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    Awakeningto

    No IdentityThe End of the World as

    You Know it

    By Nicholas Powiull

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    Preface

    Why in the World would anybody not want to have anidentity?

    As soon as we read the word "identity", we assume we knowwhat we are referring to and through that assumption we ask"why not have an identity?". However, what are we reallyreferring to when we use the word "identity"?

    We all assume that when we speak, we are talking about thesame thing and communicating in a manner which isunderstood. The information we are conveying when wecommunicate with others goes without question and hereinis where all conflict and difficulty arises from. Misinformationis the only source in which all appearances of division arisefrom.

    We all have different information when it comes to words.This information is based on our experiences of life. Wecome to form vast differences to meanings of words throughour experiences of those words.

    And our experiences are determined by our upbringing,culture, social influences, and education. Simply stated, welearned what we know through the conditioning of oursurrounding environment. Hence the tone used when

    speaking, the facial expressions, the hand gestures, theascents in the voices, the phrases used, and the meaningapplied to words are similar to people who are raised in thesame environmental culture.

    You will also see the same phenomenon in people who have

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    the same belief system. They will say similar statements andtheir meanings applied to words will reflect that belief systemsince it is coming from the same environmental influence.

    I refer to this environmental influence as conditioning.Everything we think, say, and do is a conditioning programedby environmental influence. As a result, since we areresponding from conditioning, the way we relate to the worldand people is conditional. It is a relating that is conditional tofavor the learnt information hence there are communicationlimits that cause problems in relating and outgrowth ofviolent behavior and actions.

    When engineers are communicating on building a bridgethere is no problem in the communication when it comes tothe structure and process to carry out the completion of thebridge. The reason being is that all bridge engineers havethe same exact information.

    When building a bridge everything is done by measurements

    and mathematics, there is no misinformation in thecommunication. Hence there is no gap in the translationsince it is not based on interpretation, perspective, opinion,or any misinformation.

    Consequentially, identity is that which relates to the world,others, and itself based on the stimulus response of learnedinformation. Or simply said. identifying is the act ofresponding with misinformation.

    It is only misinformation which seemingly divides us,awakening to no identity is about noticing the misinformationpatterns for what they are and responding from that noticing.

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    Chapter One

    The World as We Know itHow we relate with every appearance in life is based on theinformation we have. This relating is vastly differentdepending on a variety of experiences, beliefs, perspectives,and expectation in ones unfolding environment. However,there is one common assumed condition in everybody'sexperience and it is the foundation of all misinformation andhow all human beings are conditioned see the world. It lookssomething similar to this:

    I am the body/mind As the body/mind, I am an individual As an individual, I have choice Through choice, I have responsibility Through responsibility, life is serious and fearful Since responsibility makes life serious and fearful, mosteverything I do is done to lower that responsibility.

    In this book, we will be looking at this common unfolding ingreat detail and discovering the misinformation thatconditioned these beliefs. We will also be arriving at thatwhich notices the discovery of misinformation and how thisapplies to our everyday lives. Therefore, this book is not onlyabout the discovery of misinformation which unfolds clarityfrom this noticing, but also the application of "present-dayknowledge" untapped by "identity" (stimulus response based

    on learned knowledge).

    Who Are You?If I asked you: Who are you?How would you answer that?The answer doesnt define who you are, unless the answer

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    is believed to define who you are.

    The ways that people answer this question are infinite andthese are the most common six:

    1) I am my name.2) I am what I do (job title, degrees, responsibilities, etc).3) I am what other think of me (my reputation).4) I am my past (my suffering, pain, failures, successes,etc).5) I am the possessions I own (property, animals, children,etc).6) I am the qualities of my personality (compassionate,

    honest, spiritual,etc).

    Yet all these six things are just labels. You would still bealive without these labels; therefore these labels cannotdefine who you are.

    Who is still alive without labels?

    Who are you?At this point, most people would suggest that they are thisbody (pointing to the body). I am this body.

    However, who is it that just said I am this body?Who is in that body, saying, I am this body?

