01 Reboot Module - Transcript
01 Reboot Module - Transcript
Todd: Hello everybody and welcome. It is so exciting to be here right now with all of
you and with Ken who's on the line for the finale, the system reboot of the
Superhuman Operating System. We have all been on quite a journey together
over the last 10 weeks and no matter how you took the course or what timing
you took it in, it has been truly impactful for almost everybody that's
participated.
The community that's formed around this ... We keep saying it, but it's been truly
extraordinary and what we have in store tonight, what Ken has prepared for us is
really the icing on the cake. This is going to be the true encapsulation of what we
just went through together and then ending is a truly unique way.
Before I get to how tonight's module is going to run, I just want to invite Ken on
the call and say hi Ken and how are you doing and how are you feeling today?
Ken: Good. Doing great. Delighted to have everybody here. This is going to be a very,
very cool ending I must say.
Todd: Yeah it is and we've been building it up. It's going to be juicy and awesome and
it's the right way to end this powerful course. Let me just jump in and explain
how today will run. Basically, there's three different segments to today's
teaching from Ken.
The first, we're going to spend some time recapping what went on over the first
nine weeks. We start it with a loading program and then we went into the five
core installations of the Superhuman OS and then we came out of the three
application modules. Here we are, week number 10, the reboot.
Then the final piece, the third piece is really the crown jewel of the entire
operating system. What Ken has prepared is a very unique guided experiential
foray into the components of the Superhuman OS and really uploading this in a
meditation into our psyches as individuals and as a community so that way we
can be powerfully in action in our lives to become the greatest possible version
of ourselves.
That's what this has really been all about, how we can get rid of all those
blockages that have been holding us back and truly activate our greatness. That
is the last piece of the Superhuman OS and it's going to be truly phenomenal to
get that experience with Ken Wilber. We're all very excited about that piece.
Ken does that sound like a fair plan? Is that sound like what we're doing today?
Ken: It sounds good and we might as well just jump right in.
Todd: I agree, but before do, I just want to say one thing to all the students because
we've had a bunch of questions about what's next. I've been mentioning it a little
bit. We have a Facebook community that is really powerful and that will
continue, so no one has to worry about our Facebook community will end.
We also, for our silver students, those have bought just the digital package. You
have access to our learning platform for six months, so if you haven't done every
single thing that we've given you from all the bonus teachings and all the stuff
from Ken, you have access to this for the next six months and you can download
it and you can listen to it wherever you want.
For the platinum members, you have access to this for the rest of your life. In
perpetuity, you have access to our platform. For the gold members, you'll be
getting all of this in a physical CD set with all the workbooks, everything coming
later on this year, actually the by month.
Everyone will have plenty of time to do what they've done. We also have some
unique ways that we're looking at to continue the community in truly
Let's jump in though. We're kind of ready to do that and we're going to start with
a recap and encapsulation. Ken we started off this with what we call the loading
program. In that, we talked about greatness, we talked about the psychoactive
map, we talked about all these things.
Give us a recap of what the loading program is all about and how it set the stage.
Ken: Sure. Welcome everybody. Thank you for joining us. I do indeed have a recap
here. It's a tad long but it gets better and better, and better as we go along. It
gets more and more exciting. Stay tuned, hang in there and this is going to be
fun.
The core premise of the Superhuman Operating System is your own great
perfection. You, just as you are, are a perfect part of the reality of ultimate
reality. The same reality that has created this entire universe and everything in
it.
\You can think of that ultimate reality as God and know that you are created in
God's perfect image, or you can think of it as evolution itself which is driven for
14 billion years through thousands of trial and error transformations to create
the most complex, the most whole, the most evolved entity in all of history going
back to the Big Bang namely you.
Your triune brain alone has more neural connections than there are stars in the
known universe. Or you can think of your true cell, your real cell, your ultimate
suchness or thusness which mystical traditions the world over claim as radically
one with spirit itself.
Your core greatness is spirit itself. One in all the cosmos giving rise to great
perfection ornaments everywhere you look, but the true you, the deepest you,
the highest you is one with this ultimate reality at its very heart and you can
awaken more and more of the ultimate great perfection that more of its
dimensions you see recognize, activate and of all.
That's what the Superhuman Operating System is, a super map, a super map of
your great perfection. That, when downloaded becomes a superhuman
operating system in your very own being, lighting up, activating and evolving the
core dimensions of your great perfection.
This super map is psychoactive which means simply learning its basic outlines
will engage and activate these fundamental dimensions in you. Further, your
very brain itself to its neuroplasticity will begin changing its structure to live up
to its greatest design potentials.
With your activated brain, downloading a superhuman operating system, you are
installed on the very leading edge of evolution itself. With your thoughts,
feelings and actions co-creating the very face of tomorrow. Evolution, God, the
great perfection becomes alive in you, as you. As co-creator of the future,
welcome to your place in history.
Now, we'll begin with levels. Let's go through the various dimensions or
components of the Superhuman Operating System starting with the levels of
consciousness, levels of development, levels of altitude. All entities in the
knowing universe have in the past 14 billion years undergone various types of
evolution from stellar evolution, to biological evolution, to psychological
evolution, to cultural evolution, and spiritual evolution.
In each evolutionary stream, each new level transcends and includes its
predecessors. It includes them and then goes beyond them with some new
novel, creative, emergent evolutionary addition. When human beings begin to
emerge and develop, they inherit all of the previous stages of evolution that's
far.
Humans contains quarks, atoms, molecules, cells and organic tissues and
systems and then begin to add their own stages or levels of development which
also transcend and include each other as each date becomes more and more
complex, more and more whole, more and more conscious, more and more
loving and caring and embracing.
Now, and this is crucial, although everybody is following essentially one of these
eight or so major levels of development and are looking at the world and are
interpreting the world to that terms of that level, virtually nobody is aware of
this. These various levels are like maps with which you navigate the various
territories in which you find yourself.
These maps themselves are hidden. You can't see these maps by looking within.
They're very much like the rules of grammar. Everybody brought up in a
particular language-speaking culture say English and sub-speaking that language
quite correctly.
They use subject and verbs correctly, they use subject and verbs correctly, they
use adjectives and adverbs correctly and in most ways they follow the rules of
English grammar quite correctly, but if you ask them to write down these
grammar rules, almost nobody can do it.
Everybody is faithfully following these rules but nobody has a clue what they are.
These maps are hidden maps indeed. You can only discover them by looking at
many, many people who speak the language and then figuring out what rules
they are following. Then if you teach people these rules, they will be able to spot
them in themselves. Otherwise, they remain totally hidden.
That's what all these major developmental levels are like. They are hidden
subjective of maps with which we identify and cannot see objectively. We follow
them religiously but have no idea we're doing so. This is why these maps or
structures weren't discovered until around 100 years ago in all of humanity's
history and also by none of the world's meditation systems who otherwise
understands states of consciousness so well have any idea that these maps exist;
which is why they appear in none of the meditative and contemplative systems
worldwide.
Keep that in mind as we go through these. Let's run through these basic levels,
these hidden maps. The root core earliest level, the archaic or sensory motor or
physiological stage is a stage of basic organic needs; food, shelter, warmth,
water and so on.
Historically, this represented the transition from the great apes to the first
humans some 1 million years ago. In today's individual, it occurs particularly
during the first year of life, the oral stage when the world is all food and the
incident is all mapped. It's given a color infrared being at the far end, the lowest
end of the spectrum of consciousness.
Around 150,000 years ago, the next major inter-specifically human level begin to
emerge. The magenta magic or impulses stage. This stage, level two was marked
by the earliest form of specifically human thought which quite called the primary
process.
You can see examples of it in magical or superstitious and fantasy thinking. Such
as voodoo where if you make a doll representing a real person and if you stick a
pin into the doll, the real person is magically hurt. This stage is prevalent in
today's one to three or four year old.
For the next stage, we're at level three which started around 12,000 years ago
and marks the child today from around ages three to six or seven. The self has
just learned to differentiate itself from the world and thus, as a separate being,
feels vulnerable and threatened and worries about its safety and security and
hence develops a whole set of power drives for protection.
As the self differentiates into its own separateness and vulnerable aloneness, the
world appears a very dangerous place. Full of powerful and threatening people,
a doggy dog world, a survival of the fittest and it's your job motivated by your
power drives to do it to others before they do it to you.
With the rise of the pure mythic stage, amber level four starting around 5,000
years BCE and in today's child ages 7 to 12 or so. A very important emergent
quality arises namely the capacity to take a second person perspective, to take
the role of other. This allows the individual to expand its identity from itself
called egocentric which all three of the previous stages were to an identical with
various growths called ethnocentric.
