Saturday, September 02, 2006

EXPERIENCES & MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL INTOXICATION & MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PAIN, & OTHER PERSONAL ILLUSIONS, Part One

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From a site visitor: “In your book From the I to the Absolute, you state a few times that consciousness experiences nothing; yet one post stated if you put consciousness to ‘sleep’ a doctor can cut your heart out and the body does not feel that pain. Does consciousness witness feelings and personas experience emotion? Does consciousness feel the pain as stated above?”

F.: First, if you are using the word “consciousness” to refer to the conscious-energy, consciousness is never “put to sleep.” The suspension of physical consciousness as a result of falling asleep, or as a result of a doctor using drugs to induce physical sleep, does not suspend the manifested conscious-energy that You Are during the I-Amness (any more than it suspends the functioning of the heart or brain or other organs). Anaesthesia is the loss of bodily sensation (with or without loss of consciousness) and is the process of blocking the perception of pain and other sensations. To block the functioning of nerves that transmit pain-signals is not to block the manifestation of conscious-energy. If that were the case, everyone would “die” if asleep or if put to sleep.

To clarify, the following pointer was offered in August of 2005: “We know the consciousness remains [even while asleep] because if we enter the bedroom and shout the name of the sleeper, then the sleeper will become aware and answer.” Sleep does not affect the functioning of the conscious-energy. When asleep, I (the consciousness) know I am asleep. In January of 2006, this pointer was offered: “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,” meaning, all are still the conscious-energy manifested whether physically awake or not. That being clear, each part of your question can be addressed:

Visitor: “In your book From the I to the Absolute, you state a few times that consciousness experiences nothing.”

F.: What that means is that it is only personas that believe they are real and that they are "experiencing" something. The Fully Realized, the purified consciousness, understands that there is no “one” to experience anything. (Now, you can draw a parallel with the information above: Realization “ends” the limited focusing on bodily sensations and “blocks” the false perception of pain and other sensations that ego-states imagine to be real. Realization “blocks” the functioning of false roles that think they are experiencing real mental or emotional pain that results along with all of the other illusory misery and suffering that come with belief in false personas.)

That “not experiencing anything” is not to be confused with the physical pain that the nerves of an elemental body can signal, alerting the brain that some action might be required to “treat” a body wound or sickness. It has been noted in some postings that the re-purification of the consciousness results in freedom from mental, emotional and spiritual suffering; from mental, emotional and spiritual pain; and from mental, emotional and spiritual intoxication. But if you’ve ever been awakened from a deep sleep by a sharp stomach pain, you can realize that even when the consciousness was not focusing on any happenings in the relative existence, the brain was still functioning and reacting to signals of pain being transmitted via nerves to the brain.

More relevant to those who would live their relative existence in an AS IF fashion, however, is this: to understand that personas are driven to try to escape mental, emotional and spiritual suffering is to understand why persons are driven to seek mental, emotional, physical and spiritual intoxication. Being fooled into believing that mental, emotional, physical or spiritual intoxication can provide a solution to the suffering that is generated by believing in lies is insanity. Sanity is seeing that the source of suffering is a foolish, unquestioning acceptance of all of the false beliefs taught by persons and believed by personas. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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