Originally Posted by Edwin
D. James Albert...
I cannot begin to thank you enough for your explanation of ego or "human self" and celestial self.
You have made so much clear to me in a way that never made sense to me when reading Eckhart Tolle's books.
This is something I can work with !
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Great to hear and thanks for the honest gratitude!
Originally Posted by Edwin
The idea of communication between human and celestial self as being one-way traffic so to speak also made very much sense to me. That the celestial self knows what goes in in the human self, but the human self might refuse or even deny contact back !
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Understanding the way the various aspects or spectrums of our mind work together makes this picture even clearer.
I refer to the human aspect of ourselves as the 'Temporal Mind', because it is a temporary expression limited by time - an expression of our consciousness that is as temporary as the body instrument we use to experience the realm of form. In Psychology, this is referred to as the 'Conscious Mind'. The misnomer of the Psychology definition is that all other aspects of mind are referred to as sub-aspects of the Conscious Mind. In truth, the Conscious Mind is a sub-aspect of our mind in totality, not the other way around. We are a conscious being in totality, not just in our human expression. And so because 'Conscious Mind' delivers misleading connotations, I prefer the more accurate term 'Temporal Mind'. The Temporal Mind is our Human Mind, or our expression of being a human being.
If we take away our Temporal Mind (at, say, the point of death), only our complete association to the human being dissolves, but we as a consciousness remain. This remaining aspect of our mind is that part of our mind that exists beyond the death of the human form, and that existed before the birth of our human form - and that exists during the time in which we occupy human form. This is our timeless, ageless, celestial self - that part of us that is pure awareness and although infantile by comparison to the Source of its existence, it remains fundamentally who we really are as consciousness, aware beings. It is that part that many refer to as Soul, that many refer to as Consciousness, that many refer to as Mind - for it is all these things. It is that part that exists outside the realm of form, on the Celestial plane where Mind/Consciousness/Soul operates. For this reason, I find the most apt description is to refer to it as the Celestial Mind. In Psychology, I think its reasonably accurate to say that this is referred to as the Sub-Conscious Mind (although many Psychologists limit the extent of the Sub-Conscious to merely a brain-based aspect of the Conscious Mind). Others refer to it as the Super-Conscious Mind. All of these descriptions to my mind detract from the accuracy of the thing they are describing. We are always at the limitation of words, and it is the concepts behind the words that really matter. But, I feel Celestial Mind encompasses everything that is of our formless nature.
So if all this is true, why doesn't our Celestial Mind just take control of everything and save us from the various mistakes and limitations that come with being human? The answer is pretty simple: there is a wisdom behind the design of the system that allows us to experience being human, and this wisdom necessitates a blockage of Celestial wisdom and knowledge in order for us to experience and, in turn, grow. To achieve our ability to experience human - or any other kind of being experiencing form - our Celestial Mind must necessarily be placed into a backseat position. To achieve this, there is another phase of our Mind that comes into play also upon the origination of our physical form (in fact, the moment the zygote cell is produced upon conception is when this phase of Mind comes into play). This phase of Mind acts like a bridge, funnelling information to and from the Temporal and Celestial Mind's. I go into great detail about how all this works in
The Realization System, but in short, this 'middle man' phase of mind is the one that organizes the experiences of the Temporal Mind and that acts as the information highway through which responses of the Celestial Mind may appear. It is also the phase of our Mind that provides direct access to information regarding the maintenance and growth of our bodies - it provides the connection to the phase of the Universal Mind through which the blueprint of our human (or otherwise) form is stored and so forth. It is the phase of mind that we must access to gain access to the precise information necessary to grow and maintain our bodies. In biology, the study of the growth of form is called Morphology; in movies the change from one form to another is morphing. Rupert Sheldrake popularized the term 'Morphic Field' for the information field in which the information of 'us' is stored...there are other areas in which the term 'Morph' refers to form, and so I refer to this phase of mind as the Morphic Mind. Psychology refers to a small aspect of the Morphic Mind as the Subjective Mind - but again, what is classified as 'Subjective' in Psychology is a limitation upon this true nature of the aspect of our consciousness and a lack of understanding of the true breadth to which this part of our mind supports us. (All our instincts are born of information in the Morphic Field, through which our Morphic Mind connects us. In fact, all our memories are also stored in this field of information and so on...).
The Morphic Mind bridges the gap between the Temporal Mind and the Celestial Mind. It acts like a barrier to the Temporal Mind, largely preventing our Human self from being fully aware of our Celestial self. That is, until we understand it. Once we understand it, the Morphic Mind remains a barrier, but our levels of awareness rise, we experience more intuition, greater numbers of synchronistic moments, a stronger ability to creatively attract, and of course, the ability to harmonize your Temporal Mind with your true Celestial nature becomes significantly easier - just to name a few benefits (and there are so many).
If this all sounds too complex, the important thing to remember is that you are a being of Mind. By 'Mind' I also mean 'Consciousness', 'Soul', and 'Pure Awareness'. Your Mind is of a Celestial nature, and to experience the world of form as any type of physical being, your Mind undergoes a temporary transformation. To create the transformation, a part of your Mind is separated from your overall Celestial Nature. We call this the Human Mind, the Conscious Mind, or my preference, the Temporal Mind. Keeping that part of you separated so that it may learn and grow through faculties normally unavailable in the formless realm, is the Morphic Mind, a part of you that not only keeps your Temporal Mind separate, but that also bridges your temporary nature with your timeless nature.
