Om Aphorisms, Release 1.32

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OM APHORISMS
Keys to Super Space
Release 1.32
by Roland Campos

BEGINNINGS

Om Aphorisms came into being over approximately a twenty-year period. It is a distillation of what is now called the Ultimate Horizon Insights intensive. And in turn the Ultimate Horizon Insights intensive is the quintessence of the author's Recognition of the Transcendental Self. The first versions of the Ultimate Horizon Insights intensive came into being in the late seventies. At that time it was known as the Shortcut to Enlightenment. Later it was renamed the Actualize Enlightenment Consultation. Whereas the Ultimate Horizon Insights intensive predominately presents the subject matter in an interrogative form, Om Aphorisms presents it in an expository form. The intensive draws out understanding from the inquirer, while Om Aphorisms invites the inquirer to contemplate key understandings that will lead hir¹ to the Recognition of hir Transcendental Self in the style of the ancient Upanishads.

The inquiry that led to the creation of this material was concerned with considering only the key abstract understandings that facilitated revelation of the Transcendental Self. These understandings were sifted of cultural colorations that, as colorful as they may be, have more to do with a historical time and place than with the timeless understanding of the Transcendental Self. Also, this approach is not in the least interested in having the inquirer take on new beliefs. Rather, the spirit of inquiry represented here seeks to discover what is already there, the beliefs already in place, and then what is prior to them. Inquiry into the Transcendental Self attempts to discover the ultimate foundation or root of all creation.

Unfortunately the subject matter requires the use of such words as "enlightenment" and "transcendental." The author finds these words awkward because they are too long, hard to vocalize, and have too many irrelevant connotations. But for lack of better words he uses them.

Prior to delving into the aphorisms, or for that matter any work of deep self-inquiry, the author recommends that the reader practice two exercises. One exercise involves the heart. It consists of opening one's heart so as to allow a feeling of great love and caring to emerge. Once the reader tunes into this love current, s/he should hold all beings, including hirself, and all things big and small (all of creation) in this aura of love. S/he is encouraged to feel this love healing, supporting, and honoring all beings and things. The purpose of this exercise is to activate a personal space of love. The other exercise consists of engaging in the most abstract thinking s/he is capable of. In other words, the reader should see how far, high, and or deep s/he can think, and then press beyond that, and then beyond that, and so on. Although the reader may make many interesting discoveries, that is not the purpose of this exercise. Nor is its purpose to discover the Transcendental Self. Its purpose is simply to stretch the mind. A mind accustomed to soaring through the most abstruse abstractions is less likely to get stuck here or there. These exercises provide a healthy psychological context for optimally proceeding with the inquiry into the Transcendental Self.

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¹ The word "hir" refers to both male and female genders, as also does the word "hirself."

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