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The world we live in
11 - Many levels of consciousness
We know that heat can move from one object to another. The ice cream can melt. The soup will get cold. Can we think of heat without something getting hot? Our solution is to replace heat (in the immaterial world) with calories (in the material world) and treat heat like an object. This is how we hide the fact that we are not directly conscious of heat.
We have a similar problem with ‘life’.
We don’t have a sense-organ dedicated to life. We cannot tell the difference between a stuffed animal and one that is asleep. We must wait for the animal to move or make noise before we can infer that there is life. It is difficult to think of life without somebody being alive.
However, we keep creating life, all day long, without paying attention to what is happening. Every day, in our body, millions of dead cells are being replaced with new living cells. To create living cells is to create life. Our body gets completely renewed 10 times a year. We are a source of life on Earth, and we are not alone. Animals and plants could also take part in an ongoing creation of life in the universe. They are part of the 95% of dark matter and energy and can manifest themselves in the 5% of our material world.
The universe is in perpetual transformation
and we are part of its creation,
The same idea that applies to heat and life could also apply to feelings, compassion, energy, love and whatever we usually consider to be related to our soul. We need an increased consciousness to replace the sense organs that we are missing.
How can we be sure that we are not fully conscious when we are asleep? We could be wondering what happens the other 16 hours of the day?
Consciousness is our new frontier
Scratching a match does not create heat and light. They existed long before we made matches. Scratching a match gives heat and light an opportunity to manifest themselves in our material world.
We give the immaterial world an opportunity
to manifest itself in our material world.
There is plenty of heat all around us. It is in the air, in our furniture and in our computers. Nothing is at absolute zero temperature. We cannot see heat. We don’t have a sense organ dedicated to heat, but we can sense it with any part of our body. This is what we expect from Love. It does not solve problems. It dissolves them.
How many states of consciousness do we have?
Being awake and asleep are two obvious states of consciousness. We have more.
-Surgeons use anesthesia. It is a way to disconnect our memory from our brain. We do not know if memory is part of consciousness, but we are glad to have access to anesthesia.
-Surgery can also trigger an NDE (Near Death Experience). It is a state of consciousness where the soul is separated from the body. We are conscious of what happened around us in the operating room but do not receive any information from our sense organs. We do not suffer. Some people talk about pure happiness.
- The hypnotist can make us fully conscious that we are pedaling on our bicycle in the middle of the ocean.
We now have five possible levels of consciousness: awake, asleep, anesthesia, hypnotism and NDE. Let’s be open-minded. There could be more. With puberty comes an increase of consciousness. Our computers have in memory all the knowledge accumulated by mankind. The question to the student is: “what do you want to become conscious of, today?”
A lawyer could plead that his client is not guilty because he was not in the necessary state of consciousness. “What do you plead?” - “Not conscious Your Honor.”
A puberty of the soul
The development of consciousness in our soul could be similar to developments in our body.
Do you remember puberty? The world around you had not changed, but everything looked different. You went through a long period of preparation leading to an awakening. Sex organs are like a seed, waiting to be watered. Puberty appears to be the final stage of a long preparation leading to a final development. What could be next? Is there something more to life than perpetuating the species? “Nature is a gentle guide,” said Montaigne. Let’s see if we can find in Nature examples of a slow evolution leading to sudden hatching.
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The world’s population remained stable for 300,000 years until it was multiplied by 10 in the last 200 years.
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It takes a long time for the bud of a flower to grow until one morning we find it in full bloom.
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In the industrialization of each country, we see a period of preparation, leading to rapid changes.
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All the religions are waiting for a final apotheosis.
If puberty can happen to our physical body, something similar could happen to our soul. It would even be surprising that something important could happen to the body without any repercussion on the soul.
We may have something to learn from the slime molds.
They don’t have a head and a brain. They eat and move like animals. They can solve complicated problems better than humans with computers. They seem to be alive. Slime molds could be a reliable source of information.
After 1mn 20sec in this video, you can see slime molds merging their bodies because they run out of food. Merging bodies sounds unbelievable to a human brain, but that should not stop us. We have been told by scientists that human thinking is unreliable anyway! - Don’t we? Under stress, the slime molds merge their bodies. Under stress, humans could merge their souls.
During the day, we can only communicate through our sense organs. We could assume that when asleep, we can communicate through our souls. At night, one soul could ‘see’ other souls, like during the day, one body can see other bodies. When we die, human souls could merge like the slime molds are merging their bodies.
That may sound unbelievable. This is what our grand-parents said about our inventions of the last 200 years.
