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Chapter 7, The Search for Doctor Livingstone

Posted: April 1st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized

Sound file for Chapter 7:
Dr Livingstone


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PWOS Group 8a
(approx. 55 minutes)

PWOS Group 8b
 (approx. 30 minutes)

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2 Comments on “Chapter 7, The Search for Doctor Livingstone”

  1. 1 Mike Williamson said at 11:59 am on April 3rd, 2010:

    PWOS: “Every moment we work to awaken the machine can be an opportunity to regain our real identity….If we are able to exert the will to awaken the machine, we can see that we have fallen into the sleep of the machine and can say to ourselves ‘I am not that'”. However we need to be sure we are not just swimming on top of “denial” rather than having feet that reach all the way and are grounded on “rock” bottom of this river.
    From Chapter 3 PWOS: “The personality of the machine, which is to say, its sense of personal identity, is a complex formation of automatically proceeding categorical associations of each of the three lower centrums, the results of organic and psychological conditioning, which became neccessary for survival because the machine was asleep from the very beginning.”
    “The real master of the machine, the nonphenomenal self, which is the real source of attention and presence, is very different from the complex personal identity of the machine. It is a simple presence with no particular identity, no particular qualities – although it may take on itself the qualities of the host machine for a short period of time.”
    “Unlike the personal identity of the machine, the real self has no need for embellishment or personal enhancement, because although it is in the world, it is not of it…unless, of course, the machine happens to be asleep and the attention of the nonphenomenal self has become seduced by the machine’s dreams.”

    In this teaching we have been told that “we use everything” even the deep sleep of the machine for the purpose of awakening. It seems to me these impulses for embellishment and enhancement spring from our lack of sensing the sleep of the machine. (And therefore can be used to sense the sleep of the machine when they arise.) The machine in learning to survive necessarily assumes a deep sense of separation then later on it tries to over come that sense of separation by seeking to “improve” itself in eyes that don’t really exist except as figments of sleep’s dream which we in identification take as fully awakened perceptions. I’m suggesting that the essential self or presence by voluntarily “descending” into the depths of the deepest sleep of the machine can result in the repair of this deep “something or other” that gives the mainly hidden sense of seapartion that manifest as distorted thought, false emotion and unblended sensation. As we go into deepest and darkest Africa, we might be surprised at who and what we meet there. There is a rumor that Dr. Livingstone in order to survive among the natives had to learn to adopt many of their ways and he happened to fall into a tribe that wears ferocious animal skins as well as grotesque and weird masks.

  2. 2 Teresa Dietze said at 10:10 pm on April 14th, 2010:

    What a wonderful comment! I love the way you have taken this out of the theoretical and abstract into the heart of the matter and human experience.

    Thank you again for sharing yourself in this way.

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