Mind Consciousness

It's An Inside Job -- Who Am I?

I am at the Annual Seminar given by the Institute of Metaphysical Science being presented by Betty Albee.  The Institute does research and gives seminars and teleconferences in the Science of Being.  Here are some excerpts and notes from this excellent seminar:

"He who knows others is wise, he who knows himself is enlightened."  -- Lao Tzu

There is Being present, constituting each of us, that generates the language that we call our human living.  Take a look at who you are and what is going on called the universe we walk through?

Who am I in relation to all that occurs or seems to occur in the world around me?

Working from ideas presented in her book, Mind Is The Athlete: An Exploration of Consciousness & Cause, Betty started out with working to have people understand The Metaphysical Map -- looking at "All In All" (What Is). 

What is it that has me exist?  I know that I consciously am.  You could tell me that I don't -- but I don't buy that -- I know that I am -- nobody has to tell me -- I know that I do.  I need no one else to verify that fact. 

What is the action of cause?  Evidence, manifestation, appearing, change, existing.  There is a whole lot more to me than what I see in the mirror.  We barely scratch the surface if we only look at the appearance -- the circumstances.  From that view, possibilities are almost zero, imagination is almost zero.  Is that who you are?  who I am?  Yes and No -- it's not ALL of who each one of us is.

The appearance world has cause and the action of cause present, or the world wouldn't occur.  My life/human existence is a peak of what is going on.  If we live as if that is all there is, we are living in a very limited concept of ourselves.

There are no limits -- there are no defining limitations in Allness.  There are only opportunities to be.  There are unlimited opportunities to be.

Let's call the world of appearance (the seen, heard, felt, taste, and touch), Language.  I live myself as if this is all that is going on.  I forget the rest that isn't observable so easily.  The essence of being is not housed in the Language.  My appearance world (language) is a point of view.  It's a view of the One reality present -- it's a point of view on Being/Consciousness.

We continuously make an effort to relate to who we are in our own living -- greater than the appearance world.  Call them stories, parables, etc., they allow us to access that Awareness, that consciousness that being that has the humanity occur.  It's the divine occurring seeing itself in the human point of view.

Don't ever mistake the action in the appearance world for the Awareness/Consciousness.  The originating/generating power present is always divine Being. Divine Being in it's self-recognition is always in action.  That action shows up as our human living in all of it's permutations.  It's always Language, identifying for the moment, the only way that I can see Perfection/Divinity showing up.  It's my best view (and you have your best view).

When I acknowledge the facts of Being, it is the source of the action of all that I see -- allows me to let the appearance alone.  Another way to say it is, "Being, being itself being, showing up in language."  The generative power is never in the point of view.  The point of view can never be causative.

What has power is the generative Power that gives rise to the point of view.  Cause/Consciousness/"the God-Idea" is that generative force.  The belief that cause occurs in language is what gives rise to the language showing up as troubling, sickness, etc.  It is a self-destruct mechanism to believe that the language world is causative.  The language world is only a view of my being.  It's a useful view for me, but if I see it's causative, has the ability to do something, then I'm living a lie, and it will self-destruct. 

The Being in action, is the responsible agent that destroys what is not itself.  The picture showing up best represents the God-Idea in action.  We live with it all the time and we don't distinguish what is actually going on.  The causative, knowing, presencing is showing up as the human picture, the world I walk through.

What there is to get is Who you are.  The picture/appearance that shows up is only a view.  If I think that is the primary thing, then I'm limited to that picture.  I have no idea Who I am.  Consciousness is self-aware, showing up in language.

An example: When I am coming from the point of view of human being knowing the truth, I'm not willing to have it look/appear any way other than my highest concept of good.  If it doesn't look that way, it's not OK.

When I know who I am, standing in the Diving Presence/Being, I will have no energy whatsoever on what shows up in language.  It is a point of view.  I can appreciate that, not fuss with it and worry over it.  It is not a fact of being.  I can let it alone and be permissive of the language.  While this might be counter-intuitive from the human standpoint, it is the place of power and freedom.

