Awakening( Beyond Nowhere )

by Joe Wilkinson

Awakening( Beyond Nowhere )

by Joe Wilkinson

Copyright © 2009 by Joseph C. Wilkinson

All rights reserved.

Author’s Note

Don’t believe anything I say.

Only if the message contained here resonates with

you will you choose to investigate the suggestions it

contains. This message contains nothing but an

opportunity. You will have to create the value it offers

you.

Only you can determine if now is your time to free

yourself.

I will offer resources for further research,

including potential access to myself. I hope to find you

on the path of joy, truth, and Love.

I’m going to remind you of something you may be

pretending to forget. You are in your own dream. Is now

your time to wake up within it? If not, put this book

down. Now is not your time.

You’re still here. How curious.

Still turning pages. Interested?

Dreams are living thoughts. Dreamers live these

thoughts, while they think them. You are a dreamer.

You are not the only dreamer in this dream. This is

a collective dream. All those in this dream who know

they are dreaming are actually awake in it. They are the

awakened. You will meet them occasionally. You can

recognize other dreamers, because they are usually

expressing what they want, not what they do not, and

they rarely complain.

Dreams are influenced by the power of imagination.

You don’t become anything. You are what you are. You,

as the dreamer, don’t change. The dream, including your

body, changes around you. You are dreaming your body

into existence. Others see you as you imagine yourself.

Think of imagination as thought-images-in-action.

You imagine an experience from the inside out. First, you

think it, or feel it, then you produce a little mind movie

out of it, and if it continues to feel right you keep

thinking about it. If you think about something long

enough, focusing on it arriving in your experience, you

will find yourself surrounded by those images acting out

your experience.

You have never been anywhere without yourself.

The only thing you can really say is that the

surroundings of your dream have changed. You have never

really gone anywhere. You have merely imagined you were

traveling, when, in fact, your surround has changed

around you based upon the amount of energy you have

focused upon experiencing those surroundings.

This may not be what you have been led to believe,

and you may feel like arguing the point. However, to enter

this dream you must forget who you are, as the

dreamer, and agree to find this truth on your own. Of

course, you will notice that the answer is now arriving

for you, but not before you asked.

You have been feeling like something is not quite

right. You have been overwhelmed by the need to find a

deeper truth, a hidden meaning, in this world. There is

none. There is nothing hidden in this world. It is a dream.

The deeper truth is hidden within you. Within you is

where the world arises from.

Your thoughts, since early in life, have been

focused on finding out the truth of this world, and

there is no truth in it. The truth is in you. Your

questions have been about the world and what’s

happening in it. You ask questions about what everyone

else is doing, and how things work, but you have not

looked within. Those whom you’ve asked about the truth

of who you are have not been qualified to answer the

question, because only you can answer it.

Who you are is a question of the utmost

importance, having the power to change everything, and

you hold the key to unlock the answer to who you are.

If you are reading this, you have already asked to know.

This message is coming to you as one of the signposts

leading you to your truth.

Your truth will prove itself to you when you are

ready for it. Is now your time? Will you begin dreaming

your dream life into experiential existence?

Here we go...

What is your dream-world made of? What are your

thoughts and imaginations made of? What is the energy

of imagination?

In this “slow” dream there are many sleepwalkers

attempting to prove what the dream is made of. I

suggest you investigate those who have looked at the

tiniest of things and asked what’s inside. Biologists will

tell you the names of plants and animals, while the

geologist tells you the names of rocks and formations,

but they may not suggest you study the basis of the

existence of those things. What makes a plant a plant, an

animal an animal, or a rock a rock? What’s inside? Break

them open and find the pieces, what are the pieces made

of, and what are the pieces of those pieces made of?

At the origin of all material things we find the

same thing; energy, acting out thoughts. You don’t have

to take my word for it. The science is called Quantum

Physics. The first rule of quantum physics is that

nothing observed is unaffected by the observer. In other

words, the thought of a thing precedes the thing

thought of. The whole dream is flashing in and out of

existence at the speed of Light. You are that Light,

dreaming with itself. You need only be Love to have it

show up in your experience.