A switch in identity from me to us, to the clan, the tribe, the nation, a particular
religion or political theory and so on. Hence historically, this expands an identity
and consciousness with the stage that drove humanity's first great civilization
and massive empires; the Mesopotamia, Greek, Roman, Indies Valley India,
[inaudible 00:17:18] China. The mythic literal great religious all arose here;
Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Taoist, Shinto and so on.
The rise of the orange rational stage level five marked another massive shift
from the mythic, traditional, religious to the modern, rational, scientific starting
with the Western enlightenment historically and a teenager 12 or older
nowadays. A third person perspective allows the emergence of global universal
worldview. There is not a Hindu chemistry and a Christian chemistry, just a
universal chemistry. Identity in other words has gone from egocentric to
ethnocentric to worldcentric. From me, to us, to all of us. From tribal to
traditional, to modern.
As thinking becomes even more sophisticated and complex, the next major
stage, the green or realistic stage level six emerges. This is referred to as post-
modernity. Since it moves beyond the mere rationality of the modern stage and
starts to consider all the different types of knowing and being done in all the
world's cultures, not just the modern west, it sees all people as being radically
equal or egalitarian and maintains that there are no universal truths, just locally
colored, socially constructed, culturally interpreted truth. I do my thing, you do
your thing as its motto.
This stage with its noble attempts to undo oppression anywhere emerged
historically in the 60s with the civil rights movement, the emergence of the
worldwide environmental movement, the rise of feminism, the student
revolutions and so on. In individuals, this stage can emerge at any time in late
adolescence or thereafter.
Now, all these first six stages have one thing in common, each things that its
truths and values are the only real truth and values there are. All the others are
confused, idiotic, infantile or just plain wrong, but starting a few decades ago, an
entirely new and wildly different stage began to emerge called second tier to
distinguish it from all the first six stages collectively called first tier.
This level the turquoise integral level seven maintained that all the previous
levels had some degree of significance, some type of importance in the overall
growth and development of human beings. They were not all wrong, they were
all true but partial. This integral stage was so staggeringly different than anything
that had existed previously, the clear grades upon nearing developmentalists
called it, "A huge chasm."
That is they don't just think of the wholeness of the world, they become that
wholeness that identify with and as that super whole. That overall integral and
super integral potential is what is behind the Superhuman Operating System, a
direct download from the ultimate great perfection, a composite map, an
integral map, a super map that shows you all of the core dimensions of your own
evolutionary greatness.
Eventually, it help you see what amount to these hidden maps make them
conscious, make them objects and thus be free of them as well using them as
tools but no longer being used by them. Or to say the same thing from a slightly
different angle. It will help you evolve to the highest or integral levels of all these
maps, thus being at the very edge of evolution itself. Indeed, welcome to your
great perfection.
Lines. Part of your great perfection is that it doesn't contain just one intelligence
as used to be thought and was generally cognitive intelligence and measured
with IQ test but rather it contains a dozen or more multiple intelligences. As
different as these multiple intelligences often called development lines, as
different as these lines are, they all grow undeveloped through those eight major
developmental levels that we just outlined.
Different lines, same levels, but the idea is that evolution has created for each of
the major areas in life an intelligence specifically designed to address that area;
intellectual, emotional, moral, aesthetic, interpersonal, bodily, mathematical,
musical, spacial and so on.
Although reseerch keep various numbers of these developmental lines, they are
generally agreed that the following eight are central. Cognitive intelligence,
correctly understood is not a dry abstract analytic capacity but the conscious
capacity to take perspectives, first person, second person, third person, fourth
person and so on. Each has a more complex, more conscious, more whole or
unified level of awareness. This line is particularly important because it is
necessary but not sufficient from most of the other lines.
Moral intelligence is the morally right thing to do. We treat others fairly if we
feel some sort of identity or solidarity with them and thus as our identities grow
wider and wider to the eight levels of development, our moral response grows
greater and greater as well. From egocentric, care only for myself; to
ethnocentric, care for my group; to worldcentric, care for all humans; to
cosmocentric, care for all centric beings.
Spiritual intelligence. We humans have two major but quite different types of
spiritual engagement. One is spiritual growing up representing structures of
consciousness as they move to the eight major levels. That is referred to as
spiritual intelligence. It's how we think about spirit, about ultimate concern,
about what matters most at each of these levels. The other is waking up
representing states consciousness and known as direct spiritual experience
which is how we directly experience spirit, an item we'll get to next.
Willpower. Will is simply the power of the mind to push things. It is will that
allows us to take a course of action and to follow it directly without losing track
of our goal or veering off course. Will is required to put any human intention into
action and is a majorly important intelligence.
Self line. The self line of development concerns are relative, finite self as it grows
into our ultimate, infinite self. This is one o the most significant intelligences that
humans posses, sense. Following the lead of consciousness, the human self goes
from it to ego to God. From such human, to self human, to superhuman.
States. When the great discoveries of integral theory is that human beings have
two major axis of growth, development and evolution. One is called growing up
and refers to the various lines or multiple intelligences as they grow and develop
to the levels or structures of consciousness. The eight major levels which we
already gave which act as the hidden maps interpreting our world.
The other is the growth and development of much structures but states of
consciousness, through five or so major states referred to as waking up. Why
waking up? Because it is the process where human awareness progressively
awakens from its limited, narrow, partial, finite, fragmented, tormented and
tortured egoic self through its everlasting subtle soul, to its highest self, to an
ultimate divine unity consciousness. One with spirit and the entire universe at
large.
For now, a few simple introductions. The exercise is later so stay tuned. The
great wisdom traditions usually give four or five major states of consciousness
which appear in all humans from birth forward. Consciously awakening to all of
them is traditional enlightenment. They are the waking state where you are
aware of the physical universe, your physical or gross body and your physical
reflecting ego or gross self. This often called the physical or gross realm.
Then the dream state. We are no longer aware of physical objects but instead
see an interior world of images, thoughts, symbols, emotions and higher
thoughts and feelings of universal love, bliss, joy, happiness. You no longer have
a gross physical body, but a subtle energy body. That is the shimmering feeling
image body you have in the dream state and its everlasting subtle self usually
called the soul. This is the luminous subtle ground.
The very subtless patterns and forms that emerge in this causal realm are what
the Greeks called archetypes or primordial forms. Incredibly subtle forms of
sound, color, shape, space and time. Archetypes are the fundamental forms that
you have to have before you can have any other forms at all. All other forms
pend on them.
It's also because it's bumping into the very next highest state, the pure
emptiness state or pure consciousness without an object, the pure witness. This
state is simply called Turiya in Sanskrit which means the fourth by the simple
reason that its' the fourth state after the first three, the growth, subtle and
causal.
Turiya is the pure witness, the pure seer, the pure observing self which is
identified as nothing or event anywhere in the universe. It's a pure emptiness.
Their creator and observer and witness. One zone highest true self or real self
which is one with spirit. This is the incident witness, your original face, the pure
dreamless, imageless, formless, empty realm of the observing true self, the real
self, spirit and the supreme identity.
That witness is felt within as the pure awareness that is right now aware of this
room, aware of me talking, aware of all the objects arising moment to moment
and this pure witness is felt as the pure I amness. As a simple immediate feeling
of being right here right now, pure consciousness itself, the source, coal and
ground for the entire universe.
Now, the witness as the pure source of awareness will look at the world through
whatever level or map the small self happens to be identified with. If the self is
at red, the witness will look at the world through red. If it's amber, it will look
through amber at the world. If orange, through orange and so on.
You will have identified with all lesser maps and views making those hidden
subjects into objects of the witness, thus this identifying with them and making
room for the next higher level to emerge. When you're at the highest general
level achieved by evolution so far, achieved by spirit itself so far, then not only
do you have awareness of infinite pure emptiness or your formless true self, you
have access to the highest, most tall, most inclusive level of form available in the
manifest world.
You have combined the highest level of growing up with the highest state of
waking up and that is pure ultimate great perfection. Finally, as this witnessing
self becomes one with everything that it witnesses, you no longer see the
mountain, you are the mountain. You no longer look at the clouds, you are the
clouds. You no longer feel the earth, you are the earth.
That is the union of the formless empty witness or true self with the entire world
of all form today. That is the true union of emptiness and form. This non-tool
awareness, non-tool means not two. The infinite witness and all finite form are
not two, the subject and object are not two. Nirvana and samsara are not two.
Heaven and earth are not two. Emptiness and form are not two. You and God
are not two. This is also sometimes simply called unity consciousness.
