Walking through walls and bending spoons

Walls have been on my mind this week. I banged my head against one earlier in the week when sitting down for dinner at a restaurant and it got me to wondering why it too often feels like I am banging my head against a wall.

So I was going to email Chris to ask if he knew about how to walk through walls. I spent some time thinking and reflecting on this - until I realised that the wall I am banging my head against is a figment of my imagination - in other words, there is no wall. Where once I saw a wall, now I can walk straight through.

I was reminded of the spoon bending scene in the Matrix...

"Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth... there is no spoon... Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."

Watch the scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzm8kTIj_0M

More on walls

But out of interest, Chris, do you know how to walk through walls?

Chris Bourne's picture

Running through walls and other crazy things

Yes of course Charlie - you only have to ask Smile

Here's the wrong way and the right way...

Chris

Men who run through walls

Yes - I was thinking of that movie too Smile

Question

so can you help me to run through walls the right way and not the wrong way?

Chris Bourne's picture

Wanting to run through walls...

Hi Charlie,

I believe there's a reason you asked the question. But maybe not the reason you think you asked the question.

So let me ask you, why do you want to run through walls? and who is here to want to do it?

Chris

Fiona Reilly's picture

What walls?

Hey guys,

I think Charlie you've done it - walked through walls that is. You stated "Where once I saw a wall, now I can walk straight through." I love it!

I think Chris is really fantastic at helping people see such "walls" and supporting them with walking through "the right way"... I've experienced and witnessed it many times Wink

Might also add that there is probably alot to be learnt from walking through the wrong way... even if it hurts your head!!!

Thanks for the sharings and entertainment guys, two great movies Big smile

Love, Fiona

someone's picture

:)

Hm, I like the metaphoric conversation here Smile

I can also see there are more people who appreciated the movie I loved so much... and laughed so much...

Chris Bourne's picture

Presence into every cell

There's loads in this question - such fun asking it Charlie Smile

The question I asked though was serious - it would lead to the answer. Why do you want to do it and and who is here to want to do it?

When we figure out that there is nothing to be or do, other than what we are given to in this moment, and really apply ourselves to that with one hundred percent attention, then firstly we discover experientially that we are everything. In being that, we are given a particular limitation - an experience through a soul which has a particular destiny.

If we are wanting to be anything other than the fulfillment of this destiny, then we will not fulfill our destiny.

Once we're surrendered to the physical limitation, then absolutely anything becomes possible - providing it is on our path. Walking through walls is indeed a possibility, it can happen in one of two ways...

Firstly, we unfold fully into the spirit light body, which is connected via the crown chakra. Once we've initiated it fully (normally after completion of the Fifth Gateway), then we truly realise that everywhere else is within us. When given to, it is possible to project the soul into any particular place (so yes, from one side of the wall to the other providing it is given - ie, on your path).

But I suspect this is not enough of an answer for you. I suspect you're also interested in how to move the physical body from one side to the other? This too is possible. It would involve bringing absolute full presence into every cell of your being. And I mean EVERY cell. In mastering this, it is then possible to bring light into every cell. The physical body can be dematerialised into light and then rematerialised in a different place and time.

Have I done it myself yet? No, at least not in this lifetime, but I'm working on it - without efforting of course Smile

Chris

Emptying

In my explanation above, I said that the wall disappeared - and so I was able to walk through it, and clearly that was a metaphorical wall. I realise now that another solution to walking through the wall is for me to disappear - to become completely empty so that there is nothing in me to resist going through the wall. And I mean that metaphorically.

But it is true that I am also interested in literally walking through walls. If I could release myself from the illusion that the wall and I are separate, then surely I would be able to pass through it?

In reply to Chris' question

Chris asked: Why do you want to do it and who is here to want to do it?

Right now the answer is that I don't want to do it - the metaphorical answer has satisfied the questioner for now.

Who is here to want to do it? That's a more powerful question - and I am sitting with the question. When no one is sitting with the question, then I will have the answer.

Kerry taylor's picture

Chuckling with you

Hey Charlie I like your wit!!

It is good at times to bring a little of that to our enlightening souls, it is so easy to become very serious about it all.

Thank you for the lightness

Love Kerry

PS Chris are you back on our side of the planet now?? I guessed today was landing day!!

Stoke Gateways is feeling like it starting to take some hold now, had some feedback from my yoga teacher about her round of emails she sent about. Some interest brewing there. Putting some more energy to it this week, I remembered some places I had plans for advertising at. Getting on the case ~ "brain" or should I say "reasoning" rebooted a bit now Reiki~ed it this week.
Hope all is well with everyone xx

Chris Bourne's picture

Head banging...

Hi Charlie,

The metaphorical question itself is very interesting. You began the thread by wondering why you were banging your head against walls, then in the last post you wondered...

