Resolutions And Goals Or Self Realisation? (Replay #39)

People often set Resolutions yet what is the highest resolution? The Live takes you on a journey to seeing that Self Realisation is the highest Resolution and it is a chosen oneness. The Meditation included integrates a combination of Awareness Recognition, Spiritual Inquiry Questions and the Infinite Silence Meditation. Ambient sounds due to the Live. Questions answered: effective goals, the significance of the cover image to Self Realisation. IT Group: Nothing Special with Philip Wade.

Transcript

Welcome to this New Year's Eve stream.

It's still New Year's Eve here in England in North Yorkshire but where Blossom is.

It's already turned New Year so Happy New Year to everyone whether you're in the Southern Hemisphere or in the Northern Hemisphere like I am.

So the title of this stream is a title I've used elsewhere before.

It's called Resolution or Realisation.

Resolution or Realisation.

And I posed the question in the introductory notes to the stream.

What is the highest resolution?

What is the highest resolution?

And I'll kick off straight away by offering you a direct pointing on that.

But before I say that there's one thing for me to say.

There's another quite another thing to for it to be experientially realised.

However that's what the stream is dedicated to and what I'd like to do is take you on a journey with that having sort of set the tone for that with this pointing and some exercises we're going to do through the stream.

So very simply the highest resolution is realisation and that realisation is self-realisation.

That is the highest resolution.

That's why you're here not just on this stream but in this body on this planet right now.

It's to realise the essence of that which you truly are.

And when you look at it in that concept perhaps it stands to reason that would be the highest resolution to realise that.

Yet it seems on the face of it to be elusive for so many people and the good news is that it doesn't have to be like that.

It really doesn't.

And one key pointing that I've shared over many streams over this year is this.

Is that that which you are truly seeking,

That which you are truly seeking is in fact that which you already are and by you here I mean not you as you think and believe you are as this body mind experience but that your essence is already infinite silence and it simply has not been realised yet.

It has simply not been realised yet.

And that really sums up the fundamental difference between where the realisation has flowered and anchored and there's no doubt about that and the experience of that not being there actually were all that.

But in one case there's a belief still in the case of what I call the case of mistaken identity that all I am is this body mind experience when you're so much more,

So much more than that.

So what I'd like to do is take you do a little kind of meditative exercise using some exercises I've used over the streams in 2022 and we'll do that in a moment and I'll be taking you into a meditative space and then inviting you to open to a series of sort of questions and just be with whatever arises as we do that.

But before I do that exercise just a couple of words about the word resolution because lots of people are encouraged to create New Year's resolutions but it might be just interesting just to explore where that came from and actually the etymology of the word resolution in English actually comes originally from things like loosening or a release or a reducing or making things simpler.

And actually when it comes to self-realization it turns out there is in fact nothing simpler than that except it doesn't feel like that when that's not been the case for you.

And then a few hundred years or so ago the use of the word resolution started to move towards optics so you might have a high resolution camera just like I'm using here for this stream and around the 1780s it was when the idea of or concept of New Year's resolutions came in and according to the research I done in those early days those New Year's resolutions were very pious things,

Very pious things it kind of made me smile when I read that.

But the thing about resolutions and in the context of self-realization which is all what I'm about,

Quite often in how they're framed they're all framed in some kind of sense of a future state,

Goal or achievement upon which your happiness is based.

I will be happy when.

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And one of the fundamental things to understand as far as self-realization is concerned is that true joy,

True joy,

True grace,

True gratitude is not event based,

It's actually here now and the experience or the perfume of that which I call joy,

Grace,

Gratitude,

Peace,

Love,

They are the perfumes of the infinite silence or infinite awareness that you are and it's not some future state and making anything into I'll be happy when is simply just another form of suffering.

That doesn't mean by the way and we'll come on to that perhaps a little bit more later that one doesn't have some actions and plans of course it's necessary and practical when you have a body to do certain of those things.

But the key thing to recognize from a self-realization perspective is where are those plans coming from?

Are they coming from the head,

The ego identity,

Things that you must,

Should and ought to do?

Or are in fact they coming from awareness,

From inspiration,

From the heart space of silence?