The Morphic Mind is extremely interesting when you really start to ask questions about it. It explains the true source of instinct, memory, growth including evolutionary growth, dreams, and a host of other things.
Originally Posted by Edwin
This isn't just about law of attraction, it is about enlightenment !
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Absolutely! If you understand how the process of creative attraction works, you've taken a huge step towards expanded awareness.
Two things come to mind here and although this post is already becoming absurdly long, I would like to share them both.
First, not every 'guru' who 'teachers' the Law of Attraction really understands it. I find that many so called experts merely regurgitate what they've read from other so-called guru's. There is a Law of Attraction industry that has spawned since The Secret, and I find many people involved in it are playing a game of chinese-whispers, where the original presentation wasn't entirely correct in the first place. I'd like to suggest that if you're on the path to understanding creative attraction, or what I like to call the 'art of realization', then be mindful to question what any material on the Law of Attraction explains to you in light of your understanding of how your Mind fits into that of the Universe. Everything in nature (and nature is just another word for Higher Mind or Universal Mind or God and so on) works from a set of principles. If you find a conflict between something you think you know and something you're being instructed, then it is only because you either don't fully understand what you thought you did, or there is in fact a conflict. Using truth and honesty as your motive, examine yourself and the information at hand to determine which of these two aspects seems to resonate in light of your entire understanding of life.
Second, I would also suggest there is no such thing as 'enlightenment' whilst you are a human being. If someone - anyone - claims enlightenment, be very wary. Enlightenment is another one of those labels that refers to a particular state of expanded consciousness. The particular state of consciousness it refers to is one where the resonance of your mind has raised itself to the point of light (hence en-LIGHT-enment). It refers to a state achieved by your Celestial Mind (your consciousness in totality), and not a state of your Temporal Mind (a temporary sub-aspect of your overall consciousness). And it literally refers to a state where you Celestial Mind has expanded with such awareness and wisdom that it vibrates (for want of a more accurate word) into light. When this state is experienced, your time as a human being is over. A great parallel I like to draw is that of a tuning fork. A tuning fork vibrates at a certain rate in order to create a certain sound frequency. The faster you vibrate the fork, the higher the pitch becomes, but also the closer to light the fork becomes. If you keep vibrating the tuning fork faster and faster, eventually it turns hot, glows orange, and will become too hot to touch...if you can continue to vibrate it faster and faster, eventually it will become white hot - before seeming to vaporize from existence. This is the perfect analogy for enlightement - when one becomes light, participation in a darker, slower realm of vibration is no longer a possibility.
Just like the tuning fork, we are on a path towards becoming light. Some people who have had 'aha' moments may recall feeling lighter when they have, a wave of overwhelming lightness often accompanies these moments. This is more noticeable in moments of profound connection. Just like any path, there are steps towards the state of enlightement where we literally take a step of 'lightness'. Each of these steps is an edging forward towards what we like to call enlightement. However, since there can be no enlightenment and retention of human existence, I prefer to refer to these steps as 'enbrightenment'. They are literally moments of a brightening of the mind, and light-en-ing of consciousness. Those on our planet who truly feel 'enlightened' I would say are 'enbrightened' - they are further down the enlightenment path than perhaps many others.
I feel the concept of 'enbrighten' also offers a kind of more practical, more tangible goal to the average human being. Just as the saying goes, if the Mountain is your goal and you take your eye of the various steps of the path, you'll fall off before you make it. And so if enlightenment is the goal, keep your attention on the steps of enbrightenment that take you there.
Incidentally, it was during a moment of deep and profound connection that the term 'enbrightenment' came to me. It wasn't something I thought up as a theory, it was literally a descriptive of a feeling I was having whilst I was deeply tuned into a moment of pure awareness. I embraced it immediately for the obvious reason that it came directly from the source of truth.
Originally Posted by chris063
I have come to the conclusion that we can live in tune with our highest essence or self, and use the 'Law of Attraction' without conflict. If we are here on the physical plane for a reason, and I think that we are, to learn, experience, create, then why not have some fun and use what we have been given to make our experiences work for us. If we believe that the things we dwell on come into our lives regardless of whether helpful or not so helpful, it would make sense to work consciously to bring the more 'helpful' things to us.  |
Perfectly said. A big issue with finding our spiritual side seems to be the perception that we have to completely transcend our human self. We should never forget that we are here for the experience that only here can offer, and we must embrace that experience. The trick is to do so, to have our fun, without compromising the absolute rights of all. If what we think, do and say harms no other consciousness that is also here for a unique experience, then we can think, do or say virtually anything we want. This is, to my mind, why an understanding of the shared nature of life is so important. Once we are all experiencing the physical realm from the perspective that we can experience everything so long as we do so within the limitation of doing no harm to others, we will have a world where we can experience virtually anything material that we want without the materialistic part of our nature compromising the spiritual. Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing.
