The Mind of Consciousness

Seperating one from the other (page 6-7 )

Those who are on a pure spiritual pathway tend to lean toward consciousness (awareness) as the essence of their existence, while those on a material pathway tend to lean toward the mind, formed by the brain as the core of their existence. Surprisingly, both are correct. Experientially appreciating that correctness unveils a world of inter-connective complexity that can be reduced to simplicity by understanding the formation of one thought. The text of this book will lead you right up to the threshold of that experience. Walking through those open doors is a personal choice.

During your daily toils the interconnectivity of mind and consciousness is rarely thought about or discussed. Nevertheless, not having an experiential appreciation of their separation and inter-connective union is the primary cause for the majority of individual existence problems. That connective relationship is not even a well-known fact, as mind and consciousness appear to act as one (and they do), but their separation is at the core of existence. It is what isolates a material investigator from the spirit investigator, potentially robbing advancing humanity from a progressive holistic foundation.

The mind arises upon, or out of, the natural operation of all your physical brain functions of intellect, memory, imagination and intuition, plus sensory input and experiential learning. Each brain function or their combination rises and falls upon demand, creating internal 'objects' that can be held, forming the mind. An internal mind 'object' can be an idea, ideal, a construct, belief, a pattern-of-living or any thought form you can hang on to, similar to holding an exterior object, but now your mind holds them. Your expanding mind fills with self-created internal 'objects', and each 'object' will alter its shape and size as new information is added or deleted. When these internal mind 'objects' are accessed by one, or a combination of your brain functions they can also be referred to as mind functions rather than brain functions, as the mind is accessing its stored information. This dual name for the same thing may not appear necessary but, as the text unfolds, it becomes more relevant.

How effective your biological brain functions operate depend upon how genetically functional the brain is, as well as the interconnectivity of its circuitry, and its electrochemical integrity. This is what the materialist sees and works with, the transitory brain and its various functions. When the body is deprived of life, the brain dies. To the pure materialist that is the end of existence, establishing a potential agnostic, atheistic or nihilistic mindset.

Pure materialist scholars, scientists and philosophers conclude that as the brain is material and contains all our brain functions, when it disappears, the entity that used it equally disappears, which is not an unreasonable conclusion. This conclusion can be supported by a variety of scientifically provable brain function experiments. Medical proof of this contention is the debilitating affliction known as Alzheimer's disease, or senile dementia, characterized by progressively diminished accessibility to brain functions. As the brain functions diminish so, apparently, does the entity that used them, resulting in impaired use of intellect and memory, creating disorientation and functional degeneration of that entity. By simple observation it is reasonable to conclude that we are the sum total of our brain function output. When the body dies so does everything the brain functions produced. This is a pure materialist viewpoint conceived upon observable fact.

Using the same example - Alzheimer's disease - the brain functions do become partially or totally inaccessible, but consciousness never alters. Consciousness is your ability to see and know both externally, by its awareness, and internally by self-awareness using your internal screen - sometimes incorrectly referred to as the mind's eye - that internally sees and knows what is externally or biologically seen and known. An Alzheimer's patient can always internally and externally see and know. The patient just does not know what he or she sees or knows, as the brain/mind functions providing that information are no longer accessible.
If the brain produced consciousness, as the brain functions begin to deteriorate then consciousness would also begin to deteriorate, but it does not. Brain functions come and go, or rise and fall upon demand. Consciousness remains unchanged no matter what the brain produces or does not produce. This is the split between consciousness and your brain or mind functions. That separation is fundamental in understanding your existence. It points directly at pure consciousness as your non-alterable and consistent foundation. The simple fact that consciousness is unalterable, no matter what you may do, points directly at its non-material or non-biological foundation, as everything material alters in some fashion. What your brain/mind functions produce is what consciousness can see and know.

The materialist can work with, and deduce logical conclusions, from the study of the brain. However, they come to a brick wall when attempting to study consciousness as it cannot be found or located anywhere within the human body. Consciousness is always present and feels localized or centered, but its exact location will perpetually elude discovery, which is another pointer for its non-material existence. Initially, it can be concluded that the brain functions have material origins, while consciousness does not. This proposition clarifies throughout the various sections of the text. The separation sets the stage for an internal war that is not even recognized as existing, creating a foundation for a fair percentage of fears and anxieties. Those fears and anxieties arise from self-generated internal mind 'objects' that have no reality beyond what you give them or allow them to have. Understanding how internal 'objects' of the mind are created and sustained will also reveal the separation of consciousness and mind. These processes are discussed in Chapter 3.

The biological form is born with the brain functions ready to begin their learning journey. The canvas they write their journey upon is non-biological consciousness. As the transitory biological form continues its journey of life, to some degree, the form itself dictates how it will function. The transitory body is what we experience, and take as who we are, apparently controlled by the brain functions and sensory input. It is here where consciousness becomes the focal point of interest, as our biology is a temporary acquisition. If anything has permanence, then it is consciousness, as it never alters. Consciousness may appear to alter with stimulants, drugs or physiological and chemical changes of the body, but it does not. That is simply the stimulant, drug or chemical change affecting particular aspects of the biology, creating a specific effect. Consciousness simply sees and knows that effect, or is your ability to see and know the effect. This is the most important of aspect of consciousness to appreciate, for it is only your ability to internally see and know. What is seen and known belongs to the brain/mind functions. That may appear to limit consciousness, however, as you progress through the text you will discover the potential that consciousness contains hidden or embedded within itself. Existing within this subliminal potential is a security of non-material or spirit permanence, as opposed to the constant insecurity that is created by relying upon incessantly changing transitory brain function production.
Consciousness cannot be grasped or held, as it is pure spirit awareness, neither materially or biologically produced. It is like attempting to grasp and hold onto air with your hand. Both consciousness and air knowingly exist, but neither can be grasped or held. Air permeates the entire atmosphere. Likewise, consciousness permeates the entire human body yet will never be located. It may feel as if consciousness is in the body but the body is within consciousness. This is all clarified as the text progresses.