If you are imagining yourself to be Love and Joy

and Truth, the dream will show up as those things being

your surroundings. The dream will shape itself into your

imaginings if you will keep dreaming them.

There are subtleties, however. All dreams happen in

their own time. The dreamer excels in patience, knowing

they are the Light which projects thoughts into “the

surround;” the dream. Occasionally, you will have a really

big idea, a great thought image, and you will invest in

imagining it into existence, but in the slow dream it may

take time to shape itself for your arrival in it. There are

subtle and not so subtle feelings that will speak to you

about whether you should keep imagining an idea, or if

it’s time to let the dream take over and do its work.

Usually, when you have done your work, you will feel

comfortable leaving the idea alone. Do so. Move on to a

new creative imagining.

If you have what you need, imagine for others.

Create a better surround for YOU on larger and larger

scales. Make a better community, city, county, state,

country, world, galaxy and universe.

You are a dreamer. This is your dream. If others

aren’t willing to dream a better world into experience,

maybe you are here to be the dreamer for them. If the

ideas of those around you don’t inspire you to dream for

them, do so anyway. Simply dream that their experience

shows them their truth in an easy effortless, even

joyful, way.

Dreaming is an art. It requires strength, flexibility,

and balance. These are the three tenets of yoga, which is

the art of unifying action and stillness. To affect the

dream, find its stillness. Stillness is found within, in the

space between thoughts. Quiet your mind. Allow things

to do what they will. Observe your thoughts. Is your

mind active? Watch your thoughts until you notice how

quickly they bounce from one to another. Watch the

activity of your mind. See how you are not your mind.

Your mind is a tool, your tool. Find the “off” switch.

Until you turn your mind off from its constant need to

“talk” about the dream, you will not be able to put new

images into it. If the mind doesn’t know what to tell the

dream to become, it will continue to talk about what the

dream isn’t being. The dream only knows how to say,

“yes” to the images given it. What thought-images-in-

action are you giving the tool of mind to work on?

Imagine you are the dreamer of your dream world,

and dream anew, now. Now may be your time.

Encountering this message may be your next step

in remembering, recognizing, and realizing your truth. If

you take this opportunity to inquire, critically, into the

essence of who you are, and allow the essence to

become your living reality, you may find yourself

authentically creating evolutionary change in your human

experience.

This message is not the truth. The only truth is

your truth. The truth you are is operating for you. If

someone else denies your truth, they do not make it

false for you, they only make it unavailable to

themselves. Be true to yourself.

What can you truly know about who you are? All

indications suggest the only thing you cannot deny is

that you are. “I am” is the only true statement you can

make about your experience. Interestingly, this may be

the shortest complete statement in the English language.

Anyway, if the only thing you can prove about your

experience is that you are having it, what can you make

of it? What are you here to be, become, do, share, and

experience?

Ego vs. ENERGY

!

Ego, as intended in this message, is the voice of

your human personality or identity. Ego is the voice

defending the idea that you are merely an individual human

form on a material planet, which is traveling through

space called the universe. Ego is the voice denying a larger

truth.

The entire universe is made up of energy. Energy is

what thought is made of, and arises from. Thoughts

become things; atoms, molecules, organ systems,

individual bodies, collective species, nations, planets,

galaxies, and the entire universe. Which one are you?

Where are you in this hierarchy? Where aren’t you?

Where do you begin, and where do you end?

Ego would have you believe you are an individual

body, separate from a larger more dynamic whole. Ego

says you can become a self-actualized human, but this

will merely be the ego’s idea of its self, as human,

aggrandized. You are capable of choosing and knowing a

larger truth. You may choose to become actualized as

the entire energy system, and allow it to work with you,

for you, indeed, as you.

So, where in the energy system do you choose to

be? You are free to perform whichever belief you

choose. Within this message is the suggestion that

what you believe you are, literally, is what makes it true,

experientially, but You are who you are, the perceiving

of...

The voice of ego will say you are incapable of being

anything larger than the human form (the skin

encapsulated bio-body suit), which appears to contain

you. Does this voice serve your highest truth?

What if you are the whole energy system,

choosing to experience itself as an individual human form

within the realm called planet Earth, and you remembered

your truth? What if, while being in human form,

experiencing an earthly drama, you recognized your

interconnection to the whole universal energy system?

