Some thoughts and considerations on creating our experiences

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2009 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

The topic, "The Observer observed pair and the nature of duality," provides a way to view creation/Creation as a result of energy consciousness splitting itself into an observer and an observed pair. In looking at the holographic process we find it occurs very much the same way. It is interesting to note that the hologram is formed from a coherent beam of light that is split into a duality. The original beam of light in separation into two parts where one part is unchanged, called the reference beam, and which we could call the observer. The other beam is called the object beam and illuminates what is observed, in many ways it could be said that the object beam illuminates the creation to be seen by the observer.

In looking at the entire process, if we wish, we can look at the coherent beam of light as what we create within ourselves when we center and calm ourselves to align with the energy flowing within our being. Remembering energy and consciousness are one and the same thing, when we remove all the distractions from our mind and become extremely focused we are causing our energy to become laser like. As we focus and center our attention and awareness we are concentrating and aligning our energy. In an analogous way, we are taking the light from a light bulb shining in all directions and turning it into a flashlight where we concentrate the light into a relative small angle. We then further concentrate the light into a very narrow intense laser like beam. Although from a physics perspective this is not the way one creates a laser, conceptually this is what we are doing with our awareness and our creative life energy. This focusing process of our attention and awareness is also to become the cause and what makes the impossible probably and the possible a certainty. It all depends on how we choose to act on the focused attention and awareness that we create.

The first part of this holographic process to create an image is splitting the beam. This is much like focusing on, and holding a thought in our mind to form an experience. Our consciousness must split itself into the observer and the thought observed. To sit and observe our thoughts is only an exercise to experience how we create this observer - observed pair and how we split our energy. If we can imagine the laser beam as our consciousness that splits into the observer and the observed as separate "beams" of awareness to cause creation to occur we can then begin to see how the holographic process works in the mind to create the blueprint for an experience.

From a consciousness perspective, through intentionality - the conscious choice of choosing to focusing our attention to do something - consciousness separates itself from oneness into parts. Consciousness is split into the observer (or reference beam) and that which is observed (the object beam). The reference beam is only the consciousness that is observing and watching what is occurring. In this regard, any intention and any desire acts as a prism which splits our energy. One esoteric recommendation has been to become desire less so as not to split one’s energy and remain as much as possible in a wholeness of being. However the issues is not splitting our awareness for as we see in the holographic process it must come back together. Rather the issue is becoming attached to the separation because we enjoy the "view" that exists between the observer and the observed. If we continue to overlay the esoteric thinking on this process, if we wish, we could call the reference beam "spiritual" for it has not changed in any way and remains "unblemished." It remains as is, separated from the remainder of the interaction. It is analogous to the part of our consciousness that remains above or separate from the physical experience. It is equivalent to our Higher Self standing apart from the Creation. Or, the reference beam can be seen as our nonlocalized energy and awareness.

The other beam is reflected off the object (interacting with the object - i.e., acting and doing something) and called the reflected beam or the observed. This beam we could call physical for it has interacted with an object of our desire and changed itself so that is scattered and no longer "pure" or unadulterated. This beam’s energy has been scattered and fragmented in illuminating the object to create the holographic illusion. These beam can also be seen as our localized energy and awareness.

In keeping with the overlay of the esoteric, if we like, we could also judge one beam as good and the other evil so we can keep to the human tradition of judging everything and having a preference rather than accepting what is as only part of a creation process. Yet both beams are needed for the creation of a holographic film. The holographic film cannot be created with only one beam. So too with Creation. One needs both the observer and the observed to create any experience.

In this consciousness analogy, what the object beam illuminates is the thought that consciousness is holding. Again, the guidance by the mystics to watch our thoughts. We can become aware of the observer and the thought illuminated in the observer’s awareness. This is the process that is occurring in the mind whether we realize it or not. Light, our awareness, is being shed on to, or into, the creation (the thought) of our mind. If we wish, it is the "let there be light" concept of illuminating Creation. Yet in reality, it is only the awareness of Consciousness illuminating the thought of Consciousness, the Creation of Consciousness and the creation of our reality. If we think about the reality of humanity over the past several thousand of years it can best be characterized as awakening to how the universe works and awakening to the intricacies and details of Creation,. It is as if the awareness of humanity is only the awareness of Consciousness illuminating awakening to Its Creation. We collectively and individually are only Consciousness exploring Its Creation. We are Consciousness watching and observing the thoughts it has.

The two beams, the reference beam, (the observer), and the object beam, (the observed), then recombine to create an image of the experience of the thought in which is a new creation. It is here in the holographic process the two beams must come back together so the image of the object is retained in the interference pattern of the two beams on the holographic film. With the two beams coming back together we can now reflect the original beam off the film to get what looks like a "ghost" image seeming identical to the original object is formed. If we keep the beams separate, we can’t complete the process. Additionally if we don’t bring our awareness, that original beam, back to look at what we created we will never understand how we create the illusion, or for that matter what we have created.

This is the problem we have as human. We create with our mind all the time using this type of process but never bring our attention back at the time we create something to see what we actually have created. Then when our creations pop up in our life at some later time because of how we are observing at that time we are puzzled as to where these creations are coming from. We attribute them to some external cause when in reality they are only our own creations being illuminated by our awareness long after we have forgotten we created it.