Mind is the palette containing an endless array of color. Thought, motivation, intent, feelings and emotions paint the color on the canvas of consciousness. However, painting consciousness to fit the color of your thoughts does not alter consciousness. It simply becomes the visible picture you have created. Consciousness never interferes or objects to the color your unfettered free will chooses to paint it with. This is another pointer to the separation of mind and consciousness, although each depends upon the other to give it observable existence. Consciousness is your non-biological existent personality. It is who you are. The picture you paint upon it is your character, created by the mind.
Consciousness is the totally open and pure canvas of existence, inherently unrestricted, and that emptiness points directly at its absolute purity. To appreciate that last sentence you may have to use your intuition and not the intellect. The developing mind of every individual colors the formless canvas of consciousness, giving the canvas form or 'life', making it visible. Consciousness always maintains its absolute unrestricted purity for it cannot be other than what it is. The mind is what creates restriction or blends into the non-restricted fabric of consciousness.

The purity of consciousness is impersonally embedded, in and as, the unrestricted fabric of its substance. Your brain functions are what paint the canvas with colors illuminating that innate purity, or they veil it in disharmonious colors, restricting the nature of its substance. If the mind painting restricts the substance of your consciousness-canvas, you have unknowingly restricted your existence. That restriction will always come back to haunt you in forms where causation may not even be recognizable as being initiated from your own self-created restrictive thought-forms. Whatever colors you choose to paint the canvas, consciousness never interferes by objecting or approving, revealing the spirit law of non-interference.

Non-interference is one of the primary spirit laws of existence. You have free will and any interference that restricts or diminishes that freedom effectively limits, and therefore destroys it. If your free will is imposed upon then it is not free will. The spirit law of non-interference does cause enormous problems in the material world. When things go horribly wrong it is natural to feel that if there were a loving creator those destructive events would have been prevented. However, that would be interference. Whatever picture you choose to paint upon the canvas of consciousness will not be interfered with, no matter how destructive it may be to yourself or others. As difficult as it is to appreciate, that non-interference is absolute loving kindness. When you have read Chapter 4 that statement will be easier to understand and appreciate.

The picture formed upon the canvas of consciousness is what you see and know as yourself. It is the observable and knowable character of your consciousness-personality. The picture is your painting that attracts some and repels others. It is how you are recognized: a self-created picture that people admire or dismiss. However, the picture is only the superficial color upon the reality of the canvas. Even if the picture fades, is disfigured or totally washed away, the canvas remains unchanged. The canvas of consciousness perpetually remains consistent, never altering.

The picture you construct with your brain/mind functions creates form upon formlessness, allowing consciousness to relate to a physical environment by external objects becoming internally graspable through self-created mind 'objects'. Holding onto the picture formed by those mind 'objects' is what potentially creates restriction upon the open and pure non-restrictive fabric-substance of consciousness. The formless canvas does not create problems. The picture-form upon the canvas is what creates problems. Each picture will attract someone or something, and repel others. Here the problems begin and multiply. It is always surprising that amongst all the bickering and squabbling as to which picture-form is the best, most pleasing, more advanced, or just as forms should be; it is always forgotten that the canvas is identical for all. The canvas of consciousness is your equality and commonality with everyone within creation. The moment a mind-picture is painted with a belief or construct that it is the only correct form, the seeds of potential problems have been sown. The varying picture-forms then fight it out in the playground of manifestation. It is a bewildering and disturbing waste of forms. In all this destructive madness, the canvas remains unaffected no matter what occurs.

Summing up:

The preceding extract from the beginning of the book fairly much sums up its direction. The book then proceeds to create logical and practical methods to experience those statements. As well, it delineates causation for the majority of self-created anxieties and fears that control your life. Those anxieties and fears establish the potential of robbing you of a direct experience that can confirm consciousness as indestructible.

Intellectual knowledge can establish a pathway to live your life but knowing the core essence of that life requires experiential knowledge to confirm that chosen intellectual pathway. Without that experiential knowledge, the chosen intellectual pathway deprives itself of life in the guise of being life. It is a deception, ruled by its own deceit. Getting into the core of that great deception is outlined in Chapter 3. Providing an experiential foundation for existence is outlined in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 delineates methods to experience that foundation and Chapter 6 binds the chapters together.

The Mind of Consciousness provides both an intellectual foundation for existence and creates practical processes to experience the indestructibility of that foundation. It does so in a textbook format, providing systematic methods to experience everything presented, allowing you to make an informed choice rather than constantly relying upon conditioned responses that deprive you of life in the guise of preserving it.

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