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Adventures in Identification Series V: Meditations on Identification, by Michael D. Robbins

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Meditations on Identification 5: Arithmetic Doesn’t REALLY Work on YOU.

Dear Friends of the Ageless Wisdom and of ‘REALITY’,

Every once in a while I am struck by something which I would like to share with you—something, “far out”—yes, but maybe something which can change our perspective on the life we are living and create in us a change for the better. This morning, while walking uphill on an uncharacteristically warm day here in Finland, I was struck (maybe struck again) by the idea that arithmetic just doesn’t work when applied to the SELF and its apparent sequential experience. To this INFINITE SELF, nothing can be added; from this INFINITE SELF nothing can be subtracted. Nor can IT be divided or multiplied. (By what other than THAT WHICH IT FOREVER IS could it be multiplied?!) There are some startling implications to this line of thought, and I felt impelled to share with you some reflections upon the idea that ‘one cannot operate arithmetically upon the SELF, which ‘8‘ AM, which ‘O‘ AM, i.e., which ‘ ‘ AM. The last symbolic representation is the truest to REALITY.

So if you have the patience for about an hour, please listen in and meditate with ‘me’ a little, and see if any of this makes sense to you.

Light, Love and Power,

Michael (Temporarily).

Meditations on Identification 5: Arithmetic Doesn’t REALLY Work on YOU 342 MB .wmv file
Video of Meditations on Identification Webinar 5 by Michael D. Robbins.

Meditations on Identification 5: Arithmetic Doesn’t REALLY Work on YOU 63 MB .mp3 file
Audio of Meditations on Identification Webinar 5 by Michael D. Robbins.

 

Meditations on Identification 4: I Substand All and Pervade All.

Dear Friends of the Ageless Wisdom,

As some of you know, I have been working on a Webinar Series called Meditations on Identification—(part of a larger series called Adventures in Identification) I offer these meditations periodically, when I feel inspired to do so; therefore they may be few and far between.

I had another moment of inspiration this morning and in this program I am sharing with you a few more ‘magical words’ (acronyms for mantric phrases) which can be used to induce the realization of identification—at least they work for me; you may find others more useful.

I discuss some of these words and ideas as an introduction to a short meditation on some of the key mantrams: such as ISA: “I Substand All”; or ISAPA: “I Substand and Pervade All”; ILACOB: “I Live As Continuity of Being”—and quite a few others which are related and, I think, evocative.

Being is that which we need to grasp, realize, become and, yes, BE—all the while living a useful productive life in the World of Illusion—our ordinary differentiated reality (more ‘actuality’ than Reality). In our present much-attenuated state of ‘monadic-extension’ it takes practice—attention given every day to being, or really, to the realization of being.

I hope ‘relative you’ gets something out of the program. ‘Relative I’ have enjoyed making it.

Light, Love and Power,

Michael (relatively considered).

Meditations on Identification 4: Substand All and Pervade All 436 MB .wmv file
Video of Meditations on Identification Webinar 4 by Michael D. Robbins.

Meditations on Identification 4: Substand All and Pervade All 59 MB .mp3 file
Audio of Meditations on Identification Webinar 4 by Michael D. Robbins.

 

Meditations on Identification 3: The Many and the One. 34 MInutes. Friends, this meditation or reflection focuses on the amazing multiplicity with which our consciousness is presented and on its essential Oneness. It is no easy matter to resolve all the many into the One, nor to realize that the One not only pervades but IS the Many. This little meditation may offer a method of approach which you will find useful in this quest and which you may adapt according to the nature of your mind and consciousness. As always, these meditations must be practiced throughout the day in the ways you find most suited to your nature.

Meditations on Identification 3: The Many and the One 179 MB .wmv file
Video of Meditations on Identification Webinar 3 by Michael D. Robbins.

Meditations on Identification 3: The Many and the One 33 MB .mp3 file
Audio of Meditations on Identification Webinar 3 by Michael D. Robbins.

 

Meditations on Identification 2: Being Everywhere. 38 minutes. Friends, this meditation or reflection focuses on a fundamental requirement for developing harmlessness. “Harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere,who lives consciously as a soul, whose nature is love, whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil and hide the light, and are but externalizations of [Page 103] the one Infinite Being. (TWM 102-103) The highlighted requirement is a radical demand. The meditation attempts to help us fulfill this required realization, and of course, the meditation requires repetition and practice. See if you can find yourself ‘everywhere’.

Meditations on Identification 2: On Being Everywhere 219 MB .wmv file
Video of Meditations on Identification Webinar 2 by Michael D. Robbins.

Meditations on Identification 2: On Being Everywhere 48 MB .mp3 file
Audio of Meditations on Identification Webinar 2 by Michael D. Robbins.

 

Meditations on Identification 1. 50 minutes. Friends, I am beginning a new series on the subject of IDENTIFICATION. I am calling it Meditations on Identification. It is my intention to offer a number of meditations which are meant to facilitate the Realization of Identification, the Realization of Identicality with all contents of consciousness—objects, people, the Whole. We can talk about Identification for a long time without experiencing it in any significant or lasting way. Let us see where our meditations will lead us.

Meditations on Identification 1. 299 MB .wmv file
Video of Meditations on Identification Webinar 1 by Michael D. Robbins.

Meditations on Identification 1. 48 MB .mp3 file
Audio of Meditations on Identification Webinar 1 by Michael D. Robbins.