Awakening ( Beyond Nowhere )
by Joe Wilkinson
Awakening ( Beyond Nowhere ) by Joe Wilkinson
Copyright Š 2009 by Joseph C. Wilkinson
All rights reserved.
Author’s Note Don’t believe anything I say.
Only if the message contained here resonates with you will you choose to investigate the suggestions it contains. This message contains nothing but an opportunity. You will have to create the value it offers you.
Only you can determine if now is your time to free yourself. I will offer resources for further research, including potential access to myself. I hope to find you on the path of joy, truth, and Love. I’m going to remind you of something you may be pretending to forget. You are in your own dream. Is now your time to wake up within it? If not, put this book down. Now is not your time.
You’re still here. How curious.
Still turning pages. Interested?
Dreams are living thoughts. Dreamers live these thoughts, while they think them. You are a dreamer.
You are not the only dreamer in this dream. This is a collective dream. All those in this dream who know they are dreaming are actually awake in it. They are the awakened. You will meet them occasionally. You can recognize other dreamers, because they are usually expressing what they want, not what they do not, and they rarely complain.
Dreams are influenced by the power of imagination. You don’t become anything. You are what you are. You, as the dreamer, don’t change. The dream, including your body, changes around you. You are dreaming your body into existence. Others see you as you imagine yourself.
Think of imagination as thought-images-in-action. You imagine an experience from the inside out. First, you think it, or feel it, then you produce a little mind movie out of it, and if it continues to feel right you keep
thinking about it. If you think about something long enough, focusing on it arriving in your experience, you will find yourself surrounded by those images acting out your experience.
You have never been anywhere without yourself. The only thing you can really say is that the surroundings of your dream have changed. You have never really gone anywhere. You have merely imagined you were traveling, when, in fact, your surround has changed
around you based upon the amount of energy you have focused upon experiencing those surroundings.
This may not be what you have been led to believe, and you may feel like arguing the point. However, to enter this dream you must forget who you are, as the dreamer, and agree to find this truth on your own. Of course, you will notice that the answer is now arriving for you, but not before you asked.
You have been feeling like something is not quite right. You have been overwhelmed by the need to find a deeper truth, a hidden meaning, in this world. There is none. There is nothing hidden in this world. It is a dream. The deeper truth is hidden within you. Within you is where the world arises from.
Your thoughts, since early in life, have been focused on finding out the truth of this world, and there is no truth in it. The truth is in you. Your
questions have been about the world and what’s happening in it. You ask questions about what everyone else is doing, and how things work, but you have not looked within. Those whom you’ve asked about the truth of who you are have not been qualified to answer the question, because only you can answer it.
Who you are is a question of the utmost importance, having the power to change everything, and you hold the key to unlock the answer to who you are.
If you are reading this, you have already asked to know. This message is coming to you as one of the signposts leading you to your truth.
Your truth will prove itself to you when you are ready for it. Is now your time? Will you begin dreaming your dream life into experiential existence?
Here we go...
What is your dream-world made of? What are your thoughts and imaginations made of? What is the energy of imagination?
In this “slow� dream there are many sleepwalkers attempting to prove what the dream is made of. I suggest you investigate those who have looked at the tiniest of things and asked what’s inside. Biologists will tell you the names of plants and animals, while the geologist tells you the names of rocks and formations,
but they may not suggest you study the basis of the existence of those things. What makes a plant a plant, an animal an animal, or a rock a rock? What’s inside? Break them open and find the pieces, what are the pieces made of, and what are the pieces of those pieces made of?
At the origin of all material things we find the same thing; energy, acting out thoughts. You don’t have to take my word for it. The science is called Quantum Physics. The first rule of quantum physics is that
nothing observed is unaffected by the observer. In other words, the thought of a thing precedes the thing thought of. The whole dream is flashing in and out of existence at the speed of Light. You are that Light, dreaming with itself. You need only be Love to have it show up in your experience.
