The Difference Between Thinking and Consciousness
Question: "My history and my attachment thereto is who I am. I do not wish to lose my identity."
I think the word, identity, is key here. It seems you are saying that you derive your sense of identity, your sense of self, from your past, your history. That is not uncommon. Almost all humans do. We have been conditioned to live in linear time and to do so we need our minds. Our minds operate in linear time; past, present, and future. So while we are in a body living a life on planet earth we use our minds to navigate that life and therefore come to identify our minds as who we are.
But we are not our minds. We are much, much greater than that. Each of us has a self/identity that existed before we ever came into a body and that self-identity will continue to last after we lay the body down. This is our true divine identity. The mind quits when the body does. And so does linear time. Our true identity/self does not live in time. Linear time is strictly a function of the human mind in the physical.
We have been on a very long evolutionary path of consciousness. Our true divine identity/self has remained constant for that entire evolutionary journey and it will remain so. It has been our awareness that has been evolving; the awareness of our consciousness. During that long evolutionary path we entered physicality and that involved developing a physical-based mind. In the development of that physical-based mind our concept of linear time was created in order to facilitate that mental development. Linear time was actually quite necessary to hasten our evolution through physicality.
A couple of things happened, though, that we got stuck in. First, we became so conditioned by linear time that we lost touch with the NOW (or No Time), which is where our true identity/self lives. Secondly, our total preoccupation with our minds and thinking in terms of linear time created a false identity known as the ego. An ego is a product of the mind and of emotions and it can only survive in linear time. Take an ego out of linear time and it gasps for air, so to speak. An ego can only survive in linear time because an ego derives its energy from past associations and attachments and from future associations and attachments. The ego can be in the present but not the NOW. When the ego is in the present it still is attached to the past or future (usually both). There is no past or future in the NOW.
So what happened is we thoroughly cut ourselves off from our true divine identity that lives outside of linear time. Having lost our connection to our true divine identity, we began identifying our selves with our false identities; the mind/ego. But our mind/ego is not who we really are. Of course we need some sort of identity for stability as we live in and navigate through our mind construct of linear time. The ego provides this but it also continues to block us from our true divine identities. So in our evolutionary path we are stuck in mind/ego/linear time and the only way to get unstuck is to reconnect with our true divine identities. And that can only be done in the NOW
I think the word, identity, is key here. It seems you are saying that you derive your sense of identity, your sense of self, from your past, your history. That is not uncommon. Almost all humans do. We have been conditioned to live in linear time and to do so we need our minds. Our minds operate in linear time; past, present, and future. So while we are in a body living a life on planet earth we use our minds to navigate that life and therefore come to identify our minds as who we are.
But we are not our minds. We are much, much greater than that. Each of us has a self/identity that existed before we ever came into a body and that self-identity will continue to last after we lay the body down. This is our true divine identity. The mind quits when the body does. And so does linear time. Our true identity/self does not live in time. Linear time is strictly a function of the human mind in the physical.
We have been on a very long evolutionary path of consciousness. Our true divine identity/self has remained constant for that entire evolutionary journey and it will remain so. It has been our awareness that has been evolving; the awareness of our consciousness. During that long evolutionary path we entered physicality and that involved developing a physical-based mind. In the development of that physical-based mind our concept of linear time was created in order to facilitate that mental development. Linear time was actually quite necessary to hasten our evolution through physicality.
A couple of things happened, though, that we got stuck in. First, we became so conditioned by linear time that we lost touch with the NOW (or No Time), which is where our true identity/self lives. Secondly, our total preoccupation with our minds and thinking in terms of linear time created a false identity known as the ego. An ego is a product of the mind and of emotions and it can only survive in linear time. Take an ego out of linear time and it gasps for air, so to speak. An ego can only survive in linear time because an ego derives its energy from past associations and attachments and from future associations and attachments. The ego can be in the present but not the NOW. When the ego is in the present it still is attached to the past or future (usually both). There is no past or future in the NOW.