    Sometimes the conditioning will loop around again andpeople will name more labels, but eventually if their interest

    is kept long enough, the ending answer is always the same:I dont know

    Next people will want an answer. I dont know is not a goodenough answer, even though its the answer they found. Thebody/mind is conditioned to collect beliefs, knowledge, and

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    information. It wants an answer.

    Yet, the answers can only be understood by noticing theconditioning patterns of misinformation and therefore one

    can only arrive at it who they are through noticing themisinformation of who they are not. Therefore the answerswill be arrived at the same way "I don't know" is arrived atand will be revealed as the book unfolds.

    The answers don't fit into the environmental conditioning ofhow we see the world. In the same way the answer of Idont know is arrived at and yet doesn't fit as an answer to

    how we see the world. I dont know is the response fromthe body/mind based on what is happening now. Thecondition moved from I am this body into a new responseof I dont know.

    "I don't know" is the beginning of the discovery to how theenvironment influences thought, words, and action. One whocan say "I don't know" from a pure place of truly not knowing

    is beginning to notice the misinformation patterns and this isthe start of true knowledge that has nothing to do withlearned responses but discovery. It is something that isarrived at through factors of the environment unfolding thatdiscovery.

    In fact, if you were not reading this book right now, this lineof questioning and phrasing that brings one to the discoveryof "I don't know" would not have been in your environment

    and you would not have arrived at the thoughts that you arediscovering right now in response to these words. Everythingis a conditional response from the body/mind to thesurrounding environment at any given moment. Thebody/mind is constantly and continuously influenced by itsenvironment in every moment and responses from previous

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    environment factors. Noticing this doesn't end it or stop itfrom happening, it is only noticed and in that noticing what isactually happening is revealed.

    When this is revealed many factors of old conditioning arenoticed differently since in this noticing the old model nolonger makes sense. It just simply doesn't have the samerelating qualities. For example, as you grow-up, you may nolonger go to parties, you have new information and yououtgrown the party scene. You can't relate to it in the sameway. This is what the noticing of misinformation does, quitenaturally.

    Therefore, naturally old conditioning is related to differently,namely blame. How can you blame anybody for "what theyare" when they are influenced by their environment in whichnobody has control over? The old conditioning patterns ofanger and throwing words of blame may likely still happenbut it's seen that nobody can really be blamed.

    When you meet a person, you are not meeting a person asthey are. You are meeting all the environment conditioningthat they were ever exposed to in their life. In other words,you are meeting everything they have been exposed to andlearned. Everything from their value system, beliefs,perspectives, expectations have everything to do with theirenvironment. The books they read, what they watch ontelevision, the music they listen to, their hobbies, their rolemodels, their interests, their passions; all of it is picked up

    somewhere from some influential exposing factor in theirenvironment. It's all conditioning.

    Therefore people are not bad, wrong, or evil; everything theythink, say, and do is conditioned. All behavioral patterns,personalities, talents, abilities, and skills are stimulated

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    through and are a direct cause of the environment. In thesame way that the environment produced the result of thisphenomenon called life. Humans are not separate from theenvironment, they are the environment which shapes them.

    We are all 'victims' of our environmental conditions, so whois to blame?

    Blaming people for what they are shaped into by theirenvironment, is no more accurate than blaming the earth forproducing earthquakes. The earth has no choice in this, it's aresponse to the conditions of the earth, The conditions inwhich cause an earthquake is by a sudden slip on a fault.

    The tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they getstuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on theedge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake thatreleases energy in waves that travel through the earth's crustand cause the shaking that we feel. You may react to theearthquake in anger or throw blaming words at it but younaturally notice that you can't really blame the earthquake forwhat it is.

    When you see how interconnected and interrelating theenvironment is with humans beings, there is no concept ofseparation. It is evident that humans are a result of theenvironment and adjusted into it, shaped by it and are aproduct of the environment itself. Humans are theenvironment that shapes them. Produced out of the naturalenvironment. In the same way an apple is produced from anapple tree. You cannot say that the apple is not a result of

    the environment itself. The environment unfolded it andtherefore it is the environment itself.

    People assume humans are different than the environmentand somehow not a natural result of it, since the idea ofchoice seems to be an accurate experience based on that

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    assumption.

    You can choose to open and close you hand, right?Of course you can, right?