If you are imagining yourself to be Love and Joy and Truth, the dream will show up as those things being
your surroundings. The dream will shape itself into your imaginings if you will keep dreaming them.
There are subtleties, however. All dreams happen in their own time. The dreamer excels in patience, knowing they are the Light which projects thoughts into “the surround;� the dream. Occasionally, you will have a really big idea, a great thought image, and you will invest in imagining it into existence, but in the slow dream it may take time to shape itself for your arrival in it. There are
subtle and not so subtle feelings that will speak to you about whether you should keep imagining an idea, or if it’s time to let the dream take over and do its work. Usually, when you have done your work, you will feel comfortable leaving the idea alone. Do so. Move on to a new creative imagining.
If you have what you need, imagine for others. Create a better surround for YOU on larger and larger
scales. Make a better community, city, county, state, country, world, galaxy and universe.
You are a dreamer. This is your dream. If others aren’t willing to dream a better world into experience, maybe you are here to be the dreamer for them. If the ideas of those around you don’t inspire you to dream for them, do so anyway. Simply dream that their experience shows them their truth in an easy effortless, even joyful, way.
Dreaming is an art. It requires strength, flexibility, and balance. These are the three tenets of yoga, which is the art of unifying action and stillness. To affect the dream, find its stillness. Stillness is found within, in the space between thoughts. Quiet your mind. Allow things to do what they will. Observe your thoughts. Is your mind active? Watch your thoughts until you notice how quickly they bounce from one to another. Watch the activity of your mind. See how you are not your mind. Your mind is a tool, your tool. Find the “off� switch.
Until you turn your mind off from its constant need to “talk” about the dream, you will not be able to put new images into it. If the mind doesn’t know what to tell the dream to become, it will continue to talk about what the dream isn’t being. The dream only knows how to say, “yes” to the images given it. What thought-images-inaction are you giving the tool of mind to work on?
Imagine you are the dreamer of your dream world, and dream anew, now. Now may be your time.
Encountering
this message may be your next step
in remembering, recognizing, and realizing your truth. If you take this opportunity to inquire, critically, into the essence of who you are, and allow the essence to become your living reality, you may find yourself authentically creating evolutionary change in your human experience.
This message is not the truth. The only truth is your truth. The truth you are is operating for you. If
someone else denies your truth, they do not make it false for you, they only make it unavailable to themselves. Be true to yourself.
What can you truly know about who you are? All indications suggest the only thing you cannot deny is that you are. “I am� is the only true statement you can make about your experience. Interestingly, this may be the shortest complete statement in the English language.
Anyway, if the only thing you can prove about your experience is that you are having it, what can you make of it? What are you here to be, become, do, share, and experience?
Ego vs. ENERGY ! Ego, as intended in this message, is the voice of your human personality or identity. Ego is the voice defending the idea that you are merely an individual human
form on a material planet, which is traveling through space called the universe. Ego is the voice denying a larger truth.
The entire universe is made up of energy. Energy is what thought is made of, and arises from. Thoughts become things; atoms, molecules, organ systems, individual bodies, collective species, nations, planets, galaxies, and the entire universe. Which one are you?
Where are you in this hierarchy? Where aren’t you? Where do you begin, and where do you end?
Ego would have you believe you are an individual body, separate from a larger more dynamic whole. Ego says you can become a self-actualized human, but this will merely be the ego’s idea of its self, as human, aggrandized. You are capable of choosing and knowing a larger truth. You may choose to become actualized as
the entire energy system, and allow it to work with you, for you, indeed, as you.
So, where in the energy system do you choose to be? You are free to perform whichever belief you choose. Within this message is the suggestion that what you believe you are, literally, is what makes it true, experientially, but You are who you are, the perceiving of...
The voice of ego will say you are incapable of being anything larger than the human form (the skin encapsulated bio-body suit), which appears to contain you. Does this voice serve your highest truth?
What if you are the whole energy system, choosing to experience itself as an individual human form within the realm called planet Earth, and you remembered your truth? What if, while being in human form,
experiencing an earthly drama, you recognized your interconnection to the whole universal energy system?
