A MAIN TENET of the fourth way system is that specific obstacles keep consciousness ‘asleep’. These obstacles are delineated as imagination, identification, inner-considering, lying, unnecessary talk, and the external expression of unpleasant or negative emotions. Eastern (non-dual) teachings explain a…
Identification is a force, a pressure. It is the psychological gravity behind the tendency for awareness to be unwittingly drawn to and into thoughts, sensations, feelings, objects, and the visible world at large, and to attach itself to all of them. The…
Ouspensky said that consciousness and identification are opposite sides of the same coin. Did he mean we have to reverse identification? He meant that when awareness is unconscious, it is on the verge of becoming identified. And conversely, when awareness…