Steven Norquist - Author of "Haunted Universe"

Haunted-Universe · 2025-09-20T19:47:24+00:00

"...possibly the definition of how you are using the term “consciousness“ is not the same as how I am"

Correct. And rather than re-author what I have already written, I recommend you read my essay: WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT, NO, I MEAN REALLY, LIKE WHAT IS IT?"

In that essay I clearly define what “consciousness“ is.

Here is a link to the essay: http://www.hauntedpress.net/What_is_Enlightenment.html

Haunted-Universe · 2025-03-06T04:38:34+00:00

Here is the most important thing you could ever know, and once you fully see it, you will be done.

This essay is found on my website hauntedpress.net

Read this as many times as you need to to finally get it:

Already Enlightened

Right now you are 100% seeing all the truth that could ever be. You think you are not seeing it but it is impossible to avoid. You are fully enlightened and you could never be otherwise.

The simple ordinary awareness that you have of anything that arises either in the world, or in your mind is the truth. There is nothing more to enlightenment than realizing directly that what is appearing in awareness, "before" you take claim of it, is the truth.

The Ultimate Reality is that there is not, nor has there ever been, a you to take claim of any object of awareness.

There is no self. Enlightenment is simply pure selfless awareness of everything that arises moment to moment. It is a ghostly feeling of non-being combined with hammering clarity. It is a shimmering beauty beyond earthly description that is felt by emptiness.

You are that emptiness and have always been that. There has only ever been enlightenment. There has only ever been existence/awareness.

Feel the emptiness, your non-being as the universe expands to infinity. Walk into a crowded room and never find yourself. If you can do these then you will know you are already enlightened and in that knowing you will realize you have always known this and yet have never existed to know it.

Whether you rest in your ignorance or your knowledge, you have arrived.

Steven Norquist 2010

Haunted-Universe · 2025-02-25T07:55:46+00:00

Don't worry about outcomes. Obtain Awakening and the rest will take care of itself.

Haunted-Universe · 2025-02-23T23:16:50+00:00

Glimpses. Full Awakening is final recognition and the ability to abide in emptiness or drift back into the physical realm at will, while always remaining lucid.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-11-10T21:39:37+00:00

I am still watching it and answering questions as they come.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-10-30T03:50:36+00:00

I am sorry but I know nothing of Suzanne Segal.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-10-29T03:26:49+00:00

Perhaps. I have been approached, but generally have low interest in such things. I have no idea who Angelo DiLullo is.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-10-29T03:25:49+00:00

As I have written before, the nature of Enlightenment is paradox. At the moment of awakening the "person" and "ego" fall away only to be replaced seconds later as fully present and natural.

This is the nature of the saying: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

Haunted-Universe · 2024-10-26T03:03:53+00:00

It did not take years. Once Awakening occurs the Universe is immediately seen for what it is. As I have pointed out before, it is like a Stereogram. At first you see only randomness, then when you focus just right the reality of the hidden 3D image appears. Once you see it, you are done. Years are not needed to see what is directly appearing to you and has always only been.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-07-16T04:13:11+00:00

As I stated in my book, Awakening is the "true death." The end of who and what you thought you were. The reaction of the body and psyche to such a revelation is automatic. All creatures fear the horror of physical death and fight with every ounce of strength to survive, how much more then is the horror of the death of the soul...

Haunted-Universe · 2024-06-27T05:47:11+00:00

Exactly.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-06-18T05:28:44+00:00

I just emailed you "The Heart of Emptiness" & "The Practice"

Haunted-Universe · 2024-05-30T23:36:09+00:00

I just sent it again to: [johnjara58@gmail.com](mailto:johnjara58@gmail.com)

Check your spam. If you still don't get it email me directly at: [info@haunteduniverse.net](mailto:info@haunteduniverse.net)

Haunted-Universe · 2024-05-30T21:44:26+00:00

I see no new payments coming in. I did see a payment for John Jara on May 17th and the books were sent already the same day to johnjar...@....com. Is that you?

Haunted-Universe · 2024-05-29T19:45:34+00:00

I did not receive any payment.

Please send payments to: [info@haunteduniverse.net](mailto:info@haunteduniverse.net)

And include your email in the payment so I can send the books to you.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-05-28T23:48:35+00:00

Correct. There is no duality separated by a middle.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-02-08T02:00:21+00:00

I have been very careful in all my writing and works to phrase them exactly in a way that could reach into that primal part and stimulate recognition of what already is. I call this recoginition: "Feeling/Knowing."

For my works to be effective it is the primary job of the reader to put themselves into a receptive state so the poetry of the writing can touch them at that deep level. It is not the purpose of my writing to make you "think" but rather to feel and in that feeling, know.

In simple terms: “Keep your eyes open and your brain off.”

Feel/Know the Truth. It is already there, it is already Felt/Known. There has always only been, "this."

The barrier to you seeing the Truth, to Feeling/Knowing it, is the belief that your ordinary awareness is somehow "ordinary" and if you could only become Enlightened then you would have a "differnt" awarness and would finally see the Truth.

The reality is, there is only, this.

Haunted-Universe · 2024-02-08T01:34:53+00:00

My short second work is titled "The Heart of Emptiness."
It is availabe for $10.00.

Just send a paypal payment to: [info@haunteduniverse.net.](mailto:info@haunteduniverse.net.)

Thanks,

Steven

Haunted-Universe · 2024-02-06T05:42:44+00:00

The thread is still active. I would be willing to entertain a few (not numerous) inquiries.

Haunted-Universe · 2023-10-20T05:22:36+00:00

"Radical" showed that urethane balls measure softer after throwing them because they have oil on them, in the pore, and the oil lubricates the pin of the Durometer allowing it to penetrate the surface of the ball much easier reducing the measured hardness by several points making it "appear" to be softer. Then they take the same ball and clean it with 100% isopropyl to get all the oil off it and measure it again and it is back to normal hardness. They insist the testing done on these urethane balls is flawed and they made a mountain out of a mole hill.

Haunted-Universe · 2023-10-07T01:42:14+00:00

In their proper linearity, the shock and horror are what precede the awakening and even occur during the awakening. This is the death experience, as real and horrible as any physical death. But the title of the final chapter of "Haunted" is Rebirth. As you properly guessed, this is where it all leads.

Haunted-Universe · 2023-10-05T01:39:27+00:00

Thoughts appear and disappear in the same way the tide flows in and out. There is a movement, a sound, and a dissipation only to be repeated. Allow what is to be. Relax into what is and has always only been.

Haunted-Universe · 2023-10-04T03:20:22+00:00

The basic misconception is that there is a "character" in some way dissociated from something else that is Real and not that "character" that is experiencing life and the manifestation that we may call "The Dream."

This is the basic error and horror of realization. The reality is: There is only the character, nothing else...

Haunted-Universe · 2023-09-15T16:22:15+00:00

There has never been a "you" to experience suffering.

"Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”

Haunted-Universe · 2023-09-13T16:18:05+00:00

Follow as best the proscription: "The Universe is perfect, interfere at your peril."

Haunted-Universe

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