    Let's see if you have that choice. Please open and close youhand right now. Just humor me. As you open and close yourhand, I want you to notice something. Are you are doing it?Okay, so you had the choice to do that right?Since you choose it, can you please tell me how you choosethat?Can you explain the process of how you open and closeyour hand?

    What is the mechanism behind that choice?No?But if you can choose it, shouldnt you know how that choiceis made?If you cant understand how choices are made, how can yousay you are choosing it?So you can choose to open and close your hand, but you'renot sure how that choice works?

    Did you also notice that you are focused on opening andclosing your hand or the idea of it because this is now inyour environment?Would you be focusing on this idea if it were not in yourenvironment?Can you choose to not focus on this?

    If you choose not to focus on this, why are you doing that? Isit to prove to yourself that you have choice?

    If you chose to focus on something else, was it somethingthat was also in your environment right now or somethingthat appears in thought quite often?

    If you are now thinking about something that doesn't appearin thoughts quite often, is that not again to prove that you

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    have choice since this is now in your environment?

    You seemingly chose it and it happened automatically andnaturally without effort, understanding, knowledge, or even

    knowing who you are.How can someone who arrives at "I don't know" to questionsabout who they are, also seemingly choose somethingseparate from the environment and not know the process ofthat choice?Someone who doesn't know who they are makes aconscious choice about something they can't explain?

    It's an erroneous belief to assume that people are somehowseparate individual's from the environment, making self-aware choices that are somehow independent from theirenvironment. Everything is a direct cause of theenvironment, everything is the environment, everything youthink, say, and do is all a direct result of the unfoldingenvironment.

    The simple examples show how the environment hasimmediate effects that are constantly and continuouslydetermining choices. These seeming choices are arrived atby stimulation of the environment unfolding now. Yet, themany factors that produce those results also depend onperspectives, beliefs, expectations, and experiences of eachbody/mind based on previous environment unfoldings.Nothing is left out and therefore there are no self-aware orconscious choices outside of the environment itself.

    Every genuine scientist, inventor, and physicist has come tothe same conclusions. They are made aware that everythingis discovered, arrived at, and made aware of new ideasthrough the stimulation of the environment and depends onthe ability to start from scratch (an ability arrived at through

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    the environment), from a base point of "I don't know". Onlythrough this "I don't know" model is the opportunity to seesomething new is discovered. Nothing that has ever comeinto existence is result of creating it. Nothing is created, no

    material or idea, it is always arrived at through a process ofdiscovery in direct portion to the unfolding environment.

    In other words, if you look into the history of discoveries andinventions you will see a list of different experiments withdifferent materials, trail & error, and a list of people whodiscovered an element or device that later came useful inproducing the result of the inventions we use today.

    Inventions are the results of long drawn-out factors in theenvironment and what people are exposed to in theirresearch and experiments. These inventions are also arrivedat through a problem that needs to be solved due to loss oflife or other environmental pressures.

    When you arrive at the discovery that the misinformation ofself as internal and the environment as external, what is

    noticed is that we live our lives entirely on misinformationpatterns. This exciting discovery naturally causes one towant to investigate what is true. Which is the oppositedirection of what the noticing revealed.

    What actually is, is arrived at through noticing the patterns ofmisinformation, which is not done or chosen, but arrived at. Itis only through this noticing of misinformation, that whatactually is, is discovered. The environment never reveals

    truth through noticing, it only notices misinformation andherein it notices itself. The environment is only noticing itselfthrough noticing misinformation, not through the search forwhat is true or knowing truth. The noticing, is not knowingtruth. There is no truth is noticing. The noticer is not thebasis of truth, since it requires the stimulation of the

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    unfolding environment, in which is interrelating the samemovement.

    The truth cannot be revealed or known to any aspect of itself

    since itself is every aspect.This would be like asking theenvironment to reveal which aspect of itself is the truth. It'sirrelevant to ask, since it's all the environment. To claim anaspect of truth as the whole of truth itself is misinformation.The search for truth will always lead you to misinformation.Therefore, truth is never arrived at or discovered, only thenoticing of misinformation is discovered and as a byproductof this noticing in direct portion to the environment, what

    actually is, is noticed but this is very different than noticingthe truth.

