Excerpt from

by William Samuel

Dear Dr. Lee,

No, Awareness does not actually "expand." It only appears to, just as it sometimes appears to contract, wither, become narrow and limited with the years and struggle of the possessor.

The longer we misidentify as the accumulator of experience, the more layers of lack and limitation the misidentity has to contend with, and the more foolish fears it fancies and fights.

Modern psychiatry is busy digging under those layers in order to readjust some aspect of the misidentification's affairs. There is no question but what psychiatry is capable of making many changes in that one's experience, but it does nothing for the actual Identity that exists instead.

If present day psychiatry wants to render a real service, let it call attention 'to the pre-existing, perfect Being being this Awareness called "you" and "me." It goes without saying that the only "psychiatrist" who can do this with honesty is the one who has discovered it for himself and operates as the re-identification.

Sincerely,

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THE ACCUMULATOR

Why identify as the gatherer of wisdom? Why consider oneself the collector of experience and memories? This is to look out at a universe through an ever grimier window; this is to bury the unencumbered brightness of youth; this is to forget the feel of earth underfoot, the crispness of morning air, the smell of green fields and the wonderment of distant sounds.

As we disassociate ourselves from the "accumulator" to recondition ourselves again as pure and simple Awareness, isn't it reasonable that we should be aware as we once were without the insulating blanket of age and debility?

Identifying oneself as an accumulator of flotsam and jetsam, it is only natural to experience taking aboard an ever increasing load of stultifying anchors, chains, nuts and bolts until they sink the misidentification to the bottom.

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WE STOP PLAYING THE ROLE OF A DYING MAN

So long as one acts as the recipient of Life, then just that long he must take aboard the accumulations of a personal experience. This ever growing conglomeration of bunk is like the grime that darkens the attic window, ultimately shutting out the light. is it any wonder age weighs so heavily on this stockpiler of experience? Is it any wonder he eventually bends and breaks under the weight of his accumulation? He never lets go anything, but tucks every tidbit into a corner marked “memory" or "experience" and has the effrontery to call it wisdom.

Am I suggesting that this process be reversed? No. It would be futile to reverse the old man's actions and still have him aboard to work more mischief.

What is required? The answer is simplicity itself: RE-IDENTIFICATION, simple, unadorned and effortless re-identification. All that is ever "necessary" is to reconsider oneself from the enlightened standpoint of unpossessed Awareness itself, not as an ego, attempting to stuff itself into a pulpy, aging body and then have images do all sorts of tricks for it.

This is not the endless task of reversing the old man's “effects," dropping his burdens one by one, as religion teaches. This is not to wash clean the window of perception. (Yet, re-identification surely appears to render these results.) This is to end the agony, by identifying as the sunshine, not as the attic window through which it shone dimly. This annuls the relentless march of time's accumulation. The sunshine is not concerned with a silly spook who was never real.

So, reader, stop being a rag collector, a junk man, an accumulator of flotsam and jetsam. Stop considering yourself as one who goes through life amassing as much experience as possible. Stop pigeon-holing memories. Stop your incessant planning of what to do in order that tomorrow's events will be more to your liking.

"But what will happen to my affairs if I make no plans?" asks the business man. "Re-identification does not allow for the terrible things that will happen when 'the human experience' is let go," he says.

"What about my school work?" asks the student.

"Or my home and family?" wonders the mother.

Re-identification is like switching primary attention from the shadows on the television screen to the complete and beautifully functioning television set itself, the basis for all the images in the first place. Activity among the spots on the screen does not go to pot when we concern ourselves with the television set. We do not lose our footing when we lift our view from the moonlight shadows along the walkway to behold the majesty of the heavens. Re-identification is living the Identity that is the fact anyway.

There is little we can say to the business man, the student or the mother that will convince them of this. There is but to do ourselves; to show forth the happiness that "results," and then speak as best we can to those who ask about it. In effect, that is what this book is—a statement concerning things it has been my good pleasure to find; what I have seen and heard and done that you may also discover if you choose to. Our words mean nothing to those who have not grown weary of beachcombing or of the great pile of junk they carry along with them.

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I have been asked, "How do we go about not accumulating memories? How do we keep from pigeon-holing all that transpires within one's daily activity? Are we supposed to forget?"

Infinite intelligence does not forget what it knows itself to be, and it does not acquire more than it already is.

Somewhere along the line we are required to make the break with the old identification. It is not enough to know that the old man is a fiction. It becomes necessary to think and act from the position that we are, rather than from the one we are not. In the determination of one's honest Identity, we find tranquility, thereby letting go that which we ignorantly believed ourselves to be and the misery attendant to such a belief.

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Dear reader, let me tell you this: UNENCUMBERED AWARENESS ITSELF AM I. This is the Identity I am. This is the "who" and "what" I am. This was my Identity before I seemed to recognize it and it will be my Identity should it appear I forget it. This is likewise YOUR Identity. This is the ageless Identity. This is the undying and eternal Identity. This is the Whole and Perfect Identity which was and is and forever shall be!

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A SELECTION ABOUT "YOUTH," "DEATH" AND "EXPANDING" AWARENESS

It may be said that the vistas of Awareness widen and widen until such time as they include again the pure sights and sounds we experienced as children.