With this ultimate state, human consciousness or wakefulness has started out
with an identity, with a gross realm, the ego self and the waking state and
moved into the subtle realm of the soul then into the causal witness realm of the
pure self, the true self, the one with spirit, and there to an identity with the
entire world, spiritual and material, infinite and finite, heavenly and earthly, one
and many.
Types as I said is basically a catch-all category that can be used if one is exploring
a particular topic or area in an integral fashion to add types of that particular
topic and thus flush out the detailed accuracy of the integral overview. We're not
to include every single type of absolutely everything when we generally use the
AQAL framework, but usually just add one or two occasionally more typologies in
one or more quadrants to cover the specific realities of the particular topic at
hand.
All those additions are totally acceptable and in fact are exactly how the AQAL
integral framework was originally designed to be able to expanded in those cases
where is useful to have more details. Some useful typologies that people find
helpful with dealing with specifically human concerns are types of meditations in
the upper left, types of exterior social areas in the lower right, political,
economic, social, technological, logical and environmental.
It's quite useful in the upper left have included the enneagram which gives nine
major types of personality structure with our accompanying indifferent needs,
strengths and values. The Myers-Briggs typology, 16 different personality types
based on yin yang categories and widely used in business and even simple
typologies such as masculine and feminine. Each typology offers some important
information, so choose them carefully.
Quadrants. In a sense, tying together all the above mentioned elements from
levels to lines, to states to types, we have quadrants. The four quadrants simply
maintain that everything that can exist can be looked at through four major
primordial perspectives or dimensions. The inside and the outside of the
individual and the collective.
The inside or interior of the individual, what the individual sees when it looks
within gives us an eye space. The outside or exterior of the individual, what the
individual looks like from the outside in an objective exterior scientific fashion,
gives us an objective and perspective. That is for the inside of the individual is
The outside or exterior or objective view of the individual is made of two lungs,
two kidneys, a nervous system, a digestive system, a triune brain with reptilian
stem, limbic system and neocortex with neurotransmitters like dopamine and
serotonin and so on. Because of how they are usually drawn on paper with the
two major dimensions, interior and exterior, and individual and collective, drawn
together as a cross to conform major boxes as it were.
The interior of the individual is called the upper left quadrant and the exterior of
the individual is called the upper right quadrant. Then there is the inside or the
interior of the various collectives or groups that the individual always finds itself
here.
These are all the things that hold the group together from within, from the inside
and refer to collectively as the group's culture or cultural dimension. This
includes groups and nature which definitely have pro to awareness and
prehensions.
This is the lower left quadrant or we space. Those same groups looked at from
the outside in an objective exterior scientific fashion, this is all the objective facts
or its about those groups. We already saw many of them summarizes political,
economic, social, technological, legal and environmental and include birth and
death rates, actual social structure or institutional framework, material modes of
techno-economic infrastructure, all sorts of systems, family structures, ecological
systems within systems and so on.
Where the lower left is concerned with cultural togetherness, or cultural fit. This
at the right quadrant is concerned with social togetherness or functional fit. The
former is inter-subjective, the latter is inter-objective, but you can start to see all
You can't really have one of them without the others. They can be looked at
differently and indeed and their different perspectives as part of the real
differences, but they are all perspectives or dimensions of the same actual
occasion. Each event in the universe, in other words, has these four dimensions
or four quadrants.
How are all four quadrants always working together with any particular event?
Take any thought you might have. Say you wake up one morning and start
thinking about what you need to do that day. Normally this will be seen as an
example of an isolated individual waking up and considering separate options
that are typically common decisions but none of them necessarily related to
each other.
Or is it an aesthetic thought with the individual thinking of all the beautiful and
artistic options that might be encountered with some choices instead of others?
Beyond that, what is the level or stage of that intelligence and the eight general
levels available to this person?
What hidden map are they using to navigate their world? Was it being
egocentric thought with the person won't give a damn about the others that will
Still on the upper left, what stand are they coming from? Will today mean no
more than an encounter with an essentially gross physical world of sensory
motor objects? Or a subtle world of gleaming interior realities luminous and
radiant and joy enhancing driving their every option? Or causal witness state
with the person firmly anchored in his or her true self seated in the pure present,
steady as a mountain of pure calmness backing and supporting the small
conventional self as it goes about its daily tasks?
What about types, say masculine or feminine? Will today be a trip to a higher
archaically plan [pilotization 00:48:07] of tasks driven by an autonomous and
separate self? Or a trip to a relationally oriented series of group gatherings with
close friends, perhaps a shopping trip with one's best friend?
While those thoughts are going to the upper left quadrant, the brain and body in
the upper left are reacting and in some cases causatively creating various brain
states and patterns that underly and help drive those thoughts. Different
consciousness states will be going hand in hand with different brain states;
gamma, beta, alpha, theta, delta.
A shift in any of those brain states will cause an immediate shift in various
consciousness states. Neurotransmitters will be correlated with different levels
and lines of consciousness supporting or helping generate them, but the overall
organic state in the upper rate will be profoundly inter-woven with the thoughts
in the upper left and vice versa.
Those organic upper right states will be seamlessly inter-woven with the
collective sum total of exterior structures and systems in the lower right. Water
Ecological factors where we're playing a huge hand in how the organism relates
to its surroundings and environmental toxins right at the very moment be eating
into the organic organism already creating crippling physical illnesses which in
turn will dramatically affect thoughts.
The mode of techno-economic infrastructure in the lower right from hunting and
gathering, to horticultural which means simple farming with a hand-held stick or
hoe to agrarian which is advanced farming with a heavy animal-drawn plow, to
industrial, to informational. These will determine an entire range of what
thoughts are even possible for this individual organism.
In hunting and gathering, the morning thought might be time to hunt the bear.
In informational societies, it might be time to get on Facebook and update my
bio page. Completely different types of thoughts in the upper left driven by the
always present lower right and notice that all these exterior system group
structures have interiors, have shared world views and the lower left quadrant
arising with them and mutually influencing them.
A purely foraging or hunting and gathering society historically arose with the
magic world view where magical rituals were performed before each hunt to
ensure the hunt was successful. Or rain dances before to magically force nature
to rain.
Of course, another impact on the inner subjective cultural world views in the
lower left is the overall impact of these subjective levels of individuals in the
upper left. As more people moved into amber mythic literal levels of individual
consciousness, the more culture itself became waited to an overall mythic
religious world view.
The more that individual has moved in orange, rational world centric levels on
the upper left, the more culture shift then to a rational world centric modern or
You can see that the simple thought that a person has when they wake up any
morning is far from an isolated independent thought that they are having all in
their own. It is profoundly molded and influenced by every level in their
consciousness, every line in their awareness, every type and events from all four
quadrants smashing down on them with tremendous force bolding and shaping
even the most private and secret thoughts they have and in ways that they are
almost completely unaware of.
Lets them downloaded something like the Superhuman Operating System, but
otherwise, they were most likely imagined that they are being original in their
thinking or coming up with all these ideas on their own. Whereas almost
completely the opposite is occurring. They're in the AQAL matrix, almost the
same way Neil was in the Matrix until he awakened to it and saw it from the
outside.
The same thing happens when you download the Superhuman Operating
System. You see the AQAL matrix objective. You awaken from its absolutely
controlling influence and dominance and you start to stand free and creatively
clear ready to really start thinking for yourself to find real freedom outside of the
matrix and not merely a pretend and imaginary freedom inside it.
Congratulations and welcome to the real world Neil.
Bodies. We saw that the great wisdom traditions maintained that individuals
have several major faiths of consciousness. These include the waking state, the
dream state, and the dreamless deep sleep state. Behind all of those is the ever
present witness capable of observing each of those states in a conscious
wakeable fashion which liberates us from identifying with any of the individual
fraying us from the pain and torment of a narrow, partial, broken identity and
opening us to an identity with the all of supreme identity our great perfection.
The traditions also maintain that each of those consciousness states or each of
those minds to speak generally is correlated with the matter energy state known
The dream state or mud has a subtle luminous body which Buddhism calls the
sambhogakaya and a deep dreamless state or mud has a causal formless body
which Buddhism calls the dharmakaya. Then the pure non-dual witnessing state
which can be aware of all three of them can pull them altogether and thus has
an integrating body which Buddhism calls the [inaudible 00:55:56].
You've guessed it. The consciousness or mind aspect is the upper left and the
matter energy or body aspect is the upper right. Consciousness like any left-hand
quadrant entity doesn't have simple location. Where is that located, or
understanding, or logical thinking, or insight, or satori?
