The Enlightened Commando Mommy

You don’t know what you need, but the proprietors of truth do and they claim it is their job to teach you.

Yet, because you are steeped in ignorance, you must be enticed. Otherwise, how else will you discover your teacher of truth, if you are not magnetically allured to do so?


Dave Oshana is an alluring merchant of truth that demands your attention. Dave says:

“Enlightenment cannot be taught. It is not a body of knowledge or a set of behaviours. However, when a person deeply desires to know the Truth meets one who knows the truth then something magical can happen, and enlightenment can occur.”

Dave Oshana owns the truth and he will give it to you, provided you believe in him. Yet, one wonders, if Christ couldn’t do it, what makes these truth peddlers think they can? If Buddha couldn’t change the world, how will Dave Oshana do it?

But note the disclaimer (just in case you fail to become enlightened):

"The student must ensure that he/she is prepared to receive the Transmission. This opportunity may not present itself ever again. Oshana was at pains to remind me that he himself does not know if and when he would be directed to restrict his teaching even further. If you are drawn to the Energy and you are sufficiently prepared then open yourself to its all-encompassing influence, as you may not have this chance again in a thousand lifetimes! The student must be prepared to serve the Enlightenment Energies, to become an instrument through which it functions in this universe."

Are you "sufficiently prepared to open yourself to its all-encompassing influence"? If not, then you lose and are cursed to a thousand lifetimes. Whew! What a let down, but these are the rules to the game of "awakening." Come prepared for what you expect and, make no mistake, you will have it. But it won't be truth, because truth cannot be restricted to your expectations. The fact that you believe it can be, is why you seem to be without.

Actually, the ancient secret, lost to the modern world, is that truth is a communal affair, not available to individual minds still divided against themselves:

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else." - Buddha

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ ... " - Galations 3:28

But wouldn’t ya know it, the ego went and co-opted that whole schtick. Now we have personality cults to suck in the ignorant (but faithful). Some might say that Truth is not supposed to change the world.

But then, what good is truth?

The truth merchants understand the attention deficit, hyperactive modern mind. They realize the ego must be stimulated by conventional metaphors and paradigms. Thus, for Dave Oshana:

“Liberation Commando Style: The expulsion of the False Identity can occur whilst human awareness is present but it usually only gets in the way of the Enlightenment Energies. What is more likely to happen is that the awareness is 'numbed' temporarily for the Enlightenment Energies to function more efficiently. Rather like the Russian Commandos who gassed both hostages and terrorists in a bid to save lives in their rescue mission.
The urge to teach is undeniable - The Enlightened Teacher is like a mother who is there for her baby at all times. She cannot deny the cries of the child for milk regardless of time or place.”

The Enlightened Commando Mommy is the ‘hero’ of this dream.

She protects her babies and gives them truth by attacking and destroying the "evil ego" within. Notice the dramatic metaphors conforming to the egoic need for status quo, conventional paradigms of truth.

How can a world absent of truth give you truth through that same world’s conventional paradigms invented by the ego? The world reflects scarcity, limit and loss. Therefore, the "awakened master," and his "truth," must be a limited resource. Only a few can own the truth.

Oshana’s magnetic personality is apparent from his pictures. But then, who wants to sit at the feet of a boring guru? We need to be drawn in and mesmerized by the magical truth of the enlightened master.

Welcome to the Cult of Personality.

It's a paradigm we know well and most likely will learn nothing from. Millions of 'personalities,' teaching "truth," have left things pretty much the same for centuries (many would argue that life has become even more inhospitable).

Of course, this is the definition of insanity, whereby, we all continue doing the same thing over and over again, but each time expecting different results.


Look in my eyes, what do you see?
the Cult of Personality
I know your anger,
I know your dreams
I've been everything you wanna be
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality

Neon lights, Nobel Prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set me free

I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face of your T.V.
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you; still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the Cult of Personality

Neon lights, Nobel Prize
When a leader speaks, that leader dies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set you free
(Living Colour)

Sharing NO Purpose

Make no mistake, you have determined my purpose, as I determine yours and, therefore, there is no escape from conformity.

Failure to conform to your purpose for me, is a reflection of my betrayal of you and betrayal will then be our shared purpose.

Such is the essence of hate.