And there's a big,

Big difference between those two and I might pick up on that a bit more upon that later but for a full exploration of that you can listen to my live stream replay and I think it's number eight and it's called Trust the Heart,

Trust the Heart.

What we're really being invited to when it comes to self-realization and the highest resolution is to be open to that which we already are,

Always have been and always will be and is always untouched,

Unmoved,

Unblemished essence,

Awareness,

Infinite silence.

And it's that,

The fact that one is already that is why it's ultimately profoundly simple.

What gets in the way as I've already said is our beliefs,

Beliefs in the case of mistaken identity and those beliefs may be conscious or unconscious but whichever they are and there'll be a mixture of both for most people they are what get in the way of the realization.

So to help us move through this little journey and explore rather than it just be a simple set of paintings from me what I'd like to do now is take you on a little bit of a meditative journey as I said and as part of that I'll ask,

I'll invite you to just be open to questions that are posed in the meditation and just make a mental note if you like without trying to analyze what arises as we go through that process.

So I'll guide you into meditative space and then at some point we'll raise,

We'll do what I call the who am I meditation in various forms.

So if you're good to go,

Get yourself comfortable,

Close your eyes and just simply and silently begin to notice what's here now and simply and silently accept that there may be sensations,

Emotions,

Feelings,

Breath,

Just let all of that be here without any judgment about it,

Simply silently watching,

Witnessing whatever's here now,

Nothing to do,

Just watch,

Just witness and as you watch or witness you may notice phenomena changing,

Maybe emotions emerging,

Changing,

Increasing,

Decreasing,

Maybe feelings,

Sensations,

All being watched and have you noticed how all these things,

These phenomena change over time,

One minute there may be no emotion and then something happens and emotion is here,

Eventually maybe after some time emotion dissolves,

Goes,

All phenomena are like that,

What is it that sees that,

Witnesses that,

Notices the changes in the phenomena,

Can report those changes,

That is awareness and being with this awareness,

Noticing now,

Being open to this,

Is that awareness affected by the changing phenomena,

Feelings,

Emotions or does it just watch,

Witness and is untouched,

Unmoved,

Unblemished by the changes,

Eventually you'll come to see awareness is always here,

Always unaffected by changes,

Feelings,

Emotions,

Always untouched,

Always unblemished,

Always unmoved and that you are this unchanging awareness,

Just resting with this now,

Nothing to do,

Just witness and now asking inside,

Who am I,

Who am I and if something comes,

That's fine and be okay if nothing arises,

That's fine too and now I'll ask inside,

Who am I without memory,

Who am I without memory and just be with that and just note if anything emerges,

Don't analyse,

Just watch and now asking inside,

Who am I without belief,

Who am I without belief and just be with that and now asking inside,

Who am I without goals,

Who am I without goals and just be with that,

Who am I with nothing to prove,

Who am I with nothing to prove and now without any need or attempt to visualise,

Just be open from your heart to connect with the energy of what I call the spheres,

To connect with the spheres or spheres of light,

Just rest with that,

Nothing to do,

Nothing to see and this energy of spheres of light is the same as the pure universal state,

I am pure being,

Universal being and even this state I am is witnessed by what I call the silent witness,

Just resting as this silent witnessing presence and even this now is like some ice in a vast ocean and it's melting,

Dissolving effortlessly,

Silently,

It's becoming one with the ocean and the ocean is an ocean of infinite silence or infinite awareness,

Merging completely with that now,

In silence,

You will realise truth,

In truth,

You will realise you are in silence,

Infinite silence,

Infinite awareness,

Be still and know this infinite silence,

This rarefied atmosphere of silence transforms,

Transmutes,

Dissolves all that you are not thus everything dissolves into silence,

Infinite silence,

Infinite awareness,

Untouched,

Unmoved,

Unblemished stillness,

Infinitely powerful,

Graceful presence,

Be still and know eternally this now,

Forever and know now this awareness,

This infinite silence is never not here,

Always present in you,

Through you,

As you,

Simply a matter of realising this highest resolution in a moment now I'll ring the Ting Sha bells three times,

Just keep your eyes closed for now and just like the sound of the bells has faded to silence,

Know all phenomena which are vibrations inevitably return to silence,

Infinite silence or infinite awareness and you,

Through you,

Are that always and just gently now,

Aware of your body,

The chair you're sat in or whatever you maybe lay on,

Aware of the space,

Aware that this awareness is unchanging and you are it,

Always it and when the moment is right for you,

Just gently opening your eyes,

Namaste.

