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ALL CONSCIOUSNESS (the Whole, the Entire, the Integral, the Complete Consciousness) is the ONE AND ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS, Within Which and Through Which every "subjective" and "objective" state is "POSSIBLE".

All the great founders of religions, but also great philosophers and other people in the field of metaphysics, experienced Reality as an Expansion of their consciousness to a Higher State...

The Consideration of the Unity of Consciousness, Within Which Is Included the Supreme Perception of Being, the Absolute, etc., as well as the individual perceptions, forms the basis of every metaphysical perception and every religious thought...

The closest, the most accessible to us, to our existence (the very essence of our existence in fact), is CONSCIOUSNESS. We are Conscious that we exist, we are Conscious that we exist within a "space" and we react within this space.

THE ANCIENT WORLD RELIGION

Since ancient times, thousands of years ago, when man became aware of his existential situation in Existence, he conceived the Basic Religious Principles (and the Basic Religious Terms of Existence and Life), on which he built all his subsequent...

Truth, as an Experience of Reality, like something that happens, as an Event, is beyond all descriptions, beyond all symbols, beyond all words. In reality there is (established and recognized and accepted) a completely arbitrary relationship between the Experience of Reality and an external symbol, an external activity, or speech, or deed.

From the beginning, from the emergence of consciousness in man, since man felt himself, and had experience of life, he tried to talk about everything he lived: About the Existential Environment, about himself, about the experiences of.

There is One Unique Essence (Consciousness) which is DEPTH. There is One Activity-Energy-Perception (Vision), the "Objective Consciousness", the Objective Perception which is the FOUNDATION. Upon "Objective Consciousness" (Perception) are woven...

The Wise Man Balances on the Wave of Life, Rides with It, Without Resisting, Where Life Leads Him… it is the fools who drown in the black waters of their imaginations, chasing after fleeting visions.

The - Through Careful Observation - Revelation of our True Nature, of Free Unlimited Open Perception, this Experiential Experience of Reality, brings about changes in our "consciousness", changes in the way we "feel" our existence, our relationships with world, our action, our life, society.

The Truth is Obvious! If people do not "see" it, or "see" it but do not "follow" it, it is because they judge according to their own scales, with selfish interest, lack of Justice, and indifference to their fellow men.

The World We Live in, Here and Now, is something much more than the information we take in, or are "forced" into our heads... It has Open Horizons, it has a depth of Duration, and Free Perspectives, for anyone who wants to be FREE.

TRUTH Is Unintelligible, Incomprehensible, Unspoken, Inexpressible... It is simply an Experience, beyond any perception.

Those who claim to be able to express the TRUTH, to Serve it, or to Defend it... to enclose it in Formulas, Symbols, Activities, are not only frauds, but criminals against man...

GOD is the Infinite Self Within us, beyond space and time, in the Silence of limited existence.... in the silence of the mind, in the silence of desires, in the silence of the senses, in the silence of the world...

The Space of Real Spiritual Work is Within Us... The Space Where True People Meet is the Deepest Sense of Oneness of Existence, the State in which we feel that we are One with All...

CONSCIOUSNESS IS ONE. Within This ONE CONSCIOUSNESS every "subjective differentiation" and "objective state" is possible and realizable...

In all religions and teachings, they speak of a state of "enlightenment of man", of a "higher awareness"...

Christians call it pure mind (simple mind)... which can lead (gradually) to Union with God (in the physical world)...

The True Complete Philosophy is the systematic construction of certain knowledge carried out by all the functions of Consciousness and not by means of a single function...

A religion (any religion) is a system of thought. A system of thought (a religion, a philosophy, a science, or simply a theory) adopts certain basic concepts (doctrines, ideas, theorems, concepts) with which it then structures the interpretation of Existence, the world, and individual phenomena.

Absolute Reality, Ultimate Reality, Limitless Reality, Boundless Reality, No "Obstacles" Reality, are not abstract terms of metaphysical, or simple thought, but Reality that some people Experience, Truth that they Understand, Life that they Live.