You can't directly put your finger on it, can you? But you can locate the gross
physical body. You can see it directly right here. Like ours, was subtle and causal
energy bodies. Even though they're harder to see being more subtle, they exist
in fields of energetic networks enveloping the physical gross body with the field
of subtle energy which itself is enveloped in a field of causal energy.
All of them objects as appear non-dual witness. It's like a radio program you're
listening to. There are two major parts. There is the information that you are
receiving, what is actually being said and talked about in the program, the actual
information being conveyed, its mind so to speak, but that radio program itself is
delivered to the radio on a series of radio waves, an energy component, its body.
Without both of them, you won't receive the program.
The same is true of awareness or consciousness itself. It has at least these two
components, upper left and upper right. You want to keep that in mind. Both of
these components, the spectrum of consciousness states in the upper left and
the spectrum of energy states in the upper right, both of them are necessary to
your awareness as our integral theory adds the two lower quadrants as well.
This is also important because you can take up exercise to practice either one of
this correlative aspects. You can take up meditation for example to practice for
getting into consciousness states and you can kick up subtle energy practices
into getting subtle and causal bodies. Practices like Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Gung,
Aikido, [inaudible 00:58:56], tantric practices and so on. Both of these are part of
an integral life practice. Such are many bodies, vehicles of our great perfection.
Shadow. Shadow work, although not that well known is one of the most
important aspects of an overall integral practice. Carl Jung said that the way to
our authentic self was through the shadow. The reason is that the shadow is all
of the material about ourselves that we have dissociated, repressed, denied or
generally disowned and pushed into our repressed unconscious from which we
usually projected on to others seeing them of full of the disowned self while we
ourselves are completely free and innocent of it.
That leaves us with the fault self and an accurate self-image, a self build on what
our very lives that we have told ourselves about ourselves. You can't get to the
authentic or accurate self-image by building on a broken inaccurate false image.
Hence, the way to the authentic self is to our shadow.
Spotting, contacting, reowning and integrating our shadow into our full self thus
converting that fault self into an accurate full and authentic self at any level. This
authentic self is the functional, necessary and healthy version of our
conventional finite small self. It's not our true self, our real self, our infinite
witness or pure I amness, but it is a conventional vehicle to which the real self is
expressed and communicated.
What you have is a likely list of your own projected positive material. It's not to
say that those people don't posses those items but you admire and even draw
them yet others don't, so what's the difference? You most likely are adding to
their greatness by projecting yours under them as well creating or made a great
person in your mind. Be aware of that possibility.
In all cases, positive or negative, you can start to reclaim to disown and
projected material by doing the three, two, one process with them. Identify the
projected material, items who excessively love or load in the world seen as third
person items or persons, then face it. Talk to it as a second person, then talk as it
as a first person, then be it, thus reowning it; fighting, facing, talking, being.
Do this a few minutes each morning as you'll awaken with the most impactful
images in your dreams, positive or negative and right before retiring with the
most impactful event or person of the day. Again, positive or negative. This will
go a long way to cleaning up your shadow and awakening the authentic self of
whatever level you're at, hence shadow work.
This is the true awakening of and to your genuine great perfection. The
Superhuman Operating System is truly the first radically complete version of this
great perfection yet made available to humans anywhere in history is an
evolutionary leading edge movement in every way covering all the major basis
and dimensions to which your great perfection can shine and radiate.
It is a standard union of emptiness and form but the world of form this time is
truly complete world of form. [inaudible 01:05:35] the higher and higher levels
of more and more form and not just stuck in a single pitiful slice or single level of
form. This union of timeless, emptiness, and temporal evolutionary form gives
the enlightened great perfection in its fullest statement. Something with which
and through which you can write evolution itself as it unfolds to the ends of the
world.
Spirit in action as your truest and deepest self, the simple feeling being drenched
with the entire universe top to bottom and indeed welcome home.
Part two. Now what? How to take this into the world? Now that you've
downloaded and installed the Superhuman Operating System, what next? First,
look for it to become psychoactive in all of its dimensions. Quadrants, levels,
lines, states, and types will come alive for you actively awakening, accelerating
and evolving in your own case.
As you do so, you're at the leading edge of evolution itself, so make sure that as
you follow this leading edge operating system, you are doing some from the very
highest and steepest place in you that you can possibly find. Realize that your
very own thoughts and feelings and behavior are being laid down as forms that
future humans will all inherit.
You'd literally right here and now are co-creator of future evolution itself. You
don't have to do anything beyond downloading the Superhuman Operating
System and examining it sincerely. Simply do that and to know that you are part
of the very fabric of tomorrow's world and affect that will be in action forever,
Now, you can of course take this further. Besides the fundamental act of creating
a new integral level form by psychoactively engaging the Superhuman Operating
System, you can take the system into action in the exterior world. Whatever
activity you're engaged in now, you can reinterpret it according to an AQAL
integral form using the superhuman operating system.
The change that you create in the activity will be profound and so its impact on
the other people. It will begin working in this new integral version of that
activity. Because the activity now touches on all the major basis or dimensions in
a human being, then the very engaging and the activity itself will become a form
of self-actualization of awakening, activating and accelerating growth in all of
these fundamental dimensions in a human being.
In the professional journal of this field, the journal of integral theory and
practice, there are articles that have now reinterpreted over 57 different human
disciplines in AQAL integral terms and all of them turned out more compelling,
more inclusive, more workeable and before they were readopted using a
superhuman operating system.
There is a little chance that whatever you're doing can't be turned into an
integral version of itself and that you can't turn that practice into a form of self-
actualization and even self transcendence. There are now around the globe fully
functioning practitioners of integral medicine to integral education, integral
sustainability to integral business, integral architecture to integral
psychotherapy, integral coaching to integral consulting, and at least 49 other
areas.
Two, turn their activity into a path of integral self-actualization and self-
transcendence. Three, contribute to concrete actions that are furthering the
actual creation of tomorrow's integral evolutionary unfolding. Four, allow
individuals participating in the same activity to begin downloading the
Superhuman Operating System in their own cases thus activating their own self-
actualization, great perfection potentials.
Five, contribute to the solutions of today's wicked problem since all those
problems are now global and can only be solved by global, that is integral
solutions. Nothing else has or will work.
Six, begin to make a planet actually safe for future generations by providing a
world that is truly all-inclusive and all-embracing and leaves nobody out, but
embraces all individuals in a super map of radical inclusiveness.
Eight, create a real conveyor belt of transformation by having the great religions
offer a version of their message at each and every level of development so that
individuals are picked up at the earlier levels of development with the form of
religion appropriate at those levels and spoken in that level's language and then
when appropriate letting go of that level and moving to the next higher level's
version of that religion.
That's encouraging people to continue growing and transforming and not getting
stuck and fixated at any given level such as mythic literal because that is the only
level for religion recognizes thus in effect making growth beyond mythic literal
Join the Superhuman Operating System with an entrepreneurial spirit and begin
a business based on world wherein an integral version of whatever product or
service you're interested in. As noted, this could be literally anything in any area
because there is not a single place, or think, or product, or service that can't be
integral reinterpreted and recreated.
I'm not even going to start mentioning examples because it would take forever,
but just realize that anything you're interested in can be integrally re-invented
with profound results and using this product or service will not only give the
person that product or service, it will begin to activate their own great
perfection, self-actualization potential, because the product or service will be
imbued with a psychoactive integral framework. It's a win, win, win solution.
Ten, create an integral [log 01:14:27] in your town. Simply begin convening
meanings once a week or so that discuss various topics from different
professions, to relationships, to today's headlines, from an integral point of you.
Or perhaps a group engaging in an integral life practice and getting together
weekly to join others in doing so, but people who activate the Superhuman
Operating System really enjoy being in touch and in conversation with others
who have done so, so they can speak the same language and don't always have
to worry about explaining what they're saying.
Just like for example the Facebook community. This is a wonderful way to have
an outlet for one's eye space in a similar altitude, we space. Those ways and
many more taking a Superhuman Operating System that you have downloaded
out and into the world and start applying it there is the purist way to ensure that
tomorrow is the healthiest, happiest, most vital, most inclusive and caring world
that is possible to create, thus leading a world of little bit more hole than when
we found it which is the only thing a human being is truly asked to do.
Where can you find the structures or levels of consciousness in your own present
awareness? Let's use a simple version of Maslow's Needs Hierarchy and
approach levels through that door. As I run through these, just see which ones
seemed most important or desirable to you.
You might find several are appealing but on balance, you'll probably find speaks
the loudest to you. See what that one is and then gently hold on to it. Just keep
it in mind. We'll return to it for the meditation part. None of us were likely at the
lowest level, the simple physiological needs.
