The Coming Revolution in Consciousness

Die before you die. Let go of all that makes up the "you" that you think you are. All his/her worries and stories, gone. "You" are a figment of your own imagination. A self-spinning mental image that is based entirely upon preconceptions; you are literally living in your head. Whether it be personal stories self-written, political and/or philosophical ideologies, etc., none are truly "there" besides in your head. You create "yourself" internally through the intellect, making yourself feel separate in a world that contains no one-thing in and of itself. The "you" that you create, the individual if you will, is only a small fragment in the wide field of existence. In reality, what you truly are is experience and everything contained within that potentially infinite span of experience, right now. 

We have been searching our entire lives for that one thing in the outside world that will bring us closer to "it". Whatever "it" is... We search through various religions, supposed spiritual truths, money, material things, food, and much much more. Through ages of this, no truth has been left to be found. That is because there is no "dead" truth found in the "outer" world. There is no light at the end of tunnel, the tunnel just keeps going and spontaneously forming different things, which is your experience. Truth is alive, and you are it. Your pain, your anxiety, your happiness, your joy; this very moment you are having right now. 

"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. And what is yourself, the individual you? I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a particular culture, particular society, particular religion. The human being is not a local entity. He is everywhere. If the individual merely acts in the particular corner of the vast field of life, then his action is totally unrelated to the whole. So one has to bear in mind that we are talking of the whole not the part, because in greater the less is, but in the lesser the greater is not. The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with total welfare, the total misery, and the total confusion of the world."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known

You are the outer being expressed through the inner, and the inner reacting to the outer (even though there is no "outer" or "inner" for it is all one process). Notice this. Watch yourself. Watch how you react. Notice how you seek. See how you blame. This un-watched fragmented you creates the world we have today. The world filled with misery, hunger, endless wars, and the likes. We are all responsible for the sorrow and pain in the world. But this is not an issue, this is a solution. This means that we can change it. Embrace your true nature: everything, the whole of your experience, the totality of it all. Be unafraid. Be. That. Now. This is the coming revolution. This is the revolution of the psyche. This is the revolution of consciousness. It is all up to you. 

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Simply... be who you are at this moment! If you are cold, be cold. Hot? Be hot. Sad? Be sad. Thinking, anxious, mad, whatever! Just be that. Listen to it all, feel it all. Be IT all. Acceptance is key at this point. You cannot "be it all" without acceptance of what is. Once you accept what is, which is to say what is true or what is actually being experienced, an inner peace will take over your entire being. If this is not done you will stay trapped within your thoughts and deny the moment, hiding away in fear.

Remember, you change with the moment. You move (and yet stay) with your environment, you shape and create each other (even though there is no "each" or "other" for it is all one process). You are not something separate to experience, you are experience itself. The moment is spontaneous and so are you. The best way to put this is to use as little and as simplistic words as possible for the moment is undefinable... 

Be that! 

How To Feel IT.

In my article about the The felt presence of one-ness (which I highly recommend reading first), I went over how everything is One and that "things" such as "I", "you", and "that" are all but glimpses of a unified process. And that "you", sitting here, peering out of this biological form, flowing over this very sentence is the entire Universe doing so. Not to mention that stranger that just drove by your house and that bird perched upon the tree. We are not just part of this beautiful cosmic dance, witnessing it for some odd years; we are the cosmic dance.

You may be thinking, how could I never have noticed this? How could I have lived my entire life without this feeling and knowledge? Well, that would be because you are thinking. Every time you are "in your head" you are not "in your body", and thus not in the present moment where everything takes place. There is no other moment than now. That past event you are so concerned about happened in the now and is just a distant image being referred to right now. When you think about your future, you are thinking about it now, and when that future event comes, it will then be now. All there is is the now.

