The Progression of Awakening
The Descent to Not
All around us is the Landscape of Being where we see reality is both objective and subjective. Objective reality is our shared reality of rocks, stars, trees, and other people. Subjective reality is our own interpretations of objective reality. The Progression of Awakening is the intentional journey to drop beneath all of the layers of reality that make up the Landscape of Being to reveal the underlying truth of Actuality. Dropping beneath the reality of the Landscape of Being ultimately leads to the Well of the Self. The following Descent to Not and subsequent Ascent from Not is an introduction to the Progression of Awakening.
Guided Meditation
The Descent to Not
Dropping into the Self
What lies beneath reality and the Self?
By removing all of the layers of the objective World around us and our subjective understanding of that world, we come to a place where the world may no longer hold sway but where we still exist as complicated individuals with ideas, ambitions, morals, and all the other complications which make up a Self.
Here, we have an opportunity to drop deep into the Self and on our descent we can remove layers of the Self that are not needed for the ultimate expression of the core and true inner-self. Welcome to the Descent to Not.
It is recommended that you proceed to drop deeper and deeper into the Descent until you reach the floor of Actuality which is Not itself. Once there, you may wish to intentionally re-add the layers we removed in a controlled Ascent from Not, until you come back to where you were when you started, but this time with a greater understanding of who you are, what you want and where you want to go.