It's not that I can't give a how to, my intent was to make another view available.
Alas, as I suspected.
DJ said there were no steps Nik? That's news to me, seeing as CC's 2nd an 3rd books were devoted almost exclusively to steps. Toletc is a methodist tradition far beyond any, even Buddhism.
During my reading of CCs material, I came to realise there were two directions you could take with this material.
1. You could simply jump to believing all the fabulousity and tantalising stories of magic and far-out experiences from your armchair - sitting there doing nothing and believing all you have to do is adopt the identity of a sorcerer. "It's already all here, I don't need to do anything, I'm already everything I want to be."
Or as Nemo put it:
in my view freedom is not around the corner somewhere, or in some deep recess of dreaming. It is up close and personal, so in answer to you statement Michael, I do not have to be anything.
This is why I have previously spoken out about a number of Yuku forums, because they are filled with impotent, lazy, sorcerers-in-capes, talking as if they magical mysterious beings, when in fact all they are is naughty boys.
I realised that direction did not lead to the double. All it led to is a trap of fantasy.
2. You could focus on those 2nd and 3rd CC books and only hen peck the rest for further pragmatic tasks, and do it the hard way: by consistent, clever and difficult effort over a very long period of time. This is why I called my book,
Spiritual Development the Hard Way. Forgetting about all the fabulous visions, either in books or those you have personally, and devote yourself to practice: practice, practice, practice.
I took the second direction, because I was ultimately serious about my incredible opportunity of life. I knew nothing of worth came without very hard work.
What I discovered along the way, was that my realisations of the nature of time, earth, existence and infinity were completely different to what I would have adopted had I taken the first direction. That is why I don't like talking about all those superlative concepts.
Nemo, you have taken the first direction and your visions of how existence is set up is sheer fantasy. You sit in your hermit cave and believe yourself to be a fabulous magician. Try this: look up tomorrow's weather. If it says a fine, warm, sunny day, switch your 'frame' and make it a dark, cold, raining day - or visa versa. If you can do this consistently, to assure yourself you are not claiming skill on the basis of chance, then try the next task: choose a frame where you are not in your own country, but are standing in front of me in my country, as you initially wanted to do. If you succeed, I'll eat my hat.
These things are possible, but acceptance of their possibility is only one tiny piece of the process. Your 'view' has become a block to seeing reality and your double. I say this because I have taken the time to
see you through this thread. And because I have a responsibility to this forum remaining a tool of our journey to an active double.
I know perfectly well you will reject everything I have said here, and consider I have no knowledge, nor authority to claim such, of who you are and where you are. You will claim I am welcome to my view, and you to yours. You will pack your bags and leave believing you have been misunderstood by an ignorant and stupid man. You will prefer to cling to your view like a priest to his crucifix, rather than change your direction.
I feel you are talented Nemo, and your view is not wrong theoretically, on a most simplistic level. But it is the concoction of an intelligent brain, which has projected itself to the depths of a pure 3rd attention theory, without having done the work to back up that theory, and thus understanding the unbelievable complexity of reality. I quoted earlier from DJ's third enemy. But you haven't got that far yet, you are up against the second:
And thus he has encountered his second enemy: Clarity! That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. It gives him the assurance he can do anything he pleases, for he sees clearly into everything. And he is courageous because he is clear, and he stops at nothing because he is clear.
But all that is a mistake; it is like something incomplete. If the man yields to this make-believe power, he has succumbed to his second enemy and will be patient when he should rush. And he will fumble with learning until he winds up incapable of learning anything more. His second enemy has just stopped him cold from trying to become a man of knowledge.
Instead, the man may turn into a buoyant warrior, or a clown. Yet the clarity for which he has paid so dearly will never change to darkness and fear again. He will be clear as long as he lives, but he will no longer learn, or yearn for, anything.
This is my love to you: don't become a clown!
