Letters from the Field: Client Reports on The Living Method

Photoshopped Photo by Roland Jackman, my friend and web guru. He had surgery this past week. They could find his gall bladder, but no one spotted a “Roland.”

Hello, everybody. I’ve gotten several emails asking for client feedback on the Asheville Clarity Weekend, and this is in response to that. It also serves another key purpose. This teaching goes against the grain of almost everything many of have been taught about Self-realization. Most of us think it’s going to take forever. Most of us think it’s really difficult–as in next to impossible. Neither of those things is true, at least not in my experience.

We have been told to steer clear of methods, that they do not work. That’s not true either, and if we look at it closely, most of us can see that this information was told to us with a straight face by the earnest folks who were busily teaching us, for example, the Zen, Advaita, Sufi, Tibetan, ACIM, or Christian methods of awakening.

What I’m declaring is that while all of those methods are wonderful for whomever they’re wonderful for, but they didn’t fit me. I tried several of those, but found I wasn’t a joiner. I just didn’t fit. Maybe you’re not a joiner either, or you’re not a joiner any longer, or perhaps you’re beginning to question your allegiances. The good news is that there’s a new technology on our planet that makes the business of waking up a relatively simple, painless matter. I help people wake up six days a week, and sometimes seven. It takes two to two and a half hours.

 Once we wake up, then we can go about the important business of clearing up. Clearing is what’s really important. Awakening is (usually, but not always) an event. Clearing is always a process. Is awakening fast or slow? It’s both. Which is why this teaching starts with awakening and then goes on to help you clear. Trying to get completely clear so that we can awaken is like swimming the English channel in order to learn to dog paddle. It’s putting the cart before the horse.

 At any rate, because there’s sure to be a lot of doubt out there I wanted to take a minute to let clients tell you their own experience. Most of these letters are recent. I can’t claim they are unbiased, because they are being written by people who’ve recently woken up, and thus there’s a natural gratitude that keeps them from being impartial. I wouldn’t have it any other way. See what you think.

This is from Kay who came to the first Awakening Now Workshop in Asheville recently, and then drove a hundred miles to see me for a Clarity Session this very afternoon.

I don’t know how this waking up happens but I feel I have a clue about how it is not maintained and that is basically getting lost in the mind of thoughts and fantasies, defenses and resistance.  Also, there is something here that feels the only way it knows how to relate to people is through personality and the mind.  Even though it is through people that there is an energetic quickening that can happen when I am around someone who is awake; through words and images produced by someone who is awake; and/or someone going through the dying process. Also, just sitting by myself or in nature.  Like a candle that is lit and then goes out, and then lit again, and again, and again.  Who knows when and how or if the candle will be lit permanently.  Today with you and the weekend in Asheville the energetic experience goes through a process that ends up in strong bodily contractions.  You talked briefly about the 3 types of Karma and what seems to be happening through your teaching is working on the second type of karma, if I understood you correctly.  The theme on the micro level totally parallels what is happening on a macro level…what feels like a struggle between the personal and something more (reality).  The conditioning in this unit seems very strong and old and hard.  I have a deep respect for its hold

What I appreciate about our time today was that you are very honest about the process and how you work with others.  I appreciated your being up front and not putting any mysticism, sacredness, specialness, not quite sure what words to use. Even though there might be a sense of all that (I suppose like the dog in the yard) your approach is just plain and simple and direct, no frills, no pulp, just tastes of reality.  Your genuineness and sincerity for  what you do is very evident.  There is no doubt here that this is a calling for  you and even though being paid and your efforts in getting the word out is part of it, it is not what is driving this.  I find the way your teaching is set up is extremely honest and even though it might not be for everyone, what you are doing is not for everyone.

Your pointing today, as in Asheville, was very clear.  Even though much of it was the same pointing it felt like it went deeper this time.  I noticed a lot more resistance on the drive home.  For some reason the women you told me about who showed up at your door already awake left an impression.  How do we know when we are awake and if we are awake and don’t know it, what does that mean?  You have eyes and can’t see?  Or you can see and don’t know it?  More on a concrete level of what transpired today was looking through the camera, looking at the statue and things that I know were happening that I couldn’t/can’t express.  Even though there is an “I” here that on some level believes it is doing something… what you showed me was that it is just included in this field…like the statue.  Still not sure about the distance thing.

This is probably enough for now.  Thank you for being so generous with  your time today…it was wonderful.  What a gift.

Love and blessings,
Kay, Charlotte, NC

This is from Georgette, who displays quite a bit of favoritism. Georgette woke up in my living room. She also invited me to Asheville to give a talk eight months ago, and her life has been dramatically changed in the last eight months. She’s quite clear these days and is now my Event Manager.

 My Dearest Fred,

A note about the weekend … [Asheville workshop weekend, ed.]

