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Be still and know that I AM God. ---Tehillim 46:11 The Hebrew word רָפָה "rapha" [the Psalms were written in Hebrew] can mean "be still" and it can also mean "cease striving" Other meanings are "be relaxed" and "heal" As in the archangel Raphael

pretends his absence but really omnipresent playing hide and seek

a. learning is itself a form of doing b. learning is more spinning in the mind c. practices are useful in cultivating stillness

another name used is Beingness. I like that also. it brings to mind the I AM. since "am" and "being" are both forms of the verb "be" Be still and know that I AM. ---Tehillim 46:11 Source is vast and contains all potential. It is not a one-trick pony. So as there are worlds of separation (the physical universes and everything in them) so too it follows there are expressions that are NOT encumbered or characterized by separation.

sometimes i think of it as a wellspring, an unending source that flows and the result is, well, everything. The Tao Te Ching also uses the imagery of water.

yes regarding "impermanence of all phenomena including ourselves" the human body, mind, thoughts, feelings, perceptions, emotions, personality, knowlwedge are all impermanent, yes. However the part of the human that is the Divine spark is NOT impermanent. It is permanent. It has no beginning and no end, always was, always will be. That is my understanding.

"awareness" and "pure awareness" aptly describe the feeling of alert presence. I have used those at times. However awareness too easily can be taken to mean perception. And at the level of pure presence, even perception falls away.

everything within the worlds of separation is inseparable from Source. however Source is far more than only the worlds of separation. Source expresses in ways other than just the worlds of separation. i don't use the word "emptiness" because it indicates absence, absent. Source is presence, present.

Humans have the pattern which delineates how non-physical infinite Source projects and interacts with finite physical worlds. The functionality is for us, not for Source. "This is the 'divine image' in which the human being is created. By knowing ourselves as human beings, therefore, we are able to discover the divine. And by understanding the divine, we are better able to heal and nurture the human being." The human soul yearns to reunite with its origin within Source. Do you ever feel that yearning? It feels like being homesick. (source article by Tzvi Freeman)

i agree that it is not accurate to say time stops. What is more accurate is to say the recognition that time does not exist. That it is an artifical construct. When we are able to drop into stillness, we come closer to experiencing at the level of Source or Beingness. At that level time does NOT exist. So we glimpse it, and the felt sense of that as a physical human is the sensation of time stopping. Just as all my incarnations (all my "past lives") are happening simultaneously and concurrently, so too (like you say for the 5 year old self) all moments in my own life are also happening concurrently. It's like writing a book. If i write into the book "five year old self is now happy" then i feel it because the me at all my ages are all within me now every moment. Even modern secular science in the here and now is beginning to recognize that time does not exist, that it is an artificial construct for convenience in navigating physical experience.

because that is the pattern or map in separation. whether it is at the level of town or planet or galaxy or cosmos. it is a map of our connection to Source. in other posts you have mentioned the view either from "top looking down" or "bottom looking up." the view can also be collapsed into concentric circles. from wherever we are in Separation (human body, or planet, or cosmos) we have the same relationship to Source. And as Source is within us, then we can picture "expanding" to contain all the universes.

Those are good questions. "What new faculties appear in the stillness?" At the inner level, listening, hearing, seeing, Inner knowing. Experience that time "stops." If by trans-human level, that is talking about enhanced abilities, or "supernatural" feats then yes people can access those. But they still remain in Separation even if they are say working in the non-physical planes or as a "light body" or as some other life form, or zipping around to other universes or working on a grander scale. Regarding Tree of Life, I do not know, but am interested to hear from anyone on that.

As pure potential, Source is free to wonder and daydream about anything. We do that ourselves in the creative process. We try this or that, and we see what works and what doesn't. Descending so deep into pysical matter that we forget who we are and what we are doesn't work. Doing that for thousands of lifetimes over and over also doesn't work, it is a dead end. Yes we have free will. And yes Source has free will and active intent. We can use that to stay in a repetitive cycle. Or we can use it to get out. it's like a really good computer game with a whole bunch of levels and challenges and treasures and skill sets. But at some point we realize OK, enough is enough, time to experience something else now. Something that is not Separation. Experience that is not bound by time or space or form. Because those are not the truth of who we are.

Yes our eternal Self shines through.

creativity, daydream, imagination are about the process, not the product. even in the mundane world, sitting around wondering "what if _______ " is not from a place of desire or necessarily "wanting those things. " It is just the pleasant process of wondering "what if"

who says it does?

Form, time, space are all dependent upon Source and only have their existence because of Source. They are changing and finite. Source is not dependent on any of those. Source precedes all of those. Source is unchanging and not finite.

there is a Latin phrase "creation ex nihilo" which translates to "creation from nothing." In Hebrew it is yesh m'ayin "something from nothing." The creation of every "thing" (all the objects, all the things, the universe and everything in it) comes from a Source that is itself not a "thing." Source has no form, no shape, it does not take up any space, it is not bound by time or space or form, it has no beginning and no end, it always was and always will be. Source (which is not a thing, it is a no-thing) creates, or is back of, or gives rise to everything (all the things, the Universe and everything in it). So there is a difference between "nothing" which indicates an utter absence. and the no-thing that is Source. which is very much a powerful presence

No, it is not. For a whole lot of people it is the hardest. And it is certainly not a requirement. ever.

but for the over-active thinking mind, practices ARE needed and ARE useful. It is not helpful to just tell someone to "become still." just like it is not practical to bark at someone on the massage table to "just relax." it comes across as impatient and judgey. there are practices which help bring a person to stillness. those practices are valid and valuable. again, it is not helpfult to scold and chide anyone for not caring, not wanting to, not attaining what you think they should, in the way you think they should. it is not about you. it is not one size fits all. and talking AT people comes across as patronizing. That is my view.

also, meditation does not have to be sitting still. stillness can be cultivated in other ways. for instance walking in nature. or deeply absorbed in creative process. daydreaming. listening.

Bear in mind that research studies have documented that AI is incorrect 60% of the time. Depending on which AI platform is used, they range in error from 30% to 90% of the time. So that is like using a tutor with grades of D or F. So be aware that AI (a) is incorrect 60% of the time, and (b) can't distinguish between correct information and incorrect information; and (c) performance over time actually DECREASES, it gets worse; and (d) it fabricates information. it makes up fake stuff including people, events, and URLs. Given that, AI is not a credible source, and it is not a reliable source, then it baffles me that it is used at all. For me, if i see information presented in post that indicates AI as a source, then i dismiss it out of hand as not reliable, not accurate, not credible, and 60% incorrect or fabricated. source article 2025 "AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate" article 2023, University of Maryland Research Guide, "What does AI Get Wrong" article 2023, Scientific American, "Yes AI Models Can Get Worse Over Time" AI is "just mimicking reasoning, rather than actually performing that reasoning.” In March an AI tool correctly identified prime numbers from a list 96.7% of the time. Three months later in June of the same year, the same AI platform, the same task, the same list, but only 2.7% were correctly identified. AI is simply not reliable. Oh, and the paid versions of the eight AI platforms tested, had higher error rate than the free versions.

here is link to guide on how to do the Revision. It also includes within an additional link for Clearing Karmic Complex.

what comes to mind that they have in common is deception and illusion. magic and marketing are about illusions.

if you are having a dream, and in the dream you are hungry, and then you wake up, is the hunger real? After you wake up, are the brick wall and breakfast and hungry man in the dream real or not?