Orpheus perceives the DIVINITY as a REALITY to which he relates directly, existentially, and experientially… not in an external way, as a Deeper Inaccessible Reality that is expressed as external faith and worship and through ritual acts…

Reality Is What Is, What Exists, What Happens. If someone has direct contact with Reality, i.e. he perceives without "distorting", then we can say that he Experiences Reality, that what he perceives is True.

Reality – literally speaking, understanding, experiencing, the full meaning of the term – can only be One. Anything else is another perception of Reality, another “reality”, a vision, a construct of perception.

The Wise Man, who Leans on God, is like the eternal light that never goes out... The foolish man who leans on his little self is like the shadow that mingles with the darkness of the night.

All Religions and Philosophies (Metaphysical Theories) posit a Supreme Principle, which they nevertheless fail to really grasp (beyond some hints). The reason this happens is because That To Which They Point is A Living Dynamic Reality That Expands Beyond All Boundaries...

Reality, What Exists, is Unlimited, Without Limits... so thought, which represents what exists, cannot grasp it, since thought, by its nature, grasps things limited, defined, with qualities... In whatever way try, we will reach a dead end... Reality Begins where attempts to approach it End.

The Wise man lives life, quite naturally, the time it unfolds, the way it unfolds, where it unfolds, and calmly accepts what happens, both the good and the bad: His life is fresh as a diffused perfume...

To SEE, to Experience the TRUTH, to live in REALITY, is something very simple: JUST SEE... Can you just, see? What does it mean to BE CAREFUL? Paying attention to what is, what is happening, all that is happening?

In the Real World, which is beyond thought, and beyond human activities, there is only RESPONSIBILITY, and life is devoted to service... In the world of men, on planet earth, everyone has rights but no one feels or acknowledges RESPONSIBILITY … so it is no wonder that everything that happens in societies happens.

How can man, every man, experience the Absolute? Is there a way, any practice? the process?

I would say that what I and everyone experiences already exists, inherent, innate, within our human nature, as a possibility... a possibility of functioning, evolution, development, call it what you want.

ALL CONSCIOUSNESS (THE WHOLE, TOTAL, INTEGRAL, COMPLETE CONSCIOUSNESS) IS THE ONE AND ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS, WITHIN WHICH AND THROUGH WHICH EVERY "SUBJECTIVE" AND "OBJECTIVE" STATE IS "POSSIBLE".

There is a "higher awareness," a direct, supramental, extra-intellectual, perception of Reality... It is an expanded awareness, which transcends but includes the lower perceptual functions of the mind, but which are under control, regulated, and operate only to let the higher awareness perceive the lower levels of perception.

Theology, the study of religions, their comparative consideration, leads slowly but steadily to the realization that religious experience is a natural event independent of its possible historical expressions. The religious phenomenon itself is a universal, timeless, manifestation of our human nature. It cannot be identified with any particular religious tradition…

Studying the various religions, in all times (and regardless of the phase of religious understanding in which they are placed) we notice that there are certain basic concepts that are the same in all religions. All religions speak of the One Reality. The differences between religions are mainly interpretative and linguistic.

On the Road to Truth we are forced to talk about the Supreme Experience of the Divine Essence Within us, the Common Spiritual Life that is "Shared" by some beings, some people but above all to solve many misunderstandings about what Reality is, the Kingdom of Truth, the Kingdom of God, Eternal Life… as a Direct Experience of Reality, beyond the theories of men…

What the Buddha Experienced the Moment He Awakened (and Experienced from the Moment He Realized It) is that "That which Is", "That which We Really Are", i.e. Reality as Experience and as "Content of Experience", of Understanding, and not as a conception of some perception, as an objectified information, It is a Unique Reality that is Here, Now (not somewhere else or at some other time, in the future).

It is different to Really Experience what is, what is happening and afterwards express it mentally, in terms of the intellect (which is a lower level of perception, artificial, constructed with symbols, the word-concepts), than to be intellectual, to think (i.e. operate exclusively on the mental plane) by investigating truth mentally, with word-concepts.

