I
find it interesting that much information and research about the brain
has been published in recent months. Neural biologists are exploring
deeper and deeper, discovering more about how the brain
works. Their theories and hypotheses are all leading toward
a revelation of the brain. I see that in a short while,
most superstitions, beliefs and concepts will be exposed, and
there will be a leap in consciousness.
When I look at the world, I see how it is held back by beliefs,
conditioning, concepts; I see how superstitious most humans are, caught
in some arena of belief "about" life, a "should"
or a "shouldn't."
Life is on the verge of
a quantum leap for the brain. When that expansion
happens, it will also facilitate a quantum leap for
the physical body, because in the past, as certain evolutionary leaps
happened for the human race, they opened the door for more.
It is said that humans had the potential for speech for perhaps
a thousand years before they actually spoke. The lifespan of
humans was so short that they didn't have sufficient time to develop
the brain to enable them to speak. By the time the brain developed
sufficiently for individuals to speak, they died. A very few
were left to carry on the development of language. It is reasonable
to suppose that there were fits and starts in the early attempts
at language; efforts to speak a language may have
arisen and then died out, each time requiring that humans start
over again.
The potential for the leap in consciousness, that I am now aware
of, has been with us for a long time, possibly thousands
of years. In the past, this leap may have risen
to the surface, and then died out. Perhaps that explains the rise
of various teachers in the past; maybe there was a moment when the
brain was so in sync that it started to go beyond the
past limitations, and started to access something more,
but there weren't enough people to maintain it. When the
individual teachers died, the movements died out with them, leaving
only superstitious teachings of "they say." So it
is possible that humans have been trying to awaken for a long time,
having had attempts and moments of waking awareness.
It is a great privilege to be living at this time, to be aware, to
be present, to have the kind of information and possibilities that
are inherently ours. We are living at the edge of
a quantum leap for humanity, where tremendous hope and possibility are
present now.
In the past I have talked about memes: thoughts which "catch
on" and are adopted by many people, thus becoming part
of society. Many problems in the world are memes, concepts
or thought patterns that have taken life and have programmed countless
individuals. In that light, you can perhaps realize that
almost anything is possible. People look at something and
say it is "impossible," but it becomes "impossible"
only because people say so, only because of the memes, the concepts
and conditioning of
the past.
You may not know how far you are from that consensus, but you
can tell from the quality of your life, the quality of your moments.
If you look at your moments and see that they are up and down, scattered
all around, then you can realize that you have consensus-reality interference
which is distorting your experience. As you gradually begin
to achieve a level of evenness, you become accustomed to a harmonious,
easy flow of Life, without great effort, without resistance or
attachment, but just being with what-Is. To the intellect,
that seems rather complacent. The intellect resists evenness
because the intellect needs to be scared out of its wits much of the
time in order to believe anything is happening. You may
even be accused of being non-productive or "not caring."
Those are hooks that the conditional intellect uses to keep people
under control, to keep people performing in a way which satisfies
the consensus world: the corporations, the government, families.
Waking up is an outstanding process, an outstanding possibility.
Coming to Life, coming to awareness is a momentous occasion for an
individual. When you really get to that place where you recognize
some connections, you begin to draw upon inspiration from everything
around you, not limited, not distorted or derailed, but
seeing that all of Life is moving in a direction of harmony, of balance,
using even chaos to bring that about. Life makes use of everything.
The neural pathways you use most often are the strongest. They
are automatic. If you stop using a certain neural pathway, it
will gradually be deleted and replaced by a new one. That
has been verified by neural biologists: areas of the brain literally
shut down when not in use. Scientists are also finding that
areas of the brain communicate with other areas of the brain.
There is nothing "outside" that is giving direction to you;
it is all an inside job. Parts of the brain talk to other parts
of the brain. There are higher aspects of the brain that see
a bigger picture, and there is the selfish aspect which is concerned
with survival; these aspects are always seeking some kind
of balance within the system. As you become aware of that,
as you begin to recognize that it is about the brain-body connection,
you realize how much power you have in saying how things are.
It is something that is not to be taken lightly. You have the
power to say how things are.
This doesn't mean that the whole world is going to bow at your feet
and agree to your wishes, but your immediate arena of Life is under
your control. You have the right, the power, the authority to
say how it is. Of course, responsibility comes with that, because
you will want to keep in mind that "how things are" can
be harmonious, cooperative and patient. When you include those
aspects in how you say it is, you inadvertently create
a harmonious Life, a Life that is exemplary of what is possible as
a human being, the future human being, the new species.
As I look at this, as I pry into it, I am finding that the new species
is closer to realization than has been thought. It may be just
a thought away; that's pretty close.
In the past, the way to get away from consensus conditions
was to go to a high mountaintop somewhere, or deep into
a cave to isolate oneself from the world. That gave birth to
monasteries and temples, where people could hide and feel
safe from consensus reality. Those were feeble attempts
at helping a person achieve a deeper, expanded awareness.
You know from your own direct experience that you can't run from
anything; you can't hide from anything. You know that
the path is to recognize, to embrace, to allow, to see everything
clearly, not to hide from things, not to avoid things.
This doesn't mean that you must participate in what is happening.
As a human being moving into the new species, you will be in the world,
you will be quite capable and functional, but you will see through
everything. You will understand why people do what they do,
and you will realize that they just don't know; they just don't see
the bigger picture. They operate in a small arena and they
think they have everything, they think they have things under control, but in
actuality they are totally out of control. Indeed, they
are being controlled. They are under the control of consensus
reality, the conditional, hypnotic world. They are not living
their full potential; they are living parts, pieces. As you
see that, you exercise great compassion, love, and caring, because
you know very well that you could be stuck in the same place.
Things have happened in your life that caused you to see something
more, to have a deeper, connected realization, propelling you into
a greater arena of possibilities, but that happens to very few people. The
rest of humanity follows an "outside" directive,
doing what they are told, doing what is expected of them, trying to
blend in, trying to act like everybody else. So you are alone;
you are alone in this process. You don't need to be lonely;
you are just alone.
"Lonely" is an emotional reaction; "alone" is
a real thing. You are alone. When you think about
how you are as human existence, of course you are alone. You
are unique, a unique expression of The Consciousness, of Life.
In that you are alone, but it need not be a problem.
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