All you want is water, food, work, shelter. Of course you'll think those are
important, but then not why you get up each morning. The safety security or
power needs might be a little different. These red drives might speak to some of
us fairly strongly. We basically see the world as a truly dangerous place. It's
literally a doggy dog world, a jungle of the survival of the fittest wrath in tooth
and claw.
Powers are important. The more power we have, the better. We might even
have a gun or two. Perhaps taken various martial arts courses with the idea that
we could truly stop the threatening person into the ground. We lift weights and
load each new extra muscle we can. If we have this level as a hidden map, we
will tend to be a little bit opportunistic, perhaps taking advantage of some
people especially if they seem to be real idiots.
We don't really think of how our actions will affect other people, more of how
they will benefit or help us. We tend to be loners. We simply join others who
think the same way. In our martial art classes or perhaps a meeting of survivalists
who are preparing for the collapse of civilization and the barbarity waiting right
around the corner.
Or religious group meeting weekly and in very social setting, or a political group
where we often do volunteer work for a person who is really going to change the
world. Or just being part of the greatest nation on the planet, America of course.
My country right or wrong, my religious path right or wrong, law and order right
or wrong, something like that make sense to our hidden map being task out, or
rejected, or left completely alone, this frightens us more than anything.
Being among like-minded people who share my thoughts and feelings is the best.
My real brothers, my real sisters, and I really want to fit in to belong. At the
orange, self-esteem and achievement needs, we also most want to fit in as we
stand out. We're different, we're cool, we're unique. Above all, we're winners,
not losers.
Losing is the worst experience of our lives and we'll do anything to do it.
Achievement, accomplishment, merit of works, excellence, that's what we want.
Life is a huge competition and we intended to win it. [Inaudible 01:20:38] profit
is good, progress is great. Having a real impact on the world is terrific.
If we have kids, we brag up the slightest of thing they do or every word they win.
We have a bumper sticker on our car that says, "My child is an honor student at
Calvin Coolidge High School." We like to stay in shape and work out at the local
gym often. Sometimes, amateur races or competitions and love the gold ribbons
we might get.
Our friends were all winners too, but sometimes they're irritating as hell because
they're always bragging about how great they are at this or that or parading
some dinky award they just got. If I'm a wife or a husband of a wife, we're
thinking about various plastic surgeries to get. If we're in business, self-
improvement courses help us hone our business skills making us even better
competitors and more likely to knock the competition out of the ball park.
We've got our eye on that promotion at work and from there, who knows. For
this hidden map, bigger, brighter, better, faster, greater, that's for sure.
Our job is to literally deconstruct all those previous approaches and replace
them with radically egalitarian views where all people are considered perfectly
equal and there are no superior views anywhere in the world and no hierarchies.
Hierarchies are the worst.
Somebody who things they have a superior view is just somebody who is trying
to control and oppress other people by claiming they have the one true way and
the other person doesn't, but what's true for you is true for you and what's true
for me is true for me. Nobody can say who's got the real truth, that's just
another interpretation.
Ranking like in hierarchies and judging based on it is probably one of the worst
things that people do. It's the source of all oppression and subjugation. Ranking
men better than women is a source of sexism. Ranking whites better than blacks
is a source of racism. Ranking this country better than that country is the source
if imperialism and colonialism.
Ranking young better than old is a source of ageism. Ranking humans better than
animals is speciesism and on and on and on. That is why all ranking has to be
deconstruct. Instead of ranking societies, we will have partnership societies
where everybody is treated equally with no differences at all than everybody can
solve actualize according to their own truth and desires, not with somebody tells
them they should be or do.
This is why coming from the heart is so important. Feelings of the heart, not
thinking of the head, that's what matters most. The feelings of the heart, each
person speaks their own deepest truths which are true for them as long as they
are truly felt and fully embodied.
As a whole new paradigm that summarizes this new way of thinking and as
oppose to the old paradigm of Newtonian and Cartesian ranking mechanistic
thinking. The old paradigm is linear, rational, analytic and abstract based on all
Newtonian-Cartesian sciences that are mechanistic and materialistic, deeply
egocentric instead of ecocentric, glorifying commercialism, and profit, and greed,
thought-centered, not heart centered with a transcendent earth-denying, earth-
hating view, not a geocentric goddess view.
Parenthesis. Now, we need to briefly pause here and at least notice that this new
paradigm coming from the green level is actually a half way house on the way to
a truly integral turquoise view. First of all, its main tenants as many philosophers
pointed out are fundamentally contradictory.
The main claim of this post-modern green level is that there are no universal
truths, there are only socially constructed local truths they are in from culture to
culture. The post-modernism claims that this is true for all people in all cultures
at all places in all times, in other words they are claiming it is universal true that
there are no universal truths.
Post-modernism claims that its view is superior to all the alternatives, but it also
claims there are no superior views anywhere in the world. It badly misinterprets
both modern science and ancient mysticism. It claims a modern quantum
mechanics shows a unified holistic world. Though quantum mechanics doesn't
cover biology, or sociology, or history, or law, or psychology, and psychotherapy
and so on.
The so called new paradigm is really a bit of a jumbled mess of half truths and
much wish fulfillment. It's trying to get through truly into a world view but keeps
shooting itself on the foot or maybe on the head as more accurate. That problem
is fine, the point about the green pluralistic post-modern view is that its heart is
in the right place. It wants to undo the years of oppression, enslavement,
suppression and ill treatment of human by humans.
The higher levels such as green and turquoise are better than the lower junior
levels such red and amber which are rife with ethnocentrism, racism, sexism,
imperialism and so on. Only by developing to the higher levels do we become
less racist, less sexist, less ethnocentric, less imperialistic and so on.
That's the type of ranking and judgment that is crucial that we learn how to
make and that we implement widely. If you believe in a new paradigm and the
whole post-modern green stance, if this is your hidden map, then keep this basic
facts in mind as you continue to grow and develop into even higher levels that
overcome these contradictions and inaccuracies.
What you've fundamentally want is available at the very next level and keep this
hidden map in mind because we'll come back to it with meditation and learn to
uproot it with mindfulness.
In the meantime, you might have already transformed to the next higher level,
the integral level and already have taken that monumental leap in meaning that
[inaudible 01:29:16] described. Those who have one thing above all else, if
you're at this level, you love wholeness. Virtually more than anything else we see
holes everywhere.
We want to see big pictures. We love big data. We want to know how things fit
together. We fill one with the entire universe story which is the story of our very
own being as well.
Systems theory and chaos and complexity theories and network theory, even
though none of them cover at the left-hand quadrants, only the right-hand
quadrants, they are often embraced as a way to make sense of how we see the
If we become a bit more sophisticated, we might take integral theory as the way
to make sense of it all because it's more inclusive and actually more systematic
than systems theory.
The integral level recognizes all of the previous levels of development and
further knows that everybody has to begin their own growth at square one.
Stages cannot be skipped or bypassed or that they can be accelerated by for
example taking up a superhuman operating system, but individuals can stop
their growth and development at virtually any stage.
It's not a simple matter of an old paradigm everywhere of getting way of a new
paradigm. Each level has its dominant paradigms and there are not just two
major paradigms, there are eight. As we saw, about 40% of America's population
is an amber, mythic, traditional. About 50% is orange, rational, modern. 25% of
green, plus modern and about 5% at integral.
Any truly new paradigm has a way to go, but folks at the integral level realize
that and are taking the best steps that they know how to help the earlier and
lower levels of development reach this monumental leap of meaning. All of the
lower levels are embraced in the full understanding of a truly integral embrace.
The world's future might very well depend upon that single factor.
Now, after having used the integral view to spot what basic level of
development, what hidden map were presently at, we now use integral
mindfulness to help make that subjective map into an object of awareness.
Remember, as the developmentalist Robert Kegan put it, "I know of no way to
better explain development than that subject of one level becomes the object of
the subject of the next."
That sounds a little abstruse at first, but it's actually a very simple notion. Most
of these hidden maps that we just summarized are held in an unconscious
subjective identification. We identify with them. We look through them at the
world. We don't look at them as objects. That is what we want to do. We now
want to look at them, not through them and personally in our own case, not just
theoretically.
Sit comfortably on the floor, cross your legs loosely or use a standard lotus
position. Fold your hands, face up one and the other and place them in your lap
or put one hand face down on each knee. Straighten your spine or sit in the
nature feet firmly on the ground, hand in one of those two positions and spine
again straight.
Then practice mindfulness on your chosen object. That is simply take a core
characteristic of the basic level you are at and hold that in mind. Give it pure
present awareness. If you find yourself drifting off and thinking of something
else, just drop that other thought and gently bring your awareness back to your
main object.
