The Great Discovery: Opening into Freedom

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/03/2015

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Authors Note

Chapter One: A Doorway to Freedom

Chapter Two: The Mystery

Chapter Three: In The Absence of Belief You Are Free!

Chapter Four: The Great Gift

Chapter Five: The Desire to Be Free

Chapter Six: This is Not Your Life

Chapter Seven: The Game of Life

Chapter Eight: The Supreme Intelligence

Chapter Nine: You Are More than Enough

Chapter Ten: The Radical Perspective

Chapter Eleven: From the Caterpillar to the Butterfly From Separation to Unification and Beyond

Chapter Twelve: (Human Development and the Undifferentiating Whole)

Chapter Thirteen: Turning the Arrow

Chapter Fourteen: Living as Life Itself

Chapter Fifteen: Nature and the Natural Way

Chapter Sixteen: Natural Goodness

Chapter Seventeen: The Myth of Self-Help

Chapter Eighteen: The Myth of Enlightenment

Chapter Nineteen: The Myth of Death and the Deathless

Chapter Twenty: The Evolutionary Impulse

Chapter Twenty One: The Shift Back Into Consciousness

Chapter Twenty Two: The Phases of Living and Evolution.

Chapter Twenty Three: Conclusion

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the enlivening of all.

I dedicate this book to you, to being deeply in love with The ‘Self,’ and to unleash the loving Being you are into the world.

May the words written here powerfully activate the consciousness of the reader.

Acknowledgements

First of all I’d like to thank my parents, for always being open-minded and raising me to be likewise.

I’d also like to acknowledge all the Teachers and dear friends in Truth that have entered this life, including the Wednesday night group.

Lastly this heart celebrates and acknowledges the one Life in all, that sees through many eyes, and from which this book was birthed.

In love of the Real,

Jane R Hunter

2015

Caveat

This publication is to broaden the reader’s understanding of the subject matters covered. It is not a substitute for psychological help. Those dealing with mental health issues need to seek the services of a competent psychological professional.

Authors Note

What you are about to read will be intimately familiar to you, (since it’s already known) so everything you think you are, and everything you’ve been holding together can thankfully relax.

Dissolution of identity can happen gradually or occur spontaneously. It’s actually both, because in the living paradox of life everything is occurring together. Speaking of the indescribable will always appear contradictory, as both sides of the coin and neither. We sit on the edge and roll through life, not one thing or the other, but both simultaneously. This is when you wake up or rather become alert to the reality of the human paradox. Your entire response to life alters when the old construct of viewing it collapses from a state of resistance into a continual flow of intrinsic acceptance. In fact it’s so radical there’s nothing to resist, accept or even surrender to; that’s how intimately direct and beyond the beyond this is!

When you wake up to the Life you are, you are waking up to the dream, and then it’s like lucid dreaming. You are alert and alive in the dream, (radically knowing that none of it’s solid or real) yet free in allowing the dream scene to play out or be as it is. In this ‘as is’ state or ‘non-doing’ place of Being, time/space collapses, and thus all changes in the time space continuum are now seen to unfold gracefully.

The truth is no-one actually wakes up, you simply become alert or aware to the wakefulness you already are; then you realize you are Home as you always have been, and are able to rest in it, that’s all. However, this message comes with a warning; for ‘The Great Discovery’ can challenge and shake the foundation of your most deeply held beliefs about ‘who you are’ and what is real; since its sole purpose is to show you how available and accessible this is to you right now, and in so doing it has to break down and strip bare what you once thought was valid.

Thus we will be delving into the spiritual myths and traps, and peoples most commonly held mistaken ideas and concepts that are associated with the reality of ‘being awake’ in the ‘leela’ or play of life, and the misperceptions people have about ‘awakening,’ particularly if you’ve identified as a ‘spiritual person,’ for we are peeling away all concepts to relax the mind for the clarity of Truth to infiltrate. The potency of Truth revealed within these pages has the power to pierce the mind if you are willing to stay open and allow them to penetrate further into the living heart within.

All I am requesting is to be your best-friend for just a moment if you will let me, for I’m only reminding you of what you already know in the heart of every cell and fibre of your being. And so I’m sincerely not trying to tell you anything, but only to encourage the silent beauty of the innermost to spark in recognition within.

This is written from the cleaner and clearer All Inclusive perspective, which humbles what the mind once believed, and thought. Thus it is not mind-knowledge, but rather a radical knowledge prior to mind and even prior to time and space, as the intuitive intelligence of Life. It’s written as innocently and simply, yet directly as possible, for it’s meant to liberate the mind and allow it to rest, as there’s nothing new here that the mind has to get or understand, because it’s not for the mind, it’s for you.