Is There A Message In The Language Called 'Environment'?

This article of mine was recently published in the Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute of Metaphysical Science:

We live in exciting times.  The language appearing as a ‘wake up call’ is all around us.  Global warming, the views of extremists on our security and wellbeing, the intolerance showing up in our political discourse – all of it a demand to live consciously aware.  All of it a wake up call to our living the false assumption that personal sense (the human condition) is the source of our existence, while we do ‘the best we can’ with what we have.

Living consciously aware does not mean to discard the appearance, or to ignore the appearance.  The language world is Divinity showing up in the only way we can see it – it is the world each one generates in our living – Being being itself being – constantly evolving and demanding that we give up the personal sense of ourselves and live consciously aware – that we live out from the ‘fullness of understanding’, clear that original thinking/knowing appears for each of us from our own withinness, providing insightful Right action – living the ‘all’ of ourselves and our world – in the world, but not of the world – rather we are the world we walk through.

In reading Al Gore’s new book, The Assault on Reason, he explores some of the new discoveries in neuroscience – and it’s exciting that Science is seeing the idea that All is Infinite Mind, and it’s infinite manifestation”, as the following quote illustrates:

“Indeed physiologists have recently discovered a new class of neurons, called ‘mirror neurons’, that create a powerful physical capacity for empathy.  Dr. Ramachandran described the startling significance of this new finding to me:

‘It has long been known that neurons in this region (a part of the brain called the anterior cingulated that receives a major input from the amygdala) fire when you poke the patient to cause pain – so they were called ‘pain sensing neurons’ on the assumption that they alert the organism to potential danger – leading to avoidance.  But researchers in Toronto found that in human patients some of these cells responded not only when the patient himself was poked with a needle – as expected – but also fired equally when a patient watched another patient being poked.  These neurons (mirror neurons) were dissolving the barrier between the ‘self’ and others – showing that our brains are actually ‘wired up’ for empathy and compassion.  Notice that one isn’t being metaphorical in saying this; the neurons in question simply can’t tell if you or the other person is being poked.  It’s as if the mirror neurons were doing a virtual reality simulation of what’s going on in the other person’s brain – thereby almost ‘feeling’ the other’s pain.’”

It’s all Mind-action showing up – and evidence evolving as self-discovery that All is One – not two, as the language picture would suggest.  When living with Metaphysical Science as my vision, I give up my judgments, assessments, opinions, fears, and prejudices.  I let go my intolerance, because I see that any intolerance is only from the personal sense of myself as a two-legged animal in a world of others.  So I give them up – I let them go, and I acknowledge the Perfection functioning in all language – that language is not what defines my world, but language shows up out of my own Being – disclosing my Self to myself – so that I may discover who I am by giving up that which I am not.  I can let loose the inauthentic views I have held of myself and my world.

As I lessen my rigid hold on my world and the ‘righteousness’ of my personal sense of that world, I free not only myself and my living, I free every one of my ‘others’.  They do not exist ‘out there’, but are manifest in my world by my own Divinity.  In that freedom circumstances alter, and the seemingly miraculous occurs.

The recent discoveries in neuroscience are exciting.  The discoveries and issues appearing in my world are exciting opportunities – a demand to live insightfully as Mind.  And of course we will constantly evolve new views of the paradox, new views of the human condition, revealing the Oneness of all that is or seems to be.  The challenge is having the discipline to live the fact of ourselves in spite of the look showing up in the language.  To have the courage to live our circumstances as Perfection functioning, with the clear vision of Science as our understanding and our Reason for any human look.  With that vision, there is no struggle, no fight, but only the pure Joy of discovering who we are – fully engaged in our living of our world – and ceaseless Self discovering.

Am I an object or a Being?

Yesterday, I got my finger pinched between cement when the slab I was holding cracked in two, and one half folded and fell to the ground, pinching my finger on its way.  I got a nasty blood blister and bruise on the pad of my finger.  Not to mention the OUCH sensation.

