Are you sleepwalking your life away?
For me, having some sort of map has proven itself very helpful in identifying where I currently stand in my pursuit of growth, as I become more and more conscious of my reactions toward life events and what they represent.
I accept my limitations.
Having a map empowers us to try and live consciously every day. This map lists all the different levels of consciousness attainable, thus serving as a critical framework for conscious living. Without knowing the highest end state of consciousness we can attain, we can only be making baby steps of progress and not be optimizing our full potential. But having clarity of the different levels of consciousness provides us with the full context of growth. By knowing the other levels ahead, we are more able to comprehend how limiting our current level of consciousness is, what we should be striving toward and the highest end point we can reach. While we can debate on whether Hawkin’s is fully valid or exhaustive, the map definitely provides us a very good reference point to start with.
It is also more than just being aware.
Awareness typically refers to knowingness at the mental level, while consciousness is a state of knowingness that encompasses all mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of ourselves.
To be conscious is to have awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, own existence, sensations, and surroundings.
All during the Ages, man has devised ways to free his consciousness from exterior limitations. These ancient ways are now used by those who have awakened to spirituality.
In this book there are two full chapters dedicated to the explanation of the methodology, testing and interpretation.
The map of consciousness was developed via Kinesiology , or muscle testing. From this test, a scale of consciousness / energy level was calibrated, from 0 all the way to the highest end of 1000 points. Within this scale, there are a total of 17 different levels of consciousness demarcated by different points on the scale. Moving from 0 to 1000 mark a progression in the change of one’s world view from a fear-based consciousness, to a love-based consciousness.
The highest attainable level is enlightenment at 1000.
The book also shows how to use these ways, and why they operate as 'maps of consciousness'.
In this book there are two full chapters dedicated to the explanation of the methodology, testing and interpretation.
The map of consciousness was developed via Kinesiology , or muscle testing. From this test, a scale of consciousness / energy level was calibrated, from 0 all the way to the highest end of 1000 points. Within this scale, there are a total of 17 different levels of consciousness demarcated by different points on the scale. Moving from 0 to 1000 mark a progression in the change of one’s world view from a fear-based consciousness, to a love-based consciousness.
The highest attainable level is enlightenment at 1000.
The book also shows how to use these ways, and why they operate as 'maps of consciousness'.
I Ching - Revered by the Chinese as the oldest and wisest book in the world, it offers us a momentary glimpse into the world of constancy-in-change.
Tantra - The medieval Indian celebration of the union of male and female energies through the exaltation of sensation perception.
Tarot - The cards that act as ageless, culture-transcending mirrors, resonating to show us unthinkable things within ourselves as they bring us through the nether and upper worlds in a complex journey.
Alchemy - Transforming the 'elements' and binding forces of planetary-cosmic phenomena into finer, higher substances.
Astrology - Revealing the rhythmic cycles of the planets, and how their phases may be experienced by human beings in terms of motion and emotion.
Actualism - Propelling us through the levels of being and consciousness toward the ultimate externalization of God.
Sometimes learning takes traditional forms. We hear or read something new and add it to our personal store of knowledge. Yet many people have also experienced a more subtle shift of awareness. At times it seems as if a new idea is simply in the air and that we need only 'tune-in' to be a part of a new consciousness. One hypothesis suggests that if enough individuals are on the same wavelength, awareness will spontaneously spread to new individuals from mind to mind. The idea is that when a certain threshold number of persons adopt a new concept, this concept reaches its apparent maximum level of required conscious acceptance, and then the idea becomes part of the cultural norm, and is received as common or basic knowledge, even seeming as though it is absorbed into the collective global consciousness. Examples of this effect include the acceptance that the Earth is a sphere and NOT flat, the Sun is the center of the Solar System and the Earth is only one of many planets revolving around it, and that the Universe is far larger and far older than taught by religion. These are some of the great Paradigm Shifts in human culture, and demonstrate an evolution of consciousness. -The Hundredth Monkey Effect
The hundredth-monkey effect is a supposed phenomenon in which a learned behaviour spreads instantaneously from a certain group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a certain number is reached. Once this threshold is reached, instantaneous paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability.
The consciousness we operate in is actually equivalent to the lens we use to see reality. The perceptions, beliefs, mindsets and values we hold right now are a result of the consciousness we are operating in. Whenever we experience a shift in our consciousness due to an epiphany, an AHA or inner realization, we are actually breaking away from our old consciousness and as a result, old belief systems and attitudes.
Consciousness is like a lens you use to view reality. Being at a different level of consciousness means you are using a different lens to view the world. Your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values and actions are outputs of the level of consciousness you vibrate at. While the object you are observing (i.e. life, the world, events in your life, yourself) can remain the same, just having a different consciousness level causes those outputs to be widely different.
This is the same as shedding of an old lens we used to see reality with and adopting of a new lens.
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