It is Oneness that does everything!

If a criminal kills someone, how would we explain our action in putting him/her in jail, or executing him/her, while we believe it is done by oneness?

In order to understand these seemingly complex questions we have to reach some heart-felt knowing of Oneness. Oneness is too vast for the individual mind to comprehend, however we'll get a glimpse when we start looking deeper into the unreality of time and space.
We have a linear brain in order to survive and so we see things from the perspective of change, motion, events and thus time. Time is relative to motion as Einstein has proven through his theory of relativity. This means that although we experience linear time yet in Reality there is only holographic essence. Oneness also means that everything is One and absolutely nothing is separate or could ever be. In this Oneness we are all perfect and live in our True Home (unconditional love, peace, joy, etc). This raises another question -- are there two realities then, linear and holographic? The best explanation is given in 'A Course in Miracles' when it says that our life script has already been written. This means that everything that seems to happen has already happened. The life script that contains murder, suffering, pain, limitation etc is the illusive and delusive linear time. Einstein said that past, present and future occur simultaneously and that, in itself, boggles our linear individual mind. Again, this is something that is recognized when spiritual awakening happens where nothing is born and nothing dies because there never was anything but Oneness (our true Home).
It seems that we all have two life scripts already done -- ego script containing karmic consequences of acts and thoughts done in the past and are repeated due to unresolved issues like unconscious guilt, fear of the unknown, etc. We also have a Holographic script where we are living in unconditional love and eternal peace and joy. When we start to forgive (see clearly the illusion of) then our ego script begins to shift into our holographic true essence where nothing has actually happened but only seemed to happen.
Another way of looking at this is two-fold - either through our egoic interpretation or Oneness interpretation. If something drastic seems to happen to us then we can forgive it by seeing that worry, complaining, hatred, anger, revenge will not only NOT WORK but exacerbate the situation because our interpretation says, "This is awful and I must control it!" If, on the other hand, we see that what happens to us is due to unresolved feelings of what we might have done to others or to ourselves through our belief system, then we can forgive it (give it forth to Oneness) and thus avoid the karmic consequences of such action. When we forgive (give forth to Oneness) then whatever was written in our life-script as 'painful' will be transcended through the collapse of time and space in our favor. I know that this is hard to believe but this is fact and I know it beyond any doubt. This is why waking up to our true nature can be so freeing because we will see that we are guiltless, free, innocent and whole. The only rule and law in life is LOVE and anything that you do with love, whether it is sex, affection, giving, dancing, celebrating or enjoying is the freedom of our true nature. While the ego script is filled with rules, man-made laws, conditions and fears; our True Oneness Holographic script is freedom, innocence, guiltlessness and unconditional love. In this holographic sense there is no 'wrong' in anything because it is all acted through Oneness known as love. When in our daily life we hang or kill a murderer by law we are still perpetuating the same karmic principles that will remain unresolved in our psyche to be re-experienced in our life and to learn forgiveness. The reason there are criminals, murderers, corrupt politicians, selfish lawyers and vengeful police is because they are carrying out unresolved unconscious guilt. This cycle will keep repeaing lifetime after lifetime until we learn that we are Oneness and thus spiritual perfect unconditional love. We may experience many thousands of lives until we discover there were no lives but Oneness doing everything and bringing us Home.

Understanding subject & object

"Can you please clarify the dynamics of subject and object and how they are one?"

