A Movement from Mind to Consciousness is Essential for Peace in the World

 

Rhinemaidens (under the rainbow bridge to Asgard), by Arthur Rackham

Our consciousness is not yours or mine. It is the consciousness of all human beings.

How to Heal Our Disconnection From Nature

Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

In her elegiac essay "Into the Woods " poet and scholar Ruth Padel writes:

"What would Robin Hood have made of Country Life's recent excavation into the fantasies of British 7-to-14-year-olds concerning the wild life and wild places of their native land? Two thirds had no idea where acorns come from, most had never heard of gamekeepers (do they mug people or protect the Pokemons?), and most believed there were elephants and lions running round the English countryside. A third did not know why you had to keep gates shut -- was it to keep the elephants in (or was some joker taking the piss just then?), or stop cows 'sitting on cars,' upsetting the countryside's most vital beast -- the traffic?

In Order to Handle the World Crisis, We Must Find a Common Ground

Yellow Flowers by Krupa Shah 

“You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as man incarnate. You, our beloved fellowman, did not know who we might be, and yet you recognized us without fail. And I, in my turn, shall recognize you in the faces of all mankind. You came towards me in an aureole of charity and magnanimity bearing the gift of water. All my friends and all my enemies marched towards me in your person. It did not seem to me that you were rescuing me: rather did it seem that you were forgiving me. And I felt I had no enemy left in all the world.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Ken Wilber likes to play Wyatt Earp when responding to criticism

Ken Wilber has tried to make an evolutionary theory of everything. But any theory of everything implicates the so-called nondual bias. Nondual bias arises when you describe something as nondual, while forgetting that you can´t describe anything without implying the negation of it. 

You are beside yourself, away from the subconscious, by being away in the conscious

Why does this division arise, between - on the one hand the conscious mind, which is wrapped up in its daily activities, worries, problems, superficial pleasures, earning one's living etc. - and, on the other hand, the deeper lying layers of the same mind, with all its hidden motives, its initiatives, its enforcing demands, its anxiety-conceptions? Why is there this division?

This division exists because we are so occupied, on the surface, by continual talking, the continual demand, on the surface, about amusement, entertainment, both of religious and of other kind.

This means that you become yourself absent, you are the deeper layers of your own mind absent.

And absence is unreality. Unreality is absence of something for the individual hidden. It is a specific condition, an emptiness, a being outside.

There is a displacement, or distortion, between the conscious and the subconscious; emptiness and loss slide in between, create reflections, displacement and darkness.

You are decentralized, beside yourself, away from the subconscious, by being away in the conscious. You are locked off from the subconscious, by being locked inside the conscious.

And this superficial mind can impossible go into depth, enter yourself, as long as this division is going on.

You must disentangle from your problems, and after having done this you achieve larger clarity

Let us presume that you have a problem.

There is something, which is called ”to sleep on it”. What happens is, that your conscious mind, which doesn't understand the problem, in order altogether to be able to fall asleep, must disentangle from the problem, and after having released itself therefrom, it achieves larger clarity.

Now the subconscious, or deeper layer, begins to project itself to the conscious mind, and when you awake the problem is quite simple solved.

So, the conscious mind, the upper layers of the consciousness, must be clarified, in order to, that the mind can be silent, so that it can receive hints or suggestions from the hidden.

The problem is that we aren´t calm.

To understand consciousness, means philosophical, that you speak about the perspective of Man as such

To understand consciousness, desires and thinking, means psychological, that you speak about the contents of the observed, and the contents of the thoughts in the individual person, and that you take a psychological perspective on the observed and the thought.

To understand consciousness, desires and thinking, means philosophical, that you speak about the perspective and self-production of Man as such.

You direct the awareness towards the observer and the thinker, rather than towards the observed and the thought, towards the form of consciousness and thinking, rather than towards its content.

And the subconscious has here to do with absence and unreality; that is: the separation of the observer and the observed.

What we mean by consciousness is clearly enough the thinking´s procss

All motives , intensions, sorrows, joys, are within the area of consciousness.

But all this is a movement in the thinking.

What we mean by consciousness, is in this way, on a superficial level of the mind, clearly enough the thinking´s procss.

All motives, intentions, desires, pleasures, misgivings, inspirations, longings, expectations, sorrows, joys, are a movement in the thinking

All motives, intensions, desires, pleasures, misgivings, inspirations, longings, expectations, sorrows, joys, are within the area of consciousness, but all this is a movement in the thinking.

What we mean about consciousness, is in this way, on a superficial level of the mind, clearly enough the thinking´s process.

The goal of the Life Artist is to go into an investigation of the turbulence of the mind

We try incessantly to become this or that, to achieve a special condition, to get one kind of realization and avoid another, and in this way the mind is eternally occupied by something, namely the Ego.

Constantly the mind is in action: thoughts, feelings, sensations, arrangements.

