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Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Jim Newman • Finland June 2017 • Non Duality

Every “thing” is a construct. People assume that a certain construct is what they are, what they need to be, to get, to become – all is temporary. The basic problem for the individual is the belief in a separated self. The reason it can never find what it’s looking for is because it’s not separate from what it’s looking for. There is only what is and the separate self will never know that. The story it’s telling itself never happened. The individual lives in a world of something else and there is no something else. The problem is that the individual is arrogant so it arrogates everything to itself: it owns everything. The story of the individual is I am the center of the universe I am important it’s all about me! The individual is a contracted sense [in the body/mind]. The only thing the individual can do is to separate itself. It can’t imagine reality without itself – the wholeness and completeness and fulfillment. The individual is caught up in the wonder of all the sights and sounds in this room and all the questions and all the colors and what’s going on. It never realizes that all of this [and infinitely more] is already known. They miss the miraculous wonder of it all. The individual has no idea what is being suggested here. None!

You are the cause of everything that happens to you -RAdams

You have to realize you’re the cause of everything. You are the cause of everything that happens to you. There’s no one to blame but you. If you have certain people in your life you can’t get along with, your family, your relatives, whatever, you have purposely attracted these people before you came to this earth, and these people attracted you, for this is their karma and your karma, and you have to work it out.

If you keep reacting the same way you always do, you will not work it out, and will get deeper enmeshed into it, and you will come back again, and again, and again, in different bodies, until you get it right. We can really say that the universe is a university to educate the soul.”

Robert Adams