Perception Changes With Understanding

How can one understand the healing effects of frequency machines when they seem less tangible than physical treatments like supplements or medications? Rupert says: ‘Under the consciousness-only model, nature itself is how the activity of consciousness appears when perceived through the perceiving faculties of a finite mind. What you are really taking into your body are ideas, not physical substances. It’s one mental process affecting another mental process.’

What is consciousness’s relationship with the mass suffering occurring in the world? Rupert says: ‘Consciousness by itself not only has no relationship with the world or the suffering in the world, it knows nothing of it. The infinite cannot know the finite. However, if we make the concession that there is a relationship between the infinite and the finite, then that relationship is one of love.’

How should one’s unlimited self relate to the limited self in meditation practice, and how can the unlimited self help break the limiting patterns? Rupert says: ‘Instead of thinking of your unlimited self and your limited self alongside her, think of your more limited self inside the greater self. [They refer to a metaphor in which a white sheet of paper represents being – the infinite self – which Rupert then asks participants to engage in an exercise with.] Draw a little perforated circle in the middle of that white sheet of paper. That’s your apparently finite separate self. The boundary of that person is made of sense perception. It’s sense perception that makes you feel you are in here experiencing a world out there. But the white paper inside the circle is the same white paper outside the circle. Although your thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions are all unique to you, the self in you, the pure self – the pure feeling of I, your being – that’s the white paper. The perforated circle doesn’t really separate the white paper into two pieces. There’s just one piece of paper. All you need to do is realise that the shape of the circle doesn’t define you, the paper inside it. It’s just the belief that what I am is conditioned by the shape of the circle. It’s just that little belief that needs to go.’

Is saying ‘I am’ a trap of duality that creates a world, and can this truly be God’s name when the ‘I’ seems to imply separation? Rupert says: ‘If God were to give itself a name, what name would it give itself? It would call itself “I”, because in the English language, “I” is the name that is given to that which knows itself. The statement “I am” is higher and more true than the statement “God is”.’

"Where are memories stored, and do they persist in consciousness after bodily death? Rupert says: ‘They’re definitely stored in consciousness. There’s nowhere else where they could be stored. Your memories are stored in your mind, which is in turn stored in consciousness. There’s no reason why those deeper regions of your mind may not still continue to exist in consciousness.’"

"When will humanity move beyond physical space and time, and could this shift awareness to travel in non-dual reality? Rupert says: ‘More and more, people will realise that space and time are not what we thought they were. They’re an artifact of our perceiving faculties. They’re not inherent in reality itself.’"

"As our understanding changes, does our perception of the body change dramatically, and what is inner vision beyond ordinary perception? Rupert says: ‘Our perceptions don’t change. Our perceptions are hardwired into the mind. But our beliefs are soft-wired. Our beliefs change, not our perceptions. The infinite cannot appear as dimensionless knowing to the finite mind, so it appears in a way that the finite mind can apprehend.’"

Is trauma something to be worked through and processed, and how should one approach it from the perspective of infinite being? Rupert says: ‘No. Your being is already free of your trauma. You don’t need to work through your trauma. Every time you feel triggered, always go to being. You have to know that its nature is peace. It’s like a cheat code.’

Does the recognition of true nature by consciousness create spontaneous healings and transform how the world operates? Rupert says: ‘The way we interact with one another would change. We would live in a very different world. If you look at the world today, much of the conflict is taking place because it’s initiated by people who have a very deep sense of separation and otherness.’

Is there value in allowing trauma to come up and be seen rather than avoiding it, and what role does feeling play in healing? Rupert says: ‘I think seeing it, telling the story of it is fine. By describing or seeing your trauma, you are placing it in front of you as an object. So, if you are describing your trauma in order to objectify it and place yourself as its witness, yes, then it’s valuable to do that.’

If the infinite does not know our suffering directly, how could it furnish love towards finite beings? Rupert says: ‘From an absolute point of view, the infinite does not know and cannot know the finite. However, that’s a very radical point of view. If we make that concession that there is a relationship between the infinite and the finite, then that relationship is one of love.’

How can one avoid supporting the separate self whilst living within spiritual communities in which there are conflicts? Rupert says: ‘By not identifying yourself with any community, with any tradition or with any teacher. I don’t mean that you should leave your community or your teacher. Just don’t identify in your heart. In your heart, you must be free.’

In meditation, when experiencing our essential being through asking ‘What knows this?’, is the process of continually separating from arising content the correct approach? Rupert says: ‘The phrase “turn away from the content of experience” is perhaps not a very good phrase. More accurate would be relax the focus of your attention from its content. What is it that is aware of your experience – that question takes you directly to the knowing element of your experience.’