In a very interesting way we are our consciousness. We define ourselves in many different ways. We define ourselves by our race, by our nationality, by our language, by our religion, by our wealth, by our same, by our status, by our titles. But in a very interesting way we are consciousness. All of these definitions that we have of ourselves our external. They deal with the elemental portion of our existence. But our consciousness is different than that. As a matter fact, we can’t even see each other’s consciousness. We’re not truly aware of what goes on in each other’s consciousness. Yet we have, in many instances, somehow attached our consciousness to the elemental and to the worldly so that our consciousness as opposed to being able to be elevated goes along with whatever the elemental situation around us is because it’s attached to it. Something like a fly, when it gets stuck on wallpaper can’t go anywhere else. It’s lost its ability the fly.
Well our consciousness loses its ability to fly, its ability to expand, its ability to grow, its ability to become greater, when it is attached to things that are lower than it is. So what that means is if you pursue fame, fame becomes your objective, your consciousness is tied to fame. Its ability to expect will go as far as fame can go and can only do what fame can do. If your consciousness is attached to wealth, then your consciousness is tied to money. All that you can do as a being is do what money does. If it’s attached to titles, it can do what titles do. It should be noted and it should be clear that money works in this elemental world. It doesn’t work in the spiritual world it can’t get things accomplished. Titles may give you status in this world, but status of titles doesn’t work in the spiritual world. There is no separation between the internal and the external that’s elevated by a title. A buffoon can have a title. Books of been written about fools having titles. One’s called “The Peter Principle”. It’s about how people rise to the top because they don’t threaten anybody and because they’ve learned ways to get along as opposed to getting things done.
If we truly want to enter what’s called the mystical path we have to expand our consciousness. Everything that we are and that we are to become is attached to our consciousness. We need to learn to separate ourselves, as we define ourselves, in this elemental world, from our consciousness. Now, when we begin to do that, we begin to go places that we can’t go in the world. If we believe that the only places to go are in the world and if we believe that to succeed we have to accomplish certain things in the world and go to certain places in the world, then that’s what were going to do. It’s like all of us have an obsessive compulsive disorder and that obsessive-compulsive disorder is the world…
