Eli

[Guest guest]

Eli Jaxon-Bear is in town and holding satsangs this week. His face glows with

radiant smiles and his clarity shoots like spears into held personal identities

 

Here are exerpts from a few interviews with Eli:

 

 

Can you describe the central message of your work?

 

Eli: My work is to support everyone waking up from the trance of egoic

suffering. My life is committed to a world of true peace and true freedom

through universal Self-realization.

 

What does spiritual evolution/development mean in your own personal life?

 

Eli: The spiritual path is the willingness to confront yourself. To

examine yourself and expose the lies that you have been telling yourself to

justify doing whatever it is that you want to do. This is a painful,

humiliating process and very uncomfortable....True spirituality means

ruthless self-examination and the deepening of a willingness to bear

whatever it takes to stay true.

 

What do you mean by awakening or enlightenment?

 

Eli: Enlightenment means shining the light where there had been darkness

to see what is really there. Until the light of consciousness is willing

to reflect back on Itself instead of chasing externalized objects, much

remains hidden in interior darkness. Subconscious motives and desires run

the life until the light of awarness exposes the darkness and reveals the

true nature of consciousness. Until this examination happens, true motives

are hidden under secret agendas. Before this examination happens even the

desire for

enlightenment becomes just another cover for wanting 'my life to be the way

I want it.'

 

Awakening is the awakening from the dream of a personal identity that is

cut off and separate from everything else.... The more aware you are of

the alienation and separation through imagining yourself a separate ego,

the more ready you are to wake up. Awakening is the realization that in

truth, "I" do nothing. "I" have no power to control. This "I" is

then

surrendered from its imaginary position of the doer and the controller and

gives itself to be used by Love. Awakening is the reversal of the process

of consuming in the willingness to be consumed.

 

What kind of advice would you give people who are on the way to

self-liberation?

 

Eli: The first and most important thing is to truly ask yourself what you

really want.

People have a long list of what they want and maybe enlightenment is one

thing on

the list. You have to really examine yourself and see what is the one most

important thing that you want above all else, and are you willing to give

everything else to that one true desire for liberation?

 

Then uncover all the ways you have sold out for something ohter than what

you really want. If you know what you want and you are willing to pay

whatever price, you cannot be denied.