Giving up hope we can enter into unconflicted behavior. Unconflicted behavior is when there are no conflicts between one modality within this and another.  No conflicts between mind, brain, heart and body. And that’s very close to what Bernadette Roberts refers to as the experience of no self.  Her claim is that the experience of no self is simply really a first step into a far greater domain, that without a sense of self to protect, identify with, defend and so on, then we’re in a purely fluid, even a pure potential and at that point we really should be, as a species we should take wings and fly.  This is what I would call the next evolutionary step.

As long as we’re holding on to hope we figure that we can outwit the system and get what we’re after secretly.  Hope is my ace up the sleeve and that defeats us. The idea that giving up hope opens us to a whole new realm. Giving up hope we can enter into unconflicted behavior. Unconflicted behavior is when there are no conflicts between one modality within this and another.  No conflicts between mind, brain, heart and body. And that’s very close to what Bernadette Roberts refers to as the experience of no self.  Her claim is that the experience of no self is simply really a first step into a far greater domain, that without a sense of self to protect, identify with, defend and so on, then we’re in a purely fluid, even a pure potential and at that point we really should be, as a species we should take wings and fly.  This is what I would call the next evolutionary step.

Becoming again as a child also puts us in that position that we identify with the child, helpless, and in fact we find that until one becomes helpless this force can’t flow in.  There again Bernadette Roberts speaking of bottoming out, until you truly bottom out, she’s using it as hitting bottom, nothingness. The state of radical despair, despair means without hope.  So as long as we’re holding on to hope we figure that we can outwit the system and get what we’re after secretly.  Hope is my ace up the sleeve and that defeats us. George Jaidar used to say, hope is our great enemy and he was right, although he couldn’t get rid of it. To my way of thinking and I can’t either. We are stuck in that. But the idea that giving up hope opens us to a whole new realm. Giving up hope we can enter into unconflicted behavior. Unconflicted behavior is when there are no conflicts between one modality within this and another.  No conflicts between mind, brain, heart, body because all those differentiations are based on the attempt to manipulate and control.  To give up hope is a form of, literally a form of suicide and that’s what we find expressed in the statements attributed to Jesus, is the giving up of all of that in order to enter into a state of fluid oneness with spirit.  What is spirit?  You don’t know until you’re moving into it.  To my way of thinking probably the closest we’ve come to that was in the Quaker Movement, the original Quaker Movement with George Fox.  They had discovered this.  You move into silence, you quit everything and you have the patience to wait.  What are you waiting for?  Well sooner or later you’ve dropped enough stuff that this process can start and function.

And that’s very close to what Bernadette Roberts refers to as the experience of no self.  Her claim is that the experience of no self is simply really a first step into a far greater domain, that without a sense of self to protect, identify with, defend and so on, then we’re in a purely fluid, even a pure potential and at that point we really should be, as a species we should take wings and fly.  This is what I would call the next evolutionary step.  When Steiner said our great genre would be allow the heart to teach us a new way to think through which the heart will discover its next stage of … and its next phase.  Now the idea that the whole universal process brings about a creation through which it discovers what it’s to do now, okay we can do this, what now?  Well that can only come from that created and we’re that.  So in opening up to this other realm and really allowing it something can happen that the realm can’t do on its own and that’s what is offensive to the religious people.  You’re saying God is limited, I’m not saying limited or anything else.  We’re talking about the fact that this creative process creates in order to explore its own dimension.  There’s no creator until there is that created that can interact on a reciprocal level with us.  To me that is not an irreligious statement but the really deepest profound religion there is, meaning relationship in that sense.  Religion has too many meanings.  A turning back into and a tying back is one of its meanings which is a disaster, but as a fluid state of relationship between creator and created brings some real fireworks.