The remembering of yourself as the entire universal energy system will change everything for you. You have the ability to create the experience appearing to surround you, but the experience is only a reflection of your energetic expression.
Think about this. If you remember you are an energy system, from which thought arises, and your thoughts become things, what have you created? What have you been thinking about? The thoughts you have used to create your experience are what have placed you exactly where you are in this moment. In fact, you are in the moment, this moment, you created with your previous thoughts. It might even be said, “You are the moment of your previous thoughts.�
If you think, when you think, you are using the creative power of thought. So, if you think, “This isn’t true. Life doesn’t work like that.” You create the experience that life doesn’t work like that (for you).
You have the choice to begin creating your future experience, with your thoughts, right now. All that is necessary is to recognize you’ve been doing it all along. You are exactly where you are at this very moment due to what you’ve chosen to believe about you. Your choice
about whom and what you are directly influences what you think. You think thoughts, or you witness them. Energized thoughts become things. Believe it, or not.
What if you knew yourself as this, “I am the energy system, from which thoughts arise. Thoughts become the things I experience. I am a thought creation machine: ‘I am’.” What if? The choice is yours, energy, or ego?
HANDS OFF THE WHEEL
“This world is an illusion.” said The Voice.
The Voice came from within. It would rise up from out of nowhere, in a tone unmistakable from the seemingly incessant stream of unconscious thought, and cause me to question everything.
If this world is an illusion, what is real? I asked this question of a Voice I was listening to, from nowhere. What could be real enough about a voice inside my head that would make it more real than the world I sensed around me?
“This world is an illusion.”
“What does that mean?”
Over time I began to notice signs showing up in the world, illusion or not. The more signs I noticed, the deeper my questioning would become. The deeper my questioning the more poignant the signs became.
Messages in books, lyrics in music, and scenes in films seemed to arrive, also out of nowhere, in answer to my inquiries. I began to recognize this process had been evolving, without my conscious awareness, throughout my human experience.
I can’t be sure which arose first, the Voice, or my questioning of it. Regardless, the issue became finding the meaning of its message, “This world is an illusion.”
And then it occurred to me, “If this world is an illusion, what am I? Not, who am I, but what?”
The answer arrived. It took nearly a decade, and it arrived as a journey, not a destination.
Nothing changed, and everything changed. My perspective and perception changed, while the world remains.
From this perspective I perceive the illusory nature of the world, which I previously experienced as fixed in form. The interesting thing is how I was, then, unable to perceive this perspective, and how, now, I am unable to re-contain myself in the limitation of previous beliefs.
Paradigm shifts occur only in an open mind.
Beyond Paradigm:
I would like you to consider who you are when you are no longer the “controller” of your body. Who are you when your body dies?
This, then begs the question, “Who are you now, while you are ‘in’ it?”
Consider what it is that you are really experiencing. You wake up in a body, with a set of memories, which you cling to as your identity, and you play out the “role of the day.�
Some days are mundane, while some days are aweinspiring. What determines the difference? Is it anything other than judgment?
Consider your thoughts about God. Not the “figure in the clouds,� but the Divine Infinite Intelligence, which is permeating all things. Does this intelligence seem incapable of anything?
Consider that you may already be in an organic virtual reality machine, with infinite bandwidth, and limitless software and data storage capacities. The game you enter into each day also includes all the other players you see. Though, it seems, very few of you
remember it’s an operating virtual reality: the game of Life. Further, not only did you write the programming, you can reprogram as you play.
Remember, AWAKEN. Knowledge of your true self is dropped in order to enter the human paradigm.
When did you last take the time to recognize the unfathomable depth of intelligence that must be
operating for the experience of even the most mundane of boring gloomy miserable days to occur?
STOP. Review the previous question until you can honestly answer it, to yourself.
