Individual and global consciousness

Sam and I had a discussion on consciousness today after watching the film "3 magic words".   It is a documentary on spirituality. We both agreed that the film presented good concepts, but it didn't provide any in-depth / detail material information to support the concept.  It is basically a composite of brief sound bites from different people around the subject.

Sam described her idea of consciousness as experiencing of individual life, and sub-consciousness as being deep seeded emotions from the experience.  I agree with her to some extend, but feel that there are more to consciousness than just individual experiences, and same goes to sub-consciousness.  The main reason I feel "more" is because I believe that our individual consciousness has a connection to the universal consciousness.  The connection can be very subtle to very perceptible base on the individual.  Since we can look at individual experience as individual consciousness, we can look at our collective experience from a particular frame (be it community, national, global) as collective consciousness of that frame, and the totality of universal experience as universal consciousness.  To go a step further, perhaps the concept of multiverse would contribute to multi-dimensional consciousness.  Are we getting closer to supra-consciousness?

Since we linked consciousness to experiences, and experiences are manifestation of potentiality, a stronger connection to the higher consciousness is certainly beneficial to the individual in the form of a channel to a broader potentiality.  A good analogy to conceptualize this idea is to imagine our individual consciousness as streams, rivers, ponds, or lakes.  All of which can have a connection to a bigger source, which would enhance the livelihood of the origin.

The film prompts audience to accept the responsibility of being God as God lives within.  It raises a concern that some people wouldn't want to be God, because they don't want to feel responsible for the darkness in humanity or they don't feel that they are holy enough for this qualification.  First of all, it's nonsense to push the burden on God for humanity's dark nature.  Without going into the idea of free will, it is just plainly irresponsible.  Secondly, while it is certainly very difficult to be completely selfless as we're strongly binded to the physical perception,  it should not be so much about becoming "holy" before accepting "being God" than it is about accepting the potentiality of it while also accepting the shortcomings of being human.


Namaste

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