Co-Creation

CO-CREATION

For want of a better way of expressing it, the Overself sits behind the brain and – because it is pure Mind – it uses the brain to deal with the world.  This is the reason why the brain knows nothing of the Overself’s existence.  The brain is a form of Consciousness – the kinetic aspect of Mind – and as such the brain cannot turn around, so to speak, and view the very Consciousness that created it.  The brain is not a lump of matter, but a collection of thoughts formed by Consciousness.  As reflected consciousness, the brain can deal only with the sensations from the five senses, which send reports to it from the so-called “external” world.   The ego resides in the brain and in the waking state it deals with the messages received from the senses.  It would not be necessary for these sense-reports to go past the ego and the brain.  The Overself has designated them to deal with the world via the five senses.

Mind is mental in essence and Consciousness – which springs from Mind – does not change into this fictitious substance called matter. In essence Consciousness remains untouched and unchanged as it moulds itself into the heart.  In other words, the heart is a form of Consciousness  and as the entire body springs from it, so too is the whole body a  form of Consciousness.

It is simply not necessary for Consciousness to form a “physical” brain, which then – as is commonly supposed – produces “mental” thoughts.  This is not only inefficient, but absurd.

It is important to realise that the brain – as reflected consciousness – is always busy, either with “internal thoughts”, or subconscious impressions from other parts of the body, or “external reports” via the five senses.  It must remain constantly alert to any type of report – even in sleep – because Consciousness is always full, must always deal with something.  You cannot think of Consciousness without presupposing something to be conscious of.

It is commonly believed that the senses deal directly with the “material” world and send reports from it to the “physical” brain, which converts them into “mental” ones.  Sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell, however, are all forms of reflected consciousness and deal only with what intrinsically exists within themselves.  They –and the brain – do not deal with an “outside” material world.  Matter is a myth, a chimera, a powerful illusion imposed upon the whole human race, because of the power of the feelings from the five senses. You do not – for example – deal directly with the cup you are holding, but with the sensations in your own self of weight, solidity, texture and temperature.  The cup – the object – is merely inferred.  Neither is the object separate from you:  the observer and the thing observed always exist together.  Every object must be a “known” one.

There is, therefore, no “inside” or “outside” in our interaction with our “internal“ thoughts and dialogue on the one hand and the “external” world and everything in it on the other.  We do not deal directly with the world, but with our perception of it.  And our perception of it is not a mental copy of a “real” physical world existing separately outside of – and totally independent of – the mind.  Every manifested thing is simply – but miraculously – Consciousness.

It is worthwhile noting here the inadequacy of language to convey “oneness”.  As soon as we use words like, “brain “, “senses”, “world” etc., we immediately separate them from each other. For practical purpose this is understandable, but all of these “things” are forms of Consciousness, creations of Consciousness, ideas that Consciousness produces and then, by virtue of its miraculous, inherent ability, views and experiences its own creations.

To realise that all of it, from your tiny, immediate environment to the farthest stretch of the universe, is nothing more than your own private version of the master-image imposed on you by the wondrous World-Mind, is truly a liberating revelation.  As James Allen says, “Environment is but his looking-glass.”  If more people knew this, the world would be a much happier place, because each individual would know that she has the power to make or break her own life, to shape her own life.  It would let everyone see that ultimately they must not rely on other people to help them; let them see, that in terms of their relations with other people, they are unutterably alone; let them see that they must not blame other people for whatever misfortune may befall them and let them see, that in terms of their relation to the Great Creator, the Universal Intelligence, the World-Mind, God – call it what you choose – they are never alone.  The individual is but a wondrous, miraculous, beautiful thought in this unfathomable Universal Mind and everything in existence is a co-creation by the individual and the World-Mind.

This article was first published in Rock ‘N’ Ruminations by Daniel McGowan. You can download the PDF of this book for free here:  FREE DOWNLOAD