The remembering of yourself as the entire

universal energy system will change everything for you.

You have the ability to create the experience appearing to

surround you, but the experience is only a reflection of

your energetic expression.

Think about this. If you remember you are an

energy system, from which thought arises, and your

thoughts become things, what have you created? What

have you been thinking about? The thoughts you have

used to create your experience are what have placed you

exactly where you are in this moment. In fact, you are

in the moment, this moment, you created with your

previous thoughts. It might even be said, “You are the

moment of your previous thoughts.”

If you think, when you think, you are using the

creative power of thought. So, if you think, “This isn’t

true. Life doesn’t work like that.” You create the

experience that life doesn’t work like that (for you).

You have the choice to begin creating your future

experience, with your thoughts, right now. All that is

necessary is to recognize you’ve been doing it all along.

You are exactly where you are at this very moment due

to what you’ve chosen to believe about you. Your choice

about whom and what you are directly influences what

you think. You think thoughts, or you witness them.

Energized thoughts become things. Believe it, or not.

What if you knew yourself as this, “I am the

energy system, from which thoughts arise. Thoughts

become the things I experience. I am a thought creation

machine: ‘I am’.”

What if?

The choice is yours, energy, or ego?

HANDS OFF THE WHEEL

“This world is an illusion.” said The Voice.

The Voice came from within. It would rise up

from out of nowhere, in a tone unmistakable from the

seemingly incessant stream of unconscious thought, and

cause me to question everything.

If this world is an illusion, what is real? I asked

this question of a Voice I was listening to, from

nowhere. What could be real enough about a voice inside

my head that would make it more real than the world I

sensed around me?

“This world is an illusion.”

“What does that mean?”

Over time I began to notice signs showing up in

the world, illusion or not. The more signs I noticed, the

deeper my questioning would become. The deeper my

questioning the more poignant the signs became.

Messages in books, lyrics in music, and scenes in

films seemed to arrive, also out of nowhere, in answer

to my inquiries. I began to recognize this process had

been evolving, without my conscious awareness,

throughout my human experience.

I can’t be sure which arose first, the Voice, or

my questioning of it. Regardless, the issue became

finding the meaning of its message, “This world is an

illusion.”

And then it occurred to me, “If this world is an

illusion, what am I? Not, who am I, but what?”

The answer arrived. It took nearly a decade, and it

arrived as a journey, not a destination.

Nothing changed, and everything changed. My

perspective and perception changed, while the world

remains.

From this perspective I perceive the illusory

nature of the world, which I previously experienced as

fixed in form. The interesting thing is how I was, then,

unable to perceive this perspective, and how, now, I am

unable to re-contain myself in the limitation of previous

beliefs.

Paradigm shifts occur only in an open mind.

Beyond Paradigm:

I would like you to consider who you are when

you are no longer the “controller” of your body. Who are

you when your body dies?

This, then begs the question, “Who are you now,

while you are ‘in’ it?”

Consider what it is that you are really experiencing.

You wake up in a body, with a set of memories, which

you cling to as your identity, and you play out the “role

of the day.”

Some days are mundane, while some days are awe-

inspiring. What determines the difference? Is it anything

other than judgment?

Consider your thoughts about God. Not the

“figure in the clouds,” but the Divine Infinite

Intelligence, which is permeating all things. Does this

intelligence seem incapable of anything?

Consider that you may already be in an organic

virtual reality machine, with infinite bandwidth, and

limitless software and data storage capacities. The game

you enter into each day also includes all the other

players you see. Though, it seems, very few of you

remember it’s an operating virtual reality: the game of

Life. Further, not only did you write the programming,

you can reprogram as you play.

Remember, AWAKEN. Knowledge of your true self

is dropped in order to enter the human paradigm.

When did you last take the time to recognize the

unfathomable depth of intelligence that must be

operating for the experience of even the most mundane

of boring gloomy miserable days to occur?

STOP. Review the previous question until you can

honestly answer it, to yourself.