I use the terms Home/ God/ Source/ Love/ Life/ Beloved/ Self/ Truth/ The Real/ The All in All/ Oneness/ Consciousness/ Presence/ Being/ The Totality/ The Eternal and The Infinite to describe the Truth and the One Being or ‘beingness’ that we are. They all describe the essential nature, and are often used in conjunction to shift and shake off the outdated abstractions often associated with them that might limit the unlimited, and what cannot be described or conceptualized.

Some of it will appear simplistic, some of it will be comprehensive and even sound repetitive and some of it may even be confronting and controversial, as my true intention is to make this as apparent to you as I possibly can. I even make some bold sweeping statements, but that’s only to blast and pierce through any personal concepts that may still be lingering. It has a good intention, so I make no apologies for this. This body/mind got blasted so perhaps I can’t help but be a blaster. Others were ‘taken’ a slightly different way or melted more gently and so express it in more detailed ways. The reality is; everyone is sinking into this now and what once appeared difficult is no longer the case.

‘The Great Discovery’ can be read from beginning to end or you can select any chapter at will. As you stay open, you will begin to see that I am constantly and always speaking to The Real in you, so the old habit of identifying only as the mind-identified ‘egoic’ personal ‘self’ erodes, and the true or unadulterated ‘Self’ or ‘beingness’ is actualized at the core of every atom, so it can shine through once more.

Some, who have read this message, have resonated with it immediately, when read with a spacious quality and felt the ring of confirmation within. Others, who have tried to work it out with only the mind or with a narrow focus have found it confusing and cannot grasp it; for the unlimited cannot be worked out through such a limited vehicle. The words are living guardians eliciting what is already aware, so you too can merge into the spacious full feeling realm of Being, your original Home. They point you to what is true, so the false can subside, and the miracle of life can come presently alive once more within you, because what we are talking about here is not really about awakening, but rather enlivening the essence of you.

To begin, just relax back into yourself; receive yourself first and read from here, then you can just soak it in more fluidly. Trust that something is being done beyond your knowing; for this is not for your understanding, but for your liberation.

After reading ‘The Great Discovery,’ I warmly invite you to go to the website below and feel free to ask me any questions you’d like and I will endeavor to reply to you as soon as I can. You may also be interested in reading its sequel, ‘The Secret to Being Human,’ which takes you on the deeper journey and adventure into embodying this realization ever further into the human life.

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Chapter One

A Doorway to Freedom

There are millions of people on this planet desperate to be free from worry, anxiety, struggle and suffering, but what if they’ve been pointing themselves in the wrong direction, therefore unconsciously closing down their availability to life and lasting liberation?

You may be living a relatively nice life, and even be relatively happy in it, but not be fully free or know permanent and lasting peace. If you still believe you are only your mind, or you are still identifying within your personality, thoughts and emotions you are not free and your perception will still be trapped within the mental constructs of a personal ‘I’. You may find yourself stuck in trying to fix and change yourself, and will more than likely still find it difficult to really feel and therefore be gentle with the more vulnerable aspects.

If you still feel restless, preoccupied or imprisoned and rigid in any way within the mind, you will also feel a sense of alienation from others in some form or another. This could be subtle or be pronounced. If you still see there is a division between you and others or that you are in competition with others and feel a sense of lack in some way, then you will understandably feel a sense of incompleteness, thus you may still cling to physical/mental or emotional ideas of yourself that are forever changing and toing and froing. When we cling to these things that come and go we will want to try rid ourselves of the pain this clinging inevitably brings up, and so resistance to life ‘as it is’ starts to contract the whole system splitting us off into parts and so we dis-connect out further from ourselves.

Many believe that we have to be free from pain to be whole, but what if that’s not where freedom is found? What if true freedom and wholeness is discovered at the very core of pain? Not in our suffering, but in the experience of the purity of pain itself. What if your liberation is alive and well in the weakest and frailest part of you? What if in the deepest of wounds the wonder of life is residing? When you see this then you no longer need to be free from anything, (not even your trauma) then you are free!

Right away you will be wondering, "Ok great Jane, but how do I do it?

Even though there is no ‘how,’ the central message written within these pages will still impact where it’s meant to. In this conversation I include everything, so I may appear to contradict myself at times, but it’s the only way to discuss the freedom inherent to the shift in ones perspective into the non-dual life, since its nature is paradoxical.

