Forms of Consciousness

Our Consciousness is so narrowly focused on ourselves that it is difficult for us to comprehend LIFE. LIFE is much more than just Human Beings and our collective ignorance and arrogance tries to make LIFE better and safer without fully grasping what LIFE is. Ignorance and arrogance are both dangerous states but together they can be deadly. It is these two states that bring out our Greed, Fear and our desire for Power. It is in this state of our narrowly focused Consciousness that we have polluted our environment, destroyed our forests and even murder each other. LIFE is not dangerous to us, we are a danger to ourselves. In some spiritual paths we search for Love, Abundance and a state of Bliss. We look for an escape of what is right in front of us. Some say that LOVE is the ultimate state or power, I say LIFE is the ultimate power and is eternal. LOVE, FEAR, BLISS, AGONY and everything in between is only possible because of LIFE. 

The year is 2012 and there is much talk about raising our Consciousness to the next level.  I am always questioning what this actually means. It sounds nice and it sounds like we know what we are talking about, but do we? When we try to explain the idea of raising our Consciousness we hear about other dimensions, about bringing our Consciousness into the "Light" and about becoming "Enlightened".

2012 is going to be a year that alters our Consciousness to be sure.  Raising our Consciousness may not be accurate, I prefer to describe it as Broadening our Consciousness. In raising our Consciousness signifies that we are coming from a inferior Consciousness to a superior Consciousness and I do not think this is true. In order to rate different forms of Consciousness as inferior or superior we need to have a more complete understanding of all the different forms of Consciousness.

Our Physical Universe has a Consciousness or Awareness that is constantly expanding. The countless Galaxies have a Consciousness, the solar-systems have a Consciousness, the planets and stars have a Consciousness (including Mother Earth), Humans, Animals, Plants and even the Minerals have a form of Consciousness. There are many times many FORMS of Consciousness.

When we start to broaden our Awareness we start to see our self as an intricate part of LIFE, not separate from it.  LIFE is not dangerous, it is an adventure. LIFE needs to be respected and will not be controlled. When we fully understand LIFE and our part within LIFE we can truly be at PEACE and we start to understand that we are never truly alone.

What I mean by respecting LIFE is that we need to learn our part to play. It does not mean that we are subservient to it but a intricate part of LIFE and we need to learn our part. It is our ignorance and arrogance that we think we can control LIFE and we are superior to the Animals, Plants, Air and Water that gets us into trouble. The WHOLENESS OF LIFE has a accumulated Consciousness associated with it that I refer to as the CREATOR. Each minute part of LIFE also has a form of Consciousness - the Air, Water, Animals, Plants and even the Crystals & Stones.

This book 'Radical Acceptance' is a good way to begin this process. Our first step is to stop struggling with LIFE and start accepting LIFE for what it is. It is from this place of acceptance that we can start to find our place in LIFE and we can begin the journey of creating our LIFE.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The book talks about how the majority of our SUFFERING is due to our inability to ACCEPT our situation. We deny, we become angry, we feel the lose, and finally we accept.

Acceptance does not mean that we like the situation or agree with it or even to think the situation in okay. However, once we have managed to accept something for what it is, we can now more effectively deal with the situation.

Tara Brach does a lot better job of this than I do here. It really is worth reading a number of times as there is lots to digest and to ponder about. It is well written and not difficult to read.

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Human Consciousness

“What we are aware of, we are conscious of.”

This statement is a definition of ‘consciousness’ and it is a statement of what we are aware of. There are other forms of consciousnesses such as sub-conscious, unconscious and recently termed super-conscious. All of these forms of consciousnesses describe our state of awareness. 

On the page titled ‘Mineral Kingdom’ I talked about the ‘Level of Consciousness’ of the 4 different Kingdoms. The Human Kingdom’s Level of Consciousness is rated at 90% aware of this Physical World and 10% aware of the Spirit World. It is this 90-10 split in our consciousness that this post is about, and why the 10% is so important and can drastically change our physical life.

90%:

This physical world is the realm of duality and opposites. In order for this realm to exist everything must be separate in order for its expression to exist. When our AWARENESS is singularly focused here in the physical we feel and sense this separation. This separation leads us to feel vulnerable, lonely, and inadequate to everything else. These are the foundations to our FEARS. We strive to find LOVE, comradeship and belonging in order to relieve our FEARS. When we do not find these, we SUFFER. Many of us will look towards RELIGION to find some form of belonging. Even the RELIGIONS see this physical life and our spiritual life (after-life) as separate existences. We are alone and vulnerable and we look to our culture and religion to give us something to belong to and for a level of safety. Often in our desire to belong we deny our distinctiveness. We see this denial with the common denouncing of our EGO and desire to be popular and to ‘fit-in’. The old-science reinforced our sense of separation and our exposure to the dangers of LIFE – disease, accidents, violence and even our genetics makes our Life beyond our control.  We often see LIFE as dangerous and that we are a victim of LIFE – “Why me?!” is often heard when faced with some challenge. 

We define our physical world with our 5 physical senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. These 5 senses are how we define REALITY and if we cannot measure something with these senses we often deny their existence.

10%

The Spirit world is the realm of ONENESS. In the Spirit world there is no separation as everything is part of the ONENESS. This concept of ONENESS is foreign for our physical rational mind to conceive. 

Our rational mind is faced with a strong contradiction. When we materialize into this Physical realm we are coming from a realm of ONENESS to this realm of SEPARATION and it is foreign to us, however, now that we are here the realm of ONENESS is foreign. We are never happy with where we are, when we are in the Spirit realm we want to go to the Physical realm and when we are in the Physical realm we want to go to the Spirit realm. We have not learned how to unite these two realms.

We are not as removed from the Spirit realm as we believe we are. Like our 5 Physical Senses we also have Non-Physical Senses that connects us to the Spirit realm. Our Non-Physical Senses – energy-sensing, intuition, compassion, empathy and imagination all connect us to each other and our environment. These 5 Non-Physical Senses are just as important to our BEING as our 5 Physical Senses. However, we do not give them the same level of AWARENESS as we do our 5 Physical Senses. We need to be more aware and to fully understand these 5 Non-physical Senses. 

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