CONSCIOUSNESS is experientially, empirically, "from things" (and therefore self-evidently) the Principle of Existence, Knowledge, Life (Action, Movement).

What is Consciousness? Who "asks"? Obviously Consciousness. Who can "know"? The Consciousness. Who "does" this? The Consciousness.

No Truth is so Manifest to the pure man as God, for He Lives in His Presence. And no Truth is as mysterious, almost non-existent, for the selfish man as God, because he lives in His Absence.

What one finds (a serious student of man, history and the evolution of societies, up to today) is…

1) People do not perceive Reality Directly (in what it is, in what happens) but indirectly, differently, in a wrong way...

True Religion is the Experiential Experience of the Infinite, the Real, the True... This is the ultimate criterion for rightly judging all the external teachings of men. We need to ask the simple question: Do they lead to Freedom, beyond thought?

Wisdom is accepting what you see, being content with what you have, and drinking true life from the eternal fountains of the Here and Now.

When we MEDITATE, i.e., when we are AWAKE, we really SEE what is happening, HERE, NOW, in Real Time.

What is Revealed to us, HERE, NOW, is our all-encompassing PRESENCE, an All-Seeing Unity of Awareness, All-Alive, and Active, Ready to respond where there is a need. There is no separation, ego-world, inside-outside. Everything just happens. They flow.

TRAVELER, in the UNKNOWN LAND OF CONSCIOUSNESS... only in the Tranquility (of Life) can you find the Truth... only in the Stillness (of the Soul) can you truly live, live existence in the worlds, as a continuum, and with full awareness ... only in the Silence (of the Mind) can you Understand what you really are...

Every human being, at whatever stage of development he is at, (and the development is manifested in his Perception, in the Size of his Understanding), has a Perception of Reality, more or less Objective, but always "real" for him...

BEING is the One Reality, Eternal, Immutable, Infinite. When the WILL is activated a different state of existence is created. The Subject conceives of BEING as an Identifiable, as an Idea, as being, as space, etc. – this is a mental conception (a construction) with which it is identified.

Whether we want it, dear friends, or not, we are cast without our present will into Being. All of us, even the uneducated shepherd on Olympus, are aware of Being. We are aware that we exist, that we live and that we act in any environment...

Religion, in terms of its content, is, in principle, for human consciousness, a total perception of existence and its phenomena, a worldview that interprets all phenomena...

Twenty-five centuries ago the Buddha crossed almost the whole of India to preach the Way to Enlightenment, to Nirvana. According to the Buddhist teaching "That which we are", "That which perceives", is a composition of various processes (skanda), processes consisting of corresponding flows, successions, momentary states, phenomena (dharma)...

There is Another, Different Reality, from the reality that people perceive and experience. There is, a Community of People (who are Real People, Authentic Humans) who Perceive Reality completely differently than what humans perceive.

Jesus in the Gospel

It must be said from the outset and understood that the Gospel of John has an inner hidden meaning that is not perceived by those who deal with the Text from the outside, that is, through an intellectual consideration and as an intellectual description...

To talk about something, we have to know it, really know it. That is, we must have contact with it and not simply acquire in one way or another mental information about it.

Who can speak for God? Only he who Experiences the Presence of God, who Lives in God, who is One with God...

Basic Knowledge, "Logic", "Systems Theory", "Physics" and "Quantum Physics", generally help to broaden our understanding.

There are many "Perspectives" of Reality, depending on our Level of Consciousness. All are verifiable within their limits and all are "false" when seen outside the particular system of perception.

The True Nature of God has nothing to do with what people perceive or imagine. God Does Not Exist in the way people think, nor does He Create, nor direct the course of creation, in the way people think. God Just Is. Everything else that Happens is nothing but activities that come and go. The Truth Remaining at the End is Unfathomable by men.

THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ABSOLUTE, Dear Friends, is one of the most difficult metaphysical issues because it is a Living Experience, a Dynamic Experience that is Constantly Flowing and Must Be Experienced in its "Motion"...it is very difficult to "describe", like movement...

