TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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CONSCIOUSNESS AND AWARENESS
The Science, Part Four
Also, understand that within that energy field referenced in the previous chapter, various atoms are moving, interacting, and being conscious of each other. Energy is moving in wave and particle form, so unmanifested consciousness is not “at-rest” in the sense that it is not in motion. It is, always.
The term “at rest” (certainly misleading on one level) merely points to the non-manifested status of the consciousness at that point.
Moreover, do not think that there is some definable quantity of conscious-energy which is immobilized while in some larger system or field or pool of energy, “waiting” and positioned in a way that will allow it to be siphoned into some process that leads to manifestation or re-manifestation.
Portions may manifest or re-manifest . . . or not. (Furthermore, as an example of the energy manifesting or not, note the difference in what happens when sunlight hits the surface of the moon vs. what happens when it hits the surface of a plant on earth.)
Additionally, the fact that some particles of previously-manifested consciousness might manifest again, and some might not, nullifies such concepts as “karma” and “reincarnation.”
I have not been born even once, so how could I possibly be “born again” or be born “multiple times”? Those two concepts are the result of
(1) body-mind-personality identification which always results in a desire for continuity
and
(2) religious and / or spiritual programming and conditioning and brainwashing and indoctrination.
So, at this very moment, there is a field or system of energy which can be called “the Absolute” - meaning the pure, absolute, conscious-energy. Within that field, there is movement and interaction . . . at this very moment;
however, when conscious-energy is not manifested in a temporary grouping of elements with a nervous system, the consciousness cannot be conscious of itself. Moreover, do not take the Absolute to be some special “place.”It is merely a “system” of energy - infinite, limitless, and omnipresent - from which quantities of energy might move to adjacent regions.
If that energy becomes “caught up” in a movement of energy that happens to strike a plant, then it can manifest temporarily, yet there is no governing body or entity that determines whether such a chance happening might occur or not.
To understand the cycling of consciousness “out of” or “into” a field or system, see what happens the moment that a bug is struck by the windshield of an automobile: much of the elemental structure remains on the glass (ash-to-ash, dust-to-dust);
the air that was circulating as breath is instantaneously released and united with the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy is instantaneously released into an omnipresent field . . . into that infinite pool of energy that can neither be created nor destroyed. The energy does not “go there” to some special place.
Next, understand that too much has been made of what is called “The Absolute.” It is nothing more than an all-pervasive body or system or field or pool of energy, energy that is not currently manifested via a group of elements with a nervous system. Yet IT IS.
In the process of trying to assign “supernatural” or “extraordinary” or “heavenly” or “special” attributes to afield of energy, (a) most persons now take the Absolute to be a mystical, supernatural location and (b) persons who believe that it is “up there” or “out there” do not understood that it is all-pervasive.
As a result of religious and spiritual leaders having glorified an energy field, the Absolute is imagined by many to be a place - even a geographic place in some teachings - which is not “here” but which is “there” instead.
All such distortions attempt to place limitations on the limitless; yet even John Paul II, as programmed as he was, was aware enough to say that “we must correct the geography of Gehanna:
"There is no literal heaven or hell . . . they are mental states, and you are in one or the other right now.”
"Gehanna" is also known as “Gehenna,” “gehenom,” or “gehinom.” Understand that Gehanna was the burn pit outside Jerusalem when a group of people worked in 24-7 shifts to keep the fire burning (that is, to maintain "a place of eternal flames").
Garbage was burned there, along with the bodies of some enemies killed in battle and along with dead rats and dead pets which were disposed of.
Try to imagine all of the fear and angst and anxiety generated for millions upon millions of people when religions decided to use that as a model for a dreamed up place of punishment where "bad" boys and girls and "bad" women and men would be cast into forever by their angry god of retribution and abuse and torture.
[NOTE: An editorial in La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine with close ties to the Vatican, also said at that time, “Hell is not a 'place' but a 'state,' a person's 'state of being’.”
The pope and the magazine merely adumbrated what Yeshu'a the Advaitin(erroneously referred to as “Jesus” by his “followers”) had said: “No one will ever see the kingdom of heaven . . . it is within.”
Yet those who are programmed with religious dogma and who are enamored with their belief in the duality of “good vs. bad” and “punishment vs. reward” as well as their desire for eternal continuity of body and mind and personality will ignore the later non-dual teachings of Yeshu’a regarding the fact that there is no heaven.
Religious and spiritual leaders ignore those later teachings in order to cling to the power and the control which they have over their congregants by having the threat of eternal punishment as a key tool for manipulation.]
With the widespread distorted thinking among persons, however, the Absolute has been misconceived as “heaven,” as “the home of the gods or a god,” as “a place where persons will go for eternal bliss if they are good,” ad infinitum.
A smashed bug is neither “at rest” nor enjoying “its place of final rest.” Neither are any of the trillions of humans who have ever walked the planet.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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