{"id":45196,"date":"2020-02-21T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=45196"},"modified":"2020-02-05T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:05:03","slug":"gentle-healing-year-1-lesson-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/gentle-healing-year-1-lesson-358\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 358"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Am I?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our special theme says, \u201cWe bring glad tidings to the Son of God, who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed. And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear into the Heart of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our special theme began with the question, \u201cWhat am I?\u201d and ended with, \u201cdisappear into the Heart of God.\u201d In between that beginning and ending, although we were given words to contemplate, we were not given an answer to the question, \u201cWhat am I?\u201d That answer comes best in those last few words, \u201cdisappear into the Heart of God,\u201d especially in the word \u201cdisappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to share something that was written by Floyd Henderson, a student of Nisargadatta Maharaj. In his book, <em>The Final Understanding<\/em>, Floyd wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thus, the invitation is (to those ready, and only for those ready) to receive the final understanding\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go back\u2014follow the trail in order to trace what you think yourself to be. Move back from (8) the conception to (7) a sperm set into motion to spontaneously seek an egg to (6) an act of friction to (5) plant food cells being transformed into sperm and egg cells to (4) plant food being prepared and eaten to (3) plant food being acquired to (2) plants growing to (1) the elements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Where in that chain\u2014which can be traced back and can be seen to have been repeated for trillions upon trillions of times for millions upon millions of years on this planet\u2014could you possibly claim the existence of any \u201cyou-ness\u201d or \u201cYou-ness\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Who would want to make such a claim? Only one motivated by arrogance, \u2026 Only one so trapped in one or more ego-states and in so much egotism that one would want to trace his or her lineage back to some \u201cfamous, big name people\u201d and beyond that to \u201cGod\u201d or \u201ca god\u201d or \u201ca goddess\u201d or some \u201cSupreme Self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It may take time for some of you to contemplate the significance of what Floyd points to in this excerpt. It was more quickly apparent to me, because my dad pointed to this on a hike with me in Southern Missouri about 25 years ago, and I have had ample time to contemplate it since then.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my dad what his spiritual beliefs were. My dad has never been a religious man, so I had no idea what he thought when it came to spirituality. He told me that one day he would die and be buried in the ground; his body would turn to dirt and mix with the soil; plants would grow in that soil; birds and animals would eat the plants, and then they would die and mix with the soil, so on. In that way he would live forever.<\/p>\n<p>My dad was communicating truth. He is not my dad. He is not his body, his personality or his mind. He is not his sense of being human. He is not even the sense of \u201cI am.\u201d He is life, which continues as forms come and go. There is no \u201cme\u201d in life. There is no \u201cyou\u201d either. And that is the answer to the question, \u201cWhat am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each of us needs to come to this answer through our own unique, genuine awakening process. Therefore, the best our special theme could do to answer the question, \u201cWhat am I?\u201d is give us this word:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disappear<\/p>\n<p>When \u201cme\u201d disappears\u2014when even the \u201cI am\u201d of consciousness disappears\u2014then and only then is the answer to, \u201cWhat am I?\u201d known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No call to God can be unheard nor left Unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please read today\u2019s workbook lesson in full. 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