Randy Lee Higgins Book Excerpt – After the Nirbikalpa

After the Rapture: A Real Life Fable

Journeys are rarely straight lines. Unlike a committed tradition such as, say, Buddhism or Catholicism, this is the spiritual path of “Whatever Life Throws At You.” In the tradition of Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi and Ram Das’s Be Here Now, this “little Baptist boy” leads you through the arduous spiritual journey of apostasy, mystical psychosis, sexual excess, drug addiction, homelessness and finally embracing death, all in a quest not only to know, but to ultimately become, All That Is. What a surprise to learn that the end of the world is simply the beginning.

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Book Excerpts

When I was a little Baptist boy, I prayed in my heart for the end of the world. I’m pretty sure we all did – my family, my community, my world as far as I knew it. There was no malice here. There wasn’t even despair. There was simply the rock-solid knowledge that a better world awaited us. Our lives were set up to prepare for it – and to make sure we got there!
If you aren’t in a state of bliss, you aren’t paying attention.
The people you’re supposed to be with are the ones that show up. There’s no need to go looking for them. They’re already here.
We want to get out of your head the notion that getting what you want is better than not getting what you want.
We want to get out of your head the notion that being with people is better than being alone.
We want to get out of your head the notion that having sex is better than not having sex.
The unmistakable fact was I felt more alive out of my body than I ever had in it.
You are already dead. This is where you go when you die.
Your world is being relocated to the astral plane. This is the Great Work. This is not as harrowing as it might at first sound, because the truth is, you are already there.
This is what is meant by the Rapture. When your ego was crucified and you attained oneness with all life, you did not realize you would also be required to ascend, as Jesus did. This is your ascension. This is the ascension of your world. Your work is to help others to ascend. Your work is to help your world ascend.
If you do not use this gift of time to meditate as much as you know that you can and need to, you will really, really, really, really regret it.
You would be a fool to accept Nostradamus’s predictions literally. And you would be an even bigger fool to dismiss them.
You now have everything you want.
Everyone always gets exactly what they want.
There is nothing that cannot be loved. And there is nothing that doesn’t need your love.
In the new species, the Self is on the outside of you. The environment becomes a “structure” of the Self, an expression of the Self, as surely as Freud’s id or super ego.
The fly buzzing about your head is buzzing with your consciousness.
There is “my” universe, there is “your” universe, there is cat Isabella’s universe. You will be hard pressed to show me a universe that doesn’t have an “I” in the center of it.
According to legend,, when the Buddha sat under the bodhi tree and achieved enlightenment, he was made aware of all of his previous lifetimes. But what he actually realized was that every being who had ever lived, or who ever would live, was a reincarnation of himself.
The “three monkeys” of non-egoic consciousness: NO PLANNING, NO EFFORT, NO THOUGHT.
We wanted a home entertainment system. Why don’t you sit back with us and enjoy the show.
The Observer Self is in a perpetual state of “WOW!”
Whatever is happening at any given moment is what is supposed to be happening.
Is everyone surrounded by an ocean of love rushing toward them, and the only reason they can’t see it is because of these perceptual blocks?
What if the thing you’ve yearned for most in all the world is right in front of your eyes and you just can’t see it? It’s time to see it.
The earth is in labor. Imagine a woman nine months pregnant. Yes there will be screaming and yes there will be blood. But you will be witnessing the greatest miracle of your lifetime.

About the Author, Randy Lee Higgins

Randy was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. After graduating summa cum laude from Virginia Tech and receiving a master’s degree in Family Therapy, he completed his doctoral degree at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. By far, most of his education was delivered by the “School of Hard Knocks.” His gift is in seeing the miracle in everything, even in a tragedy — even in the current global catastrophe. He is now back in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the house he grew up in, where he is looking forward to growing old and dying. Or not.