Spiritual enlightenment is the realization that there never was any
"binding". You being _something_ is just an idea. The 12 year old child
playing Super Mario never really is bound to Super Mario ... it's just
an assumed role ... an identification with the form of Mario ...
You are consciousness that believes to be the story called "Alan" and
you held that belief ever since you were ~2-3 month old. It's a very
strong belief ... yet it is only that ... a belief.
"Diss-associative disorder" is a horrible condition mostly caused by
stress and/or trauma (and thus pretty much exclusively exists within our
degenerated, fear, ego, competition and stress driven culture) but has
nothing to do with enlightenment. It's like a 12 year old playing World
of Warcraft who lost their entire virtual belongings and is overwhelmed
by the situation and does not know what to do and who feels that he/she
should not be within the WoW realm and who doesn't really want to be
his/her avatar any more but who is still strongly identified with the
whole avatar's story and who is still strongly identified with the
avatar's role. It's a horrible, horrible condition and often leads to
suicide if the person is not aware of the opportunity (of dropping the
whole "I am X story" altogether) the situation offers ...
And you are right: You can not "alter" your "binding" with your body by
an act of will just like a kid identified with Super Mario can not stop
pretending to be Super Mario by an act of will. You stop identifying
with Mario or your human body if you experience immense
pain/frustration/loss, if a power outage disconnects you from the
virtual experience (comparable to consuming DMT) or if you just had
enough and your time has come. (Or if your phone rings or you need to go
to the bathroom ... but consciousness does not own a cellphone nor
toilet.) That's why many traditions are referring to enlightenment as
the "grace of God".
On 18/02/2019 05:03, Alan Grimes wrote:
There is no way to alter one's binding with one's own body or form by
any act of will, though some people have what the psycholocial manuals
call a "disassociative disorder" which appears to be a result of a
neuralogical condition that weakens the connection to the lef-model as
represented in the brain.
It is this feeling if dissociation that is the illusion, not the hard
binding to one's body. =\
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