We construct a purpose for everyone we meet and this reflects the ego’s judgment capacity, because it has no other purpose.

You cannot escape your purpose for them, nor will they escape their purpose for you.

The guards are the inmates.

We are all prisoners of a purpose we did not invent (although we think we did).

Do you really think you are free to invent your 'self'? Ha! If I let you. But will you let me?

Don’t think for a minute that you can escape to your cushion, seeking to free yourself from what I intend for you.

When you open your eyes, do you see who you knew before? In that case, WE are still dreaming.

However, when you open your eyes, if WE no longer 'know' each other, feel confident that WE now share a purpose that has no past.

And in that, we are FREE... of purpose.

Until then, we will continue to insist on (and deny) each others purpose and that will keep us reliant on the past in determining the purpose of the world (the world will always show us what we have determined it must, since that's its purpose).

Six Billion Dreams of "Reality"

The dream of reality is shared. No one dreams alone.

Minds are not part of the dream, but it's there that we will meet when we awake together.

You support me in my illusions, as I support you in yours. Is death a part of your dream? Together we keep the dream alive.

Although the forms we experience are exclusive to each, it is the underlying currents the forms ride upon that we all share.

In my dream a loved one dies, while in yours, sickness impoverishes a body. Yet suffering attends both. You will support the ‘reality’ of my suffering, because I support yours. Dreams seem different, yet, they have always been the same. They are interdependent, contrasting illusions of sickness and health, war and peace, love and hate.

Six billion dreamers support each others dream by dreaming up a 'world' all their own.

You are the dreamer of your dream, as I am center of mine. We seem to be apart in the dream, but are co-conspirators in cause and effect. An illusion of wealth contrasts with poverty, while our fears and joys seem to compete in our collaborative collusion. I support your illusions, as you support mine and together we make it “real.” Always together as one (dreaming we are apart).

The moment either of us chooses to end the dream, all dreams must die. Six billion minds, each cause and effect. There is no First Cause to illusion. I have allowed your illusion as, simultaneously, you allow mine.

Your satisfaction must contrast with my disappointment for both to be "real." My illusion of happiness is distinguished in opposition to your illusion of misery. You direct my performances, as I direct yours. My effects make you cause and your cause makes you an effect of me.

You cause the dream in which I control your controlling my control of you.

I can never fulfill your purpose for me. Nor will you fulfill the purposes I apply to you and in that, the dream persists. Sometimes you dream that I make you angry or sad or even happy, but if you are cause, then I can only be mere effect. We can never truly meet in the dream and our bodies insure against that ever happening.

But I must have your support, for my dream to continue and you require my services as well. If one refuses to play, then the game ends for both. Yet, as long as you are part of my dream, I will be with you in yours. What we "see," is what we agree to see and and, therefore, what we see is proof of our agreement.

Do you see death? So do I. Yet, if one of us breaks that contract, death can no longer be visible.

We are both cause and effect, for we are one. I cause my dream, while you are merely an effect of me. Yet, as an effect of my dream, you are cause to your own, while I am nothing but an effect of you. We all collaborate together in cause and effect of our mutual interlocking dreams of “reality.”

As long as we both share in dreaming of death and suffering, it must be "real" and it is this shared part of the dream that makes dreaming seem separate. We must agree we are separate in order to dream of meeting as bodies. You must share in my illusion of 'self' for me to share in yours. The moment you choose to awaken from your dream, my dreaming must end as well, for without you as an effect, I can no longer be cause.

One dreamer cannot be both cause and effect, because all dreams are.

To wake me is to awaken yourself, as you can only wake with my help. No one wakes alone, because no one dreams alone. We will eventually forget our dreams, but not each other. Never each other, because to forget is to remember. That can never change, simply because it's not a dream.


Sweet dreams are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of the them wanna get used by you
Some of them wanna abuse you
Some of them wanna be abused
(Annie Lennox)

The Non-Duality of Christ Consciousness

Essentially, there is nothing external to mind.

However, you believe a part of you resides externally from mind and have split experience into two parts, body and consciousness. Inevitably, this results in a divided experience of mind distinct from body. Therefore, everything the body ‘seems’ to come into contact with is automatically considered as separate from ‘mind,’ because it is in mind that the ‘self’ resides and all else must be dissociated from ego-self in order to maintain ego boundaries.