    What actually is, has no foundation in truth. What actually isalways depends on the noticing of misinformation and sincethe noticing of misinformation is arrived at through theenvironment unfolding itself, the unfolding environment iswhat actually is and since the environment is constantly

    changing, what actually is, is an ever-changing noticing.

    To help clarify this, let's look at some examples:If you drop a ball out a window of a moving train, it appearsas if the ball moves straight down to the ground. Yetsomeone watching you drop the ball out the window from themoving train, it will appear like the ball is falling to the groundat a diagonal.

    Therefore, what is actually happening with the ball? What isthe truth about the direction it falls? These questions arebased on misinformation of how the environment noticesitself. What actually is, depends on the perspective it isnoticed from. In other words, it doesn't depends on thenoticing itself. The noticer and what it is noticing is not the

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    truth. As a result, only the noticing of misinformation canresolve the apparent conflict.

    The noticer, or witness, is always discovering itself a new

    and noticing itself, newly, through the influence of theenvironment that is subject to constant change. That whichnotices every change is changed by noticing AND that whichnotices all changing phenomenon must be unchanging, as aresult every perspective is the unchanging, but that whichnotices the changing phenomenon and it is changed by it, itis ALSO the changing phenomenon.

    Consequentially, nobody is independent of the changingenvironment, even the witness that is unchanged by it, isalso changed through witnessing it. It is infinitely discoveringitself a new. It does this through the body/mind which is acondition of the environment and conditioned to respond tothe unfolding environment. The unchanging witness is onlymade self-aware of itself through the changing condition ofthe body/mind noticing (witnessing) misinformation. The

    witness is only as self-aware as the body/mind and itscapabilities to notice many perspectives of misinformation.You are only made aware of what you are through noticingmisinformation. Yet this misinformation is only arrived atthrough the unfolding environment. It takes the environmentto unfold in a manner that misinformation is discovered.There is no separation from the body/mind, the noticing (thewitness), and the environment. It is all one product of thesame movement. And from a certain perspective, not

    ultimate truth, but a 'part'icular aspect of perspective; it's allthe same non-movement, moving nowhere.

    Therefore, upon noticing that the environment is onlynoticing itself through noticing misinformation, which isdiscovered through the environment unfolding, not through

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    the witness or search for what is true; one gets keenlyinterested in the unfolding environment. Like that of a childor scientist.

    A child is not interested in the concepts of truth, they areinterested in exploring, investigating, they are extremelycurious, taking things apart to see how it works; they want tolearn everything about the environment. Much like anauthentic scientist, the scientist is not interested in what istrue, they are interested in testing, discovering,experimenting, and arriving at the answers that theenvironment gives; no matter what that might look like.

    Children and sincere scientists have no beliefs. They bothdiscover knowledge through experimenting. It is somethingthat is arrived at through factors of the environment. Througharriving at what the environment has to say about it; throughexperimenting with the environment. In a way, it is like theenvironment discovering itself through itself. Constantlydiscovering itself in new ways. Not ridge in the findings of

    knowledge (through the discovery of misinformation) and nothaving a belief about it.A belief is a condition that is conditioned to pay attention to

    just that condition and ignore everything that doesnt fit intothat condition. A belief limits the way life is seen, since onlythe registered belief is seen. All beliefs invite ignorance. Bythis definition, knowledge can and does produce the sameexact result, if that is knowledge is found instead of arrived

    at through discovery.

    The difference can be noticed through the fact that thediscovery of knowledge is evident and therefore needs nobelief or even to call it knowledge. For example, it is quiteevident that the world is round. We have seen the evidence

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    of pictures that the state of earth is a round planet. We don'tgo around having debates about if the earth is round or flat,anymore. We all have the same information. There isnothing to say about it. We don't even call it truth,

    knowledge, belief, or any term in reference to anything.

    The only thing we say about "a round earth" is that peopleused to believe it was flat. While being on this earth, it looksflat, so it is understandable from that perspective. There arestill people today, in uneducated areas of the world, thatbelief the earth is flat. Since they belief this, they do haveconversations about it. "Did you hear that if you travel to the

    edge of the earth, you fall off?" All beliefs, also known asmisinformation, invite conversations that are; mysterious,supernatural, superstitious, mythical, metaphysical, magical,irrational, inadequate reasoning, erroneous thinking, andignorant.

