The Awakening

Jesus said, “If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the Living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty.” (The Gospel According To Thomas)

We come full circle and return Home; we awaken from a dream so to speak to our birthright, our Original Identity. We make the Divine Inversion and “return” to Awareness and The Child Identity we have been from the “beginning” and find that Home is The Meadow right here and right now, “closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet”.

“The “pathway” from ignorance to Light (as it seems) is like one daydreaming aboard a Ship, looking at the wake in the far distance, then following that wake backwards toward the ship where one is; thence “finally” in time, awakening to the Presence of Ship whereon one sits and learns of the qualities and attributes of Ship, Aboard the Ship, one looks back at the wake and sees everything there CONFIRMING the Fact of Ship, his experience seeming like a long swim to reach the knowledge that Identity is perfectly birthed-and berthed-within the Ineffable.” (William Samuel, The Child Within Us Lives)

Somewhere in time, we begin our search in the arenas of religion, metaphysics, the occult, psychology, etc. We begin seeking for the meaning of life and why we are here. After we have been frustrated, and suffered enough with one disappointment after another, we finally realize that we as the seeker are caught in a vicious circle. The one who is seeking will always be the seeker until it dawns on an emerging awareness that the seeker is the fiction and liar from the beginning. At this point if we are fortunate enough, we come upon the Solipsistic statement that declares that Mind and Its Awareness are One Mind and that the doer or seeker is but an impostor and is to be seen for the illusion it is.

And so we begin our subjective studies and we don’t stop until we get it straight. We learn of The Child (The Subjective Witness), the way The Child lives and acts (The Equation), and we are told of The Meadow, The Place where The Child of us lives. We begin to live more childlike, trusting, and we learn to let go of our dishonesty, passions and addictions and all the mental gymnastics that we perform in order to keep our false image of self intact.

From my journal: “Come bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger. Make me nothing for I am no thing already. Let me realize That which is already the Truth. Identity is no thing and yet I seem to be a thing. Identity is no place and yet I seem to be somewhere. Identity has no boundaries and yet there seems to be boundaries between me and Thee. All of this is the illusion. All of this seems to be because of the mis-identification with and as the body and mind.”

And from another journal entry: “And we come to this more and more, precept upon precept as we are willing to surrender our individual identities. We do this using any method we want, whatever seems reasonable and appropriate. It is a matter of being more and more present. We do this by watching the mind and the seeming separate identity that we have been calling “me”. We do this by overcoming the passions (lusts and addictions). This takes great discipline. It takes great willingness. It takes a willingness to make oneself uncomfortable for a while, for just a while. But it is indeed difficult in the beginning. Just to watch and slow the mind. The willingness not to be right. The willingness not to justify our positions. To be willing to watch the resistance of the mind. The resistance to surrender. The resistance to letting go. The resistance to overcoming. Yes, in truth there is no overcoming. But while we are mis-identified, it seems to the mis-identity that there is an overcoming. But as this one grows weaker, and the resistance is less and the desire grows firmer, it then becomes apparent that any overcoming is part of the illusion, part of the mis-identity, part of the paradox that is to be understood.”

So the what to do and how I did it have now been written. This message is one of childlike simplicity. We live the equation of giving and receiving of our tangible sustenance and our spiritual insights, those glimpses and glimmers that arrive from within the Heart of us. We look at the world subjectively, and we acknowledge The Child within as the authentic, original and genuine Identity. These are not strategies but the natural doing, the non-doing. This is the way the Child lives in the world and as the world. The Child knows that the world that is perceived is within and is also the very body of Himself/Herself. Awareness has no gender. Male/female are the balanced pair emanating from the One just as so is the whole of tangibility. The Child lives spontaneously recognizing and understanding the flow of Light and love from the inside to the outside and the outside into the inside with Identity balanced between the inside/outside equation. We become more and more aware of the two that are one and we see this equation in all of life.

We let go of complaining, judging, blaming, condemning, justifying and anger. We subdue our passions. We live and understand the paradox that there is no goal. We come to know that this linear sequential unfolding is perfect and that it is The Transcendental Child that is being birthed into this space-time continuum and what is really going on is the adventure of the linear expression of Self Discovery.

I have come Home to The Meadow of simplicity and contentment. As Bill Samuel once wrote, “I am here and now standing knee-deep in heaven, and have always been.”

The Meadow has been given to me to tend to just as God tends to this Awareness I am. It is the same for the Awareness/Reader reading these words. It is in these words that I have written throughout this web site that I am trying to do for my world as it has been done unto me.

When the Awakening takes place and The Child and the Equation is lived, the glimpses and glimmers arrive almost without ceasing. When these glimpses and insights are confirmed in the world (the other ear), we are told to share them and publish them for “our” world. And so it is, and so it is done. Amen.

Jesus said: “What thou shalt hear in thine ear (and) in the other ear, that preach from your housetops; for no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but sets it on the lampstand so that all who come in and go out may see its light.” (The Gospel According To Thomas)


To the reader:

If any of these words have seemed helpful, it is important to remember that the authority lies in the awareness that is doing the listening. The Child within you lives and these happy words are Its confirmation in the objective world of your own Subjective Viewing.

If you have an interest in these studies and would like to continue with your exploration and investigation, please feel free to e-mail me with any questions that you may have regarding this subject matter. With much light and love,

Bruce David Dubin