Moving Around in Consciousness
This idea has crystalized for me just lately. I have previously
written about this as ‘mobility of consciousness’ and I thought a
diagram might add a nice layer.
This was brought into focus for me again recently by a synchronicity
last Thursday. I was getting ready to go to the Kris radio show I
co-host with Mark Bukator, Reality by Design.
I happened to read a short passage in Jane Robert’s book, Psychic Politics,
describing her idea that the state of consciousness we are in is a
crucial component of whatever we are experiencing in any particular now.
She describes being downtown in front of a bank. While she is
experiencing a heightened level of awareness, including greatly
enriched sensory perception, the person on the sidewalk beside her,
supposedly experiencing the same reality, might have been thinking
about lunch.
What
transpired was that this precise idea was addressed explicitly by Kris
in the radio show. Where we go to in our state of consciousness is
crucial to how we are perceiving 'reality', and what resources we allow ourselves
access to. I have understood for some time that where we place our
attention is where our material creation energies go to create our
experiences. I had not been framing this as moving around to actual
different 'areas' of consciousness though, in the way Kris seems to
suggest.
To illustrate this idea, let's think of consciousness as an immense
condo development, continuously being renovated, with a million rooms
that each permit uniquely specific and perhaps undreamed of
possibilities. Any change in our lives from this perspective, is
actually just moving from one room to another within this vast gestalt
of consciousness.
Practical Uses of This Idea
Go to the 'room' in consciousness that has the best tools and most helpful vantage point for what you want to accomplish. [If you want to cook dinner don't go to the attic and expect everything to fall into place.]
The Glories of The Normal Waking State
If you want to relish the reality you have created, experience it
fully, and make choices about where you want to go next, you need to be
in the normal waking state.
The Curious and Surprising Powers of Various Trance States
If you want to suggest a few things to your neo-conscious having to
do with what you want to happen next in your life, it is much more
efficient to be in a self-directed trance state.
[what I am learning is that it can also be immensely useful to
'straddle' these two states, including perhaps even the dream state.
This meta-stance cannot fail to provide spectacular new perspectives
and potentialities]