Talking of "new age," is it not the new age that has brought upon this world the downward spiral we are going through. Built on ego driven materialism, greed, anger and downright self obsession we head on blindly and relentlessly towards the abyss. These 'teachings' are far from new age, Are we so arrogant to believe we know all the answers, or are we so blind, we cannot see, or don't have the time to care. Humanity is in a mess of it's own making right now....
As an intelligent person OW, I would not expect you to say anything other. Your logic is good, but logic will not serve you well on this journey my friend.
The approach to it (Mind, Absolute, Void, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment) is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity. If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.
"Those who seek the truth by means of the intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."
Huang Po
It's an unfortunate commonality that most self-described ‘rational’ people quickly dismiss anything that doesn’t fit neatly inside of the worldview that they’ve created for themselves. And here you are- challenging everything that they’ve come to know with your silly notions of spirituality. How dare you! How dare you rock the boat! How dare you, with your personal beliefs, make someone else rethink everything they thought they knew about the nature of their personal existence?
Because, you see, that’s what your vulnerability, your openness about your truth, does to them. It threatens their ego by shaking the very foundation upon which it is built. Tell me, what kind of strength does one have to have to be able to affect a person in such a way? It is my experience that most people will respond by attempting to diminish your thoughts and your beliefs- to make you feel inferior, to reinstate that sense of normalcy and control that they just lost in the face of your admission.
Do you see the power you wield in your vulnerability?
Indeed, a realisation is taking place, and it's gathering momentum. Awareness is the key, we have to 'wake up' soon, before it's too late.
A little more from Denise Lawrence, who I've had the pleasure of meeting and attending her talks on a couple of occasions.
Your Task
Soul Consciousness gives you the power to flex with any scene within the Drama. Inner power is a set of tools, attitudes and poses that protect the soul. Pain taken into the soul at any point in life distorts and corrupts the essence. As long as there is pain, it drives character defects. The process of removal of pain from the soul is painful therefore tolerance is required. Tolerance means to detach and to surrender, letting go of all forms of ego. Ego is resistance, covering up, avoiding realities. Alternating, you have to face and tolerate. Discrimination and discernment, self-diagnosis of your character is required. See: what did I do to myself… what was done to me? Put it into perspective; see the origin, emergence and dissolution of all occurrences. Discern the patterns, and adjust. Neither you not anyone else is to blame. You become reconciled to the paradoxes of happiness and sorrow, justice and injustice.
Soul Consciousness gives you enough distance to judge yourself accurately through rigorous self-checking that reveals the true nature of your motivations. The effort of Soul Consciousness is to become honest. Soul Consciousness tunes you to the original essential frequency of your being… a soundless harmonious note exclusive to you. Any dissonance becomes tangible and the conscience catches the force that drives the soul to perform negative actions. The activated conscience upholds the harmony and integrity of the soul, refusing all thoughts that lead to dissonance. The intellect begins to work.
Body Consciousness is self-sabotage… you undermine yourself, deliberately, knowingly, yet unconsciously. You know, but don’t know, you see, but don’t see yourself. Body Consciousness raises excuses. I had to because… I couldn’t because… I can’t because… Soul Consciousness says: I can… I will… I am…
Body Consciousness sees no way out of dilemmas. Alternately it paralyses the soul or takes you into depression. Your courage ebbs away and is replaced by moral cowardice. You begin to lie and turn your back on truth. You lose your ability to empathise and may become cruel in the name of social conventions. You begin to accumulate debt and your mind creeps into unconsciousness. Your heart no longer has a place for God as it fills with waste and negativity. Now you avoid the disturbing sound of silence.
Your Experience
Soul Consciousness is satisfaction. It is an inner state of total acceptance of the self, or all others and of all scenes of the drama of life. In Body Consciousness you flip flop on the roller coaster of the pairs of opposites, loving and hating, exuberant and in despair. In Soul Consciousness you are calm, deep, and beyond storms. You are balanced in the knowing that nothing can destroy you, nothing can corrupt you and nothing can break into your harmony. You are fully integrated. You are ready. You can leave and return in your perfected state, both physical and spiritual.
The contrast between soul consciousness and body consciousness.
Soul consciousness is derived from experiencing the self as the soul, having understood its definition. I am a point of incorporeal conscient light. The essential elements of my own self are purity, peace, love, power and bliss to the fullest extent. Recognising that the self is this, practicing to be like this, evokes the experience of being jut this. Using the mind to envision the self as invisible, immortal and ultra-subtle enables the self to experience itself. I am Me… or OM.. I am Peace. Om Shanti becomes your self-introduction. You introduce yourself to yourself as a peaceful being… detached.
Body consciousness is the endless whirling of the mind from one thought to another, associated or disconnected, thought. You identify yourself as your body, seeing your persona in comparison with others. Perceiving yourself to be greater than or less that the other. Negative emotions fuel your inner landscape yet you use a variety of tactics to avoid feeling your feelings. You find yourself constructing plausible masks, which you refine or replace when their luster dims. You find reasonable justifications for your weak actions.
Your Approach
The recommendation is this: Consider yourself to be a soul and focus your mind on the Source, the Supreme Power, the Higher Intelligence, God. Go within, stay within and savour your inner self. Be with yourself and keep the outside on the outside. Sitting in the consciousness of the soul, you gradually become silent. That is, the mind quietens down. I sit in the silent space mid-point between the extremes of happiness and sorrow that spin around noisily. Being still means just being… not doing.
Everywhere, souls seem to be impregnated with materialism… arrogance, greed or violence. Body Consciousness devours the higher aspects of your soul, drains its energy, and compels you to act against your own interests. The soul becomes burdened, bows under the weight and drags on. Body consciousness compels you to lay blame, generate complaints and criticisms to create the illusion of being OK. You, the soul, forget your essence and sink into lethargy, craving stimulation. In that state, many conclude there is no soul at all. There is only matter, electricity, self-gratification. Only soulless matter is real.
For the rest of the article...http://bkdclasses.net/2014/07/02/the-contrast-of-soul-consciousness-and-body-consciousness/
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Most people are only able to use the five senses. It's little surprise then that those who are limited to the basic senses are unable to comprehend anything other than normal.
People have delusions...fear, hate, desires and many more. Only when you recognise and face your delusions a new way of being comes into place. The three main religions do little to help us look within to find the answers.
"If it wasn't for all the hysterical self righteous bullying that we've been subjected to in recent years, many of us might still be labouring under the illusion that religion is relatively harmless."
Colourism is about the colour of a persons skin. I think you will find black dogs and cats have the same colour skin as any other cat or dog. Interestingly though, a polar bear has black skin.
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Soul Consciousness.
Talking of "new age," is it not the new age that has brought upon this world the downward spiral we are going through. Built on ego driven materialism, greed, anger and downright self obsession we head on blindly and relentlessly towards the abyss.These 'teachings' are far from new age, Are we so arrogant to believe we know all the answers, or are we so blind, we cannot see, or don't have the time to care. Humanity is in a mess of it's own making right now....
and guess what...I hate to say we told you so.