I think it was at the last meeting -
we had a session where everyone called out why they had not 'got it'.
I think it was the funniest session we ever had.
I expect Mia has it on CD:  http://paullowe.miamedia.org

You see, there is no valid excuse.
If you are not awake it is because you do not want to be - enough.

Get together with some friends - and look carefully.
What you will discover is that you have conditions. Lots.
Some of them will be obvious, and many of them will be subtle.
You will find that you want the phenomenon - on your terms.
And it is your terms that are screening you from the awakened state.

So workshops, meditation, mantras, techniques - all to delay the
inevitable.
The inevitable? - Stop holding - anything.
That includes your identity - what you call 'you.'

What is amazing is, that not only is it very simple,
this information has been around - forever.

And there is no alternative. None.
Nothing, nothing, nothing, in itself, works. Nothing.

There is no alternative to:
"Being here now." "This is It." "Unconditional Awareness."
That sort of thing.

As said, it is very simple. All that is needed is to make unconditional
awareness your absolute priority - in every single moment.
Unconditional awareness your absolute priority with every action, word,
thought. Nothing, nothing is more important than being aware of the moment.

Example:
You get upset. Your priority is not the upset, but being aware of the upset.
You are elated. Repeat as above.
Orgasm. Repeat as above.
Foot stuck in the railway line, and a train is coming. Repeat as above.
In all instances, take appropriate measures, but always, always, always -
awareness first.

Of course, if you want to tell everyone the reasons why 'It' is not
happening for you, have fun - make up even more excuses - for weak
snivelling excuses are all they are.

Keep watching that mind. It does not matter - nothing matters.
It is your life, and you are totally responsible for how you want to live it.
No one else's business. You don't even have to be honest to yourself!
The thing is - the more honest you are the more fun you are having.

As a possibility, consider:
Nothing is more, or less, important than anything else.

Happy excusing...

What question comes up - maybe the most, is relationships. Over and over.
Consider: There is no such such thing as a relationship.
The imagined idea of a relationship is based on time - and there isn't any.
Just this moment - relating.

What we do not realise is, that we do not realise how much we assume that
we are 'couples.' In even the slightest more advanced state of
consciousness  couples are not natural. Our natural state is alone, or community.
All one.

Jealousy probable generates as much negativity and anger as anything else
on the planet. We just don't seem to be able/want to adjust - to be alone,
or sharing in a community. Extreme: Muslims.

And just what is the state of the average relationship? Not very pretty eh.
Check it out. Ask around. We are so conditioned that we do not even
consider that two people can live together without disruptive compromise.
(Adjustments, yes, but compromise eventually begets resentment.)
Just visualise those laughing, smiling, happy faces at the weddings -
and what takes place at the average divorce settlement.
(Of course it does not have to be that way - if we do not listen to
religious and other such toxic conditioning.)

When you get angry, resentful, complaining, jealous, do you actually
experience the phenomenon? Do you actually know what is happening?
Answer? - No. If you did, the phenomenon would dissolve.

Check it out - when you get riotously jealous, what are you actually
assuming? This person is 'yours'? You have exclusive right over this
person - because they made a (false) promise years ago? Have you not
changed? Have they not changed? Has not everything changed? And who gave
you the right? That piece of religious/government paper? Come on - wake up!
It is just your insecure ego.

What actually is the process. This?:
You 'fall in love'/your chemicals get infatuated/either this is 'the
perfect soul mate - or you give up looking.
You live together, you discover lots of things about the other you didn't
realise - because they/you can no longer be on best behaviour all the
time; you grow tired/used/bored - with the sex and each other; you have
met someone who is more exciting?

When you meet someone new to whom you are attracted you usually feel
excited; fresh; you have changed since the last time you were infatuated;
not encumbered with domestic practicalities; they/you are are on your best
behaviour; and lots of other things.

Imagine: Living in a smallish community. Not exclusive to other
communities, but in numbers where you know everyone. 100?
We are all open to each other. We do not have to identify which child
'belongs' to whom - because, first of all we cannot be sure who has
'fathered' the child, and because we consider all the children as family.
(Or even more advanced - we are in no need to divert our energies - thus
do not need children to distract us from the discomfort of the moment.)
What freedom eh. Free to love, share, look after the children. All one.
Lovely.

