CONSCIOUSNESS [ kon-shuhs-nis]
noun
- the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- the thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of people: the moral consciousness of a nation.
- full activity of the mind and senses, as in waking life: to regain consciousness after fainting.
- awareness of something for what it is; internal knowledge: consciousness of wrongdoing.
- concern, interest, or acute awareness: class consciousness.
- the mental activity of which a person is aware as contrasted with unconscious mental processes.
- Philosophy. the mind or the mental faculties as characterized by thought, feelings, and volition.
Awareness Perceptions Interests Wakefulness
Contemplate
How conscious are you? Am I? Do we all have the same level of consciousness?
On a scale of 1 - 100 how conscious would you say you are? Is your answer "well it depends"? What does it depend on? The subject? The time of day? How you are feeling? Your level of knowledge and interest?
Is consciousness local and only resident to the physical body? Is it 'non-local' and projected from somewhere else into and animating the body? What happens when a life leaves the body, does the (their) consciousness hang around a lifeless bodysuit forever, or does it continue where it always was and never really left anyway? Does it then continue to perceive and expand from a different perspective, a different time, another place?
From the Ethers to the Ground
There is a lot of talk among a growing population of the 'human collective' about 'consciousness'. But what does it really mean in a practical sense? It took me personally some length of time to take the word 'consciousness' and pull it down from the ethers into a real 'boots on the ground' understanding and practicality for myself. I must have heard the word 8000 times before my 'consciousness expanded' enough for me to really grasp, usefully identify, gauge, and then choose
to bloom my own personal consciousness (awareness), and without a doubt I was able to accelerate that by asking each day for help from the Universe Itself.
The definition and questions above are merely to help one pause, contemplate, and put real life practical meaning to this very popular word because I wish someone would have done that for me. The fact is, the state of being conscious and then contemplating oneself in itself creates expansions in consciousness. And the more you contemplate yourself the more expanded you will become.
Consciousness expansion, also called 'Spiritual Awakening' is when you begin to see, know, and feel that you are not separate (the ego mind) from, but rather an integral part of All That Is. You begin to understand that your use of (your) consciousness by your choices of emotions, thoughts, words, actions, and deeds are you contributing your freewill creative energy, both good and not so good, and always without separation, to The Whole. The Whole for which we are all part and where we can be nowhere else and nothing else. Because of this, we 'co-create' the world in which we all live, learn, and grow, both uniquely as you "doing you" but also contributing to the many 'collectives' and The Whole for which we are all a part, not even separate in the slightest. For "no man is an island entire of itself" and truer words were never spoken. These realizations and revelations are where you may find yourself beginning to 'see' that we are multi-dimensional, even holographic, and living in the multi-verse(s). For me these perceptions of a great life-filled vastness outside of myself seen but more unseen have become a natural evolution unfolding out of these very revelations and contemplations. After the initial awakening shock of course.
What about the inside of me? Who am I in this great vastness full of life both seen and unseen then?
As I choose
to turn my attention inward and expand my awareness of self by looking inside and OBSERVING ME, I start to notice the outside world reflects exactly what I feel and think inside; and then that simple expansion of 'consciousness' gives me (and it will you too) yet more to contemplate and expand on. A constant and endless spiral of soul journey and its consciousness evolution, the spirit awakening to itself, which feels a lot like an actual dance into forever. And like any new dance student we may be nothing but feet first - until Grace comes and we find our rhythm, our stamina, our partners, and our pace - freely and beautifully gliding as a whole expanding into Forever.
IT'S NOT TRADITIONALLY TAUGHT What if I told you that most everything we are taught about the nature of reality and our existence is completely erroneous? Can you open your heart and mind and allow yourself to contemplate the idea that who you are and how your reality manifests is entirely different than you were taught or that you continue to believe? Will your heart and mind allow you to have an expansion in consciousness enough to consider the possibility that what you believe is true about reality isn't actually how 'things work' after all? It seems quite difficult for the majority of humanity to consider themselves far more vast and powerful than what they have been brought up to believe. Even starting the conversation with someone can result in an immediate shutdown or pushback rather than an open forum for sharing ideas and experiences. I often wonder why do human beings have such a difficult time expanding their views of who they are and the world in which they live? What keeps us stuck? Think about it, human beings are the most unique of any species, the epitome of mutts in the sense that they are many mixtures and the best or worst of many breeds. Humans most closely DNA test as those of primates, a vast DNA lineage made up of many races and undoubtedly many cultural influences deposited in the DNA memory. All of this the lenses through which we uniquely experience our respective worlds. It is safe to say that no two can be the same and it is absolutely all perspective. Setting that aside for a moment consider that humans have three functioning brains, the human brain, the mammalian brain, and the reptilian brain. The human brain, the prefrontal cortex is said to be the 'Executive Decision Maker', keeping the mammalian brain (the emotional brain) in check and when functional, under reasonable control. Otherwise, the mammalian brain would run amuck like a 3 year old on large doses of caffeine wanting a puppy and turned lose in a candy store. The reptilian brain or lizard brain as some people like to refer to it works for survival purposes only, the center for lust, anger, and aggression. The lizard brain is small and simple, controlling breathing, vision, bodily movement and also engages in fierce territorial fights, lusty bouts of mating, and displays of anger. The l izard brain does not allow for more evolved states like love and loyalty. Think about it, when an alligator lays her eggs, she leaves them. The baby alligators emerge fully programmed for life as fierce fighting machines - no cooing, no puppy breath, no cuddly bundles of joy. Baby alligators fend entirely for themselves from the first breath - they have to or else even their mother, father, and any other alligator will happily have them as lunch - no loyalty