed by the conscious realization of the insubstantial and impermanent nature of reality. In other words, if you are motivated primarily by your ego, you will toss about in an endless sea of reactivity and attachment. If equanimity is at the root of your experiencing life, you will cultivate a calmness and balance that does not fall apart on waves of aversion and attraction.

Some of you may think the idea of equanimity is defined by an aloofness and coldness or lack of passion. Quite the contrary, equanimity is mindfulness and acceptance of what is happening in the present moment, allowing you to fully experience the now moment with unshakeable freedom of mind and releases you from getting stuck in the ego’s constantly changing cravings.

Equanimity enhances the spaciousness of the mind and the ability to see the bigger picture—what we call One Life Awareness. It is an all-embracing seeing with understanding and patience that comes from inner strength, calm, and stability. In times that are challenging, equanimity developed from the accumulation of mindfulness in daily life encounters can keep you feeling balanced and positive.

If you start to become aware of when you are being distracted by your desires, or by your ego’s demand for attention, you will develop equanimity naturally. Your most natural state is equanimity. All other states are deviations from the natural state. There is nothing wrong or right about these states, just allow them to pass through you rather than trying to avoid or hold on to them. If you simply notice when you are following desire or following the ego, quite easily the natural state of equanimity will arise to encompass your being and radiate a peaceful sense of calmness that carries you beyond any unstable or unbalanced experience.

Be willing to experience life from all sides, in all directions, and with the sense of balance that equanimity provides, feel the peace within you. A graceful knowing of One Life, that you and everything that you may believe is not you is truly One Life. This is a knowing that supports equanimity as equanimity supports the knowing. There is no one-to-one causality here, everything causes everything at all times. You have the opportunity to sense this in every moment, and by not engaging in the distraction of trying to know what you want to go after, and what you want to avoid, embrace all of life. Let it all be, and let it all arise from equanimity.

Cultivate Your Arising Bodhisattva Nature

We’d like to speak to the idea that everyone on the planet may actually be in Bodhisattva training right now. We would like to use this term, Bodhisattva, to refer to the archetype of a Bodhisattva. Simply, a person who follows a path in life that moves in the direction of truly enlightened actions dedicated to the benefit of all sentient beings. When you realize you are not separate from anything that seems to surround you, you realize that you truly are One Life with All That Is. Once this occurs, your motivation for living life naturally shifts from thinking only about your own personal desires and circumstances, to knowing that all of One Life lives with you. You become motivated to find compassion, generosity, and loving kindness is for all of One Life.

Being dedicated to the Awareness of all, being on the bodhisattva path, is a path anyone can embark upon. Very ordinary people can be bodhisattvas, as can very extraordinary people be bodhisattvas.  They arise in all situations and circumstances. And in the extraordinary circumstance of a raging pandemic, we suggest that the bodhisattva archetype, the inner bodhisattva, is arising in many people--perhaps in you.

This arising is not about promoting others at the expense of yourself, it is really about approaching all things in life from the point of understanding “we are all in it together” or we are all One Life. Your truest mission is to simply take actions that reinforce that knowing, and promote the best outcome for everyone. Buddhists understand the idea of being awakened as having fully realized liberation from the delusions and conditionings that are at the root of an unsatisfactory life. The inner bodhisattva in you knows this liberation as relevant especially in this now time and in this now world. The inner bodhisattva also knows that actions based in Awareness are not idealistic or beyond reach, they know they are simply actions that in some small way may alleviate the suffering of another. The actions reflect a commitment to ordinary and extraordinary kindness and helpfulness in everyday life.

When you begin to contemplate the basic questions that compelled you to engage a spiritual path, you become aware of your attachments that have emerged out of your desires. You start to let go of a need to protect an “independent self” that judges everyone and everything, and your unconscious denial of One Life diminishes. You open up your heart and begin the practice of looking inside to discover the internal forces that connect one sentient being to another. What was once seen as sacred becomes ordinary. What was once seen as ordinary becomes sacred, and the illusory nature of a self that is separate from One Life dissolves.

