The Ineffable I AM Consciousness
"I AM THEREFORE I THINK"
Consciousness is more than wakefulness, self awareness or the ability to think and experience the environment, It is all of this and so much more. The unspoken question is, what or who is awake, aware and experiencing the self and the environment? What is the self?. And what is thought?; and what does thought use to set the physical nervous system in motion?. These are the true questions that are at the heart of the quest to discover exactly what is consciousness. Many of the processes of consciousness have been clearly laid out. And because the brain and cognitive ability are intricately involved, the assumption has been made that consciousness must therefore reside in the brain; a natural and logical assumption. And lately some scientists, have declared that they have discovered the exact spot in the brain for the on and off switch for consciousness. A switch that turns consciousness on and off, is of course not the same as the creator of consciousness neither does it explain it’s nature. This discovery does however add useful information to the discussion; that consciousness has a switch that operates it’s flow. Perhaps in a similar way that a switch on an electrical circuit regulates the contacts that allow electricity to either flow, or to be turned off. This analogy has an interesting side note in that the greater percentage of the cells in the brain work through electrical activity, to send information and connect with each other.
The question what is consciousness, seems somewhat disingenuous when posed by those in the science and academia. A perfunctory exercise where those involved, already believe that there is no definite answer. Cognitive science, the study of the mind and it’s many functions, uses an interdisciplinary approach in an attempt to understand consciousness. But since each lens used falls into the parameters of known biology, established science, or accepted hypotheses, this is the equivalent of rearranging the furniture in a small apartment in the hope that it will eventually with the right combination, transform into a chateau. In other words, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology along with biology have all contributed to what is so far known and presumed about consciousness. Yet concrete understanding or firm consensus is still to be achieved using the usual methods. Can an intangible such as consciousness ever be understood using the kind of rigid thinking that refuses to look outside the box of what has been presumed and summarized before?.
While science and academia struggle to understand the nature of consciousness, growing interest in one particular human experience proves beyond the shadow of doubt, that consciousness in not created by, or confined to the brain. It also allows those curious enough and willing to explore, to discover the astounding truth about consciousness. Those who have had these mind blowing experiences, number in the many tens of thousands. These incredible experiences defy everything that we as humans think that we know about ourselves, reality and the nature of consciousness. And with clear cut templates to follow, thousands more are actively learning and anticipating the moment when they too will explore consciousness for themselves, rather than accepting mere suppositions as fact.
“1. Science advances one funeral at a time.”
2.”Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
3.”An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.”
So what is this experience?. At this point, it might be fitting to have a drum roll and perhaps the question “Are you ready for the truth?” I already know that there are those who “Can’t handle the truth.” At least not immediately or all at once,. However in time even the most die hard skeptic, will have no choice but to accept this truth once they have had the time to re-adjust their thinking and say goodbye to the beliefs they once held to be true. When enough people have been taught have the same experiences, any attempt to discredit it, will be a moot point. The experience that I have been describing is known as an OBE or “out of body experience.” There in that mind-bending, awe inspiring state, the ‘ghost in the machine,’ begins to reveal it’s secrets. We are not our human bodies, we are the consciousness, or mind that inhabits our bodies. Outside of our body, consciousness exists as a sea of brilliant light that emits an overwhelming feeling of love. With a little practice, we soon see that the sea of consciousness that we are enveloped in, demonstrates the most awesome power to instantly manifest whatever a thought directs it to manifest. Consciousness is irrevocably bound to thought, and when free of the body and existing in a higher dimension than the earth’s, consciousness has no limitations. In The Emerald tablets of Thoth; tablet No 5 titled "The Space Born," the writer describes, in the same cryptic vein that all the tablet are written in, a very lengthy description and endless encouragement about his prolonged OBE.
