Self Realization Mantra

  • The Self Realization Mantra

    *** Please pronounce ‘thee’ correctly, with a long e sound. ***

    The first 2 lines of the Self Realization Mantra were revealed to David Dreamwalker Diamondheart by spirit at 5 AM Arizona Time on Monday, February 26th, 2018. Before this divine revelation, he was in deep meditation focusing on the question “Who am I?” which was given to him by Ananta, a self realized being who lives in Green Valley, Arizona.

    Ananta is a disciple of Baba Muktananda, Gurumayi and Ramesh Balsekar. David met Ananta shortly after moving to Tucson in April of 2016.

    Ananta

    During one of Ananta’s Satsangs (a spiritual discourse involving a short presentation or speech followed by Q&A), David shared that he was having difficulty meditating and asked Ananta to recommend a mantra or a focus for his meditation.  Ananta suggested that David contemplate the nature of his true self and focus on who he really is during meditation. “Who are you?” he asked.

    David followed this suggestion by using the question “Who am I?” as a mantra, saying it over and over for 4 1/2 straight hours, and then he stopped and waited in silence for an answer. Spirit gave him the answer in the form of the first 2 lines of the Self Realization Mantra.  Spirit moved on David, and as he spoke “I Am Thee Iself. I Am Thee Allself.” he heard the words “Iself” and “Allself” for the first time. David began chanting these first 2 lines of the Self Realization Mantra over and over and had his Allself awakening at around 2 PM on February 26th, 2018.

    The answer to the question “Who am I?” only makes sense in relationship to the question “What am I?”  The answer to the question “What am I?” is consciousness.

    Consciousness has 4 distinct aspects, and these four aspects are the answer to the question “Who am I?”  You are the Iself (unknown known), the Allself (known known), the Godself (known unknown), and the Noself (unknown unknown).

    What is the Self?

    The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness. This reference is necessarily subjective, thus self is a reference by a subject to the same subject. The Self as discussed on this site speaks to both a personal 1st person self and a much broader and more expansive universal Self.

    The Two Easy To See Aspects of the Self

    What is the Iself? In the context of this mantra, the Iself is the individual focal point of awareness – the unique perspective through which universal consciousness experiences itself as “you.” While the Iself HAS an ego, it is not the same as the egoic self. The ego is simply one of the structures that the Iself uses to navigate individual experience, along with your body, relationships, possessions, worldview, life story, and preferences. The ego operates as a fluid act of improvisation, constantly adapting, shifting, and reinventing itself based on circumstances, social contexts, and perceived needs. This is why your personality can feel different around family versus friends, or why your sense of self seems to evolve over time. The Iself, however, remains as the constant witnessing awareness throughout your entire life – the same ‘I’ that was aware when you were five years old is the same ‘I’ that’s aware right now, regardless of how much your ego-personality has changed. The Iself is the deeper individual awareness that witnesses and experiences all of these aspects of personal identity, but remains distinct from them. It is your essential individual nature – the specific way consciousness focuses itself to create your unique perspective, while transcending the limited identifications that the ego creates.

    Many spiritual traditions and “new age” thinking state that this Iself is only an illusion, but the Self Realization Mantra takes a different approach. While the Iself is not separate from universal consciousness, it represents a real and valid focal point through which consciousness experiences individuality. During your incarnation on this planet, the Iself serves as the constant witnessing awareness through which you experience life. The Iself itself remains stable and unchanging – it’s the focal point of awareness that observes the ego’s fluid improvisations without being affected by them. The Iself is the unknown known aspect of consciousness, also known as the Somethingness. Somethingness is the fundamental quality of being a distinct, particular entity that exists as a separate form rather than pure void or undifferentiated unity. Itness is the fundamental quality of existing as a distinct, individuated focal point of consciousness – the essential “thisness” or “thatness” that makes the Iself a particular something rather than nothing or everything.

    What is the Allself?  In the context of this mantra, the Allself is the universal self or cosmic consciousness.  The Allself is the everywhere, the everywhen, the everything, and the everybody.  The Allself is the cosmic consciousness that is busy being everybody doing everything, including being “you.”  We are not separate from the universe within which we find ourselves.  We are all connected to each other, and we are all connected to the singular field of consciousness that permeates all of creation.  The Allself is eternal and unchanging.  The Allself is the known known aspect of consciousness, also known as the Everythingness. Everythingness is the vast multiplicity of all that exists – every person, object, experience, and phenomenon that makes up the infinite diversity of manifest reality. Fullness is the complete, undifferentiated wholeness of universal consciousness that contains and expresses itself as all possible experiences, forms, and manifestations simultaneously.

