Religion and Religious Type Concepts Thread

[Shannon]

wanted to hear Shannon's thoughts on this and others.

My "belief" in this subject is always subject to change but up until now this is my belief about life.

We human beings are on this planet to evolve in consciousness. Meaning our human body is designed to take unconscious energy and transform it into conscious energy. (as one person takes responsibility and begins to transform there unconsciousness to consciousness, they help to expand the universe as a whole, as below so is above. The universe becomes a greater version than before)
So our purpose of reincarnating again on this earth is that we can finally evolve our consciousness to a point where we see the illusion of separation, we are able to transcend the ego mind and have that enlightenment experience of witnessing the death of ego, and realizing our true identity as one with all of creation. The I becoming god realized. I'm only paraphrasing here because I have no personal experience of this.

Many spiritual masters talk about this same process. First going through the personal unconscious (This is all of the dark emotional stuff that is suppressed in most of us in the unconscious that is carried on from our childhood and past lives) and then to collective unconscious and finally at some point, the one gains enough consciousness to the point where they see the illusion of it all, and not identified with anything of the world. This is when one evolves to the point of Buddha or Jesus. Jesus said "I am in this world but not of it"

What I can say is that, cultivating witness consciousness has been everything for me. I can say the single most important thing that made a genuine impact in how I live life. I first had this realization few years back, recently ran 130 days of OGSF and again came to the same understanding.

For me, it wasn't about removing the fear from the mind. My understanding is that not to be concerned with the mind even if there is fear. To just witness it like you witness a play or a movie. To see is to be free. So it was partly coming to the understanding that I cannot change the mind... so naturally that understanding brings you to the next step that is acceptance of the mind even when the mind is negative.

In hindsight I can see a evolution in how I respond to life. Years ago when I got into personal development, I got into things like positive thinking and affirmations. Where I would be using the mind to achieve certain results. But now I am coming to the my own inner truth that says what did any of that positive thinking accomplish? for me, nothing. The mind still has its same fears. So what to do but to just accept the fear for what it is, without trying to change anything about it. The moment I began accepting it, and remain a witness to it. I found inner peace.

this cultivation of witness consciousness is something that I like to keep on investigating and developing. but my problem is not sure how subliminals fit into this picture? On one hand, I'm getting understandings about how the mind is unable to change and the ultimate solution is our beingness that is outside of mind and developing a self identity as the beingness (that is the presence of the present moment) not our ego. On the other hand, I have interest in these subliminals that seem to be creating results by using the mind and developing the ego in a way with programs like Alpha male. and these programs are not designed to ever dealing with consciousness that is outside of mind, or developing the witness consciousness.

Has anyone else found solutions in these spiritual concepts about developing present moment awareness and/or witness consciousness? How does it fit in with using subliminals?

thoughts? thanks

I generally agree with your point of view.

To resist "what is", is to make it persist. That is why there is the saying, "What you resist, persists. You focus on that thing in such a way that it is fed energy by your focus, and it persists, if not grows. But to let go of it is to release yourself from it. Accepting that fear exists, and allowing that reality to be something you stop resisting, allows it to be released.

Accepting that it exists, does not mean allowing it to persist, or feeding it. It is very much like a bee. If a bee lands on me, I simply accept that there is a bee on me, and I wait for it to fly away. I never get stung. But if I am with someone who fears bees, or getting stung, and they refuse to simply and calmly accept that "there is a bee", they begin reacting in such a way that they are increasingly likely to get stung, because they are afraid of getting stung. They focus on "getting stung", and make it happen. I simply appreciate the marvels of the bee, and it leaves me alone.

The solution is to accept "what is" without attachment, because attachment creates focus, and focus feeds energy to whatever we focus on. Doing that causes the universe to respond by attracting to us and magnifying what we have fed energy to, and causing it to become more and more real and obvious.

This is how we learn. I used to be deathly afraid of hypodermic needles. I feared them so much that I could pass out if I was not laying down while I had blood drawn. I had nightmares about them, and when I had a surgery, I spent more than a year in advance building myself into a complete state of absolute terror. Over needles, not scalpels, etc. Just needles.

Then one day my focus manifested itself in a way that forced me to deal with that fear. I got cancer, and if you know anything about cancer treatment, you know it involves a lot of needles. Well let's just say that I had no choice but to "deal with it". And now I have accepted it, and I do not fear it, and there are no more needles in my life.

Same thing for people who are desperate for something. The more they focus on it out of desperation, the harder it becomes to find, until they understand the lesson that that experience holds for them. When they accept "what is" and surrender, whatever they wanted shows up.