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The first thing to realize is that
we don’t experience
energy consciousness as such. We experience the energy of energy
consciousness or the consciousness of energy consciousness. It is
like have something with a front and back. We can only look at one
side at a time. Similarly, only in looking at the front or the back
and experiencing each respectively can we understand the whole. What
needs to be remembered here is that we are energy consciousness
experience itself. All we can do is
dance between energy and consciousness.
Ways to experience energy
consciousness
Energy consciousness can be experienced several different ways
that seem to lie at different ends of a duality, or maybe better
said, at opposite ends of a spectrum. Here the duality refers to an
extreme polarity where the ends are separate where as the concept of
a spectrum implies the existence of gradations from one extreme end
to the other.
One duality or spectrum in which it can be experienced is that
energy consciousness can either be experienced in oneness or as
separation. The other duality is that we can experience in what is
best described as being awake or asleep In the
energy consciousness model,
asleep and aware are viewed as two facets of the same property of
consciousness. Any facet of consciousness has a
sleep and awake cycle.
Here awake refers to perceiving as oppose to asleep were perceiving
lies dormant and unavailable. As used here, sleep is not limited to
nocturnal sleep we do each night. Rather,
sleep refers to the analogous phenomenon of nocturnal sleep but
at each and every level of our being. We can be spiritually,
mentally, emotionally and/or physically asleep and in any
combination. To be asleep is to not perceive with the level of being
that is asleep. In the same way there are sleepwalkers who wonder
around at night while their conscious
mind is asleep, we an be spiritual, mental, emotional and/or
physical sleepwalkers. Similarly, we can perceive ourselves as
having
conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind and/or awareness
and each of these can be awake and/or asleep.
When awake, we can be aware or unaware. When asleep, we can be aware
or unaware. When we are aware we recognize things happening. We
perceive and/or feel the experience of the moment. We can do this
when we are awake or asleep. When awake, we perceive our awareness
through the
mind and what we perceive. When we are asleep, we perceive our
awareness through feeling and what we seem to sense.
When awake, we can see, feel and experience consciously. For
example, we consciously allow our eyes to follow the flight of a
bird and enjoy its beauty. When we are awake but unaware, our eyes
follow the bird but we are not aware we are looking at the bird.
When we are awake, we can experience through our
nonconscious by knowing something but not knowing exactly what
we know. For example, we know something in a situation has changed
but we are not sure exactly what has changed.
When asleep, we can be aware in that we still see, feel and
experience but we do it through feeling. For example, when we are
asleep but aware, we respond through feeling to a touch or sensation
and/or knowing something but we don’t know we know. To know but not
know that we know is reflected in the experience of saying to
ourselves, “Now how did I know that?” realizing we had no way of
knowing what we know including that we nevertheless do know. There
are many things of which we are aware but we are do not know that we
know. To see what we know that we don’t know that we know, we need
to focus our attention and awareness on what we know and then
observe very carefully. In doing so, we will being to see we know
thing that our
mind knows it has know way of knowing. Yet, we know.
When we are asleep and unaware, we are, in essence, the
consciousness equivalent of energy that has been converted to mass.
Being aware refers to consciousness realizing existence.. When we
are awake to our existence, we can experience our existence in
wholeness with, or in separate from, what surrounds us. The
illusion of
mind and the
illusion of Creation exists for the awareness to experience
itself as separate from its surroundings. Otherwise, we will see the
oneness of Creation for what it is.
Being aware is the recognition of “I am.” It is to recognize it
whether recognized by consciousness consciously as a thought and
understanding or subconsciously within the realization that “This
foot is somehow a part of me where as that tree is not.” It needs to
be noted here that any recognition of “I am” whether, consciously or
subconsciously, has the possibility of creating separation as
opposed to oneness. From a
creativity perspective,
the understanding that needs to be eventually gained is how “I am”
creates limits and boundaries without ever consciously becoming
aware of what it limits and boundaries it creates. It is the limits
and boundaries that consciousness imposes on itself which gives rise
to creation/Creation and the creation/Creation we experience. The
issue then becomes how to become consciously aware of “I am” but
either have no limits and boundaries causing separation, being
consciously aware of our limits and boundaries for the purposes of
experiencing a given creation/Creation, or, expand our limits and
boundaries to encompass all of Creation.
On this note, once consciousness awaken to the understanding of “I
am” to find itself, it can become fearful and terrified that it can
die and lose itself and become nothing. Within this thinking,
consciousness desperately tried to avoid the loss of its identity.
Yet it never realizes it has always been. It just has not been aware
of itself or its own consciousness and there will always be
cycles of going to sleep and awakening.
To experience the oneness of
energy consciousness, probably the only true experience open to
a human as a human of being in wholeness with out separation is when
we are a fetus in the embryonic fluid within our mother’s womb.
Unfortunately most of us are asleep during this experience. However,
there are a few who were awake and aware who can remember such an
experience. But we can always feel such an experience and do have
the awareness of what such an experience feels like. The next closes
approximation to this state is probably being in an
isolation/sensory depravation tank and have forgotten who we are and
how we defined ourselves. While in a human body, to experience
energy consciousness as oneness and to be awake and aware is to
surrender to the flow of energy within our being while being a
detached witness knowing that we are only experiencing our own
creation by how we choose to observe.
To experience the duality of
energy consciousness we experience the separation of energy and
consciousness. It is to view from the perspective of energy or as
consciousness. Experiencing the duality of energy consciousness is
the normal way we experience energy consciousness.
Our bodies are designed to give us such an experience. To
experience the consciousness aspect of energy consciousness, we only
need to live totally from our perception of reality and who we think
we are because of the experiences we have had. It is to live in the
perception “I am this, I am not that.” Consciousness divides,
segments and separates and it does this through the property of
consciousness we call
mind. To experience the energy of energy consciousness, we
simply become so totally immersed in what we are doing and what is
happening that we have no awareness of anything else other than what
we are doing in that moment. That is, to be
out of mind
and totally absorbed and lost in that which is happening.
Whether we realize it or not, we each have lived in all of these
views. It is only that we tend to localize ourselves in one view
more often than another. Most individuals have localized in the view
as consciousness and who they think they are. As we work with the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material, the difference in what
we can experience in these views will become a little more clear and
we can learn to dance and larn to readily shift between the
experiences we wish to have and into the view the
serves us and assists us in creating
a life worth living.
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