Awareness
“It is
impossible to experience the appearance of awareness. We are that
awareness to which such an appearance would occur. We have no
experience of a beginning to the awareness that is seeing these
words. We have no experience of its birth. We have no experience that
we, awareness, are born.”
Rupert
Spira (Presence: The Intimacy of All Experience)
We had an interesting
discussion yesterday in a Jungian study group about becoming
conscious. In thousands of years, only a few humans have fully
comprehended the nature of consciousness, and why it is so important
to cultivate. Jung described it as the joining of the opposites—when
all the opposites are joined within one person, that person becomes
fully conscious. Jesus is quoted as describing it this way in the
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Saying #22: “When you make the two
into one, and when you make the inner as the outer, and when you make
the male and the female into a single one, so the male shall not be
[only] male, and the female shall not be [only] female...then you
shall enter the kingdom of heaven.” When we understand that
there is no degree of separation, that we are individual expressions
of one conscious awareness that has no beginning and no end, then we
will attain individual consciousness.
Another, less complicated
way of looking at it is, “the devil is in the division.” When we
don't understand that we are all part of one whole, we perceive
ourselves as separate. We split into us-and-them, good-and-evil,
right-and-wrong, worthy-and-unworthy. When we don't see the darkness
of our own shadow in the world, we feel justified in wreaking havoc
with our weapons and our wars because “they” are our enemy, and
therefore must be defeated. Rupert Spira, in his book, The
Transparency of Things, said,
“We take that which is unreal to be real, and that which is real to
be unreal.”
The cultivation of
consciousness is critically important in our world. We are seeing the
consequences of its lack in every corner of this planet, in every
arena from governments to weather, from all-out war to street
fighting, from the migration of millions of besieged people to shut
gates and built walls, and from the worst mass shootings in history
against people simply because they are perceived as “other”. We
must pay attention to the “We are...” chants that we call out at
such times: We are Charlie Hebdo! We are Paris! We
are Sandy Hook! And Ferguson, and Aurora, and Chicago, and nine
living souls shot dead in a Charleston Church. And now, we are Orlando. Indeed, we are. It is time for
humanity to make this leap. We must become aware of our oneness.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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