Recently I saw an article on the ABC news site talking about a scientific investigation into out of the body experiences. That is where you are floating above your body and looking back at it. The scientists were trying to determine if these experiences where real, or just a figments of the person’s imagination. The way the article described this was a person looking back on his or her self.
This is exactly where the scientists get mixed up. They never fully investigate their own Self Nature. So today I thought I would help them set up a method for investigating their own identity. After they read this article, these scientists will wonder if they were ever contained in a body to begin with. So buckle up your seatbelts and get ready for some mind blowing information that will help you to uncover your original center. In fact this is your center even now.
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We already have a sense that there is something really deep buried within the person. Even though we see that everyone dies, we have a sense that we won’t die. Did you ever wonder where this comes from? Also, we feel like one person and not like many. At first you may think that this too is a contradiction to what you actually experience. After all you seem to be many people don’t you? For example you are a daughter to your mother and a mother to your daughter, a wife, a teacher and a friend. It seems like as your experience changes your identity should also change. But it doesn’t. There is something within the person that is not affected by his or her situation or circumstances. That thing is the real you, and that’s the one we’re going to uncover today.
The method we are going to use is quite simple. You are the subject and the things that you experience are objects. You don’t mix yourself up with an object, do you? That’s why when I ask, Who are you, you don’t say, I’m Michael Gluckman. If you mixed yourself up with me, I would correct you and say, I am merely an object in your experience; I am not you, at least for now.
The body is an object — you are not an object.
Ok, so what does this mean? You know that you aren’t Michael Gluckman, because this writer is just an object in your experience; isn’t the body also an object that you experience? Don’t look past this seemingly simplistic line of reasoning! This means that while the body is limited by time and space, perhaps its limitations are not yours. The reason I say perhaps, is because these words are mere pointers; you have to uncover their meaning for yourself by looking deeply into what you actually experience.
Now we assume that we are limited by the objects that we see. That’s why the scientists assume that when you have an out of the body experience you are looking back at yourself. But once you start to investigate, you will discover that there is a lot more to you than the scientists know. You are the Consciousness that lights up limitation; you are not the one caught in it.
Scientists assume that they know the seer
You may want to know where these scientists, who are brilliant men and women, get confused. Scientists are used to looking at objects. And as you know, objects are things that you sense, or things that can be defined by your thoughts. The problem is that you cannot know yourself like you know an object.
That would be like space assuming that it was limited to a pot and then trying to come up with a definition for space. Pot space is too limited to know the nature of space. The only way that space can know itself is by recognizing that the walls of a pot do not really define space. That deep knowledge will allow space to return to its original nature, the place that it never really left. They fail to notice the treasure hidden in their own identity
Like the pot space, the scientists would have to notice that they are not contained in their mind and body. Moreover, their mind and body cannot see them. For this reason they cannot know themselves as a shape or thought. The only way they can fully know their self–nature is by being their self. I call this knowledge by direct experience. Since this is direct experience, it is the opportunity for you too to explore and verify the meaning of these words. Then you will step beyond the limitations of the body. But in reality you will not step anywhere; you will only find what you always were, always are and always shall be, and you just overlooked this great treasure.
Then you will recognize that if you appear to be in a body or out of it, you never really leave yourself. You always are yourself. And if you look back at the body you are merely looking back at the body, not at the Awareness and Bliss, which is the real you.
Asking Question
Here questions about this article or other things going on in your life are always welcome; you can write us at michael@ananya.com. I love questions and try to answer them all in this blog. That’s because when you start to question limitation, you are on the verge of destroying it.
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Michael Gluckman