Right now, sit quietly, allow your breathing to slow, observe your thoughts and let them be as they will, and look out into your experience. Without creating any judgment about what the experience is, take a long
observational look at the experience itself. Recognize the incredible magnitude of what you are seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, and emotionally feeling about this experience. Look at how amazing every single instant actually is. Develop an understanding of how impossible it all is, and maybe then you will realize the possibility.
Do you notice how easily you become distracted from recognizing this brilliance we call every day experience?
Consider that you can now Awaken within, and as the dream, while you are in it. You are becoming one of the “awakened,” reminded it’s a magnificent game. Knowing that it’s a dream is the leap. The surrendering(s) to the reality of this are the steps.
Consider that your ego, in its constant struggle to take you out of the NOW, will tempt you to forget that it is a game. You must first become conscious of this, and watch, literally, how your ego works to distract you
into the past, the future, or any ongoing drama. You must see that your own egotistic illusion of life is merely that: egoic illusion.
Consider that when disengaged from the drama of the illusion, and your ego, you have the power to rewrite the operating software, which creates your experience. Consider how your impressions of the data in your database limit your potential experiences. See how your judgments about the past limit you. Your ability to
clear away your old programming is necessary for new paradigms to open up, and be evolved beyond.
Remember: The only constant is change. Only the unchanging is real.
Now
The past is the known. The future is the unknown. The present is the knowing. The Now. The present is the Now. The pre-sent.
The gift is the present. The present is the gift. The ever-changing present Moment of Now. We’ve won When we own Our Now.
You can come to realize that nothing stays the same in the illusion, and this will allow you to recognize this: that which is changing is identifying What You Are Not.
To recognize the illusion you must see your mind for what it is. Sit back and see: Do you see how you can watch not only the illusion, but your thoughts as well? Who is this Watcher?
You are the observer of your Illusion. Everything you are witnessing, as the observer, is happening from the core of your being, and then exists both inwardly, and outwardly to infinity. ! Now, notice, are you in the game, or are you the audience? Are you writing, directing, and producing your play? Or, are you simply an actor in the dramas of others?
Realize the connection between the observer and the observed. When you begin to see this truth, you will prioritize conscious thought, honest communication, and possibility.
You are, and thought is creative (or a you allow yourself to be a thought reaction, a robot, a sleepwalker).
Learn for yourself. In the creative stillness, found between thoughts of past and future, express your intentions, and allow the mechanism of creation to bring to you the desired experience.
Then, Feel the force. Don’t force the feel.
Starting Close:
Your body acts as your vehicle within the illusion. Make the decision to have a healthy vehicle. Find a way to enjoyably exercise your body. By using it, you energize it.
If you do not view your body-self as healthy, you act accordingly, and de-energize it; it becomes stagnant and begins gathering baggage. See yourself as the energized being you are, and start being, from the inside out, now.
Remember: You are not merely your human form.
By defining your self as your body, you limit the creative power of your universe. Consider the impact of creating from the perspective of Spirit, which permeates the entire universe, including your body.
You are experiencing the act of being human. This may cause you to forget you are also the creator of the illusion you experience. You are the creator of the action and the entire drama.
Hearing Your Voice:
Notice where your thoughts come from. What’s the difference between a thought inside you and a thought outside?
Regardless, what is in question here is whether you are capable of witnessing your thoughts, acknowledging them, and then consciously creating with them, rather than unconsciously reacting to them.
What is your idea of death? What will be the death of you?
As you ask yourself these questions, truly seek the answers. What would happen if your body ceased functioning at this moment, before you finish reading the next sentence? ! Where would you be then? What happens to the observer of this illusion when the illusory forms it witnesses fall away?
Ask, “Who Am I when my body dies?” Ask your self, and listen to the answer. You will no longer be your name, or your job title, nor any of your things or accomplishments. Who will you be?
If you hear answers like, “You’ll be dead, so don’t bother thinking about this nonsense,” this is the voice of the ego. The ego is your made up identity of yourself as your body. It makes you believe the illusion is real.
The ego dies with the illusion, yet you do not. So, who are you?