    Another way to visualize the Allself.

    For 460 days, these first 2 lines, “I Am Thee Iself. I Am Thee Allself.” were all that were revealed to David. The last 2 lines of this mantra, “I Am Thee Godself. I Am Thee Noself.” were revealed to him at 9 PM on Friday, May 31st, 2019.

    The Two Hard To See Aspects of the Self

    What is the Godself? The Godself is the energy of the eternal or the divine.  The Godself is the power of creation.  The Godself is beyond comprehension and transcendent.  The Godself is the spark of creation that I am/we are. The Godself is the powers of manifestation and the flow of creativity.  It is the divine warm light that makes anything possible. The Godself is unconditional love in its most natural state. The Godself is the known unknown aspect of consciousness, also known as the Beyondness. Beyondness is the infinite expanse that lies outside the boundaries of all known experience, form, and understanding – the limitless divine realm that cannot be reached through conceptual knowledge or direct experience. Transcendence is the state of existing beyond and independent of all manifest forms, limitations, and conceptual boundaries – the divine awareness that surpasses yet encompasses all relative experience.

    There is also a Godself Realization Mantra.

    What is the Noself?

    The Noself is akin to the void.  It has no sense of self at all and exists as pure potential.  It is the “canvas” upon which all of physicality is manifested.  All of us have experienced embodiment of the Noself.  Small children are born without a separate sense of self.  During early childhood, children start to develop a “self-concept,” the attributes, abilities, attitudes, and values that they believe define them. By age 3, (between 18 and 30 months), children have developed their Categorical Self, which is a concrete way of viewing themselves in terms of “this or that” and “me and mine” labels. Before the development of a separate sense of self, small children lack subject/object orientation in relation to themselves, and this is why most people do not have any significant memories of themselves as a small child.  The Noself is the unknown unknown aspect of consciousness, also known as the “great” Nothingness. Nothingness is the complete absence of all forms, concepts, experiences, and identifications – the pure void that exists before, during, and after all manifestation without being diminished or changed by what appears within it. Emptiness is the spacious openness that is completely free of all forms, concepts, and identifications – the fertile nothingness from which all manifestation arises and to which it returns.

    The four aspects of the Self individually are nonsense, but in combination, they make perfect sense.

    I Am Thee Iself – Materialistic Nonsense
    I Am Thee Allself – Metaphysical Nonsense
    I Am Thee Godself – Supernatural Nonsense
    I Am Thee Noself  – Absolute Nonsense

    Please note: This is NOT a 4-way duality, it’s ALL one thing. It’s a 4-way polarity. A bar magnet has a north and a south pole, and yet, a bar magnet is one thing. Same idea here, but with 4 aspects to this polarity instead of 2.

    The Self Mapped Onto The Yin Yang 

    The Yin Yang symbol is a beautiful visual representation of the Self.

    Consciousness = Awareness

    The Iself is a differentiated focal point of unconsciousness arising within consciousness.

    The Allself is undifferentiated consciousness manifesting as pure awareness.

    The Godself is a differentiated focal point of consciousness arising within unconsciousness.

    The Noself is undifferentiated unconsciousness manifesting as pure unawareness.

    The Iself and the Godself represent differentiated focal points of awareness (consciousness or unconsciousness) that emerge within undifferentiated fields of awareness (consciousness or unconsciousness).

    Please Note: These are new words and this is a new mantra and a deeper understanding of these words will likely come over time.  David’s subjective interpretation of these words is not meant to be definitive or immutable.  These words may have a slightly different or expanded meaning for you.  Take from this mantra what you will.

    How To Chant The Mantra:  The Self Realization Mantra can be spoken aloud (recommended as the vocalization adds more power to the practice) OR it can be recited quietly in your mind.  In many spiritual traditions, a mantra is chanted for a “round” of 108 chants on a daily basis.  Traditionally, malas, or garlands of prayer beads, come as a string of 108 beads (plus one for the “guru bead”).

    Say this mantra as many or as few times as you like.  David’s experience is that the recitation of this mantra opens the heart chakra, brings a tremendous rush of energy into your body, and relaxes the mind.

    The video below contains a complete 111-round chant of the Self Realization Mantra sung a cappella (without musical accompaniment) by David Dreamwalker Diamondheart, the progenitor of the Self Realization Mantra.

