Levels of Consciousness
April 30, 2010The word “consciousness” is both embraced and shunned. It’s no wonder since the word is used to denote so many things that simply have no finite meaning. Is consciousness spirit? I use those two words interchangeably on many occasions where I feel a religious spirit lives. Fishing in the natural is done with a bait appropriate for the intended fish to be caught.
Simply put, consciousness is any level of awareness in which one currently decides to exist. Thus, one who belongs to a denomination is at that “state of awareness”. There’s a Baptist consciousness as well as a Methodist consciousness
Dennis Holtje writes, “We give life and meaning to the many levels of consciousness that exist within our being through the soul’s faculty of attention”. What’s your focus, has your attention, is that which you think most often? Whatever that is makes up your current consciousness.
Our human consciousness with its many attendant levels of “thought and thinking” does have an ultimate destination. Consciousness, spelled with a capital “C” is “The eternal, timeless, and immaterial essence of all humanity originating in God, predating birth, and surviving death.” How our soul does long to be delivered from the various levels of consciousness of learned behavior, borrowed thought, and religious bias.
Regardless of religious affiliation (Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Taoist, etc.) we all aspire to a Christ-consciousness which is unconditional love that leads one into Father-consciousness where our souls comes to rest. Whatever we do may we not get stuck and stay in ANY level of consciousness.
As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.