​We suggest that during this time of a pandemic, there has likely been a revolution in your priorities. What once was important in the external world has become less distracting. What is important in the internal world has transformed as One Life Awareness has grown. It has become obvious that the qualities you have developed like generosity, patience, kindness, equanimity, and goodwill serve your happiness much more satisfactorily than any external acquisitions. You may have discovered that when you accept your challenges with a sense of gratitude and release the hesitancy that sometimes causes you to withhold your generosity, you will find your inner bodhisattva guiding you. There is no need for assigning yourself the role of giver or receiver any longer, there is just the true perfection of unfolding  One Life Awareness. Have enthusiasm and curiosity about All That Is. Be patient with your self while losing the “self” that tries to hold on. And just see that in all ways, at all times, you are One Life

The Great Disillusionment
Catherine Weser channeled from One Life

The cycle of time from 2012 to 2025 we have called the Cycle of Undoing. You have passed the midpoint of that cycle indicating that the majority of the cultural and personal undoing has occurred and yet also continues to be underway. There has been much undoing of both cultural and personal identity, an undoing of the global and local economies, and most importantly, an undoing of a sense of the security and reliability of previously held ideals and norms of the human expression of reality. From the Winter Solstice of 2020 to the Winter Solstice of 2021 further undoing centers around the crumbling of many illusions. In this stage of the cycle the sense of disillusionment arises, along with an ongoing discovery and uncovering of a deeper meaning of truth.

THE ILLUSION of TRUTH-BASED REALITY
An illusion is generally understood as a false appearance or deceptive impression of reality. This means that in order to identify an illusion, you must first have some view of reality. Your view of reality has developed over the course of this lifetime: you have woven it together from threads of perceptions into a tapestry of experience. Your ideas about what reality is and is not emerge from this tapestry and often become somewhat fixed. Clinging to these ideas is challenging, especially in the midst of constantly shifting interpretations of perceptions, and new and different impressions of reality. Now, the old reality tapestry is beginning to fall apart.   

What takes place at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 is a barrage of lies and truths which seem to contradict each other, but also seem to be indistinguishable from each other. This leads to a great deal of misinformation and disinformation which you will have to sort through. The question, “What is the truth?” will be debated over and over again with very little consensus or resolution. You will not be able to rely completely on any external sources or expertise to shine the light on the truth definitively, you will have to uncover the truth for yourself. In this way, your sense of what is real and what is illusion will be challenged and unreliable.
Especially in the US, you will be dared to let go of your previously held ideals about the nature of the country you live in as you navigate the conundrum of lies and truths that simultaneously seem to define a multitude of differing realities. Remember to use your own ‘truth meter’ and realize that the truth is expansive and spacious and is identifiable by your deeper Self as congruent with consciousness and compassion. Don’t get distracted by a belief that truth must be proven with facts, as all facts will be in dispute. Don’t try to prove anything, just recognize that the deeper you go, the truth reveals itself, and you only need to see truth for your own coherence of thought and emotion. You do not have to convince anyone of your truth-- let them find their own. It is in the discovery process that truth reveals itself and illusions dissolve all around you. But this is not because you find some consensus and objective singular truth, it is because you realize that truth is what you make of it—what you assign to it—and can completely transform from one moment to the next.
Release all your attachments to truth as the basis of reality. The threads of perception that weave the reality tapestry together may no longer be suitable or appropriate.  The notion of ‘consensus reality,’ that reality is shared as a consensus of belief in common truths, will be completely dismantled by the end of 2021. Reality then becomes the reflection of a deeper self, and this knowing of reality seamlessly connects all of humanity although much of humanity will have no knowledge or direct experience of this connection.

THE ILLUSION of EXPECTED OUTCOME
Not many of you are living your life today as you were living your life one year ago. Any previous sense of what might unfold next has landed in the realm of the unknown. Attachment to thinking you know what tomorrow holds has fallen away, as well as ideals and expectations of cultural values being upheld. In a sense, there is a great deal of freedom as the extremes which define the boundaries of traditional behaviors have expanded beyond where they previously sat.  You might feel disillusioned as the notion that you can determine the outcome of most things no longer survives.
Everything can seem unexpected from a particular viewpoint. In 2021, you will find many viewpoints from which the unexpected arises. This can seem disconcerting, especially if you have believed in a plan for your life providing you with a sense of security. Now the plan makes no sense, and the next steps have to originate in the moment—you have to create your reality on the fly. And, you cannot expect a particular outcome.