Ask, “Who Am I beyond this body? What more am I? What am I really? What is really happening?�
There is an awakening happening. It is leading to the recognition that this human-ness is not life, but an illusion, a temporary manifestation of an illusion of life.
What does this have to do with you, now?
What is the grandest potential for your experience? As it has always been: Freedom, through True Being!
Your illusion is in constant change, and an argument can be made that you have no control over it, yet it could also be argued that beneath the uncontrollable, is your true self “at the wheel.�
Have you recognized your potentiality yet? Who, in the illusion you observe, is attempting to tell you who you are? Are there those in the illusion who would choose to limit you from your true potential? To whom do you listen? Is there a Voice of Truth, which can be trusted, and if so, where do you find it?
Your illusory experience of being only the physical human is being played out on an interactive stage. This stage is a reflection of your inner being. Your thoughts,
emotions, and desires are all manifesting themselves upon this stage for you to play them out. The interactive capability of the “stage� can be overwhelming. It sometimes overwhelms your ability to recognize it is your illusion. It has the capacity to draw you into it, making you think that it is real. It is this type of thinking that can trap you in the illusion. When you think the illusion is real you allow it to dictate the scene. It is during these unconscious moments that you are
distracted from your self, from your Beingness, and this throws you off track. You have become distracted.
This distraction can show itself in many forms, such as the words and actions of others within your play, which includes the responses of your family and friends, for whom you may have a great deal of respect. Your modern media, which may not even have your best interest in mind, is also a very deceptive distraction. The most deceptive distracter, however, is your egoic mind,
which is constantly creating judgments about the stage, the play, the players, and your place in it. The ego is incapable of recognizing reality. Its only existence is in the illusion. It’s only focus, then, is on the illusion. And, it seeks to keep you caught up in the illusion as well.
Your ego, working from what you have allowed it to become as your identity, creates judgments about possibility. It limits you from recognizing your creative
role in the illusion. The ego knows that the less creative you know yourself to be, the more reactionary you will be. This will make you powerless to notice ego distracting you from your true self.
However, if you reside in the knowledge that everything illusory is in constant change, you have opened the door for self-actualization. Engage in locating the unchanging aspects of you, and see them emerge.
Finding the Unchanging Observer of Experience:
Atom-smashing particle accelerators are showing us, at the base of all things, there is simply energy, a perfect chaos of energy, being played with by consciousness.
This suggests every-thing, including the space between, is “aware,� and all awareness in the illusion is actually different aspects of your higher self, playing
out individuated roles to complete your illusion. Every other being is you, in different aspect. Their seeming separation is an illusion, the awareness is not. The other aspects of you are truly unified, and thus, actively cocreating this illusion, whether or not they are aware of it. This is the collective consciousness.
So, pay attention. You may be living in the past, or the future, in the mind, not in the Now.
Simply and fully observe the Eternal Moment of Now.
Thoughts about the illusion will arise. Which thoughts are of the ego, and which are from Spirit?
Thoughts making judgments about the illusion, particularly about others within it, are egotistic. Thoughts recognizing opportunity to create joy are from
Spirit. Once you can see this difference, you have found your creative self. Create joy!
Often, thoughts unrelated to your observation of the present moment are arising. Your egoic mind is leading you away from the now.
Are you purposefully using
this moment to BE AWARE, awake, or is your ego drawing you into distraction?
Be aware of your thoughts. Energize thoughts empowering your Awakening, and supporting your Awareness, while discarding those seeking to draw you into illusion.
Aligned with Spirit (inspired), you are powerful. Listen to the voice of spirit, and create experience. Do not allow the ego to deny you your peace, and creative effortlessness. Be Aware of your Creative Moment and Allow It, joyfully.
Proving your creative role to yourself:
To assist you in recognizing your role in creating the illusion, you must first decide what it is you desire to experience. Your clarity about this is paramount. Write it down. Write out your desired experience, and revisit it regularly. See yourself living the experience. Feel the emotions it will energize. Put yourself into the image. Make it real in your mind, and then offer it to the Universe. Give the mental picture to the Infinite
Intelligence as a foundation, and allow Spirit to respond in a grander way than you perceived.
