The Awakened Consciousness

The awakened consciousness is very difficult to describe not least because everything has changed yet nothing at all has changed. To all appearances the individual is still the same so that any claim of no longer being the same person is met with scepticism. But to the individual, nothing could be farther from the truth. The internal landscape that makes up the psychological, mental, emotional, and spiritual topography of the individual is entirely different.

One of the most clear mental facets that comes into focus is what I could describe as observation awareness. It is simply that, as it were, one begins to see and observe the self as it is going about the business of living life. There is a very clear awareness that the structure that is going about living life is not really who one is. Consequently every action is now a conscious action. There no longer is any case of being hidden from the self and therefore no longer any excuse for any action. Everything done is being done consciously. This is very clear. All that had been done and entered into previously now looks like life lived under the stupor of a drunken forgetting.

Another facet that comes to the forefront is the realization that one is part of a very large cosmic family. That one is located on a particular planet called Earth among a species that calls itself human does not in any way curtail one’s newly acquired sense of being a member of the cosmic family. Locus and specific scenario or situation does not hamper or reduce this expansive sense of being. On the other hand, the reach of one’s participation in life also deepens. There is a clear sense of having the same significance as the ant or spider on the window. These humble expressions of life are not of less significance as the expression of life within oneself.

To the extent that one is able to allow the awareness, one is also quite aware there is only one consciousness that is seeking an accompanying expression through oneself. That one consciousness is what we have generally reserved the word GOD for. It is GOD who draws close and stands at the threshold of your existence seeking welcome. Here is one way of expressing what seems to happen: It is God becoming You, without you ceasing to be You. But the question is how much one is willing to allow this very clear realization to find expression in one’s life? What does it mean? How does GOD live a human life?

Waking Up!

If it were possible to say or write something that could cause another person to wake up from the stupor that is 3rd dimensional life, it would long have been discovered by now. The fact of the matter is there is nothing that anyone can say or write that could cause another being to catalyze the process or event of spiritual awakening. All that anyone can do is give hints and clues so that you can begin to follow these clues on your own based on your own sense of resonance and attraction to them. Let it be said that there isn’t a one-approach-fits-all to the process of awakening. The signature process of your awakening is as individual and unique as your genetic imprint. Yet despite the very distinct imprints of our individual identities, we are very much similar. This also means we can learn from each other and can explore paths that others have explored and that led to the catalysis of their own process of awakening from the state of 3rd dimensional forgetting.

Here are some clues:

Yoga—When pursued along its spiritual modicum approaches, yoga is a proven path to the process of creating and facilitating the key facets that go into the uncovering of the spiritual nature of reality which of course is what you also are. Your primary nature is spiritual despite all other contraindications.

Meditation—There are various modes of the pursuit of meditation. Reach for and sense for what attracts you and what you can enter into without too much attrition from your own unique manner of doing things.

Contemplation—Though related, contemplation is not quite the same as meditation. Contemplation has more to do with the introspective attentiveness to the mystery of life and trying to formulate your own honest answers. It is an inward reflection on the inexplicable nature of things that life is presenting you with, for example, patterns that appear repetitive in your life without a very clear explicable reason why. Following the clues and hints that life is presenting you with may lead to the uncovering of your own inner wisdom and awareness.

Investigative exploration—There are many avenues of exploration you can reach for to fuel the spiritual awakening quest—books, websites, groups, practices—but among all of these avenues perhaps the most important is simply seeking or requesting contact and input from your higher-self as you begin the journey to awakening. Simply communicate this intent internally to yourself and ask for guidance and help so you may awaken.

The Awakened State

Imagine for a moment that you are blind, but with one other condition—you do not know that you are blind. It is not an exaggeration that such a situation and condition would be quite hazardous. There are all sorts of life-threatening situations that you could wind up in even though they may be of a very simple nature, for example, walking into a wall, stepping over a cliff, bumping into other people, and so forth. The trouble is, even though the consequences may be quite serious and possibly painful, none of this would be unusual because you do not know you’re blind, hence everything, according to your understanding, is simply what you’d expect things to be. It is simply life as you expect it to be, but life dictated by being blind and further compounded by not knowing what blindness is and hence being unable to discern your own condition.

Despite all the grandiose descriptions often offered up about what spiritual awakening is, for us who are experiencing existence under third density conditions, it is simply attaining the realization of our state of blindness and then reorienting our existence from that knowing. Third density awakening is being blind but retaining the realization that you are blind. This realization is an incredibly welcome insight because of the potential it contains to help us reorganize and reorient our lives and behaviours. For example, something as simple and incredible as the difference between an unknowing blind person walking into a crowded place without a cane and another who knows their blind state and then uses a cane to navigate the crowded place.

The conditions under which humanity has been and still is organizing its existence involve a level of unknowing that can be compared to blindness. The only problem is we do not know we are blind and therefore our behaviours reflect this lack of knowing. In some respects they are compounded by our insistence—contrary to all the admonitions of those who have come to the realization of our blindness—that we are very much aware of everything, that we know our true state, and that we are not blind at all, even though we do not even know what that blindness is.

We believe we are separate identities that are self-contained in our own consciousness islands and are not connected to anything or anyone else around us. We believe our actions and activities are derived and driven by what appears to us as the true state of things, that each of us are a distinct, separate, individual “I.” Contrary to anything that seems to buttress and support this appearance of things and what we believe the true state of the human condition is, the individual, separate, distinct islands of identity that carry out life activities and interact with reality and each other from that sense of identity are illusory constructs. They do not exist in any substantial way and have no real continuance because they are founded upon a fallacy, that one is a separate island of identity. No one is separate from anyone or anything else, all things and beings are aspects of one consciousness expression. Only life lived from the latter understanding can begin to approximate the true nature of the reality of things. It is only this approach to life that can be called the beginning of an awakened life, life that knows both the flimsy construct of the illusory identity and the reality of the singular identity.