Real Experience is silence of the mind, it neither fits into words, nor needs words... it indicates silence and actions leading to silence... When it is taught, when it leads to activities of the mind, to other purposes then it is only experience of the mind.

The most important things in our lives are not what we have thought and dreamed and done, but what we have never thought of... the vast silence beyond thought... the endless depth of HEAVEN...

When the "Mind" is Awake, Alive, Fresh, i.e., in Full Alertness, it is extremely active, in full attention... it perceives what is really happening, here, now... i.e., it has a direct continuous perception in real time...

For Those, the Awakened Ones, Who Experience the Divine Reality, the EVER PRESENCE OF ESSENCE, God Is Experiential Experience, not an Assumption of Thought, or a Vision of the Imagination... What you experience needs no proof!

What really matters is, WHERE someone IS, from WHERE he Perceives and Acts.

If one operates from a Wider Perception (from a HIGHER WHO), he operates according to Real Nature, Truth, Life… He is Wise, Reasonable, Virtuous…

REALITY IS AN INDIVISIBLE UNITY within which all subjective and objective situations are manifested. Thus, the ABSOLUTE REALITY is at the same time Something Spaceless, Pure Eternal, Infinite, without Beginning and End and at the same time It is the Background for every subjective and objective situation.

Dear friends, the "higher awareness" realized by all (serious) followers of esotericism is completely different from the "common man's awareness"...

Higher, enlightened, awareness is direct, "extra-intellectual" apprehension of Reality.

Esotericism forms the basis of all religions, all religious concepts...

Esotericism is a tradition, but without a clear historical (temporal, local, ideological) determination, which is lost over the centuries. Esotericism is an archaic concept that "captures" the opposition Consciousness-Objective, and is the background for any further religious concept.

The Depth of CONSCIOUSNESS is ONE and ONLY. From this One Depth projects the Perception, the Ego (every ego) as a complex of perceptions and behaviors within the various spaces and times...

As Far as We Can Understand Reality, God, Perception, Has Only One Attribute We Can "Recognize": It Is Unlimited Freedom.

Freedom Is the Essence of God. Freedom Is the Essence of Being, every being, of each one of us.

The True Knowledge

To Live in Reality means to perceive immediately, clearly, truly and completely, everything that happens. Logically, this means that our own (ontological) situation plays a primary role here, i.e "from where" we see and not "how" or "what" we see.

True Life is Experience, Direct Contact with things, what exists, what happens. The Perception of Reality can be simple and clear or it can be enriched in interpretation, but at the risk of distorting the image of reality. The description of the Truth is not the Truth. This is obvious.

THAT which has a "Sense" of Existence, which is "Perceived" (which is "Perceived" in general and not some "content" of Perception), has no Properties, nor does it depend on any "content" of Perception. It has an Infinite Depth that is Approached only Experientially and in the Absolute Silence of Perception, as "THAT IS".

The Wise Man is not sure of anything in life because he Follows the Stream of Life. He is Free, so he can easily accept whatever truth the facts reveal to him. The Sage is sure of one thing, that beyond all phenomena there is a Unique Truth.

In traditional concentration practices (where there is still, at least in the beginning, the subject-object distinction), true concentration of the subject is complete, total, attention to the object.

When you come to the World of Shadows, to the land of dreams, you must ask yourself deeply, who you are, what you are, what is here, where you are going, and how you must proceed.

Your ETERNAL SELF Is Still Here, even when you are lost in the maze of thoughts, when you are lost in the fog of "senses," or wander like a shipwreck on the "shores" of the world.

When you really see, you see what is happening now, in real time... and the "space" that you immediately perceive, this "here" is the true space, the reality.

The Sages Merge with the ONE ESSENCE, abandoning all activities, freeing themselves from all fetters of illusion.

As far as I understand THERE IS ONE SINGLE REALITY, which operates in many ways…

When one perceives not WHAT IS, but what is apprehended through activities, what is seen... and perceives it as "reality", existence acquires qualities, fields, levels... and all that is assigned to it by "interpretive perception".