Today I wish to share with you a simple model of what we are.
As we are now, we perceive as having two functions:
A “Learner” and a “One Who Knows.”
The “Learner” is the function we identify with as oneself.
The “One Who Knows” is everything else in our consciousness, all that we understand.
We experience the “known” as our Learner.
We experience everything outside of the Learner as the unknown.
When we read truth, when we listen to truth, we are reminded of what “The One Who Knows” already knows.
We might perceive this already as simple and obvious, and regard it as trivial.
Yet it is not trivial, as we do not live as though this is the case.
Unlike parts of ourselves, emotions, feelings, these are always here, right?
You always have you here, right now, and you always have the unknown here, right now.
The Learner experiences fear.
The One Who Knows is in love.
The reason for this is a matter of “trust”.
The Learner is afraid of the unknown, all that it does not understand.
The Learner does not understand anything, that is not its function.
It knows this, and it is afraid of everything, afraid of seeing that it doesn’t know.
And so to remedy this fear, The Learner puts its trust into itself and attempts to understand.
The self, The Learner, attempts to understand, but it is not even designed to understand.
The Learner is designed to listen, it is a learner.
In this model, the system of a person is:
The Learner is designed to listen to The One Who Knows.
The location of The One Who Knows is where that sense of the unknown is, right now in the present moment.
It is that unfamiliar feeling that The Learner fears.
If it looks into the unknown, The Learner might recognize what it already knows: that it doesn’t understand.
Its greatest fear is this truth, even though it already knows this.
That it doesn’t know is the one thing The Learner does now.
The Learner attempts to cover this up with more of itself. This only creates more fear.
Then there are two options from the present state:
1. Putting trust into The Learner to understand, even though it cannot.
2. Putting trust into The One Who Knows for understanding, which it already is.
The book A Course In Miracles presents the case that the first option has not worked so far, and is also insane.
The second option is available right now.
One could choose to listen to what is here in their unknown in this moment.
Not in the past or future or somewhere else.
You could think of this as abiding.
You could abide right now in the false sense of knowing.
Or, you could abide where that sense of the unknown is.
To trust in the one place you have previously feared.
In this model, The Learner would be the tiny you, the 1%.
The One Who Knows would be the bigger you, the 99%.
The only reason we don’t abide as the 99% is because it feels unfamiliar, unknown.
In some esotericism and psychology, this part is called Self, with a capital S for the larger function.
I’m adding this concept only to say what the Self’s feature is.
The Self is experienced as unknowable.
Yet even though you do not know it or understand it, you are it.
And as you are it, you can abide as Self, as the One Who Knows, you can rest in yourself, although you will never understand it.
To rest in Self is as though you are that sense of the expansive stars in the night sky, that mysterious magic in infinity.
That’s here right now.
The sense of wholeness that comes from being 100% is what people are saying as “love,” as it feels complete, comforting, resting, when trust rests on it.
It feels supportive, because you are you.
It is comforting to be oneself, to be whole, to be you.
This presents that this one choice is available here, and we can make the cost consideration.
⁃ Trust in The Learner: Has a false sense of security, underneath which we feel eternally afraid. What we get from this is the false sense of security in telling ourselves that we understand an incomprehensible existence.
⁃ Trust in The One Who Knows or Self: Has real security, one is secure in oneself. This comes at the cost of recognizing that you are infinite and unknowable.
This is why the Self-Realized people or wise people all say something along the lines of,
“I know nothing, absolutely nothing. Yet I understand everything. ”
They are speaking from the 99%, The One Who Knows that you also are right now.
But how is one whole as the Self if there is also the learner?
A Course In Miracles states,
“You are not two selves in conflict.”
The key to this is here:
1% + 99% = 100%.
With this model, as we are The Learner, there is only one decision to make.
The 1% can trust in the 1%, and attempt to temporarily block off the 99%.
1 + 0 = 1. And then we are alone and in fear.
The other choice is the 1%, The Learner, chooses to trust in, learn from, the 99%, the Self, as designed.
These are two functions working together as designed.
They never really were apart.
It is 1 + 99 = 100% whole.
p.s.
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