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FROM VICTIMIZATION TO ENLIGHTENMENT

Imagine a staircase with three steps.

Between the darkness and the light there are three levels (so to speak) which are clearly defined. We can also call them “mentalities,” “mental dimensions” or “states of consciousness,” and they are radically different attitudes toward life. People who live in these three levels seem to inhabit different universes.

Depending on which one you are in, you will experience different things in life. And in these levels, or dimensions, live the people who live in the world of things. Their postures are so differing that, even though they may be “staircase neighbors,” the experiences of one may have nothing to do with that of another: they live in parallel universes.

Let us see the three levels: they go from victimization to responsibility, and from there to awakening:

1 In the first level, victimization, you have overbooking, where more than 80% of the world’s population is.

2 In the second level, responsibility, we find a small advancement (around 19% of people), who are more or less empowered.

3 In the third level, awakening, we find less than 1% of the population; people who have had some perception (non continuous) of awakening.

With these percentages, the picture is not that encouraging. Possibly, you now understand why the world is a “valley of tears.” In reality, the world is neutral, neither good nor evil; it is simply the stage where our drama plays out. There is nothing to fix out there, everything is happening within you, in the projection room. Do not blame the world for what may happen to you, or you will be a “victim” (but not a victim of the world, but rather a victim of yourself).

The first level, victimization, is ruled by the “Law of Talion:” eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I do not believe that anyone belonging to this dimension will be reading this book, so let us pass directly to the second level: those who apply the “Law of Action:” self-improvement, goal setting, empowering... In short, they are individuals who strengthen themselves, struggling for a better life. The third level is inhabited by individuals who apply the “Law of Assumption.” They are those that have looking within themselves, and recognized their authentic identity: the Presence of I Am.

1 Law of Talion.

2 Law of Action.

3 Law of Assumption.

In all these levels you experience an innate desire for freedom... a wish to free one’s self (from your egotistic mental structure). However, these people do not live it in such a way, instead attempting to free themselves of the effects that they are, themselves, creating. They do not seek the causes, and barely fight against the effects. In short, if we would ask them all, they will recognize that they have objectives in life, but they all share a unique meta-objective, if you will: to free themselves. Freedom from limitations is happiness.

If you would permit an analogy... In penitentiary terms, the “victimized inmates” are slaves to their own cerebral patterns. Their chains are mental and, in being invisible, are very difficult to identify and, in consequence, to break. Since everything happens to them without their responsibility intervening, they renounce themselves to never improve their existence.

In the “responsible inmates” level are the ones whose “dream” (within slumber) is to improve their “penitentiary conditions:” more time in the yard, better food, better cells, better beds, better treatment... and yes, maybe even a conjugal visit from time to time. These inmates have decided to prosper in jail; however, they have not decided to wake up from the slumber-nightmare which keeps them in it. They struggle to reform their penitential conditions, that is all. They get out of their cells for more hours, but the farthest they ever go is to the prison yard, right up to the fence.

The spirit uses the world as a mirror, ego makes it a prison.

In the “awakened people” level, it is not enough to improve the “penitentiary conditions.” All that matters is getting out of jail. To awaken, to free one’s self from self-inflicted slavery. To end with the nightmare once and for all. These people are free because they have ended the causes for slavery. Their life in the world is not better or worse, but it is real.

Reader, the freedom you seek does not allow for compromises, negotiations or lowering of minimums. What you seek is so grand that it will only be possible when you abandon the immense misunderstanding that makes you think that you are separate, and when you are able to discover your real identity. The person who you have believed to be will never be free, because its nature is limitation. Only by transcending the mental construct of ego will you ever find green pastures.

There is a step prior to awakening: for your dreams and/or nightmares to become happy dreams. It is necessary, because the former are closer to the light than the latter.

Remember “The Matrix,” (a great movie you should see if you have not). The main character, Neo, is given 2 options: to choose the blue pill or choose the red pill.

With the blue pill, Neo will be hypnotized in the world, projecting there what he decides to believe, and thus creating his own “reality.” As he ascends in his level of consciousness, he will purge the projected dream. He will live in a world of duality and separation, and will not realize that his mind gives form to matter.

With the red pill, Neo will acknowledge himself and exit the dream. There, he will interrupt the projection, which will come to be an extension of consciousness. He will wake up. He will perceive from unity, and not from duality. He will be in the world, but will know that it is not a creation of his own mind. In the worst case, he will live in a lucid dream from which he will be able to awaken to reality.

Reader, this book is your red pill: if you carry on, you will see what is happening behind the curtain, and will have to make a choice. A single, unique choice. You will have two options, ignore what I will reveal to you, and continue to believe whatever you want to believe; or wake up and discover what it’s all about.

The enlightened coach does not settle for working with other people in matters of the middle column. That is work material for the conventional coach. The conscious coach looks beyond, focusing on the third column... working toward the awakening of his client. His support does not serve to create more happy dreams within the slumber, but to finally awaken. The enlightened coach only has one objective in mind: awakening.

The path of enlightenment is elegant and simple: it consists of dismantling the fabricated identity. From there, the “Being” is revealed.