Prelude to the Awakening
By Subash Lohani
Who am I ? At some point of time in our lives, most of us try to understand and define the meaning of life. Life beginning with birth and ending with death could be different from life as consciousness in continuum before birth and after death. Life as an expression of consciousness is a journey that begins with the union of mind(s), conceiving one more of itself from the stardust, letting it sail through the vast cosmic ocean in search of perfection through disparting, transmigration and ascension to enable itself worthy of love, and capable of procreation, thus perpetuating life.
Any life begins from a primordial form. We develop from the fusion of a sperm and a ovum resulting in a zygote. The zygote then divides into numerous cells and organizes itself into multitude of tissues. Miles long neurons. A brain emanating consciousness. Miles long blood streams. A heart pumping blood. But does it really end there? Is there anything beyond us? Above us? Could we be a unitary elements of another higher organization? Discomfiting notion, huh !
When we are talking about consciousness it is essential to understand the source of our consciousness. It is essential for us to understand our human brain and human mind before we would embark on the quest of understanding the universal mind.
A brain. 1400 grams. Structurally a summation of billions of neurons and trillions of synapses. If God created man in his image, I wonder if there is a similar higher organization that would behave as the function of the summation of brains. When I barely over-imagine and and try to create such a superconscious metaframe of consciousness, I start putting brains together in an orderly fashion without violating the fractal principal of nature. I find myself amidst a tree of life.
The axon terminals of a neuron :: the cauda equina of a spinal cord :: the roots of a tree. The axon of a neuron :: the spinal cord :: the trunk of a tree. The soma of a neuron :: the brain :: the crown of tree. Pitch perfect fractal conscious framework : the tree of life. A superconscious metaframe functioning as the universal mind. When a brain says, “ I am made up of the ‘we’ neurons but I am still I”, so the tree says, “I am made of up of the ‘we’ brains, but I am still I.” And that ‘I’ is the universal mind. The mind of god.
It is a natural question that may arise in reader’s mind that why would individual units of consciousness cluster together in such pattern in this limitless time and space. True. There is some degree of freedom. But there is also order in chaos. Biological systems resist the second law of thermodynamics, which says that their entropy or disorder should increase with time. In other words, they resist natural tendency to disorder and navigate the world in an orderly and predictable way. The most controversial question: Is the Tree of Life a physical structure? The answer is yes. But can a structure that cannot be seen with our naked eyes be a physical structure? The answer is again yes. Just as some frequencies of sound cannot be perceived by our auditory function, likewise some physical structures cannot be perceived by our optic function. We live in a customized reality created by our brain. We see what our brain is naturally programmed to see. At times in order to see the totality of reality we have to rise above the function of our physical brain.
Our brain functions within our mind and manifests via our body. Meditation empowers our mind. Mind being the matrix generated by our brain. Matrix being the electromagnetic field emanating from our brain. This energy field in fact merges with that of others and creates a collective energy field – the universal field of consciousness, the field of the universal mind. Universal mind is the function of a sum total of our mind. (‘Our’ is essentially a very broad category that entails more than humans.) Based on the Gestalt’s psychological theory – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts – as it is impossible to equate the function of a brain just as the summation of the function of neurons, it is impossible to understand the universal mind with the consciousness that emanates from our 1400 grams brain.
The mind function of a individual is two fold: one as a function of one’s brain and the other as a subset of the the universal mind dedicated to that brain. The universal mind is in fact rooted on our physical brain but due to barriers created by our perceptive capability, we see ourselves as isolated from others around, above or below in other dimension. Other dimension, though, may just be another range of vibrational frequency imperceptible to our brain at this time and space and state of consciousness.
The function of our brain is defined by our senses. We taste apples in a tree. We see objects of beauty. We hear songs of peace. We feel softness of skin. We speak words of wisdom. In all this process our brain is learning new things and processing them. Thus our brain not only receives the knowledge from the cosmic mind but also acquires new knowledge and feeds it back to the universal mind. In this fashion, we are in reciprocal relationship. The fact that the source not only feeds us but also feeds from us gives meaning to our life. It defines a relationship: our brain and the universal mind in a symbiotic relationship. Unless we realize this symbiotic relationship with the higher mind, we cannot maintain a healthy relation with it. In faith, worship and prayer, we are trying to maintain this reciprocal relationship.
Depending upon the stage of evolution of our consciousness, our mind has variable degree of connection to the higher mind. Though in body we have an apparent separation, we are connected to the source through organized portals – the chakras. When we are sleeping, at various stages in different cycles of our sleep architecture, we are in communion with this mind. When we are meditating we are trying to achieve the same communion, yet more actively. Sleep being the passive form of meditation. Even in our wakeful consciousness, this connection is maintained, albeit with minimal functionality.
When people raise their consciousness and thus their intrinsic vibration, they wake up into this metaframe of universal mind – otherwise understood and described as astral planes and planets – depending upon their state of consciousness. Corresponding to the crown chakra, the most evolved ones would wake up to the crown of the tree. Corresponding to the rest of the chakras, others in various gradation of evolution of consciousness would stack up to fill up the of tree.
Navigating through this fractal construct of mind in nature is the journey of the evolution of consciousness. A journey of self-exploration. A journey of self-enlightenment. We are navigating our way back to the source. Back to perfection. Back to pure love and light.
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