So what happened is we thoroughly cut ourselves off from our true divine identity that lives outside of linear time. Having lost our connection to our true divine identity, we began identifying our selves with our false identities; the mind/ego. But our mind/ego is not who we really are. Of course we need some sort of identity for stability as we live in and navigate through our mind construct of linear time. The ego provides this but it also continues to block us from our true divine identities. So in our evolutionary path we are stuck in mind/ego/linear time and the only way to get unstuck is to reconnect with our true divine identities. And that can only be done in the NOW
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We are the consciousness that comes from a Source. Sources don't think. If they did they would implode on themselves. All a Source does is source pure consciousness. It does not think (which is a mind function)! All it ever does is unconditionally emits pure consciousness. Pure consciousness contains all knowingness of All That Is. All knowledge and knowingness is contained in this pure consciousness that is constantly being spewed out by this magnificent Source. We (humankind and the reality we have created) are that pure consciousness attempting to know itself.
There is a pure all-knowing consciousness that is flowing through us at all times. This pure all-knowing consciousness is who we really are. Our minds and bodies are our creation that we created in order to become consciously aware of who we really are. We are pure consciousness and our minds and bodies are our attempt to take that pure consciousness and think with it, create with it, and realize our true identity with it. It was our intention to create a mind and a body so that we could think and so that we could feel. Instead of just being consciousness we wanted to think and feel that consciousness and thereby fully realize our divine identity.
Minds think. Consciousness just is. We are bringing the two together.
Of course we got stuck in thinking. That is why when we think of a universal consciousness we see it as a mind that is thinking. We give our Source the same characteristics as our thinking minds and their accompanying egos. We give it judgment, logic, reasoning, discrimination, gender bias, anger, vengeance, fatalism, greed, a foundation of linear time, and a duality-centered basis of "good and evil." We see our Source as some bearded aging white guy sitting on some throne on some cloud tossing down thunderbolts at his bad children. We are so stuck in mind/ego/thinking that we can no longer feel the pure consciousness being sourced to us and we translate everything through mind constructs. We identify so much with our own thinking that we have convinced ourselves that our Source must be thinking all the time, too. We cannot see it any other way. But our Source does not need to think. That is a mind function. All our Source does is love unconditionally and in that very act it sources out pure consciousness that contains all the knowingness there is.
Yes, we all have a mind and, yes, there is a collective mind of all humans. We use both those minds to do a lot of thinking. Individually and collectively, we and our minds are fed pure consciousness by our Source, which is NOT a mind but a Source. It is a universal Source, not a universal mind. "Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous," as Eckhart Tolle says. We have created and developed minds for ourselves but in the process we have lost awareness of that consciousness being sourced by our Source. We are that consciousness! When we can get out of our minds long enough we can fully reconnect with that consciousness and realize our true identities and our true greatness.
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There is a pure all-knowing consciousness that is flowing through us at all times. This pure all-knowing consciousness is who we really are. Our minds and bodies are our creation that we created in order to become consciously aware of who we really are. We are pure consciousness and our minds and bodies are our attempt to take that pure consciousness and think with it, create with it, and realize our true identity with it. It was our intention to create a mind and a body so that we could think and so that we could feel. Instead of just being consciousness we wanted to think and feel that consciousness and thereby fully realize our divine identity.
Minds think. Consciousness just is. We are bringing the two together.
Of course we got stuck in thinking. That is why when we think of a universal consciousness we see it as a mind that is thinking. We give our Source the same characteristics as our thinking minds and their accompanying egos. We give it judgment, logic, reasoning, discrimination, gender bias, anger, vengeance, fatalism, greed, a foundation of linear time, and a duality-centered basis of "good and evil." We see our Source as some bearded aging white guy sitting on some throne on some cloud tossing down thunderbolts at his bad children. We are so stuck in mind/ego/thinking that we can no longer feel the pure consciousness being sourced to us and we translate everything through mind constructs. We identify so much with our own thinking that we have convinced ourselves that our Source must be thinking all the time, too. We cannot see it any other way. But our Source does not need to think. That is a mind function. All our Source does is love unconditionally and in that very act it sources out pure consciousness that contains all the knowingness there is.
Yes, we all have a mind and, yes, there is a collective mind of all humans. We use both those minds to do a lot of thinking. Individually and collectively, we and our minds are fed pure consciousness by our Source, which is NOT a mind but a Source. It is a universal Source, not a universal mind. "Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous," as Eckhart Tolle says. We have created and developed minds for ourselves but in the process we have lost awareness of that consciousness being sourced by our Source. We are that consciousness! When we can get out of our minds long enough we can fully reconnect with that consciousness and realize our true identities and our true greatness.
Copyright by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.