Perception of Consciousness

 

Situations are felt through our imagination. Imagination means a thought pattern. This thought pattern is a combination of our phenomena of mind and body as well as the intellect – the determinative faculty of the mind.

Thoughts are formed by space-time manifestation of different forms. We ourselves, feel distinct from other life forms. The distinction is a function of a particular body/sense mechanism that we have inherited and the manner in which signals captured by the senses are decoded by us. So we are a phenomenon of sorts comprising of consciousness, force and matter – just as everything else is. The dimensions of consciousness, force and matter are found in all scales of manifestations and are interlinked.

By operating in the web of force and matter, we perceive the nature of the situation. Thus, situation is a matter of HOW it is imagined by our mind.

Ideas of safety, comfort, security, peace – all stem from this imagination. Imagination is there, because there is manifestation. And manifestation of different forms (and its validity) rests on our belief of different forms and our connections with them.

Thus thoughts, as waves or vibrations, keep coming and they lead to imagination. Thoughts are vibrations informed by subconscious and super conscious processes also – which we do not ordinarily catch. So imagination, as we are subjected to, include these unknown processes. At an ordinary level, they get perceived or defined as “thoughts”. To decode thoughts, means to start getting aware of all scales/ levels of thoughts (or vibrations) so one understands the role of consciousness. A situation is therefore MORE than what one perceives at a moment – it has subconscious layers, super conscious layers – collectively we call this “vibration”. Vibration is a better word than thoughts because it is neutral and it signifies a tendency of consciousness to appear as force and matter (which is a larger phenomenon as compared to our constructed notion of personal thoughts).

This, then brings to the question of the role of what we can achieve. Feelings and intellect are again what we can catch or tune into. There are other things, as mentioned before, we are not even aware of!

This sense of incompleteness can disturb the intellect. It sets out on a journey to separate the truth from the untruth, it micro analyses things. In this process, it discovers countless variables that define a situation – subtle, unintentional, waves, scales. These variables continue to rise and subside and that further bewilders the intellect. At this juncture, it has to make a choice – that of insisting on absolute control OR accepting the nature of things as they are and thereby suspend the urge to define or control anything.

Absolute control will lead one to stressful lives and anxiety. Accepting the nature of things born out of consciousness, will empower the intellect.

Eventually, the question we come to is this: what is one concentrating on? WE concentrate on something at any particular moment. If that concentration gives rise to anxiety, then you know where you are heading. If the sequence of thoughts gives you peace, then that is what you are concentrating on. The problem with regular perception, is that incidents are taken personally – someone said something, something happened or someone gets mad at you – all these affect you negatively. Why does one take things personally? What has all phenomena in the world got to do with you? Does it really expect anything from you? And should you really expect something from the world? The problem, again, lies with the nature of perception – or our tendency to identify with the mind (and its tendency to keep differentiating from all) and hence demands to control for its own survival – an imagination.

Thus, nurture the appropriate seeds of thoughts – this is the only thing we can do.