You Are 99.9% Consciousness - Powerful Talk

Powerful live pre-meditation talk on the topic of Consciousness Expansion, and ourselves as potentiated beings of consciousness unfolding in space and time, given on the 1st of October in Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney.

Transcript

And so if we think of consciousness as the only medium that exists,

All there is is consciousness as a potential and in its potentiated realities and its potentiated forms.

So an example of that,

Right now consciousness is potentiating through me as me.

Consciousness is potentiating through you as you.

You are consciousness,

Potentiating yourself as consciousness,

According to your own being,

According to your own body mind complex.

At some point it becomes a collaborative process,

Let's say.

We rise in consciousness to such a point where,

Or consciousness awakens in us to such a point where consciousness then decides to collaborate with itself and begins to make choices,

Conscious choices,

Not unconscious choices,

And there is a difference.

So what might be the difference between a conscious choice and an unconscious choice?

This is a big one because this is something that a lot of us are stuck in and we confuse the fact that choices are being made in our lives to be conscious choices.

Conscious choice is very different.

Conscious choice requires presence,

Requires entering into the zone,

To use that term,

Or centering or being present and then allowing consciousness to discern its interests or to communicate its interests.

What do you want to create through me?

And a choice will be made according to that.

That is the choice itself.

Whereas unconscious choices are a byproduct of reality as it's unfolding,

Mechanical reality.

I've done this in order to arrive at this,

In order to arrive at this,

And therefore I'm at this point now and I've got to choose between this and this.

I'm choosing.

No,

You're not.

It's the only choices that are available to you in this moment.

A conscious choice on the other hand requires waking into this moment,

Waking up in the moment,

Waking up in within self.

So there has to be an awareness of self,

Has to be an awareness of awareness itself.

And then here is a sort of alignment that has happened between the mind and body complex,

The machine of self and the higher self have aligned.

And this is the meaning of the saying,

The biblical meaning,

Not mine but thy will be done.

Not mine but thy will be done means now there is an alignment now.

The small self has surrendered its interests and by that it just means that it has aligned with the higher self and the higher self now is communicating through it more or less or to the degree that is possible accordingly.

So the higher self is now guiding or filtering through that particular,

Through the smaller self according to the degree of alignment,

According to the quality of the small self,

The body mind complex.

So beautiful.

So all there is is consciousness then and it's potentiated,

Unpotentiated and it's pure potential state in its still state,

Pure stillness.

And then in its expressive state or in its modulated state in form,

So its formless consciousness,

What science calls the quantum field of unified potential,

All potential.

I like the way you brush it off.

Yeah,

Such a long,

You know,

The all what religion calls God.

Exactly.

And then so that's the field,

That's the medium.

And then there are the various forms of consciousness,

Which are the expressions of consciousness.

Or the emissions of consciousness or the modulations of consciousness.

So it's all consciousness.

It's like all it's all gold,

Gold in its pure state and gold as a ring.

It's still gold,

Right?

Or gold as earrings.

It's still gold or a necklace.

It's all just gold and whatever shape or form that ring or that necklace takes,

It's still gold.

And it's the same way you might say my form,

You might call that a bracelet,

Right?

It's a bracelet consciousness,

But it's still consciousness.

Consciousness then is the original state.

It's the pure potential.

Gold you can do whatever you want with it.

You can make any object with it,

Let's say,

According to the quality,

According to the amount available,

Of course.

You can shape it,

You can do what you,

Right?

Consciousness is the same,

Much more,

But we're just using this sort of idea to wrap our minds around that.

So not mind,

But I will be done then that there's an alignment between the small self,

Which until now has been living in the blind about itself as pure consciousness,

As a higher self.

It's been living in the blind in its level of development,

Karmic development.

It's just,

It's not bad,

It's just what it is.

And then at some point,

For some reason,

It reaches a point of development and its own karmic reality where it begins to discern itself as a living reality,

As the living presence,

As the living presence,

As the formless presence.

And then here everything begins to do an about turn.