Always the consciousness has something in mind.

Always the mind is in progress with changing, making plans, commenting, remembering, creating images, and throwing out projects.

Both the German Idealists, Nietzsche, the Existentialists and the Marxists, took this restless, or ”creative” turbulence of the mind, as a presumption they didn´t investigate further.

The goal of the Life Artist is - in opposition to them – to go into an investigation of this turbulence of the mind, and find out what happens if it stops.

The mind is characterized by a thorough restless, or creative, turbulence

Constantly the mind is in motion: thoughts, feelings, sensations, arrangements.

Always the consciousness has something in mind, always the mind is in progress with changing, choosing, planning, throwing out projects, commenting, remembering and creating images.

Always it is worrying, and is creating problems, because it compares facts with earlier, and is hoping and desiring something else.

Always the mind is in a condition of becoming, caused by the thinking´s fundamental construction of the reality of the self-image and the world-image.

The mind is therefore characterized by a thorough restless, or creative, turbulence.

What happens if this turbulence stops?

When the mind seeks to control the body, and suppress the senses, the body is made insensitive

The mind not should seek to control the body.

The mind can perhaps control the body, and suppress the senses, but thereby the mind makes the body insensitive; and an insensitive body becomes a hindrance for the own full unfolding of the mind.

To restrain the body certainly doesn´t serve the investigation of the deeper layers of consciousness.

This is only possible when there doesn't exist a conflict between the mind, the feelings and the body.

It is only possible when they are complete, and in mutual harmony, and are this in an effortless way, without becoming drifted to it by some specific images of life, a particular conception, belief or ideal.

What we mean about consciousness, is, on a superficial level of the mind, the thinking´s process

All motives, intensions, desires, pleasures, misgivings, inspirations, longings, expectations, sorrows, joys, are within the area of consciousness, but all this is a movement in the thinking.

What we mean about consciousness, is in this way, on a superficial level of the mind, clearly enough the thinking´s process.

Without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content

The mind, in which is the brain, the thoughts, the feelings, and any subtle emotion or fantasy, is, according to the Buddhists, an extraordinary thing.

All its content doesn´t create the mind, and yet without them the mind is not.

The mind is more than what it contains.

Without the mind the contents would not be; without the emptiness in the nature of the mind, there can´t be content, just like that it is the emptiness in a pot, which makes possible, that it can contain water.

The contents exist because of the emptiness.

The intellect - the thoughts, the feelings, all consciousness - have their existence in the total emptiness of the mind.

A tree is not the word, nor a leaf, branches or roots; the wholeness of them is the tree and yet the tree is none of these things.

The subconscious is as insignificant as the conscious

Why do we attribute the subconscious so great importance and meaning?

In the end it is as insignificant as the conscious.

If the conscious mind - on the background of a passion, which doesn't seek to achieve anything - observes neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no, then the conscious mind becomes much more important than the subconscious.

In this state all what the subconscious contains, are being brought into daylight; the displacements between the many layers disappear.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen

Consciousness is the way in which we think. And also the way in which we feel. It is the way in which we look at the trees, the ocean, the way in which we observe other human beings.

And as Man develops from child to full grown, his mind gradually becomes warped, or it stiffens in a particular pattern.

It is this development, which do, that we gradually begin to place ourselves outside life itself.

As desirous beings we want something, we are burningly longing after it, we desire to become something, and this desire leaves a particular pattern; that is to say: our mind produces a pattern, and is thereafter being caught by it.

The thinking´s production of a self-image creates the desire, and this desire makes our mind stiffen. Herewith the reason, the clearness, is lost; life is sucked out of the present, past and future are transformed into reality, while reality becomes emptiness.

Our vitality, and urge to live, are reduced; they crumble, they dissolve.

Consciousness is a characteristic of Man, both as history, rationality, desires, nature and relationships

Is it possible for the mind altogether to empty itself for its historical limitation?

The mind has many layers of images, both personal, collective and universal.

The so-called consciousness consists of these many layers of images, and there is an intercommunication between these layers, all the layers are dependent of each other and influence each other.

The whole of the consciousness of Man is not only a process whereby something is experienced, but also whereby something gets name, is designated and stored as memories.

Consciousness is therefore not only a characteristic of Man as a rational being. It is also, on various levels, a characteristic of Man, both as history, desires, nature and relationships.

Self-knowledge is the virtue in answering the above question.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence

There is first freedom when the whole of the human nature, the obvious as well as the hidden, becomes refined from the past.

The will is desire; and as long as there is an act of the will, any striving after becoming free, or after laying bare the Ego, there can never be freedom; then this complete refinement and emptying of the whole of the person can never take place.

Only when the many layers of consciousness are silent, in absolute peace, life can flow back to presence and self-forgetfulness, and then the immense is there, the happiness that not is of time, the renewal of creation.