    The video below contains a complete 108-round chant of the first 2 lines of the Self Realization Mantra sung by a Tibetan throat singer.  This video is based on the 2018 version of the Self Realization Mantra.

    The Consciousness Field Map: A Dynamic Guide to Human Awareness

    This consciousness field diagram maps the living territory of the focal point of human awareness as it naturally flows through different states of being during daily life. Rather than representing abstract spiritual concepts, it reveals the actual experiential landscapes our focal point of consciousness inhabits as we experience life.

    The Self Realization Mantra, “I am thee Iself. I am thee Allself. I am thee Godself. I am thee Noself.” corresponds directly to the consciousness fields mapped in the diagram, providing a practical invocation for recognizing the universal Self through its various modes of experience.

    The Foundation: Universal Self

    At the center lies the **Self** – not individual personality, but the universal Self experiencing itself through all its manifestations. This is the fundamental awareness that appears as every conscious experience, the one consciousness knowing itself through infinite expressions.

    The Four Primary Fields

    The diagram shows four primary consciousness fields that intersect and overlap. The white dot visible in the Iself field represents the focal point of awareness itself – this is what moves and shifts through the various consciousness fields throughout our lived experience.

    – **Godself** – Divine, transcendent consciousness

    – **Allself** – Universal, collective consciousness

    – **Iself** – Individual awareness

    – **Noself** – The dissolution of separate identity

    The Numerical Intersections: Where Fields Converge

    Sequential Pattern of Intersections

    **111** – Everything except Noself: Godself + Allself + Iself converge

    *Moments when divine presence, universal connection, and individual awareness unite while maintaining form and identity*

    **222** – Allself Realized Iself: Universal consciousness recognizing individual awareness

    *Feeling deeply connected to all life while maintaining clear individual awareness – compassionate service, universal love, community oneness*

    **333** – Everything except Godself: Allself + Iself + Noself converge

    *Universal consciousness, individual awareness, and ego dissolution meeting without the transcendent dimension*

    **444** – Allself Realized Noself: Universal consciousness meeting dissolution

    *Unity with everything while personal boundaries disappear – flow states in nature, complete interconnectedness*

    **555** – Everything except Iself: Godself + Allself + Noself converge

    *Divine, universal, and emptiness meeting without the individual awareness*

    **666** – Godself Realized Noself: Divine consciousness meeting dissolution

    *Touching the divine through complete surrender and letting go – deep contemplative states, mystical dissolution*

    **777** – Everything except Allself: Godself + Iself + Noself converge

    *Divine transcendence, individual awareness, and emptiness meeting without the collective/universal dimension*

    **888** – Godself Realized Iself: Divine presence with individual awareness

    *Moments of transcendent connection while maintaining clear individual consciousness – deep meditation, prayer, peak spiritual experiences*

    The Central Unity: “1”

    The center point represents those rare moments of complete integration where all consciousness fields converge simultaneously – the Self recognizing itself fully through every possible mode of awareness at once.

    Living the Map

    This isn’t a hierarchy to climb but a territory to inhabit. Throughout any given period, human awareness naturally cycles through these different fields. We might start the day in pure awareness (Iself), shift into universal compassion during interactions (222), touch divine presence in quiet moments (888), experience ego dissolution in flow states (444), and occasionally find ourselves in the complex convergences where multiple fields meet.

    Each state offers unique gifts and perspectives. The map becomes a compass for consciousness – helping us recognize where we currently reside experientially and appreciate the natural rhythm of awareness as it explores every dimension of its infinite nature through the focal point we call human experience.

    Rather than seeking permanent residence in any single field, this model reveals the beauty of consciousness in motion – the Self dancing through all its possible ways of knowing itself in the grand theater of individual human awareness.

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  • The Noself Awakening

    The Noself awakening was the most paradoxical experience imaginable. It wasn’t that ‘I’ disappeared or ceased to exist – it was the profound recognition that there had never been an ‘I’ to begin with. Not that I died or dissolved, but that the entire premise of my existence had been a cosmic misunderstanding. It was like suddenly realizing that what I’d always called ‘me’ was just a mirage that had never actually been there.

    The realization crystallized into three profound recognitions: I was Nobody – not someone who had become nobody, but had never been anybody at all. I was going Nowhere – not traveling to some destination, but recognizing there was nowhere to go because there was no one to go anywhere. I was doing Nothing – not engaged in some activity called ‘nothing,’ but seeing that the very notion of a doer was an illusion.

