DISSOLVING THE TEMPORARY I
With “Dissolving the Temporary I” you are removing the foundation of your transitory experience, of the actual content of the mind. That foundation is your own ephemeral ‘I,’ which we will call in this system the “Temporary I”.
Temporary I is your subtle I-feeling within your body at the moment, while you are experiencing some mind content. It is typically in your head, neck or upper chest, although it could be positioned in another area of your body, depending on the experience itself.
Through the act of pure observation, the Temporary I can shape the temporary experience, usually by dividing your unity of Self into two or more pairs of polarities.
If the foundation of the experience is eliminated, then the experience itself will vanish. Therefore, if the Temporary I disappears, so will the experience that it produces.
The Temporary I is not the Heart. Unlike the Temporary I, which shapes our reality, the Heart creates our individual reality. More precisely, through the Heart, our consciousness is continually choosing only one specific layer out of many possible unmanifested alternate layers and, as a result, creating our individual reality. The Temporary I then models it, more or less.
We will use this axiom for our first basic technique, the DTI. One method of dissolving the Temporary I is via expanding, as symbolically shown here:
Through the act of pure observation, the Temporary I can shape the temporary experience, usually by dividing your unity of Self into two or more pairs of polarities.
If the foundation of the experience is eliminated, then the experience itself will vanish. Therefore, if the Temporary I disappears, so will the experience that it produces.
The Temporary I is not the Heart. Unlike the Temporary I, which shapes our reality, the Heart creates our individual reality. More precisely, through the Heart, our consciousness is continually choosing only one specific layer out of many possible unmanifested alternate layers and, as a result, creating our individual reality. The Temporary I then models it, more or less.
We will use this axiom for our first basic technique, the DTI. One method of dissolving the Temporary I is via expanding, as symbolically shown here:
In this approach, the Temporary I is forced to disappear through a swift and extreme expansion, up to the moment when it outgrows its own existence and ceases to exist. After that point, our being enters a state of pure consciousness that lasts around 5 to 10 seconds, in which there is no experience. We are just an observer, a pure Being. Once that fades, we may continue onto another main technique or simply resume anything else we were doing at that time.
The procedure is short and simple:
For example, during the third step, some people imagine their I-feeling as an inflating balloon, expanding extremely quickly, encompassing and outgrowing our planet, solar system, galaxy, the whole universe and multiverse. In the fourth step, they feel the balloon deflating and shrinking down to such a small size inside of them (of their pure consciousness) that it simply ceases to exist. There is a subtle notion that their I disappears, as well as everything else.
To make this process as easy as possible, I recommend that you first do this exercise at least ten to fifteen times:
Do this exercise repeatedly, until that whole process becomes brief, habitual and automatic to you. Then you are ready to do the DTI.
You could imagine the disappearance of your Temporary I differently, though. The important thing is that the expansion goes on and on until the Temporary I is gone. The only criterion you could use for examining the success of the process is whether you find your consciousness pure, empty of content and diffused afterward, or not.
So, there is no need to relive or identify the experience (as is the case with several psychological or therapeutic techniques), or to expand the entire mind content (as in many other techniques). We are only doing an expansion of the Temporary I, which is simpler, faster and more effective in the end.
Apart from its application within the more complex techniques of the Reintegration System, you can also DTI in countless common situations. For example, if you become aware that you are overwhelmed with thoughts, you can dissolve the vantage point from which you are experiencing them. Or, if you find yourself flooded with emotions, note the location of your Temporary I and start the technique. Of course, if these thoughts, emotions or any other mind content or experience on which you were doing the DTI arises again, just repeat the technique until it vanishes. Similarly, if you’re in the company of an unfriendly or annoying person, you may quietly do this technique on the Temporary I from which you are feeling the annoyance.
There is no limit to the practical implementation of the DTI, as it requires only seconds of mild, conscious effort to profoundly detach from the unpleasant situation.
The procedure is short and simple:
- Notice, slightly, the content of your experience.
- Feel from which vantage point your Temporary I is experiencing the content.
- Rapidly increase the feeling of your Temporary I while breathing in deeply, up to the point where your I-feeling outgrows its own existence and enters pure consciousness.
- While breathing out, imagine the whole existence shrinks down and disappears inside that pure consciousness.
- Stay a while within that pure consciousness. There is no “I” and no existence anymore.
For example, during the third step, some people imagine their I-feeling as an inflating balloon, expanding extremely quickly, encompassing and outgrowing our planet, solar system, galaxy, the whole universe and multiverse. In the fourth step, they feel the balloon deflating and shrinking down to such a small size inside of them (of their pure consciousness) that it simply ceases to exist. There is a subtle notion that their I disappears, as well as everything else.
To make this process as easy as possible, I recommend that you first do this exercise at least ten to fifteen times:
- Notice your body and its position in the room or environment around it.
- Notice your subtle I-feeling within your body at that moment. It is usually in your head, neck or upper chest, but it could also be located in another part of your body. In order to easily find that I-feeling, ask yourself: “From which point am I experiencing the world now? Where is the center of my being at this moment?”
- Imagine that you, as that I-feeling (not the body), are suddenly growing bigger, pushing outside the boundaries of your body, room, city, of the planet, the solar system, the galaxy. Imagine your I-feeling encompassing the cosmos and all of everything. Meanwhile, the whole experience is but a small ball within you, becoming smaller and smaller. Eventually, it disappears.
- You are now the void, nothingness. You don’t exist anymore. Nothing exists anymore. There is only the void. It has always been and it will always be.
Do this exercise repeatedly, until that whole process becomes brief, habitual and automatic to you. Then you are ready to do the DTI.
You could imagine the disappearance of your Temporary I differently, though. The important thing is that the expansion goes on and on until the Temporary I is gone. The only criterion you could use for examining the success of the process is whether you find your consciousness pure, empty of content and diffused afterward, or not.
So, there is no need to relive or identify the experience (as is the case with several psychological or therapeutic techniques), or to expand the entire mind content (as in many other techniques). We are only doing an expansion of the Temporary I, which is simpler, faster and more effective in the end.
Apart from its application within the more complex techniques of the Reintegration System, you can also DTI in countless common situations. For example, if you become aware that you are overwhelmed with thoughts, you can dissolve the vantage point from which you are experiencing them. Or, if you find yourself flooded with emotions, note the location of your Temporary I and start the technique. Of course, if these thoughts, emotions or any other mind content or experience on which you were doing the DTI arises again, just repeat the technique until it vanishes. Similarly, if you’re in the company of an unfriendly or annoying person, you may quietly do this technique on the Temporary I from which you are feeling the annoyance.
There is no limit to the practical implementation of the DTI, as it requires only seconds of mild, conscious effort to profoundly detach from the unpleasant situation.