It is this part of the holographic process of when the beams come back together that our problems develop. One of the first things an individual is taught in meditation is to watch their thoughts as if we are watching the clouds in the sky. The recommendation is don’t see them as our thoughts. Let them simply pass thought not acting on them in any way so as to not add any energy to them which includes not feeling anything about the though we have. Having a judgments or an emotional feeling about a though adds energy to that thought for we have focused our attention and awareness on it in the judgment or emotional response and energy is added to it. Whether we act on the thought, that is, place our attention on that thought in anyway we are adding energy to it, or not acting on the thought by just letting it past with the minimum possible focus of our awareness and attention, we are creating an experience of that thought. We are taking that thought and doing something with it, even if it is only observing it and letting it pass.

In any case, we are creating an experience of the thought and that experience becomes a part of us in some way, The "becoming a part of us" is the holographic process occurring to create that holographic film. So what is the holographic film? It is our nonconsciousness.

Just as we can choose to hold a thought in our awareness and stay focused on that thought, our nonconscious does the same thing. This is why mantras and objects of meditative focus have been used over the centuries. It is a way of imprinting the nonconscious such that when we illuminate our nonconscious at a later point in our life, it will produce the experience of that mantra or an experience of the meditative object as the environment in which we find ourselves can support. This is why so many mystical experiences occur unexpectedly and seemingly randomly. All that is needed for the experience is already in us and impregnated in our psyche. However, our attention and awareness does not illuminate that part of the nonconscious. Or, if it does, the environment does not support a recognizable experience. When our awareness and the environment come together, one has the experience. Seemingly random, yet very predictable.

Shining the laser on the holographic film produces the holographic image. This step is analogous to our consciousness focusing and directing our attention and awareness on the experience we desire to produces. When the original light, our unsplit, undivided awareness illuminates the creation (the thought held in the nonconscious), we experience the creation, the hologram, the illusion of the original thought as a real experience. Yet it is only the holographic projection of the thought and desire we had. In this way, the holographic film, the imprint on our nonconscious, is the blueprint for the experience one wishes to have for the thought we hold.

It is by our consciousness having a thought of a physical experience of being a human being that creates the blueprint for the physical experience itself. And it needs to be remembered, as with the holographic film, all of our consciousness contains the blueprint but the smaller the part of our consciousness that is illuminated will produce an image in less clarity. As with the holographic film cut into parts, any part of the hologram will contain the same image as the complete hologram. It is only each of the parts retains the ability to project what appears to be a three dimensional image of the original object, only the image becomes less and less well defined with less clarity than the original and complete hologram. The bigger the piece of holographic material, the better the clarity of the image.

What this means is the thought we have permeates our entire being and when we become physical, it permeates everything our energy touches. Whether anything is produced depends on how the part is illuminated with awareness and attention and it needs to be remembered it needs the particular coherent light that illuminated it. Any light will not work. It needs the correct focus of attention and awareness to see it. In much the same way we leave a scent on clothing we touch and a dog can sniff it with the correct focus of smell, we leave a trace of who we are on everything with which we have contact. In this regard, we can leave a part of ourselves somewhere and the traditional shamanic soul retrieval has been a way that has been used to go back and get these parts.

As was said in the beginning of this discussion section, what needs to be understood is the all of this occurs instantaneously and is a self contained process. As humans, we have separated the parts but have not put them back together again the way it actually occurs in consciousness.

It is much like dissecting a body. We look at all the individual parts, the tissues, organs, and cells but we don’t allow ourselves to put it al lack together to see how is works simultaneously together. In this regard, what we have discussed in this holographic process we have discussed in pieces. However it occur simultaneously in each level of consciousness.

Our consciousness is a thought of the Consciousness of All That Is. As such. it is an energy and a consciousness unto itself and has both a mind and thoughts of its own. Our consciousness is created in the image of the Consciousness that created it or rather thought it. But it also a part of the Mind of Consciousness for the thought is in the mind and part of mind. The thought is not separate from the mind that thinks it. The energy of the thought can be seen separate but it is the mind that is focusing its attention and awareness in such a way that it can think that thought. In the same way our thoughts lie within us and we see them as separate and individuated, so too in the Mind of Consciousness. We are one with this Consciousness although we see ourselves separate from It and because, we are a piece, we do not have a complete clarity to see what the Mind of Consciousness is thinking. Its thoughts are within us. As we piece ourselves together, we can create a clearer image of the thoughts of Consciousness.

Similarly this mean that our thought are also capable of having a mind and thoughts of their own and the process would go on and on. Sort of stories within stories. If we as an individual point of consciousness creates the thought of a human, we would experience that human and it would have a mind of its own and that is exactly what we have done. This is extremely important to understand. To create the thought of a human or the human experience, one must split their consciousness into an observer and the thought being observed. All our consciousness cannot be in our body and its experience because it is split between the creation observed and the observer of its creation. On this note, the body is the vehicle for the experience we have but our energy is also in the experience the body has, not only the body.

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