Consciousness Rules, Okay!

March 2nd, 2016

Awake Goy

Consciousness Rules Okay - Unaware

3rd March 2016

I remember when, many years ago, I used to listen to one of my friends talking about Krishnamurti. He was into Krishnamurti’s teachings exclusively, whereas I gleaned grains of wisdom wherever I could. He would go on and on about this great man, repeating some of the statements that had so impressed him. Two in particular stuck in my head, mainly because they seemed so blatantly ridiculous. Knowledge is the barrier to discovery. And, ‘There is no such thing as the unconsciousness.’

As far as I was concerned, these were preposterous statements. How could a spiritually enlightened man be so in error? The question really bothered me. If he was correct, how could I, and most other people, be so incorrect? In those days my life was dominated by my spiritual quest for the realisation of Self, my spiritual enlightenment. I read many of the books that were available at that time, but I never could get into the books by J. Krishnamurti. For me, he talked in riddles. I did realise that he was an intellectual, while I was very much a heart person, and as I know today, heart and brain each speak in a different language.

Although I thought he was mistaken, I could never dismiss his words. They stuck in me, hammering away on the edge of my awareness, chipping away at my smug assumption that I was right. Logic certainly seemed to be on my side. It was perfectly logical that knowledge was the very ‘path’ to discovery, not the ‘barrier,’ and as for no such thing as the unconscious, well, that was ridiculous. What would happen if I hit a person on the head with a lump of wood? They would fall unconscious! So why, oh why, would Krishnamurti make statements so obviously false? That was the factor that bothered me.

Years later, when I was forty-nine and three months … everything changed. After a close to death crisis, put simply, I became Self-realised. I moved into a ‘knowing’ of life. Be aware that spiritual enlightenment is not the end of our journey, it is but a new beginning; however, it is a profound ‘leap’ in consciousness. And be aware that spiritual enlightenment is not an experience held in linear time. Although there is a linear moment – a linear time/date – spiritual enlightenment is an experience forever held in the consciousness of the moment. So, having this experience, all the remarks of Krishnamurti that had seemed absurd, challenging and seemingly false, emerged from the fog of the intellect into the clarity of Truth. Of course, he was correct. As a basis for this article, I am going to take the second statement, “There is no such thing as the unconscious” and do my best to explain it.

“There’s no such thing as the unconscious…”

Consciousness is not something that crops up in everyday conversation, yet it is a state of being that is with every one of us every moment of our lives. Consciousness is not something that we are aware of on a daily basis, nor do we in any way celebrate our consciousness. In fact, celebration for many people means to further confuse and inebriate their consciousness. Put simply, we are not conscious of consciousness, and seldom conscious of being conscious!

Let me put before you one of the Principles of Truth that defines all life forms on Earth: Consciousness draws to itself physical form through which to express; the expression is consciousness. This means that we are Beings of consciousness, expressing that spiritual consciousness through our physical bodies. In other words, we are not bodies expressing consciousness, we are consciousness expressing through our bodies. It should also be stated that all consciousness is One – not yours and mine – but just One consciousness that expresses through all physical life forms on this planet – including the planet! I have said that we are not aware of consciousness, but neither are we aware of breathing, until or unless we are having trouble breathing. We are not aware of our hearts beating, our blood flowing, our organs working, our digestion taking place. We are compelled to be aware when our bowels and bladder need emptying, and our body needs feeding, but we are not aware of the difference between food that supports the body and so-called food that destroys it. We are not aware when sickness first invades our body, and we are not aware of our body’s most basic life-support needs until we are in serious trouble. We are unaware that as physical Beings we are vehicles of consciousness. In fact, we are incredibly unaware, period!

It takes little effort to show how unaware of consciousness we humans are, but in Nature it is a very different story. Without going into details – my books do that – I am a person who has learned to cross the membrane that divides the physical world from the metaphysical. As a conscious Being, I can leave my physical body relaxed and resting, while I enter other vehicles of consciousness. I choose to do this with Nature, moving my conscious awareness into the body of an animal or bird. I have done this hundreds of times, and not once, from domestic to wild animals have I ever found an animal that was unaware of its consciousness. The animal or bird is always aware of its consciousness not as separate – as we experience it – but as a single unit in the Whole consciousness of Nature. This, in turn, leads to a staggeringly different relationship with life than we humans experience. Not better, or worse, just different. The main thrust of that difference is in the animal’s ‘awareness’ of the ongoing conscious moment of its life. We, basically, have no awareness of the ongoing conscious moment of life, while Nature never for a second loses it.

