letter...

Yay! It's great to hear from you. My exchanges have been quite charged sometimes... they have seemed to carry a bit of a spiritual wrath and sometimes the tenderness shows another face and says, "oh gosh... i hope this isn't too harsh."

What I see these days is that consciousness is ONE... kind of like how the human body is one, though if you wanted to talk about it you could speak about many things, fingers, toes, eyes, etc, It"s like what we are is the ocean, which for whatever reason, took on the perspective of one of its waves and said, "this is what I am" - with all of the suffering that brings (ie. Oh my god I see the shore approaching and that means I'm going to crash on the shore and exist no longer!!)- and now "we", the waves, are waking back up to the truth of our ocean-ness...so it isn't a matter of "changing something" As much as it is about allowing the whole, living truth of this very moment... the only moment there ever is.

It's as simple as seeing that any object, anything that can be identified in this moment - thought, feeling, object, whatever... That thing exists in awareness... do you see that? It's almost too simple... I'm only just gaining the capacity to articulate it myself. Objects exist in awareness... there is the lamp on this table, and there is the awareness in which the lamp is appearing - otherwise, how could it be seen or felt? And if EVERY THING exists in awareness, and YOU are aware of EVERY THING, what are YOU? One of the things? not possible... YOU must be the awareness - the space in which every thing is appearing - including those seductive things which show up and say, "I am this body, I am this separate psychological entity with these thoughts and feelings." It's such a delight to see that these suggestions aren't possible - to see that these thoughts are just THINGS, showing up in awareness. When this is seen, awareness stops believing their story of "identifiable, objectifiable identity", and this frees the body up to do the joyous work of "believing" the whole truth - accepting the information that the senses are providing and working within that, instead of trying to translate everything to fit "the story of me".

love and love
raven