only survival. Science now is proving that we have yet 2 additional 'brains' or operations centers, the heart and the gut. The heart, the first thing to develop in the fetus, the spiritual soul portal and seat of the soul, reaches out to the world, is the inner life of deep emotions, memories, visions, dreams, creativity, passion, connectedness to ones higher soul self, and to others. The gut directly engaged with the world, is where we get our instincts, our intuitions, it is unselfconscious/does not know nor care about self-esteem, it is immediate, practical, and direct. "Gut feeling". Aside from all that we view through the lenses of our DNA and everything we inherit, and our views through our many operational control centers, one has to consider that in the infinite vastness of all that is and all that ever can and will be, does our consciousness really reside here in this temporary dense 3rd dimensional physical experience? Or is it more probable that what we perceive as our time here is consciousness projecting through a melting pot of lenses to give an experience to CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF; CONSCIOUSNESS projecting from another location through these many lenses creating an experience like actors on a big screen? But Divinely perfect and complex enough to give the perceptions or rather, trick the PERCEIVER into feeling separate, maybe even small and afraid, and as the actor in THEIR own drama? All simply for the purpose to have the experiences and knowledge of SELF, the All That Is and All That Ever Will Be, THE GREAT I AM? I have heard and read most of my life that coming into the human experience with all of its many challenges, forgetting THE GREAT I AM and then remembering once again gives any Soul the maximum growth (expansion) opportunities. Is it any wonder when you really contemplate the nature of humanity, the history of this planet and all of its life forms that this is not the case? I can remember it now, I think it looked like this... POSTED EARTH HUMAN EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITIES REQUIRES INQUIRY WITHIN Limited capacity. Only the most fearless Advanced Souls need apply. Priority Seats for Ascended Masters and Their Children THIS RIDE WORTH ALL OF THE FORGETTING WHO YOU REALLY ARE Soul Resume Expansions Will Be Endless and Mind Blowing ADD-ON CHALLENGES ARE INFINITE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE MAXIMUM ADVENTURE Don't Delay! Get Yours Today! THE FINE PRINT Take the journey of many lifetimes through every species and experience possible in "just one quick trip".
ADVENTURE THE MIND AND SOUL Let's take an adventure and explore our minds and our souls together. For this exploration, is it possible that we can agree that Everything and Everyone are from a Single Source - let's call it God, in order to explore creation? Yes? We can do that? Ok, follow me. THE PERIMETERS So let's set up some perimeters for our exploration. If literally Everything is from, and contained within a Single Source, then how can anything or anyone be separate of or different from that Source? The Single Source is all there is, ITS the container for Everything and Everyone too. For example, if I remove a drop of water from an ocean (of water) is the drop still not 100% ocean water? Yes, the drop is still ocean water. And if that ocean was EVERYTHING THAT EVER WAS AND EVER WILL BE , then the drop of water can never really be separate from the ocean from which it came. But if it could be perceived as separate, it would only be an illusion of separateness and would always be with the Ocean that it is. It is one and the same for us, each soul..... droplets (or I like to think of us as sparks) of the One. TRAIL TWIST So let's say we agree with the above and take this another step or so up the mountain. If ALL THAT I AM is a spark or staying with the ocean theme, a droplet of God, The Source of All That Is, why am I off on a journey pretending to be separate from the larger aspect of my Source Self (the ocean)? How did we become the perceived separated droplets? STORY ORIGINS Many, including myself feel and believe that The Source of All That Is (God) wanted to experience Godself, and the very act of contemplation of ITSELF exploded and produced an infinite number of sparks, or splinters of God consciousness that is each and every co-creative soul that ever was and ever will be. And that the endowment of God Source energy, the energy of creation is inherent in each soul and is the means by which to achieve the original contemplation results, (experience/know ITSELF). That is the 'droplets' of the ocean, never really separate at all but a tiny part of ITSELF perceiving separately in order to have a grand experience of SELF. These tiny fragments are one and the same God power as that of the Whole only stepped down to relative size for the experience. In other words, the Power of the Totality of God cannot be contained in a human body, or 'anybody'. So the power is relative and modulated appropriate for the container in which the experience is happening. CO-CREATION Have you heard the phrase that you cannot help but create? That you are co-creating with God? Creation is all there is when you stop and think about it. When or where do you see or perceive no creation at all? Even in the quietest moments, the stillest times, creation continues....and may be the only point or purpose for everything. REFLECTIONS OR PERCEPTIONS OF SELF BACK TO SELF Now if we agree that we are the droplets of God, the Creator of All That Is, and The Creator of All That Is is always creating and can never not create, then are we not co-creating as the sparks of God and returning all experiences, all knowledge, all things back to The Whole, i.e. to God? Seems to me that would be the purpose for everything if the original contemplation of SELF was to 'Know Thyself', and in order to know ITSELF IT has to experiences ITSELF by creating and reflecting back. INTENTIONS CREATE In order to understand how our "intentions create" I first had to take myself back to my core beliefs in order to find my more left-brain mechanical/logical answer which is that we are co-creating with, for, and as God therefore - intention is everything. Intention creates. If we want to take this just one step further down the left-brain lane we could then consider Quantum Physics and what is known by Physicists as the double blind slit experiment where the observer actually affects the experiment just by observation itself. The physicist Pascual Jordan, who worked with quantum guru Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in the 1920s, put it like this: "observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel [a quantum particle] to assume a definite position." In other words, Jordan said, "we ourselves produce the results of measurements." BE "THE INTENDER" It is this fact of Physics that we can easily convince our left-brain logical minds that intentions facilitate and create change. Marry that with Spirituality and we can see that setting intentions either wittingly or unwittingly still creates. Intentions are the fuel to light the fires of creation, so be The Intender in your life and see what dreams you co-create intentionally.
