From the waking state of consciousness (described within the Ascension book by MSI) we look out of eyes that seem to relate to a world that is sometimes in conflict with the personal reality of beliefs and idealism. The idea: "If I were creator of the world and the universe, I would create things differently or at least make some changes," often comes into our thoughts when the personal beliefs conflict with one or more of the many individuals and
their choices, in the world around us.
Obviously there are things that could change in our world to reflect a more harmonious and loving way of life, by eliminating the suffering of disease, starvation and political conflicts. What then can one person do to effect a change in our world?
Our thoughts have a profound effect on the world around us. But often our thoughts are not so well organized and focused to bring about the changes we desire in our own lives, let alone the changes that are necessary to bring harmony to a world in conflict with itself.
If we want to build a house to live in, we need to organize our thoughts toward what we want that will serve our lifestyle. It is not the house that makes a home for us, it is our lifestyle and our personality that influences what we fill our house with that makes it a home.
Our body is a home to our individual consciousness, or our
soul if you will. There was
thought given to creating it and the world that it lives in by your individual (soul) consciousness.
It was not your body that created the individual awareness that makes you unique in and amongst so many individuals in the world. It was your individual consciousness that built the house that it lives in, and that house
is your body. Not only is your body an extension or reflection of that consciousness, but the world and all that is in it is an extension of your body. Your house is the body and the world in which you live. It was conceived as you
experience it, by you and you alone.
If you remember some of the information that is given in the First Sphere weekend around thoughts, you heard that scientists say we think anywhere between 50,000 to 100,000 thoughts per day. Not all of these thoughts are organized thoughts that follow a pattern or direction that we are consciously aware of. Some of these thousands of thoughts rise into the awareness from the unconscious levels of the mind where they are stored as memories. Some of the memories are stress related, which conflict with our desires to create the world of our dreams on the surface level of thinking. We don't consciously desire to create conflict in the thoughts we have, but we give attention and meaning to thoughts that conflict with each other based on conflicting beliefs. An example would be a belief that good exists and the other that bad exists and conversely conflicts with the good. Our desire to manifest the good for us is influenced by the fear that the bad can affect our desire for good. Our beliefs that these two opposing forces are naturally working against each other is counterproductive and an illusion created by the ego. The reason I say it is an illusion is because relatively speaking what we judge to be bad is subjective, or a judgment of personal beliefs and ideals.
Not everyone agrees on what is good or bad in some cases. Some might see benefits arise from the contrast of experiences that are
judged to be bad, yet the experience may inspire one to rise above the conditions that created the experience. If one is successful, the experience is subject to a change in judgment. Everything is subject to the conditions of judgment, and the point of view from the personal opinion, which is evolving and going to change. We could say that personal realities are sometimes in conflict due to varying perspectives in the objective point of view, where everyone sees what they will according to how they will choose to look at it.
This brings up an important part of the subjective and objective experience...
Choice... and what it means in the comprehensive study of the world and our relationship to it.
Someone once coined the phrase "
EGO... everything goes outward." This meaning that all attention is turned outward on the senses, to see the world as an entity in and of itself, with a power to conflict with the desires of the individual. This is what the Hindu traditionalists in Eastern Philosophy call
The Illusion of the Waking State. Because we know from the experience of higher states of consciousness that we form our reality from our thoughts and beliefs, we know that there is merit to this idea of an
illusion being created by the outward going senses.
The purpose of Ascension is to rise above the limitations created by the illusions of waking state beliefs that place the world in a position that seems either for us or against us, and as a power greater than our own thoughts. Jesus, during his ministry, taught from his own experience. As an Ishaya, he used to say "If you have the faith of a grain of a mustard seed, you could say "move mountain" and the mountain would move for you." He spoke to this reality as all Ishayas do, that the universe is at the command of Human consciousness. He didn't speak of the consciousness of the waking state ego, but the human presence and awareness that does not identify with the house consciousness built, but that which knows itself as the builder of the house.
The Universal consciousness:
Through the approach to the Ascendant, or the
Absolute, we can acknowledge (in our familiarity with the Ascendant), what we sometimes call the Higher Self or Universal Self.
It is always working with all reflections of itself, in the many, many individual personalities in the world around us.
"Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up a stone, and you will find me there" -
Gospel of Thomas. This statement is the acknowledgment of consciousness, aware of consciousness within all matter, or awareness of the Ascendant in all things. The acknowledgement and recognition of the Ascendant Presence within all that is.
If you look at the Human body with its millions of cells, all working together to make the body what it is, each cell has its own purpose and its own consciousness. Each cell is aware of itself, as well as the other cells, and the body consciousness of which it is a part of. At a level of our conscious awareness, we are similar to all of these cells in that we make up a much larger body within the Universe itself. Also, we are aware of all of the other individual consciousnesses of personality in the reflection of the ONE Ascendant Consciousness.
We take many directions in our creativity and interaction with all individual personalities at levels of awareness that are foreign to the waking state mind. It is at the level of the
waking state that humans who identify with being human,
separate from the ONE Ascendant Self (
and its infinite reflections), can suffer in the idea that the world and those in it conflict with our personal beliefs and work against us. This is where Ascension is necessary to end suffering and separation.
By taking the mind inward to the Ascendant, the mind begins to saturate itself in an awareness that is not separate with the world, but rather the creator and participant of the evolving and expanding reflections of awareness and choice. Here we leave the conditioning of fear and separation of the ego behind. We do this to reacquaint ourselves with a friend, possibly familiar or unfamiliar and forgotten.
The more we do it the more we know about our friend, and the less of our awareness is left to illusions of fantasy and ignorance.
Immersing the mind in the "Universal Self" puts us on a pathway that is in alignment with all beings everywhere, and in all times and in all realities.
There is no limit to the human condition,
unless you limit the human to conditions of temporary ideals and beliefs. It wasn't that long ago that humans believed the world was flat. It wasn't that long ago that doctors believed the body was primary and the mind secondary.
Illusions never changed the bigger reality, only the perceptions of reality. Thinking the world was flat didn't make it so, and in turn thinking we are victims to reality and our bodies does not make it a fact... but it can have an effect on the way we experienced our bodies and our world.
Taking the mind to a greater place than programs of illusion, naturally allows those illusions to fall away and to give us a boost into greater awareness of Self that is not in conflict with the world around us.
We can change our awareness of separated personal universes into the awareness of a Universe that is ONE. It takes very little time and a small commitment to
take the time, to make the choices that will change our experience and our way of thinking. One only need to have a desire for change and it will begin. What kinds of change will depend on how organized your thoughts are, and at what level of conscious awareness you make your choices.
"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it... A house divided against itself cannot stand." -Abraham Lincoln-
Mahadeva Ishaya
