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A human being is made up of a body, a homo sapiens body, a mind and a being or soul.  What you really are is not these.   Just as one may own an automobile, that which you really are owns a body.  Your body is owned by you, it is not you. 

You have a conscious mind,  you are not a conscious mind.   You can be conscious, but you are not consciousness.   Even when you are not conscious (for example, as in deep sleep), you still exist.

​You have a soul, you are not a soul.  Your soul can leave your body at the time of death and be reborn. Your soul was created at the beginning of the Universe and will cease to exist at the end of the Universe.  You will not cease to exist at the end of the Universe; nor, were you created at the beginning of the Universe.

You are not any kind of physical thing.   You are not matter or light or space or time. You are beyond matter, light, space, and time.   You, along with everyone else, are that from which matter, light, space and time have come.

You are a divine individual that has the power of choice.  
What you really are is a non-physical existence that can exercise the power of choice.  
Put more precisely, what you are is the ability to act autonomously and
who you are is the one who exercises that ability.
   Yes, divine non-physical individuals do become identified with their own souls.
They experience themselves individually as a being at the centre of a mind. 
It seems to them they are a viewpoint which sees dreams and the content of the mind.

Some also become identified with their own mind. They experience themselves as personalities or as consciousness. They think they are a being who desires things and tries to get them.

Some individuals also become identified with their own brain.  They experience themselves as the seer, hearer, taster, or smeller and they think that they are that which makes the body do things.

​Some individuals also become identified with their own body.  They do not think they have a body, they think that they are their body.


   If people who are identified with body, mind, and soul read a statement, "You are not a human being", they test this statement against what they experience themselves to be and decide that the statement is wrong. However, they are wrong!

 If a person is placed under heavy drug hypnosis and told over and over that he is a woman while being beaten, even when the drug wears off he will think he is a woman, especially if he has been dressed as a woman. If the hypnotised man read a statement that said 'You are not a woman' he would consult his dress and his mind and decide that the statement was wrong.  However, he would be wrong!  Only by self-inspection would he discover he is a man.  If he investigates he will be surprised to find that his body is not a woman's body.

​In the same way, one who is identified with a body, mind, and soul, would need to turn inward and ask "What am I?";  that is, to do self-inspection until one discovers that one is not a body, a mind or even a soul.

Now, of course, you may not want to make this discovery and de-identify.   Just as a person viewing a motion picture and who has become identified with the hero or heroine, you may not want to be reminded that you are sitting in a theatre watching coloured lights play on a screen. You, as an identified divine non-physical individual may not want to be reminded that you're not a human being. It spoils the fun!
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On the other hand, you may not like the movie, or you're just plain tired of movies and may want out of movies and theatres all together.  You may just want Reality.  Then, for you it would be a favour to state to hear that, "You are not a human being."  Even so you may still think that statement wrong.  Not until you have done self-inspection long enough to experience for yourself what you really are would  you know the statement to be correct.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, "The Father and I are one."  The Jews in the Portico of Solomon of the Temple wanted to stone him for blasphemy and said, "You are only a man and you claim to be God."  Jesus answered, "Is it not written in the Law, 'I said, you are gods?'  So the Law uses the word gods of those to whom the Word of God was addressed, and scripture cannot be rejected."   Jesus was quoting God from the Psalm of Asaph 82:6 where God said, "You too are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you."

We are the gods who, by exercising the ability to act create and evolve the Universe.
We made our souls, minds, personalities and bodies, became identified with them, forgot we did this and are lost in life, prisoners of our ignorance.

The way out is by self-reflection, self-inspection and accepting that others can exercise the ability to act, as you can.  Turning the other cheek when you are ignored, insulted and assaulted is the act of accepting that others can exercise choice.

