Andrew Rutajit on Finding Yourself

Andrew Rutajit on Finding Yourself

by Andrew Rutajit

Know Yourself – These words were the driving force of Socrates. Many of the Gnostic texts begin by saying that when you have come to know yourself, you will have come to know God. Or, that the kingdom of God is inside you and when you know yourself you will find it. Or your body is the temple of God, meaning that God dwells within you. Consequently, the religious quest for God is not the answer; you must first come to know yourself.

I firmly believe that the answer to the mystery of life is not a word or a phrase; one must become the correct answer physically and mentally.

When St. Paul talks about the Christ in You, this is what he is talking about – our essential identity, the fabric that makes us alive and awake, is Divine. Not our identity, meaning how we appear to others, but how we appear to ourselves when our ego is dissolved. Because, you are the one who will be the final judge and jury of your own soul, not a man on a throne in heaven. We seem to spend a much greater time dealing with how we appear on the outside, as opposed to how we appear on the inside.

I think bad dreams are like miniature “bad trips”, it’s the only way for our consciousness to arrest our attention. What are dreams anyway? Does your consciousness go away when you are asleep, or does your body? I propose that we stay with our consciousness during dream-state while we put your bodies in a safe place…in a bed. This is when we go to fairyland and have “dreams”. But these dreams are brought on by the “Spirit Molecule”, DMT; ask someone who has ingested exogenous DMT to explain their experience and compare their reaction to someone explaining a dream they just had. The similarities are eerie. Dr. Strassman showed, in DMT The Spirit Molecule, that with heavy doses of DMT, the subjects had little to no memory of the experience…not unlike a dream induced by the same chemical compound.

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