A technique for experiencing the infinite

Recipe for Getting REAL ("cooked up with much help from the ingredients of tenacity & the work of Richard Rose and Douglas Harding, with lots of turmoil to stir things up"), by Linda Harmon:

1. Turn the imaginary character that you think you are around 180 degrees and look away from the 'imaginary' picture show that you call your life.

2. Follow the usually invisible ray coming from the imaginary projector that seems to be showing this picture show.

3. Keep retreating away from this picture, the body that you identify with, the mind, and anything that you see or hear. Pay no attention to any thoughts, worries, or fears that may try to get in your way. Nothing can hurt you without the 'imaginary' body.

4. Know that nothing can harm you as you've left that frail body back in the show. Just continue reversing away from all that you have come to know as your life, your earth, your universe.

5. Stop and admire the strange new scenery if you must; but continue retreating till there is nothing except darkness. If you feel intense electrical sensations, don't stop either, it cannot harm you. It is your friend; be glad if it accompanies you on your retreat.

6. If you are in the darkness be not afraid, you've found the place to stop. Now, just let go of everything, even yourself. When you lose yourself totally you will BE everyone and everything at once. The only way to describe this is that you are like the sun, fullness, Allness, shining in joyfulness. You and all others are the same ONE, totally without form or boundaries. You and all unmanifested are real, maybe colorless and tasteless, but free and joyful at home with all that has manifested in the past, present, and future. You are your brother, sister, friends, even your enemies. You are the real of all of us together forever. Only through the desire for separation are we fragmented into these visible pieces to play these illusory, but visible, games. I don't know why we leave our wonderful home to play, but we do.

This recipe may seem strange but if followed precisely you will never be hungry again. Because once you've even tasted REAL, then even the games taste better and are easier to swallow. You can enjoy these games more and not take them as seriously. This world is not the tragedy that it appears to be. It is the grand play of the manifested, where the parts of the whole can enjoy their selves and play their games of sorrow and happiness. You now know that you and yours are all the players. You can go home whenever you want to be free of these games. Go home and just BE, all together, unmanifested.

IF THE RECIPE DOES NOT WORK THE FIRST TIME -- CONTINUE TRYING PERIODICALLY. CONSIDER ADDING SOME EXTRA TURMOIL IF NEEDED. Turmoil can include, but not be confined to: stopping thought, celibacy, fasting, meditations, anything that can take you away from the routine that you have identified with. And if nothing gets you Real, don't despair because you really are home already.

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