It's brilliant, I agree, and there is some alignment with the Openhand Approach - with a caveat. The "You" he's referring to, is the absolute presence - "The Seer", which is not manifest. But there is also a "You" which is manifest; it is the expression of the Seer. Which is the Soul and where the Soul gets bound up in the illusion - which causes depression (for example). here's the video... The problem comes when we talk about simply "non-identifying". If "you" simply decide to drop the experience (of depression, for example) like "dropping the proverbial hot coals" (as spoken of in many mainstream spiritual texts and practices), then the risk is, you're creating an identity that is doing this. And the presence you access, is not presence at all, but simply a bubble of Unity Consciousness - it's what people often are connecting with when they say "you are love" or speak of being "love and light".

• It's a common trap by the "shadow identity" I speak of in 5GATEWAYS. The shadow identity is not the same as the false self ego. It is much finer and subtler. It's an aspect of soul, which is not yet fully self-realised, yet knows how to behave like the mainstream of the soul - the self-realised aspect or "True Self". This shadow is the trickster and can be very difficult to 'smoke out'. I spoke about this in Gateway 4 on the pathway to Enlightenment - true Enlightenment.

The ultimate key to Enlightenment, is to be able to be in and through all things, including that which has made you depressed, and yet not be depressed by it - to be able to be in the fullness of the expression, not at all distanced from it. Especially it is to be able to find the truth in it, at the core of it. This may sound similar to what he was saying, but there is a vital difference that I pick up - a shadow identity speaking about it. Before dropping the depression, the key is to ask "Why am I depressed? What's causing it?" You see, within the depression, within that eddy current of consciousness, is a fragment of your soul which is stuck, for some reason. Why is it stuck? And if you simply say, "I am not depressed" and pop out of it, you don't reclaim that fragment of soul that was/is buried there.

• I worked with you on this exact point Marye on the last 5GATEWAYS in Belgium. You were 'sitting on your stuff' and rejecting it. Which is why it wasn't truly processing. But on the last day, you did surrender into it, and began to express it outwards, which meant it was clearing, and so you were enlightening through it.

That's why here at Openhand, we encourage people to actively get into the eddy current - into the distortion. To fully own and express it out into your world. What happens then, is you 'normalise' in it. You accept it as okay without judging it or even needing it to go away. You become so as-One with the heat - that you become the heat. Then you are truly The One in it. What might be the truthful, aligned and authentic feeling at the core of depression? Take boredom for example - needing some kind of distraction or entertainment. Yet the soul, when aligned and self-realised (realising of The One), could sit timelessly without the need of any distraction at all. Pure beingness becomes pleasurable in its emptiness - as an experience. The soul pleasures itself in the nothingness. Or maybe someone gets depressed because of the Pain of Existence - not being able to turn off the experience of relativity. But instead of popping out into some illusionary, disconnected bubble, you go right into the heart of the distraction - the pain - until you become so as-One with it, you normalise in it. Then the illusion that holds you truly bursts. The noise of the universe will always be there. But You - as The One - don't need it to go away. The Pain of Existence bursts open as a distortion that was owning you. Even meditation and spiritual practices such as yoga can become a distraction from pure being. From pure acceptance and tolerance of experience - all experience. It's something to be careful of. This is when you become totally free. Truly free. You could be in any experience - even in the middle of a war zone - and you are totally okay, totally at-One. You'd accept the war zone was a necessary expression of light breaking through the darkness. You wouldn't resent it, nor need it to go away. This is true peace. Namaste Open