Your intentions, offered in meditative stillness, will manifest themselves as your experiential illusion. But you must be willing to allow this creative possibility to be your truth. You must do this internal authentic creative work, and Allow it to become.
There are many resources providing guidance into meditative stillness (such as, “Getting Into The Gap, by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer). Find your way. Prove your creative power to yourself. You need not prove it to anyone else.
Recognize Now. The universe appears to you as you’ve imagined it. And, you are free to re-imagine. Allow the universe to work its magnificence and bring the desired outcome to you. See the perfection, and see it evolving.
If you perceive yourself as the entire universe, there is nothing you do not already have.
The entire universe, every-thing, is really nothing (no-thing) but swirling energy being perceived by your senses as matter. Material realm objects exist only through your sensory capacity to observe them. You choose to see things in this seemingly separate way in order for your illusion to appear real. That’s the fun of
it. This is how we experience thought! This is how we make dreams come true.
The energy you put forth into the universe, as thought, is available to all the creative energies in it, and it affects the collective consciousness you experience.
Your desires evolve with your understanding, or lack thereof, of your true self. When this occurs,
adjust your intentions accordingly, and re-energize the new image.
As your understanding expands, the space-time between your thoughts and their manifestation will decrease. Your capacity to shape your experience with thought will become a living reality for you, and the world will change right before your eyes.
Empowerment exists in the knowledge of the truth. And, the truth is that the earthly world we live in is all an expression of our idea of it.
The only existence is now. Attachment to the past, and projections into the future, are only figments of your imagination. They do not exist elsewhere. There is only who you are being now.
It is not your spirit’s desire to make war on this world, but to bring to it the Light of Being. Exist as the Infinite Divine Intelligence of this world. Be the peace you seek.
Gratitude is the power of knowing that before you’ve asked, it is given.
Gracious gratitude: Be this always, all ways, and see what happens to your life experience. Be this, and
your experience arises from it. Keep your awareness here, and you will see the truth open itself to you. You will begin to see the experience of your dreams come to life before you, with very little “doing� out there.
All of your dreams have already been built into your experience. You need only reside in patient observation for them to become experiential. However, we often become distracted by ongoing events and react to them as if they are real. This disturbs the creative
energy, which is at work manifesting our thoughts into experience. When we become distracted by ongoing events, we “cloud� the creative process. Remain clearly focused on your peace. Be joyful, regardless of the distractions of any ongoing drama.
Being!
Remember, the whole illusion is an interactive reflection of what you’re projecting outward. What you are being is what you are attracting. Be love, beloved.
The Awakening and Awareness you are asking for is coming to you, which is why you have been brought to this message.
Seek your most sincere knowing of the truth, and truth will be brought to you. You have sought the
answers to the meaning of this life. You are seeking to know yourself, and here in this moment, that which has never been lost, is noticed. You have hidden truth in a place where you are unable to find it, until you simply ask.
You have access to the all-knowing infinite intelligence. You are the infinite, experiencing itself through the portal of earth human perspective.
The Power of Light: E=MC²
The universe, being created for and by you, is being shaped with Light, which is a very misunderstood commodity. You reside in a belief suggesting there is nothing faster than the speed of light. This is a belief our science will have us accept, because it is unable to prove that any-thing travels faster. Consider thought as capable of traveling faster than the projected Light. Not because of its speed, but its location. Thought is not
confined. It permeates the entirety of your Universal Being. There is nowhere it need travel, being already there, everywhere, now AND here. You are observing your thoughts being played out with Light.
You would not have read this far if you were not interested in knowing your Self. Respect your Self as the Infinite, and look there for guidance. Every thing IN your illusion is changing, except you, the real you.
You have nothing more to know, until you do, and then that too will also be provided. You Are. Be. Create joy.
Love is Light. You are Love. You are Light. Shine!
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