My brother Clive is a sort of a 'into seeing the future genius.'
He was one of the first to put a computer into a production line.
He tried 'Time Share' way before it caught on.
He saw the shape of modern cars before they happened, and designed a rail
transport system that would have solved most of our road congestion.
And so on.

His major thing is community. He has worked out intricate practical
details of how a community could work that would not only be fun, but very
economical.
No takers. Once again, he feels discouraged. As with all his other visions
- he is too early. (And being too early, it maybe too late.
We really don't have much time to change the way we are living.)

A community does not have to live on the same land - just close, each
person having a space where they can be alone if they feel to, and have a
communal area where everyone can be together for some of the time.
And no hierarchy! Everyone is equally responsible - for everything.

When you want it enough, and can see it, it is happening already.
But, are you ready to be that open - share, on every level - even on the
thought level? Until then - carry on compromising - as best you can.

Being so complete, being alone is not being alone,
or, a fun, adventurous, loving community.
 
You can do it. There are enough of you reading this that coming together
would make it happen - easy. Just disconnect with your present way of
living, and it will happen. It is just if you want it enough.

Some people have written to say Paul has not written much lately.
It's true - I checked it up on Alan's site he has for me on this site
NewRealities.com

I usually forget what/when I have written so it nice to be able to check
it out on his site. In chronological order as well.
Once again, thank you Alan.

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Not been very inspired to write lately - very 'unreal'; busy on the
land; been sharing the same thing for over forty-five years. More actually.

Someone wrote to say that I sounded discouraged... or something.
Not at all. No expectations, so no disappointments. Just love and caring.
If even just one person feels supported/encouraged/gets something that
helps them to become more aware of their freedom - wonderful!

And I do understand - the old is so strong, and so few examples of people
getting free of their fearful behavioural patterns, and thus living
delightfully.  It seems it takes everything (or a tragedy) to get out of
our addiction to the control of the mind's idea of past and projected future.

I know I have written many times about how despicably humans behave.
Not a judgement. For me, just a fact.
See:
Dim lights

Although we are all beautifully the same at the source, most people, most
of the time are so centred on themselves they do not realise what 'damage'
they are creating - for/in themselves, and others - by their unawareness
of their anger, resentment, blame, and complaint. No worries.

And not everyone. Not all.
We have many very beautiful, caring and loving beings on the planet.
Touching.

For you at least - does not have to be hopeless.
Just allow yourself to see yourself free - and

We assume... and that could be the basis of our unconsciousness.
If we really, really know, then we do not need to assume?
But what do we really, really know - about anything?
(And does it matter anyway!)

For instance, some people are adamant about only having native species of
plants and trees in their garden. Understood. Yet, what is a native
species? Native to the country? Native to that part of the country? Native
to that type of soil in that part of  the country?

If we are really only going to allow native species in the country then
most Caucasians will have to move out of the country they are living in.
And even 'the original inhabitants' - were they really the first?
So I am told, at one time the earth was covered in heaving masses of hot
lava -
so if there were native species then they were very different to us.

For most 'white people' to call the country they are living in 'their
country' is just not true. Visitors.

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Here is another one - obvious I know, yet we seem just to go along with it.

In most countries, vicious laws surrounding Marijuana.
Helicopters fly over here looking for Cannabis growing.
I think they cost about US$2,500 an hour.

Studies show that comparatively few people are taken to hospital for
Marijuana
emergencies; and very few car accidents are caused by people who are high
on M.
And very little physical damage has been proved.

Yet for smoking and alcohol....

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And morals.
Just watched a panel doco (documentary)
All the people on the panel were of different religions.
One thing they did all agree on: we need religion - otherwise we would not
have the necessary guidance we need to decide what is right and wrong. !!!

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I think - time to let go of all our ideas.
Ready? - Go!

Lots of talk now about the possibility of there being simultaneous multi
dimensions.  Here is one way of looking at the subject of dimensions:
On the planet at the moment we have approximately 6.9 billion of them.