Right now, sit quietly, allow your breathing to

slow, observe your thoughts and let them be as they

will, and look out into your experience. Without creating

any judgment about what the experience is, take a long

observational look at the experience itself. Recognize the

incredible magnitude of what you are seeing, hearing,

touching, smelling, tasting, and emotionally feeling about

this experience. Look at how amazing every single instant

actually is. Develop an understanding of how impossible

it all is, and maybe then you will realize the possibility.

Do you notice how easily you become distracted

from recognizing this brilliance we call every day

experience?

Consider that you can now Awaken within, and as

the dream, while you are in it. You are becoming one of

the “awakened,” reminded it’s a magnificent game. Knowing

that it’s a dream is the leap. The surrendering(s) to the

reality of this are the steps.

Consider that your ego, in its constant struggle to

take you out of the NOW, will tempt you to forget that

it is a game. You must first become conscious of this,

and watch, literally, how your ego works to distract you

into the past, the future, or any ongoing drama. You

must see that your own egotistic illusion of life is

merely that: egoic illusion.

Consider that when disengaged from the drama of

the illusion, and your ego, you have the power to re-

write the operating software, which creates your

experience. Consider how your impressions of the data in

your database limit your potential experiences. See how

your judgments about the past limit you. Your ability to

clear away your old programming is necessary for new

paradigms to open up, and be evolved beyond.

Remember: The only constant is change. Only the

unchanging is real.

Now

The past is the known.

The future is the unknown.

The present is the knowing.

The Now.

The present is the Now.

The pre-sent.

The gift is the present.

The present is the gift.

The ever-changing present Moment of Now.

We’ve won

When we own

Our Now.

You can come to realize that nothing stays the

same in the illusion, and this will allow you to recognize

this: that which is changing is identifying What You Are

Not.

To recognize the illusion you must see your mind

for what it is. Sit back and see:

Do you see how you can watch not only the

illusion, but your thoughts as well? Who is this

Watcher?

You are the observer of your Illusion. Everything

you are witnessing, as the observer, is happening from

the core of your being, and then exists both inwardly,

and outwardly to infinity.

!

Now, notice, are you in the game, or are you the

audience? Are you writing, directing, and producing your

play? Or, are you simply an actor in the dramas of

others?

Realize the connection between the observer and

the observed. When you begin to see this truth, you will

prioritize conscious thought, honest communication, and

possibility.

You are, and thought is creative (or a you allow

yourself to be a thought reaction, a robot, a

sleepwalker).

Learn for yourself. In the creative stillness, found

between thoughts of past and future, express your

intentions, and allow the mechanism of creation to bring

to you the desired experience.

Then, Feel the force. Don’t force the feel.

Starting Close:

Your body acts as your vehicle within the illusion.

Make the decision to have a healthy vehicle. Find a way to

enjoyably exercise your body. By using it, you energize it.

If you do not view your body-self as healthy, you

act accordingly, and de-energize it; it becomes stagnant

and begins gathering baggage. See yourself as the energized

being you are, and start being, from the inside out, now.

Remember: You are not merely your human form.

By defining your self as your body, you limit the

creative power of your universe. Consider the impact of

creating from the perspective of Spirit, which permeates

the entire universe, including your body.

You are experiencing the act of being human. This

may cause you to forget you are also the creator of the

illusion you experience. You are the creator of the

action and the entire drama.

Hearing Your Voice:

Notice where your thoughts come from. What’s

the difference between a thought inside you and a

thought outside?

Regardless, what is in question here is whether

you are capable of witnessing your thoughts,

acknowledging them, and then consciously creating with

them, rather than unconsciously reacting to them.

What is your idea of death? What will be the

death of you?

As you ask yourself these questions, truly seek

the answers. What would happen if your body ceased

functioning at this moment, before you finish reading the

next sentence? !

Where would you be then? What happens to the

observer of this illusion when the illusory forms it

witnesses fall away?

Ask, “Who Am I when my body dies?” Ask your

self, and listen to the answer. You will no longer be your

name, or your job title, nor any of your things or

accomplishments. Who will you be?

If you hear answers like, “You’ll be dead, so don’t

bother thinking about this nonsense,” this is the voice

of the ego. The ego is your made up identity of yourself

as your body. It makes you believe the illusion is real.

The ego dies with the illusion, yet you do not. So, who

are you?