    "If I could release myself from the illusion that the wall and I are separate, then surely I would be able to pass through it?"

I observe frequently how when we ask a genuine question from the soul, it is always answered immediately, and frequently in our own words.

I also asked the question "who is here to want to walk through walls?" for an important reason. When there is no one wanting to do something, but there is still awakeness, then it's likely we're in the place of the Seer - pure presence. To me it feels like crystal clear clarity - there's simply no person - no one - in here. Just space.

But here's another interesting question: how is that space maintained in a world of activity? For some, when they have the realisation that the duality of 'in here' and 'out there' is an illusion and that the only absolute truth is the place of pure presence, then there frequently comes a subtle desire to dissolve anything that takes them out of presence.

So any time internal resistance to events or circumstances kick in, then an internal switch gets automatically thrown... "I don't like this, it's an illusion, it's not real, so I'm going to quickly dissolve it".

The trouble is, not only do they dissolve the friction, but the initiating impulse that generated it - the authentic impulse of the soul. I observe many so called 'enlightened' people doing this. But it's not enlightened at all. To be enlightened is to be enlightened by all things.

So the soul represents our personal, continual experience of Enlightenment. There's a flow and if there is no one dissolving that flow, then a movement into all kinds of wonderful and miraculous experiences. We become enlightened in all things.

However, with the uniqueness of the soul, comes also the limitation of the soul. There has to be separateness for there to be "this" and "that" - without this and that, there is no relativity and therefore no experience at all. In other words, without the "wall" that limits your soul, then there is no soul. It's the same as saying the river cannot be a river without its banks.

So if you, as a soul, can be absolutely in all places, everywhere at once, then you as a soul dissolve because your experience as a soul dissolves.

When this realisation dawns, then with it may come the acceptance that although all possibility exists within you (as the absolute), that your soul is unique and necessary for there to be experience at all. And therefore you accept a degree of limitation - the limitation of your soul. That may mean that you can't walk through walls in this experience of the soul. But that's fine. There's no one needing it to be any other way.

So why then the 'head-banging' experiences that you've been having? Could it be saying that you're banging your head against the limitation of your soul and not accepting it: that you might be wanting to dissolve it to remove the external friction?

Chris

lei's picture

what is there to resist

Hi Chris,

The trouble is, not only do they dissolve the friction, but the initiating impulse that generated it - the authentic impulse of the soul. I observe many so called 'enlightened' people doing this. But it's not enlightened at all. To be enlightened is to be enlightened by all things.

but they can't truly dissolve it, can they? by doing so they only push it deeper into unconsciousness and build an identity around the 'enlightened' state. To dissolve anything is to accept and be awesomely okay with wherever it is, although in truth there's really nothing to dissolve, it's all part of life, if one truly loves life, what is there to resist?

Lei

Chris Bourne's picture

Suppressing the soul

To the contrary, it is my observation that frequently people dissolve authentic impulses from the soul. The soul is not a permanent fixed entity, but a flow of light which can be changed, influenced and adapted according to the consciousness landscape it flows through.

Ideally this flow should be entirely spontaneous and natural, but it can be constrained and dissolved out by suppressing the impulses.

Chris

lei's picture

Okay, I see.

Okay, I see. Smile

Dissolving

Interesting point Chris about the desire to dissolve the limitations of the soul... that's helpful. Being comfortable with limitation - I can see that is a wise place to inhabit!

Chris Bourne's picture

Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Yes Charlie,

What I've observed in our work often, especially in the on-on-one we do, is that there seems to be a general misunderstanding of "what being in the moment" really means. People speak of "emptying the trash" and "that our own mental story is the illusion". So I observe there's a trying to clear the mind or else ignore what's going on there and keep dissolving into presence.

But in my experience, this is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. It believe this approach does help to initially wake someone up, but what happens then? When someone is awake, impulses are tending to always come from the soul, it's just that those impulses get distorted by the false self - by the complex web of fixed neural pathways in the brain.

So, if we keep 'dissolving' the arises impulses thoughts and emotions, then what happens too, is that we also dissolve the authentic impulses if the soul. This can lead to frustration, lack of fulfillment or apathy - all masquerading as "awesome okayness" (which actually it isn't because what's really happening is avoidance).

What we've found works very powerfully, is pay deep attention to what is going on in the moment, not dissolve the impulses but 'sort the wheat from the chaff'. That's what we do on our "Way of the Heart" course. We observe that each impulse contains both a truth and a distortion of that truth. In understanding what our 'truths' can 'look' like, and conversely how they have been distorted, then we open a 'pregnant pause' before the moment is born, align with the authentic truth and hold back the distortion. That way the fixed neural pathways dissolve and the energy they've built up, but also most importantly, we unleash the power, majesty and radiance of our soul.

It leads to fulfillment in life as we realise and experience our destiny.

Chris