That's good to hear Blossom,

Laughed as a great healer and also a great part of seeing,

So I'm pleased to hear that,

That you laughed out loud a few times.

That was a variation on the infinite silence meditation where I asked,

Integrated what I called the who am I part of it and some of you have experienced those,

Here are my questions many times and the purpose behind them is to help you step beyond identification with the body mind experience to that which is the witness to it,

That which sees it all appearing on the green screen of consciousness.

For consciousness is like a green screen in the movies,

You can project anything onto a green screen and you are that which is the witness to it all.

So if you've got some insight with those questions,

You'll find that they gradually move you away from the form to the formless and typically people go on a journey with that and a particular question may take certain people deeper,

It may take longer for others and so forth but it's all okay,

It's all part of the journey.

So just looking at a couple of comments here,

Christine says she experienced a brief weightlessness,

Good,

So that's good because there was a moving away from the sort of association with a density of the body and the question for you there Christine,

Who was the one that noticed the weightlessness?

Who was the one that noticed the weightlessness?

And you'll see that that was awareness.

Ruth is saying thank you Philip,

That was wonderful and powerful,

Good,

I'm glad to hear that,

Good for you.

Julia is saying beautiful,

Wondering where goals and actions enter in,

I'm going to come on to that in a moment,

Julia.

Ruth says if you ever wanted to pull out that as a separate meditation,

It would be okay by me.

I do have a shortened version of a Who Am I meditation on the Insight Time profile but not that longer one so I'll maybe do that or if I get some help with the editing,

Somebody might do that.

But yeah,

There are versions of that on a number of,

In fact many,

Live streams,

Replays.

Blossom says I connected with my late dad,

Good,

So that was obviously important for you.

Ruth says ego answered the without goals question,

The answer I got was lazy.

Yeah,

So that's mind,

Ruth,

As you might have guessed,

That's mind trying to get in on the act.

So,

Let me just sort of go through that and we'll see if any other comments,

Any other insights come up from the experience.

Good,

I'm glad that you smiled at it because what mind is trying to convince you that you need goals to be happy,

To be this better version of yourself when the self that you are seeking,

The capital S self,

Not the small s identity self,

Is in fact that which you already are.

One of the insights I've offered on many streams and I'll just say this at this point,

Self-realization is about this,

Listen to this carefully folks,

There's three sentences I'm going to give you here.

It's realizing,

Not seeking,

That's the first sentence,

Realizing,

Not seeking,

Finding,

Not searching,

Second insight,

Finding,

Not searching,

Seeing,

Not looking,

Seeing,

Not looking.

The verb at the end of each of those is a striving mind based activity.

Sorry,

So I go from realizing,

Not seeking,

Not seeking.

The seeker is not that which you are.

It's not that seeking is wrong.

People tend to move from a journey from being completely oblivious and then move into being seekers.

But the danger is most people stay on the seeking path rather than being open to realizing.

And that's why it is self-realization.

This realization is very important.

Oh my gosh,

I am that,

That being the infinite silence,

The infinite awareness.

Realizing,

Not seeking,

Finding,

Not searching,

Seeing,

Not looking.

And this fits with something I said earlier about that which you are seeking is in fact that which you already are.

And that's not the body mind experience.

That is the essence,

That is the infinite silence.

And the whole purpose of that meditation was to get you to recognize awareness and that the awareness is always here and is always untouched,

Unmoved,

Unblemished.

And that you are in fact always it.

And the questions are a way of stepping beyond mind based activity.

And as you go through that,

And sometimes it will take repetition and openness,

Often what people start to move to is from identity as the smallest self through to awareness,

Void,

Space,

Silence,

Stillness.

These are the types of words that people share with me when we do that part of the meditation.

So going back to the question around where do actions and goals come in,

Because I said it's not that actions and plans in life are wrong.