So! How do you reach the present moment? Well, there is no reaching involved for you are already in IT, but in order to get "out" of your head, you need to get "in" with your body. Feel your entire body. Scan it. Feel the sensations it gives you. Feel your breath that is going on all the time and that you consciously zone in and out of. Feel the chair you are sitting upon. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Hear the sounds that merge out of nothing and disappear to it once again. See the "things" around you and the space that holds it all together. Become aware of the organic rotating rock floating in the void you are currently upon. Feel gravity and levity holding you in place. Notice the planet and trillions of other galaxies dancing with you. Be aware of your thoughts. Notice how they move so spontaneously like the moment and then "disappear" once again into nothingness.

 If you try to stay present, you won't be, for instead you will be merely trying to do so. Instead, drop everything you know from the past and forget about the future. Be here now. This is so effortless that any effort will take you away from it. Diving into the now is so easy it isn't. The now is forever spontaneous, forever here, and forever from our grasp. To base IT on previous "events" stored within your mind would be foolish.

Sure, you could practice mindful meditation and yoga daily, but if that sole purpose is to reach some form of enlightenment, you are setting yourself a trap. All you really need to do is, simply, be in your body. It is that simple. Be aware of what your entire self is doing and the "things" IT "interacts" with constantly. Stop reading this if you'd like. Get off the computer, stay on, go for a run, hitchhike, travel, whatever! Follow the love that lives within the moment. "Face the facts", if you will. You already know what to do. Live in, as Alan Watt's would put it, The Great Stream.

“You are an aperture

through which

the universe

is looking at and 

exploring itself. ”

 Alan Watts

The Next Step In Conscious Evolution – The Felt Presence of "One-ness".

I am sure you have heard the New Agey idea “we are all one”. At first glance, you may find it to be pretentious, not based on fact, and pseudo-scientific. Well, I am here to change that. I am here to explain this “one-ness” as a very simple fact; a fact that will be hugely important to recognize and feel in these next few years.

Let’s do a little thought experiment, shall we?

Imagine a circle and nothing else. Okay, when you imagined that circle, you imagined a background around that circle, correct? Now get rid of that background because space too is something. So right now, you should only have a circle. Pretty hard to imagine. In fact, it’s impossible. In order for a circle you need space around that circle otherwise that circle would be everything and thus no edge to the circle, thus no circle.Now add another circle. How? Add the space in-between. Now you have two circles and the space around it all. 

In order for something to exist, you need a background. This is a very observable fact. “In the Gesalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived except in relation to a background...” – Alan Watts
Look around your room. Pick a table, a lamp, anything. There’s a background to it, yes? Now lift up your hand. Put it in front of your face. Background, yes? Move it. Background again, yes? Move it again. Background once again, yes?

“The thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, mineral, is not only unknowable – it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most ‘practical’ reasons of economics, politics, and technology. This is not to say that things only exist only in relation to one another, but that what we call “things” are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation. In the Gesalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived except in relation to a background. If, for example, you come so close to me that the outline of my body lies beyond your field of vision, the ‘thing’ you see will no longer be my body. Your attention will instead be ‘captured’ by a coat-button or a necktie, for the theory also asserts that, against any given background, our attention is almost automatically “won” by any moving shape (in contrast with the stationary background).” – Alan Watts

This realization and actual felt presence of “oneness” is, to me, our next GIANT step in evolution.  It is part of our consciousness’ evolutionary process that will lead us hopefully out of this mess we have gotten ourselves into. We believe ourselves to be separate to this world. We feel as if we have popped up in the middle of history, given a bag of skin to wear, and are dealing with an alien world that will continue to exist once "we" vanish into nothingness. We don’t trust our instincts, we second guess ourselves, get anxiety, and hurt our environment which in-turn hurts ourselves.

“What we need is a sense of unity. Not an idea of unity. Not an ideology of unity… a feeling of unity. So it doesn't come out of intellectual exhortation. It comes out of a personal act of courage…an act of courage which involves surrender…” – Terrence McKenna
The time to recognize and more importantly feel this is now. We don’t have much time. When someone says “we are all one”, it isn't some crazy inter-dimensional, magical thing, it’s just a fact. Observe the mind. Recognize you are pure awareness, not the mind. Follow your instincts. Work with nature, not against it. Give, give, and give for you will only be helping yourself. Everything you experience is you. You are all IT. But there is no "you", IT is IT. :)