The Mysterious Void
The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, is as good as dead; His eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
We are all that thing; that ineffable I AM. Consciousness is I AM, the two most powerful words in any language on earth. We say in countless times throughout our lives, adding limiting words to follow the magnificence of I AM, and by doing so diminishing our true nature. We have looked everywhere but inside ourselves for the truth and for beings to save us from our fears and lack of knowledge when all along everything we seek is inside of ourselves. having a self controlled OBE gives new meaning to the phrase; “going inside the self.” I can think of no other experience that comes even close. Every thing else pales in comparison. What lies waiting to be discovered is breath taking and beyond superlatives. It is so breath taking because it so different from everything that we have ever been taught and believed about ourselves and the universe. Quantum Physics has in recent times declared that there are at least eleven different realities. Well they are just a little off. There are innumerable realities like individual honeycomb cells, existing in side by side in universes. Truly in amounts that cannot be appreciated by the human brain. This gives meaning to the idea, “that whatever you believe is true for you,” Your beliefs and thoughts, will join a reality, that most resembles it. Conversely, the thoughts from each reality, both the seen and the unseen, is broadcast out into space to be picked up by the human brain which is a thought receptor. you then decide consciously or subconsciously whether you want to accept that thought and make it yours by re- thinking it that is to say, by allow it to stay for a while inside your thinking brain in your cranium, or inside your emotion abdominal brain inside your Solar Plexus. This re-thinking is similar to the Twitter universe, where you can either like someone else's tweet, give a thumbs down, or re-tweet. This is how all human thoughts spread including those that have as their basis, fear, hate or love. Thoughts spread like a virus, except each human has the capability to immobilize their own inner immunity to any given thought virus.
In the experience, the physical body is seen from a perspective not normally seen in everyday existence. Even when we look in a mirror, we know that we are inside of our body and that we are only looking at a reflection of our self in the mirror. To get what an OBE feels like. stand in from of a mirror and imagine that the you looking, is in the perspective of the mirror, looking at the you standing in front of it. This is a little difficult to imagine first but with a little effort it is possible. However this little trick as amusing and useful as it is, does not approach even a billionth of the reality when you have exited your body and can see it lying motionless while you look at it from a distance. First of all, just being outside of your body and being aware that you are, is mind-opening enough but that is only the first grain of sand on the infinite beach of endless sand, that is consciousness. In an OBE, once the person having the experience goes beyond the astral world, which is a mirror image of earth, and journeys up through to more subtle dimensions, then the real lessons begin. And I use the word lesson specifically because all of existence is about learning and evolving. Every stage and dimension where the soul exists, is a school including earth. So once outside the body, those who are curious and brave enough to, seek more from the experience are taught more. And just as on earth, the questions are directed to the self.
The first self evident lesson is that consciousness exists independent of the body. Imagine that!. So much for all those biology lessons on earth. Next as a follow up to the first realization, since you are outside of your physical shell and still thinking, that it is the thinking part, whatever that is, that is the most important.. So when people die does the thinking part also die?. Well look around as you travel through the dimensions. There you will see the dead looking very much alive. Some you will recognize as your own family members and you can also communicate with them, mind to mind. That is because there is only one mind, that divides itself up into endless numbers of mini selves. I go back to the analogy of the sandy beach. Consider mind or consciousness as the beach; and each grain of sand as a unit which contributes to the entirety of beach. Exactly what some spiritual masters have been saying for centuries. And now in the twenty-first century, we have discovered the method to prove this knowledge for yourself.
Now on the subject of awesome manifesting powers. we should touch on the subject of how manifesting works, because the desires that humans have on earth, begins their journey to manifestation as a thought forms. I remember first reading about this many years ago in a book on Alchemy and thinking that it was just idle speculation meant to help the person interested in magical practices. Well I was wrong. This is an actual fact. Your thoughts that you have about a wish or desire, begins to manifest by first forming a thin wispy form that resembles thin wisps of smoke that becomes increasingly distinguishable as the actual thing or condition that you desire, as you give it more and more thought, visualization and emotional energy. Earthly desires are not expressed when doubt, questioning and fear energy wipes out the thought forms before they can solidify and manifest, or when they are abandoned through impatience or lack of diligence, or or another persons desires over rides the desire. There is always an effect that results from a cause such as a thought. I have been able to manifest many incredible things since childhood in a simple unstudied manner. For many years, I have instinctively felt that manifesting through The Law of Cause and Effect, was much more straightforward than The Law of Attraction, or at least the way that law is assumed by many to work. In fact, The Law of Attraction does not stand by itself, It is a part of the Law of cause and Effect. In the OBE state, The Law is, if you think it, it happens instantly right there before your eyes; “Cause and Effect.”