What's really important is what space is that coming from?

And it's the making the difference and understanding the difference between activity and action.

Activity is of the mind is always busy,

Always on the go,

Always there's more to do more,

More to achieve more to more to should must or to,

To be this to be happy.

This to be achieved,

I'll be happy when this endless activity is all coming from the identity.

That's the small self ego mind based identification,

The belief that all I am is this body mind.

Action,

On the other hand,

Inspired action comes direct from awareness.

It comes as an insight and a ha moment,

A calling,

And it feels completely different.

It has none of the must should or to about it.

It feels uplifting,

Expansive,

Inviting,

And can often be surprising.

And when you get that,

That can be trusted.

Often after such an insight,

Such an inspiration,

Such a calling,

Mind will kick back in and try to dissuade you.

And that's the point to face that fear,

To face that block,

Let that dissolve and then continue to follow the inspired action.

So when we act upon inspiration,

Which arises directly from awareness,

Which has the qualities that I've just described.

Now this,

We might give that a label,

A goal,

But really it's a calling.

It's a movement towards or an embracing of what the heart space of silence is calling you to.

Now this is something that's worth,

Should we say,

Engaging with and embracing.

The big difference is that almost all of our goals,

Achievements and so forth come from mind-based stuff.

Should,

Must,

Ought to,

I'll be happy when.

The big difference,

There's a big difference between that and the inspired action.

And in this context,

It's not really a goal.

And self-realization is not a goal either.

Self-realization is not a goal.

I'll be self-realized by the end of 2023.

That's not going to happen.

You are already,

Or your essence is already that which you are seeking.

The trick,

So to speak,

Is to be open to that absolute possibility of realizing that self in this lifetime and that that which is being sought is already here,

Awaiting to be realized.

Realizing,

Not seeking,

And following the calling of your heart.

Following an awareness-based journey that opens you into the depths of awareness.

Now this is the highest resolution and the highest inspired action.

And you don't need to believe a single word I say about it.

Because when it is realized,

It will become capitalist self-evident.

And you might do like Blossom did earlier,

Laugh about how you could miss that which is blindingly obvious.

And the fact that that's maybe not your experience right now,

There's nothing wrong or right about that.

It's okay.

Just be open to that highest possibility.

You are this already.

Your essence is this already.

It doesn't deny the experience that's happening here right now.

That experience that's here right now,

All of that is appearing on the green screen of consciousness.

And all of it is being witnessed.

And that witnessing presence is always untouched,

Unblemished,

Unmoved.

And self-realization is simply about recognizing unequivocally that you are that.

Let me just have a look at the comments again.

When listening to Philip's tracks again and again,

I've had many aha moments and realizations.

Good.

And that's the benefit of the replays that I put on in SightTimer of the streams that are available.

And there are a lot of them.

And for the exploration of the heart one I just talked about there,

That's live stream replay.

I think it's number eight.

Trust the heart.

Just seeing if there's anything else I've not picked up on on the comments.

I can see that Richard has donated and so has Blossom.

So thank you very much for those donations.

They're much appreciated.

It helps support the work and particularly,

Very importantly,

It helps support InsightTimer and keeps this platform going and also makes it advert free,

Which I think is just incredible considering how much noise there is out there in the world generally around that.

So really appreciate that on behalf of myself and InsightTimer.

So the other thing I want to say about this highest resolution,

The calling to,

The calling to self-realization.

One of the things that came into my awareness when I was reflecting upon what I'll be sharing with you tonight is a phrase that is so misunderstood in the context of this.

You'll see reference to it in some religious traditions and so forth.

And I wanted to pick up on it.

And because it can appear from the perspective of not being in that realized space that,

You know,

It's only a very small number of people.

And that's true that I've come to that space.

However,

It doesn't need to be like that.

And certainly in the present times,

There's more and more people,

More than you might realize that are opening to this realization or having experiences or touching this without actually necessarily fully recognizing what is emerging in them.

And there's a phrase that you sometimes hear,

Certainly in some religious traditions,

And it's like this,

The chosen,

The chosen one.

And you might think of something like the Buddha,

For instance,

Two and a half thousand years ago as a chosen one.

