Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
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Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 16: Forms Keep Getting Created
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Lesson 16: The Birth of Egoic Consciousness
Section 6: Fear Has Taken Its Final Form
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This episode dives deep into the nature of egoic consciousness, examining how fear shapes our identities and breeds separation from our divine essence. We explore the concept that healing is a journey of remembering our true nature as spirit while reflecting on the playful, cosmic game of life.
• Fear has taken its final form in the process of human experience
• The analogy of milk demonstrates the illusion of separation between individuals and the divine
• Healing is redefined as remembering our spiritual identity
• The body reflects our emotional and spiritual states, calling for holistic healing approaches
• Exploring multiple lifetimes opens a dialogue on identity and our experiences
• Life is seen as a cosmic play, encouraging a shift in perspective on spiritual growth and challenges
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The Birth of Egoic Consciousness
Speaker 1Hello and welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery . I'm Jason Amoroso , your guide and friend and fellow student , and today we are going to have some fun . We're going to continue in Lesson 16 , the Birth of Egoic Consciousness . Section 6 , fear has Taken Its Final Form and I'm just really curious how many people who actually listen to this , uh , have read the way of mastery , have started from the beginning of the podcast , like I'm really curious how you consume this content . Do you use it as a study guide ? Do you just kind of listen along ? Do you pop in on different episodes ? You know , send me an email , hello at Revelation Breathwork dot com . I can't really pull , pull everybody , but send me an email , let me know how you consume this . And I'm just very curious .
Speaker 1My vision when I first started which , of course , you know , always can shift and change was that this is like a study guide for the way of mastery , which some people , I think might even be listening , not even know what the way of mastery is . It is a book published by the Shanti Christo Foundation and it was originally given as a series of talks that they then turned into a book , and so it is a channeled message teaching of , and so it is a channeled message , teaching of Yeshua ben Joseph or Jesus the Christ . I guess it's Jesus of Joseph , right , jesus son of Joseph or Yeshua son of Joseph . But anyways , let's dive back in . We're going chronologically through the book , lesson 16 , the birth of egoic consciousness , and this section five is fear has taken its final form . And we're going to pick up in paragraph at least for me in my version paragraph six , where Jeshua says fear has taken its final form . Now there is a complete forgetting of God , of the one of spirit , of the one of spirit , even of soul . The body represents a level of vibration still quite intelligent , still very in italics , very intelligent . It is like a matrix of energy , the very thought of condensation into human form , out of which forms keep getting created , keep getting created , keep getting created , keep getting created . That's not me glitching out . It says it four times . You have done that for yourself an infinite number of times . So fear . Now , looking at this paragraph . This is what we do in the podcast . We look at the paragraph , we break down the terms and the concepts . Fear has taken its final form . This is it . We made it Fear . This is it Our final form as what we call a human being and there's a complete forgetting of God . That , oh , I am God Again .
Speaker 1The analogy he uses earlier in this lesson is of the drop of milk when you pour milk in the glass , and if you've seen those commercials of your probably around my age , in your 40s or 50s they would pour the glass of milk and then , as they stopped pouring , the milk would go into the glass and a little drop would kind of like come up and then fall back down . And so the analogy is that the little drop that would pop up , seemingly separate from the rest of the milk , and then gravity would bring it back down and it's just still all milk . It's actually not separate . It's the same thing , just like the analogy we've been using from the very beginning of the wave mastery of oceans and waves . If you remove the word wave , we make up words to define things so we can kind of understand and compartmentalize this experience from a brain , intellectual , cerebral level . But if you take away words and labels , you don't call a wave a wave , you don't call the ocean the wave , you don't call the ocean the ocean , you don't even call it water and you're just looking at it . It's all the same stuff . And what we call a wave is just a unique expression of this thing we call the ocean or water for a moment , and then it passes and it's just back to the same thing . It's all still water , it's all still ocean , but it's a unique expression that pops up in time and ends in time . And that's really what the ego is . It's a beautiful analogy . It's still all the same thing , even though it thinks it's separate .
Speaker 1The tiny mad idea , the insane idea that you could somehow be outside of all . That is that's what the ego is , and it lives in fear . It lives in lack . Anytime we're feeling fear or lack or judgment , any feeling of separation , of aloneness . Those are all illusions . They're not real . They're illusions . False evidence appearing real . It's one perception . They're illusions . False evidence appearing real . It's one perception .
