At this point you no longer experience yourself as human—you experience yourself as a being of energy.

You are not letting go of life, you are letting go of your personal reactions to life.

But difficult situations present an opportunity to change that dynamic. The way to do that is to let go of your entire personal reaction to the situation. You just let it go. You don’t let go of the situation—you let go of your reaction to the situation.

Reality is going to come in, it’s going to hit your blockages, and your mind is going to talk about it. Fine, be that as it may—you don’t have to listen. It’s that simple. If you know your mind doesn’t know what it’s talking about, why listen?

Changing your relationship with your mind is a major part of the spiritual journey. You don’t do this by fighting with the mind and resisting thoughts. You do this by learning not to listen to the mind. You are the consciousness, and the mind is the object of consciousness.

Thus the entire universe was without form for about 380 thousand years. After that, the radiation cooled down enough to where the fundamental forces of gravity and electromagnetism could pull the subatomic particles together to form the first atoms.

An emotion is caused by the shakti hitting the blockages in your heart and shooting out to release the blocked energies. This creates enough disturbance to your normal flow that your attention gets drawn to these disturbed energies.

The truth is the whole world is a giant Rorschach test. The world is a flow of atoms unfolding in front of you. It’s no more personal than the inkblots. But it’s hitting your samskaras, and that stimulates stored mental and emotional reactions. Now, instead of experiencing what is passing by outside, you are experiencing the likes, dislikes, belief

it is for you to stay seated in the seat of Self while accepting these different shifts that are taking place. From this vantage point, the emotions can change, you can notice them changing, but you don’t go anywhere. You remain the one who notices the emotions, hears the thoughts, and looks out through the eyes. Who is this one? This is what our j