Books by Charles Berner and Yoah Wexler available from Amazon
​
Knowing Your Self: 100 Self Awareness Exercises 
by Yoah Wexler, PhD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1490339434

Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive (Volume 1), 
by Charles Berner; edited and compiled by Yoah Wexler, PhD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492267546

Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive (Volume 2) 
by Charles Berner; edited and compiled by Yoah Wexler, PhD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492263281

Relating and Spiritual Consciousness: Communication, Love and Relating Dyads 
by Charles Berner; edited and compiled by Yoah Wexler, PhD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1518696287

You, God, Love, Life:Self Transformation Principles
by Charles Berner; edited and compiled by Yoah Wexler, PhD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1533652783

Enlightenment in the Sleeping State
The comments below are from a participant at
​one of my Enlightenment Masters Training Courses.

I want to re-convey an occurrence that I had while I was there.  Do you recall when I came into the room on Thursday morning and told you that I think I had a direct experience in my sleep?

Well it was true.  

I never thought I could ever experience a direct experience in my sleep!!!  But then during the dyads I could not get out of direct knowing.  I could only be the Truth, and nothing else seemed to come up.  I then knew that the experience was real.  And as I was driving home I felt 10 sheets to the wind (sort of speak) and a flying state of mind.  I was actually happy with no attachments.  What an awesome feeling that is.  To this day I am still feeling the effects of the shift.  Nothing seems to offend me.  I'm clearly centered in knowingness.  Sure, I still have the day to day dealings with life, but I an no longer insisting that they go my way! LOL!
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I believe the Master's Training really grounded me.  It brought me into a reality check.  It clearly put me into a state of focus.  And I just feel that it has allowed me to enter back into life without fear of my experience being squished by others but especially by me.

And the quality of the training, well words are hardly available for the awesomeness of it.  It was presented extremely well.  The Master did a fantastic job.  He was very clear, and I had no problems understanding any of the material.  I would do it again, and again, and again.  
Thank you Yoah.
xoxo

“I need to remind you of one other thing:  preconceived ideas.  What happens is you not only get a preconceived idea of what Truth is but also of what enlightenment is like and you then try to have that happen.  You try to reach that state.  You try to become enlightened, which means you try to fulfil this image that you have, this concept that you have in your head of what enlightenment is like.  

If you have any preconceived ideas that you are trying to fit yourself into, forget it.  Set it aside.  Just be open.  Don’t try to fulfil any teaching, including mine and even your own. If you turn out to be all wrong, then you are all wrong.  So what?  At least you now know the Truth.  Do you want to be wrong forever?  You will be unless you choose to open up.  

On the other hand, many of you have studied very wise teachings which are correct.  But set them aside also because a teaching, even if it is correct is not the Truth itself.  What I am telling you right now is not the Truth.  It is about the Truth.  What I am saying is true, but is not the Truth.  The Truth itself is available to you only if you will set aside your preconceived ideas.  

Preconceived ideas and ego go hand-in-hand.  They’re partners and ego-death does not occur unless one has let go of his own preconceived ideas and just laid himself bare and become exposed to whatever the Truth may be.  I know you are a little bit scared of the Truth and afraid of the unknown.  And yet when you get there you will experience for yourself the indescribable fulfilment which accompanies a direct experience of Truth.”
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Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive, Volume 2
Charles Berner
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1492263281

"You have an image in your mind of how you think you appear to others. Then you get the idea that you are that image. You get so involved with other people and with dealing with other people that you get mixed up and think that you are this idea of what other people think you are. But that is not you at all. You and your ego are separate. 

You are not your ego.  You are Divine.  One's ego always wants to make a good impression on people; it always wants to be right and not wrong. It wants to be well thought of.  The ego is the idea of yourself that you are trying to construct in other people's minds.  Trying to present yourself in the best light as Divine builds the ego if you have doubt about what you are.  You do not want to be wrong but you may have difficulty in communicating yourself as Divine.

If you know you are Divine, you will not build an ego.  If you have an ego you will tend to defend yourself.  An ego can be invalidated but if you know who you are, you cannot be invalidated.  You should treat yourself not as your ego but as yourself.  The difficulty comes in trying to communicate yourself to others.  Don't present ego.  Know yourself as Divine.  You will be able to live life best if you think of yourself as Divine and treat yourself as Divine."