Speaker 1And you say well , why would God allow that to happen ? Because God is infinite . Nothing real can be threatened . God cannot be threatened . So why would God try and limit itself ? No , it's just another expression . It's another perspective , another perception to hold . You know that God is experiencing itself in an infinite number of ways , continually expanding itself and knowing itself and seeing itself and experiencing itself from an infinite number of ways . Why ? Simply for the joy of it , the joy of extending the good , the holy and the beautiful .
Speaker 1So this line in this paragraph makes me think of a line in A Course in Miracles , a phrase called the veil of forgetfulness , that as we incarnate in a body , as we move from identification and spirit into what seemingly is a separate body entity , we pass through the veil of forgetfulness . We forget who we are . We forget that we're soul , that we're spirit , that we're one with it all . That's why A Course in Miracles and the Way of Mastery define healing not as fixing anything that's broken , not repairing something that's been damaged . Healing is simply remembering who you already are . Healing is simply remembering who you've always been , and not even a who , but a what , what you always are , what you've always been , which is pure spirit .
Speaker 1So Jesher says there's a complete forgetting of God , that you are God , that God is all there is and not the ego . The ego is going to try and hijack what . Do you think ? You're God ? You're not special . Look what you can't do . You can't create miracles , you're poor , you're this , you're that If you were God , you'd have a six pack abs , or you'd have the love of your life or whatever it is . You wouldn't be an addict if you were God . That's what the ego does to hijack this conversation and this idea . Let's just be true . But there's a complete forgetting of God , of the one of spirit , even of soul , and even is an italics . And what does that mean ? It means that you are soul , that you're divinity .
Speaker 1There's a forgetting of that and that's why a lot of spiritual practices and the way of mastery , many other teachings , are inviting us to shift attention , as Jeshua says , in the way of mastery and in A Course in Miracles . They are the same teaching that it is mind training . This work is mind training . You're shifting your mind , you're shifting your attention from out there to in here . The kingdom of God is within you . Be still and know you can't be still out there . Be still inside and know that I am God in the midst of you , closer than you're breathing , nearer than your hands and feet .
Speaker 1He says the body represents a level of vibration still quite intelligent , still very intelligent . It is like a matrix of energy . So we talked about this in our episode yesterday , where there is an intelligence in the body , that the body is not some separate thing from us , but it is a part of our consciousness , is an expression of consciousness . So when people are saying , hey , there's wisdom in the body , it's just there's wisdom within your consciousness . When you go within not in consciousness , but when you go within to identifying with the soma , the body like , oh , I've got a pain in my neck , here's a good one , I've got a pain in my neck . And when we're identified with like Western allopathic medicine , we're like , oh well , let me go to the chiropractor and get an adjustment , or let me take a pill , or let me get a drug , or let me get an injection to get rid of this pain in my neck .
Speaker 1But a mind-body-spirit approach , maybe a more holistic alternative approach , would look at well , what is a pain in your neck ? How is this a metaphor , how is this symbolic of a pain in your neck that you're moving through in your life ? Oh , my God , my job right now is a big pain in the neck . Right , we say that , but then we don't even realize that we literally have a pain in our neck . Or what is our neck used for ? Our neck is used for turning our head . Turn to the right , get one perspective , turn to the left , get another perspective . Maybe that's also a symbol , a metaphor , that your pain in your neck and you can't turn your head to the right is really just an expression of an inner belief or subconscious that it's . I can't have a different perspective . I'm so attached to seeing things one way that it hurts to turn and to look from another perspective . Right , we just are so often entrained and conditioned to think that , oh , the body , what's happening in the body , is just a symptom that needs again . It's like healing , it needs to be fixed or repaired , it's damaged and I got to get it back to optimal , you know , optimal operation , optimal function , which , yes , is great , and we can miss out on so much healing of remembering who we are so much identifying and discovering and uncovering these limiting beliefs , these conditioned thinking that are operating in our subconscious , that are expressing through the body . That's why I love people like Zach Bush .
Exploring Past Lives and Cosmic Game
Speaker 1I talked about German new medicine in yesterday's episode . The person who was introduced , introduced me to that was Dr Melissa Sell S-E-L-L . There's so many , louise Hay , there's so many healers , facilitators , medicine workers who take this approach of the mind-body-spirit connection . So the body is has intelligence , very , very much intelligence . It's like a matrix of energy , the very thought of condensation into human form , out of which forms keep getting created .