To play with...
Until we reach and can express from the level of consciousness that is
described in the East as: "When the seer and the seen are one" - each
person is a world on to themselves.

Let's say there is a uncontaminated 'soul' in each person - a place that
is so deep it has not been touched by life's circumstance and
conditioning. It is pure: "As a little child."

Although the source is pure, when a person wants to speak they have to
talk via their mind - and the mind has been conditioned by life's
circumstances and conditioning.
So we are talking through all the (distorted) ideas that have been placed
in the mind.

So when a person who has been brought up as a Jew, Muslim, Christian,
Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist talks, they talk through those levels of the way
they have been taught to see and experience life. That is clear isn't it?
- each person sees through the way they have been taught to see.

So if a person says they feel they have been hurt by another person it
does not mean that the person has done something hurtful - their reality
may be very different.

Although we all think we are in the same reality, we are not.
Of corse there are agreed standards - a tree is a tree.
Yet even there, if a botanist goes into a forest he will see a tree as one
thing, and a carpenter, wood pulper, tree feller will see the tree in a totally
different way.

'All things being equal, they are not equal.'

So we keep bumping into each other. We talk 'at' each other.
We just just keep taking for granted that the way we are seeing it is the
way it is.

Like is said of snowflakes - we are all unique.

Sabine said her art tutor suggested she 'expand her vision' -
so she could 'see the beauty in modern contemporary art.'
(A drawn squiggle is childish to one person - and worth millions to someone else.)

Here is what we may be missing:
When we look at humans we assume we are all the same - but with different views.
If the views are not the same as ours, then the the other is just not as intelligent.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists - are all convinced there is
only one way -  theirs. So all anybody has to do 'to get it right' is to see it their way.
Easy.  (The Buddha and the Taliban?)

If we look back - even just a little way, we can see how our tastes and
ideas have changed. What was a scandal at one time and is not even noted now.

(Did you know that Prince Charles 'officially' had two mistresses while he
was married to Dianne?) And some of the music of the time, so outdated now.
And yet, in some things, there were visionaries - who were appreciating
the forward thinkers of their time. So we have to keep checking - is our
vision being corrupted by fashion, or are we really seeing/rejecting
beauty in this moment.

It is true that we do all seem to be of the same species,
but there any comparison needs to end.

All things being equal, we are not all equal.  At the core, yes.
Stephen Hawkins is as much a genius when he is sleep as when he is awake.
The same with all humans - whether we are awake or in our normal state - asleep, we are 'That.'

Yet in our day-to-day level of operating we are very asleep to who we we
really are - and at very different levels. Some are very, very asleep, some a little
more awake, and a few, very few, much more awake.

So the typical 'Red Neck' cannot really be seen as in the same category as
an awakened one. The basic level of Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu,
Buddhist, Politician, Corporate Executive - compared to those who are said
to be awake.

And even then there seems to be different levels in awareness in those who
are said to have awakened. Jesus is said to have performed miracles, and
those in 'higher levels of consciousness' saying these are childish things
to do, and interfere with the natural order. And so on.

As an exercise, imagine different levels of consciousness as different
distances from the planet. Those who are very awake are furthest away, and
those who are most asleep are on the ground. (Some are even in holes!)

Those who are furthest away have the better perspective - so have less
expectations, and have more compassion. Those on the ground have no
perspective at all. They don't even know they are so asleep so do not
realise there is something else to know.

Any idea where you are?
Difficult to assess oneself isn't it - we either under or over estimate.
Usually you can only tell how far you have come - but not how far there is to go.
Suggestion: ask your friends. Also, ask a good psychic.

Not that it matters, nothing 'matters' and,
the more awake you are the more fun you will having,
and the more you will be enjoying being in a human body.

Listen as ALan is interviewed by talk show host Curtis Davis on the Occult Talk Radio

blogtalkradio.com/illuminated-one/2010/09

Often when speakers draw large crowds it is not only because they are good,
but because what they say is rather general.
This means even if what they are are sharing is applicable to you,
you feel free to let it in, or not. So you feel safe.

Speakers who are good, and direct, are less popular - and rare.
When they address you directly it is not so easy for the ego to avoid. So
not so safe.
And these are the most valuable.

