Self-Realization is that stage of life in which you realize that your Consciousness is beyond the world of form, it is immersed in Formless Being, the Absolute. This is the first phase of Realization.
There is a more mature swing within that initial tendency toward the Unmanifest that pushes toward the outer reality, what we call the external world. The immature phase of Self Realization insists that “I Am That” and that’s the end of the story. It does not contain the knowledge that “Thou Are That” and “Everything Is That,” those two latter movements belong to a more mature phase of Self-Realization.
So the initial phase is exclusive, it’s exclusively subjective. It’s merely a statement about the subjective terrain or depth of my own Consciousness whereas this latter movement is more on a horizontal plane which begins to embrace the outer forms and states of being that exist within the world. Included within those states of being is also your dream state, your sleep state and your waking state. Those too become embraced in this more advanced form of Self-Realization.
Moderator: A Southern California viewer comments “there was energy and then everything became still and there was deep silence and peace. I didn’t feel like coming out of it.” Moderator: A Hawaiian viewer says “I have experienced akin to pulling ...
Moderator: A viewer says “was there something that you wanted to say about the energetic dimension a few moments ago?” David: Yes, I said it, that there is an energetic frequency that accompanies high Realization, deep spiritual Realization. ...
Moderator: A Washington viewer says, “I appreciate the answer about pain. I’m experiencing some dissolution of the long held misunderstanding about the subject. It feels to be deeper than mental.” David: Pain is real. If you are in a human form ...
Moderator: The viewer from Hawaii says, “In regard to my earlier question, you emphasized the importance of awareness. That is exactly what seemed to define those moments of contraction, sort of hard to describe.” David: So the lesson is that ...
Moderator: A viewer in Hawaii says, “I love it when you talk like that, I’m feeling it.” David: I only talk like that when I’m feeling it. You see you can be this all the time and still undergo various bavas of recognition within it. Being ...
For one who knows the Self, Being has presenced. It has come into presencing or self-presencing and engages in self-revelation. Not revelation to another. Not to the experience of a someone but from within its own nature It begins to shine. That ...
Participant: But as, over the last few months as my apprehension of Consciousness has deepened, I’m beginning to see what’s really going on, which is something quite different from what people tell us. What’s going on is that there is a place ...
I rely on the native power within Being, and not any kind of yoga that I’ve mastered, any kind of spiritual approach, any kind of teaching. It’s not because I don’t value approaches or I look down upon them. They’re just not appropriate for what ...
David: The most important thing is that you experience something, that something in you begins to enlarge and you begin to sense your own global self, not your little limited body-mind that does things around the house ; it shops vegetables and ...
Participant: David, what I noticed when I very first met you a number of years ago, is that I saw you as a certain person or a certain being, and then I would go away and I’d come back and you’d be totally different. And then gradually I saw ...
You’re all equal to me. Everyone’s equal. It’s just your approach. Whatever your approach is.... I don’t favor anyone, but I’m just as much on you completely, individually, as I am on her. I’m "on you." Even if I’m looking here a lot and I don’t ...
Moderator: A viewer in Australia comments, "I thought I knew what the body-mind is; now I realize it's as much of an unknown as the Absolute." David: Correct. It is the Absolute. It is the Absolute. It can be nothing else. All the understandings ...