Hi Dale,

The question of "What is the 'Self'?", of course, is a deeply intriguing one. Which, I don't feel can be answered fully with the intellect - it has to come with the journey of experience.

My experience is that as the ego is broken down, then the casket of small "I" identity cracks apart. At some point, you drop into the 'absolute void of presence' within. It feels like there is 'no Self' - just infinite potential. What some would call, "God".

However, experience doesn't end there. How can it, if there is a spark of consciousness able to be aware of the absolute?

The relative and the absolute are in dynamic equilibrium through the oscillating Torus - the natural form of the Universe, with "God" immersed through it.

If there is any denying internally of the unique flow of the soul (your aspect of the relative), then you'd also be denying the absolute - because both are interconnected. Instead, you'd likely have detached from the natural flow, and gone into a 4D bubble state - it kind of feels like the non-dualistic absolute, but actually is disconnected from the absolute. It often happens where there's an intention to detach and let go of everything.

You cannot actually aim for true presence (the absolute or the Self) and find it. Why? Because in the moment you form an intention to do so, you are already establishing the separation from it, within your consciousness - potentially the bubble state, for example.

Instead, what you can do, and what we apply here in the Openhand Approach, is to work to align with the soul, in any given moment, as a feeling of 'rightness' - it feels like you're striking the sweet spot of life. When you do this, automatically, you connect up to the absolute within. And it feels like there's no Self.

The experience of no Self (which is the Self!) will keep disappearing, however, as the soul fragments into physical reality. And so the journey into the 'joined-up' experience of 'no-Self' is one of continual confrontation of the inner fragmentation - working to unwind it by letting go of attachments; including probably the last great attachment of them all, the last trickster - that of non-attachment. Then, continually expressing the uniqueness of the soul. Thus, the Self (the absolute) remains, rendered as the background canvas of your experience - which feels like 'no Self'.

That's the Openhand view on it, having worked with thousands of people on it.

Well wishes
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