It’s not about nice spiritual ideas either, nor is it about self-help or self-love even, although there’s nothing wrong with any of that. It’s not about healing, fixing or changing anything either. It’s simply allowing the Life you are to reveal itself to you and as you, and any integration, evolution or maturation takes place in that revealing of its own accord effortlessly and by itself, for we are illuminating the natural human or the return to innocence, the greatest healer of all. The return to innocence has also been known as ‘Self-realization’ in some traditions, but it’s only the return to the natural state, that’s all, yet crucial to your inner fulfillment as a human-being.

It’s not difficult to be free, it’s only a belief that it is so, and that’s the fundamental falsity getting in the way of your lasting liberation, and of our entire species. It can cut through years of identification with the false and open you into The Real, because seeing your present reality for what it is emancipates you into The Totality, and into the immensity of peace that you already are. It returns you to your authenticity and thus into the integrity of Life.

Although ‘The Great Discovery’ can transform how you view life and the world, and all those in it, it also indicates how grace operates by transcending the ‘separate self’ or by not being gripped in it to embracing all aspects of it into the freedom that you have been overlooking all along. It’s just the beauty of everyday life or where you are simply alive in it and to it all, not just now and again, but as a constant humming along within you even if frustration, hurt, anger or sadness arises on the surface, this contentment deeply known and now awake to itself, can never leave you. Such well-being or goodness as the God in you shines through and enfolds all that may still feel separate, and ungodly.

‘The Great Discovery’ may at times appear to be repetitive, it is the same ‘gnosis’ (God knowledge) or Source knowledge being spoken of in various ways. It can also appear to slip away from us, and that’s why the repetitious nature acts like waves washing over us lulling us to rest in and as the ocean itself. It rhythmically rocks you back to the still calm depths, as a mother sings a lullaby to her baby or as waves lap upon the shore, relaxing you back into yourself. Therefore to make the most of this offering I invite you to suspend momentarily all your beliefs and ideas about yourself and life, staying open until the very end to see how this conversation actually fleshes itself out, then see.

You are not the thinker, so my request is to not analyze or work it out intellectually, because ‘who you are’ is so vast, so empty and so beyond the mind you cannot even fathom it. You don’t need to understand the words, but to simply feel the essence of what they are conveying, so don’t ‘think’ this book, ‘feel’ it, otherwise you’ll get confused, for the mind is too small to grasp the unfathomable.

If you allow the words to act as guardians relaxing the minds grip and need to understand, then the Presence within can enliven further. Their purpose is only to draw you into and thus beyond yourself to fully embody your Being into the world. This is a living, breathing body of work, which allows the transformative and transcendental potency of what is behind the words to permeate and confirm your own recognition of it, because you are at the precipice of venturing into the reality of living as a full, enlivened, and yet unconcerned individual.

What you are about to embark upon has been known as the ‘great path’, (which is paradoxically pathless), because we are moving from the old paradigm of self-help to ‘Self-recognition,’ which is simply the activating aspect of Life, Love, Source, or whatever you want to call it.

There have been so many people searching and seeking and who have been on the self-help or the ‘awakening’ and ‘enlightenment’ treadmill for years, but are still lost in the mind. Sure, you can develop a ‘nicer self’ or persona and have a ‘happier self,’ and even have a ‘happier life,’ but there is still a ‘self’ needing it. This goes beyond ‘self’ entirely yet fully loves and includes it, because it’s the Beloved as well, only in disguise! We are not even discussing a process of awakening here either, but simply seeing the permanent wakefulness or rather the aliveness that you already are, and full permanent abiding as ‘That.’

It doesn’t have to take years of therapy or countless hours of spiritual practice and meditation. All of that is rendered obsolete in the revelation of ‘who you are,’ which can always be seen in the immediacy of yourself, because there is no division whatsoever between you and any experience. It’s all One and when you see this you are free, and you are free to be yourself authentically in any experience from then on.

This is when direct recognition of the ‘Self’ can open up. It’s also a universal law that once one ignites the flame of freedom within, it ignites it in all, and once we have ignition in so many, we have a blaze, and such a blaze in the collective makes it easier for all to catch on fire. That’s why what was once only for the few, is now for the many, and will soon be common place and is available to you right now.

I invite you to see this as a conversation, and perhaps what you read here may quicken the spirit within you to discover the capacity to endlessly fall into the power of Love that you are, for you are your most valuable asset and the revelation and revealing nature of ‘who you are’ is the greatest blessing of a lifetime. Once you know unequivocally ‘who you are’ and what you are not, yet never separate from any of it, then all resistance to feeling life and all the psychological dilemmas that come along with that resistance can finally dissolve.

