CHAPTER TWELVE: TALKING ÄB 〇 UT ー C 〇 NSCI 〇 USNESS TALKING ABOUT ( 0N5q0 リ 5NE55 ム一 AS soon as vve talk about awareness it becomes consciousness.. And as we talk about consciousness ′ we assume a viewpoint. And when that viewpoint fixes, it becomes part Of an identity. TO confuse matters more, any Of these—awareness, consciousness, viewpoint or identity—answers tO you" and operates as I. Awareness is the ultimate shape-shifter. lt will conform itself to any belief system imposed upon it. The 1 .ore conviction, the more conformity. Once it iS defined, it can be studied ⅲ elaborate, scholarly detail and will create a thoroughly real, measurable experience. But it Will never reveal anything profound than the fact that it is conforming t0 a belief system being imposed upon it. Proving something true/false iS a descent intO consciousness. The edges 0 ー ( 0n5 ( iOlJS - ness 0 肥 ( 0 加 ( e 耐 with / OU 「 extension 0 ー 0 n 加 n 加 time 側イ 5P0 ( e. The mantra Of awareness iS not Om; it iS Aaah! SO why not impose something more interesting on awareness than a dutiful repeat Of the past? Live deliberately! Extricating "I" from the habits of the past is not an easy trick, but fortunately you have Avatar to do this. Let's start with self-defining beliefs that create packages called identities. ldentities determine what is most readily perceived and hOW it is interpreted. ldentity is what keeps transparent beliefs transparent. Some i 施浦加 5 ( on 〃 i け ⅶ 0 り and some i 施可ⅲ es 肥加ん「 ( e ea 訪 0 舫既

RESURFACING MOSt people have different identities that are changed from time t0 time like suits of clothes. One identity is employed to make sense of things at work, another identity is assumed tO relate tO the family, and a third identity functions as a student. Sometimes the identities are changed deliberately—as ⅲ the moment you take tO gather yourself before meeting a new date or a customer— and Other identities change automatically ⅲ response tO events or people. Come on 冫 let's go exploring. AS 500n 05 we talk 0b0 ⅵ 0W0 「 eness it becomes ( 0n5 ( iousness.

RESURFACING As you become more and more solidly defined, the window tO definitionless awareness shrinks smaller and smaller. Living requires a flow of attention. The flOW Of attention must C01 れ e fror . somewhere, so when you can no longer sustain life by an inward connection tO source, you turn outward for the attention. This leads tO pretense, courting displays, and people-pleasing behaviors. The pursuit of fame, wealth, and power ensue. Reputation, money, and influence are synthetic attention p articles. You feel starved for attention and begin borrowing heavily from others tO sustain your creations. ln place Of the guileless, selfless "I" close to source, an ego- identity appears. Because the identity uses thought and emotion to attract attention, the attention it receives is highly alloyed with thought and emo- tion—more particles than waves. AS the ego-identity attracts particles of attention, it grows more and more solid. lt calculates for the maximum attention advantage for its collection Of particles. When attention cannot be attracted from others, it will be imagined. The imagination is a bypass conduit between the identity and source awareness. The identity can rece1Ve a sustaining flOW of attention by imagining others who would, if present and informed, be fascinated by this or that accomplishment. Many lone-wolf types are actually sustaming their creations by acquiring attention through imaginary figures, e ・ g ・ , comic-book heroes, fictional heroes, dead relatives, dead pets, defeated enemles, victimizers. When attention cannot be inwardly sustained, attracted, or imagined, it will be demanded. This is the motivation behind premeditated antisocial behav- ior. Criminals are demanding attention particles. After exhausting the attention of their victims, they

5 / CHAPTER FIVE: ATTENTI 〇 N QUESTION 8 What is the relationship between attention and identity? QUESTION 9 What is the relationship between attention and health?

CHAPTER SEVEN: ATTENTI 〇 N AND IDENTITY ATTENTION AND IDENTITY Definitionless awareness iS the source Of attention. The more direct your connection, the purer your supply Of attention. Compare the gaze Of innocence ⅲ the eyes Of a newborn tO the averted, vacant stare of the derelict. Wh0 is closer to definitionless aware- ness? Who has the greater attention? What has happened? beingness iS egoless, compassionate, responsi- ble, and totally nonjudgmental. Pure beingness is pure avvareness. When beings cease tO be compassionate, responsi- ble, and nonjudgmental toward creation, an interest- ing thing happens—they become creation! This is the Descent of Man. The fall from innocence and grace begins with "I am this; I am not that. " This statement is a denial Of full responsibility and begins the process 0f defining yourself as something Other than pure beingness. lt is the beginning of duality. As soon as you say "This is What I , YOLI start being a conscious creation separate from "l am not that. " The more you deny responsibility, the more nouns you add after am. " Consciousness has its roots ⅲ denial. / 3 併 0 ⅷ / particles ( 「 ea m055. ″加籍 particles create se ″ .