Because before that,

We used to think that the life is in the body,

A product of the body,

But now we're realizing that the body is in the life and is the product of life.

In other words,

The body is in consciousness,

Not the other way around.

It's a product of consciousness,

But and it's also in consciousness.

And then reality that we see is also in consciousness.

It's not outside.

It's a perceived,

It's a mind-based reality.

Everything is perceived.

There's no actual,

Well,

There is in its own level,

In its own dimension,

Because also the reality is that consciousness is different degrees,

As we talked about that last time,

Different thresholds of consciousness or different levels of consciousness,

Different frequencies,

Different demarcations,

Different vibrations of consciousness.

At different levels,

That reality is according to that level.

Also in the world of form,

Yes,

Reality looks very real,

Right?

But nevertheless,

It's a mind-perceived reality.

It does not exist.

It just appears to be solid and appears to be constant.

It appears to be there,

But only according to our own perception,

Only according to our ability to perceive.

It's a mind-perceived reality.

It's a mind simulation.

And we talked about one time in the past about the idea to use the concept of the soul,

Abiding in the mind,

And it is undergoing a sort of apprenticeship,

If you like,

In world creation,

In world simulation.

And the soul simulates through the mind by what it practices in the mind.

So now choice becomes very important because choice potentiates reality.

Choice potentiates reality.

What that means is that as science causes,

It calls or it causes the collapsing of the wave function from the all-potential field of God.

It causes a dropping.

Let's call it a dropping.

It causes the wave function to collapse in order to become a particle.

In other words,

It causes the unseen,

The invisible,

The unmanifest to appear in space and time.

Are you following me?

Not really.

So the field is wave function.

God is a wave and a particle.

In his or her wave form,

It's unseen.

In his particle form,

He's a ring or a bracelet.

Okay?

A thought causes a vibration in this wave function.

It causes it to vibrate at a certain frequency.

And as it begins to vibrate,

It moves from its essential formless state into a material particle expression of that thought.

So a thought then,

In a sense,

Stands between or is the medium.

I was going to say first,

It stands between the unmanifest and the manifest.

I prefer probably a thought is the medium of expression.

It is the soul's palette.

It's what the soul uses in order to practice world creation through simulating it first in the mind.

At first,

In its unawakened state,

It is unconsciously creating according to its type and according to its karmic reality.

But as it reaches a certain point in its development,

Let's call it development,

It's more unfolding,

As it reaches a point in its awakening,

It begins to be capable of making conscious choices.

That's a very big quantum leap.

It means that it is no longer entirely operative at the level of mechanic,

Automatic.

It is now awakened sufficiently to be able to decide not to react.

So it's in the car,

It's driving,

Someone cuts off the front,

It decides not to.

It says instead,

As a result of this arising in consciousness in that moment,

Also other things become possible.

A certain wisdom becomes available and the wisdom to say thank you.

Because the feelings that you are causing in me,

The anger is rising to release.

So thank you for helping me to heal.

That consciousness now,

That soul has moved from being purely reactionary to being capable of reasoning according to a higher octave,

A higher state,

According to something from a higher world now is entering into it that wasn't available to it in its sleep state or in the lower threshold.

And then here,

In that state,

Consciousness with repeat or the soul in its repeat state begins to recognize itself,

Begins to discern itself as the living presence.

It's waking up inside itself.

It begins to discern itself.

And in that discerning of itself,

It recognizes what it is.

It recognizes its amnest.

And as it recognizes its amnest,

So first it discerns,

Then it recognizes its amnest.

And then through repeat loss of awareness and regaining of awareness,

That's how the discerning and the recognition,

Oh,

I'm back,

I've gone,

I'm back,

I've gone.

And as this process continues,

It starts to see and recognize,

It discerns and recognizes itself until it learns to more or less abide permanently as the presence,

As the living presence.

It realizes I am the only reality that I can know.

Everything else is questionable.

But the fact of my amnest as the living presence is not.

No one can argue me out of that.

Are you?

Yes.

Are you?

No,

I'm not.

No.

Are you?

I am.

Any of us will affirm.