Thank you for that question because it is through the understanding of subject/object and their oneness that we awaken to what truly IS! The best and simplest way to grasp their significance is to look at yourself in the mirror. When you look in the mirror all you see is an object. You see your body, you also 'see' the self-image that you created in your mind without realizing it and you embody all the objects of mind such as thoughts, beliefs, opinions, conclusions, past conditioning and the whole personality structure including your name. This is all objective because it is based on an image of mind. It is the mind that creates these images and becomes 'solid' to us. In other words, we make them REAL (but are they?)
Then we look deeper and ask, "What made these things possible? What makes it possible for me to look at myself and say 'this is me?' "Who is this me?"
Through these questions we hit upon the subjective. Now this is where we falter, shake and quibble because the subjective is NOT an image. The subjective cannot be described and cannot be defined. If we did define the subjective then it becomes objective. Do you see the point?
Therefore the subjective has to be given a name here for the sake of grasping, somewhat, this extremely intricate subject. So we call it 'pure awareness.' Pure awareness means that the fact that you are aware of being aware is the subjective factor. This awareness is what makes you know that you exist. And the fact that you know you think is the awareness of the thought. Yet this awareness is NOT a thought, not a concept and definitely not an image. It is all comprehensive, whole, without a border or limit. It defies explanation and has no beginning or end, and yet, we know it is real (and the only real thing) because it is through it that we exist as human beings.
The moment you realize that your true nature is awareness and there is no 'me' but only seems so because of awareness, then we hit a bombshell that might shake our foundation of the 'me' (ego) belief. If this shakes you up enough to see the incredible wonder and mystery of this vast intelligence known as pure awareness, then we have reached a realization of who we truly are. It is this realization that we are pure awareness and not separate individuals that liberates us and awakens a peace and love that is beyond description. You are NOT who you thought you were. You are this eternal awareness that was never born and shall never die.
It is here, in living this truth that we see their Oneness -- subject and object are one. The human object appears real because of the subject Being. Now human Being integrate and reach balance, harmony and clarity known as spiritual awakening.

Do all the stresses, anxieties and fears emerge from unconscious guilt?

Do all the stresses, anxieties and fears emerge from unconscious guilt?

All known human emotional suffering emerges from unconscious guilt. Please refer to my other blog also under the heading "The Ways we seek."

Unconscious guilt is the belief in wrong. It is the strongest and most destructive belief in the human being. Some religions call it 'original sin' or the 'fall of man.' The most important thing to know about it is this -- it is a belief and NOT Reality.

This belief is primordial, it stems from the identification with the body as who we are and thus the feeling of separation. This feeling of separation is also the feeling that we are separate from Oneness.
Oneness is the one Truth and in glimpsing our natural state of Oneness we get transformed. Transformation means that we 'drop' the guilt and awaken love and peace.

This 'unconscious guilt' is also known as ego. It is this belief that has brought greed, fear, hatred and the need for revenge. All wars are the result of this greed for power and control propelled by guilt.

You are a human Being. The Being is innocent, open, loving, peaceful and ever at peace with itself. The Being intuitively knows of its natural Oneness with all Life. When we forget about Being by emphasizing the human then we start feeling a lack as if we are missing something. This belief in lack brings the feeling as if we are not-good-enough as we are and so long to improve and become better. However, things never become better because the nagging feeling of lack remains constant until awakening happens.

Awakening does not happen from reading about spirituality such subjects as kundalini, chakras, reincarnation, karma and so forth. Spirituality means Spirit. In fact, in spiritual awakening there is nothing to know but 'to be.' It is all about Being the Truth we already are. Being is allowing, trusting, open and sees what is obvious. This 'seeing' also awakens innocence.

The question arises, "What is the fastest way towards this awakening?"
It is through quantum forgiveness. Forgiveness is fore-giveness (giving forth). It is NOT a 'doing' but a 'seeing' into the obvious. The paradox is this -- true forgiveness is seeing that there's nothing to forgive for the truth is Oneness and no one is really guilty.
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What do you mean that the body, world, thoughts and emotions are not real?

The real is like the projector of the cinema on the screen. The screen shows the stories and images of life. These stories and images come out of the projector. The projector is the cause. The screen is the effect. Therefore, the projector is the Cause of everything that is seen on the screen.
Similarly, consciousness projects the body, world, thoughts and emotions. When the body, world, thoughts and emotions are described as an illusion it simply means they are an effect of a greater Cause. The Cause is real and unchangeable while the effects of it are relative and changeable. We experience them but they are not as we interpret them. The body that we have now has been recycled a few times in this lifetime. The world is the interpretation of our senses and the thoughts and emotions are conditioned responses to time. Therefore, beyond our stories of who we think we are and what we have done lies the truth of our Being. The Being is the Cause and our body is the effect. What is real does not change and is therefore our true essence. Once we discover what is real and unchanging then we have found peace, love, joy, harmony, truth, beauty, glory and that which is eternal and timeless. It is this awakening to the changeless Truth that makes us see clearly the illusion of the body, world, thoughts and emotions. This awakening happens through seeing what is abiding in us beyond time and change. We start by LISTENING to our deeper silence and thus find what is unchanging in us. It is through this that we find meaning and fulfillment.