    It wasn’t that I suddenly entered the void or merged with emptiness. In the instant of Noself awakening, I WAS the void. There was no movement into it, no transition to it – just the immediate recognition that what I had always been was this vast, empty awareness itself. The void wasn’t somewhere else I went to; it was what I had always been.

    Many spiritual teachers say that ‘you’ can’t get enlightened because the ‘you’ disappears in the process – that the seeker must die for realization to occur. But this doesn’t match the actual experience. The ego-identity certainly dissolves, and all concepts of who you thought you were fall away. But the witnessing consciousness – what I call the Iself – doesn’t disappear. It remains as the focal point of awareness that recognizes the dissolution.

    It’s not that ‘you’ can’t get there – it’s that when you arrive, you realize there was never a separate ‘you’ to make the journey in the first place. The Iself doesn’t vanish; it experiences being Nobody going Nowhere doing Nothing. Someone is absolutely present to have the realization of no-one. The awareness that witnesses thoughts, experiences, and sensations remains fully present to witness its own absence of substance.

    This is why the traditional teaching that ‘you disappear’ is incomplete. The individual focal point of consciousness – the Iself – is exactly what’s needed to recognize the Noself. You can’t negate the witness and still have witnessing. The someone doesn’t disappear – it discovers it was never the someone it thought it was, and simultaneously recognizes itself as the very void it thought was separate from it.

    Of course, this is my attempt to put into words what is ultimately beyond words. The actual experience transcends any description, but sometimes pointing toward the ineffable can be helpful for fellow travelers on this pathless path.

  • From Neti Neti to Itti Itti

    Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of the 20th century’s most profound sages, dedicated his life to guiding seekers to the direct realization of their true nature through the simple yet revolutionary question: “Who am I?” His teachings, rooted in the ancient tradition of Advaita Vedanta, pointed consistently to the investigation of the “I Am” feeling as the most direct path to Self-realization.

    The Self Realization Mantra—”I Am Thee Iself. I Am Thee Allself. I Am Thee Godself. I Am Thee Noself”—emerges from this same fundamental recognition that Ramana emphasized: the “I Am” is the gateway to understanding our true nature. However, where traditional Advaita often employs the method of “Neti Neti” (not this, not this), the Self Realization Mantra represents a revolutionary “Itti Itti” approach—”this too, this too”—that affirms rather than negates, includes rather than excludes.

    Ramana’s core teaching was elegantly simple: turn your attention inward and investigate the source of the “I” thought. He consistently guided seekers to examine their most fundamental experience—the sense of “I Am”—before it becomes identified with any objects, thoughts, or experiences. As Ramana explained: “The ‘I’ thought is the root of all other thoughts. If you find the source of this ‘I’ thought, all other thoughts will subside, and you will realize your true nature.”

    This investigation wasn’t intellectual but experiential. Ramana encouraged practitioners to feel into the “I Am” directly, to rest in that fundamental sense of being that exists prior to all identifications. Through sustained inquiry, the seeker would discover that what they truly are cannot be found as an object of experience but is the very awareness in which all experience arises.

    What makes the relationship between Ramana’s teaching and the Self Realization Mantra even more profound is that Ramana’s fundamental question “Who am I?” was the very seed from which the Self Realization Mantra was born. When David Dreamwalker Diamondheart approached Ananta (a disciple of Ramana’s lineage through Baba Muktananda and Ramesh Balsekar) seeking guidance for meditation, Ananta suggested contemplating the nature of the true self and focusing on “Who am I?” during practice.

    Following this guidance, David used “Who am I?” as a mantra, repeating it continuously for 4½ hours before stopping and waiting in silence for an answer. It was in this profound moment of receptive stillness that Spirit moved, revealing the first two lines of what would become the complete Self Realization Mantra: “I Am Thee Iself. I Am Thee Allself.”

    This genesis reveals a beautiful continuity: Ramana’s question created the fertile ground of inquiry, and the Self Realization Mantra emerged as Spirit’s response to that inquiry. But significantly, the response came not as negation but as radical affirmation—not “I am not this” but “I Am Thee.”

    Traditional Advaita often employs the method of “Neti Neti”—systematically negating all that is not the Self: “I am not the body… I am not the mind… I am not my thoughts, emotions, or experiences…” This path of subtraction strips away identification until only pure awareness remains. While powerful, it can sometimes lead to a subtle rejection of form, experience, and the world itself.