And that's what makes it absolute.

Not that it's needed.

You don't need others to affirm,

To validate that,

Because you are validating yourself in real time.

I am the fact of my being.

I'm a standalone fact of awareness.

I don't need the body to exist.

Body needs me.

I am the standalone fact,

The constant as I usually call it.

And the fact that you also can validate that,

And every single person on the planet,

Are you?

Yes.

Means that,

Well,

It just proves its reality if it was needed.

So we are the living presence.

But first,

It's very difficult to discern that living presence,

Because we have been identified with the body-mind complex.

We've been identified with the body-mind.

Why?

Because the soul has been sort of asleep,

So to speak.

Not really,

But we can say that.

It's never not there.

The awareness is never not there.

But we have just been wrongly focused in the wrong direction.

We've been wrongly focused with our awareness,

Which is the point of our consciousness,

Which is the light.

We've been wrongly focused away from self,

Outside.

And therefore,

We have not been lighting up ourselves.

We've been lighting up the world.

We can see everything,

But just not the self.

But progressively through experience,

Through failure on behalf of the world to fulfill us,

We become disheartened with what we are lighting up with the light of our consciousness.

Men,

Women,

Relationships,

Money,

Et cetera,

Et cetera,

Through effort to gain and the disappointment that comes from those things,

Because they don't last,

They cannot fulfill permanently,

Through this continuous sort of letdown,

We begin to become more introspective.

We begin to ask questions.

If the world has no power to fulfill me,

What freaking has?

If the world has no power to satisfy me,

What does?

And then at this point,

As our attachment to the world lessens or undergoes a reframing or a revaluing,

A reprioritizing process occurs,

We begin to become aware of this presence,

Which now we are spending more time with or arguing with or like,

You know,

Reasoning with.

And so we become aware progressively of that living presence.

And we start to realize,

Oh my God,

That's the only permanent thing.

It's only constant thing,

It's only continuous thing that I can actually affirm in my own reality.

And then we learn to start now to reorient the light of our consciousness.

I like to call it the point of consciousness,

Which is the light of our awareness,

Which is attention,

Which guides the mind with the five senses.

It starts to U-turn or it starts to release from its attachment,

Like a light pulling away from the wall,

Release,

It goes back into itself.

I'm the living presence.

But it's inside itself,

You know,

It's in its own vision and the body is in its own vision.

The body is its own vision and the entire world is in its own vision.

So all there is,

Is just perception.

So we begin to be aware of perception.

We begin to be aware of the seeing,

Not what we are seeing,

But the seeing itself.

So the seeing starts to see itself.

And by nature of what it is,

It is found to be highly fulfilling.

And here,

This is the soul,

Sort of let's call it the soul,

Is waking up.

And at this stage,

Within all of this,

The soul,

And it has already been experiencing or practicing with this with some effort,

This simulating reality,

This idea of being able to be a conscious creator or conscious co-creator,

Where it starts to try to,

You know,

Manifest as it's called.

But typically,

This manifestation stuff is happening at the level of the ego,

Which is just the absence of consciousness or at the level of the mind or the level of the animal in us.

Your three C's have been one of the most,

The three C's that you described have been a real point for me in my journey.

The three?

C's,

Which are,

That finishes with copulating,

Creating.

Oh,

The three C's,

Excuse me.

Yes.

Yes.

What does this say?

Coupling,

Copulating,

And creating.

Consciousness,

Coupling with the thought.

Copulating,

You know,

Having a little sort of fun on the side.

And creating realities.

That's right.

So at this stage,

The soul has been trying or the awakening,

The arising presence is,

It's becoming dissatisfied with the world.

It goes,

The ego convinces it that you can have more.

That's why you're unhappy because you don't,

You have only a small house,

Not a big one.

You have only a hundred thousand,

Not a million,

And so on and so forth.

And so the arising consciousness here begins to experiment with conscious,

With creating,

With manifesting.

But it's still an egoic reality,

Meaning that it is the manifesting is happening at the level of the body-mind complex,

Or in other words,

At the level of the animal or survival.

