The Art of Easy Joy

Science often raises the question as to whether or not there is an afterlife or even such a thing as the soul or spirit.

The answer to this question is one that takes a bit of getting used to as it flies in the face of not only our minds but also of our experiential-consciousness. For the truth is a paradox… answering both yes and no, dependant upon your viewpoint, experience and mental belief structures.

In actual fact the truthful answer (and this applies to everything) is always NO.

Spirit could I suppose be considered to be that potentiality of beingness inherent in all living forms, that urge toward creative flow. While soul could be considered to be more the essence of Beingness. There is certainly nothing wrong in creating thought-forms as a bridge to better communication, expression and presentation; however we must create those (or any) ideas first.

In fact, there is no mind; there isn’t even a real ‘you’ for that matter for that which is the very essence of you is simply awareness! It is not and never has been the words we are so fond of and which can cause as much confusion as the order they supply.

Awareness is not a thing. IT ISN’T! It is the creator of things (all forms come from this not-a-thing) I refrain from saying we are nothing but that is the facts of the matter no matter how hard we may resist (emotionally)

The world begins and ends with Aware Presence which may also be termed Beingness.

This is most easily understood simply as ‘me’.

However, this ‘I’ has very little to do with who and what most people believe they are, this ‘I’ is the real you, the you before you mocked yourself up (as… the various dynamic forms life)

Awareness is Pure Beingness; an energy, space/time production unit.

Awareness is not a thing but rather the creator of all things.

Awareness is not Consciousness i.e. the knowing labels we apply to everything.

Awareness is a still relaxed perception of what is and what is happening, just as it is, whatever is being viewed or experienced. This is similar to looking at a picture without thoughts, ideas, expectations, judgements or opinions just as-is or as-it-is, which means without thoughts, definition, description or anything else, for awareness is the formless void, outside what is being viewed.

This (pure awareness) is the highest self or soul and spirit, being the energy of aware will or pure intention.

Awareness protects and defends you, which is the root meaning of the word from West Germanic gawar ~ watch, ward, guard.

Many schools of thought consider awareness to be without description of any kind and often distinguish between this state of presence and the active consciousness wherein the attention is generally absorbed in thinking and thought processes; but the term simply means alert, not asleep.

In fact, a fully awake awareness is the price of freedom, for to be vigilant is to be cognizant of what actually is, right here, right now.

As a note, the word awake derives from the Old English awacian, wake - watch. Thus it is the guardian and protector of Beingness, however most people have received little or no training in its discipline and so believe the mind to be consciousness to be awareness as if they were all one and the same. Thery are not.

And so most continue to believe awareness to be their ego ’self’ or the mind which has become not a guardian but a guard and jailer who severely restricts their limits and true abilities.

This true ‘I’ (you) is the creator of all thought, space, time, energy, impulses and forms… but remember with some humility that this it is simply you!

It is the ‘you’ who knows simply by being and does not require beliefs, thinking or experience in order to make decisions and act.

This is the essence of true spiritual Beingness with a capital ‘B’ in other words the soul and is the very essence and substance of all creation so is far more than merely human.

This potentiality is a unit singularity that is aware of being aware; is source of and has or contains all potentiality but no fixed and defined location.

There are a number of current scientific studies investigating what is now being called the Zero-Point Field and its attendant phenomena yet they have still to discover what it really is. They love the mystery and it helps sell their courses.

Many of these schools of thought also believe that this zero-point energy field has no mass or wavelength, however this is not actually true for awareness becomes its creations, and even at thought levels contains significant amounts of energy which when coalesced by believing, manifests itself as the details of the actual world we see around us and participate in. In fact, it always has a location and specific precisely defined presence, however it is often fuzzily defined and morphs and stretches as attention (presence) extends from the core or origin point of creation.

You ~ the individual are the source of your life, however it appears to be that at our current stage of development (or retardation?) - not up to being Source of all Life. It seems we are in the lands of multiple creator gods.

All human beings are a static entities and this can be a bit unsettling for some at first as it feels as if we are nothing but this is not a real nothingness, although not a thing in the true sense of the word.

You simply cannot consider or talk about awareness in the same terms as you do about its creations i.e. thought, space, time, energy, forms, objects and universes etc. which are all formed by a divine decision.

Please note that simply because most people are not cognizant of these facts, or have forgotten (completely or partially) the origins and roots, or may even possibly choose not to believe, does not change the facts of what is.

(There is a reason why this is not readily apparent to most of us which you will also discover by following the path of Easy Joy. Hint: Life, consciousness, civilization and most of our desires are rooted in denial and a renunciation of instincts)

Note that the word attend (which is related to attention) means to be here; to be present at, with; wait on; and even ~ follow as a result; go regularly, as in the verbal form of this word. It derives its roots from the same word as attention and means basically to stretch oneself (awareness).

So the terms awareness, being, attending and attention all share meaning with one another and can mean the exact same thing depending on context.

This is what is meant by spirit and soul. (and how confusions enter the mental picture)

A Beingness or Potentiality assumes (postulates being) a form and forgets what their true essence is.

The primary reason for this is to establish a games condition so as to experience different viewpoints.

However an addiction to form, sensation and desire leads to the situations where the Being has gone IN but can’t get OUT of (their own or others) creations and in fact often do not even believe their circumstances to have much to do with creating at all.

This degrades into the multitudinous mental conditions we are faced with today.

Relief and freedom are at hand.