I well remember the first experience I had of an Australian Wedge-tailed eagle. I was lying relaxed on one of our fields on the foothills of Mount Arthur, in Tasmania, when this eagle began a slow, lazy spiral about a hundred metres above me. I watched it, inner-quiet, relaxed, with just the thought of how nice it would be to fly with the eagle. There was a sudden, inner, wrenching-twist … and I was looking down onto my prone body from the eyes of the eagle. The experience was wonderful, but the point I want to make was that moment of seeing from the eyes of the eagle. The eagle looked through the eyes of immediacy. We look through the eyes of our intellect, our knowledge, our beliefs, our expectations, our desires, our hopes, our education, our wants, our fears, our frustrations, on and on, but worst of all, we look through the eyes of yesterday.

Only a child looks through the eyes of the moment, yet somewhere in their early years of growth and education, we inadvertently take that gift from them. Can you even imagine the impact of seeing through eyes that relate only to the vital newness of the moment? This does not mean that the eagle’s experiences are invalid, or removed, or that intelligence is not involved; it means that none of this gets in the way of the newness and immediacy of the moment. This is something that humanity has lost, has surrendered to the hurry of our lives, to the collecting of information, to the collaboration of knowledge, and most foolish of all, to the sanction of a science that is based in separation … but this is changing with quantum physics.

The eagle was conscious in the moment, of the moment. The eagle, without intellect, but with natural conscious intelligence, was conscious of consciousness. Even more than this, it was the movement of consciousness in me that drew the consciousness in the eagle to make the connection. Eagle and person, very different in their expressions of consciousness, but both expressing the ‘same’ consciousness. It was not the choice of an eagle to make the connection with a human; it was the choice of the intelligence within consciousness to offer a human an opportunity to experience a greater reality of consciousness. And I did.

All life is the expression of consciousness. All life is consciousness in continuity. This continuity of consciousness cannot be interrupted, subverted, displaced, or ended. Whether a human is conscious of consciousness or not makes no difference to consciousness, even though it makes a huge difference to the person, or people, involved. We have progressively developed a way of living that more and more depends on a supportive, yet holistically unaware system, and less and less depends on the conscious intelligence of the individual. This, in turn, has let us away from a highly developed sense of consciousness, to a dimmer, more distant sense of consciousness. Okay … so I hit a person on the head with a piece of wood, and they fall ‘unconscious’ to the ground. Wrong! They fall to the ground because consciousness no longer has the required connection through the brain to the physical body. If you make a telephone call, and while talking to the other person they hang up, they are not suddenly unconscious, they have electronically disconnected from you. The same with the wood and the person’s head – a sudden bio-electric and biological disconnection from consciousness . . . which continues!

Following in the footsteps of Sigmund Freud, psychologists today talk and teach about the collective human unconscious. There is no collective human unconscious! Nor are there unconscious emotions. But having said this, most emotions are involved in the arena of not being conscious of consciousness. You can no more have unconsciousness than you can have un-life. Even in death there is full consciousness of the continuing human experience. However, it has to be said that if there is little to no awareness of being fully conscious in life, the situation is not going to improve in the experience we call death. It is worth noting, there are thousands of recorded incidents where people on the hospital table, fully anaesthetised, have later described all that happened during their operation to a startled, generally disbelieving surgeon. A human not aware of consciousness when hit on the head is no different from a person not aware of consciousness in normal everyday life. Same conditions – chronic unawareness! In fact, this is so bad in humanity it has become – terminal unawareness. If a person is hit on the head they cease to be aware of the consciousness of the moment; this is called unconsciousness. This must therefore imply that if people in everyday life are not aware of the consciousness of the moment, they are walking, working, unconscious people.