    There is a condition of thinking that "everyone is entitled totheir own opinion", however, an opinion is a belief, and is the

    result of interpretation, not information that is discovered; it'smisinformation. An opinion is the result of a person'sperspective, expectations, particular feelings, beliefs, anddesires. No educated person of evidential knowledge has anopinion about the earth being round. It's a constantconsistency in our daily lives. We have nothing to say aboutwhat is evidently, simple, and obviously so, since we all havethe same information, meaning there is no misinformation incommunication. The state of the earth being round is not

    open to interpretation.

    Up to now, based on the information we have about theearth and how we perceive the earth currently. This maychange, everything is subject to change. It changes basedon arriving at misinformation. We may discover that thinking

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    in terms of the earth being round is misinformation. The pointis not finding the truth about the state of the earth, butarriving together in alignment to present day knowledgeabout what is, in this time and place now.

    Now is all we have, since it is the only orientation that thenoticer and the noticed is seen to be what it is. For now, thatis subject to change but it's relevant now and since now is allwe have, to speak of anything else, is irrelevant andmisinformation.

    Even if you spoke of only the unchanging noticer (which is

    changed by noticing) also known as "that which doesn'tchange". Over time, it would be irrelevant, since the way wecommunicate, the words we use, the phrases we use,meanings of words, etc,, evolve and change over time asnew ways of communicating are discovered.

    Therefore, if we were all coming from the same present-dayknowledge, right now as you read these words, and

    understood exactly what I was saying without it being opento interpretation; as new information is discovered andnoticed, what I am saying now becomes irrelevant. It is onlyrelevant now based on what has been unchanging andconsist up-to-now. In the same way, perceiving the earth asround is relevant today, perceiving it as flat was relevant inthe past; based on that present-day knowledge.

    New information is being discovered all the time and

    changing everything else. A teacher, healthcare worker,sales person, accountant, engineer, etc (any person in anyparticular line of work)..that were very intelligent andeffective 25 years ago, couldn't get a job today since theyare not up-to-date on the current time & place and all thechanges. Intelligence and effectiveness can only be

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    referenced to how informed you are to present-dayknowledge which is based on what is unchanging andconsist now.

    You can't speak about what is unchanging since thatunchanging has no consist pattern(s). You could say, theonly pattern it has; is the pattern of always being here. Therehas always been something here noticing your body/mind.Thoughts arise and fall with a constant change, emotionscome and go, a variety of changing body sensations arefelt, sounds ring and fade, the sight of appearances change,the body/mind has had at least four changing bodies and

    minds: infant, child, teenager, and adult. How can you besomething that is continuously changing and yet still beaware of all the continuous changes? The conclusion is thatto notice such change, that noticer has to be unchanging.

    However, the consistency of that pattern, is only noticedfrom the changing phenomenon. In other words, without thechanging phenomenon to look back on the unchanging, you

    would have no reference-point to recognize the consistencyof that pattern. While the changing body/mind looks back, itnotices the unchanging. It discovers itself as the unchangingTOO. Both play equal roles of the same movement. It is onlyconsistent in comparison to what is not consistent. Bothaspects are noticed by the noticer which are only noticed bymeans interrelationship to the same movement of changeand unchanging. Yet it can only notice this through theunfolding environment which moves in itself

    (unmoving/unchanging) to notice itself by the changingenvironment.

    This is why I put an extreme emphasis on the unfoldingenvironment, it is only through the unfolding environment(through the body/mind) that the noticer notices itself as the

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    unchanging/change AND arrives at the ability to experienceitself as what it is.

    For example, let's consider the make-up of the human body

    and how it operates. How is your body assembled? Cells arespecialized and arranged to work together to make a fully-functioning human. Every cell works together in aninterrelationship for the survival of the body. This is a naturalphenomenon in all living organisms.

    Your body is made up of more than 1,000 billion cells. Theseall came from a single cell, known as the fertilized egg cell.

