A Paradigm Shift to No-Paradigm?
Charlie Hayes

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These are all concepts and NOT to be taken as “Truths.” All this that follows is the ponderings of space-like seeing – Awareness … just that. Nothing special or significant.

Now: What If . . .

Once upon a time, Descartes arrived with an invocation, “I think therefore I am” was a kind of declaration, that created a new Matrix, a paradigm, for “human understanding.

Oh. So that’s what I Am … a thinker. (Poor Rodin bought into it. And look at his sculpture of “the thinker:” Bent over, clearly not very happy!)

So Freud and Psychology was another kind of paradigm, a context in which (ultimately seen as false) persons could “understand themselves and their lives.

I feel, therefore I am. And the Id (ego) is the thinker-feeler, with which there is definitely something wrong, and we must invent fixes! And so it happened that a rather large “body of knowledge” was born, psychology, psychiatry etc … all to FIX a “person” who was flawed in some way and was therefore suffering.

None of that addresses the “core issue” of the actual absence of an “entity” that can “think” or “feel” or “suffer.”

My old pal of 28+ years, Jack Rosenberg, (aka Werner Erhard, of est fame,) once said, about the catch-phrase “thinking outside the box,” that the only “box” that interested him was “the box that ALL the “boxes” came in.

What is THAT?

Nothing.

No Thing.

Space-like awareness.

Victor Hugo once said, “There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Perhaps the idea of non-ideas … a paradigm of No Thing, is a non-idea of a space-less timeless BEING as the Real essential knowingness, by which life can, rather than being “understood,” be LIVED Fully and completely with no suffering.

The proliferation of really excellent books, Videos, CD’s and web sites devoted to Dogma-Free Advaita “Non-Duality” and other pointers from the unreal to the Real is a pretty good indicator, perhaps?

So is this appearance in the “Dream of the Jiva” A new Paradigm-less Paradigm coming forth from Self?

In this dream of life, as “I” see it from nowhere, aliveness arrives and transforms itself out of nowhere. Anything is possible.

In my viewless view, it is an exciting ”time” to be alive … and fully alive, as no thing. And everything. Wow. Neat dream. Loving to be!

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