Traditional sciences are often intolerant of any information that does not fit neatly inside the accepted scientific frame work. The automatic response is to demand real science and real evidence, as if reality is somehow bound by and answerable to an imposed dogma. So proposing that a human being can willfully leave his or her body and return inside it again at a later time, is a crazy proposition in light of how reality and human bodies are supposed to behave. In spite of this, many people have done just that; exited their body at will, and returned to that same body later on, obviously ignoring the dismissal, disapproval and scorn of those who know that such a feat is impossible. Some explorers have even documented the places, landscapes, architecture, events and people far from their own geographical location, that they witnessed while in the out of body state. They later corroborated their observances with astounding accuracy. Maybe those who live in the confines of “impossible,” and who never dare to stray outside the known limits should not be looked to as the definitive source for what is ultimately possible.
The knowledge that within each human is immense power just waiting to be accessed, is already partially suspected though not intimately known to many who have used it to gain disadvantage over the greater mass of humanity. This is the knowledge that has been intimated by many Eastern Masters and even those Christian Mystics who have had glimpses into the true nature of consciousness. Their revelations have appealed to the appetites of greedy men who have sought to discover this power for themselves without the real understanding that they already possess it. In place of this knowledge, ancient artifacts, symbols, language, numerology, myth and even made up magic have been used as substitutes to the truth. The discovery of how the brain and psyche functions, gave birth to the means to gain psychological control over large portions of humanity using only language to imprison. A distracted, unaware and fearful human being will never stumble onto this knowledge with it’s easy to obtain proof of his true self. And with careful training, he will always give his power away to some outside authority. Enlightenment is consciousness’ own goal, pushing humanity to evolve, acquire knowledge, and especially to look within. This awakening and enlightenment obviously does not belong to either New Age Spirituality or to any religion. This is what is. And it waits to be discovered by every human who has ever lived, still lives, or yet to live. The process of profound illusion followed by the gradual evolution into enlightenment, is the process of individuation.
The great Mystery of Life is...
"that though the human heart longs for truth in which alone it finds liberation and delight. The first reaction of human beings to truth is one of hostility and fear!. " Anthony Mello
There are other tools aside from OBEs that are useful in gaining the insight and experience of consciousness such as deep meditation, especially the altered meditative state of Samadhi. Some Shamanic practices as well as plants such as Salvia and compounds such as Ayahuasca, can also give glimpses of consciousness as Shamans have demonstrated. However mind altering practices or plants are just that. Mostly mind altering as opposed to being mind enlightening. Many people taking these drugs report hallucinatory type experiences in which the focus seems to be the fantastical beings , colors etc which are encountered. An OBE uses a normal consciousness even though the physical body has been left behind. There is also the practice known as remote viewing in which a portion of consciousness is projected outside the body, that can also be very beneficial in learning to understand the nature of consciousness The optimum experience is when the person having the experience uses his full consciousness to view the experience, and also to control how he wishes it to progress. In so doing, when the person returns back to usual reality, the full memory of the entire experience is available and intact, and can then be contemplated for the lessons that it offers. This is not so in an altered state when the mind is controlled by a substance other than itself. Then the experience is more likely to be a surreal hallucinatory one. It is the difference between kindergarten and an Ivy League university.
The French Philosopher René Descartes, came close to solving the riddle of consciousness in his famous quote “I think therefore I am.” However the correct observation is; "I am, therefore I think." It is consciousness that is thinking, with the brain being the receptor and conductor of thoughts. Thinking is what consciousness does and thoughts are it's primary vehicle.The universe is mental or mind and the only way to prove or disprove this. is to take the voyage beyond the limits of the physical form.
