--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote: > > "In Unity, who is it who has this control?" > > From a personal perspective, we do. One thing I've noticed about stabilized > states of consciousness is that they always feel normal. So if someone is in > the waking state, or CC, or Unity, it always feels normal, it always feels > like us. > > I was just thinking that the progression, the evolution of states of > consciousness, is like learning to dance with an invisible partner, and by > doing so, we learn bit by bit how to perform the dance as perfectly, as > creatively, and as powerfully as the Universe itself. Cosmic life. > > But there is always a "me" in the experience, a unique way of expressing this > "no self". Once the Universe has granted us the grace to express ourselves on > Its behalf, we continue to move forward as ourselves, simultaneously seeing > the innocent reflection of the Divine everywhere, yet continuing to do the > things we ourselves enjoy doing, regardless of the state of our consciousness. > > Does that answer your question?
Well, it's *an* answer, thanks. But I've been reading some of Michael DG's old posts, and he makes a distinction, as I understand him, between the state where there's still a "me" in the experience and the state where that disappears (maybe Brahman Consciousness rather than Unity? I'll have to go back and check). I'm also faintly remembering a post Jonathan Levy made (another brilliant articulator of MMY's teaching) on the old, old TM-list back in the late '90s that had to do with the dynamics of a person in Unity having the desire that a bird should sing. I can't begin to recapitulate what he said, other than that there was no way to formulate that situation in words without paradox. And then he went ahead and formulated the paradox. I mention it just in case anyone here who was on that list remembers what he said. It was a sort of Aha! experience for me; it's still the basis of my (purely intellectual) understanding of Unity, but it's so abstract I just give up trying to express it in words.