When exploring this, and the application of Scientific Metaphysics to the situation, I heard the comment -- "Oh, so you think you're an object that things can happen to."  Wow... yes, I was indeed in the belief that that was so.  It made me stop and really think about that.

In her pamphlet, Radical Reliance On Truth, Margaret Laird says, "The statement, 'every material belief hints the existence of spiritual reality' means that every theory or belief, every concept has existence only in the spiritual fact - the God-idea as individual Mind.  The idea and its identity are not two.  That which identifies the idea is the idea, whatever form it may assume, the consciousness of Good (Mind) is Good, as conscious being."

When I, in mistaken belief, live as though I am merely a human being -- a two-legged animal, I lose the ability to see that I am Consciousness, Mind in action, showing up as my world in the only way I have the eyes to see it.  I can align with One in an instant -- dropping my belief in the apparent two, and in that present Now -- I stand in the magnificence of All being - One infinitude of existence.

What is Real vs. What is Concept?

A very good distinction to draw if we are interested in operating with power in our world.

So what is Real?  Reality happens all the time, all around us.  If I hold up an apple, and ask what it is, the first response is, it's an apple, a sort-of round red object, etc.  Answers can go on for some time, but finally, we'll get to it is what it is.  All labels and everything else 'about' it is a concept.

So, Reality is.  It's very simple.  As human beings we confuse reality with our concept of reality.

For example, "I had a bad day", or "the deepest, darkest part of Africa" -- all concept -- that is a 'view' of reality - but not reality.  As a concept, it is not real, but my personal view of reality, that is filtered through my story about it.

It's powerful to distinguish Reality from my View or Concept of reality.  So the thing we are looking at is real.  Our concepts of it are not real.  We make it up.

I live in the world as I am, not as it is.  I live it where I am, in my own self-view.  It's a perspective, a view.

If we can leave the look of things alone -- acknowledging there is nothing to fix, or change or fiddle with, new and unseen opportunities and possibilities will arise that are unpredictable.

Learn to be permissive of the appearance world.  Notice when you are pulled to fix, fiddle, change, resist, etc. anything that is happening. 

Acknowledge Consciousness is fundamental.  It is the source and condition of all existence.  Margaret Laird says, "Conscious Identity is the condition of being exactly the same as Consciousness."

To quote Betty Albee, "It takes a quality of alertness in daily living to not be a reaction machine.  When I'm being myself, I don't have any attention on myself, like Betty doing something.  'Betty' doesn't exist.  I am being the happening."

In a recent seminar, Betty said, "Language is a transient view of reality.  There is nothing to fix or change.  It's a momentary view.  It comes to you for life and you give it all the life it has."

Yep -- we add all the judgment, meaning to the circumstances showing up -- giving it the "life" it has. 

Who Am I?

This is the most important question any of us could engage in.  Knowing who you are is vital to any spiritual exploration of your Self: that which is beyond the appearance/look of yourself.

So when I am interested in having power in my living, this is a vital question, because it shapes my experience of my world - it's who I see myself to be.

The goal is to live myself accurately.  What am I believing about myself?  What am I believing about my world?

When you really get pressed to the wall, and you have everything that you are on the line -- you say to yourself, either this Science (scientific metaphysics) is accurate, or it's not, and if not, let's go study something else.  Never once have I been let down.  Until it's lived it's just words -- not helpful..

So this blog is a record of my own Self discovering and the application and practice of Scientific Metaphysics, as taught by Mary Baker Eddy, and her student Bicknell Young, and his student Margaret Laird, and her student, Betty Albee.

Being is all there is.  So what is it about Being that I know?  What can I actually prove to myself about Being?  I know that I consciously exist.  And I can go on from there.  Divine being is always present when I am present.

Since I know that all of the language in my world (the seen, heard, and felt) is not causative, then what is causative?  What shapes my experience of my living?  It all gets down to the question, Who Am I?