The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

The end of the search is within and anyone with an human body can reach this goal.
It is all about consciousness more or less developed.
A driver in total control with the consciousness totally developed is the mighty spirit and this driver does not need to rely on anybody else.
When you reach this stage you are God and God does not have a beginning and an end but to reach this stage of consciousness it takes time so it is easy for you to think that you are a limited consciousness in need of external help and the idea that you are the vehicle keep on persisting.
As i just said yesterday we are all one with the body but at the same time the body is not us.
It is all in the consciousness mind to believe in this or that that is why it is so important to develop this consciousness entirely so the confusion get cleared.

I know what you mean although I don't follow your belief system.

There's an interesting interview with Sam Harris on the Psychololgy today website.

In what sense is the self an illusion?

For me, an illusion is a subjective experience that is not what it seems. Illusions are experiences in the mind, but they are not out there in nature. Rather, they are events generated by the brain. Most of us have an experience of a self. I certainly have one, and I do not doubt that others do as well – an autonomous individual with a coherent identity and sense of free will. But that experience is an illusion – it does not exist independently of the person having the experience, and it is certainly not what it seems. That’s not to say that the illusion is pointless. Experiencing a self illusion may have tangible functional benefits in the way we think and act, but that does not mean that it exists as an entity.

Similar ideas about the self can be found in Buddhism and the writings of Hume and Spinoza. The difference is that there is now good psychological and physiological evidence to support these ideas that I cover in the book in a way that I hope is accessible for the general reader.

Susan Blackmore uses the concept of membes for the self illusion in Waking From The Meme Dream

We are just temporary conglomerations of ideas, moulded together for their own protection. The analogy with our bodies is close. Bodies are the creations of temporary gene-complexes: although each of us is unique, the genes themselves have all come from previous creatures and will, if we reproduce, go on into future creatures. Our minds are the creations of temporary meme-complexes: although each of us is unique, the memes themselves have come from previous creatures and will, if we speak and write and communicate, go on into future creatures. That’s all.

The problem is that we don't see it this way. We believe there really is someone inside to do the believing, and really someone who needs to be protected. This is the illusion - this is the meme-dream from which we can wake up.

I have had to take a long route to answer my questions but I hope you can now understand my answers. "From what are we to awaken? From the meme dream of course. And how?" "By seeing that it is a meme dream".

And who lets the meme-unzipper go its way? Who wakes up when the meme-dream is all dismantled? Ah, there’s a question.

The thing is, people aren't obliged to believe in God or reincarnation in order to wake from the meme dream.