The ones who are more direct, and do not need your approval, they are the
most scary.
They share what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear.
It has a lot to do with the delivery.
Best to catch one who is about to give up public speaking -
not always so, but usually, they are the ones who have become more evolved.

To find a public speaker who can really hold the energy of group of people
is rare.
Once you have found one get as close as you can - and as often as you can.

Buddha is quoted as saying, something like:
To hear about a Buddha is better than living ten lives.
To be born when a Buddha is alive on earth is better than living one
hundred lives.
To hear a Buddha is better than living one thousand lives.
To meet a Buddha is better than living ten thousand lives.
And so on....

It is helpful, and fun, to meet a person who is evolved, and you don't
need to.
What you need to wake up is around you - every moment.

And if in any doubt, watch and listen to Anthony de Mello.
As clear as they come.

Someone asked if they can 'do it alone' or if a mentor needed,
and if so, how to choose one.

I don't think anything outside oneself is 'needed.' We all have the
capacity to wake up.
When we do have an awakening we usually see that what we have just awoken
to is something we knew all the time.
And, we do seem to benefit from each others' experiences.

In one way, if we stay awake, everything is giving us a way to see
ourselves more clearly. Even a barking dog.
It is not the event, action, or word, it is what we do with it -
contract or expand. (Eventually, neither.)

So how to choose a mentor? It seems as though they usually choose us.
Someone lends us a book - or one falls off the shelf at us.
Or someone tells us about an interesting person - and our hearts beat a
little faster.

Best if, on some levels at least, the possible mentor seems more awake
than you?
Someone who has some aspects you would like to revealed in yourself? Not
to copy, but blossom into in your own unique way? Someone you find
inspiring?

Somethings to watch out for.
It seems to be human nature to go one of two ways: hierarchy - either make
the mentor 'better than you' and you become a competitive wishy washy
follower,
or become an angry resentful challenging 'pain in the ass.'

Second thing to watch out for.
We tend to gravitate towards a person who will not challenge what we hold
dear,

or things we are addicted to/challenged by.
So if we are afraid of sex, Tantra is out.
If we are addicted to action, meditation is out.

What we actually need is to have pointed out to us the things that we are
not seeing clearly - and are thus we are keeping in the way of us waking
up.
As before said, when we get to that point, that is when we decide this
mentor is not for us.

And some sort of community is very helpful. We can support each other;
point out things that seem to be repetitive; share our experiences; and
support and love each other.
 

A friend wrote…

I have been exercising observation without being involved or acting much.
Just letting everything unfold. It's a part experiment and part a way of
being.  
I'm not sure yet whether it is a practice or the way life is!
It's fun though to see life unfold - and it is all perfect so far.
Of course when I listen to mind I can want it different but I am reminding
myself I may not know what's best so I try not to interfere with life.
I do challenge how one gets to accomplish anything without doing, but I
feel there is effortless doing which is closer to being. Not sure I
expressed it very well.
Do you have a view of this subject?

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"...effortless doing." Sounds perfect love.

You say:
>I do challenge how one gets to accomplish anything

That is the main pivoting point - it depends on what you want to
accomplish in life.
If your life is about 'normal success' then it is almost certain that, at
best,
you will be disappointed.

If you are really ready, as you say, 'to see where life unfolds' then you
will be living at your maximum potential.
The trouble starts if life starts to lead you where your mind, thinking it
knows better,
or not wanting to be upset, does not want to go.

Although it is the best way, it is usually very difficult for anyone to
experiment with the natural way of living when they are engaged in 'their
normal way of living.'
So some time off from routine makes it a little more easy.
Best if you have someone with you who will remind you if you go off track.

As I have mentioned recently, we usually do fine until something comes up
that challenges our pride or our main behavioural patterns.
We identify 'who we are' by the way we are used to behaving.

Although it is not actually so, it appears to take great courage to just
let life be.
In hindsight it is seen that it is not in fact courageous, it is
intelligent.
In fact, if they only knew, to go on living the way most people do takes
the most courage - to keep doing something that is proved not to bring
happiness.

Great news love. Thanks for sharing it with us.