    This cell started to grow, copied itself and divided into twonew ones. Each of these cells did the same to make fourcells. This repeats time and time again to make up thebillions of cells that now make your body. It is still happeningto grow new cells and repair any damaged body cells.

    Humans, in this example, are comparable to that of a cell. In

    your body, there are billions of cells. On earth, there arebillions of humans. Your body is the environment whichhouses every cell. The earth is the environment whichhouses every human.

    If every cell didn't carry the information that its survival isbased on the survival of the body and therefore the body'ssurvival depends on every cell working together, you as abody wouldn't be here fully-functioning as a body.

    Likewise, the expression of the unchanging being what it is,couldn't notice itself as what it is. It is only through thehuman (body/mind) that the unchanging notices itself andexperiences itself as what it is.

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    Therefore, when the discovery of the interconnection to selfand environment (which includes all others) being the sameone movement is arrived at, you are responsible throughclarity (clear knowing of discovery), to respond.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti said it this way: "First to realise notverbally but in your heart, in your blood, in your wholethinking, that human beings right through the world gothrough the same agonies that one goes through: theloneliness, the despair, the depressions, the extraordinaryuncertainty, insecurity, whether they live ten thousand milesaway or two thousand miles, or here, they are all

    psychologically bound together. If one realises thatprofoundly in your guts, in your blood, in your heart, in yourmind, then you are responsible."

    Responsibility coming from misinformation is divided andtherefore the responses create more division. The responsesof action are produced by fear divided into "us versus them"scenarios.

    Examples of this are: "War versus peace", "governmentversus the people", "saving the whales versus the hunters",etc...These scenarios may be what is based on perspectivebut when you arrive at this misinformation; you are notagainst anything. You understand it, you realize it is a directinfluence of environment. There is no blame or holdingpeople responsible for that which they have no choice but torespond based on the misinformation they have. You're not

    against anybody, you notice the system that produced thatresult.

    Clear responsibility is not about obligation. Whenresponsibility is clearly arrived at, it is not produced orobligated by fear. It's not coming from misinformation of

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    learned stimulus responses of handed-down knowledge.

    When you are clear of your interrelationship and directconnection (as one movement of the same one unfoldment)

    to everyone else as the environment itself, you are undividedand therefore you are responsible to act upon that noticing.Without division in you about it, it is a consistent andunchanging clarity based on this present-day knowledge andwhat can be noticed through discovery in this time andplace.

    Responding not based on fear, but based on simple,

    obvious, evident noticing. With authentic responsibilitywhich is discovered and seen in clear noticing, there is nochoice but to respond. Therefore there is no responsibilityassociated with it. It is not used in those terms, it is not seenas a responsibility of obligation but an evident clarity thatthere is no choice to you since it is noticed. It's not that nowyou have a new choice to respond from, it's that you have nochoice but to respond.

    It's still the same mechanism operating, you still have nochoice or free will in how to respond, you are respondingbased on what is noticed, based on noticing misinformationand arriving at a new discovery. One who is conditioned torespond to self as internal and environment as external hasno choice but to respond that way.

    When you arrive at the discovery of the misinformed identity

    as "self as internal and environment as external", yourrelating and focus of this being the reality you live in isnoticed differently.

    This is not something saintly, divine, or feelings of somethingcompletely different. It is something completely ordinary, the

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    only difference is the way you notice. You are the same inevery way. You just notice why you respond the way thatyou do and you notice why everyone else responds the waythey do. We are conditioned to respond that way and have

    been responding the way we do all our lives based onenvironment conditions. Noticing this fact doesn't change theconditioning.

    You can't change or rise above conditioning. If a conditioningchanges, it is done through a gradual process of noticingmisinformation and arriving at how the noticing responses. Itis done by life which is constantly gradually evolving.

    Nobody can change their thinking, change their conditioningor responses, change their behavior. Their thinking,conditioning, responses, and behavior are changed by theenvironment gradually unfolding and slowly noticingmisinformation and arriving at new information through thenoticing of misinformation. Life's unfolding process to itself isan educational process that is painful slow.

    The environment unfolds itself in a long over-exaggeratedevolving process. Evolving is a process of nature trying toadapt or resonate with what the environment has unfolded.