Transforming Power of Forgiveness

From the emails I get there seem to be two problems about forgiveness.
First is the fear of forgiveness because of the ego’s need to retaliate or validate one’s suffering.
Second is the mind’s inability to understand how to forgive or what is implied by it.

Before we get into the secret of forgiveness let’s see some of the transforming power of it. Forgiveness actually collapses time in our favor so that any karmic consequence due us such as an ‘accident’ or painful experience is bypassed.

Our lifetime script is already determined with its ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ plus ‘accidents.’ This script is not set in stone unless the human ignores forgiving then what was determined happens in direct schedule.
To understand this karmic life there has to be the mental grasp of what is called ‘Unconscious Guilt.’ This unconscious guilt is a discomfort most people live with believing it is the way life is. They go about life feeling this inner discomfort and try to find either a reason for it or try to get rid of it. Nothing works because guilt is not something you can put your finger on. It is like having a pebble in your shoe and any attempt to remove it fails since you can’t find the pebble. So, you learn to live with it.

What is this unconscious guilt?

It is unconscious because it is deeply set within the psyche. It is known as ‘guilt’ because it carries with it feelings of separation and the need to be important, to be special or to stand out and be noticed. Within its needs lies a feeling of ‘not being good enough’ combined with the subtle feeling that you are missing something or lacking something. At times it even feels as if you are ‘bad.’ These feelings everyone has regardless of station in life and it is unconscious so that it nags you without knowing what it is.

What creates this unconscious guilt? The reason is simple enough. From the time we are 3 years old we start feeling and believing that we are our name and body and thus, unconsciously, create the feeling we are separate. We have totally forgotten that we are One Being or Oneness itself. And, it is this very estrangement from this fact that allows the unconscious guilt to make its way into our life. This guilt-feeling carries with it self-consciousness, ego pretension, and the need for love ( power or approval.), the need to be heard, seen, noticed and recognized. This need for egoic recognition comprises the emotional and psychological suffering of humanity.

What is ego?
It is the belief that you are a body and therefore separate from others. Most people live a whole lifetime believing they are this ego and never even question it. Such people can never find true peace and inner security and contentment.

Forgiveness helps us in two ways. two-fold. First it keeps the guilty feeling out of the picture, and while doing so, moves us closer to our true nature. Every forgiveness of discomfort enhances our oneness knowing.
Forgiveness cuts through unconscious guilt and its projection of karma like a laser beam. It penetrates through all of your past lives and even future lives, through the different dimensions of time.

How do we forgive?

First of all, you cannot forgive unless you know that you are NOT an ego. Ego wants to hang on to pain and hates to forgive. In fact, ego will want to retaliate, seek revenge and get even in any way it can. Thus it creates karma of a serious nature in one’s life. Ego belief is also written within your life-script. Thus the script contains the tragedies, mishaps, accidents and awful experiences that stem from the belief in ego.

So, one primary ingredient for forgiveness is knowing who you are. It is not difficult if you pay close attention to the following question.
Ask yourself right now, “Do you know yourself?” and then pause for a moment before answering. This pause will give you an opening to LISTEN through your Heart.

Good – now that you have asked it and paused for a moment, what was your answer? Don’t read further until you have answered it.
The Heart replies:
“You are the knower of your body, senses and mind. You know that you have a body and mind. However, this knower can never be known, because you are it and there is nobody to know it. It can
never become an object of observation because it is totality, wholeness, Oneness itself.”

This is who you are – the knower! You are NOT the body, senses,r mind nor thoughts and emotions. In fact, these emotions, thoughts (mind) and body appear only because there is ‘YOU.’ You are NOT an ego but the knower.

Pause and feel what you have just read because only through this process can you grasp the power and ease of forgiveness. And, forgiveness will take you all the way Home. Every time you forgive your guilt, you move one step closer to your true Home of Oneness. Oneness is like peeling an onion. You might not notice the depth of the peeling because it looks like the same onion; however within every peel you’ll be moving closer to the center called Home with each peeling (forgiveness).

