What is Higher Consciousness? - III
This constant internal dialogue of self-pity makes us believe that there is a continuing, abiding “me” there. The constant thinking and agitation about a “me,” is what creates that “me” – a shameful, glorious, shameful, glorious, shameful, glorious “me.” That “me” doesn’t even exist in the eyes of other people; it merely exists in our fantasies of how we believe other people see us. How much more flimsy could the thing be?
As we intend to stop pitying ourselves – as we gradually lose our feelings of shame about the things which have happened to us and our seeking glory in the eyes of other people – we also lose our sense of there being a “me” there to whom things are happening. If we no longer particularly care one way or the other about what happens, things no longer happen “to me”; they just happen, period. Our lower self then begins to disintegrate and our Higher Consciousness emerges. As it does so, our everyday, waking life becomes more like dreaming: more vivid and alive and full of meaning.
Most people in their daily lives rarely operate with Higher Consciousness. In most people’s lives Higher Consciousness only surfaces now and then in response to emergencies and sudden, unexpected events. Higher Consciousness emerges to save our lives; to pull us back from the brink; and to warn us away from certain people, situations, and places. Higher Consciousness sees an opportunity and grasps it without hesitation or doubt of any sort.
When we operate with our Higher Consciousness, we are mentally clear, coldly efficient, pitilessly detached, and utterly determined. We no longer feel like our usual, lower selves – trapped in our petty little moods and concerns. Rather, we are exhilarated and free. When our Higher Consciousness surfaces it brushes aside all our doubts and fears. We no longer fear death, and we never say die. In a manner of speaking, our Higher Consciousness is actually the same thing as our death. When society teaches us fear of death, what it is teaching us is fear of our Higher Consciousness. Our Higher Consciousness is a state of unfettered limitlessness, just as our lower self is a state of crabbed dissatisfaction and torpor, symbolized by the prison of the body.
Our Higher Consciousness acts from the gut, not the mind. Our Higher Consciousness doesn’t operate on social conditioning – at least not in our decadent, self-indulgent society. Higher Consciousness was the basis of training in warrior societies which existed on this earth in ancient times. Even as recently as a century ago humans were more robust, self-reliant, and daring (closer to Higher Consciousness) than we self-coddling moderns are.
Our Higher Consciousness acts on our true feelings, not on our thought forms. We cultivate our Higher Consciousness by not indulging our customary moods and concerns – by cultivating the attitude that nothing that happens or doesn’t happen is all that important.
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