Bliss [aka “Heaven”] is dis–covered in each Now, through Direct Witnessing of Connection with Other, you Remember who you really are.   Presence and Acceptance are what you “have going for you”.  Don’t wait for the deathbed to realize this.

Consciousness – the Last Frontier or yOUR First Trap?

Throughout this site, whenever a reference to Consciousness is made, it is suggested that you instead think of Connection or the degree of living Life fully Connected with ALL elements of life – living in awe of and in harmony with humans BEing AND ALL aspects of Nature.

There seems to be so much trending interest, as an individual, in bypassing physical existence, to gain access to OUR origin – whatever we can imagine that to BE.   It is the ultimate “intellectual race to the supposed Top” of existence.  Quite funny and very entertaining.  The problem is that we’re trying to do that just for the sake of our isolated self.   As we meditate our way out of physical existence and / or intellectualize our way into unnecessary debate about what is, could be, or should be, we hurt our self and everyone around us who is attempting to Connect with US.  Hurt, meaning that we delay a peaceful Reunion through Remembering our Connection.   

The more we Seek meaning and understanding of Life, we are actually delaying the Finding (Feeling, Knowing, without words or concepts) of an explanation.   The explanation is constantly stimulating and teasing our five senses, but our Mind / Intellect is too caught up in trying to explain it in words, and lately, to explain it for resale in an eBook or eOpinion.

Instead …   Let US Feel Connection instead of just Thinking about Consciousness

The game of Hide and Seek, creates the sense of self through separation from so-called ‘others’ – those external to our self, who look, think and act differently than what resonates within our self.   This is by Life’s design and without it, we would never Know we Exist.

The Built-in Duality Trap

The moment that we think as an individual, we are using language to capture that thought in an attempt to either replay it in our own Mind, or to share it with another person.   Language is built on Duality – for every word [thought], there is an equal and opposite word [thought].   Therefore, the mere act of thinking initiates and perpetuates Duality.

Duality begins with intention, seeks balance and thrives on action, bringing about Life evolution.  Duality is inherently crucial to our shared existence and unavoidable.   Duality makes Physical Existence possible. These exchanges to interact (and Know it) lead to individual accumulation (of energy and memory) preparing for Growth (or self Protection), with an External signal invoked at some point to Transform that stored energy and understanding of “self”, expanding yet further beyond the cell / self.

The key is to remember that we are “in Duality” and remain aware and adaptable to the effects of Life that we share in Thought alone.   We should especially remain aware and adaptable of the effects of our shared thought – the Transformation Signal –  and how this affects the balance within us individually and across existence collectively.  The moment we decide to share our thought in writing or by vocalizing, our intent is to Influence Life.

• Is our reason for sharing meant to serve the individual* or the collective**?
• Is the Intention to Connect [re unite] the Collective aspects of Life, or to Separate?

*Just for your self, or for any group or aspect of Life you have a biased preference for.
** EVERY aspect of Life.   No mincing of words here.   If action does not support ALL aspects of Life, then there is an individual* affinity and a motive that propels Duality.

Love is experienced through Connection.   Pain is experienced through Separation.

When existence experiences the depths of both Love and Separation, energy is heightened and Life compelled to act. Life is compelled to act towards the benefit of the collective.   Together, we are constantly striving to reunite.

Affirmed experience becomes Reality.   Are we just Thinking about reality “out there” in our Mind alone? Or, are we Feeling a Shared, Affirmed Existence?

The Escape Hatch

Life that is shared by feeling it together, requires no thought and allows no space for words, and thus, escapes duality within each Present moment.   The Present moment occurs when two or more aspects of Life are sharing the moment together, without trying to influence the moment or each other.

You have experienced a touching moment with another person, where you were “choked up”, unable to speak, and preferred that neither of you said anything anyway?

The embrace was enough, whether through a physical touch or through the gripping energy surrounding the shared moment.
These types of moments leave strong impressions on US.   These impressions are stored in and across all cells of our Body, not just our Mind.   They are recalled accurately and vividly, only by those who physically shared the moment during the original imprinting.

This is the path to Connected Living, sometimes labeled Objective Consciousness or “Permanent I”.  Regardless, these are just more words of polarity, sounded out and spelled out in Duality.

Suggestion for Living well IN the Paradox

Therefore, it is suggested that instead of perpetuating the confusion surrounding the terms of Conscious vs Unconscious living, or Subconscious “mindless” vs Super Consciousness “mindful” living, which is inherently individualistic – that I am more Conscious than you, creating a relative competitive vibe – let’s think of our Awareness instead as “living ever more Connected and Reunited through all aspects of physical existence”.

Throughout this site, the word Consciousness becomes interchangeable with Connectedness.   You will see the interchange of words and eventual dropping of the concept of Consciousness, which has a limiting definition of ‘at level of one’s self‘ #. Connectedness takes US beyond our narrow, misleading understanding of our self and its vantage point as the center of an individual reality [i.e. a Personality], and begs the question …

“What might reality be Above [me]?   Is there something connecting all of mankind and nature?”

To raise the courage to answer this question, without becoming too absorbed and once again distracted into analysis-paralysis separation, we simply leverage what Science has re affirmed over 150 years of research.   By looking downward, we can confidently infer what’s above us, connecting US, until faith is replaced by a direct, experience-based Knowing.