56 attention and stress? What is the relationship between QUESTION / environment and attention? What is the relationship between QUESTION 6 i 施′ / = / 側 + 6 翫 experience exhaustion, overwhelm, and confusion. exceeds the 日 ow being directed by the will, you the flow of attention. When the resistance to attention tion, association, abilities, etC. ) acts as a resistance tO Every identity (e ・ g. , your name, definition, descrip- RESURFACING

63 CHAPTER SIX: FREEING ATTENTI 〇 N & INSIGHT FREEING ATTENTION AND INSIGHT Everything flows ー eventually. When attention is alloyed with importance and judgments, it becomes emotional and sticks on things. lt actually changes from a nonphysical wave form into very small physi- cal particles that create thoughts with gravitational attraction. Certain ideas, objects, actions, or even areas can accumulate SO many thoughts that they take on a life Of their own. This is how identity is created. This is hOW amulets and ritual are created. This is how sacred ground is created. This is hOW the universe iS created. S01 .e ideas, objects, actions, and areas are charged with great importance. The more importance assigned tO something, the more attention it attracts. Attention directs attention. Stand on a street and lOOk at the sky. Soon you'll have other people 100k ⅲ g at the sky. Make something important enough, and it will consume a person's entire supply Of attention. They will think about nothmg else. Some people, some events, S01 .e rituals are SO charged with importance that they can cause a per- son to change viewpoints ()r identity) and thus heal bOdy parts, or even surrender self-control. This comes about by a very rapid shift of attention from one reality to a new reality. If the person who is shifted can sustain the shift (without attributing the phenom- ena tO some external source), his or her life will stay changed: sudden conversion, spiritual healing' miracles.

PREFACE TABLE 0 ド ( ON 祚 N ー 5 Four Approaches TO The ReSurfacing Workb00k IX Preface PartI Orientation Chapter 1 Orientation Chapter 2 Personality profile 1 9 PartIl Attention Chapter 3 、ⅥⅡ 4 Being Aware Will Chap ter Attention Chapter 5 6 Freeing Attention And lnsight Chapter 7 Attention And ldentity Chapter 8 Attention And B0dy Chapter cO 9- っ 0 CO CO ヴノ CO 4 / 0 ヴ / ヴ / Part Ⅲ lntegrity Chapter 9 Becoming Real Chapter 10 Perspective 93

CHAPTER SEVEN: ATTENTI 〇 N AND IDENTITY sabotage themselves into being caught to seek the attention Of police, reporters, and judges. Without thiS mechanism at work, crime enforcement would be far less successful. (lronically, the more attention paid tO crime, the more criminals there will be. VOte for the first politician who truly understands this. ) If you eliminate psychological disorder at one end of the scale and selfless humanitarian acts at the other end, the middle ground will in one way or another be motivated by the attention market. The ego's sole purpose is tO acquire attention from others, overtly or covertly. If it cannot coax attention, it will imagine it; if it cannot imagine it, it will demand it. This is the muddy game Of life: emotional egos in competition, lost ⅲ fantasy or locked in conflict—costumed identities wrestling for attention. Avatar is the path out. [)efinitionless 0W0 「 eness is the 50U 「 ( e Of 0 村 en ⅱ on. 2

1 54 RESURFACING grave, 34 greatness, 67 grief,10 grow, 82 g 「 0W5 , 74 growth, 5 guarantee, 144 guardian, 144 guide, 5 , 112-113 , 141 , 144 guided meditation, 120-121 heroes, / 4 help んい 05 , 107 , 1 1 し help, 7 , 64 , 142 , 144 hea 「い 44 healthfUl, 〃 health, 23 , 57 , 77-78 , 107 , 117 , 1 23 healing, 63 , 70 healed, 82 heal, 63 ト 0 「 mony , 5 harmonic, 34 ha 「 m んい 05 h 叩 py, 42 , 85 h 叩 piness, 90 h 叩 piest,126 han 曲叫 10 , 1 19 handle, 10 , 78 , 147 handic 叩 , 97 kbits 78 82 , 115 Ⅷ 5 , 33 g 同い 0 , 78 , 84 128-129 hypocrisy, 81 hurts, 26 humiliation, 82 humankind, 127 humanity, 144 humanitarian, 75 hostilities, 84 ho 「叫 69 hope, 82 hono 「 , 81-82 dishonest, 81 -82 honesty, 81 -83 , 90 , 1 30 honest home, 2 , 1 9 , 103 hidden, 川 , 144 , 147 146 115 , 11 川 18 卩 35-137 , 142 , し 2 ′ 73-74 ′ 83 , 89 , 97 , 103-104 ′ 1 1 1 lam, 73 , 83 , 85 , 89 , 94 , 97 ′ 1 1 1 , 11 川 18 ′ 135 ′ 137 2 , 5-6 , 33-34 , 39 , 48 , 63 , 67 , 1 28 ′ 135-136 ideal, 1 7 , 67 idea ioys, 93 ioking, 59 iob, 1 31 irritable, 59 involuntary, 40-41 intuitive,1 24 intUition, 1 24 interpersonal, 147 interest, 64 ′ 73 ′ 115 , 1 26 , 143 interact, 2 , 135-136 144 intention, 33 , 43 , 81 , 84 , 1 28 卩 3 し integrity, 5 , 79 , 81 , 83 , 89 , 118 , 144 disinteg rate, 81 integrate, 5 , 81 , 1 20 , 140 integrate insurmountable 1 inspiring, 3 120 , 131 , 147 98 , 105 ′ 109 , 111 , 117 , 119- 63 , 65-67 , 6971 , 76 ′ 86 ′ 95-96 , insight,l , 5 , 1 0 , 35 , 44 , 48 , 50 , 60 , innocence, 73 iniury, 97 influence, 9 , 67 , 74 , 147 infinite, 100 , 130 indUlge, 78 indoctrinate, 1 , 33-34 , 98 , 108-109 in ivi 祠 , 33 , 64 , 143 im 「 0 e い 23 imprisoned, 82 impossible, 126 impersonal, 48 impeding, 107 , 1 28-129 immoral, 33 imaginary, 74 1 24 imagine, 2 , 39 , 48-49 , 64 , 74-75 , 85 , image, 36 i nesses, 82 i norance,l, 42 116 , ⅱ 9 , 137 , 147 identity, 56-57 , 63 , 73-75 , 82 , 115-