Mechanical Nature

Technology seems to be empowering human beings when in fact it is enabling an unconscious part of us that is incapable of growth. Once this becomes clear you can start to recognize it isn't that technology is leading humanity, but instead we are being led by an unconscious nature that is developing technology to enable its authority over humanity.

In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that there exists within all of us a lower nature that is always operating unconsciously to get us to be the expression of its will. Awareness of that nature allows us to cease identifying with its mechanical movements.

Guy Finley explains in this brief talk that it is possible for us to find complete freedom from the mechanical, enemy-making nature that presently tricks us into believing that it is necessary to our well-being to have enemies of any kind.

Topics covered:  You can't be at peace with the moment itself until you are at peace with yourself; It is inevitable that everything in nature is always being acted upon and being completed through that action. Why is that not true of us when it comes to a relationship with the Divine? What is interfering with this "Divine inevitability"?; What is it within us that sets boundaries? We end up as prisoners locked within the very boundaries that have been set, and then fear anything that threatens to trespass. We become walking "No Trespassing" signs.

Topics Covered: The illusion that we live under is that we are free to learn. The reason it is an illusion is because no one is free to learn until they see with clarity their true relationship with life; There is no learning with thought. Learning has to do with illumination. Without illumination there is no education of the soul, and without education of the soul there is no transcending...

Student Talks: 1/15/2021 - Key Lesson: Hoping to end the fear that accompanies us in so many of the unwanted moments in our life without first realizing the unconscious "machinery" that creates it is worse than useless; it's like blaming the path we're on for the pain we feel while walking it... when the truth is there's a stone in our shoe!

Topics Covered: All judgment is born out of fear. There is no judgment until someone is first afraid of something; Fear is the source of hatred and conflict between human beings; There is no form of self-destruction without there being fear behind it; As long as we remain spiritually asleep we are a machine that is complicit in the harm being done to the world...

Topics Covered: We don't want to go through what we will awaken in another human being if we were to do what we know needs to be done or said; The understanding I have of my negative reactions is given to me by the consciousness that lives in fear; Every reaction comes with an explanation for itself; What's true never needs to defend itself, and what's false never can defend itself...

Topics Covered: There is never a moment without disturbance; An unattended mind is a perpetual misery machine; The task isn't to not be disturbed, instead the task is to see the nature that doesn't want to be disturbed; We rarely suspect that psychological fear is a dream; It is awareness that we are after, not a result; There is a level of consciousness that is a world of imagination...

Student Talks: 5/29/2020 - Key Lesson: The unconscious, spiritually asleep mind is a machine of "1,000 dances" whose repetitious steps are incapable of creating, let alone moving an inch in a truly new direction.