    The Self Realization Mantra represents a different approach—what could be called “Itti Itti” (this too, this too). Rather than negating aspects of experience, it recognizes them as valid expressions of the one Self. “I Am Thee Iself” affirms that this individual awareness is sacred—this too is the Self. “I Am Thee Allself” declares that this interconnection, this wholeness—this too is the Self. “I Am Thee Godself” recognizes that this divine presence in all forms—this too is the Self. “I Am Thee Noself” acknowledges that even this dissolution of identity—this too is the Self.

    This is not spiritual bypassing or ego inflation, but the recognition that after emptiness has been realized, form returns—and form itself is seen to be none other than the formless Self. Interestingly, Ramana himself expressed this same progression when he famously said: “The world is illusory. Only Brahman is real. Brahman is the world.” Notice the movement: First, Neti (the world is illusory). Then, Itti (Brahman is the world). The same truth expressed in both modes—emptiness and form, transcendence and immanence, unified in non-dual recognition.

    The Self Realization Mantra can be understood as a systematic exploration of what Ramana pointed to with his investigation of “I Am,” but through the lens of radical inclusion rather than negation. Where Neti Neti might say “I am not this individual self,” the mantra affirms the sacred nature of individual awareness itself. This aligns with Ramana’s teaching about the pure “I” that exists before entanglement with thoughts and emotions—not rejecting individuality but recognizing its true nature.

    Rather than negating the world of multiplicity, the Allself recognition embraces it as the Self’s own expression. Ramana taught that the Self realized is the same Self in all beings—the mantra affirms this truth directly: “This universal appearance—this too is what I Am.” Instead of seeking the divine by rejecting the human, the Godself recognition sees the divine as the very essence of what appears as human. Ramana taught that God, Guru, and Self are one—the mantra affirms this unity: “This divine presence—this too is what I Am.”

    Even the final dissolution into pure awareness is not achieved by rejecting all previous recognitions but by seeing them as expressions of the boundless. Ramana pointed to the state beyond all concepts—the mantra affirms: “Even this transcendence—this too is what I Am.”

    Both Ramana’s self-inquiry and the Self Realization Mantra serve the same essential function: they guide consciousness back to its source. Ramana’s approach often employs the razor of discrimination (Neti Neti), while the mantra provides radical inclusion (Itti Itti). Ramana might say: “Ask yourself ‘Who am I?’ and discover what you are not.” The Self Realization Mantra responds: “I Am all of these simultaneously—individual, universal, divine, and transcendent.”

    Neither contradicts the other; they represent different phases of the same recognition. First, we may need to discriminate between the real and the unreal. Then, we can recognize that even the “unreal” is an expression of the real. In truth, Neti and Itti are not opposites but complements. Neti says: Let go of all that is not the Self. Itti says: Now see that everything is the Self.

    The Self Realization Mantra bridges this apparent gap. It arises from the silence that Neti points to, but it speaks the fullness that includes all of manifestation. It is not seeking but finding—and affirming the truth of what is found. This represents a mature stage of realization where the awakened consciousness no longer needs to reject the world to know its true nature, but can embrace the full spectrum of experience as the Self’s own creative expression.

    Those drawn to both teachings might find them naturally sequential. One could begin with Ramana’s fundamental question “Who am I?” allowing it to strip away false identifications (Neti Neti), and then allow that inquiry to flower into the affirmative recognitions of the Self Realization Mantra (Itti Itti). Alternatively, working with the mantra’s affirmative approach might prepare the ground for the deeper negation that Ramana’s inquiry can provide, creating a dynamic interplay between emptying and filling, transcending and including.

    Ramana Maharshi’s path of self-inquiry and the Self Realization Mantra represent two movements in the same eternal dance of awakening. Where Ramana’s “Who am I?” opens the door through discrimination, the Self Realization Mantra walks through that door with radical affirmation. Both point to the same essential recognition: that what we seek, we already are. But the Self Realization Mantra adds the crucial insight that what we are includes everything—not as a collection of separate things, but as the one Self appearing in infinite forms.

    In the end, whether we ask “Who am I?” or declare “I Am Thee Iself, Allself, Godself, Noself,” we are engaging in the same fundamental recognition. The question empties us; the mantra fills us. The inquiry reveals what we are not; the affirmation celebrates what we are. Together, they form a complete circle of realization.

    “I Am Thee Iself. I Am Thee Allself. I Am Thee Godself. I Am Thee Noself.”

    Itti. Itti. Itti. Itti.

    This too. This too. This too. This too.

    This exploration honors both the discriminating wisdom of Ramana’s inquiry and the inclusive recognition of the Self Realization Mantra, seeing them as complementary expressions of the one truth that embraces all while transcending all.