But now that the arising consciousness,

The living presence is awakening,

Because the living presence is not the animal,

Is not the body,

Is not the mind.

It is,

But it is in its unmanifest.

It's another quantum dimension apart,

So to speak.

But progressively it awakens,

And now it learns the real power of manifesting,

Which is the real power of world creation.

And it does this by simulating this or practicing this in the mind.

First,

It drops into the zone with meditation.

It aligns the lower self or the higher self,

And it allows,

It inputs its wanting,

If it is for the good of all,

That's its criteria,

For the good of all.

If this is,

In Islam they say,

God willing,

Inshallah,

You know.

Is the food going to be ready?

Eh,

Inshallah.

Oh God,

Is it going to be ready or not?

Inshallah,

God willing it will be.

God willing,

You know.

And so,

If it is for the good of all,

May it manifest.

Out of that state,

A pure manifesting,

A pure powerful manifesting is possible.

I don't like the word manifesting.

I've never liked it.

I prefer,

I prefer simulation,

You know,

To simulate realities.

To manifest implies that you can create something,

But you cannot,

Because nothing has actual reality in truth.

Everything has a solid existence.

But to simulate reality,

You see the difference for me?

It's just,

I don't know,

I just have this thing about wordings,

And it just sounds so wanky.

Look what I manifested.

Go,

That's great,

That's really,

I mean,

We can't expect each other to go,

Look what I simulated today.

It's also equally wanky,

But just,

I suppose just from an artistic perspective,

Or maybe it's being used so loosely these days.

Sorry,

Luca.

Can I ask a question?

Of course,

Please.

So the manifesting or simulating at the basic level.

At the?

Basic level.

Ego level,

You mean?

Ego level.

Right.

Ego involves breathing,

Eating,

The functioning of the body,

That's the basic,

Right?

That's the animal stage in us,

Very real.

The ego is the animal.

Is the body,

Mind needing to survive.

That's what the ego is,

Essentially.

Interacting,

I should add,

Because it's very important,

That's what it is,

Interacting with its current environment.

So the ego is the manifest reality that is the product of the interplay between the body-mind type and the environment.

So the animal body-mind and the environment that the animal body-mind finds itself.

The relationship between the two over time quantifies into this egoic me.

Sorry,

But yeah.

So in order to upgrade or refine this simulation into something that is more aligned with the soul in practical terms,

What can we do?

So fortunately for us,

You know,

In martial arts,

Like,

Let's say Kung Fu.

In Kung Fu,

They spend years developing the inner art first,

Before they even strike a punch.

Apparently real Shaolin temples or whatever,

Before they even take a punch.

They spend five,

Six years,

10 years in the inner art,

Inner meditation.

That's the inner art.

Once that's developed,

Then they go about it.

So for us,

We're the inner art of creating,

Of manifesting or so meditation,

In other words.

So what is the practical way of doing that?

Well,

I called it earlier entering into the zone or centering or just balancing,

Meditating,

Sitting,

Stilling your energy,

Stilling your vibration,

Stilling the mind to the best of your ability.

Entering into that state,

Maybe through breathing also,

Starting with some breathing,

Entering into that state.

Then in that state,

You will hear what wants to be created through you.

That's true opening to higher manifesting,

The higher self,

The will of the divine for the good of all is manifesting through the small self.

Fortunately,

Most people are not able to enter into that state of stillness with meditation either.

By the time they are able to enter into that state of meditation,

Then their will has been purified to some degree where something higher can come through.

A shortcut to that,

In my experience,

Is breathwork,

Reburthing,

Because it cuts the ego out of the equation and allows the higher self to tell you what it wants of your life.

It is so unquestionably beautiful for you.

In other words,

You cannot receive something that doesn't feel beautiful.

It's like someone spending their whole life saying,

What's my purpose?

They have a reburthing session,

Go,

Huh,

I know what I want.

What is it?

I want to be a postman.

Postman?

Yes.

It feels good because it's true.

Even if it's a postman or a chef or I want to build a pyramid,

There's nothing lowly in terms of one's purpose because it just feels beautiful.

