Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer The Path to Reality Through the Self

Personal Accounts of Transpersonal Experiences 309
Your system is constantly trying to get some inner job done. It is perfectly attuned to
the potential of expanding your total consciousness to its absolute maximum. It can
guide you exactly to the thinking required to deal with the outer circumstances or
other aspects of consciousness that is absorbing your attention. This is all built in by
natural design. It is endlessly trying to do this. It can’t stop doing it.
Truth is the elimination of the question; the emotional experience of the resolution of
the problem generating the question. Understanding is that state of being where the
questions aren’t there anymore.
To be caught up with time leads to being outside of time.
I’ve been almost always in the exclusive “presence of myself.” Generally speaking, I’m
never in conflict with my self.
The attitude of my Being toward me is: “What did you do for me today?”
Everything is an extension of the questioning process. This is the point that most
scientists loose track of. Why are they asking questions in the first place? Why are the
questions so insufferably unanswerable no matter what they find? The reason is that
they are answering the wrong questions. Reason is the handmaiden of emotion and
not the other way around. Ego wants it to be the other way around. Intellect is a
monster when it is not connected in comprehension with feeling.
Every time you break through into a sharp, clear realization or imagery in any area, all
of a sudden you set up a whole new standard and everything you’ve ever thought up
has to be brought up and compared with it. It’s a standard process and you have to
start all over again. This occurs until you break through and achieve the awareness of
THIS I KNOW IS ME. When you achieve that realization, you break into the final
frontier. From then on, after you’ve done the massive review and reevaluation from
breaking into that final frontier, everything thereafter is done for the rest of time. I
spent thirty years doing it.
When you start looking at yourself, you are looking at blind feelings. The point is not
to go with your feelings, but to understand what is behind them. The last guy that
“went with his feelings” is doing life for murder. People are like boiling kettles all the
time, but become so accustomed to it that they regard it as normal. This is the “shadow
side” of a person and is what is trying to get these feelings to the surface.
To be genuinely “clear” is to have answered to every question you have had to date,
and I’ve been there on a regular basis. If that isn’t paradise, I don’t know what is. It is
to have taken every feeling that ever came into your comprehension and to have traced
it all the way back to its roots.
I put people into a trance by talking, but I tell them about it. I put them into a trance in
the area of reality where resolution takes place.
There is the feeling of the first time you ever puzzled at something, and came to an
insight about it and had that sense of relief, and that sense of space—mental space—
that comes only when you have an insight. When you have enough insights about
yourself, you maintain that sense of space ALL the time, and you become conscious of
the fact that you are that mind; that is what you become. Once you maintain that, it
never leaves you.