This is a time of a reboot of the original blueprint for humanity. You will have to trust in your innate security and resiliency, all the while being grateful for the opportunity to live in a time of such deep and profound transformation. This is not the time to dream of ascension or rapture or leaving the planet in some other way, but to trust that right here and right now you are experiencing something unfolding that is ultimately a realignment and readjustment of energies beyond what you can even imagine. Much of the realignment and readjustment is focused around how humans connect with each other.

THE ILLUSION of DISCONNECTION                                                                                        
and the generation of a consciousness circuit
A consciousness circuit, a path that connects all consciousness, and allows all information and energy to flow to all points in the circuit at once develops during 2021. As a part of this consciousness circuit there will be Resistors who limit the flow of information and energy from time to time, as well as Amplifiers who increase the flow of energy and information from time to time. There will be Capacitors who store and manage the information, and Inductors who store and manage the energy. And there will be Transformers, who convert energy and information from one form to another. Everyone will have a role to play, whether they are aware of it or not, and everyone will be playing all of the roles at various points and in various circumstances.

Everyone is living One Life, everything is connected. The disillusionment around connection will center around the releasing of the idea that you have to be physically present with someone to be connected with them. The old limited ideas of what connection is open up to include this idea of a consciousness circuit. A consciousness circuit is simply a description to assist you in seeing that while everyone lives One Life, everyone contributes in many different ways. In a sense, the development of the Internet was the beginning of the experiment to generate a consciousness circuit. Though there have been many who perceive the Internet as disconnecting humans, limiting human to human contact—we see the Internet as providing a training ground for deeper and deeper connection. Thus, the illusion of disconnection, occurring in early 2121 subsides and greater connection becomes acknowledged.

People all over the planet have become connected through the invisible yet tangible energy paths of the Internet. The pandemic has elevated this connection to the place where it has become the primary way many of you interact with other humans at this time. This is going to continue, as you have become so comfortable being linked electronically, that you will find even more ways to stay linked electronically, even after it is “safe” to connect in person. There will be a common notion that person to person contact is mainly for direct experience, transmission of para verbal understandings, and certain high-level communication. Day to day communication will continue to be on line, so will education and government, and most retail sales and services will also continue to be conducted primarily on line.

This consciousness circuit, as we are calling it, is the way ideas propagate. It is how memes develop. Even if you don’t really know what a meme is, you have probably used one. You heard it through the “grapevine” and understood it instinctually. You may have put your own spin on it, but it is still a meme. The new “grapevine” is the Internet, and the memes of 2021 will be bits of consciousness and awareness as contributions from everyone.
The age of human connection as non-physical and para-verbal has just begun. Not until the 2050s or later will the true sense of rapport and telepathy as normal communication modes be acknowledged. In 2021, however, some of this understanding will seem to come through.

The feeling that an idea is “out there” just looking to manifest, or that a meme develops out of thin air, or that everyone seems to become aware of something at the same time, is a way to recognize this consciousness circuit in play--where all information and energy is available at all times to everyone. You may wake up with an idea and you will log on line and see that many have had the same idea, many have already posted something similar. You will notice this simultaneity of awareness of certain ideas and understandings becoming more and more prevalent in 2021.
The pandemic has pushed people’s consciousness together in a circuit of energy and information sharing while it has held people apart with social distancing. In this way the human experience is being transformed from one of believing in the body as the boundary of the self, to becoming aware of the spaciousness of consciousness that is not cordoned off into separate pieces, but is a wholism of One Life Awareness.

THE ILLUSION of SECURITY
There will be a great deal of disillusionment around the idea of security. The core understanding of inner security is the result of letting go of your fears that have tried to place the responsibility of your security within the realm of the external nature of reality. By this we mean thinking that security comes from conditions separate from you. We suggest that the circumstances and conditions of 2021 will enforce the realization that true security comes from within. While of course, so many of you already know this, it will become more obvious to others as the disillusionment with the outer world increases.

