Awakening
- olivierbranford
- Feb 17
- 5 min read
Updated: Feb 20
Watch these two connected films about awakening. Who are you? Don't be conflicted. What is special about humans? Could there be something beyond the physical? This is a look towards how Eastern culture can inform us. Consciousness is the ultimate reality of the Universe. You are the light. You are space, time, and consciousness. We are one. The Nature of BEing is joy. Awaken from the delusion. How do you step beyond suffering? Who is it that is aware?
Know Thyself. Get higher. Awakening is stepping into the dream of your grandest notion. You already are what you are looking for. Nikola Tesla said that "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” The veil of the conditioned mind obscures the Truth of who we truly are. We are infinite awareness; infinite consciousness.
Rumi said “Wherever I look, there I see the face of God.” This is a reference to a concept found in the Quran (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:115), which essentially means that God's presence is everywhere, so no matter where you turn, you are essentially facing God's "presence" or "direction".
Settle in...
To enter the human experience is to enter a great forgetting. The veil of the conditioned mind obscures the Truth of who we truly are: Casting us into a world of separation, limitation, and doubt. So, who are you really?
So, what is the mind? Are you just a mind living in a physical body? Or are you something much deeper? Something eternal. Something that can hardly be explained in words. Truth is a feeling. Humans have used philosophy, psychology, scientific enquiry, as well as methods of direct investigation and perception over the millennia. The mind is duality: It is also known as Maya, illusion, or ego. In this film, we are going to find out the Truth of who we really are, as if awakening from a dream; or rather a nightmare. When the 'I' is unlimited, which is consciousness itself, then there is no longer identification with a separate 'I'. However, our sense of self is mixed with the context of experience. This makes for an illusory self, the ego. The ego is an idea, which forms in early childhood, a made-up entity, which tells us that we are a separate entity. It's a whole imagined construct of 'me'. This creates a split between witness and witnessed. We are fragments who have been broken away from the whole. You cannot conquer the mind using the mind. You cannot lift yourself up by pulling on your own bootstraps. This relates to 'The Dark Night of the Soul.' The ego is an existential abandonment. What is the nature of suffering and how can it end? Can there be a merging with life itself? There is no separation.
Are ready to be born anew? There is no ultimate satisfaction in worldly pursuits. Psychological pain is the beginning of the solution. It is telling us a lesson about the fundamental mistake that we are a separate being. It is the meaning of 'original sin'. The original meaning of the word 'sin' means to 'miss the mark'. Whatever we are experiencing, it is 'I' who is experiencing it.
Is duality collapsing for you? Are you experiencing life directly, not mediated by the mind? This is liberation; the end of suffering, which is the resistance to life. Are you feeling empty inside? Awakening is the beginning of healing of the separation. Are you ready for the journey from ego to Self?..
Namaste.
Olly
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