    Although it seems this process has been speeding upthrough inventions like the internet where people'sresponding patterns change through the stimulation ofaccess to new information.

    However, it's not new information that really changes people,it just changes the responses into something else. They areconditioned differently and responding with new ways ofcommunicating; which FEELS different. Yet, nothing isnoticed, since their not arriving at misinformation. All that hashappened is they traded one belief system for another and

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    this feels like growth; for a while, then the same process hasto repeat in order to keep feeling good.

    Therefore, arriving at the misinformation of "self as internal

    and environment as external" will not change you, yourconditioning patterns, or behavior responses. Simply whatyou notice changes, you now notice why you respond theway you do. You're not now unconditionally loving, happy,and blissfully accepting of everyone, somehow treatingeveryone with love. These notions are born out ofinterpretation and misinformation.

    Treating people with 'unconditional love' can happen, butonly through a repeat noticing of the same misinformationover and over again. It's a push and pull from habit tonoticing and back to habit again, etc.. Eventually the noticingrenders the habit (conditioning) obsolete and a newresponse based on this discovery of continuously noticingautomatically responds. It's a process.

    People who do respond as this automatically noticing withouta process, have discovered the ability to do this throughextreme harsh pressures in their environment that force thediscovery of noticing. It's always linked to this tremendousagony of their surrounding environment, it can happen noother way; since it's one movement. Everything is always indirect portion to the unfolding environment.

    Children on the other hand have a much larger potential.

    They don't have preset conditioning patterns that have beenthere for years and decades, no habitual reinforcement. Thepotential of children is unbelievable especially if they areeducated to notice why adults responses and behaviorpatterns are irrational. If they notice the conditioning of theenvironment, they would than be able to notice the factors at

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    play in environment conditioning. Only through noticing thepatterns of environment conditioning, do these patterns failto process.

    Children can be given the tools to be free of stimulusresponse from misinformation and able to develop skills thatrapidly evolve without direction from parents andindependence on them (once educated in these skillsthrough noticing) or going through a process of graduallyevolving. They would become the influence of the directionin which the environment unfolds next.

    Through simple encouragements in skills like problem-solving, creative thinking, and approaching life through theunderstanding of how everything and everybody is in ainterrelationship of interconnection so unfathomable thatthere is no separation between the choices they make andthe influential effects this has on everybody as a whole.Teaching children to notice these three things alone havethe potential to shape a child into being a major contributor

    to society as whole. If you are interested in this, I wouldrecommend:http://www.unitinghumans.com/search/label/Education

    As for us adults since we have these habitual patterns, thenoticing is slow. It will start like baby steps. You will start totake notice of how all your thoughts are repeated cycles ofprevious influences and anytime 'new thoughts' are activatedit's always the stimulation of the current unfolding influences

    of environment. For example, a co-worker starts aconversation and once they walk off; you are now thinkingabout the conversation. Thinking about things in theconversation that moments before you were not and younotice how you wouldn't have thought about these things ifthat conversation didn't unfold. All the details on how your

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    life has been unfolding and is unfolding now, is slowlynoticed to be a direct cause of the environment conditioning.This is what changes, the noticing.

    You will always be in confusion unless you notice theconditioning behind everything. The noticing is not confusedabout that.The noticing dissolves confusion, simply it's noticed why oneis confused.Confusion happens when misinformation is not noticed. Thenoticing dissolves misinformation, simply it's notice whatmisinformation is.

    Misinformation is conditioned in by your surroundingenvironment. The noticing dissolves conditioning, simply it'snoticed what conditioning is.Conditioning is born out of not knowing who you are andtherefore automatically responding as the conditioning. Thenoticing dissolves this stimulus response, simply it is noticedthat you're not the conditioning.

    By a process of noticing what you are not, you come tonotice what you are. This cannot be spoken since thenoticing can't see itself; it can only notice itself by firstnoticing what it is not. Noticing the conditioning, you noticewhy the conditioning responds the way it does; when this isnoticed eventually you stop responding as that conditioningand a new response happens. This new response thathappens, is what you are.

    This new response that happens, has no identity.

    Welcome to that which has no identity. This is the beginningto the end of the world as you know it.

    More will be spoken about this in Chapter Two. However, the

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