The Seer

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The true function of problems is to direct you to their solution at the Centre. Having some problems is very helpful.

Having quite severe problems brings me back to the place where there are no problems. Because Who I really, really, am is problem-free. I’m living from the problem-free area out into the world.

Part of the price of involvement in the world is to have feelings, some of which are agreeable, some of which are disagreeable, some of which are tragic.

I can’t exist, can’t express at all without this dualism: the dualism of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, black and white, etc, which is the inescapable condition of expressing into the world from the place that is free of those dualities.

From: Open to the Source, by Douglas E. Harding. Edited by Richard Lang.

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The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main purpose is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness. Here are three ways of practicing “awakened doing.”

Knowing that what is cannot be undone — because it already is — you say yes to what is or accept what isn’t. Then, you do what you have to do, whatever the situation requires.

Stay alert, stay present — present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into the darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

Abide in this state of acceptance for longer and longer periods each day. In this state, you create no more negativity, no more suffering, no more unhappiness. You then live in a state of nonresistance, a state of grace and lightness, free of struggle. When your doing arises from this state, your Being is a gift to the world.

Adapted from Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now (p. 132–133) by Eckhart Tolle

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On the level of mind, most tragedies are like small pieces in a very complicated jigsaw puzzle. Awareness is about recognizing the puzzle as a whole as well as being puzzled by the pieces, so to speak.

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Oprah Winfrey’s ten-session Webcast series with Eckhart Tolle, discussing his book, A New Earth has now concluded with most viewers hailing it as a stimulating and enriching exchange in many ways. Due to the vast number of people Oprah can reach, (over two million watched these live events) there were all kinds of people drawn into an experience they may never have opened to. This is cool . . . but it was bound to ruffle some feathers.

The first thing I noticed was a lot of fundamental leaning Christians having problems with Eckhart’s teaching, or perhaps it was with coming to grips with their own shallow grasp of what Yeshua (Jesus) really taught. Many people in the forum are expressing problems with guilt or with their fellow Christians chastising them for accusing this gentle teacher of being “satanic” or the “antichrist” WOW, but it does not surprise me. It would be laughable if it were not such a sad reflection on the unconsciousness of these ‘religious’ critics.

Satanic? An English friend tells the humorous story about giving his sister a copy of The Power of Now

On a more sombre note, this fundamentalist claims on YouTube that Oprah was host to Antichrist

In case you’re wondering, the Antichrist is considered by believers to be the prodigious tyrant of the last days, the arch-enemy of Christ. It was a notion that combined Persian dualism with Judeo-Christian apocalypse. Antichrist first appeared in Revelation as the pseudo-messiah ‘who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped…. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given to him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.’ In the Middle Ages, however, he was portrayed not only as a world tyrant but also as an airborne beast with a huge head, flaming eyes, ass’s ears, and iron teeth.

If this hasn’t put you off the Oprah / Eckhart Webcasts for good, we now have the complete series of ten available on DVD disks … or disk, for a nominal price of $2 a disk. Wih over 15 hours of teaching and entertaining inspiration, these sessions reveal again the liberating truth of Who we really are.

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Soon after Queen Victoria bought Balmoral Castle on Scotland’s river Dee, she spent one Sunday afternoon being rowed on the river. A woman who believed in the strict observance of the Sabbath said to her minister, “Isn’t it dreadful!” “What’s dreadful?” asked the minister. “The Queen’s rowing on the river on the Sabbath,” said the irate woman. The minister reminded her that Jesus was on the Sea of Galilee on the Sabbath. “Two wrongs,” said the woman, “don’t make a right.”

Norman Victor Hope

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My apologies for the ’suspension’ of posts for the past month or so but there were a couple of reasons for this. First, The Seer, was attacked by a hacker or hackers who managed to corrupt the code on the home page and insert some mischiefous code of their own redirecting visitors to other sites etc.

This has now been fixed and I hope the loopholes in the blog software that allowed this to happen have been closed. We are also trying to upgrade the software and install greater protection against these ‘invasions’.

As I explained in an email to our subscribers, this happened just as I had a bit of a crisis with my eyesight and adding new posts became extremely difficult let alone trying to undo the damage done to The Seer by the hackers.

After the crisis, a corneal transplant was redone on my right eye and at this stage, I have some good useful vision with every prospect of it improving over the next few months (in the absence of complications). Of course, the formless dimension or ‘light of consciousness’ remains as crystal clear as ever and has been the Source of deep abiding peace through all these comings and goings of sensory perception.

With regard to these medical issues, I constantly abide in Awareness — the still silent background to all my life-experience in the foreground, so to speak — this is my meditation. I also consult with and am guided by medical specialists who are wondrous expressions or manifestations of the One that I am and you are too. It is all God.

I’m now looking forward to sharing more regularly with interested friends through this blog and thank you for your patience with the recent scarcity of posts.

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Anyone interested in spirituality or religion will recognize that light, as an illuminating and life-giving energy, has been a much-used metaphor for the divine since time immemorial. Pure light has thus been equated with the light of truth, the light of God, the light of Consciousness, the light of Buddha, the Christ-light or the cosmic light, depending upon where one was born and what one was taught.

Nearly all cultures, peoples, and religious groups through the ages have talked about the phenomenon of light in the context of the spiritual or mystical experience. Spiritually inclined individuals have spoken of being called to the light, of being filled with light, of being guided by the light, and of dissolving in an ocean of light etc. Those who claim to have seen visions of holy beings typically report that they were surrounded by a radiant luminescence.

After Prince Siddhartha Gautama realized his Buddhahood, he taught that all beings are imbued with a spark of inner divine light. In describing the original Buddha-nature, Buddhists use such phrases as innate luminosity, primordial radiance, the unobscured clear natural mind, and the clear light of reality.

To read the complete article by Pete Sumner, >Click Here

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This Living Teaching is right here, right now. It is, in fact, as close to you as your breath. When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It’s there! It is coursing the blood through your veins, it is animating your breath, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear.

This is something that is essential and fundamental and true. It’s independent of what you think about it, what you believe about it and what you feel about it. It is here, and with Grace you dissolve into it. You recognize your true self in it. It is this living force, this animating force that has manifested into the complexity we call Life. It is this living force that has manifested into this being which you call yourself.

It is at once wondrous and simply obvious.

by Wayne Liquorman

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Only when you find the formless dimension in yourself can there be true love in any relationship. The Presence that you are, the timeless I Am, recognizes itself in another, and the other feels loved, that is to say, recognized.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The other’s “otherness” then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form. The longing for love that is in everyone is the longing to be recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of Being.

If you honor only the human dimension of the other but neglect Being, the other will sense that the relationship is unfulfilled, that something absolutely vital is missing, and there will be a buildup of pain in the other and sometimes unconscious resentment toward you. “Why don’t you recognize me?” This is what the pain or resentment seems to be saying.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world….

It has been said “God is love” but that is not absolutely correct. God is the One Life in and beyond the countless forms of life. Love implies duality: lover and beloved, subject and object. So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

From, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.

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A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life as he was swept along by the torrent.

Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive.

“I accommodated myself” he said, “to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. That’s how I survived.”