Ask, “Who Am I beyond this body? What more am

I? What am I really? What is really happening?”

There is an awakening happening. It is leading to

the recognition that this human-ness is not life, but an

illusion, a temporary manifestation of an illusion of life.

What does this have to do with you, now?

What is the grandest potential for your

experience? As it has always been: Freedom, through

True Being!

Your illusion is in constant change, and an

argument can be made that you have no control over it,

yet it could also be argued that beneath the

uncontrollable, is your true self “at the wheel.”

Have you recognized your potentiality yet? Who, in

the illusion you observe, is attempting to tell you who

you are? Are there those in the illusion who would

choose to limit you from your true potential? To whom

do you listen? Is there a Voice of Truth, which can be

trusted, and if so, where do you find it?

Your illusory experience of being only the physical

human is being played out on an interactive stage. This

stage is a reflection of your inner being. Your thoughts,

emotions, and desires are all manifesting themselves upon

this stage for you to play them out. The interactive

capability of the “stage” can be overwhelming. It

sometimes overwhelms your ability to recognize it is

your illusion. It has the capacity to draw you into it,

making you think that it is real. It is this type of

thinking that can trap you in the illusion. When you think

the illusion is real you allow it to dictate the scene. It

is during these unconscious moments that you are

distracted from your self, from your Beingness, and this

throws you off track. You have become distracted.

This distraction can show itself in many forms,

such as the words and actions of others within your

play, which includes the responses of your family and

friends, for whom you may have a great deal of respect.

Your modern media, which may not even have your best

interest in mind, is also a very deceptive distraction. The

most deceptive distracter, however, is your egoic mind,

which is constantly creating judgments about the stage,

the play, the players, and your place in it. The ego is

incapable of recognizing reality. Its only existence is in

the illusion. It’s only focus, then, is on the illusion.

And, it seeks to keep you caught up in the illusion as

well.

Your ego, working from what you have allowed it

to become as your identity, creates judgments about

possibility. It limits you from recognizing your creative

role in the illusion. The ego knows that the less creative

you know yourself to be, the more reactionary you will

be. This will make you powerless to notice ego

distracting you from your true self.

However, if you reside in the knowledge that

everything illusory is in constant change, you have opened

the door for self-actualization. Engage in locating the

unchanging aspects of you, and see them emerge.

Finding the Unchanging Observer of Experience:

Atom-smashing particle accelerators are showing

us, at the base of all things, there is simply energy, a

perfect chaos of energy, being played with by

consciousness.

This suggests every-thing, including the space

between, is “aware,” and all awareness in the illusion is

actually different aspects of your higher self, playing

out individuated roles to complete your illusion. Every

other being is you, in different aspect. Their seeming

separation is an illusion, the awareness is not. The other

aspects of you are truly unified, and thus, actively co-

creating this illusion, whether or not they are aware of

it. This is the collective consciousness.

So, pay attention. You may be living in the past, or

the future, in the mind, not in the Now.

Simply and fully observe the Eternal Moment of

Now.

Thoughts about the illusion will arise. Which

thoughts are of the ego, and which are from Spirit?

Thoughts making judgments about the illusion,

particularly about others within it, are egotistic.

Thoughts recognizing opportunity to create joy are from

Spirit. Once you can see this difference, you have found

your creative self. Create joy!

Often, thoughts unrelated to your observation of

the present moment are arising. Your egoic mind is leading

you away from the now. Are you purposefully using

this moment to BE AWARE, awake, or is your ego

drawing you into distraction?

Be aware of your thoughts. Energize thoughts

empowering your Awakening, and supporting your

Awareness, while discarding those seeking to draw you

into illusion.

Aligned with Spirit (inspired), you are powerful.

Listen to the voice of spirit, and create experience. Do

not allow the ego to deny you your peace, and creative

effortlessness. Be Aware of your Creative Moment and

Allow It, joyfully.

Proving your creative role to yourself:

To assist you in recognizing your role in creating

the illusion, you must first decide what it is you desire

to experience. Your clarity about this is paramount.

