Creating a New Consciousness

Creating a new consciousness is very ticky business. I'm reminded of that more and more as I flail around in my attempts.

Back in the old days, when I believed that creating a new consciousness would only happen in my head, it was easy. Hours of meditation, dedication to the teacher, scouring myself for the ways I was holding myself back with my own ego, submitting to having that pointed out by fellow travelers, dark night of the soul. All that is really nothing - particularly for the active control freak in us all. As long as it's just in my own bodily sphere, at least I could have the feeling that I had accomplished something.

The problem with unity, though, is that it includes everything. And that includes everyone else! So a real development in consciousness can't happen without all conscious beings involved. The inner control freak has nothing to grasp on in that sphere, because the only tool I have to integrating my own realizations with that of others is communication. As we all know, the lines of communication are usually blocked, and without an open line, anything coming out of me is just, "Bla, Bla, Bla."

Only time will tell if my attempts in this new venue of consciousness will bear fruit. I'm planting and fertilizing every day and blowing on the flame to ignite it. Please join me if you want to grow and burn!

hee hee

Connie Zareen