Beyond this mortal life — the unbroken cycle of consciousness.
Just as consciousness does not cease when you sleep, it equally continues between lives.
The unconsciousness of sleep bookends and thereby defines each day of our consciousness. This is despite our experience continuing as we sleep, but in a fashion beyond the clear recall (and comprehension) of our daily awareness.
What we call the unconsciousness of sleep is a part of our undivided, full-spectrum experience of consciousness (which we are perceptually separated from when embodied). As such, unconsciousness is not a state of non-experience; it is a state of experience we do not recall. It is that which has been forgotten.
In the same way that your experience of consciousness does not cease when you sleep, it equally continues between lives.
Just as you lived many days before this one, you have also lived many lives. Our unconsciousness of the time before our birth and the time after our death is not a state of non-experience like sleep. It is a level of experience we do not have access to when alive; it is unconscious … it exists in our unconsciousness.
Therefore, just as the unconsciousness of sleep bookends each day, the unconsciousness of experience before birth and after death delineates our mortal life. We choose to forget this wider state of existence because the human experience birthed from our desire to temporarily forget our eternal experience of consciousness to experience a mortal life in a shared environment.
Our consciousness is the only part of us capable of bridging the perception of both the physical and the non-physical (which corresponds to the mortal and the immortal). Unconsciousness acts as a barrier that blinds us to the freedom of our perception. Our unconscious acts as a temporary mortal limit on that which is immortal and infinite. This allows consciousness — which is eternal — to experience being mortal and limited.
The immortal wants to be mortal.
Birth and death are illusionary divides in experience, similar to how we use imagined boundary lines to divide up the one ocean on Earth. Mortality is created by the dividing up of all consciousness into what you are conscious of and what you are unconscious of (which correlates to remembered versus forgotten). This is how we, from the level of spirit / eternal consciousness, perceptually define the territory of our embodied life.
This means that through all lives, through all realities, through all the eternal, diverse experiences of existence we have shared, all that remains constant cannot lie in the constantly varying details of what we may or may not be conscious of. All that remains constant in mortal form is…
We are that which experiences a mix of consciousness and unconsciousness.
Even though the self that arises out of our mortal experience changes constantly — both within and across our lives — what it experiences is infinite, and the potential of our journey is boundless, stretching into eternity.
Our spirit is what we most essentially are, as it is the only quality we experience consistently.
The key to understanding the attraction of mortality is the realization that partial consciousness is a completely different experience of awareness from full consciousness. Just because it is a limited experience does not mean it is a lesser experience. What we tend to think of as a limited experience can be better understood as a focused experience.
A self that is conscious of everything has no experience of unconsciousness through which to compare its experience of consciousness (no experience of ‘is-not’ against which to experience is). Knowing everything is not a reflective or interactive experience. When you broaden your perception to include All That Is, there is no room for your perception to move about because your perception is already taking up all the room.
When you limit / focus your perception, it has room to move about.
Mortality is a playground for perception.
It is our ability to declare “I Am NOT” that gives such potency to the “I Am” of being human. Even though our physical form is temporary and mortal, the partial experience of consciousness is immortal and surrounded by an infinite potential for experience.
Because consciousness is not physical, it cannot be divided. When something cannot be divided from itself, there can only be one of it — like the ocean on Earth. Therefore, there is only one consciousness in existence that encompasses all experiences of space and time. It is the sum of all awareness. This unified level of consciousness is what we all are — we are “it” choosing to experience being an individual.
Because we each have physical bodies, which birth into an extremely wide range of circumstances, our personal experiences of self are so different that the commonality of our consciousness is thoroughly masked.
At the heart of this mask is a fear of realizing All That We Are.
This is because to awaken to the wider nature of consciousness — having been so identified with our physical form — is to radically transform your experience of self. It is equivalent to consciously choosing death (because ‘the self you were’ will die, and a new experience of self will replace it). This is why…
As eternal consciousness, we built a fear of death into the human experience.
The fear of death is a fear of all that is unknown, different, and infinite. Fearing death allows us to preserve our individuality when mortal (instead of seeing through the perceptual illusion of mortality). This fear of death … of change … of “the unknown” creates a repulsive dividing force that allows us to state our difference and say, “MY consciousness is different from YOUR consciousness.”
The blindness fear creates is our denial that, if we were to stand in our enemy’s shoes, having lived their life, we would act as they do.
All beliefs that deny how we are connected are reflections of how we fear — and thereby judge — not only others but also our own nature. We each have many faces / aspects through which we not only express ourselves but also experience and interpret the world. We also have many other versions of our self that we experience across our lifetime.
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