At the red power level, hold the feeling of power right now in your awareness.
Feel this power coursing through you. In each case with whatever level you are
doing this, don't condemn it, judge it or identify with it. Just look at it as if you're
videotaping it and take neutral picture after neutral picture of it.
With whatever levels, feelings, or quality, ask the following questions and you
might want to drop these down now. Where in the body is this located, head,
heart, gut? What does it look like? What color is it? Just know whatever
automatically comes up when you ask that. How big is it? What size is it? What
does it smell like? Again, just know whatever it is that comes to mind.
What does it feel like? What shape does it have? What items especially trigger
it? What things for my life have I created based on this level and it strives? How
much of my life is motivated by it? With each of those questions, you are forcing
more and more of this level into awareness. More and more making the subject
and object. More and more transcending it, just identifying with it, letting it go,
moving beyond it and making room for the next higher level or subject or self to
emerge.
When you let go of all of the lower previous less inclusive hidden maps possible,
you stand at the leading edge of evolution and at the highest, most whole, most
Because what is also happening when you apply pure present awareness to
whatever level you're at is that you are whether you realize it or not, taking the
stands of the pure witness, the true seer, the real self which can never made an
object. The true seer that can never itself be seen but rather is doing the seeing,
the observing, the witnessing. Thick mind or pure, present awareness.
When we get to the stage, we'll go into some direct exercises to recognize that
pure witness directly, but the reason integral mindfulness is so important is that
using the integral view, you can spot what level of consciousness you are at and
the hidden map you are predominantly seeing the world through. Then using
mindfulness, you can turn that subject to an object, you can uproot it, just
identify with it because you're instead identifying with the pure witness, the true
seer and not any small finite object that can be seen.
You're actually taking the stance of the great liberation or radical freedom or
pure consciousness as such and that lets you let go of lower levels to make room
for higher levels. Thus, this practice helps you reach both the highest level of
consciousness as well as the highest state of consciousness and hence had it for
full enlightenment, the great perfection in your very own case.
Back to the red level. Focus mindfulness on power especially and in any other of
this level's characteristics you wish. Hold the feeling of power directly in mind
and then apply the mindfulness questions, what does it look like this power.
What does this feel like, where is it located and so on. Make that hidden map
unhidden. Make that subject object and in your own case, in your own being, let
go of it and make room for the next tire hobble.
Thus, moving on with the amber level. If this is present in you, focus on the
feeling of belongingness right now on that special feeling of being and loving,
belonging, we space, not just an I space. Focus carefully on that we space and
look at it from every angle possible.
Make that hidden subjective map a conscious object and the sees identifying
with it. At the orange level, focus on achieving something and the very feeling of
achieving itself, being recognized for great merit, great accomplishment.
Everybody knows your face and name, outrageous. Focus on the feeling of this
great accomplishment, great achievement, and enormous fame that comes with
it.
Let that flood your awareness and then bring direct mindfulness and apply the
mindfulness questions. Again, what does it look like, feel like, where is it located
and so on. See that hidden now as clearly and as objectively as you can. At green,
if you have any of this present, focus on the sensation of negatively judging
something.
Remember, what this level does is, since it holds all people to be equal, it
horribly judges people negatively who don't agree with it here. Somebody at this
level will judge people who judge. Almost everybody is actually judged or ranked
by this level in some way.
Some of those might be indeed worth judging, but the point is, green doesn't
see, it is doing judging or ranking which it most certainly is because it claimed
that it does no ranking at all. This truly is a hidden map for them. Focus on your
judging, focus on how you're actually ranking people and hold that ranking
feeling in mind.
Look directly at it from all possible angles. Apply the mindfulness questions to it.
Again, what does it look like, what size is it, what does it smell like and so on.
This is a hidden map you definitely want to make unhidden, so see it clearly as an
object and thus may grow to the next higher level of form.
At an integral and super integral, hold wholeness in your mind. Just hold the
feeling of what being whole looks like and feels like. Wholeness everywhere,
oneness everywhere, unity everywhere, let that look and feeling pervade your
being. Look at it with mindfulness awareness and then apply the mindfulness
questions.
At this point, you are resting in the pure silent witness. The center of the cycle.
The true seer. The real infinite self and it is just a vast open clearing in which all
objects arrives. It's the space of awareness in which those clouds are now arising
when which this room is now arising or in which this computer is now arising.
It's not anything that can be seen itself. It's the space or clearing in which
[changes 01:43:41] are now arising. It's just an empty, open, spacious clearing,
simply rest in the vast, open, empty, silent, clear witnessing awareness which is
pure spirit in you, your real self and supreme identity.
You can experience this pure witnessing awareness at virtually any level you are
at, because basically all states grows subtle, causal, non-dual witnessing can be
experienced at any structure or level, red, amber, orange, green, etc. That is
what will happen at each and every level as you do integral mindfulness, you
take the stance of the pure witness.
It's just at the highest levels and to the super integral, this becomes more and
more a common experience. You're at the point where growing up and waking
up are starting to come together as a complete full, total great perfection. Each
time, when we practice integral mindfulness in the particular dimension in the
AQAL framework, just come to this place of open, clear, silent, pure witnessing
awareness and simply rest there for as long as it's comfortable.
When you wonder into thought, just sub-vocally label whatever you're thinking.
Thought then drop it and return to silent witnessing. Welcome back to what to
do with that witness when we hit the states. First, let's now quickly be mindful of
the lines.
Here, although, it is likely that there are a few lines or multiple intelligences that
you mostly identify with, the whole point of lines that most of us have some sort
of capacity have or lowly develop for every intelligence. Here, we want to
practice integral mindfulness in a quick succession of each one.
I'm going to mention the name of the line, give a few major characteristics and I
like you to focus whatever thoughts or feelings come up when I do. Let those
thoughts and feelings arise and hold them in mind. Look at them from all
directions. Really video tape it and then especially ask where in the body is this
located; head, heart, gut. What does it look like and what does it feel like?
When you practice this on your own, you can spend more time on each line and
we will now and ask the full battery of mindfulness questions. For now, just a
quick run through.
Cognitive. Be aware of awareness itself. Notice awareness itself. Just take a few
seconds to rest in awareness. See it as an object and ask your questions. What
does it look like, what does it feel like, where is it located?
Emotional intelligence. Simply get a sense of what you are feeling right now,
what emotions are arising. Excitement, joy, confusion, boredom, happiness,
anxiety, sadness, delight. Take a few seconds and really see and feel your feeling
sa objects.
Interpersonal intelligence. Very simply write down just look within, introspect.
You should be doing that anyway. Just look at what you're feeling, thinking,
hoping, wishing, wanting, needing, desiring. Be aware of your interiors, see your
interiors as an object and hold that awareness, what do they look like, feel like,
and so on.
Somatic. Directly and immediately feel your body. Just overall body. It's often
implicitly part of your subjective self. Now make it an object. Look at it, feel it,
see it.
Moral. Remember the last time you were faced with a moral dilemma, what is
the right thing to do. Picture both the wrong thing to do and then picture the
right thing to do and then hold that feeling of rightness in your awareness. See it
as an object. Just what does it look like, what does it feel like, just doing a right
thing.
Will power. Look at the seconds sweep hand of your watch or the seconds on a
digital read out and hold your mind on that item as it clicks along for 15 seconds.
All the while till the power of your mind holding on those seconds read outs as
they occur, notice your capacity to hold attention on that single area without
losing track. Feel that mental strength. Look at it close as an object, what it feels
like, what it looks like, this thing called will
Finally, the self lot. Simply feel right now your own self contraction. That tiny
interior tension that you associate with your separate self sense. Recognize it's
not a thing, but a process. A process of subtly contracting your awareness. Be
aware of that contraption, that feeling of separate self. Hold that subtle tension
in your mind. Video tape it with awareness. See it as an object.
While you are doing that, while you're being aware of the self-contraction, bring
this line's awareness section to an end by noticing that which is being aware of
the self contraption. That is be aware of the witness of your I or your me. That
witness is Ramana Maharshi called the I-I, I hyphen I because it is the pure
seeking I, looking at the object itself or I. The purist seer, the real self, the true
subject, and not the little finite ego subject that in fact can be seen as an object
and thus isn't even a real subject to real self.
The witness that I-I which was just aware of each of your multiple intelligences
or it was aware of each level of your hidden maps is indeed your original face,
your true sphere, your real self. That is indeed directly one with spirit, one with
pure consciousness or pure infinite awareness which is one and the same in all
sentient beings.
