Enlightenment: This Freedom

In Tony Parsons’ inspired writings, he shares what Enlightenment is: Letting Go, and Letting God. He calls this giving up The Open Secret (see www.theopensecret.com). One gives up by activating the transpersonal space, located above the brain, and then allowing God’s Spirit to enter one’s heart so that unconditional love is all there is.

Mr. Parsons’ latest sharing, This Freedom, is a slim 132-page book which uses the Socratic approach in which dialogues are introduced with comments and then questions are followed by answers. Because the book is written at the enlightened level and nearly all his readers are controlled by their ego brain, the book will be incomprehensible for most. The purpose of this short book review is to spell out some key insights.

First, it is noted that when you were, say 4-years old, there was oneness since you were without conscious awareness. Then you were thrown out of paradise and then self-consciousness took place and then the clock started ticking. From that moment on, the search for wholeness takes places. The vast majority of beings could care less about enlightenment and thus they will live out their lives according to their preordained scripts. Others who sense something is missing will try to find the answer through the spiritual marketplace: therapy, meditation, mindfulness training and the like. All these approaches are useless since the ego brain is directing the process and the ego brain is the problem.

To dissolve the ego brain, which is usually involved in endless mind chatter, the transpersonal space needs to be activated. How to do so? Essentially, it’s by intention: The seeing that the ego mind is self-destructive and as it judges others, so will it judge you. Usually, the apparent separate person will go through a series of life crisis and finally will be at the end of the line and there will be a readiness to die.

Awakening is the glimpsing of the transpersonal space and then returning to the ego mind. Often this is called a “peak experience.” At this point the mind-body organism is starting to open to God, what Parsons calls the “Beloved.”

When God takes over, all there is is unconditional love. But not love in the sense human beings think of love. This love includes the unity of opposites so that there is love-hate, rest-movement, male-female. So war is necessary for there to be peace; movement is necessary for there to be rest. All is part of wholeness and all is perfect as it is. The ego brain rejects this since it only wants the “good” stuff without the “bad” stuff. This is the cause of humankind’s insanity, always wanting to be in control of what is.

As there is a letting go and letting God, there is healing. There will always be deep psychic healing as well as physical healing. The key insight is not to pray as this gets one back into the verbal self. Just allow. On this day, when you were two you became one again…all there is is unconditional love. Welcome to paradise! 

Addendum: The transpersonal space might be referred to as “fundamental consciousness,” which Judith Blackstone, in The Intimate Life, (2011) on page 50 notes: “The entranceway into fundamental consciousness is a subtle channel that runs through the vertical core of the body from the center of the crown of our head and above ...to the bottom of our torso and below.” Note that in Parsons’ model, one opens the chakra just above the head, which in turn activates the fundamental consciousness. This, in time, will activate the three core qualities of being: physical sensation, emotion, and awareness. Readers are invited to obtain any book by Ms. Blackstone for further insights.