You cannot allow your need for a sense of security to drive the activities of your life, and yet you must pay attention to the need to take precautions where it is most necessary. During this pandemic, you have needed to determine what measures you would take to protect yourself and others from the virus. You had to understand the nature of the risks involved with your choices. You had to become disillusioned with the confusion around actions taken by governments and the like, and made your own choices for your security. This is ultimately a very good step to have taken. Losing any attachment you had to anything outside of you making you more secure has given you the power to achieve inner security—the only valid security.

DISILLUSIONMENT AS A PATH TO ONE LIFE AWARENESS
There are infinite ways to uncover One Life Awareness within yourself. In 2021, the path seems to be about  great disillusionment. Letting go of old ideas about truth, reality, expected outcome, connection and security may seem difficult at first, but we suggest, the situations and circumstances of 2021 will most likely elicit a general sense disillusionment which, when examined, can lead to One Life Awareness and liberation. We are simply here to point that out to you. Enjoy whatever takes you to deeper experiences, live what is and love. That is all that truly matters.

Presence is spoken about by many and in many places, yet you may not really know what is actually referred to as being present. We say that being present is primarily being free from the illusion of time. Time is a human construct that has been overlaid upon experience. When you are in an experience, you are not in “time”, you're in the sensations of the experience, you're in the narration of the experience, you're in the duration of the experience. Your experience is not confined to the segmented understanding of time, because time is just an overlay of segmented understanding that has no real substantialty. It is completely an illusion. And so, freedom from the illusion of time is freedom from any kind of attachment that causes you to limit or enhance your experience on the basis of this overlay, the construct that is understood as time.
 
Imagine that you were free of the construct of time. Every encounter you have would be experienced from its seeming start to its seeming finish, and you would be in the midst of that experience always somewhere between “start” and “finish” where there would always be an infinite array of possibilities. If you start to cultivate an awareness of that infinite array of possibilities that exists between this seeming start and seeming finish of any experience, you can cultivate freedom from time.
 
Therefore, what we would identify as presence is understanding that the moment is really the only eternity that exists. Everything else is an attempt to order the experiences, to put them in categories identified as past, or identified as future. What is sometimes identified as present is fleeting. The present is only there for the moment that it is identified as being there, and, when you identify a particular moment as “being” anywhere, you've lost the eternal aspect of that moment. You have set the moment within some parameters that you have identified and defined founded on your characterization of the past and future.
 
All of this might sound very complicated, and yet it is actually incredibly simple. If you want to become more present, start noticing when you are experiencing something and identifying what has come before and what you assume is coming after. It is your attachment to defining your experience with those boundaries that limits your experience of presence.
 
Presence is what is called for at this particular moment. It is called for, because time as a constriction, limitation or even just as a definition or part of your story, is something that is unnecessary. It's unnecessary to be trapped in time, it is appropriate to become free from time and to be here right now in presence. It is the most intimate way that we can experience ourselves and others—it is really all we can share with others. Presence, as freedom from the illusion of time, is natural and easy and with presence comes a knowing of One Life Awareness.
 
One Life awareness is simply the allowing of the usual sense of who and what you are to deepen into the sense of who and what you are that is “beyond” all of your stories-- that is without all of the descriptions you have utilized to tell yourself that you are this or you are that. One Life Awareness is nothing that can be described. It's only something that is known in an intuitive way. While cultivating presence can seem to promote One Life Awareness, nothing is required to know it.
 
You can come to know One Life awareness through different experiences generally sensed as initiatory experiences. These experiences we call random encounters with your deep self. You're going about your everyday activities and then suddenly or slowly--it really doesn't matter--you are no longer narrating the “doing” from your discursive mind. You come into a different place where what you're actually experiencing is experienced directly. There is nothing but your sensations. There are no stories being told. There is an ease and grace about all of it. It's this kind of experience that we would identify as presence, and a touching in with One Life Awareness.
 