This is your big man, your real self, the pure observing self, the true witness. Rest
briefly in that pure witnessing awareness, the pure and simple feeling of I
amness right here right now. Remember it's not something that itself can be
seen. If you see anything that's just another object rather the witness is the vast,
The clearing my voice is arising in, the clearing of the clouds are arising in, the
clearing of the buildings are arising in. The clearing of this room is arising in. That
clearing is infinite spaciousness, pure open emptiness. Your one and only true
self and real condition. Rest in that vast, open, clear, still, silent spaciousness.
Your timeless an eternal and real being.
Now, that witness although itself without qualities or characteristics of any type,
it is radically unlimited, unborn, undying, unqualifiable. That witness looks at the
world to whatever form is present to it. That means the witness will look at the
world to whatever the level the conventional self is at. The hidden map that we
will use.
It looks through the particular line that is active. It looks through whatever state
is arising and it looks through whatever quadrant is being active and it looks
through whatever type is present. This is what Patanjali, founder of yoga, met
when he said that ignorance of ultimate reality is due to, "the identification of
the seer with the instruments have seen." That is we identify our real self, our
true seer, the pure witness with whatever quadrant, level, line, state or type is
present.
The Superhuman Operating System allows us to see each of these elements and
be aware of their existence, be conscious of them for the first time, thus
releasing them from items we were identified with as our subject or self that is
items we were identifying our true self with turning them into mere objects of
awareness.
Seeing these subjects as objects, thus this identifying with those objects and
resting is our true timeless, unborn and undying real self. In other words, it
allows us to escape from any particular identification with the AQAL matrix.
When we are identified with the AQAL matrix and don't know it, then we reduce
our infinite and eternal self to a mere finite, temporal spacial object thus
opening a defragmentation, brokeness, tormenting, torture and missing our real
and true identity.
When that's exclusively identified with components of the AQAL matrix, that
AQAL framework becomes from the floor plan of the present we are enslaved in,
On the other hand, when we see all the various dimensions for the AQAL matrix,
we become conscious of them. We turn those objective identities into objects of
awareness, objects of our true self, the pure witness. Thus, just like Neil in the
Matrix, when we are in the matrix and don't know it, it's our prison giving us a
reality that is illusory.
When we escape the matrix, when we see it from the outside as an objective, we
become radically free of it. We achieve the great liberation and enlightenment or
awakening to who and what we really are. Then for the final and concluding
step, once we are aware of all the dimensions of the AQAL matrix, we can move
to an identity with all of it. Emptiness and form become one, the traditional
definition of enlightenment.
The world of form is the AQAL matrix itself. The matrix or framework represents
the entire world of form. It's a super map of all the dimensions and perspectives
available to us in a manifest world. As such, it is seen as a perfect manifestation
of pure spirit. All of its components become ornaments of spirit itself.
The AQAL matrix is very much like the eastern notion of Maya. Maya means the
creative magic by which ultimate spirit creates the entire world and everything in
it. If all you see is the world of Maya, all you see are all in different things and
events in the world and you don't see the ultimate oneness of all of it. You don't
If you see that there's actually spirit in action, that all of it together is spirit itself,
then the entire world becomes an ornament of spirit itself. The entire world
becomes spirit itself and thus Maya is seen as a realm of spirit's own
manifestation and something you become one with in unity consciousness.
Maya seen apart from spirit is illusion. Maya is seen as spirit is part of ultimate
reality. The same is true of the AQAL matrix. Most people can't even start to be
aware of it, to see it as an object and thus break its spell because they have no
idea of what its actual dimensions are. They are unaware of quadrants. They are
definitely unaware of levels and hidden maps.
They are usually unaware of lines. They are most certainly, consciously unaware
of all the states, and of most types. They remain unconsciously identified with all
of these. They're small, finite, conventional, self, or subject is identified with
some components of each of these dimensions but they don't know about it just
as they don't know about the rules of grammar they are currently following right
now.
Once you become aware of all of the dimensions of the AQAL matrix, once you
can see them as object, you self-identifying with them a subject. You stop
identifying your true witness or pure seer with those objects that in fact can be
seen. You break out of the prison of the actual matrix and stand free no longer
its victim but its witness.
That is what we are doing right now. We are dealing all of the elements of the
AQAL matrix so we can see them as objects and awareness and stop
unknowingly using them as subjects or things through which to see and interpret
and experience the world. When that happens, we can free to identify with all of
them.
When we identify our emptiness, our pure unqualifiable witness, with the entire
world of form, we now have a much fuller picture of what that world of form is.
The world of form is the AQAL matrix which shall long as we were unaware of it,
was our present, our Maya, our illusory world. A case of mistaken identity of our
true self with some small, finite, puny little subject or egoic self unknowingly
Seeing the AQAL matrix and all of its components as objects as we just did with
levels and with lines and outline with states and we'll do so with quadrants in a
moment, we become free of any of them specifically they are now all objects, all
forms in our awareness. Thus in unity consciousness, when we become one with
all form, we will become one with all of the form in the AQAL matrix.
We will realize that we are using a particular level. We will know we are
activating a particular line. We will recognize a state we are in. We will spot
quadrant, an idea is coming from. This will allow us to identify with the highest,
the most complete, the most whole, the most inclusive, the most of all, the most
embracing, the most loving and caring and transparent of all the dimensions to
the manifest world in the entire world of form. An entire AQAL matrix.
All of those will be held in our awareness. Held as objects in our true subject, our
real seer, our true self and not seen as ornaments of spirit, manifestations of
spirit itself, manifestations of our I amness. The pure union of profound
emptiness with the most and fullest form available. The true and genuine great
perfect top to bottom.
Let's continue this process. As seeing all the elements of the AQAL matrix as
objects thus cease identifying our true witness or real self with any of them and
thus preferring a way to becoming one with all of them because we are very
exclusively identified with none of them. Pure emptiness and total form and
eternal embrace.
Let's move on and taking that witness to an awareness of the quadrants. Again,
we will do a simple and quick run through. When you practice this on your own,
you can spend more time and apply the full range of mindfulness questions.
Right now, we just want to quick pass at these fundamental dimensions turning
subject into object.
Start by looking at any physical object around you. A computer, a chair, a cup, a
tree, a building, the exterior of a person walking by or whatever. Focus on the
objectness of that item. Focus on the item as an it. A pure it, a pure object.
We're not looking at any of their interiors and all of them has some sort of
interiors. All of them has four quadrants.
If you look within and see anything, thought, images, feelings, symbols,
concepts, ideas, notice that those are actually objects too which is why in reality
your true witness or real self is not actually identified with those either. They are
just more objects and the real seer is [inaudible 02:05:01], not this object, not
that object.
Look at a group of objects, say a group of people. If there isn't a group in your
immediate area, simply imagine one, a group of your co-workers, a group of your
family, a group of friends, a club meeting and so on. Notice that those individual
objects, the exteriors of the people in the group form a group because they are
all tied together with some sort of common goal, purpose, activity or
relationship. In other words, they aren't a heap of random objects. They are a
whole, they are a group bound together for a reason.
All the apartments where you live are held together by all being in the same
building. All the buildings are held together by being in the same town. All of
your family are held together by things from genetics to legal agreements. All the
trees outside your house are held together by the local ecosystem they are
members of and so on.
In addition to being aware of the individual it or objects in the group, notice the
group itself, notice the series of relationships that all individual its are a part of.
Notice relationship. Feel relationship. See relationship. Even just the spacial
relationships, all objects occurring together in your visual field, they are all
touching each other.
Notice that all of the human groups that you might have thought of, your family,
your coworkers, your fellow countrymen and women, your friends, all have a
series of interior shared values, shared meanings, shared understandings, shared
history and so on. All of them in other words share as sense of we, a weness and
that is what holds them together from within.
Just as their system structure is what held them together from without. Feel
what you feel like when you are with your family members. Maybe a family
gathering on a holiday, thanksgiving or Christmas. Focus on that family we
feeling. You can clearly feel different when you are around just with these
people. What is that feeling, that weness? If it's hard to spot that particular
weness, it's because you're much too close identified with it subjectively.
It's even more important to be able to see it as an object. Be aware of it, see
what it looks like, what it feels like. Notice that we feeling is different from an I
feeling. It's something different. It's lots of I's come together into a we. It's also
different from an it feeling. You're not just looking at an it as an object or
exterior, you're feeling the group from within, a type of shared mutual
awareness and mutual understanding.
That's a brief awareness exercise to the upper right or it quadrant, the lower
right or its quadrant and the lower left or we quadrant. Those might occasionally
have been a little complex, although hopefully not too much though, but from
now on, it's smooth and easy. Simple and straightforward sailing.