Christ Consciousness is the unification of the parts by dissolving boundaries through realization that neither mind nor body, self nor world, is outside conscious experience. However, it does not engage in this non-dual realization through negating or dissociating from any parts of experience. In fact, the non-duality of Christ Consciousness embraces all the parts in realizing wholeness. Absolutely nothing is, or can be, excluded and to do so would be to maintain ego boundaries, thereby, projecting the self away from the self's own constructs of reality. Splitting reality is cause for suffering because you are actually dividing a unified, non-dual mind and such is the nature of duality.

You believe that ‘perception’ proves duality “real” and, thereby, rely exclusively on bodily sensation as “knowledge.” However, you cannot deny that all experience is ‘within’ consciousness and this tends to evoke doubt that the body even exists, since it is in consciousness that the body is experienced and not vice versa.

Subsequently, this causes doubt, or fear, that “you” even exist (simply because you associate exclusively with a body).

Therefore, to reinforce and maximize existence, you have come to rely almost exclusively on ‘perception,’ and the body’s capacity for ‘sensing’ a world, to provide you “knowledge” of who and what you are. Rarely do you consider that this “knowledge” is actually provided by yourself to yourself within consciousness through your own self-concept. A self-concept that also defines life as primarily of the body, while being solely contained in consciousness.

You conduct your 'existence' as if nothing enters your mind that has not in some way come to you through the body. Even that which may enter consciousness completely devoid of bodily mediation is rationalized to conform to bodily sensation. This is why so much is poorly interpreted and that which somehow sneaks past bodily mediation (sensation) is then defined as "mystical."

Christ Consciousness is concerned with knowledge that is not mediated by the body, but that does not negate or deny the body, nor the ‘self,’ but includes it within the whole. This is what the majority of "non-dualists" struggle with, in their desire to experience non-dualism by negating the experiences of ego-self, body and world.

Christ Consciousness is merely the realization that perception is nothing more than an outward projection 'within' consciousness that is not external to consciousness, as there is no division to mind. In fact, in this sense we could say that mind does not exist, since there is no split between an inside or an outside (mind/body) to the experience of “you.”

Christ Consciousness is the realization that you are your world, but also that your world is you. No projected split can occur and this is the delusion of a separate self seeking self-maximization by reinforcing the boundaries delineating it.

Christ Consciousness is a unified “Trinity” in which no part is subordinate to, or in contrast with, any other part. This was the message of “I and the father are one.” Yet, this does not deny an origin or source, but includes all as joined with that indivisibility.

There is really only one indication of Christ Consciousness and that is a complete cessation of fear.

Fear identifies with the dualistic conflict of disunity, but is actually the manufacturing of contrasting parts, seeking to idolize some parts over others. This creates dualistic levels and degrees to a 'reality,' in which some parts are feared, while others are made sacred and we are often confused between what is to be feared and what to be idolized.

Christ Consciousness perceives neither sacred nor profane, because there is neither fear nor idolatry of any parts. However, the recognition of Chris Consciousness is realized through another and this is the most difficult part for ego-self to accept.

Nevertheless, it does not require the physical presence of another and could even be the memory or image of another (since any such contrast between real and illusionary is egoically delusional). However, it does require that you 'see' your ‘self’ as not separate from another and this is only possible when you do not assign or apply any purpose to another whatsoever.

When they no longer need conform to a purpose you have determined, contrasts dissolve between you and an instant equality emerges naturally, without need of any capacity for judgment.

Yet, this is fearful to an ego-self that knows itself through the manufacture of delusional contrasts and value hierarchies, which it employs to inflate or aggrandize itself as ‘existing’ through exclusive boundaries. To experience a complete lack of contrast is often referred to as an experience of non-duality and it is without fear on any level or degree. This is what some refer to as “perfect peace” and, through a complete absence of conflict/fear, Christ Consciousness is realized as the extension of being in mind and not the projection of ‘self’ in consciousness.

(of course, this is all just theoretical metaphysics and has no resemblance to 'reality')

Hahaa!
mikeS


You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
You may find yourself in another part of the world
You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
You may ask yourself; Well...How did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground

You may ask yourself
How do I work this?
You may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
You may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
You may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
(Talking Heads)