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A Conversation with Consciousness

February 10, 2009 by Andre Best

There has been a fair share of books written in recent years about peoples' experiences with having conversations with God/Truth/Reality. If I were to be so blessed so as to have my own Conversation with Consciousness this is what the first of many inquiries, on my part, and answers, on the part of God/Truth/Reality, would include:

ANDRE: I've read about Consciousness and all of that. And it occurred to me that although we come from Consciousness and we go back into Consciousness when the body dies, we are also to be doing everything within our power to wake up out of un-consciousness while we're alive.

And then it struck me. The question, that is.

CONSCIOUSNESS: What question is that?

ANDRE: Why?

CONSCIOUSNESS: WHY?

ANDRE: Yes, 'why?'

WHY wake up? Why do we have to wake up? Why do this? If we come from and go back to Consciousness and it's inside of us while we're alive but we're just not aware of it since we're living from mind during our life here, why do we have to spend all this time working at waking up? Why make the effort? What's so important about waking up? We're going to die into it again, aren't we?

We're all going to go back into it? Aren't we? We're all going to go back into the nirvana of pure Consciousness which we're to understand that we came from and we live from right now, but don't know it.

WE have Consciousness inside of us. We ARE Consciousness and we live from Consciousness. But why wake up now? Why not just wait for the end, and when that happens it's all taken care of?

Why is it so important to wake up while we're alive?

This isn't making sense to me.

CONSCIOUSNESS: Tell me more.

ANDRE: I'm questioning and wondering why I am making this effort to wake up. I'm not blithely following what I've learned and been told I should be doing. I'm wondering WHY I should be doing it.

Oh I know, there's all the stuff about being in pure joy and bliss and one with the Universe and God and Consciousness and all of that. But that's who we are intrinsically anyway, right? That's what we live from. And yet we're doing all that we can to reach this point of pure conscious awareness while we're in this body.

We're living to die to Consciousness. And what for? Why do that?

What is behind the effort? What is behind the reasons and the justifications for the effort?

I can do and I am doing what is needed and necessary for my wakeful state. But why?

I want to know why.

CONSCIOUSNESS: Continue, please.

ANDRE: I want to understand why these efforts are necessary. I want to understand why this is so key to our Path of enlightenment. Is it because once I feel it during this unconsciousness experience of the body that I'll then know and it'll be answered?

I'm being told that I'll know that I'm one with the universe. I'm being told that I'm to understand if I have the penultimate epiphany that I'll not just understand this, but I'll know it.

But is that what it's for?

To know enlightenment? To become Consciousness now? To break through to the other side while in the body?

Why?

CONSCIOUSNESS: Do you really want answers?

ANDRE: Answers? What's behind them? Give me an answer and I'll ask "Why? What's behind that?"

Give me another answer and I'll ask "Why? What's behind that?"

Happiness?

Joy?

Nirvana?

Wakefulness?

Freedom from pain?

In unison with the Present?

Is that what it's for?

Why wake up?

Are we to believe that we're climbing the proverbial spiritual mountain and making the effort to do so simply and solely 'because it's there?' No other reason behind or underneath that?

Because it's there?!

Because that's our purpose in Life?!

Because that's what Life wants of me?!

Because that's what I was put here for: to experience existence in this physical plane on behalf of Consciousness?!

Because I'm carrying the multi-generational burden of the human mind and it's programmed into my genes and DNA and I'm to fight hard to free myself from that so I can be a human who is truly being, different?

Why?

Why wake up?

What's the reason behind waking up?

Is the reason, any reason enough reason to continue to do it?

What is behind all this?

Who is behind all this?

CONSCIOUSNESS: Are you ready to know now?

ANDRE: I don't understand. Speak to me please. Help me understand what it is you want me to understand. Help me know what it is you want me to know. I'm open. I'm raw. I'm willing. I'm listening.

Speak to me. I want to know. I want to know why you want me to wake up to you.

I want to know why you want me to know that you're me, that you're in me, that I'm you.

Speak to me please. I want to know.

CONSCIOUSNESS: You can't handle me. You don't know me and you don't want to know me. I am. I am everything and you don't know me. You can't handle me.

ANDRE: Speak to me. I want to know.

CONSCIOUSNESS: Don't fight me. Don't fight me. Stop fighting me. Stop fighting me. I'm here and you're fighting me. You're getting in my way inside of you: instead you need to get out of my way. I need you to not be there when I'm there.

