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ISBN-13: | 9781935387923 |
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Publisher: | Hohm Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2015 |
Pages: | 260 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Remember Yourself, Seeker. Self observation is absolutely essential if I wish to "Know Myself" and mature into a Human Being and not remain on the mammal level of existence, an unconscious, habit-driven, mechanical, automatic-pilot slave to my personal history and to unconscious forces derived from that history (see: Red Hawk. Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience. An Owner's Manual. Hohm Press, 2010). Self observation and self remembering are not two separate practices; they are essential and bonded steps in the same practice. Self remembering must come first, then self observation may follow, as the seed must come before the plant can grow. Without self remembering, all so-called self observation is in the mind alone and therefore vulnerable to imagination and illusion, a part of the unconscious dreaming mechanism. Observation from the mind alone goes nowhere, produces fantasy and inner division, and may do harm or produce inner pathology. The destination is the present–it must be constantly renewed with every breath or the connection is lost. Self remembering places the observer in time and space, in the present, in the body, grounds the observation in the body. The present is the destination for Work-on-self. Unless the body is brought into play in self observation, it goes nowhere. At its most fundamental level, 1st stage self remembering is remembering that I have a body and exist for a time in this body: "I-am-here-now." Self observation from the mind alone can result in harmful pathology. Every spiritual path has a pathology–one pathology associated with self observation is a self-centered self-obsession (which is why the practice of self remembering involves not just self, but the other). I wish to work with the mind, not from the mind. Working from, or in, the mind alone produces a schism, an inner separation whereby I begin to judge and work against what I observe, rather than with what is observed and for my inner Aims. I fight with what is observed, under the delusion that I can change what I see. This fight to change what is observed produces wrong results, often harmful, and leads me in a wrong direction from which I may never recover. As I come to know myself as a mechanical entity taken constantly in identification with the mechanical habits of the body, I begin to develop a body of Conscious impressions whose accumulation builds both will and Wish in me so that I do not forget my habitual unconsciousness.
Table of Contents
Thema ix
Introduction xi
Prologue: Placing Hope In What Is Permanent xiii
Chapter 1 Self Remembering 1
Chapter 2 Spiritual Surgery: The Removal of Self Importance 15
Chapter 3 Separation Grief: The Terror of the Situation 31
Chapter 4 Kaya Sadhana: Making Friends with the Devil 44
Chapter 5 Shifting the Assemblage Point: The Second Ring of Power 69
Chapter 6 The Sorrow of Judgment 79
Chapter 7 The Seduction of Change 87
Chapter 8 Field Attention: The Objective World 101
Chapter 9 Completing the Inner Triad 111
Chapter 10 The Solar Plexus, Heart Center, Abdomen 141
Chapter 11 The Holy Present and the 1-Percent Edge 172
Chapter 12 The Law of Reciprocal Maintenance: Conscious Management of the Survival Instinct 189
Chapter 13 Self Observation 209
Epilogue: Practice of the Dharma 233
Postlude - Angel of Mercy 237
Coda 240
Glossary 241
References 247
About the Author / About Hohm Press / Contact Information 250