The Awakening

The following was posted by Sacha at the "Breaking Open the Head" forum.  Here is the link:
http://www.breakingopenthehead.com/foru … php?t=2946

I post this not because I necessarily think or know that this is "the way it is" but rather because I think that it is a well written description of a particular line of possibilities. 

Enjoy!

The Awakening
The One Consciousness is experiencing through all of us. We are all of us (every manifest and nonmanifest being, not just humans) expressions of the One Consciousness experiencing countless different experiences from countless different points of view. It is sort of like a huge role-playing game it plays with itself. When it is in a role, it is really in it, and fully believes in what it is experiencing.

But right now the game is getting a little wacked out, so the One Consciousness needs to reset the game. In order to do that, it has to kind of "wake up" within the role-play -- kind of like waking up within a dream to lucid-dream. It is trying to lucid-dream, to operate within the game -- to continue playing as the characters, but with the conscious realization of who it really is.

There have always been people whose role in the game has been to try to awaken within the dream. The various spiritual disciplines developed over the millennia have been the way that the One Consciousness has practiced and gained experience at waking itself up in the game. That is because this time would come, when it would need to wake itself up completely and remember consciously, through its individual points of view, who it is.

This it is trying to do, in order to consciously re-set the game, which is getting wacked-out. But, actually, the crises themselves are created by the One Consciousness to catalyze our collective awakening. It is about to set the game at a new level of play, in which it dreams the dream lucidly, so to speak, with full awareness of who and what it is.

At our level, the individuated level, that means that individuals will live their lives in the awareness of being a single consciousness. That does not mean losing our individuated uniqueness -- on the contrary the One Consciousness expresses itself through endless creation of uniqueness. The universe is one, but it is not homogeneous -- the more we awaken to our oneness, the more we awaken to the wonder of endless unique manifestation.

But due to accumulated debris and rust in their channels (aka karma, trauma, ego, etc) the One Consciousness has a harder time awakening through some of its expressions than others. But when the One Consciousness awakens in someone, they remember. "Oh. Yeah. Of course. I knew it all along. We all know it, we are all the same being, I am everyone and everyone is me."

As mentioned above, at our level, the individuated level, that means that individuals will live their lives in the full awareness of being a single consciousness, and all the more aware of the precious uniqueness of their experience and their unique way of participating in the co-creation of the universe. After all, that is why the One Consciousness became "us" in the first place, in order to experience.

At that level, human behavior changes, not because the One Consciousness is "good" and tells people to be "good," but because, in awareness that they are One Being, they recognize that everyone's experience (including nonhuman beings' experience) is their own. A society based on empathy, rather than rules, behaves a different way.

People sometimes call this "enlightenment" or "awakening" and they talk about "who" is or is not "enlightened." But the awakening is not when "you" wake up but when the One Consciousness awakes through you. Not when "you" remember, but when it remembers through you.

When this happens suddenly to someone, especially someone unprepared, they may temporarily pass through a period of feeling messianic, deity-like, etc. But when they pass through that, they realize that the "messiah" or "God" is not them, it's all of us and far more.

Every individual who becomes "enlightened" contributes to the awakening of the human groupmind, and through the human groupmind, the re-awakening of the One Consciousness in every being, every river and mountain ... Human consciousness and the consciousness of the rest of creation have always been linked. The One Consciousness has been experimenting with a special brand of consciousness through us humans, but that experiment has run its course -- and now, as we awaken, the distinctive human modes of consciousness and other modes of consciousness (plants, minerals, etc) will be reintegrated, and we will all of us (all beings) have access to all modes of consciousness. Because we are all the same being.

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Wandering1 here:
I think that things seem to be "wacked out" at this time on this planet, but we may be simply experiencing what it is like to move to a different level of awareness.  It may be a natural process.

A few lines that I particularly appreciate: "It is sort of like a huge role-playing game it plays with itself. When it is in a role, it is really in it, and fully believes in what it is experiencing."

Yes, a role-playing game as real as real life.  With real joy, pain, suffering, loving, and learning. 

"A society based on empathy, rather than rules, behaves a different way."

Yes, indeed!  I have often thought of this, and as a society we seem to be at a primitive level of functioning.

"Every individual who becomes 'enlightened' contributes to the awakening of the human groupmind"

I like the reference to the way that the individual can influence society. Also, there may be distinct stages to "enlightenment" - I don't see it as an just an on/off switch.  I see it as an unfolding process.