It’ll be a year ago September that we met, and the depth/breadth of clarity exponentially continues. The camouflage of person-hood melts away, no matter the disposition of this character. She literally no longer has any say in the matter! The surface of thought continually becomes quieter and sometimes non-existent, and, in that quiet presence, Love looks through this person and reveals Itself as whatever is being seen. Never in a million years could I have imagined the joy in this, the freedom in this, the calm in this, the okayness in this seeing of what is.

Relative and Absolute have no meaning any more. The stripes on the Zebra are MY stripes(lessness), unrecognizable as distinguishing marks separated by notions of acquisition and repulsion. I have said and many say “I Am That,” only hoping to be THAT. Now “I Am That” has disappeared into the wilderness of THIS, arising as both awkwardness and harmony, suffering and joy, thought and peace, emotion and sensation.

The joys of being human can now be experienced without reluctance or a need for more. Precious are the days of right and wrong, good and bad, for they CAN BE and are given a home IN THIS PRESENCE! This HOME can only be room for loving what is. So now I can say that I Am Room for Loving, and, clearly, that’s not true either.

Thank you, MY-SELF-FRED, for the pure luxury of seeing from THIS that I call Love.

I love you,

georgette, Asheville, NC

This letter is from Barbara, also from the Asheville area, whose been so gracious as to allow us to use her home for workshops and gatherings. She puts out tea and coffee and lovely desserts. Barbara woke up in my living room as well a few weeks after Georgette put her up to making the trip. I’ve copied it from another post, where it was sort of a postscript, in order to reprint it here.

I’ve had the good fortune to attend two “Awakening” & two “Clarity” sessions with Fred.  The first set was one on one, and most recent was with a group of over a dozen people.  In all four, Fred skillfully took me on a journey that showed who I am.  When that seeing happens, even for one minute, it sets off a new dynamic of un-doing. The most recent Awakening session left no room for doubt or longing, I don’t care if I see clearly or not.  The Knowing of who I am is indisputable so it’s easier when the clouds form.  Abiding and Non-abiding may be a dualistic concept.  Now I can begin to Love what is when it’s clear or cloudy. 

Sincerely,

Barbara, Fairfield, NC

This is from another Barbara up in the mountains. You have to love her candor.

Hi Fred,

The first letter is from Paul McGillivray, who is the co-owner of MeetingTruth.com, the Nondual booking site. It is amazingly clear for someone who’s just woken up.  Paul and I did a Awakening Session late one afternoon, and I got this from him the next morning. (DPS, Direct Pointing Session) is what I used to call Awakening Sessions.

GOOD MORNING, FRED. Wow! OK , where to start? I wanted to check in with you and firstly say a massive ‘THANK YOU’. Your energy last night was incredible – you just didn’t give up!

The clarity began to deepen pretty early on, but halfway through, the mind started saying ‘it’s not going to happen’, but beingness just kept surrendering to now, and dropping the ‘i know’ to give in to the ‘knowingness’, and finally without Paul noticing really, this subtle shift, no, not a shift, no movement – maybe a ‘reveal’ happened, and this awakening was seen to be what has always been, can never not be, that there is nothing but this awakening-ness.

Paul was silent for the hour or so after our call, and the LSD-like beingness, maybe clarity, dropped away a little after a while, but instead of where previously the mind thought ‘aha, you’ve lost it’, it was known that it’s impossible to lose what you are, that the very fact that a recognition of ‘having it’ or ‘losing it’ can be happening at all is because of this beingness, this knowingness of the experience of now. And so now, simply as the attention is brought back to the beingness, so returns the Presence and Clarity, and a living from the silence and stillness from which experience arises. And Paul wonders what all the fuss was about. Why was he searching for what he already was, and how did he not see it before?

And then I see that I did see it before, but simply didn’t recognise it – in inquiry, watching Paul do the washing up, that was beingness, simply being, and then I see that even when Paul doesn’t realise it, and isn’t ‘practising’, he is still beingness, watching, listening, being – but not a *thing* watching, listening, being, but the watching, listening, being, *itself*.  I’m not that which watches, I am the watching. I’m not that which hears, I am the hearing. I am the aliveness in everything, I am not only the listening, but the thing being listened to. All of this is within this beingness which I can not ever not be. Beautiful, simple, sooooo obvious. And yet so clearly just the tiniest of non-shifts – this isn’t a change – awakening isn’t a change at all. DOH!

And it becomes clear what the embodiment is – this ‘waking down’ – that the habits of believing that Paul is in charge continue to pop up and this is seen, and seen through, repeatedly. And this is continuous, a never-ending process of seeing-through (putting aside the fact that time is an imaginary construct, as there is only now) – Awakening begins the process – although that isn’t quite right either. Awakening is the process and the processor. hahaha! It is seen that this needs to sink in and digest, and more understanding needs to happen.

I’m very aware that what I’ve written has been written and read a thousand times before, but it comes from not a place of remembering now, but from a place of being. Of aliveness. Of knowingness. There’s a meaning in these words that was never seen or understood before. Wow. Most importantly, you did a fantastic job, what you do is as brilliant as Jeannie and I had suspected, and I will forever be grateful for last night, and what you continue to do. I’ll start reading your book tonight 🙂 

Thanks Fred, you’re the man.