And you'll hear in some traditions,

Particularly in walks of life and so forth,

Even phrases like chosen,

We are the chosen people,

Or we are the chosen ones.

It may be an individual,

A group,

A community,

A nation.

And all of these,

All of these in the context of self-realization are a misunderstanding of what that is pointing to.

All are chosen,

But few open to that realization.

And it doesn't need to be like that.

All are chosen.

The phrase that came to me to sort of articulate this to you many years ago is this,

It's the chosen oneness,

The chosen oneness.

And in this context,

It appears from the human experience that self-realization is actually a choice and the choice that we experience is,

Am I going to continue to believe that all I am is this body-mind experience and the suffering that inevitably comes with that?

Or will I follow that inner calling of the heart space of silence and be open to the fact that actually there is more to life and that I am that infinite silence,

That infinite awareness.

And actually I don't know anything about it.

And this being open to knowing nothing about it is actually very important because if one thinks one knows about this,

Then that is a mistake.

It's from the space of not knowing and being open to the essence that's already here.

In that space,

The realization flowers.

There's a humility in that openness and that willingness to be open to the fact that one does not know and yet one can sense or feel a calling to it arising from within.

And so it's a chosen oneness from the human perspective to go with that heart-based opening to that calling.

But in the ultimate sense of the realization of the self is actually,

Listen carefully to this,

It's a choiceless choice.

And what I mean by that goes back to something I said earlier,

Is that as the essence is realized,

As the self is realized,

It is seen unequivocally that one has always been that.

Never has there been a time and never will there be a time when one was not that.

And again,

You don't need to believe me on that.

That will become self-capitalist self-evident.

All are here for this.

All are chosen.

Will we follow the highest resolution?

That is the gift that awaits you and the gift arises from within.

The gift arises from within.

It's not that somebody gives it to you.

It is that it actually simply arises and is realized that one is that.

One is that.

Exactly,

Yomi.

I quite like the way you've expressed that.

If you're on this planet,

You have been chosen and that's true across all will come to this.

The question is,

Are you going to open to that choice and be open to that choice in this lifetime?

It's about following this inner calling,

The highest resolution.

Your heart is calling you to this right here,

Right now,

Right here,

Right now.

And so my opening question,

What is the highest resolution?

It's self-realization and it's to follow that calling.

And everybody's path on that will vary and that's perfectly okay.

The key is to consistently follow what your heart is calling you to and that will eventually and unequivocally lead you home to that realization.

Simply this.

It is much simpler,

Folks,

Than it might first appear.

So simple,

In fact,

Is that we are,

In fact,

Already that which is being sought.

And to emphasize once again,

It's not this body-mind experience.

This body-mind experience is something that you have,

Like you might have a car,

But it is not that which you are.

Yet it is very important because it provides the vehicle through which this essence can come to be realized.

So it's very important.

Very important.

Let's just look at a couple more comments there.

Stefan's saying,

The only choice is whether you are open to the realization or not.

Indeed.

And we will have a sense of that choice.

And if we continue to go with the mind and the identity and the beliefs,

We will suffer.

And if we follow the calling of the heart,

We will open to that realization.

And even sometimes,

Even on that path of following mind and suffering and suffering and suffering,

Interestingly,

And I've talked about this on previous streams,

Sometimes that gets so intense,

So heavy,

That some people get into such a dense and contracted state with that.

At some point,

There's a surrender that takes place,

And they have a profound spiritual experience,

An opening to this thing.

It's like a crack has opened,

An implosion has happened,

And a crack has opened into the space of awareness.

It's not a route I'd recommend,

Because it's full of suffering,

And very,

Very,

Very intense.

It does happen.

It does happen.

More effective is to be open to the inner calling.

And yes,

All of that trouble and trauma and beliefs and stuff in the emotional pain body will have to be faced,

But it's going to be easier if you are open to that calling and you trust awareness.

You trust awareness.

What's Yummy saying?

Yes,

I am.

I woke up again on the long drive back home yesterday.

Good,

I'm glad to hear that,

Yummy.

Would that live be also in your profile,

Philip?

I'm guessing you're referring to the Trust the Heart replay that I've referred to a couple of times already,

And the short answer is yes.

