Hi Starsky - interesting observations. Yes, I'd agree that choices of the identity are an illusion, and that both need to be pared away. 👍

However, you then say this...

You couldn’t have less autonomy as is immersed within the cosmic dreamfield of a far higher intelligence than yourself. But then, there is no you, and there is no other, there is no separation, it is all an idea, that is the final farce!!

This feels, to me, like a non-duality trap.

If there is no you, because there is no other, and there is no separation, then how is there relativity? How is there experience at all?

I say the presence of pure absolute (which is not relativistic, not dual) is in dynamic equilibrium with relativistic flow. Meaning both conditions of manifest and non-manifest exist simultaneously. Streams of awareness arise from this dynamic equilibrium, that create the manifest Universe - which is only possible because relativity of consciousness happens. Each emergence of awareness from this singularity is a stream of unique consciousness that we might call a "soul". Each soul is a relativistic flowing experience of pure presence. You are both. Or rather, you are the One, that is flowing in a fractal (of the One) having your own unique wave of experience. Without this, or something like it, there is no relativity, no separation of awareness, and therefore no experience - that's why there has to be a 'this' and 'that'. Even though 'this' and 'that' are relativistic flows of awareness, which then go on to create the manifest Universe, through crystalisation of form, in the flow of spiral dynamics - which happens as the emergent consciousness from the singularity forms the Torus.

But then still choice is an interesting concept within this relativistic flow - this Torus. Is there choice, or is it just flow?

I would say the soul is comprised of (at least) 7 rays of consciousness - from exploration of the different aspects and qualities of the soul. This experience only starts to emerge as the ego is dissolved out - including that which has trapped itself in a bubble called "non-duality". It's clear this is the case, because this "non-duality" can only be defined with a quality - and that which is opposite to it. Hence it's still only relativistic. It's a relativistic non-duality bubble, that got itself detached from the flow - often because it learned that if it kept dissolving the flow (of unique experience), then it would also dissolve attachment, and so it would experience deep peace. But the peace is also an illusion - it's still only a relativistic experience of the true deep peace, which is pure presence, at the core of everything, even intense agitation. The last great attachment is to non-attachment!

So how does flow happen? How does alignment within that flow take place without an ego? It requires a deep immersion of inquiry into the nature of the streaming flow of consciousness that is your soul. Or more accurately put, that is you AS soul. After lifetimes of inquiry into this, I would say the philosophy of the 7 Rays of Consciousness is a reasonable template to illuminate the nature of the Rays. (Please note in the diagram below, the nomenclature on the left, is merely meant to point to the quality on the right, and is not intended to crystallise as an identity - although it often does)...

One of the rays of the soul happens to be (what we can call) the Ray 3, "The Interpreter", which seems to be constantly inquiring as to, "What is real now? What is authentic now? Is the stream of consciousness coherent and aligning accurately now?"

This naturally questioning mechanism (which can easily distort to become the questioner/interpreter identity), is what we can call the soul's attunement mechanism. It's how rightness of flow is achieved.

Before there's complete clarity and union of the being with the soul, it may appear as though this continual attunement mechanism presents a choice - "either this way or that". But that's only because the soul is refracting, as if through a prism, as it infuses density. But as the being attunes this infusion of soul more accurately, by observing the rightness of flow (which appears to be making a choice in the direction of flow), then you come into alignment with the ray 3 - the ray 3 is steering the show and there's observation of it - awareness of it.

So the 'higher intelligence' of which you speak, is the higher relativistic aspect of you, which now becomes embodied - within your fractal of the One.

Open 💎