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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a pragmatic
(methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free. |
Awareness
Awareness: being cognizant or conscious (of);
informed. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: In common usage awareness refers to ‘I’ or ‘me’ being aware. The psychological
and psychic entity within the body usurps the body’s senses, giving an apparent validity to its existence, and experienced as though ‘I’
see through the eyes, ‘I’ hear with the ears, ‘I’ smell with the nose, ‘I’ touch, ‘I’ think and ‘I’ am aware. ‘I’
experience myself as an alien in the world for ‘I’ am seemingly trapped within the body, feel isolated and disassociated from the world,
and often yearn for freedom or release.
Thus ‘normal’ awareness is typified by feelings of separation and alienation,
fear and suspicion, resentment and aggression. With increasing life experience, disillusionment and disappointment, ‘I’ become cynical,
resigned or accepting of ‘my’ lot in life, as any remaining naiveté is replaced with cunning self-interest. This cunning selfishness is
most prevalent in the spiritual practice of developing a higher form of ‘awareness’. This practice creates a disassociated higher entity,
commonly known as ‘the watcher’, who then watches what ‘I’ feel, what ‘I’ think, what ‘I’ am aware of.
This illusionary awareness of one’s ‘self’, if practiced assiduously can, on
rare occasions, lead to a full-blown delusion or ASC whereby this watcher or Higher Self can imagine or ‘realize’ itself to be Divine and
Immortal. Even if this Ultimate State is not reached, the practice and pretence of developing a new identity – the higher Self as opposed to
the normal self – leads one further away from the possibility of developing a genuine awareness, bare of any ‘self’ whatsoever.
Thus far there have only been two alternatives –
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the spiritual delusion whereby there is an ‘I’
who, as awareness only, is confirmed by repetitious imagination as completely separate from both the flesh and blood body and the outside
world, and who is thus ‘freed’ to dwell in an inner imaginary, eternal, spirit-ual world.
There is now available a third alternative for those who seek a genuine freedom from the Human
Condition in its totality – the elimination of both the self and Self. When one’s awareness is freed of the emotional and instinctual
bondage created by the psychological and psychic entity, a bare awareness of the actual world-as-it-is becomes extravagantly obvious. This
awareness is readily apparent in the pure consciousness experience, or PCE, when ‘I’ temporarily abdicate the role of being ‘the one who
is aware’. The physical senses, freed of the limitations and restrictions of a fear-based interpreter, are heightened in the extreme. The
brain, similarly freed of restrictions, is able to operate with immense clarity and ‘self’-awareness is replaced by apperception – the
brain’s ability to be aware of itself.
See also Richard’s article on Attentiveness and Sensuousness and Apperceptiveness
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