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The 8 States of Consciousness
Waking, dreaming and sleeping. But only by spending time in silence, stillness, or meditation do we experience a fourth state of consciousness where we start to glimpse our soul. When we glimpse our soul, we become a little more intuitive. We start to feel that things are not just what they seem to be; there is something more behind the scenes.
The physical world we normally experience is a shadow of the real world. The real world, the world of spirit, exists behind a veil, and the veil is our own conditioning. In truth, we are not bound by the world of space, time, matter, and causation, but the veil prevents us from seeing this truth. It also prevents us from living in power, freedom, and grace.
In the fourth state of consciousness, we begin to sense the deeper reality that is orchestrating the physical world, and there is a tearing in the veil that separates the physical and spiritual realms. Just as we have to wake up from the dream state to experience waking consciousness, we have to wake up from what we call waking consciousness to glimpse our spirit, our inner self. This is called glimpsing the soul, and it’s the fourth state of consciousness. It’s simply to be in touch with our soul.
This leads to the fifth state of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness, when our soul fully wakes up in waking, dreaming, and sleeping. Our body can be fast asleep, but our soul, the silent witness, is watching the body in deep sleep. Our body can be walking, and the silent witness is watching the body walk. Our awareness is localized in space time, and it’s non-local, or transcendent, at the same time.
If we don’t interfere with nature’s intelligence, then we start to awaken into the sixth state of consciousness, divine consciousness. In divine consciousness, we see and feel the presence of spirit in everything. When we wake up in divine consciousness, we don’t just see a leaf, or a table, or a cloud, or a rainbow; we see the whole universe being all these things.
Next, we waken to the seventh state of consciousness, which is unity consciousness. This is when the spirit inside us, which is now fully awake, merges with the spirit inside objects, which are also now fully awake. The universe is conscious, and because it is conscious, it is conscious of itself. So the eighth state of consciousness, infinite consciousness, is its own observer. The observer is the discontinuity, the gap, the off.
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace, by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).
WHAT IS CONSCIOUS LIVING?
The Art of Conscious Living is about taking the time for yourself to think about and choose the life you want. It is about understanding and changing any negative thoughts, patterns and behaviours we may have. It is about raising self awareness, becoming aware of our thoughts and words, choosing them consciously and carefully, taking back our power. By taking the time to examine our lives, our own needs, and our behaviours we are not only much more likely to achieve the things we seek but also really learn from our past successes and mistakes. In this way, we take back our power and our lives, you are in charge, not your subconscious. But even more importantly, as you live consciously, you are now learning, and can modify old beliefs with your new adult experiences. This means that your automatic responses, which you will always have to rely on for those sudden and immediate responses will now respond along the lines of the person you are today.
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The Holiday Season has always been one of my favorite times of the year, mainly because of it’s deeper and most touching meanings.
Sharing.
Inspiration.
Love.
Thoughtfulness.
Respect.
and most of all…
Peace on Earth for Everyone.
On behalf of my family and myself, I like to wish you a
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
Lolly
I love you too. I love your comment below, why not put it as a blog so all can read what you have to say.
Lolly
To laugh, is to risk playing the fool.
To weep, is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another, is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true selves.
To put your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss.
To love, is to risk not being loved in return.
To live, is to risk dying.
To hope, is to risk despair.
To try at all, is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken,
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn, change, feel, grow, love, live...
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves.
ONLY THE PERSON WHO RISKS IS FREE.
Fulfillment of Desires", describes a thought
experiment by Erwin Schrödinger. Imagine you have
a closed box that contains a wave-particle, a
cat, a lever, and a bowl of cat food with a loose
lid. If the wave-particle becomes a particle, the
particle will trip the lid, and the cat will eat.
If the wave-particle becomes a wave, the lid will
remain on the food. When we open the box (making
an observation), we will either see an empty bowl
and a happy cat, or a full bowl and a hungry cat.
It all depends on how we observe. Before we open
the box, the bowl is both empty and full, and the
cat is both fed and hungry. Both possibilities
exist at the same time. Deepak says "It is the
observation alone that turns possibility into
reality." The whole point is that the basic
building block of the material world acts at our
command. At the very moment of our observation,
it comes into existence. We are the creator of
our world. Nothing exists without our
observation.
How does that relate to manifesting your desires?
Well, it has everything to do with manifesting
your desires. Why does our life seem like a
struggle? Why don’t we get the money we want? Why
don't we get the relationship that we have always
desired? Why is our life is filled with a long
list of never ending problems? All these are
because of our habitual way of observing the
world. We have been conditioned that what we are
seeing is reality, and we continue to live this
way and continue to observe the same things
happen in our lives. Let me tell you, your
reality is not reality. Only you choose and
observe it to be your reality. As soon as you
realize your own observation is the cause of
everything, then you can literally decide to
create another reality. You can decide to observe
another reality into your world, only when you
choose to.
How do you do it? First, don't let your outer
world delude you, this is not necessarily the
reality. Secondly, observe exactly what you want
in your mind, observe it with certainty and
clarity, and then let it go, knowing that you
have already created your desires at the quantum
level. You simply let the universe arrange for it
to come to you. When the opportunities come,
don't forget to take action and express your
gratitude. Everything begins with your change of
the way you look at your world.
Remember "Change the way you look at things, and
the things you look at will change."
- Leo Ferro
I saw your bird and Just had to come visit! Whats his name? Breed?
I used to raise cockatiels. What a joy that was. Someday I will buy a baby Cockatoo. hmm maybe not. I'm over 50 and would hate to leave him alone..quite the Rude Awakening..right here on your page..LOL sorry bout that
The Art of Conscious Living was created to support and encourage living our lives with more awareness - to wake up a little more to each moment - to live our lives more consciously.
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Lolly