It's number eight,

I think,

Live replay number eight,

Trust the Heart.

You can access that on my profile,

And also you can access it via the group,

Which is Nothing Special with Philip Wade.

Nothing Special with Philip Wade.

And in the group,

And also on my profile,

There are playlists.

There's a playlist for all the live stream replays,

Of which there are many.

There's a playlist for dealing with troublesome emotions that I've recently created,

Which is also in the other part of the other playlist,

But I've created a specific one for that.

So that's two playlists,

All the live stream replays,

One for dealing with emotions and trauma and blocks.

There's a playlist of shorter tracks as well.

And then there's a playlist,

I think there's four in total.

I can't remember what the other one is now.

So you can access those via my profile or via the group,

Nothing Special with Philip Wade.

Anami is saying,

Philip,

Thank you so much for sharing the live stream replays,

As well as creating all the playlists you have for us.

You're welcome,

Anami.

So the whole,

Going back to where we started from here,

What is the highest resolution?

Well,

It's self-realization.

I hope that you can see that now,

Or at least be open to that seeing.

Is that making sense to you folks?

Is that making sense?

The highest resolution is self-realization and all are chosen,

All are called to it.

You just need to be open to it.

You just need to be open to it and follow the calling of your heart.

Be open to knowing nothing.

This will take you away from the belief space,

The thinking that you know what life is and what it's all about.

The wisdom that's being pointed out and shared here is not Philip's.

It's universal and we all have access to it.

Always,

Always.

The meditation that we did,

There are seven versions.

That's the other playlist.

I just remembered.

There's a playlist of seven versions of the Infinite Silence meditation.

Those don't include the Who Am I part of the exercise.

You'll find those on the other streams.

Those seven versions of the Infinite Silence meditation,

Which is an awareness meditation,

Which emerged from the silence itself.

There are seven versions,

A quarter of an hour through to one and a half hours.

There's the same amount of guidance in each.

There's just more silent pauses.

The idea is that you start at a point,

Whether it's a quarter of an hour fully guided or 22 minutes or 29 minutes or whatever the steps are.

I can't remember them all now.

You work your way through those as you become more and more familiar with the meditation.

This meditation,

As I say,

Which emerged from the silence is specifically about you opening to this awareness.

That in combination with the live stream replays is a very,

Very powerful tool.

Not because Philip says so,

Nothing to do with that whatsoever.

It's because that which you are seeking is already here within you.

Already here within you.

What's rich?

It's saying,

Yes,

Follow the heart,

Your purpose,

Or you'll be miserable drifting about.

Indeed,

And you will suffer as well.

Christine is saying,

Yes,

The word rarefied,

Less dense took on a new meaning for me today.

I'm delighted to hear that,

Christine.

I know that you've been on a number of streams.

And this points to something Blossom was sharing earlier.

I know Blossom and several other people in the Nothing Special with Bullet Way group have listened to some of the streams,

Not just once,

Twice,

Three times.

I know Michelle who's on the stream and Blossom's probably done this as well.

And I know others have.

I've listened to them five times.

And each time with a gap in between,

They hear something new,

Something that they didn't hear the first time.

Now,

The great benefit of this from the perspective of self-realization is that we spent years,

20,

30,

40,

50 years or more being conditioned into the way of our being right now.

And the repetition through meditation,

Awareness-based meditation,

Infinite silence meditation,

The insight offered on the live stream replays here,

All of that is part of a deconditioning process,

A deconstruction,

A dissolution of the belief in the case of mistaken identity.

And if you get aha moments,

As Blossom was pointing out earlier,

It's not because Philip told you,

It's because already inside,

This was known,

This wisdom was already known.

That's what an aha moment is.

That's what an insight is.

There's a sense of,

Oh yeah,

I already knew this.

It had just been forgotten.

It had just been forgotten.

That's all simply forgotten.

Who you really are.

Infinite awareness,

Infinite silence.

That which you are seeking is that which you already are.

Realizing,

Not seeking.

Finding,

Not searching.

Seeing,

Not looking.

Make sense folks.

Make sense.

Go with the inspired action,

Not the constant activity.

