Tuesday, January 24, 2006

“DIE” NOW TO LIVE NOW, Part Two

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In response to yesterday’s post, this from Sim, Kentucky, U.S.A.: “So, pure consciousness, the Absolute, is unconsciousness?”

F.: No, but what you received from yesterday’s post has seemingly shifted you closer to the understanding. In case other site visitors drew the same conclusion, your question will be addressed today and tomorrow and then the continuation of yesterday’s post will be presented the following day. For today, pure consciousness and unconsciousness will be addressed, then tomorrow…the Absolute.

First, pure consciousness is that conscious-energy that has not been tainted with any man-made concepts. It may be in the universal pool of consciousness and not yet manifested in a space called a plant or human or animal. It may be manifested in a child that can only witness and is still free of conditioning, programming and concepts (search “Child Ignorance” on this blog). It may be manifested in a Realized space and is the re-purified consciousness, freed of all contaminants, including false beliefs in ego-states, dogma, lies, concepts, ideas, emotional intoxication, and attitudes. Pure consciousness is That, manifested or not. Next, the “unconsciousness.”

Unconsciousness is not the Absolute. The Absolute is consciousness, pure and “at-rest.” That means the consciousness is still consciousness, but it is simply not aware of itSelf. Consciousness can only be aware of itSelf when manifested in the Realized. (Corrupted consciousness allows persons to believe they are aware, but what they are seemingly aware of is the false self, or selves...not the True Self or the Absolute.) Only the pure consciousness can know itSelf, can see the lie of all the false selves, can understand the Absolute and that which happens “post-manifestation,” can know That Which It Is, and can understand the Functioning of the Totality of this universe and of all universes. Unconsciousness, however, is merely a condition that can be experienced by the physical space. Yet your inquiry shows you’re moving closer to the understanding.

Imagine a body that has been racing about all day with its brain operating at the beta level of consciousness. At the end of the day, if time for relaxation is available, the brain wave movements can begin to slow to the alpha level. In bed, the brain waves might slow to the theta rate, and if a human enters the deep-sleep, delta-level of sleep, that human could be considered to be resting in a state of unconsciousness. Yet a sleeping human, a resting plant, a sleeping animal, a human in a coma, a bear hibernating, or a human undergoing surgery may all be "unconscious," yet all are still consciousness.

Take that analogy of a delta-level, deep-sleep state that a physical body can experience, though, to see the similarity with the unmanifested consciousness that has merged with the universal pool of consciousness: consciousness is still "there" (since energy can neither be created nor destroyed) but it is unaware of itSelf. Asleep, you do not know that you are—you are unaware of yourself—yet consciousness remains. If someone enters your bedroom and shouts your name, you become aware of your body and surroundings once more. (Yet know that You are not “in” the Absolute when the consciousness unmanifests. You Are the Absolute. You are THAT. THAT manifested is the consciousness-at-movement which can know its “Is-ness” or “Amness” if pure. Thus, we have the summation of the ancient teaching that was taught thousands of years before Moses plagiarized it and claimed a burning bush was offering the summary: I Am THAT; I Am.)

So, in a delta-level of sleep, the consciousness is not aware of consciousness, but it is still “there,” and conscious-energy in the universal pool is also “there” but does not know it is “there.” Conscious-energy is eternal, never created and never destroyed, but the ancient teaching was bastardized by religions as persons claimed that “the good” among them would have eternal peace, that “the good” would be forever, and that the bodies of “the good” would be forever. They offered just enough of the reality behind the Advaita teachings to tap into that which persons knew but had forgotten. Having been offered something close to the truth, persons took the distortions to be the real and now take their dogma to be so right and so important that they’ll literally die in the fight to force their distorted beliefs onto all the persons of the world.

Now, a final element of the sleep analogy: humans can be in the delta-level of sleep, can get out of bed, and can walk about the house and not even be aware of what they are doing. Others can talk in their sleep and not be aware of what they are saying. Others can day-dream during the daylight hours and not have a clue as to where they are, what they are, or what they are doing. That is the way persons experience their “lives”: they are walking in their sleep while unaware; they are talking in their sleep without having a clue that they are only parroting what others have said repeatedly; they are dreaming a dream all day long while believing they are awake and that their dreams are real. They have been programmed and conditioned to believe that the dream of the planet is real, so they live in an unconscious state—a state in which they are not fully awake, aware, and conscious—but believe that they are awake, believe they know what they are talking about, and believe they know Who/What They Are when, in fact, they haven’t a clue. Have you seen “them” in that condition? Have you seen when "you" are or were in that condition? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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