Transcript of Bill McCaugherty talking about the incredible freedom and transformation this understanding makes possible

 

(Bill McCaugherty is a prominent member of the WTM West Coast Canada Centre;
to learn more about Bill, see www.wtmcanadawestcoast.com)

 

 

What we’ve [Bill and his wife, Cindy] been focusing on over the last week or so is trying to experience the Transformed State. I’m finally…I think at least I’m beginning to understand what that is. It’s taken me a long time, and I think I can see, you know, everybody struggles with it in a kind of a different way but it is so basic and simple because as you see with the two images of [William Blakes’s] Cringing in Terror and living in bliss [in Albion Arose], it’s just a mind trick.

 

 

It’s very easy, but initially it seems like it’s not legitimate, because the human-condition-afflicted world just pulls us in—because we think that there must be something there that we have to go back in and we’ve got to fix it. But what we’re beginning to realise, and I think everyone knows this, is that there are no solutions within the human-condition-afflicted world. You can’t resolve anything there. We have to move out of the cave and into the sunlight and then that’s where all the solutions will come from and they’ll emerge. And in the meantime, I’ve realised that the gift that Jeremy has given us is the gift of the Transformed State. It is now available to all of us who are the end product of this long struggle that humanity has gone through, doing the bidding of Negative Entropy and proving our worth and we have, we finally have done that, and with flying colours! [The integrative meaning of existence, and the physical law that drives it—known as the ‘Second Path of the Second Law of Thermodynamics’, or Negative Entropy—is explained in Freedom Essay 23.]

What we’ve been through has been horrendous, and I don’t mean as individuals, yes, but also collectively. We’ve proven our worth at the most fundamental level. I mean what we’ve gone through to prove our worth is unbelievable and that’s why it’s so heroic, but now what’s available to us all is to leave that world behind and look forward into the future to the bright new world that awaits all of us. Yeah. Anyway, it’s been difficult for me but now I see that, wow, it’s unbelievable to just let all that upset go and just ‘ignore’, in quotation marks, what’s happening in the human-condition-afflicted world—and that puts us in a state that feels like bliss and that’s the state in which now we can move forward, and we can create the new world because you can’t create it from the upset state. And I know it seems illegitimate to not get irate and not get drawn into all the drama and the hurt and the pain, but there’s nothing there.

What came to mind was [writer/​philosopher] Terence McKenna’s quote about, ‘the bigger the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed’, and that’s exactly what happens in the cave. It doesn’t matter how much light you shine in the cave, or how big you build the bonfire, there’s nothing there. It’s just darkness in the void. We have to move out of the cave and into the sunlight, and that’s where we come back to life. Yeah, it’s a wonderful feeling and it’s taken me a long time to try and get some sense of it, but it’s unbelievable. And it’s genuine even though it feels illegitimate, like how can you be so happy and elated and blissful in this world that we live in because there is nothing in that world any more, for any of us, and leaving it behind, again it feels like ‘No, we shouldn’t be doing that’, but when you do, it’s incredible what’s available to us all. And then that brighter future, you just have to believe in it like it’s 100 percent. There’s no doubt in my mind that that brighter future will happen and it will be available to future generations—and it’s just unimaginable but it just feels so good. Anyway that’s the place I’ve been in and I love it.