This blog was written specific to the first episode of Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet.
You can hear it as part of the recording at www.ctrnetwork.com/janetbarrett
Consciousness
at Our Core
IN the beginning there was God, oops, Consciousness and then
there was a bunch of stuff that happened. And in the long run, many, many, many
seasons later man showed up. And the truth is that everything is within the
core of Consciousness. We tend to think in terms that core is small but in
reality, everything is held within.
Now humans can hold awareness of this core. Let’s call it
Consciousness. In tuning in to it, it is there active and the stillness of
creation.
In our minds’ humans can organize with a sense of hierarchy.
This entitles us to often to take positions of authority of another person or
people. We decide how we will share living space with other creatures on this small
pale blue dot and even the dot itself. In our minds we have sovereignty over
all. This is a fallacy.
By the time the human life form showed up on this planet it
was really Johnny Come Lately. Life had been going on for billions of years.
Ice ages came and went, dinosaurs came and went. Beach front property was a lot
less in space than it is now. Earth was Being and just fine thank you.
Human references with our senses are what we have in order
to decide how we organize our sense of life. We decide those definitions. We create religions at times that reflect
when our science wasn’t up to snuff. We often use science to justify, validate
our hypothesis about being. We used our building awareness as cultures and civilizations
to find our connection in the physical and non-physical realms of environment
and thought. And the ability to manipulate our lives in certain ways started to
develop either through physical means or in harnessing and using non-physical
means.
Like a body full of cells so are we with other humans within
the Consciousness core. We are relation-based creatures sharing this on planet
Earth. In a healthy body all of it works together as a whole no matter the
limitations of the parts. Each is specific to the working of the whole. Our life
form must be appreciated, held in awe of how it constantly strives to be in a
harmonious state of balance.
We make assumptions, take things for granted, consider
ourselves successful and independent these days free of the whole of mankind,
planet Earth and the cosmos. Not possible. We question whether we make
differences in being alive. We play at
life and see disconnect between actions and outcomes in our lives in our
environment around us and putting one before another.
We have put aside what our ancestors learned and passed on
to us through our genes. That life is precious. To learn from our past and let
it help guide us. To recognize what might look different is only a different
aspect of the totality of life. That we are so small and how to find comfort in
that and not fear.
We will always use our emotions to guide us. They are the
flavoring life has to offer. We will think about what we feel. Often, they
would seem to control us. In attitudes, world vision and how we each are in the
world.
All of this creates a body of awareness and form. Our
stories and DNA give us reasons and justifications for positions in the
relation with ourselves and others.
It leads to the awareness that there is something that
humans can’t do. We can conceive life, we can birth life, but we can’t
manufacture the spark we call life. We can only create it from existing living
tissue. It is unique in the cosmos, this human form and our fellow living
creatures. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in different forms, in
different times and places.
Now is the time to stop. Breathe. Put a sock on the monkey
mind and give it a rest. Breathe. Release the pressure you find inside in being
you. Breathe. Reengage. And, this time
you are doing it from within yourself and listening to your truths. Not those
projected truths, those surface “to fit in” truths, but from your essence,
Consciousness which is aware on a whole different level about the wholeness of
being and all its elements. We are each just one of many in this cosmic soup
holding this core of Consciousness in form.
Janet Barrett
Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
on the CTR Network
