Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

Following the ‘I Am’ feeling will take you inevitably
to the Self, just by resting your attention in that
sensation, abiding there, and deliberately lavishing
affection on the ‘I Am’. Love the ‘I Am’, for it is your
own true Self leaking through to this less subtle, or
more physical level of your existence. Abiding in the ‘I
Am’ is the direct road to Self-Realization which will
culminate in an explosive realization of the Self within
you as the Other, but also your own self as a
phenomenon, as opposed to your own Self as witness,
or the Absolute.
This is a most important distinction: there is a
difference between the ‘I Am’ feeling and Self, and
the looker, the final Witness, the Absolute which is
entirely beyond consciousness. It is entirely beyond
existence. It is entirely beyond the ‘I Am’. It is “like”
an invisible, intangible, unmanifest entity looking from
outside of consciousness to the inner play of
consciousness, interested in the play, but basically not
touched by it.
On the other hand, the Self is the deepest or most
subtle level of consciousness whose character is the
ability to know. Its other characteristic is pure love.
This love/knowingness, combined with the void nature
of the causal body provides the container for all
experience at the Subtle Body and physical body
levels. When the Self emerges and presents itself to