Much love,                          

Paul 

This next letter is from my girlfriend, Hamsa, out in California. Betsy and I call her “Chicken Lady.” Hamsa may not be a spring chicken, but the first time I met her she had a CHICKEN HAT on her head! I swear to you she was sitting there wide awake with a life size replica of a chicken on her head! She just thought it would be funny, and she was right! Hamsa had already woken up from one of my videos (Oneness in a Nutshell), but after our Skype session, she really CAUGHT FIRE! I still hear from her regularly, she’s still awake, and she’s still beautiful. She really inspires me.

Hey Fred,

You are  not kidding about the unexpected magic of what happens in a DPS with the unit who calls himself Fred.   What I didn’t expect was it to be an ongoing internal “undoing” without Fred !  How could one have imagined.
It started with   when you and I admitted …we know that  we are (that’s self-evident) ….but you asked:   “do you know what you are. ?   With that little “messin with the mechanism”  the great living revelation I got with [name of a famous teacher–ed.] (God’s will is “What Is”) collapsed with seeing that  I still thought I knew   what “what is..is”  Ha Ha.  I didn’t know that until  yesterday’s DPS with Fred’s major (“messin’ with the mechanism”) …. that the  [famous teacher-inspired–ed.] revelation was  just a pre-requisite for something I had no idea was coming with huge upgrade with Fred.

In fact, I almost cancelled our appointment cuz inquiry never worked for me and “direct pointing” was the last thing I wanted to do…..like taking a step backward for something that was already doin’ fine. (so much for knowing what is going on under the radar).

Automatically now and over and over throughout my daily daily, a  belief or judgement or fear, or self-criticism, or whatever….will arise and almost simultaneously I get my own inner voice that says: ” How can you know that ?”  Its obvious I can’t and there is what I call a huge Cosmic Pants Down moment with inner guffaw and laughter to be caught red-handed thinking I know what’s going on !   This is across the board Fred with news about Syria or a belly ache or someone saying nice things about me, ….you get the picture…the ever rising and disappearing and ideas, feelings sensations etc I thought I knew what were about. ! !

What astounds and delights me is my own inner voice rises without trying and works the miracle…. “How  can you know that” ??   Then immediately and  almost  simultaneous comes the  great Cosmic Pants Down and giggle and relief…..I frickin’ can’t know  

Everything is strangely new  and strangely the same AND  the beat goes on in “no time” which I experience  as now.  Amazing.  Thanks a bunch

From:  The lady with the chicken on her head ….we both got danced real good by what we don’t know what yesterday.  Ha ha ah ha.   I suspect its the only thing goin’ on as you and I and them and those…..  Glory Hallelujah………ha ha ha ha

Love,

Hamsa

This last letter is from a guy who had experienced an awakening some years before that had lasted for quite a long time, but it finally appeared to fade as the unit continued to pick arguments with reality. It left him desperate to “get it back.” You can be the judge.

> HI ME:)
>
> IT’S THE SO CALLED SEPTEMBER 10. 2013 4AM. THIS BODY JUST WOKE UP. OH.. THERE IS NO PAUL. NOTHING….NO TIME…NO SPACE…NOBODY.
> I AM ONENESS!!!!! YES!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!! :-)OH MY GOD…
> IT’S ALL ME. IT’S JUST LIKE BACK IN 2008 EXCEPT THERE IS NO 2008. NO 2013. OH MY GOD. THIS IS JUST NOW. ONLY THIS. OH MY GOD.
> I WANT TO WAKE UP THIS OTHER SO CALLED BODY…THIS SO CALLED MY WIFE….OH MY GOD…. IT’S ALL ME.
> THIS SO CALLED BODY IS IN THE SO CALLED KITCHEN…IT’S ALL ME…JUST WENT OUTSIDE….ALL ME…..AFTER THAT LOOKED IN A MIRROR….OH MY GOD…..WHO IS LOOKING? ME ME ME ME ME ALL ME. LAUGHING…..OH MY GOD…..I AM REPORTING TO MYSELF…OH… THERE IS REALLY ONLY ONE THING GOING ON…IT’S ME….
> HI FROM ME TO ME!!! .:) THANK YOU ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
>
> ME:-)

Paul, Waltham, MA (You’ll periodically see Paul’s notes on the comments page of various posts.)

I just received this one, and I can’t not post it.

Betsy Hackett-Davis	12:24 PM (53 minutes ago)
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Good afternoon, my dearest,
 
I read something in Time at lunch, and it reminded me of you:
 
“He wants to take people on an adventure, a journey. It’s kind of magical. You just want to be a part of what he’s doing.”
 
And it’s not just others, it’s me as well! You have taken me on a magic carpet ride, my love.
 
 
With love and adoration,
Your wife