And don't make self-realization a goal.

Instead,

See it as the invitation to the realization of that which you already are.

Like this,

Like this.

Richard's saying,

Amen.

Meditation is the call to infinite intelligence within.

The answer is inside,

Not in the matrix or the reality.

Indeed,

Indeed.

And it's important to add here,

I've got a couple of streams on the replays list,

Part one and part two of what it really means to go within.

Because most often people will see that as a direction and it's not a direction.

It's an opening to the infinite dimensions,

The infinite silence,

The infinite awareness.

That's what it means to go within,

In essence.

But those two replays I've just mentioned,

Which I think is number one on the list and number 30 something on the list,

Where I deepen it for you.

Those are available on the profile and you can listen to those.

Can you say a little bit about the spheres?

I can.

I do cover it in all the lives,

In various of the live stream replays.

But the reason I use the term spheres in Brief Gloria is because as the process unfolded in the form that we call Philip,

The first major part of that was the first part of the infinite silence meditation,

Which is to be open to the connection with the spheres.

Now why spheres?

It's because if I use this trusty metaphor here,

This is a fiber optic lamp.

Now to explain it,

If you can imagine that your body mind experiences one of these points of light,

And there are many points of light as you can see around here.

And most of what we do in life is look outwards into the world and it looks like all the other people are separate from us,

Separate from us.

The invitation to be open to connect with the spheres is actually an invitation to look down,

So to speak,

To the fiber optic filament.

And the first part using the physical metaphor we see is this light at the bottom here.

Now this is what I call,

It was shown to me to be what I'll refer to as spheres of light,

The pure universal consciousness state of universal being.

I am,

It's not personal,

It's not personal.

So the opening to connect with the spheres.

This is like,

If we were to give it a metaphorical sense,

You can see this fiber optic lamp.

If it was the fibers came out every direction,

You'd have a sphere because the central point,

And I'm going to come to that in a moment,

If from this central point filaments came out in every direction equally,

Then you'd end up with a sphere,

A ball.

And we could therefore metaphorically or literally,

Whatever way you want to put it,

See the universe as an infinite sphere,

Infinite sphere.

Within that sphere,

The pure universal state,

I am infinite,

I am.

If you like,

Touches the edge or not that silence has an edge or is embraced within or enveloped within that infinite sphere.

And then every other expression is simply a contraction like Russian dolls of spheres within spheres.

And there are different spheres of consciousness.

So the invitation to connect with the spheres is actually an invitation to connect with the entirety,

The infinite sphere,

If you like,

Of the universe.

It's a tool.

It's a device.

But what I found over many years of sharing that,

And it was made clear to me that I had to share it in this way,

That that simple invitation to connect from the heart with the spheres is an energetic bridge to the realization that single one line is enough.

And again,

You don't need to believe me on that.

I've shared this with thousands of people across the globe over many years now,

And the transformations I've seen in them has been beyond words.

So that's why it's spheres.

You could think of the universe as an infinite sphere.

Taking the metaphor further,

As we first open to the spheres of light part,

The pure state,

I am pure being that's not personal.

You may have noticed that I said in the meditation,

Even that as subtle as it is,

This pure state,

I am not personal,

Infinite,

I am.

Even that is a phenomenon that can be sensed or witnessed.

And using this physical example here,

This is like the battery that powers the light.

And in universal terms,

That's infinite silence.

And it's not confined to the base or the central point is in fact,

Everywhere.

And that's a limitation of the visit of the physical metaphor.

The power is the infinite silence,

The infinite,

An infinite field of energy.

And it's that.

So that is the infinite sphere,

The ultimate,

If you like infinite sphere.

That's why it's spheres.

It wasn't because Philip thought that was a good idea.

It's because that's what the silence showed,

Called for,

And how it was to be expressed.

So the term spheres came from that realization.

And then about a year and a half later,

Infinite silence realization,

That term was also chosen by that same awareness.

So that's why I use the terms that I do.

For a fuller exploration of that,

Look at some of the other streams.

In fact,

I think the replay,

What does it mean?

What does it really mean to go within?

I think that's replay number one.

Listen to that one.

I explain that and guide you through that.

