| It could happen to anyone at anytime. In a finger | | | | tools for the intent of spiritual awakening or |
| snap, all that you once thought you knew and all that | | | | realization. The only difference in all of the above |
| you once thought you were, rapidly if not instantly | | | | stated is that some would argue that the anomalous |
| dissolves into a perceptual extinguishment of | | | | events or objects were not applied tools of choice |
| diminishing returns. You die unto yourself. You no | | | | but instead a random unexplained occurrence of |
| longer exist. Yet there is Awareness; an abundant | | | | happenstance. But are they? Did they just happen |
| Presence that still as yet permeates, infuses and | | | | without your participation or seeming permission? My |
| embeds itself into Its own machinations of | | | | answer and assessment and best guess is no |
| observation. There is no separation between | | | | because as I see it, if something occurs within your |
| Consciousness and all that arises and falls within It. | | | | perception, then to my way of thinking and |
| You are This. | | | | observing, you then must be a co-creator of the said |
| Presence is key for Presence is what you are. It is | | | | thing or event even if it is co-created at a |
| both your basal sensitivity as well as the construct of | | | | subconscious level of understanding. The brave task |
| that which occurs within that sensitivity. | | | | at hand then is to perhaps take upon oneself an |
| How then, can the Paranormal be applied as a vehicle | | | | ownership of all perceived events within one's scope |
| of awakening if indeed it needs any application or | | | | and thereby both utilize them and take advantage of |
| permission from you at all? How does a seemingly | | | | them for their potential uses as tools or temporary |
| detached phenomenon kindle recognition, | | | | mechanisms for Self realization and Enlightenment. In |
| remembering and realization? | | | | other words, see them for what they are not, not |
| Perhaps, like any other creation or made thing, there | | | | for what you think they are or want them to be. |
| comes a moment when your attention is held captive | | | | When something is perceived as different or other |
| by a sinuous moment of appreciated beauty or a | | | | than, it is often in this perception that the object |
| horrific episode of terror and fear. Both are the same | | | | beheld is seen or witnessed or experienced as a thing |
| but obviously not in emotional content or perceptual | | | | or event of fear. It is not like unto myself |
| context. The commonality is that the event or thing | | | | perceptively, therefore I fear it. Fight or flight instinct |
| has your attention. Your abject awareness is | | | | very often is the result of such an account. We |
| nowhere or no when else. You are here. You are | | | | become critically defensive seek an immediate way |
| now. You are. | | | | out or worse yet, a way to destroy the object of |
| Let us say, for speculation's sake, that you are in the | | | | fear. One's own beliefs are shaken and the memetic |
| throes of your typical daily routine, day or night, it | | | | structures and natures of those beliefs are called to |
| does not matter. The fact that you are experiencing | | | | the forefront of one's psyche in terms of questioning |
| or not experiencing your routine as it were, but | | | | one's reality. This can be a very useful thing if one at |
| instead are more blindly going through a set of | | | | that very moment can actually be courageous |
| mindless actions does. A double distraction if you will, | | | | enough to let the false reality of the small self's |
| for if your mind is not on the task at hand, where | | | | deluded perception dissolve with its house of cards |
| then is it? Your latent attentive nature seeks | | | | like structures into the moment, leaving behind only |
| Presence and one way or another it seems, it will | | | | what has always/already been Your Awareness and |
| find it. | | | | the objects within it. The small self's egoic identity |
| Suddenly, while in your car perhaps, a brilliant object | | | | can be at once diluted and dissolved into the |
| in the sky presents itself to your direct line of vision. | | | | nothingness from whence it came. One then can |
| The unknown nature of it is obvious and in that | | | | perhaps see the true nature of one's own identity |
| obviousness is the also sudden onslaught of fear. In a | | | | realize Its Self and remember Its Self and recognize |
| blind panic, you swerve your vehicle to the side of | | | | Its Self in this simultaneously simple act of unknowing. |
| the road to try to get your bearing and | | | | All then is undone when the small self or egoic self no |