Do you remember the tender thrills of childhood—the smell of freshly cut grass, how clean the air after a rain, how little things were so exciting, how small surprises were such breathtaking, joyfilled moments? Do you remember how very blue the sky and how white the clouds within it, how rich green the fields, how unfettered and free the feeling of the first day of vacation? Do you remember the joy of experiencing no care, no responsibility, no worry, no fear of health or wealth? Can you remember how wonderful was your father's praise, and how comforting your mother's touch? Can you recall the time when there was no consciousness of age, debility, sorrow and death?

Reader, I tell you that in this work all these things will be your happy experience again! Every bit of this is "regained" as we become non-evaluating Awareness, as we let go the judge, as we drop the accumulation of judgments and opinions.

When can we do this? Today! Right now! We do not have to die first. There is nothing to die but the belief in a possessor called "me" who is capable of enslaving God's own Awareness of Himself, the veritable I that I am! As we let go the age-old liar, we return to honesty, "born again" to "become as a little child."

And this is only the beginning. Just as Awareness consciously appears to regain the uninhibited enthusiasm of youth, so it appears that the body you call yours regains its agility, poise, grace and strength.

Even more astounding, "expanding" Awareness consciously perceives that the loved ones of old are yet within its Vision, loved ones that the narrower sense of a possessed and opinionated Awareness exclude in a process called death!

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EXPANDING AWARENESS PERCEIVES THE "DEPARTED"

Judgment narrows the conscious vista of vision exactly as anger narrows it. Who can see the beauty of a flower in the midst of a fit of rage? Judgments, the products of reasoning, planning, calculating and manipulating, would, within their chimerical province, smother Awareness completely if they could.

"Perfection is directing this experience being-I by being the Experience I am."

This is so. This is true. This is a fact!

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Dear Nancy,

This is not difficult to understand. We know when one stops worrying he sees and hears things he was unconscious of while thundering through his worry-thicket of thought-taking. This is all we mean by Awareness "expanding."

This is a simple example of Awareness apparently "regaining" all the judge excludes for himself by his own opinions of good and evil. Invariably, his judgment of "good" constitutes the basis for his passions and appetites.

As one stops attempting to be the judge, conscious Awareness "regains" the joy, the happiness, the effervescence and sparkle of youth ever more and more, from glory to glory, until such time as the veil—the ego, the personality—is rent and "we see as we are seen."

How do I know? Let go the intellect; be Awareness, unjudging and unyielding; joy in the carefree, pristine world of the Heart and see for yourself what awaits you!

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MORE ABOUT DEATH

Death is real only if Deity ceases to be conscious of existing. The Awareness that "sees," "feels," and does all that constitutes Self-consciousness, will never die, will never stop being aware, will never cease being conscious. Why? Because Awareness is Deity's activity, not the personal activity of an opinion-holding ego.

All that "must surely die" is the belief that such an ego exists, capable of being the custodian of Awareness. The possessor is of few days and full of trouble. It flourishes in the warmth of its own concoctions, to be cut down and cast into its own hell of values which it gives to valueless images.

Death is the appearance of the inevitable sacrifice of the possessor's values and opinions. That which man assigns the greatest value often appears to be devalued before him or taken from him, even as all he hates is usually heaped upon his shoulders, until he sees that nothing is good or bad; until he sees that nothing is to be cherished or despised; until he sees that "things" are being just what they are being—”things"—and that perfectly!

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"HE SHALL RETURN TO THE DAYS OF HIS YOUTH"

Those who study this "philosophy" with us on Lollygog are always amazed to find a return of youthfulness, not only in outlook but in action and appearance. Why should there be surprise? To be this NOW of UNJUDGING Awareness is to let go the great weight of opinions, notions, prejudices, quirks and idiosyncrasies which, added to personal memory, are all there is to "age." It is the one who acts as though he possesses life who ages and seems to suffer the decline and death of the deceiver.

"Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God (who is Being all there is to the Awareness reading these words) fainteth not, neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength . . . but they that wait upon the Lord [they who will simply be the unjudging, motiveless Awareness we be] shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint."

When one lets go the worried plans intended to improve the already perfect NOW, he discovers the Self that "turneth the shadow of death into the morning." "The former things are passed away . . . and there shall be no more death."

"If there be a messenger . . . an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness . . . his flesh shall be fresher than a child's; he shall return to the days of his youth . . . and his life shall see the light!"

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EXPANDING AWARENESS

One stays with the Now and lets go the hinterlands, past and future. Surely that one experiences an "expansion" of Now such that it is no longer a sharp edge dividing "was" from ”will be.” Then, to his amazement, he knows what was and what will be; He lets go fear and sees with new clarity!

One stays with Tranquility and lets go the hinterlands of depression and ecstasy, abhorrence and desire. Surely that tranquil one experiences an "expansion" of Tranquility, so that the world is no longer divided into good and evil. Then, to his astonishment, he knows what "good" is and what "evil" is. He lets go ambition to be the miraculous qualities of Deity!

If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discover you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones - samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -