Wonderful Kat! And my body/mind is compelled to say more…(somehow my body/mind has been prodded into action 🤣)
“What can end is just this innocent, mistaken identification with the bodymind, the belief that you are a separate, personal self.” Yes, but I can’t help but push back on a kind of “simple and ordinary” feel to this sentence. Why? Because if enough people truly saw this (I have no idea how many it would take - hundreds, millions, or billions), it would change the fundamental reality the world finds itself in right now. Crisis, environmental destruction, wars, etc. Just sayin’
“That’s the freedom available. Most of us don’t want it.” There are certainly many people aware of what you are saying and reject it, choose other systems of belief or understanding, etc. I have a degree of believing that the majority of people are not consciously rejecting it versus being unaware of its availability…no exposure per se.
And lastly, I’m sorry that even though I am retired my days and activities never seem to align with joining one of your online sessions!
It is my shorthand for acknowledging the presence of a unique body/mind but trying somehow not to identify as it. This is how body/mind keeps separateness going: “I’m yours” it says. “Who or what are you referring to when you say “yours”?”
Sometimes (periodically, like now) I see the trap. And all circles back to: “What they want is the spiritual improvement stuff, not nonduality.” Tangled up in blue.
What other people are going to see this in what future? Mind games! What ends is the person who thinks they are going to see it.
Most people don't want this freedom because it is the end of the person they believe they are. No me gusta. What they want is the spiritual improvement stuff, not nonduality.
My parents both became the busiest they've ever been in their life after retirement. ☺️
Access Theory resists several further collapses that this framework makes.
Particularly: collapsing all distinction into illusion, treating selfhood primarily as error, flattening meaningful orientation and reducing participation to undifferentiated spontaneity.
Because AT preserves: functional distinction, relationality, orientation,
discernment, embodiment, ethics,
and service, without granting sovereignty to the separate self.
This grounds the framework in lived reality rather than metaphysical abstraction or ideological closure.
As such, AT appears to span both dual and non-dual framings, while remaining reducible to neither.
The moment of seeing, is just simply: Oh! I was fooled by myself :)
Wonderful Kat! And my body/mind is compelled to say more…(somehow my body/mind has been prodded into action 🤣)
“What can end is just this innocent, mistaken identification with the bodymind, the belief that you are a separate, personal self.” Yes, but I can’t help but push back on a kind of “simple and ordinary” feel to this sentence. Why? Because if enough people truly saw this (I have no idea how many it would take - hundreds, millions, or billions), it would change the fundamental reality the world finds itself in right now. Crisis, environmental destruction, wars, etc. Just sayin’
“That’s the freedom available. Most of us don’t want it.” There are certainly many people aware of what you are saying and reject it, choose other systems of belief or understanding, etc. I have a degree of believing that the majority of people are not consciously rejecting it versus being unaware of its availability…no exposure per se.
And lastly, I’m sorry that even though I am retired my days and activities never seem to align with joining one of your online sessions!
Ha! Excellent pointing. 🤣
It is my shorthand for acknowledging the presence of a unique body/mind but trying somehow not to identify as it. This is how body/mind keeps separateness going: “I’m yours” it says. “Who or what are you referring to when you say “yours”?”
Sometimes (periodically, like now) I see the trap. And all circles back to: “What they want is the spiritual improvement stuff, not nonduality.” Tangled up in blue.
😁
“What they want is the spiritual improvement stuff, not nonduality.” Hits a little too close to home 😉
By the way, you keep saying my body/mind. What makes you think it belongs to you?
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What other people are going to see this in what future? Mind games! What ends is the person who thinks they are going to see it.
Most people don't want this freedom because it is the end of the person they believe they are. No me gusta. What they want is the spiritual improvement stuff, not nonduality.
My parents both became the busiest they've ever been in their life after retirement. ☺️
Access Theory resists several further collapses that this framework makes.
Particularly: collapsing all distinction into illusion, treating selfhood primarily as error, flattening meaningful orientation and reducing participation to undifferentiated spontaneity.
Because AT preserves: functional distinction, relationality, orientation,
discernment, embodiment, ethics,
and service, without granting sovereignty to the separate self.
This grounds the framework in lived reality rather than metaphysical abstraction or ideological closure.
As such, AT appears to span both dual and non-dual framings, while remaining reducible to neither.
Consciousness first. Awareness in service.