I'm about 1/4 of the way through MBT and after reading about the two assumptions, AUO and Evolution, I was inspired to write the following as an antidote to how I had been thinking about spirituality:

Consciousness is experiencing itself as a practically infinite number of separate conscious entities for a reason. Consciousness is exploring all possibilities of its existence and it's creative potential. We, the separated individual units of that consciousness, are integral to that exploration. We are the very means by which that exploration into infinite possibility is made.

Without us, consciousness would be stagnant and dull. We provide the learning. We make the choices. Just as consciousness itself is intrinsically free, so are all of its multitude of conscious units of experience. We create the diversity and the unpredictability through which evolution can take place.

Evolution is not about returning to Source, evolution is separating from Source because that's what Source does, it explodes into a billion trillion individuals and each of our lives explodes into a billion trillion possibilities and choices. Ascension is not about overcoming your separation, it's about ascending our fear of separation, realising we are simultaneously the whole of consciousness and a separate unit of individual consciousness.

Ascension isn't about realising ego and choice are illusions or limitations to be overcome, it is about using the beautiful gift of individual choice to contribute to the continuous evolution and exploration from Source. Consciousness doesn't learn by controlling everyone and everything. Consciousness learns by setting itself totally and utterly free through us, through our experiences, and through our choices.

Source doesn't have a fixed plan to bring all of us lost souls home. Source is constantly and continuously flinging itself outwards to go and explore and learn and multiply and express and create at every level of existence, and it does that through each and everyone of us in each and every moment.

Celebrate your separation, celebrate your freedom, and know that everything you experience, everything, is allowing all of us, that is consciousness itself, to evolve and grow. We are separate because we are Source, we are consciousness, and consciousness likes to have its fingers in as many pies as possible.

AscensionAddiction

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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them"
George Orwell

Referring to it as Source feels good to me as well as the concept of us being sparks off of it having human experiences to try EVERYTHING, every way of being human as that was part of the model I'm building before 2008 when I actually read MBT. I bought it in 2003. There is a book called "Words From the Source" I think, that I also think Tom is holding onto right now with some other books I wanted him to look at. I can't even remember the names of the other book but one had the concept of shaking hands being sex too. Different thread reference there. You seem addicted the the concept of ascending AscensionAddiction. ;)
Love
Bette

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All That Is
what is?
Consciousness.

I agree with this perception 100%. ♥

Love,

Jeff

I'm not used to getting such positive feedback on forums, I think I might post here again :-)

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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them"
George Orwell

Add me to the group of folks that agree totally with the OP.

Individualism and exploration FTW!

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Consciousness is experiencing itself as a practically infinite number of separate conscious entities for a reason. Consciousness is exploring all possibilities of its existence and it's creative potential.

no experential void unexplored!


We, the separated individual units of that consciousness, are integral to that exploration. We are the very means by which that exploration into infinite possibility is made.

if not us, who?

Without us, consciousness would be stagnant and dull.

NPMR skanky syndrome

We provide the learning. We make the choices. Just as consciousness itself is intrinsically free, so are all of its multitude of conscious units of experience. We create the diversity and the unpredictability through which evolution can take place.

along with the ruleset crafter(s) and management

Evolution is not about returning to Source, evolution is separating from Source because that's what Source does, it explodes into a billion trillion individuals and each of our lives explodes into a billion trillion possibilities and choices.

separation, then integration, then promotion


Ascension is not about overcoming your separation, it's about ascending our fear of separation, realising we are simultaneously the whole of consciousness and a separate unit of individual consciousness.

bumps on the AUM sheet manifold

Ascension isn't about realising ego and choice are illusions or limitations to be overcome, it is about using the beautiful gift of individual choice to contribute to the continuous evolution and exploration from Source.

intent->decision/choice->action->result->feedback!


Consciousness doesn't learn by controlling everyone and everything. Consciousness learns by setting itself totally and utterly free through us, through our experiences, and through our choices.

toward freedom of ego, increasingly constrained by other-centred intent

Source doesn't have a fixed plan to bring all of us lost souls home. Source is constantly and continuously flinging itself outwards to go and explore and learn and multiply and express and create at every level of existence, and it does that through each and everyone of us in each and every moment.

where you are, in PMR, is indeed, where source does feed

Celebrate your separation, celebrate your freedom, and know that everything you experience, everything, is allowing all of us, that is consciousness itself, to evolve and grow.



We are separate because we are Source, we are consciousness, and consciousness likes to have its fingers in as many pies as possible.



closing scene - American Beauty

I guess I could be pretty pissed off
about what happened to me... but it's
hard to stay mad, when there's so much
beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel
like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's
too much, my heart fills up like a
balloon that's about to burst...

...and then I remember to relax, and stop
trying to hold on to it, and then it
flows through me like rain and I can't
feel anything but gratitude for every
single moment of my stupid little life...
(amused)
You have no idea what I'm talking about,
I'm sure. But don't worry...

You will someday.

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Does this PMR make my butt look big?

I enjoyed your post AA,

With one tiny exception.
We are never REALLY separate from the "source".
We ARE consciousness, existing within consciousness, (or "Consciousness SPACE")

Any separation that you experience is purely an illusion (just as time, space, matter, and energy are illusions)
While much of what you say is true, and consciousness does keep splitting and dividing itself like cellular organisms. It is never truly separate (In my opinion)

I think of it in terms of my body having many cells within it. And cells are being "born" and cells are "dying" all the time. Each cell is performing different tasks and functions. Like the red and white blood cells are doing constant "maintainance and repair", and some cells join together to collectively form "organs" (for specific job functions) all the time.
But when cells begin to act in a "self seeking" manner, they become Malignant to the larger organism.
We will either work towards the evolution and growth (for ourselves and) for the larger system (reduction of entropy) and grow towards love, or we will work towards increasing entropy (and decay)

We are inseparable from our environment (whether in PMR or in NPMR). And what you do to your neighbor, or your neighborhood, you do to yourself.
We are co creators in our reality (for better or for worse). And while it may even be possible that we could create an entire universe full of consciousness, as a virtual reality simulation (like the SIMS) It would still exist within consciousness space (and it would remain a simulation for consciousness evolution)

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LOVE is the answer

peace
patrick

All i know beyond any doubt, is that i am aware and experiencing awareness. And fun loving, or love is fun, is the goal that never seems to end. Sabby