Everyone has had these experiences, everyone can have these experiences. There's nothing actually extraordinary about it. In fact, we would say it is one of those ordinary experiences that happens all of the time and what you're actually looking to understand is that you can become a little more cognizant, a little more aware or sensitive to these experiences occurring throughout your life. It is the development of the sensitivity that is, from our perspective, an evolutionary key to understanding, and coming to a deep place of One Life Awareness. Presence is a facilitator, and once the illusion of time as an overlay on your experiences is removed, One Life Awareness is more readily sensed.
 
There are no goals here, no practices are required or even implied. Just allow your experiencing to be whatever it is and know that it is all as it should be—all is simply One Life unfolding with no overlays or limits or boundaries. Experience is the isness of it all. Be present, and simply be who you are.

One Life Tutorial for October 2020
The Evanescence of a Spiritual Path
Spiritual paths are evanescent. They seem at first to be concrete and predictable, but soon become the ineffable, indescribable notion of an inner guidance that is always present, but mostly intangible. A spiritual path unfolds before you. It does not follow a plan because there is no plan, there is no pre-existing map, there is simply the sense that a next step reveals itself in the present moment.

When you really take a deep look at this, what you come to know is that a path that unfolds before you moment-to-moment cannot be designed to get you what you want, or to help you to avoid what you do not want. The true spiritual path is simply an ever extant acknowledgment of your state of Presence or Awareness.  Your spiritual path is where all your encounters with reality take place. Your spiritual path is where you take all of your theoretical learning and put it to the test by applying the learning to your experience.  We might say that your spiritual path is your arena for developing practical wisdom. It also compels you to be who you are beyond all your stories and definitions of who you are.

Much of this lifetime has been an attempt to create an identify for yourself, and to create a reality that could enhance who you believe you are. Then at some point, you decided to be on a “spiritual path.” You may not have understood what that really meant, but your inner guidance showed you the relevance of discovering aspects of yourself which were not known or not developed at the time you were introduced to the idea of being on a spiritual path. Most of the time, at the beginning of being on a spiritual path there is great excitement at the possibilities for big changes to occur in your life. We would suggest that most of you, in a more relative sense, have been driven to leap on to a spiritual path with ideas of becoming free, of becoming happier, of achieving enlightenment, healing pain and wounds, and even becoming rich. In other words, most of you have in some way considered being on a spiritual path as the antidote to suffering. Often, a teacher appears in either non-physical or physical reality as a guide or collaborator on the spiritual path with you. Spiritual teachers assist you in many different ways, from pushing you to discover your deeper, true nature, to helping you to uncover One Life Awareness, to transmitting knowledge and understanding of spiritual principles and daily practices. A spiritual teacher and all of life teaches whatever you might need until you recognize who you are. Ultimately, every experience is your teacher, and every experience is your evanescent path unfolding before you.  

At some point, however, another motivation to be on a spiritual path may unseat the “remedy for suffering” motivation. This is when the spiritual path loses its material sense of existence, when it becomes evanescent. Then, the ego gives up on its enlightenment project. The stories have been told so many times before, they are no longer of much interest. The quest for particular outcomes is put to rest, and it becomes clear your spiritual path is just One Life unfolding before you. It is The All That Is without a sense of anything that is not the spiritual path. It no longer matters how you got where you are, it just is where you are. The path is life, experience, wisdom and knowing. Once accepted as such, it all becomes quite simple. Just live with the volume turned up high enough that you can live deeply. Just love with the volume turned up so high you can feel deeply, and just be with the volume turned up as high as possible so you are One Life expressing in every moment.

​Truly, the “volume turned up high” just means filled with Awareness—there is actually no high or low when it comes to living life with awareness. We are just suggesting that as you mature, as you continue on your journey of Presence, you will likely find the markers which had previously defined your path have shifted and become less concrete—more ethereal perhaps. You begin to explore the nuances, the edges are softened, the experience is appreciated in a new way. Trust, have confidence in this process. No matter where you begin, you end up at your starting place because there truly is no beginning nor end to a spiritual path. This is why we call it evanescent—disappearing from your practical sense of reality and dissolving into One Life Awareness: the spiritual path is the non-dual knowing of All That Is.