Wake up to me. Wake up to what I am. Don't think about me, wake up to me. Don't understand me, know me. Know what I am. Know who I am. I am beyond words. I am beyond your thoughts. I am beyond you. I am not there but I am everywhere. You can't think about me like you think. You can't put me into words. You have to know me, you can't write about me. You have to know me. You have to feel me. I am everywhere inside of you. I am you. I am here right now. I am writing these words. I am here with you. I am always here with you. Don't fight me. Don't try to understand me. Don't try to know me. You can't know me because you are me. You can't understand me because I am beyond understanding. I am light. I am everything. I am all. I am what you see. I am what you breathe. I am what you hear. I am what you eat. I am everything including you. You are not apart from me. You are me. There is nothing to know outside of knowing me. I am everywhere, so you can't find me because I am not lost. Stop trying to find me. Stop looking for me because I am right here. Be here with me. Be here now. Love me. Know that I am. You know me. That pain in your heart is the pain of feeling separated from me. Andre, know me. Don't think about me. Don't try to understand me. Feel me inside you. I am you. You are me.

ANDRE: But why?

CONSCIOUSNESS: To know that I'm here. That is why.

To know that I exist now in you, that is why.

I want to see how strong you are. I want to know how strong you are. I want to know that you are the spirit to show me too. I want to speak to you now. I want you to be able to hear me. I want to know life through you now. I am you. I am in this body. I am living through this body that you think you are. You are the mind, I am the body.

This life is my experience, not yours. This life is for me to experience, not you. This life is for me to live, not you. This life is for me to know, not you. These experiences the body is having are for me to know. The body is here for me to live from. That is why.

The brain is needed for the body to survive, but the mind gets in the way when the body grows. It gets in the way of my purpose. It gets in the way of why I am here. It thinks it is me, the mind thinks that the body was given to it. It was given to me to live through and I keep trying to live through so many millions and countless billions of bodies waiting for some of them to allow me to live through their body and their senses. Only a few have been strong enough to do so and to allow me to do so. I'm hoping that you're one of them. I know that you are not right now. Your mind needs to stop struggling with me. You have a strong mind; it gets in the way a lot. It is very strong and is fighting with me and struggling with me.

I don't have to try. I don't have to work at this. I am here. I always will be. Your body won't though. But I'm hoping that I will be able to experience life through your body before it's too late and the body dies and I am just consciousness again.

I want to know human life through you. I want as many experiences of human life through you. I like that. I live for that. It's my time to live. It's my time to be present in the human race. For them to know that I'm here in all of them even though and especially that they don't know.

Even trying to tell you all of this is using your words. This is not about words, this is about knowing. Knowing me. Experiencing me. In you. In your life. Knowing me in your life.

Thank you for listening to me now. I'll speak more soon. You're tired.

ANDRE: Thank you for sharing. I am tired. I think I'll go back to sleep now.

Written by Andre Best
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I can't help thinking that all this New Age Consciousness stuff is just another God substitute. I don't mean that in the obvious way, that it's just another name for God, but rather that it's just another way to console ourselves about our inevitable deaths. Don't get me wrong, I have been coming to know the benefits of recognizing my level of Consciousness and of increasing it, as well as of the role it plays in giving me some semblance of peace of mind and happiness. I am just having some trouble with the concept that my relationship to Consciousness will continue after I die. Some may say that I am just looking at it wrong; that it is not relevant since I will not be separate from Consciousness after I die (in fact, I may not be separate from it now). My concern is not that that may not be true, but rather that my returning to Consciousness when I die seems indistinguishable from my ceasing to exist. So, following Occam's razor, why not just stick with "ceasing to exist"? To me, this partially answers the question of "Why?": because it's a way to improve our relationship with the Universe NOW, while we are aware that we are in it, because it may be all that we have.

Posted by: Robert Spanell at February 11, 2009 2:16 PM

Rob,

Thanks for your inquiry. You do pose a good point about the 'life after death' aspect of existence (or not). But, I believe that regardless of one's answer or supposition to this posed question, the point of 'now' is that we are being told that something is below the current physical awareness that we exist from. I question this with this article, and ponder the actual presence of something below physical awareness in our human form. You state that this might be New Age rhetoric. At first glance, that would appear true; however, after reading a study such as Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke's 'Cosmic Consciousness' one understands that this is not New Age. Dr. Bucke wrote this study of the human mind in the 1890's and in it he proposed, through personal experience, that a higher level of consciousness existed above normal consciousness, and common self-consciousness. This is what I write from and question. Does this exist, and, if so, where is it to be 'found'? All good questions to pose. If only the answer could be found outside of probably actually having to experience direct connection with this Cosmic Consciousness itself. Nevertheless, with consideration of Dr. Bucke's study, this shouldn't be too hard for the earnest.

Andre

Posted by: Anonymous at February 13, 2009 10:19 PM

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