You might proclaim either “blasphemy or too bold!”. A reasonable counter might be to ask “What has Science proven to US beyond a reasonable doubt, [as we currently define ‘doubt’]?”   By example, as we’ve come to understand and label the harmonious functions of the 11 systems of the human organism, we’ve discovered the strange paradox of recursive levels of form being comprised mainly of space, and space comprised of relatively dense form on the lower level.  What feels like total chaos to Life living AT a particular level, when studied from Life above ‘it’, displays a wonderfully organized, mutually supportive design.   The paradox is, how to confidently infer that which you cannot see (Above you) from that which you can now clearly see (Below you)?

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THE Intention of Separation and Reunification

Consciousness, as the concept and intellectual debate, dominates modern thought and unfortunate expanding debate, and has become the last hurdle in Duality and therefore OUR limiting factor of understanding the [shared] reality of creation.

How interesting then, that Duality ensures that the depths of Loving Reunion are experienced, through guaranteed [by design] Initial Separation?

Despite the amassing energy and discussion around the need [inherent desire] to reunite, the concept of Consciousness is tripping up seemingly the most open hearts of thought leaders.   Notice that Thought is the culprit once again?

This Intention of Separation and Reunification of Life is perhaps the most difficult aspect to [collectively] understand and accept, at least while heavily invested in the thinking process.   The path to Acceptance is found only by feeling the contrast of Love’s presence or absence, by remaining IN the Present moment.   We remain Present by feeling the physical experience of Life, rather than predominently thinking about Life.

There is a time to Think and then a time to Act.   Life has become too enamored by individual Thought and endless debate over Thought.   If instead, we share a Thought on the premise of uncertainty, align on our shared action as we set out to confirm what WE truly know Together, and further ensure more shared action to Reflect on what we’ve Learned together, but instead of reflecting purely in more words and thought which leads to intellectual debate and self-protection, what if we instead reflected through wordless feeling and affirmations of one an-other, outside the concepts reinforced by Duality.

The predecessor of Thought is belief.  What we’ve evolved to believe is that our self is real due to the sense of physical separation – a me placed into a world apart from ‘others’ –  perceived by our Five senses, which further inflates aritifical concern over and desire to influence through the Thoughts held in our physical brain.

• Feeling leads to synthesis – the full inclusion of all possibilities and a positive attraction of Life into the self.
• Thinking is analytical and leads to disassembly of Life [biased by a narrow individual experience and beliefs – prejudiced non-experience], scrutiny, disbelief and a negative action to block or push away Life from the self.

The more we SHARE what we think, the more we should begin to realize how much we do NOT know – actually, just how much we have intentionally forgotten   Unfortunately, many humans in the act of being, Think towards a forgone conclusion of validating their personal and “proprietary” knowledge – that which can be sold to ensure self survival or self thriving.   Don’t fret because this is by design.  Perhaps Life has reached the outer limits, or maybe our sense of Separation-oriented pain must continue to expand and intensify, before Convergence is allowed to cycle once more.

But to understand what we do not know, we must allow something completely new in.   The broader the opening in our “mental gate”, the more relevant the surprise to the self caught up in righteousness.

To allow ALL of life in, we must be completely vulnerable.    Our Fear is a self-protection mechanism and blocks our vulnerability (degree of openness).   Fear is part of Life’s design and exists within our DNA (by analogy).  We should never feel bad about our Fear, because it sparks all of Life’s intention and action.

To reduce and eventually eliminate the Fear, we must suppress concern for the self.   This is perhaps the ultimate challenge for any part of Existence that “thinks”.   This is essentially what is meant by allowing one’s self to “die into Life” … to let go of all concern for one’s self.   This is the core of unifying-faith and ultimately the key to the escape hatch.

Notice that no-one, no external entity is holding the key with whom we must gain favor through good deeds in order to acquire the key.   More so, it’s simply an awakening, to the fact that WE are a part of something recursively bigger than our self.

Similar to a skin cell realizing it’s role in the human body, likewise, mankind is awakening from self-separation, thinking he/she is the End Point and the Point of it All, to a reckoning that he/she might just be a Cell in a next level abstraction of BODY (or possibly, literally, as a Cell in the next level BODY).   A person who has opened up and allowed consideration of their possibility, is referred to as the Connected self, or abbreviated as Celf, throughout this site.

We understand that Thought is the ancestor to Action.  Many of us fail to see however that Belief the ancestor to Thought.

Beliefs narrow and inhibit our ability to act because they put the mind in friction against the body – replaying another person’s belief and asking your body to act out their thought leads to a contradiction that THE # Body knows to be in conflict – because your Body never physically experienced what the Mind ‘believes’ to be true (whether for self or the collective).

We are learning that Physical Impressions in ‘a body’ are the ancestor to Belief and our collective Unconscious Disconnected, Self-Preserving [selfish] Action – meaning our Automatic Reaction to unfolding events, where the reaction is triggered by unpacking a faulty past Impression from the Body.

Therefore, at ANY level in the Recursive hierarchy of Creation, the Body [should] trump the Mind. The Mind Brain is just one organ in ‘a body at level’, not the other way around as prevailing wishful thinking perpetuates [Mindbody connection].

Think about this, but only briefly, then just set out to feel it and witness it, without the world of words and concepts which intentionally confuses US…   The mind takes orders ‘collectively’ from the entire Body’s condition at times, and attempts to control the entire body at other times.   How is this any different from any other Celf within BODY [society] interaction?   Some people [try to] dominate the world, physically or intellectually.  Many people are dominated BY the world, physically and/or intellectually.   The reason for each scenario is lack of reference to the whole of existence (aka The BODY).   Eventually, we notice that our Thought and our Action, collectively impact a next level Thought and Action.

A human being who achieves this gift of Presence and Awareness, is able to access and understand next level Bodymind, seeing fully the Cause and Effect how everything is Connected and “goes with”.

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