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From Awareness To Unity
To grow from a speck of consciousness to complete self-awareness is a natural process, although few people get to the end of it. If you close your eyes and sit quietly, you will experience the same feeling of “I am” that a yogi has, but this fundamental sense of self can be very limited or very large. It can be so fragile that a crisis will easily shatter it, or it can be so firm that you could build the world on it.
The fragmented self pretends to be firm and solid, but the rock inside is made of pain, denied emotions, and guilt. This repressed pain eventually makes itself known, either by causing suffering or by bringing up a mirror image which reveals the presence of pain even if the feeling itself cannot be faced. But denial is incredibly powerful. Any reality, however punitive, can be seen as acceptable, even ideal.
There is a huge difference between different states of consciousness, but each one tends to feel as if one has found unity. “Unity” means a sense of being in touch with reality, of seeing things as they are.
Because we all harbor the secret belief that our level of awareness must be the right one, it seems all but impossible to credit that there is, in fact, a state of true unity. The rishis called it Brahmi Chetna, “unity consciousness,” and declared that it was the goal toward which all other states of consciousness are evolving.
Anyone who has a speck of self-awareness is heading, however haltingly, toward it. The difference between me, a man who lives in ordinary waking consciousness, and a man in unity is that I see the world dominated by differences: billions of separate fragments cluster together to form my reality. A man in unity sees these fragments, too, but underneath them he perceives wholeness. To him, the world with all its diversity is just one thing.
Adapted from Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams, by Deepak Chopra (A Bantam Book, 1991).
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add your comment »Richard that is very interesting, obviously in reality the "Big Bang" is occurring now as now is all there is. Who is Walter Starke?
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I think a key statement here in Deepak’s commentary is: "Because we all harbor the secret belief that our level of awareness must be the right one, it seems all but impossible to credit that there is, in fact, a state of true unity." This thought, or personal "reality", is what keeps people separate from each other and inhibits the truth of universal connection. If "I" am right in my thinking, then "you" are wrong. Being separate beings fosters hate, intolerance, prejudice, wars, greed, exploitation...
However if there was no "I" but only "we", our species would understand that what we do to another will eventually affect us. Science and quantum physics is proving that there really is no separation, no great void that separates matter. All is connected by infinitely small vibrations. And when one vibration is affected, all vibrations are affected.
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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I find it amazing how so many talk about the need for living reality. How REALITY is the key to many self help ideas. YET, in todays world denial if reality is EVERYWHERE. Perpetrated by the very ones screaming how reality is the path. We hide reality of life from our children. Oh no, thats too violent to show them or talk about, thats too graphic or too werid, or Anti-scocial, thats too scocial, thats too mature, thats too REALISTIC, too Religious, Not religious enough on and on. We teach them to beleive and TRUST in an EASTER BUNNY, SANTA CLAUSE, TOOTH FAIRY, MONKEY GOD(defender of Asain children) and even bad things like the BOOGGY MAN, WHITCHES and folk lores from other countries. YET, we refuse to allow REALITIES into their lives so they can grow-up BALANCED. Death, LIFE, responcibility for actions or non-actions, REAL MEANINGS of incidents, GENDER reasons of differance and why, SEX. Oh there it is the dark evil. SEX. How to have, How to stay BABY SAFE and avoid disease. How to determine when sex is to become part of their lives. It is differant for everyone. Everyone's hormonal growth (maturity) happens at differant times. The realities in life are NOT what you want or THINK should be, but what IS. Truely knowing and understanding ALL real realities is what allows for change, avoidence and enhancement of future REALITIES. IGNORANCE breeds confusion, insecurity, negligence and fear of life. This breeds Agression, Hate and DISTRUCTION.
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I share the perspectives of Walter Starke that Uma alluded to, that a balanced consciousness is a double thread, a concurrent appreciation of the subjective and objective experience where cause and effect become one. In reality everything is energy, in either a material or radiating form and comes from the same "big bang" of consciousness that occurred some 14 billions years ago. As our awareness of this commonality of all creation evolves the universe will fully impress upon the human intellect its intention. Contrary to contemporary myth man is not the master of the universe, rather he is a captive of the cosmos. The sooner we fully align ourselves with creation by going with the natural flow, rather than bullying the environment to satisfy self-centered or economic interests, will will attain the blissful and joyous life the creator intends for all of creation.
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How fascinating to contemplate the concept of unity and uniqueness as being the universal general rule. Individuality is inherent in life forms, not just human but universally.The scientist who advised on the Disney movie "Bugs Life" spoke about how in the observation of five different ants five different responses would be given to her presence. One would approach, one would retreat, one would freeze, and so forth till she was seeing infinite different responses in infinite ants. She speculated that this would be the norm down to the micro world and that it was an illustration of the infinite creativity of the ALL THAT IS. Simultaneously: we are looking at a reality in which everything is made of one substance, both matter and energy, that is vibrating at different intensities;at the core of which, infinitely , micro and macro, is consciousness in blissful self awareness, the mind of ALL THAT IS the source of all. Every part of our world and being is flickering between that source awareness and it's expression in infinite form.The perception of expressed creative individuality and the awareness of unity is a matter of attention. The paradox of the simultaneous reality both of unity and individuality is the fulfillment of the law of opposites that governs physical manifestation in this dimension. In creation the birth of light immediately manifests it's opposite,darkness is born:fire and water, the polarity presents air the connector and thus earth,the manifest form is born.
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Thank you Deepak for your constant words of wisdom and inspiriation.
All thoughts, words, ideas and feelings on the subject still only describe something that we believe or percieve as I am. When the true unadulterated seeing happens then everything falls away and life as we are living it carries on however in a totally different light which defies all words and concepts.
Of course there is always room for improvement :-).
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