Since Science cannot, and will not touch something that if widely known will decimate all of the world’s societies bedrock beliefs about reality, then those interested will have to make the discovery for themselves. And what if this discovery is something that we were intended to realize all along?. What if it became as commonplace for the majority of humanity to have daily or nightly out of body experiences, as it is to get on a plane to travel to a distant location in order to and experience new things?. Stop for a moment think of the possibilities and about what this ability to leave our bodies at will means. The so-called “veil,” could be permanently removed for most of humanity and earth’s ruling twin dogmas of science and religion, would be both dethroned. Those who develop the habit of regularly engaging in OBEs, would be forever free to decide their own futures. And when millions, perhaps even billions of people learn how to have OBE’s and or remote view, then lies and secrets would have nowhere to hide. Those who are not ready to engage in self initiated OBEs, can learn how to enter into a the state that Hindus call Samadhi and project their consciousness into their immediate or distant surroundings and even into other realms
There are lessons and important operational rules that need to be learned once the initial objective of exiting the body is achieved. Thoughts manifest instantly in an out of body state. So each person must pay very careful attention to the thoughts expressed in the new environment. Just like on earth, emotions add fuel to thoughts, and since we really only express degrees of either fear or love, the solution is obvious. To experience the light and it’s incredible feeling of love while in the out of body state, then align your thoughts and expectations with love. The incredible insights and self- empowerment that will be gained from developing these abilities, will mean that there there will no longer be ruling classes or second class citizens anywhere on earth. Humanity, or the greater portion, would finally be free. Is there a any vista that can rival flying out in the universe and seeing the earth from a distance?.
In a near death experience, it is the consciousness that leaves the body as the event is unfolding. I remember the first time that I saw a video several years ago with Anita Moorjani being interviewed about her NDE. I was struck by her evident honesty and awed by her remarkable complete healing from end stage cancer and on her death bed. Her account, of being able to correctly recount conversations out her hospital room or of seeing her brother on a plane rushing to her bedside and knowing his thoughts, were simply riveting. Hers is a testimony for humanity, at least for those who have ears to hear. The part of Anita that witnessed all that happened, she herself was in a coma, is consciousness and it survives the body after death. In remote viewing on the other hand, it is a portion of conscious awareness that is directed to the location desired. OBEs are the most desirable experience because they prove beyond the shadow of any doubt to those who experience them, that death is yet another illusion and that life continues in a different body that resembles the one left behind. And they are self willed and self controlled without any illness or accident being involved. NDEs or near death experiences, have certain similarities to OBEs in that there is an awareness that remains attached to the individual having that experience. And the experience is taking place outside of the body in other realities. However NDEs are neither willful or controlled and usually have the burden of illness or trauma. There are many individuals who have described in great details near death experiences. Some are very accomplished men and women who stand to lose careers and risk ridicule from friends and peers. Both OBEs and NDEs can reveal the answers to the question what is consciousness?. Something that no philosophical musing, biological search, or scientific hypothesis, has done so far. Yet despite the mounting evidence, scientists continue to shrug off the experiences recounted, as nothing more than hallucinations, disturbed minds, or the effects of a brain starved of oxygen. Like children who are afraid of the dark, covering their eyes or simply looking away.
Fortunately the experiences of OBEs and NDEs have no need of the approval of science or academia, since the experience is it’s own proof. My goal is to Spread the information about the ease of having OBEs and so demystify them,.OBEs have the greatest potential of freeing humanity from the mind slavery that traps so many on the planet and results is wars, hunger and other negative conditions. For those who might be hesitant, the first journey could be just learning how to do remote viewing in which a portion of the consciousness is projected out to the location desired and then what is seen is later corroborated with proof. As more people go on this voyage, and the database is expanded, and it becomes impossible to ignore, this will encourage others to take up the challenge to take the journey themselves. This is an incredible reason to feel excited and hopeful, because there is a now tool within everyone's reach that, with a little practice and perseverance can be used to test the validity of what I have described. Once enough people accomplish this and talk about it, this will start a domino effect in which more and more people will become curious and willing to take the journey themselves following the handbook written with the experiences of those of have succeeded before. As this knowledge spreads and the amount of those who succeed increase in number all around the planet, the movement will gain even more momentum. Snowballing to become the catalyst that brings peace to the planet.
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