When people ask what changed with realization, it can look like there are two aspects to it. There’s the personal realm of experience, and that is still fully functioning. I have my family and friends, people I know in my locality, and the ordinary things of life. That continues as it always has.

But what became very clear following realization is that aligning with one’s infinite nature (the Impersonal Being) is the way to go.

Realization itself is actually very simple. We’re all conditioned into identifying with the character. We take ourselves to be the person — the idea of “I am this individual.” We think, “I am David Bingham. These thoughts and emotions belong to me. I’m looking for something in my life.”

That becomes a kind of seeking game. It can show up as spiritual seeking, or in a materialistic or worldly sense. Most people are seeking in the worldly sense.

But what became apparent with realization is that it’s almost embarrassing in a way, because it’s really a case of mistaken identity. When you see that you’ve actually remained as this infinite field of awareness within which all forms are appearing — including the body, the mind, the thoughts, and the emotions — then it’s quite surprising that you ever believed you were this separate being existing in time and space.

Because all that has ever been there for everyone is this open field of awareness within which everything is appearing.

Once that is seen, once you realize that you are this infinite field of awareness rather than the human being, there is the knowing of your true nature — the awareness within which everything is appearing. At the same time, there is still the focal point of experience, the focal point of human life.

The change that takes place is in how things move from there. Initially, the mind wanted to share this with other people. It wanted to tell people how to achieve self-realization.

The way it happened for me was while listening to a recording of a conversation with an American teacher called John Wheeler (that interview is posted on my YouTube channel). At the time, I thought the best way to help people realize their true nature was to record copies of that conversation and send them out to everyone I thought might be interested. So I did that. I sent about fifty CDs to people I knew, mostly from the meditation community I had been part of. But nothing came of it. There was no response at all.

In fact, when I later saw a couple of those people, they asked, “What did you send me that for?”

It became very clear that the mind doesn’t really know what to do. The mind is like a candle, whereas infinite intelligence is like the sun. The mind was saying, “Send these CDs out,” so that’s what I did. But when nothing came of it, there was a complete letting go. You could call it surrender, but in a way it was simply giving up. It was seeing that it had been a waste of time and deciding not to keep trying to figure it out.

Once I let go of the idea that I knew what to do, certain people just started to show up — and they were exactly the people who were ready to hear about self-realization.

Then there was an invitation to appear on a channel called Conscious TV in 2008. The character David Bingham is quite introverted, so putting himself out there was not something he would normally have wanted to do. But by that point it was clear that effortless being was really at the helm, so I knew it was something to simply allow. I showed up for that interview, and then there were one or two others. From there, people began contacting me.

Self-realization reaches a point where something registers for people. There’s a question that appears — almost like an inspiration to discover their true nature. Once that begins, it doesn’t stop until realization happens. For some people it can be quite intense, but there is a kind of recognition.

Since then, everything has unfolded from that same Effortless Being. I don’t initiate anything. I don’t initiate calls or meetings. I simply respond when people reach out with genuine interest.

Over the years since 2008, I’ve spoken with thousands of people, and many have realized their true nature.In 2016, I was contacted by Rhonda Byrne, who wrote The Secret. Rhonda realized her true nature and later wrote another book called The Greatest Secret, which was released a few years ago. That has resulted in many more people discovering their true nature as well.

But the important distinction is this. There is still the personal realm of experience — meeting friends, having coffee, spending time with family, living ordinary life.

And then there is realization, which naturally brings a kind of availability to be in service to one’s infinite nature.

It isn’t anything I set out to do. I trained as an artist and worked as a portrait painter. None of this was planned. In a way it feels like being called up for duty. By letting go of personal limitations and the beliefs of the mind — the voice that says, “You could never do that” — one simply becomes available. Infinite being knows what you’re capable of. It knows your true capacities, while the mind tends to diminish them.

So life continues in the personal realm of experience, but the sense of authorship falls away. The idea that the mind knows what to do is relinquished. With that openness, everything unfolds from effortless being.

I don’t know what to do, and I don’t know who I will speak to. Infinite intelligence organizes everything behind the scenes. The people who are ready for realization show up. And for those who aren’t quite ready yet, it simply doesn’t register. They hear it and say, “What on earth are you talking about?”

If you’re ready to speak with me about living as Impersonal Being, join us for our next online event …

With love,
David Bingham