That's what reburthing does,

Breathwork.

It allows you to enter into that state where there is no confusing who you are,

The journey.

There's no confusion in it.

Practically then,

We sit,

You decide what you want beforehand,

What you think you want,

Or what you really know you want.

You want a house,

You want whatever it is.

I say all of this,

But I don't do it necessarily because I go into this meditation state.

I sit and I don't really feel like I want anything.

Just a real bum.

I don't want to disturb that bliss.

Anything is possible in that state,

But I don't want to disturb it.

You know?

It's like,

Wake up.

What about that room you want?

I've really found that a paradox.

Yes,

You sit,

You decide what you want.

For the good of all,

Should be your priority.

For the good of all,

May this manifest.

Then you sit,

You breathe,

You enter into meditation state.

Then you hold that in your vision.

There is somebody told me this story the other day.

They said there is this billionaire,

I don't remember his name,

He told me his name.

He was asked what his secret was.

He said,

Well,

You know what my secret is?

It's this bizarre thing.

They said,

What is it?

He said,

I just have this weird ability to just hold what I want in my mind's eye for five minutes,

Unwavering.

That's all you got to do.

Now there's no way majority of people can even hold what they want for more than a second.

Right?

And we talked about that once before,

Where you can invite a conversation about that thing that you have already gotten.

So you can hijack the conversation that's going on in your mind.

You can step in and take over the conversation that's going on in your mind.

Does that make sense?

And you can begin,

We talked about that,

I think,

And you can begin to have a positively directed conversation about that wonderful house that you've been living in.

Now,

Oh,

It's wonderful.

It came out of nowhere.

It's so beautiful.

How do you feel?

I feel wonderful in it.

I feel great in it.

And I've just become so creative in it.

It's really amazing.

Just unlocked so much.

And not just once,

You've got to be able to help creation find you,

The higher,

For the good of all.

May this be for the good of all.

So in short,

Decide what you want,

Sit,

Take a few breaths,

Still into consciousness,

Still presence,

And visit this in your mind's eye.

See it,

See yourself in it.

I myself have never really been very good at this,

Have never really enjoyed it either.

Because as I said,

I drop into meditation,

I enjoy that.

I come out of it and,

God damn,

I really would like.

.

.

Next time.

I really would like.

.

.

Yeah,

But it's almost an insurance plan.

So,

How are you going,

Lulu?

You're a bit tired.

I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

But you're okay just listening?

You're probably hearing in a much better.

.

.

I'm getting out.

It's okay.

I'm getting extra work this week.

You're probably hearing this from a better place.

Like we said last week,

Or the week before,

You've got to be willing in terms of all of this stuff also to take off your adult hat and wear your child hat.

Play.

Play.

Don't go through the front door.

Come through the ceiling.

Don't come through the ceiling.

Wrap yourself in a soap bubble and float up and go inside.

Just have fun with it.

You've got to be able to enjoy it is the key.

This is the soul learning to simulate realities because the souls come here as part of a sort of training in world creation.

Not as we understand it with the mind,

World creation,

But it is like that.

All of us are creating a world every single moment of our day.

We simulate our own reality.

We create our own reality and then experience it.

It's perceptual reality.

There is nothing happening.

Nothing has ever happened.

It's all in the mind.

To finish with this,

To show how this is,

If you were at the time scale that reality exists for us,

Let's say 80,

90 year life,

The progress of time appears or takes place at a certain frequency.

If you were to speed up this frequency,

You will be able to see it popping in and out of creation.

For example,

You and I live 80,

90 years,

100 years,

Whatever the average age.

By the time we get to that point,

You're going to be here forever.

They keep improving the age.

The average age just keeps going up.

In the words of … We're not that generation.

It reminds me of this joke,

Mullah Nasruddin.

I don't know if you've heard of Mullah Nasruddin.

One day I'll tell you about him.

He's phenomenal.

On the plane,

Loses one engine,

Second engine,

Third engine,

And each time an engine blows up,

He's on his way from Chicago to New York,

Los Angeles,

Whatever.

