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An Automatic Writing on Consciousness
(received on 1st June 2001)
Looking back at the past tells us how we got to where we are. You have arrived was certain awareness, deception and set of tools, and it is with these that we interact with the present to build the future. The present a sum total collection of accumulated experience, derived from actions, reactions and interactions. As the staging point from which we set off on the next part of a journey. Through spiritual growth and awareness our ability to better deal situations as they arise increases. It is correct that we create our own destiny, and our day-to-day lives and interactions, but mostly (at our current level of awareness) our knowledge of what the future holds is obscured from the conscious mind (cf. occultism, much of what is spiritual is obscured). The reason for this is to allow the experiencer to experience. That initially is the function and reason for the separation of the parts of the mind. This is the microcosmic version of the concept of God experiencing itself via the "creation" of the universe. This is necessary to facilitate growth in the evolutionary sense as knowledge by itself is not experience of sensations and feelings. Future levels of consciousness extrapolate experiences down to a core level and combined with knowledge serve to create synthesis of what is currently seen as divided. It is correct to perceive a division of mind although fundamentally important to understand that this is how the conscious mind views itself as disconnected from the unconscious, much as man tends to view himself as separate from nature. Nature does not view man as separate from it, nor does it particularly perceive itself, in the usual sense of self awareness. Nature is (nature is a state of being). The conscious mind is what provides self-awareness (cf. "Lucifer" rebellion). The unconscious by nature, is a state of being. In a sense the conscious mind is a mirror to reflect back that state of being via a process of doing. This is necessary to achieve a full reintegration of rearranged concepts and ideas into more refined patterns, much in the way crystallisation occurs. This is the process of evolution, an inner-alchemy of purification and recombination. The recombination of the being mind on the doing mind will occur once sufficient permutations of experiencing states of being have occurred. This is both through experience of physical and spiritual states of being. The process can be completed one lifetime if sufficient experiences can be achieved via communication between the unconscious and conscious minds (i.e. undertaking various esoteric activities). Specific activities to help expediate the process include sensory deprivation, mind control, breathing exercises, and meditation. Esoteric practices have to do with experiencing the unconscious, while mundane life builds increasing self awareness of the physical and conscious self. The single most important interaction of mind is dreaming and all forms of this phenomena (sleeping, waking, visualisation, passive, active). Lucid dreams approximate an advanced state of awareness where the self-aware consciousness is intimately active with the unconscious.
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