A video of an interview from 2002 discussing ways to understand the egos and emotions and how the study of oneself is multi-dimensional and multi-faceted. It looks at how the beginning of inner knowledge is from seeing oneself in the present moment as one really is.
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It’s very nice to see more and more videos coming out. As some have already said; this talk is a great reminder that we need to get the basics right else everything else we do is a waste of time. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for these priceless videos. They always seem to give me a boost after seeing them. Same thing goes to the articles as well.
Good to get back to re-evaluate the basics sometimes — I found this video really helpful. Thank you!
Thanks so much for the video, it’s great to see and hear Mark talk about this, very inspiring.
Thank-you again! It’s always so essential to here the truths spoken here. It’s so hard to ‘stay alert’, and to have that drive to push into the unknown, to gain momentum, feel like your learning and reaching the threshold where discovery can take place.
It can be so helpful to come back to a simple assesment of ‘am I getting the basics right’? I can easily fool myself into complacency, thinking have the basics mastered, which is painfully far from the truth! The first things you learn about spiritual practice have so many layers within them and just keep unfolding to reveal how profound they are, albeit simple.
I’m inspired to find ways to remember again. Remember what I’m here to do.
Thanks for sharing that video, great to see them being added to the information presented on this website.
Thank you Lara very much for bringing up this wonderful video with Mark’s talk.
Some points which reached in me directly from my first listening:
“..the practice through the day is the number one priority”
“..That means not being satisfied to prove what you already know. You have to go into the unknown, to search and find new things you didn’t know before and then it’s worth well”.
Thank you very much, once again.
“..the practice through the day is the number one priority”
I find this quote very helpful too Maria, it’s up on the wall of my room as a reminder as to where I need to place the emphasis on.
Thanks for sharing this video. It was really helpful.
A major takeaway that I thought was important was about seeing the new and not trying to confirm what you want to see. I experienced this earlier today in a way that genuinely surprised me…it was refreshing and freeing to gain those insights. This is something that I will be aspiring towards now, as I could see how valuable this approach is to making real progress and changing within.
Great and inspiring video, thanks for posting this. I hope I can use this to help me remember to be in awareness more often this week.
Thanks for posting this; great to see.
Hearing the analogy of the clay model really puts things into perspective for me. It made me really consider what reality is and what can be done with our lives. It makes all of the things my egos/inner states want me to care about seem so small and silly, (even though they often feel so important and justified) when I looked at the whole picture from a birds eye view. Thanks for that reminder.
Thank you
Great video thanks for the timely reminder,very inspiring
Thank you. A very nice compilation.
Thanks for the video guys! The part that stood out for me was the point that the learning in the astral must go hand in hand with learning in the physical and vice versa, one is not exclusive of the other as it is all one learning. Practical and helpful distinctions about the mind and applying the work properly too.
As always Mark …. an apt reminder.
Last week my friends and I were discussing the infernal dimensions and how our own ego’s are affected through our many selves and the demonic attacks in the astral.
This week remembering from moment to moment.
Trying to remember – wow, this is the simplest yet the hardest practice. It is Master Judas who in The Flight of the Feathered Serpent who says says:
“the beginning of all sin is forgetting.”
This lack of remembering is causing me suffering.
The everyday work on egos is so important…Great to hear your insights, thank you very much.
Remembering to work on the egos in every moment is always such a challenge.
Thanks for sharing, great insights.
Motivational and helpful. Thanks again for another video.
I did have a question: He says, “…this creature is put here so that it knows it exists, then it is taken out of the clay model back to a dimension that is more real.” How is it that we have difficulty reaching that awareness here but are put specifically here to do just that versus in a dimension that is, as he says, ‘more real’? I guess it’s a technical question that is probably answered with understanding of the laws and nature of different dimensions. Maybe this physical one is especially for being able to extract ourselves from the negativity/darkness within while that wouldn’t be possible elsewhere? I also think I took ‘more real’ to mean that there we know of our existence moreso than here, so that might be what’s causing confusion.
Perhaps the dimension is more real, as in not temporary, but doesn’t have the darkness to stimulate activity in the consciousness as you said.
Hi Daniel,
What exactly did you mean by ‘stimulate activity in the consciousness’? Recognizing opposites in order to extract light as David mentioned? The ‘in’ caught my attention…
I’m not sure I know exactly what I mean. Well, what would we be doing if we never had this world? What would a consciousness do? Would it search for self-realization if it never saw death, suffering crying, the pain of loss. Obviously a consciousness sees the futility in a life that consists only of that, and then it searches for something eternal. But if it was never in a world like this, would it see the benefit? If it was just in the spiritual dimensions all the time, would it want more?
After having a small amount of experience in the causal plane, I wonder if a consciousness would ever want to change if it was immersed in that constantly (or a plane of that nature anyway)? We could have a much easier time being aware in the causal plane (I can only speak theoretically) but would we ever see the reason to do it? This is just a very simple part of the whole equation I guess.
Thanks for the input. Lots to reflect on.
Hi Zorana, Belsebuub has said that we can’t awaken in light alone, that opposites are needed and that we need to extract the light from the darkness so I think you are on to something there.
Hi Zorana,
My understanding is that the reason we have the physical world, is if we stayed in the astral world, it would be even more difficult to learn. Seeing how in the astral, simply thinking can change what I see around me, and any daydreams just become real images with which I interact and believe in, the physical world does not allow that. Instead, yes, I can be consumed by daydreams, but they do not materialise in front of me (thank goodness for that!). So having the physical world allows us to have the opportunity to free ourselves from this lack of awareness and darkness, through awareness, and seeing inner states for what they are.
Yet, the physical world is only a temporary place for us – we don’t cease to exist but go to other dimensions when we die but our time on Earth with this current life/personality ends. And the real part within us, our level of consciousness, moves on. I remember when I had my first fully conscious out-of-body experience, I felt more me or closer to ‘reality’ than I had ever experienced up to this point in my life. It was a feeling of being happy to be ‘back’ in a most unexpected ways even though it was the first time (at least that I could remember!) and many people report that same feeling which was very interesting to me, it was a very much common experience I have found over the years speaking with people who astral project. Like the eternal part within us must feel it very much.
I agree with Geraldine. The astral world can be beautiful, lively and feels “more real” than the physical world IF WE ARE AWARE THERE. And that’s the thing… We are usually not aware there, because of so many inner states, feelings, etc – egos. So we come here, to the physical, where they are temporarily suppressed (to the point that they don’t materialize at least), and we have a chance to raise our level of consciousness (by getting rid of the egos) to take with us back to eternity then. In ideal scenario, we raise our level so much, that we don’t need to come back anymore, and can live consciously in higher dimensions ever after… ;-) That’s my understanding of things.
Haha ‘consciously ever after’- I like that version :) That’s a good reminder. Being in the physical gives the chance to prepare ourselves (raise consciousness like you said and also discipline the mind) so that our experiences in the astral are more worthwhile with teachings and clarity of our daily purpose. Thanks!
Thanks for the help, Geraldine! Interesting to realize how much more we feel like ourselves when genuinely striving for that awareness. Motivates you more to uncover all of those states that keep us from that ‘reality’ you mentioned.
Thank you very much for this interview.
Inspirational; thank you.