Listener question: I participate in your June  course. You speak about going deeper. Can you elaborate on the proces of going deeper? What is it? How does one do it? 

What I hear in this is that one becomes silent and witnesses what is playing out ‘behind the scenes’. Scrutinise your thought. But everytime I ‘do’ this, I get stuck in the weeds. Like I get sucked in the fantasy world of thought and I don’t hear the birds singing and feel the sun on my face. Same thing with deliberately feeling what is going on: then I seem to get sucked in anxious feelings and ramped up thinking. Few years ago I was very committed to seeing what was going on behind the scenes, and that resulted in being very depressed and deeply sucked in to a world of thought. For this reason, right now I’m a little step away from just stopping with this course.

Would it be fair to say that the primary characteristic of disidentified creation is the state of flow?  When I am simply delighting in how the line or the colors unfold on the canvas, or thrilling to a particularly delightful turn of phrase that has just emerged from nowhere.  Or, is that yet another elaborate trick of the identity claiming not to be there?  In other words, is a “pure“ state of flow even possible? Or are we , as in many other things, always dealing with both the awareness and the Lego figure?

I am writing with a question that is not so much for myself that I ask as for another who has seemingly been in a state of constant crisis for the last several months. The constant agitation of her mind has her body in perpetual overdrive, which leads to a lot of misery and loss of sleep.  She is quite frightened by the whole experience and even wondering whether there ever will be a solution and whether life is worth living.

That preamble sets the stage for my question. For those who are so caught up that they simply cannot sit with the suffering, would it not be helpful to point them in the direction of what is working. The little miracles of sunshine coming through the window in the morning; fragrance of the 1st cup of coffee; The joy of watching children play in the park. These are just random examples that fall into the category of general gratitude. I know for my part that the only reason that I don’t get totally sucked into my thinking anymore is because I am so deeply savoring all the other aspects of my life.  

The main appeal for me of your style of teaching is that you build bridges: the bridge to the first step followed by a bridge to the second step… And the third… And before you know it you are in a completely different head space. What I am suggesting here is that those who are struggling may need additional bridges.

I don’t know what the best way forward for me is in this? 

I notice since we’ve done the origin of patterns task that I’m skirting around the edges of this course, not really in it and not really out.

Another pattern, staying in limbo land, I can’t go wrong there can I? 

More patterns becoming visible. Overwhelming amounts of bad habits and patterns. Depression presently. 

Addiction to approval (including yours) as I see my friend Tia being an A student and resenting that I’m not the teachers pet. 

Addiction to sugar, overeating and then hating my body. 

Could it be that the feeling crap is a weird twisted addiction as it is soooo familiar? Almost like a suffocating blanket over the demands of the world? 

I need to go to work, where there is a whole soap opera going on of not being valued ( I earn £900 a month ) . 

Every single pattern I observe is intertwined with another. It’s seems like a fucking big spiders Web of entrapment. I’m sooo sick of it!!!

Sorry for the unfiltered rant, I don’t know where to go from here. 

I have a question for you that maybe you can address on a podcast if appropriate.

My question is about all the conspiracy theories flying around about what's currently going on in the world (some of which are quite frightening!!). Going back to basics, it seems that nothing is really true. If everything is simply a reflection of the identity, do conspiracy theories appearing everywhere in front of my eyes just reflect my own fear and mistrust of what's going on and nothing more? So is there no place for vigilance or preparation in the face of everything I hear? 

The next point is probably more a law of attraction question or perhaps its all the same thing. If I entertain and focus all my attention on conspiracy theories (which seems to be what is currently happening!!), apparently these will be drawn into my reality. I am therefore finding myself in a battle of trying to distract myself from these thoughts for fear that I will manifest them! So for those who believe this stuff, it will play out, while for others who are oblivious, it wont?? 
I have clearly lost my way!! Would appreciate your clarity!!

Listener question: As a follow up from today’s podcast can you please talk more about what you mean by ‘going into the body’
I’ve spent years scanning the body as a way to determine ‘how I’m doing’ This is unhelpful as it just ramps up my thinking! How is what you’re proposing different?

Listener question: Can you say more about when something is a pattern from the brain-body keeping an idea of self in place versus when it's a quality of unique beingness? It seems like anything can be either. 

In looking over patterns from a no-self accountability perspective, some patterns seem like they are preferences of this brain-body...sometimes keeping a self in place and sometimes not. For example this brain-body loves new experiences. On one hand, this body doesn't seem to find as much of a "problem" in boredom because "new" is always possible in the moment. On the other hand there can be a seeking of new experience as an escape from presence or that same moment that at times is easy to be in.

thank you!

Listener question: Just woke up. My alarm went off. I noticed for a very few seconds, kindness, friendliness. Then thoughts came, you have to, must (work etc). I started to think this at a certain moment in my life. I feel miserable right now, heavy, low, haert beating (almost every morning). It is hard to to let those thoughts feelings go, I think they scare me so much that I want to reduce them or something in my head. As if I am trying to manage them. But then they only stick isn't it. They feel so painful, but I guess that is the resistance towards them. I don't know how not to. To let them be, flow. 

In your opinion, was the Jewish Holocaust a factual event that occurred between 1939 and 1945?

Listener question: I would like to enjoy life and do things but my limiting beliefs and emotions just won't let me... I suffer daily from intense negative emotions and feelings.. And 3 days ago i found out that the woman i love wants to date with another man.. It crushed me into pieces with jealousy anxiety sadness and fear.. The intense emotion is sooo uncomfortable... It makes me very difficult to do anything.. I left myself totally helpless and i lie in bed all day long.. These intense negative emotions suck all the energy out of my body... Leaving me weak and tired and fearful... I want emotional freedom from my suffering... I am writing to you to ask you how could i eliminate or neutralize my intense emotions and be free from all of these sufferings?