Speaker 1Right ago in this lesson , jeshua talks how , once that first seeming separation where fear created itself or created , it just multiplied . It just kept subdividing and multiplying and creating more of itself , kind of like cancer , as we talked about yesterday . That was a great analogy that Jeshua uses in yesterday's episode , just a few paragraphs ago . Cancer is merely a misperception , run amok , it's just dividing itself , multiplying itself . It's like the ego . And he says in this paragraph forms keep getting created , keep getting created .
Speaker 1You have done that for yourself an infinite number of times . You've done that for yourself . How many lifetimes have you had ? That's why it's like , honestly , I remember seeing this one thing it was so funny on Instagram and it was like , oh my gosh , that makes so much sense , where a lot of people really get into like ancestor , ancestral work and like not just worshiping their ancestors or honoring their ancestors or trying to heal and generational trauma and heal from their ancestors . And I saw this one thing on Instagram one time . I was like , oh my gosh , that's really funny because I think it feels true , which is like you may have been your ancestors , right ? How do you know that you weren't your great great grandfather in another lifetime , even if you're a woman now , right ? How do you know that you weren't your great great grandfather in another lifetime , even if you're a woman now , right ? How do you know that you don't know that maybe you were , maybe this is your own lineage that you're healing , not not someone else's like someone related to you , but your own issues that you are healing over lifetimes staying within the same family line . Who knows , why not ? There's no limit , there's no rules to this stuff , meaning you could be . Why not have that ? Again , there's no limits , there's no rules . You could be your own great-grandfather , your own great-grandmother . You could be that . Or you could be totally a different race , a different gender , a different nationality , a different whatever .
Speaker 1Again , if you're playing the video game the Sims or any other kind of video game , let's say you're playing a video game of the Sims , it's the simulated game where you can create your own character and live a life . You could be a rock star , you could be a lawyer , you could have family . You could have no kids . You could have some kids . You could have a pet . You could be a tycoon . You could be a poor beggar , whatever , like you get to create and live like a virtual life . If you could do that why , like we all , variety is the spice of life Would you just live the same character and then when that character in human terms , let's say your character lives to be 75 or 85 and then dies , oh , let me play another game of the Sims .
Speaker 1I'm going to create the same exact character . I'm going to create the same exact character . I'm going to be a white dude , I'm going to be an engineer , I'm going to have a wife and two kids and a dog . I'm going to live in the suburbs , I'm going to drive a sedan , I'm going to go to college , I'm going to , you know , go on vacation once a year and then when that a new , new white dude dies at 85 , I'm going to be another white dude and have a wife , and you're going to live the same life over and over again , when you can literally choose and create any life that you want , and choose and create any issues and lessons to learn from .
Speaker 1Hey , maybe in this lifetime I want to learn courage . That would be awesome . So I got to experience and create . I need the video game to give me a lot of things to be afraid of . So my character , my avatar , can up level and courage . I need different things to be afraid of . That's how I get more experience points . That's how I get more courage points by moving through different things that I'm afraid of . Oh cool , that was an awesome , fun lifetime .
Speaker 1Now , in this lifetime I'm going to , I want to learn forgiveness . What is forgiveness ? Well , I need a lot of things to forgive . So , okay , video game , bring me betrayals , bring me injustices , bring me judgments . I'm going to up-level Everyone is an up-level and experience points in forgiveness . Right , like , look at it from that point . And no one is a victim , ever . No one is a victim . Everyone is a participant in this cosmic game that we've created for ourselves , that we've agreed to play .
Speaker 1One lifetime , maybe I'm an African warlord . The other lifetime , maybe I'm an African slave . The other lifetime , maybe I'm a European beggar . The other lifetime , maybe I'm Asian , chinese , japanese man , woman , transgender , identifying person , maybe I'm an animal who the heck knows and who cares .
Speaker 1Let's look at life from that perspective . You've been it all , you've done it all . That's why Jeshua says in the way of mastery probably in the Bible , too , and probably definitely in A Course in Miracles always talks about . Like any emotion , like we can all relate to everything Anger , rage , lust , murderous thoughts we can relate to , we've had it all , we've done it all in different lifetimes , but yet we forget and yet we want to play the victim . Well , it's them , they're the problem . Look at them , look at they're out there . Look , they're out there and it's nice , right , if you've been at all done it all and you get to choose the whole thing , wouldn't you ? Wouldn't you create the variety ? So stop , this is an invitation . Stop identifying with this one lifetime that you're having right now . This is all you are .