And also part two of that,

Which I forget what stream number that is.

It might be 30 something.

It takes it further still.

But really every stream covers that in many different ways.

All I'm saying here is the same message a million different ways.

You are already that which is being sought.

And if you want to think of that as an infinite sphere of infinite silence,

That's one way to look at it.

Guys,

What's Blossom saying?

Philip,

I mentioned about getting buzzing sensations on my physical body when I listened to the piano music of Keith Jarrett,

Who played music from the silence.

Love to know why the buzzing happens.

Blossom,

There are many,

Many phenomena that occur on the spiritual journey.

And I know that some people have attempted to capture those.

And there's nothing wrong in that buzzing being one of them.

Very,

Very strong buzzing,

Vibrations,

Whatever,

Heat,

Cool,

You name it.

Any number of sensations and phenomena are possible.

The problem we're trying to sort of list them all is that people,

Mind will let our attendance say,

Oh,

I haven't experienced that one yet.

What's more important is what is it that is the witness to that phenomena?

What was it that noticed the buzzing?

And was that which witnessed it affected by the buzzing?

And you'll see that that was awareness and that no,

It wasn't affected.

So you can just simply allow the phenomena to be there without judging it as good,

Bad or indifferent.

And then it will simply just all fall away.

It will all,

Like all phenomena,

Return to silence.

Part of the reason the phenomena happen is that the body vehicle,

Which is much denser than the infinite silence,

The infinite awareness itself,

Is much denser.

It needs to,

Over a period of time,

Should we say,

Adjust to embracing a higher experience of consciousness or a more pure expression of consciousness,

Which would be a better way of putting it because I don't like the term hierarchy.

It gives an impression of a spiritual hierarchy and there isn't really one.

So as one deepens into awareness,

The body,

The physical body vehicle has to adjust so that it can embrace and embody that.

And there's all sorts of adjustments that will take place.

Some of that will include buzzing,

Some of it will include vibrations,

Some of it will include the dissolution of all sorts of emotional trauma and energies,

Many,

Many different phenomena will occur.

The key,

As I've already said,

Is what is it that is the witness to that phenomena?

And is that awareness affected by that?

And you'll see the answer is,

No,

It isn't.

And it will eventually be seen that you are in fact the infinite awareness,

The infinite silence itself.

Dead simple.

So simple,

The mind cannot conceive of its complexity.

Only the mind will try to make this complicated.

It is not complicated in any way,

Shape or form.

I would not say that to you were it not true.

What does your heart say about it?

Do you feel called to that highest resolution?

Are you willing and open to move towards that?

It's a journey of trust.

You will experience it as a journey of trust.

So I trust that's been useful for you tonight,

Folks.

The highest resolution is self-realization.

And we're all here for that.

Richard is saying,

Stellar.

So thank you very much for that.

Thank you for being here tonight.

I think this is stream number 39 I've done on Insight Timer.

123 here,

It says,

Or 124 I think.

But anyway,

So thank you all for being here.

Be open to this highest resolution.

Use the playlists,

The live stream replays.

Use the Infinite Silence Meditations playlist.

Feel free to join the group.

Nothing special with Philip Wade.

I wish you a blessed New Year and send you all blessings in infinite silence.

For really,

Folks,

You are already this.

You really already are that.

The calling,

The highest resolution is for you to be open to that.

Be open to that.

In silence,

You will realize truth.

In truth,

You will realize you are silence,

Infinite silence.

And this terrified atmosphere of silence will transform all that you are not.

And the self will be realized.

That's why you are here.

That's your highest resolution.

Namaste.

To integrate and profoundly deepen your spiritual journey,

Use the other resources and the 2022 live stream Self-Realization Program,

All on Insight Timer.

Reviews

Thank you! 🙏🏼Listening to this one again two years later.

The energetic heaviness of the “pain body” is a lot lighter this year.
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Excellent insights and explanation thank you 🙏😇🙏

I am working through the streams again. This one was once again so reaffirming ! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🥰🌷🌿

So good I listened
to it twice in the same day 🙏🏼

The meditation 'Who am I' was Soo nice and long and I noticed something interesting 🤔.
Thank you very much for sharing it with us, Philip.
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