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How Awareness Unfolds from the Source
Pure being:The domain of the Absolute, pure awareness before it acquires any qualities at all. The state
before creation. This is not actually a separate domain since it permeates everything.
Conditioned bliss:The domain of awareness as it begins to become conscious of its own potential.
Love:The motivating force in creation.
Knowingness:The domain of inner intelligence.
Myth and archetypes:The collective patterns of society. This is the domain of gods and goddesses,
heroes and heroines, male and female energy.
Intuition:The domain where the mind understands the subtle mechanics of life.
Imagination:The domain of creative invention.
Reason:The domain of logic, science, and mathematics.
Emotion:The domain of feelings.
Physical body:The domain of sensation and the five senses.
Which of these realms is truly spiritual? They all interconnect, yet you can observe quite often that
people camp out in one realm or another, and having found their special place, they also find spirit there.
The woman with a conscience found her place in emotions and the physical body it was the physical
struggle of day-to-day poverty that moved her heart. But, of course, one can t exclude love from her set
of motives; perhaps she also intuitively knew that this kind of humanitarian work was the path of greatest
growth for herself.
The man who healed from a distance found his place in the realm of intuition. This is where the subtle
energies play. His brand of spirituality called for manipulating the invisible forces that hold the physical
world together. One can t exclude love from his set of motives, and there s also the realm of myth and
archetype to be considered since he called on angels and spirit guides to do his work.
A skeptic might argue that these realms simply don t exist. That s a hard argument to settle because if
something doesn t existfor you, it might as well not exist. This might be the moment to look at a simple
example.
A car is found run into a snowbank after a winter storm. The driver is unconscious at the wheel. People
stop to see what s wrong, and they ask each other, How did this happen? One points to the tire tracks
in the snow: The car veered off course that s how this happened. Another observer points to the
steering wheel, which is wrenched to one side: The car s steering mechanism was faulty that s how this
happened. A third observer smells the driver s breath: He was drunk that s how this happened.
Finally, a neurologist happens to stop by with a portable MRI machine, and he points to the driver s
brain scan: His motor cortex exhibits abnormalities that s how this happened.
Every answer depends entirely upon the kind of evidence used. The same question was asked at
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different levels of reality, and at each level only one kind of answer made sense. The neurologist isn t the
enemy of the car mechanic; he just thinks that his own answer is deeper and therefore more true.
When people argue that there is no scientific proof that the universe is conscious, my immediate
response is, I am conscious, and am I not an activity of the universe? The brain, which operates on
electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the
atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore, science is one form of electromagnetism that spends its time
studying another form. I like the remark that a physicist once made to me: Science should never be
considered the enemy of spirituality because science is its greatest ally. Science is God explaining God
through a human nervous system. Isn t spirituality the same thing?
A philosopher might argue that reality isn t truly known until you include all layers of interpretation. In
that sense, the theory of one reality doesn t fight against materialism it expands it. The driver who ran
into the snowbank could have had many levels of motivation: Maybe he was depressed and drove off the
road on purpose (emotions). Maybe he was thinking about a poem he wanted to write and his attention
wandered (imagination). Maybe he saw in his mind s eye that an oncoming car was about to swerve into
his lane (intuition).
To get to a new level of explanation, you have to transcend the level you are on, to go beyond it. If you
can acknowledge that going beyond is something you do every day, there is no great reason to use
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