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I Am Not Born
   
Originally published in vsion Mound Magazine, Vol 2, No 
         5, November 1978. 
 
  
BUBBA: I am not born. And I am not one who has 
         been born, I am not a reincarnated individual. I am not even 
         an incarnated individual. I am not one who as a future. I am 
         not one who is in the worlds. I am not one whose 
         consciousness is here or there. I have seen all things and 
         they all exist in Me, so I can describe them to you. But I 
         am not always meditating on them, so they are really beside 
         the point for Me. And I fundamentally, know nothing about 
         them, except that I recognize them perfectly. 
So the simple little drama of my life, however dramatic 
         it has appeared to be, is simply a way of restoring you to 
         the Disposition of Truth that you have always intuited, so 
         that you may realize no conventional destiny and no mere 
         experience, so that you can become free of this suffering 
         existence. Because all things upon which you may meditate, 
         all things that may be reflected in you, all things that may 
         arise in the mind in this life or in another life, all 
         things that may be known in meditation or in perception, in 
         memory, recollection, or knowledge in the present, 
         everything altogether may be released from bondage to the 
         self. The separate self may be dissolved. And in the 
         dissolution of this self you may know, in this moment, that 
         Condition which is beyond performance, beyond knowledge, 
         beyond acquisition. It is so Perfect that no being has ever 
         spoken it, except that I have been permitted to speak it, to 
         suggest it. This is not because of any merit. I have never 
         been born, so there is no merit involved. I am simply a 
         Voice that instigates your own insight. Bubba Free John is 
         not one who is like you, who is related, who is 
         knowledgeable, who is informed, who is saved or relieved. 
         Bubba Free John is not any such person. Bubba Free John is 
         no person. At some point you may begin to realize this. 
         Bubba Free John is like a movie on the screen. You do not 
         suggest to yourself when you see a movie on the screen that 
         there is consciousness in the screen. The play itself is the 
         argument. And Bubba Free John is not anything other than the 
         process of his appearance on every level of being. There is 
         no implication of an individual in him. There is no 
         individual in Bubba Free John – none! No person. No one who 
         has been, who is, or who will survive. This appearance is 
         only a reflection of you. 
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