Understanding Cause and Effect

How do I forgive? You learn how forgiveness works as you recognize that you are not an Effect of a major Cause (Oneness); You are the Cause itself. It is you, the Cause, that predetermined your life’s script. It is You who created the life you live. You cannot be an Effect because then you’d be like a victim. Since most people feel that they are effects of the Source (Cause) then they play victims in life and bemoan their lot. Through forgiveness, seeing expands and reveals (ever deepening) that you can override the pre-determined script by forgiving (what you normally would not have forgiven) and thus transcend the karmic consequences that might have been due you. In other words, forgiveness collapses time as we know linear time. Time doesn’t exist except in our linear thinking. All physicists agree that past, present and future happen simultaneously because we live in a holographic universe. It is from this understanding that forgiveness becomes a natural process.
If someone maligns us or takes advantage of our position we see that we created that so-called individual in our life script. By forgiving him or her we rise above the consequences of such unforgiveness and thus retain our peace and make the path free from obstruction.
Therefore seeing that this ‘other’ created a ‘problem’ for you, you in turn see no problem only something you created in your life script leading you toward forgiveness. In other words, we learn by forgiving both ‘others’ and ourselves in seeing that there’s nothing to forgive.

How did the self-enquiry happen to you Burt?

I have the astral experience regular or at least what people label astral but its not a spiritual or egoless experience because I am still there just the same, able to see my astral body which looks like the stereotypical ghost. Ive noticed alot of people have reported this happening to them, the simplest description is the body falls asleep but the mind is still awake, is this a symptom of self enquiry? did it ever happen to you burt when you were self enquiring?


Self-enquiry was a slow process with me. Initially I would inquire but nothing would happen or so I thought. I persisted with the question “Who am I?” for a long time. My persistence emerged from the knowing that I AM more than the body. My insistence to experience something often resulted in my falling asleep in the midst of this ‘feeling it’ experience. Even though nothing happened for a few years I didn’t give it up but changed it with the question, “What am I?” It wasn’t until the year 2000 (many years later) that I woke up to the realization that there was no answer to the question “Who am I?” for after all, who is going to answer it? Where would an answer come from? It occurred to me, after all that time, that it was the very Silence and non-local being that was the answer. Who I was, was timeless. A moment of crystal-clarity occurred where I saw myself as a human being – a Being playing the role of Burt. It was so clear, so empathic and unmistakable that I wondered how I could have missed something so obvious. I didn’t learn anything but at the same time ‘I knew’ everything there was to know about the human and the Being and the interplay of duality in life’s journey. It was SEEING the whole play where everything that happened had never happened except in mind and time was not linear but holographic. I understood clearly Einstein’s statement, “All that occurs happens simultaneously” and there is no time and space as we come to know it. It is all seeing clearly that it is all NOW.

You emphasize the importance of forgiveness, but isn't that duality?

"You emphasize the power of forgiveness, but who are we asking forgiveness from?"

When we recognize our true nature as Oneness then we see that there is only BEING. This Being is all there is. Ultimately there is no you or me but Oneness appearing as you and me. If you have understood that far then the rest is easy and simple to comprehend.
Our 'job' on earth is to go Home to our Oneness (which in truth we never left). However, since we believe we are separate human beings because we miss recognizing Spirit as Allness, then whenever we transgress through ego identification (separation) then we ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness means 'fore-giveness' or giving forth into Spirit. When we get 'caught in selfishness, fear, loneliness, anxiety or even doubt, or any self-absorption (any form of unhappiness), then we 'forgive-it' into its Emptiness (Spirit, Oneness, Love). In fact, through this incessant forgiving of our egoic thinking, we keep emptying ourselves until there is no one and nothing left to forgive and we have 'attained' our true Home.
Picture the following -- there is the one ocean and you appear as a wave on its surface. Being a wave you forget you are the ocean and so start fearing that you will drown into the vast ocean and disappear. This fear exists only out of ignorance because you have forgotten that you are the same water as the ocean, in fact, the ocean itself. This forgetting brings fear, isolation, loneliness, deprivation, separation and all known suffering. So what can you do? You can start by allowing yourself to see that there is only the One Ocean. Whenever fear arises then you forgive it by fore-giving it into the ocean itself leaving yourself empty of it. This emptying or 'fore-giving' will eventually make you recognize that all you are is simply awareness (empty of form). In this realization alone can you recognize you have always been pure awareness (the vast ocean). Eventually, when the ego has died because there is no longer any feeling of separation (fear) then forgiveness is redundant. You didn't ask for forgiveness from anyone, you simply forgave the ego that thought it was something real and separate.