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- A Temporary State: Form as Formlessness. What mainly registers in your senses is non-separateness of form, even as form is being experienced. A single term that covers any way you may try to describe form reflecting formlessness (see the graph in Benefits—Absolute). A catchall UM term mainly used to connect the SHF Now technique to all the related UM terms for talking about the Absolute, including Absolute Activity (aka, Deep Expansion/Contraction Flow), Deep Spontaneity, and Absolute Rest. Sometimes Absolute experience is reflected by the senses in a way that seems to highlight the perception of spatial non-separateness, which the term Absolute Activity points to. Sometimes the Absolute is reflected in the senses in a way that seems to highlight the effortless just happening of experience, which the term deep Spontaneity points to. Whether you’re aware of it or not, always within and beyond any reflection of the Absolute (and all experience) is Absolute Rest—formlessness. Absolute Now covers any way form may reflect the formless, including how the Absolute may also be reflected in the theme of timelessness, as in Now with a capital N (see below), or other absences (for instance, the absence of a sense of fixed identity—No Self).
- A Temporary State: Time as Formlessness. As a reflection of the Absolute, the present moment is experienced free from the construct of time. Now, with a capital N. When subtle sensory interference that causes the solidified impression of time drops away, you can experience being free from the constraints of a timeline. This happens on the surface of your awareness. As a result, you can come to know time as a useful construct and nothing more. When you perceive time as formlessness, what you mainly perceive is timelessness—no construct of time. You might experience that as everything is always just happening now or next is just a story the mind creates, or there is no before because you can’t hold on to experience. What is reflected in the senses is the absence of time as a thing. Timelessness, deep Spontaneity, and Absolute Activity all point to the same freedom from form. They are different ways to describe the Absolute, based on how the Absolute is being reflected in the senses.
- A Sensory Trait. Non-separateness is a trait that gets uncovered through raising your baseline CC&E. With enough CC&E, it becomes clear that solidified, ordinary reality is a temporary (though chronic) state caused by sensory interference. Due to conditioning, the constructed stories of the mind are repeatedly overvalued and reinforced. But that’s just a force of habit. Since non-separateness is a sensory trait, in every moment of your ordinary day there is the chance to discover or uncover the extraordinary. Now is always available, whether you’re able to access it or not. When you’re more free to fully disappear into every experience you have and every activity you do—because your self is not a solid, separate thing—your surface awareness lines up with deep experience because nothing gets in the way. All of sensory experience right at the surface of awareness becomes the one basic activity—the activity of two fused opposites—which some people call the loving activity. All sensory systems have this hidden potential because non-interference is a basic trait of the system.
- A Deepening Attainment. The process of integrating transcendence into the dynamic activity of everyday life. Part of this is experiential—you detect the Absolute more clearly and consistently throughout your day. Another important part of this is the ability to Manifest. More and more, you manifest the dynamic activity of Absolute Now spontaneously. It’s effortlessly expressed through you. It just happens. As you discover the underlying trait of non-separateness in all phases of experience, and over the years and decades of training, your everyday experience tends to shift to more consistently clear, surface-level awareness of non-separateness (Absolute Now/Rest), which you can access more and more, by choice. In daily life, contact with the Absolute is mixed with more solidified experience, and more solidified experience comes to be perceived through the lens of human positivity, or love (whatever word rings true for you). Meaning, there is no preference because all sensory experience is loved. This affects the way you manifest in the world. As a result of loving all experience you manifest human positivity more fully. More and more you become the Magic Robot.
- A Focus Range. Direct Pointing (Point) techniques may take formless Spontaneity—sensory activity reflecting the Absolute—as their Focus Range. You could define the focus range of the SHF Now family of techniques and the Auto family of techniques as deep E/C Flow, and/or Deep Spontaneity, in Perception or Expression. (Typically, the focus range of these techniques are defined in a more surface way so they can be accessible for anyone to practice them and as sensitizing exercises for deep experience.) Defining the focus range as Absolute Now means you would need to be able to contact the Absolute by choice (see Definition 4). A Trainer may choose to emphasize this deeper context of the Absolute as the Focus Range of SHF Now, or the more surface focus range, depending on your specific audience.
- The Deepest Phase of Spontaneity. Deep Spontaneity is a way to describe the effortless just happeningness of experience that goes beyond just Perception or just Expression. At a more surface level, UM tends to tie the word Spontaneity to Expression. At the level of Absolute Now—the deepest phase of experience in which form reflects formlessness—what UM calls Perception and Expression are fused. As a framework for training your skills, Perception and Expression fall under the bigger umbrella of Sensory Experience and they’re only divided up for the purpose of exploring the two contrasting sides of Sensory Input and Sensory Output, independently. Perception and Expression are disentangled from each other so you can selectively focus on them. On an experiential level, there can come a point when, at the surface of conscious awareness, there’s no separation between what UM calls Perception and Expression, because there’s clear non-separateness between all sensory experience. So even though on the surface spontaneity is connected to Expression, at the deepest level, Spontaneity points to non-separateness of all Sensory Experience, and how Perception and Expression are one and the same. From that perspective, the term Deep Spontaneity can also be considered a synonym for deep Expansion/Contraction Flow.
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