We're moving now to the upper left or the interior of the individual, the I space
and even the I-I space of you. Here, we will move directly into state awareness
and particularly the two very highest states available, the pure I-I or true witness
or pure non-dual unity consciousness, the highest state of awareness there is
and which when combined with a highest or integral level of consciousness gets
the ultimate, full and complete great perfection. An infinite perfection that is
your real and ultimate condition and the final aim of the Superhuman Operating
System.
We want to start with an awareness of your own upper left quadrant, the
interior of your own self and awareness, so sit back, relax your mind and become
aware of what you feel is your self. Just very simply be aware of yourself. Briefly
describe it to yourself. You might say, I'm this many years old, I weigh this many
pounds, I'm this tall, I went to this college, I have this degree, I work at this job,
I'm in this relationship to the person who's name is such and such. I enjoy being
on the computer, I like movies and all kinds of music, next week is my birthday
and so on.
Notice that this process involves two selves. One is the self that you are aware of
as an object. The one that you just saw and describe. Those descriptions were all
objects that you can see. They were all things that are seen about yourself, but
then there is the self that is doing the seeing, the self that is doing the
describing, the actual seer, the observing self, the witness.
This self does the seen but can't be seen itself anymore than an eye could itself
or a tongue could taste itself. It's a pure subject or pure seer, not an object or
something seen. If you try and find the seer and you end up seeing anything,
that's just more objects, not the real subject, the real seer, the real self.
The real seer has an awareness that is I see the mountain but I'm not mountain. I
have sensations but I'm not those sensations. I have feelings but I'm not those
feelings. I have thoughts but I am not those thoughts.
As you rest in this pure seer, this witness, all you will begin to notice is a sense of
freedom, a sense of openness, a space or clearing. You are not identified with
any objects at all, you are the witness. As witness of them, you are free of them.
You have feelings but are not those feelings, you're free of them.
You have thoughts but you are not those thoughts, you are free of them. All of
this time you've been identifying with, some of these objects you can actually
see and you have been mistaken them for a real self but they're not even a real
subject, they're objects. There's something, not the true seer. That first self
which you describe is actually what you are not really, and truly and deeply. That
We have identified the seer with something that can be seen. Where the seer,
the witness and infinite and one with spirit. The seen self, the little ego is finite,
partial, limited, fragmented and terror-ridden. The real weight this has no fear, it
is the witness of fear. The witness is not the victim of life, it's the witness of life.
We switch our identity from the little seen or object self through the true seer or
real self. All you sense is a vast release, an ocean of openness, a vast clear field
or space, or clearing in which object inside and outside are arising moment to
moment. You are this vast, open, empty clearing or space or spaciousness in
which everything is arising moment to moment to moment.
You are what the awaken called [inaudible 02:14:08] which means not this, not
that. I am not this, not that. Not any object of things that can be seen, but the
vast opening are clearing in which all those objects of things are arising now and
now, and now. This vast opening is an ongoing sense of pure I amness. It's an
ever-present awareness whether you realize it or not. I amness is the one
constant experience you always have.
You probably can't remember what you were doing on the stay a month ago but
you can be sure I amness is present. You likely can't remember what you were
doing a decade ago but I amness is present. You probably can't remember what
you are doing a century ago, a millennium ago, but I amness was there. That
simply means not that I amness is literally everlasting but that is timeless. It lives
in the present timeless moment, the pure now moment and never enter the
stream of thought.
All time is present for it. The witness is aware of the time and thus is itself free of
time. As you practice mindfulness of any object, you are actually resting and
nothing but the pure witness and you're witnessing the present timeless now as
events come and go through it and this very sense of present I amness. This
simple immediate feeling of being. You're aware of that, yes. Just this simple
present feeling of being.
That is your true self, your real self beyond any temporal or finite ripple of this or
that, but the crowd, the source, the witness of all of that. Resting in this pure
sense of witnessing awareness which is no object whatsoever, take it to its
Let go of the AQAL matrix entirely. You're not in your real core any particular
level or any particular line or any particular quadrant whatsoever. We didn't let
directly of type because there are so many of them and besides we would have
done the very same thing with them. See them as objects so that you would
realize you are not ultimately any type at all, zero, none.
Every single thing an event you are aware of now is simply part of the limited
manifest object world and you are free, radically free from all of it. Rest in that
state of pure freedom, feel it as freedom which no matter what object arises
within or without you immediately just identify with. I am not this, I am not that.
I am the pure witness of this and that. The pure observing self, the true seer, the
vast, clear or open space in which all of this arises and which is identified with
none of it.
That is radical freedom. Freedom from all objects anywhere. Freedom from the
entire universe. Freedom from all of manifestation itself at any realm. It is the
freedom of your original face. The radical freedom of I amness which is pure I
amness before it identifies with anything, not I am this tall, I am this weight, I am
at this job, I am this man, I am this body and so on, just the pure I amness before
it is any of that. Your true self, not your object self.
That ultimate freedom rest on an event deeper truth. You're not anyone of those
objects that are arising moment to moment because in your very deepest
nature, you are all of it. That's right. You are all the objects and subjects and
things and events arising anywhere and everywhere, now and at all times.
Begin by sitting comfortable again, relax the mind and then pick an object arising
in your awareness right now. A tree, a table, a shoe lying on the floor, a glass, a
mountain, any object like that. Get in the stance of the witness. That is look at
this object from the stance of the pure seer, the pure observing self. That means
you go through the process of [inaudible 02:19:14].
While looking at the object, allow the observing self, the looker to dissolve. Just
let go of any sense of being a watcher and simply focus on the object itself. Let
the object arise in your awareness as if it existed by itself. Let the sense of the
object push out any sense of a watcher and just exist all on its own as totally self-
existing.
You don't see it. You don't exist it. There is just the object arising in your empty,
clear field of awareness without a looker. Just the object arising by itself, as it so,
just the object. Nicholas Harding use to call this the headless state. It works like
this.
Everything out there is actually arising in here, inside your face. On your
shoulders where your head used to be. In fact, the world out there, the entire
universe is arising on the side of your face, is arising inside of you right here
where your head used to be. You are one with everything that is arising moment
to moment.
You don't see the object, you are the object. You don't see the mountain, you
are the mountain. It's arising right here where your head once was. You don't
feel the earth, you are the earth. You don't see the clouds, you are the clouds.
You are the entire manifest world arising moment to moment on this side of
your face right where your head once was.
When [inaudible 02:21:42] was asked what enlightenment felt like, he said, "The
sky turns in to a big blue pancake and falls in your head." That's exactly it. The
sky is actually existing right where you thought your head was. It's a big, blue
expanse that is existing right on your headless shoulders.
In this unity state, you will experience both perfect freedom because you are not
identified with any single thing or event that is arising, you are free from each
and anyone of them, but you will also experience perfect fullness because
although you are not identified with any one of them, you are identified with all
of them. You feel that you are the entire universe arising on this side of your face
arising within you where your head used to be.
You can taste the sky, literally taste the sky, it's that close. There's no separation
between the seer and the seen. They touch, they are one case right here where
your head once was. Remember, even when you have this unity awareness, you
still will be at a particular level of development. That magic, amber mythic, more
into rational, green pluralistic, turquoise integral and so you will continue to
interpret events as they unfold in terms of the hidden map that you have, the
level that you're at.
You will still fully experience this unity state, but it will still be interpreted in a
mythic or pluralistic or integral, etc. fashion and you won't experience that
hidden map. Unless you know to look for it, you will be completely unaware of
that level. Unaware of the fact that it is governing how you see and interpret this
experience.
No matter what level you are at, you can still experience this headless unity
state. That is why every one of the meditation systems worldwide, even though
they were perfectly aware of this unity state, we're not aware of any of the
hidden map levels and so included none of them in their map's meditation, but
we're now aware of both and thus including the stages above waking up to the
highest state and growing up to the highest level.
We include the very highest development possible for human beings at this
stage in our evolution and we can look forward to even higher stages knowing
that growing up and waking up will again both be included in a full and ongoing
self-realization.
If your separate self or ego arises, simply let it as part of this total unity or great
perfection. If pain or suffering or arises, simply let it as part of this total unity or
great perfection. If you think you understand this, then let this understanding
arise as part of this total unity or great perfection.
If there are parts of this you don't understand, let that arise as well as part of this
total unity or great perfection. Whether you understand this or don't understand
this, there is still this ever present, now moment, headless awareness arising of
its own accord and spontaneously embracing the entire world. Welcome,
welcome home. It has always been so.
Very best wishes, all my love truly and aloha till we meet again.