Each time one engine blows up,

The stewardess comes on,

Don't worry,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Everything's going to be okay.

We just lost one engine.

We've got another three.

Second one goes off,

She's back.

Third one goes off,

She's back.

It just means we're going to be up in the air an extra two hours with the first engine blowing.

Second engine,

Just means we'll be up in the air for four hours longer.

The third engine,

We'll be up in the air six hours longer.

By now,

Mullah Nasruddin has had it.

He stands up and he goes,

Well,

I hope the damn fourth one doesn't blow up.

Otherwise,

We're going to be here all night long.

I got to get home.

It's something like that.

But an ant's life or a moth's life operates on a different scale of time.

For us,

It looks like maybe an ant or a moth is living for a night or a day.

But for them,

It's 80,

90 years probably.

But we have the capacity to see it from our expanded state of consciousness.

90,

100 years looks like one day,

But there are other beings or universal realities that perceive the whole life of the planet over a million years and a heartbeat.

I take an inhale,

For example,

And by the.

.

.

I take an inhale and a whole species of cells are born in me.

I exhale and a whole generation of cells have died,

Just my exhale.

But to them,

That inhale and exhale is like,

Who knows,

Million years?

I don't know.

I haven't asked.

So we could see it's just so incredibly interesting and beautiful.

So we really have to,

We're required to just let go of our position.

Just let go of your beliefs.

Let go of your positionalities about life.

Let it go.

And it is this letting go,

This surrendering of positionality,

Opinion in other words,

Or belief or mind.

Surrendering of the mind is the highest.

It just allows you to keep going higher and higher and higher.

And that's what we do in meditation to start to move into that now.

In meditation,

We keep surrendering our wanting to attach with our thoughts,

To couple with our thoughts,

But to attach with our sensations or our feelings.

Just surrendering them,

Returning to peace.

Reviews

Brilliant talk, as always, Bassam- and that alluding to Rebirthing sounds very alluring! I have tried it once, so really looking forward to the Retreat with you this summer ☀️🤗🙏🏾💚

I found some parts of this conversation challenging. So I believe I will return to this again and again. Until it is fully absorbed into my consciousness. It is an important subject. Thank you for leading me onward in my personal evolution. Namaste 🙏🏼

Love the message. Pity I couldn’t hear the questions 🙂

Fascinating talk with a live audience. Very insightful. Thank you Bassam.

Manifesting in a different light — more ego driven if not for the betterment of all

Bassam ,
Yes absolutely beautiful… the continuous “Coupling, Copulating, and Co Creating”. The soul’s recognition of itself or the awareness of awareness as you described. Thank you for expressing this reality in a very reachable way. Also laughed out loud as you described the “arguing” that occurs with oneself in the initial phase of the soul recognizing itself. The acclamation aligning/surrendering our will to “thy will be done/God willing” is powerful, satisfying and not impossible as we practice recalibrating our perceptions(meditation,
breathwork). I’m so incredibly thankful that we have access to your teachings on Insight Timer.

Have listened to this 3 times and will continue to as needed. Thank you

I love the joy you inspire in me when you talk Bassam. Consciousness is such a complex topic to discuss, to explain. You do it beautifully, and yet, I still get lost or would not be able to explain it myself although what you said made sense.

Highly recommended. Thank you for explaining what I haven’t been able to put into words.

beautifully expressed and explained 🙏🏼 today is my first interaction with this talk and i’m aware of new awareness. i would like to return and listen again, perceiving new aha moments. thank you 🙏🏼

Very great. Made me smile lots!

really amazing, thank you

Good talk :) helped give some perspective to the ego and the choices we make.

I really enjoyed this talk, it was a great way to start the day. I found it inspiring and reaffirming. Thank you ☮🙏☮

Very profound and illuminating. Thank you
Which talk precedes this on and which comes after it?

Exquisite!
Deepest gratitude soul sibling..
Love,light and blessed be
Namaste
🙏

So so so beautiful ❤ thank you