Liberate the world from this unconsciousness

Participant: Reading the transcriptions on the blog, I saw that in one of them you explain that untill 6 months, 1 year, 2 years old, we are still "in consciousness." Then, the process of identification begins, after that in some people enlightenment happens. Could you comment about this whole process and say what our nature is. Is it about the consciousness in early childhood or from enlightenment?

Master Gualberto: You did not understand it very well. This identification gets clearer after this age, but this unconsciousness is already there before that.

Participant: Is unconsciousness already present since the beginning of birth?

Master: Everyone is born asleep. This work is a work that indicates the importance of Awakening. Before that, all that prevails is sleep. The sleep is the unconsciousness that is clearly shown on that identification human being has got with the imagination.

Imagination is the shape that thought takes. And thought is assuming all the time this shape in which this so-called human being identifies with. Here, identification means being confused, getting lost in it.

This is the ordinary state, the common state, the known state. It is the mind in its own movement. All of our interest in these meetings is to deal with you about this great and important task of going beyond that imagination. Beyond that cluttered, chaotic, insane and miserable movement, deeply disturbed, which is the movement of thought.

You are born this way, and from a certain age, it gets much more explicit. It becomes increasingly clear. Then, you grow up and it remains. In fact, for those who are around you, it seems worse. But it is interesting because it is such worsening that everybody accepts as something natural, because this is the model, this is the standard.

All you can get from society around you is the model of conflict, suffering and fear. Of course, with a few rare moments of joy and personal satisfaction, which soon get deteriorated and you are back again in the same old confusion. This state is a general state of sleep. In fact, a somnambulistic sleep state, kind of collective hypnosis. That is what we call unconsciousness.

This state, which we think it is natural, is only the common state. The state we take as real, which everyone experiences in the waking state, is only a form of sleep.

In this sleep, in this waking state, the mind believes to be lucid and intelligent, because it can calculate the distance between the earth and the sun, can build bombs and planes, and can create great resources by making use of science and technology.

However, all this, in fact, is happening in this vigil state of unconsciousness - a vigil of sleep. That is what everyone knows. Your parents knew it, so did your grandparents, and you once again repeat the same program, the same model; so do your children. If you have grandchildren, so they do.

Unless this sleep is over, unless this vigil sleep in this unconsciousness is over, the world will continue the same way.

I am proposing that you free the world from this unconsciousness. You free the world by leaving this unconsciousness that has produced this world. At night when you dream, you are in a private and particular dream. And when you wake up in the morning, you realize that world was just a dream, where there were all sorts of things going on, with people and places.

So, this “your world", in this unconsciousness, in this so-called vigil world, which is this state of hypnosis, is a completely private world. You free this world when you abandon it, when you go beyond that unconsciousness.

In fact, we are not experiencing others birth and death. We are in the imagination of the birth and death of others. We are not experiencing anything except appearances and disappearances of mere perceptions, which are projections of the mind itself interpreting what is happening.

So, these experiences, which appear as appearances and disappearances, are just perceptions the mind interprets as birth and death of others, but this Real substance, the essential substance of these perceptions, does not appear and does not disappear. It is something always present. It is our own Self. It is the Presence. It is the Consciousness. Thus, our invitation is to That.

It is only the thought that conceives all the time a multiplicity, a diversity of things. And That is always here, now. There is only That, ever present now. It is not a thing that exists forever. It is something present now, in the Silence of this State of pure Consciousness, pure Presence.

What else can we say about That? We can say That is whether experiential or a mere theory. As a theory, it is just another belief.

The belief does not change anything. It is just another idea in the intellect field. Therefore, this direct experience is fundamental. The direct experience is this "Thing."

The direct experience is the one that does not depend on concepts, ideas, thoughts and beliefs. It means being beyond all knowledge, which are concepts, ideas and beliefs.

Our concepts, ideas and beliefs, which are our knowledge, are knowledge of the mind. And it is interesting because the knowledge of the mind and of the body is still thoughts, images, sensations, perceptions, beliefs, concepts, which still belong to the mind itself.

Participant: Is this direct experience present only when “everything is finished” (complete absence of ego), or can we have glimpses of that?

Master: You put this “everything is finished” as something happening in the future, and I have just said this is something always present at this time.

This now or never! Time is just a mental construction; the future is just a mental construction. Paradoxically, this is still just a concept, an idea. It is only an imagination too, only a belief.

Relax about it. Your job is to realize what you can realize right now, because you only have this moment to realize it.

This “instant” can be within two minutes, but that is not the future. It is always this moment. It sounds very paradoxical, but it is like this. Time is just a mental construction imaged by the thought. Forget about time.

The difficulty is when you take these answers and make them a formula, transforming them into the solution of a question of a test, or into a mantra.

Today, one of you wrote me something similar, about a mantra that he/she is practicing. I never prescribed you affirmations, words to be repeated, but the mind builds it very quickly.

Everything, absolutely everything, is now and here. When I speak now, it is not about the "now," this moment of time, because time is that construction of thought. I am talking about that ever-present Presence, Now, that is Consciousness. And That is exactly out of time, out of this "now" time. What you will do with this answer, I do not know. Just listen to this and relax.

Well, let’s stop here. See you next meeting. Namaste!

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on May 04th, 2016 - First published in Portuguese on May 13th, 2016 . Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please access: http://mestregualberto.com