Write it down. Write out your desired experience, and re-

visit it regularly. See yourself living the experience. Feel

the emotions it will energize. Put yourself into the

image. Make it real in your mind, and then offer it to the

Universe. Give the mental picture to the Infinite

Intelligence as a foundation, and allow Spirit to respond

in a grander way than you perceived.

Your intentions, offered in meditative stillness, will

manifest themselves as your experiential illusion. But

you must be willing to allow this creative possibility to

be your truth. You must do this internal authentic

creative work, and Allow it to become.

There are many resources providing guidance into

meditative stillness (such as, “Getting Into The Gap, by

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer). Find your way. Prove your creative

power to yourself. You need not prove it to anyone else.

Recognize Now. The universe appears to you as

you’ve imagined it. And, you are free to re-imagine. Allow

the universe to work its magnificence and bring the

desired outcome to you. See the perfection, and see it

evolving.

If you perceive yourself as the entire universe,

there is nothing you do not already have.

The entire universe, every-thing, is really nothing

(no-thing) but swirling energy being perceived by your

senses as matter. Material realm objects exist only

through your sensory capacity to observe them. You

choose to see things in this seemingly separate way in

order for your illusion to appear real. That’s the fun of

it. This is how we experience thought! This is how we

make dreams come true.

The energy you put forth into the universe, as

thought, is available to all the creative energies in it, and

it affects the collective consciousness you experience.

Your desires evolve with your understanding, or

lack thereof, of your true self. When this occurs,

adjust your intentions accordingly, and re-energize the

new image.

As your understanding expands, the space-time

between your thoughts and their manifestation will

decrease. Your capacity to shape your experience with

thought will become a living reality for you, and the

world will change right before your eyes.

Empowerment exists in the knowledge of the

truth. And, the truth is that the earthly world we live in

is all an expression of our idea of it.

The only existence is now. Attachment to the

past, and projections into the future, are only figments

of your imagination. They do not exist elsewhere. There

is only who you are being now.

It is not your spirit’s desire to make war on this

world, but to bring to it the Light of Being. Exist as the

Infinite Divine Intelligence of this world. Be the peace

you seek.

Gratitude is the power of knowing that before

you’ve asked, it is given.

Gracious gratitude: Be this always, all ways, and

see what happens to your life experience. Be this, and

your experience arises from it. Keep your awareness here,

and you will see the truth open itself to you. You will

begin to see the experience of your dreams come to life

before you, with very little “doing” out there.

All of your dreams have already been built into

your experience. You need only reside in patient

observation for them to become experiential. However,

we often become distracted by ongoing events and react

to them as if they are real. This disturbs the creative

energy, which is at work manifesting our thoughts into

experience. When we become distracted by ongoing events,

we “cloud” the creative process. Remain clearly focused

on your peace. Be joyful, regardless of the distractions

of any ongoing drama.

Being!

Remember, the whole illusion is an interactive

reflection of what you’re projecting outward. What you

are being is what you are attracting. Be love, beloved.

The Awakening and Awareness you are asking for is

coming to you, which is why you have been brought to

this message.

Seek your most sincere knowing of the truth, and

truth will be brought to you. You have sought the

answers to the meaning of this life. You are seeking to

know yourself, and here in this moment, that which has

never been lost, is noticed. You have hidden truth in a

place where you are unable to find it, until you simply

ask.

You have access to the all-knowing infinite

intelligence. You are the infinite, experiencing itself

through the portal of earth human perspective.

The Power of Light: E=MC²

The universe, being created for and by you, is being

shaped with Light, which is a very misunderstood

commodity. You reside in a belief suggesting there is

nothing faster than the speed of light. This is a belief

our science will have us accept, because it is unable to

prove that any-thing travels faster. Consider thought as

capable of traveling faster than the projected Light. Not

because of its speed, but its location. Thought is not

confined. It permeates the entirety of your Universal

Being. There is nowhere it need travel, being already there,

everywhere, now AND here. You are observing your

thoughts being played out with Light.

You would not have read this far if you were not

interested in knowing your Self. Respect your Self as

the Infinite, and look there for guidance. Every thing IN

your illusion is changing, except you, the real you.

You have nothing more to know, until you do, and

then that too will also be provided. You Are. Be. Create

joy.

Love is Light. You are Love. You are Light. Shine!

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