a mystic and a mind: The Consciousness Field, part 3, how the ego controls us

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Consciousness Field, part 3, how the ego controls us

If the ego has assumed this function of preventing us from connecting to the consciousness field, how does it do this? I’m going to talk about my observation of my own ego, which used its own methods of controlling my behavior. Yours probably does some of the same things, but also uses other methods suited to your personality.

Egoic mind control

1.) instill the belief that there is nothing more than the ego state
2.) make your meditation feel empty and pointless
3.) controls your emotional state to prevent change or improvement. My ego controlled me by making me feel depressed and anxious all the time. I struggled to get through the day. If people tried to help me I would become angry and their words would not be heard by me. If you feel that your emotional state is strictly determined by your life circumstances, this is your ego telling you that. When I assumed responsibility and control over my own emotional state, I broke the ego control and my practices become much more effective.
4.) prevents us from using that part of our mind that is intended to connect us to the field. This has two parts, 1 - not using this ability prevents us from learning to use it, 2- not using it prevents us from developing the neural connections we need to make it a natural way of being and thinking.
5.) constantly flooding the mind with pointless thoughts about people and events in our lives. Rehashing the same thoughts over and over about some event in the past, thinking that we are under attack from outside of ourselves, justifying our anger, sadness or other emotions. Feeling useless, powerless, pointless and thinking about this all the time.
6.) Filtering and judging our sensory information so that we are not fully engaged with the world.
7.) Judging other creatures to be inferior to us and unimportant.
8.) Seeing our self as separate from the world and not integrated into it. Seeing ourselves as not dependent on the world and the ecosystem for everything we need. All of our companions on the Earth went through the same multi-billlion year journey to get to this place. All are amazing and complex, even the rocks and soil.

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The Self-Aware Universe

In the beginning, there was only energy. But it was energy so dense that it was denser than “matter.” This energy of infinite density started expanding, and in doing so, some of the energy “condensed” into matter. Matter attracts gravity. More matter attracts more gravity, and more matter. When a large enough mass of matter accumulates, it can condense to form a star. If the mass is large enough, nuclear reactions will begin and the stars produce energy, largely in the form of light. Now, the universe is illuminated.

The universe is now lit up, but it is still not very complex, especially in terms of chemistry. After the big bang, matter consists largely of hydrogen and helium, with only tiny amounts of a couple of other elements. This makes for boring chemistry, there only two elements, one is inert. The hydrogen can only form one compound, H₂.

Besides producing a lot of energy, stars also produce new elements. While small stars only produce elements up to carbon, the large stars can produce all of the elements in the periodic table. These elements are produced and dispersed when these large stars go supernova. These really large stars also don’t shine for very long, the largest will burn out in only 10 million years, or even less. Thus, for every billion years, there are hundreds of generations of supernovae seeding the universe with chemical elements.

Eventually, some of these elements recombine, by gravity, and form planets and stars. In a star, these elements don’t do much; stars are too hot for chemistry. But on a planet things can happen, if conditions are right. The temperature must be right. If it is too hot, large molecules are not stable and will decompose. If it is too cold, there is no molecular motion, and too little energy. Without molecular motion chemistry cannot occur, or will occur very slowly.

Out of all those elements in the periodic table, one stands out for its complex chemistry. That element is carbon. Carbon is the most moderate of elements, exactly in the middle of the table where it only wants to share electrons. Carbon wants to share electrons so much that it even combines with itself. One of these pure carbon substances is diamond, the hardest and most refractory material known. This is reflective of the strength of the C─C bond.

These strong C─C bonds make the backbone for large, complex molecules. When molecules become large, they have the potential to store information. Eventually, a molecule that could store large amounts of information developed. This molecule became so large that it could encode the universe. The universe now has a memory.

Retained information allows more complexity to develop, but retention of information requires energy, hence chemosynthesis developed, and much later, photosynthesis. The ability to utilize energy increases complexity.

Sensory systems develop out of a need to interact with the environment as an energy source. Eventually, observation and interaction with the environment allows for the possibility of manipulating the environment. Manipulating the environment requires intelligence. Eventually, through increasing complexity, life develops to ability to be self aware.

The Universe, through its own processes and laws, developed within itself the capacity of awareness. The Universe is now alive, it can now observe itself. We think of evolution as strictly a biological process, but biological evolution was only a portion of this process. Chemical evolution had to occur before that, and nuclear evolution first. All of it had to happen the way it did for us to be here. We are intimately connected to all of it, to all other forms of life, to the rocks, and the planet, and the solar system. The signatures of these processes are in our DNA, our chemical composition and our nuclear (isotopic) composition. We are from here.

We tend to think of ourselves as the end of this process, but where would it go from here if allowed to continue? What would be the ultimate expression of evolutionary advancement? What if that is a being that has the ability to closely observe and deeply understand the universe while at the same time being in a constant state of amazement and awe about the fact that this actually happened, and that they are privileged be alive? A being that understands the close relationship with everything else we see. We all came from the same place; we are all a result of amazing events that actually happened. What would it be like to live that way? What if you felt that deep connection and understanding all the time.