| understanding of the situation. Meanwhile, the | | | | longer is held or believed to be an identity, for |
| anomalous object comes closer and you are now, | | | | BEingness still Is regardless of the catastrophe and |
| one hundred percent captivated by it. You are | | | | loss of perceived individuality. You Are this BEingness. |
| nowhere else in thought. You are no when else in | | | | The Paranormal Realm and its subconscious catharsis |
| time. You are here. You are in the now. You are | | | | into existence can perhaps be seen and used as a |
| present, terrified, and fully aware. This scenario is not | | | | living tool of awakening in as much as any mandala or |
| for the feint of heart and even though it could still | | | | mantra is alive in the mind of its user. It can be a |
| manifest as an awakening experience if it is | | | | vehicle that carries one no place if only for just a little |
| recognized for what it is. | | | | while until at such a point the vehicle is no longer |
| To make things less dramatic, let us take away the | | | | needed as it is seen as merely a construct as |
| aspect of fear or better still, let us turn it into a | | | | everything else is a construct of Mind. The vehicle, |
| sense of awe and wonderment. It is still the same | | | | then discarded, has brought you to a place without |
| potential catalyst for awakening as the object is still | | | | going anywhere to a time that only presents itself in |
| unexplainable but you now no longer perceive it as a | | | | the moment. Now. |
| threat. There is no sense of self preservation or a | | | | All is undone. All is pith and nothingness. All is Mind and |
| Fight or Flight instinct. You are still here. You are still | | | | its machinations with Its inseparable Observer. All Is |
| squarely in the now and you are aware of nothing | | | | and You Are That. Singularity. Nondual Suchness. One. |
| else but this moment and all that is arising and falling | | | | Vergessen. Nirodh. Nirvanna. Enlightenment. |
| within it. | | | | I Am We Are All Is One Being. |
| In this less dramatic scenario, you can see that a tiny | | | | This essay is only a speculative look at a potential |
| death has occurred. There was no you in this | | | | application of the Paranormal as a vehicle of |
| scenario. There was no sense of your body or its | | | | awakening. A possibility. An effort toward a pointing |
| physicality. There was only object and Awareness | | | | out of what a Conscious Engagement of the Great |
| surrounding it and permeating it. This is the beginnings | | | | Mystery might be like were it to be applied with |
| of Self realization. It is not to be understood. It is | | | | intent, with courage and with heart through the use |
| furthermore not even to be comprehended. It is | | | | of the Paranormal. For if what we think we know |
| simply Awareness and the experience of Its Self. | | | | has been labeled Paranormal, then by those same |
| You are That. You Are. | | | | definitions does what we think of as normal also |
| How then, does this differ really, from many of the | | | | apply. There is no separation. |
| other meditative or contemplative practices outlined | | | | One must truly be out of one's mind if one is to truly |
| by as many of the World's most noted Wisdom | | | | see that nothing is known and everything is simply a |
| Traditions? It is like looking upon a fine piece of art | | | | vast sense of BEing. |
| or sitting in a place of visual vantage for the sake of | | | | Rest in that which is frightened. Rest in that which is |
| taking in a most stunning view of an open and | | | | confused. Rest in that which is feeling separate. |
| untamed beautiful wilderness. You are lost in the | | | | Those still and only are the suchness of Spirit. The |
| view. You are rapt and held captive by the beauty of | | | | Is-ness of BEing. That which is reading these words is |
| the view or artwork. You are fully in this moment. | | | | the very same that wrote them. No difference. No |
| The obviousness of the intentionality is for the most | | | | separation. No other. |
| part subtle and perhaps to some innocuous or | | | | You are The One that has written this to your Self |
| ineffectual but for the most part, that subtlety is | | | | as but one of the many gentle and loving reminders |
| sometimes all that is needed to capture the attention | | | | to your Self that even in this, these very words and |
| of not the mind but the heart within it. | | | | all that they portray, are but lies, images and folly in |
| Anomalous activity or objects, mantras and mudras, | | | | your many attempts to create and believe in |
| mandalas, chants and prayers; all can be construed as | | | | something that is other than your Self. |