Consciousness is 3D; the brain and the lower mind–2D. It’s as if those who insist “it’s just the brain” are like Flat Earthers. Like our planet, consciousness is a globe. Literally, it is a globe shaped field. It’s part of something bigger, but also self-contained in itself. Sort of like a bubble in a sea, but not so fragile.<\/p>\n
I just used the term mind-bending casually today, as if bending minds is a good thing, and I asked myself: How bent do I want my mind to be? I picture my mind as stainless steel, and use input to bend it this way and that, to try to get it into a certain shape. Someday I’ll do it. It’s a pronged shape.<\/p>\n
What is conscience<\/em>, really? Is it just an uncomfortable feeling you get, a twinge when you do something selfish? That kind of “conscience” is fallible, and subject to your social conditioning, to the fears imprinted on us in childhood, and to biases.<\/p>\n In esoteric spirituality schools, especially those influenced by Plotinus and Gurdjieff, conscience is something we don’t have–despite the occasional twinge–until we gather enough authentic selfhood through self-observation, non-identification with automatic mental processes, self-knowledge, and an increase of consciousness itself. Then, it’s possible step back, within oneself; to open one’s attention, to tune into a higher mind that is part of the overmind of the cosmos. The higher mind adds its intellect to ours, so we have a real and infallible guide. It’s us and it’s more than us. It’s real conscience–arising from real consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consciousness is 3D; the brain and the lower mind–2D. It’s as if those who insist “it’s just the brain” are like Flat Earthers. Like our planet, consciousness is a globe. Literally, it is a globe shaped field. It’s part of something bigger, but also self-contained in itself. Sort of like a bubble in a sea,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n