Speaker 1Oh , just because you can't remember that you were a different lifetime , a different race , a different gender , lived in a different timeline which , by the way , it's all happening now anyway , just because you can't remember that , and we , whoever has done like past life regression stuff or you've had psilocybin , or you've gone on medicine journeys , or you've just done lsd and drugs , for the hell of it , when you were younger or older and you had a really weird trip of , oh , my gosh , I remembered that I was a geisha in ancient japan or whatever , right , yes , we've had inklings , dreams , wonderings , fortune tellers , seers , maybe some of that stuff's not true , maybe it is . Only you can know what resonates for you . Don't just blindly believe what somebody tells you about you . Check in with yourself and , at the end of the day , it doesn't matter . That's why I like the past life stuff . It doesn't matter if you were the king or you were the beggar , or you were someone in between , or you were the burned at the stake , which it doesn't matter , unless it's relevant for you right now in your life . What it brings up for you to hear that you were royalty one day . Oh well , I don't feel like royalty now . So to know that I was royalty in the past makes me feel more valued , makes me feel more special . That's the issue that you're wanting to feel more special . Or , oh , learning , oh learning that I was a very wealthy person in a different lifetime . That makes me feel great because I'm feeling so much lack right now . Right , that's the issue . How you relate to any kind of past life information is the issue . What does it mean for you now ? That's the issue . All right , we got off on a big tangent , but I think this is a good place to stop , because because this , this last little bit about the Sims and all the lifetimes . I think it's important to realize we've been doing it all and and we can continue to keep doing it all if we want to .
The Game of Spiritual Growth
Speaker 1But it comes with this forgetting who we are , which maybe , in the beginning , is part of the game . Oh my gosh , if I know exactly who I am , wouldn't it be fun ? Like , why do people get dressed up on Halloween ? Why do people like to role play ? Why do people like to act , to experience a different side of themselves , outside of their identity ? Well , I'm normally a nice person , but for Halloween I'm going to dress like a serial killer . It's totally outside of my identity . But it feels good to like scare kids or to be creepy or whatever , just for a day . That's obviously not who I am . Right , this is just an example . Or , let me be a monster , because I so identify with being a human being , but on Halloween , I get to dress up like a , like a monster or a zombie , and play that role we like to play .
Speaker 1So what if , from infinite awareness of who you are as a divine being , you're like hey , let me forget who I am for a little bit , that'll be fun , because I know , duh , that I'm going to eventually remember who I am . So it's just a temporary little blip of an experience . To pretend like I'm separate , to have the experience of separation , oh my gosh , that's not fun . I want to wake up to who I am again , realize my oneness , realize my wholeness , and then maybe after a while it's like , yeah , let's go back and it's fun . It's fun to pretend to be separate again . Or let me try and bring up a challenge . Let's have a challenge . It's amazing to know that I'm abundant and whatever I need is right here and it's just within me and I can create anything I want . So after a while maybe I get bored of that , or maybe I just want the joy of a challenge , of forgetting how abundant I am and experiencing some lack so I can remember that I am abundant . That would be a fun game to play . Why not ? Let's play that for a lifetime or two , or 10 . And then we're back to knowing and embodying our full abundant self . Back to knowing and embodying our full abundant self .
Speaker 1This is a dramatically different perspective than most people hold and have and it takes a lot of the seriousness out of spiritual healing and growth work . Like I gotta get there . I'm not there . I gotta somehow remember and get to the place , because I'm suffering so much now . It takes a lot of the seriousness out of it .
Speaker 1What if it's all a game ? What if it's all a play and your higher self is playing but your ego forgets because you want to forget , because if you still knew , it's like surrender . You can't surrender 99% . You got to surrender 100% . If you only surrender 99% , saving the last 1% sliver for yourself , just in case things don't work out , that's not surrender . So it's like if you remembered on some level who you were , your soul power , your soul expansiveness , maybe that would take the fun out of having the experience that you feel separate for a moment .
Speaker 1So let me forget . So just the things to think about on this beautiful morning or evening or wherever you're listening uh , thanks for being on this journey , love you guys , love being a student of this and uh , yeah , like , subscribe , share if you can give us a good review on apple podcast and write a tiny little quick message . It'll probably take you three minutes if you haven't done so and you're a listener . Thank you so much and send me an email , hello , at revelationbreathworkcom . Let me know how you're doing , let me know you're listening and maybe let me know how you consume the podcast , how you use it , and we'll see you next time .