Love & Consciousness Evolution: Why the Hell Not?

Campbell has mentioned in his workshops that the term “out of body” is misleading. The term should really be “out of mind.” By “mind” what is being referred to is the limitations of psychology and preconditioned mental networks—the assumed, the previously experienced, the programmed, the conditioned state of operational conscious awareness. To escape this system one just stops engaging it; quite literally. One ceases to engage thought, feelings, etc. as the be-all-end-all truth of the matter. It is replaced by the direct experience of now. Reality as it is without collapsing into the habit of deciphering the experience.

One ceases interpreting. One just absorbs, rather than labels or translates experience into something familiar. This is naked awareness. One just turns away from psychological understanding, in a sense. Interpretation stops being the ultimate, the singular way of being, and the vista of the apprehensible broadens from this position.

This can be done at any moment. It takes no special training. We slip into this operational state many times throughout the day, generally when we are out of mental-fuel but not yet ready to sleep—we just allow everything to do what it is doing, to be what it is. This is relaxation. When we just hang loose and let it all be.

We are otherwise at the mercy of our psychology. We dive into anything that emerges from the mind and begin to analyze ad infinitum. This is how many people spend their entire waking existence: interpreting, and then interpreting the interpretation. Fear makes all this possible. Something is encountered, and then divided in the mind as separate from the big picture at large. So the big picture is temporarily set aside to analyze a particular feature. And then we’re all, “Golly, what does that mean?” We begin to analyze, to hunt for meaning, to look for associations, all to feel pseudo-safety. “Oh, I understand that!” (Sure ya do (pat pat pat)). This isn’t a bad thing—the problem is we aren’t trying anything else nor are we getting very far by doing this. We assume that deep experience and deep insight will occur once we’ve properly abstracted the data that has been experienced. That is an assumption.

When folks encounter the suggestion of existing outside mind, they often freak. “What the hell will that be like!?” “Will I never get back?” “Will I lose bowel control?” “How will I know how to leave a room?” “Will demons take control of my idle hands!?” No. That’s the fear talkin’. But of course you don’t know what the world tastes like until you taste it. Most of us take little bites, few and far between, and then we spend days to years analyzing that one little bite we had once when we were open, willing, and fearless enough to take that bite. This usually occurs when we feel love for someone. That is usually when we are most engaged with reality, present, and open.

If you’ve ever been deeply in love then you’ve been outside mind. That’s when the most important thing wasn’t what you thought, or what you felt, but actually being with someone, sharing a moment, sharing an experience. That is when we drink as much as possible, when we bite as much as we can from the present reality. Often when we fall in love, we don’t much care for our psychology, our past, and our supposed limitations. Those are put aside for the wonder of being with somebody that just does it for us. We become fearless when we fall in love, we suspect the validity of our beliefs, we notice our programming and we desire to outgrow it all. A person that we love allows us to open up to our greater potential.

However, what I’d like to draw to your attention is that you don’t require this person. That person is in and of reality, the same reality that you are in and of (as these letters are in and of). Therefore, the opportunity is always available. You do not need a certain special someone to be the focal point for your love and affection. That person is in and of the same reality that all reality is in and of. We’re all part of the same show. So you don’t really require that special someone to be fearless, open, and loving. You don’t need a certain special someone to push you beyond your conditioned limitations, anxieties, and psychological network as much as you think, as much as you assume that you do. That operational state is available right now.

Though, I am not saying you shouldn’t fall in love, or find someone that can reciprocate your affection. I am just saying to don’t need someone to be in love with to be in love. You can be in love with existence, quite easily, once you come to realize that everyone and everything is part of the same program. Thus you don’t need to hunt for the next perfect somebody. The opportunity to love is always present. It is always available. A focal point (an individual, a philosophy, a place, a time) isn’t necessary. It is certainly valuable and wonderful, but it isn’t necessary for you to pick out ONE PERSON to allow you to facilitate this experience. You can be in the moment, in love, and outside mind without them or anything for that matter.

Otherwise you are not in love—you are “in need” (word). This will be very limiting and engender a codependency; a need to be authenticated by another. That isn’t necessary and that is limiting. What will you do if the focal point for you love exists the scene? What will you do then? You will stop loving. You will begin to feel insecure. You will regret, judge, envy, hate, and become lost in the false perfection of memory, in the “was and is no more.” The memory of when you could drink from reality so effortlessly and fully will become a stagnant crutch. And you will no longer be in the moment. You will fracture and dissociate from reality in favor of the non-existent—the past.

A lover gives us an opportunity to learn what we are capable of. If the departure of that lover takes you back to the state you were in prior to the encounter than you haven’t really learned anything from the experience of that lover; that being your innate ability to love, to be in the moment, to care, to pay attention, to dissolve into reality, to release yourself from your conditioned fears, beliefs, programming, bents, patterns, thoughts, etc. You revert back to your psychological network and all its limitations. You return to the pseudo-safe mind—the field of “I am x,” or “I can’t x,” and you’ll fear returning to that operational state of conscious awareness that was outside mind, that was in the moment, that was beyond the past—until the next perfect who-ever shows up, which you will no doubt approach hesitantly.

I suggest falling for Reality—right now. Why the hell not? She never goes away! And she’s been floating groovy wonderful things in your direction since before the umbilical cord. Why not dig her? She will always be there with you. You grow from, learn from, change from, and love from the foundation of reality. Your ability to love is due to being! Thus, allow everything to be what it truly is, an invitation to fall in, to be, love. From sneakers, to garbage, to riots, to art, to stars, to the sky, to the horizon, to music, to kittens, to books, to light—all of this reality is the same reality as the lovers you treasure. There is no difference between your lover and the bookshelf—they are in and of the same reality ergo if you have the capacity to love one you have the capacity to love all. If you don’t think so, it’s because you think.

This love for existence, being, all that is, allows for a much smoother and open ride. Not only that but it’s liberating, quite literally (feelz guuuud and all). This how free you’d be if you loved this system that you are so embedded in (that you are). If you love this system, more of it will be opened to you. You will be able to accept and experience more of what it has to offer. You will see all the mysterious facets, extra-dimensional happenings, and unconditional love that can be real and now outside mind.

It is in your interst (you, my sentient love affair you) to check out nuclear physicist and (more importantly) consciousness pioneer Tom Campbell; author of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything): written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary Western culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds, are brought together under one seamless scientific understanding...word...

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http://www.my-big-toe.com