The Absolute Truth is literal in its clarity. The world is and everything else in it is all a relative truth. ‘The Great Discovery’ speaks predominantly of The Absolute, however, because nothing is ever excluded, we also include the relative truth of this world to help bridge people into the heart of reality itself.

The Infinite is accessible directly as awareness, so whenever you can, simply notice or be aware of yourself. Your job is to listen intuitively, and discover the secret of its immediacy for yourself. Therefore, do not believe a word I say, only stay open to what is true in you. Does it ring a bell of truth in you? If so, great, if not, then happily discard it. It is of no concern to me, as I’m not here to convince you or anybody else of anything. My role is only to expose another way of viewing and being in life. That’s why this is merely an opportunity for you to be available, because Life/Love/God has been seeking you endlessly, so please will you just let it find you!? The secret is; you don’t have to find it; in fact you can’t; all you need do is create the spacious condition for it to finally claim you.

As the Oracle at Delphi at the temple of Apollo tells us, ‘To know thyself’ (or the direct knowledge of the unknowable) can only be discovered for one-self, then it becomes true ‘Self-knowledge,’ otherwise it’s just another idea for the mind, and so once more, most of what is written here won’t make sense, but if you are reading this book or others like it, then it is highly likely that the sun of ‘Self ‘is dawning or has finally risen, and so what is written here will be an embodied confirmation.

However, realizing the Truth is in one sense only the beginning, for being emptied out in the open emptiness you discover and embodying and living in the fullness of it, is quite another. Any fool like ‘me’ can come into realization, that’s easy, the rest is another matter, but the good news is, that’s not difficult either, when you are the Presence and space that can include it all, and so the felt sense of ‘who you are’ can really go to work to bring everything Home, because Source brings everything back to Source in due time.

Source or God ; however, cannot really be spoken of, because the moment anyone speaks of it, it has immediately become a concept and so the words unfolding here will do their best, but ultimately it can only bring the arrow of perception to look back at itself. Grace does the rest. That’s the simplest way of describing what to do. You can’t do a thing, but you as the potent alertness of Life do everything. This is the paradox of ‘non-doer ship,’ which means; all is done in that. The best our language can do is to act as a sign post. Of course we don’t need words at all, the only thing required is to drop into the stillness and silence, and that says it all.

Be still and know that I Am God is perhaps one of the most profound teachings of all, and is all you really need to know. And if you truly let that sink in, you don’t need to read any further.

However, in continuing on you’ll find that this account is a distillation of the last seven years of living and embodying this revelation directly as a full, free yet very ordinary human, because all the beauty is discovered in the obvious and the ordinary. In fact you start to become so present inside your body, no longer dissociating or dis-embodying from it, but rather in full association with it, (and all that must still arise within it) that you find yourself becoming very grounded and down to earth, which means to be in the stillness of Presence. Then you feel the heaven of emptiness in the fullness of this earth body and thus heaven and earth unite. The transcendental embodies its fullness into the world through these earthly bodies.

No one can ever express the indefinable perfectly, it’s impossible, since it’s inexplicable and can only be allowed through the non-dual perspective. However, each of us will endeavor to express it uniquely and yet anyone who speaks of this is really saying the same thing, for each new flower that has blossomed in the garden of Consciousness enjoys sharing its particular expression of its love of the mystery. It is a sublime and unknown love you dive into, and perhaps it is your time to open and blossom as the flower you already are?

In the promise of this flowering; what you are about to step into can’t help but begin to shift your perception in such a radical way of registering and approaching life that it will start to break through the old conditioned barriers of limitation, so once again you can view the world through the wonder of new eyes. Then finally one day you come off the journey and drop into the adventure!

Chapter Two

The Mystery

The transcendental mystery has been represented in every culture as a symbolic metaphor in everyday life, whether it is a personal representation as Shiva, Yahweh, Buddha, God and Allah or as the impersonal Tao, Brahmin, Emptiness, Higher Power or Great Spirit. The nameless can never actually be named yet the closest I would ever venture to describe it would be as the empty fullness of your essential nature. It is The Bright or in a nut shell, the Absolute!

It is the ‘Self,’ that Christ, the Buddha and the Indian sages, such as Ramana Maharshi, among others were present to. And it is in the clear illuminating reports of the Christian Contemplatives and Mystics, such as St Teresa of Avila, St John of The Cross and Meister Eckhart.