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High Awareness and the Present Moment
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You don’t have half an idea of what Mind
is capable of.

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Internet gurus and other developmentally challenged people will lead you to believe that being present is like being anchored –

in your sensations of the immediate environment,
in your immediate thoughts and emotions.

Seems like presence calls for you to become steeped in Sensing, which is about our immediate physical experience.

Presence is about now. To be present is to be in the now.

Seems obvious, doesn’t it?

To free yourself from the burdens of the past & the anxieties of the future, just ignore them, cut them out of the mind’s eye. Focus on the present moment.

Feeble-minded spiritualists, dim-witted pseudointellectuals & half-baked savants will tell you this is all there is to it.

Anchored presence is the drivel of “thinkers” lost in the semantic mist.

They're telling you to seek liberation in the cozy embrace of a straightjacket.

And they are dead wrong.

What if the present contains and connects to more than the claustrophobic box of immediate Sensing?

What if the present moment contains the paths of the past and the potentialities of the future?

Presence is about ditching the semantics, not the Intuiting perception itself.

You become present when you are removed, unattached from your speculations and opinions and expectations about the future,

NOT from the Fabric itself.

What “presence” is actually getting at is a condition of pure Being.

Without the semantics and the attachments;

Existence undimmed and unadulterated.

You can look for this experience in any form of meditation – whether sitting on a mat or running a fracking marathon.

It’s not just about what’s going on “right now”.

The true power of the present moment is nothing like that. It goes much further than diving into your immediate sensations more deeply and directly.

True presence is Integral because the present moment is Integral. It contains the now, but opens towards the past & future it’s woven into.

Presence amplifies perception by taking you out of the conscious and unconscious habits of looking too deeply into the now or away from it.

To become truly present,

you must remove from the mind your semantic thoughts and judgements and attachments –

all the ego junk you waddle about day in and day out.

Removing attachment to Ego allows you to lower the barrier between Ego and Shadow.

The cognitive functions anchored in the present become available alongside the cognitive functions reaching into the Fabric.

When you are truly Present,

you experience the budding potentialities just as firmly as the ground beneath your feet,

and you do experience that ground more vividly and joyfully.

This Integral presence has nothing to do with

“thinking”,
forecasting,
anticipating

or any semantics of the sort.

It’s about direct perception, like your sight and hearing is direct perception.

You don’t see in words, do you?

From this position of High Awareness, the present becomes more vivid – your sensations get sharp, detailed and energized – and it becomes possible to See into future moments unfolding.

Your heightened present Awareness makes it possible to *cause* the future.

Why do the best meditation practitioners focus on the moment then?

Because High Awareness requires purity of perception and detachment from your opinions about it.

Meditators hone in on the moment to let go of faulty memory and wishful thinking, and precisely because the moment is inexorably connected with both past and future.

The moment itself contains the infinite superpositions of past and future.

What if the gurus told you to focus on a future moment instead?

You’d start “thinking” and speculating about it and get lost in your thoughts and opinions.

In High Awareness, perception must be kept clean of our values, preferences, expectations as much as possible.

They are figments of ego attachment, which we must cease in order to achieve the transcendent moment.

If we attempt to focus on the past or future as normies conceive of them,

we find ourselves locked into a linear narrative,

we become attached to the inner monologue of ego,

we are mired in the semantics of thoughts and judgements.

You don’t have to “think” to see through.

That’s why the teachers are telling you to look in the now.

It already contains everything.

You don’t need to somehow add the future to it –

unless you want to MAKE a future happen.

In High Awareness,

the mind becomes hyperenergized, and that energy is palpably unsettling to people with particularly weak minds.

I’ve had experiences where people would basically run away just because I smiled at them.

You don’t have half an idea of what Mind is capable of.

The sweeping away of mental fog and achievement of clarity that you experience when you stop

eating sugar,
breakfasting like a baby and
ingesting synthetic toxins

is child’s play by comparison.

Fasting is the most universal way to drive up mental energy.

Not everyone enjoys working out.

You can’t go to the bar or your office while running and lifting, can you?

But you can be fasted anywhere.

High Awareness

becomes more easily accessible and sustainable in fasted condition.

If you fast, make time to meditate.

Seek to energize the mind, but not with words and “thinking”.

Simply energize it and open yourself to perception.

Remember –

you can meditate while running, walking and even swimming.

Just don’t get hit by a car or eaten by a shark.

Meditate with your eyes open.

Powers that have been long forgotten will become available to those who do the work.

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