What, then, is Authentic Self?

 

What, then, is Authentic Self? The ancient dictum “Know Thyself” is the eternal, and private, open-ended answer. Once the question has been raised, the answer can be revealed only as truth reveals itself through our individualized Self of Authorship and its various states of conscious awareness, and as we become aware of the awareness. These states of awareness are experientially known through vibratory sensation, which is feeling.

Authentic Self will inevitably recognize the feeling of its pathless truth in its various states, thereby recognizing Itself as an eternal, immortal individualization as It moves inwardly from any felt point of “now,” and forever now, forever onward.

True alignment is tuning myself to the frequency of my Authentic Self. Upon alignment, everything is drawn back into correct placement relative to me. To the degree I allow this placement of the unlimited intelligence of the Universe — which is focused only on Harmony — I become a cooperative component of this Greatest of Harmonia Vitiae. (The Harmony of Life.) Put briefly, alignment is ceasing to include the idea of limitations in my conception of the working of the All-Creating Spirit.

From the Archives: White Crow or Black Crow?

[First posted 10/2010]

In the preface to his well-written book, The Articulate Dead, Mike Tymn, distinguished editor of The Searchlight of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies shares a comment that researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz made to him, which is that most reporters present with only two opinions, the medium and the debunker; when there are really three sides -- the medium, the skeptic, and the researcher, "...who should begin as a skeptic." (p. xvii) Mike says he sees most of those wearing the "skeptic" badge are really pseudoskeptics, the "fundamentalists of science who are as closeminded as the fundamentalists of religion." They can pick holes here and there, which is not an exact science in itself, but still stuck in their paradigm and taking on a certain "intellectual arrogance." (p. xix)

Quoting from The Risen --

"And yet, we do need skeptics. There are scientists who maintain a healthy measure of skepticism about skepticism, and remain open while questioning. This openness has led to emerging, revolutionary scientific models, such as R. A. White’s Experiential Paradigm.⁽¹⁾ Inspired in part by psychologist Abraham Maslow’s classic work on cognitive-being and his insights from what he called exceptional “plateau” or “peak” human experiences, White asserts that there’s a form of knowing that can only come from having been immersed in a particular experience. This means that the worldview of a medium can only be objectively analyzed after the analyzer has also subjectively experienced it. Mediumistic experiences often take place outside the constraints of space and time and therefore may pose serious challenges to those scientists who have always relied on such matrices in their laboratories. (p. 33)

One might not see evidence of mediumship anywhere, if not seeing and discerning the evidence with the eyes and mind of a medium.

The Risen itself is not a book manifested for the Professional Skeptic, but for those seeking their own white crow through their being drawn, by spiritual inspiration, toward something higher and finer, which is ultimately within the seeker/researcher. One could venture that the "vasty deep" material of Shakespeare may also have thus been manifested, exceptionally spiritually inspired, evidenced by the great time spent on energetic and robust reactions and responses to its stories and characters, as it continues to stimulate even modern humankind, with its unremitting instance for instant gratification.

(1) White, Rhea A., “Exceptional Human Experience and the Experiential Paradigm,” ReVision, 1995; #182, 18-25.