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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

As you probably know in sleep you constantly move between the phases of dreamless sleep and the dream state. Similarly in wakefulness most people only shift between ordinary unconsciousness and deep unconsciousness. What I call ordinary unconsciousness means being identified with your thought processes and emotions your reactions desires and aversions. It is most people's normal state. In that state you are run by the egoic mind and you are unaware of Being. It is a state not of acute pain or unhappiness but of an almost continuous low level of unease discontent boredom or nervousness - a kind of background static. You may not realize this because it is so much a part of "normal" living just as you are not aware of a continuous low background noise such as the hum of an air conditioner until it stops. When it suddenly does stop there is a sense of relief. Many people use alcohol drugs sex food work television or even shopping as anesthetics in an unconscious attempt to remove the basic unease. When this happens an activity that might be very enjoyable if used in moderation becomes imbued with a compulsive or addictive quality and all that is ever achieved through it is extremely short-lived symptom relief. The unease of ordinary unconsciousness turns into the pain of deep unconsciousness - a state of more acute and more obvious suffering or unhappiness - when things "go wrong when the ego is threatened or there is a major challenge threat or loss real or imagined in your life situation or conflict in a relationship. It is an intensified version of ordinary unconsciousness different from it not in kind but in degree. In ordinary unconsciousness habitual resistance to or denial of what is creates the unease and discontent that most people accept as normal living. When this resistance becomes intensified through some challenge or threat to the ego it brings up intense negativity such as anger acute fear aggression depression and so on. Deep unconsciousness often means that the pain-body has been triggered and that you have become identified with it. Physical violence would be impossible without deep unconsciousness. It can also occur easily whenever and wherever a crowd of people or even an entire nation generates a negative collective energy field. The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscions and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare. If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances such as when you are sitting alone in a room walking in the woods or listening to someone then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something goes wrong" or you are faced with difficult people or situations with loss or the threat of loss. You will be taken over by a reaction which ultimately is always some form of fear and pulled into deep unconsciousness. Those challenges are your tests. Only the way in which you deal with them will show you and others where you are at as far as your state of consciousness is concerned not how long you can sit with your eyes closed or what visions you see. So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness no negativity no discord or violence can enter that field and survive just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light. When you learn to be the witness of your thoughts and emotions which is an essential part of being present you may be surprised when you first become aware of the background "static" of ordinary unconsciousness and realize how rarely if ever you are truly at ease within yourself. On the level of your thinking you will find a great deal of resistance in the form of judgment discontent and mental projection away from the Now. On the emotional level there will be an undercurrent of unease tension boredom or nervousness. Both are aspects of the mind in its habitual resistance mode.

What Are They Seeking?

Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces staring eyes and a cruel demeanor. He said: "They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad." The undercurrent of constant unease started long before the rise of Western industrial civilization of course but in Western civilization which now covers almost the entire globe including most of the East it manifests in an unprecedentedly acute form. It was already there at the time of Jesus and it was there 600 years before that at the time of Buddha and long before that. Why are you always anxious? Jesus asked his disciples. "Can anxious thought add a single day to your life?" And the Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving. Resistance to the Now as a collective dysfunction is intrinsically connected to loss of awareness of Being and forms the basis of our dehumanized industrial civilization. Freud by the way also recognized the existence of this undercurrent of unease and wrote about it in his book Civilization and Its Discontents but he did not recognize the true root of the unease and failed to realize that freedom from it is possible. This collective dysfunction has created a very unhappy and extraordinarily violent civilization that has become a threat not only to itself but also to all life on the planet.

Dissolving Ordinary Unconsciousness

So how can we be free of this affliction?

Make it conscious. Observe the many ways in which unease discontent and tension arise within you through unnecessary judgment resistance to what is and denial of the Now. Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it. Once you know how to dissolve ordinary unconsciousness the light of your presence will shine brightly and it will be much easier to deal with deep unconsciousness whenever you feel its gravitational pull. However ordinary unconsciousness may not be easy to detect initially because it is so normal. Make it a habit to monitor your mental-emotional state through self-observation. `Am I at ease at this moment?" is a good question to ask yourself frequently. Or you can ask: "What's going on inside me at this moment?" Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within secondary reality without. But don't answer these questions immediately. Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease the background static see in what way you are avoiding resisting or denying life - by denying the Now. There are many ways in which people unconsciously resist the present moment. 1 will give you a few examples. With practice your power of self-observation of monitoring your inner state will become sharpened.

Clairvoyance South Yorkshire

"'On the night of September 9th 1848' writes his wife 'I was lying on my bed between sleeping and waking when I distinctly saw my husband being carried off the field seriously wounded and heard his voice saying Take this ring off my finger and send it to my wife . All the next day I could not get the sight or the voice of of my mind.

"'In due time I heard of General R---- having been severely wounded in the assault of Mooltan. He survived however and is still living. It was not for some time after the siege that I heard from General L---- the officer who helped to carry my husband off the field that the request as to the ring was actually made by him just as I heard it at Ferozepore at that very time".

Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause - which are apparently quite meaningless and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer. To this class belong many of the landscapes seen by some people just before they fall asleep. I quote a capital and very realistic account of an experience of this sort from W.T.Stead's Real Ghost Stories (page 65).

"I got into bed but was not able to go to sleep I shut my eyes and waited for sleep to come; instead of sleep however there came to me a succession of [Page 84] curiously vivid clairvoyant pictures. There was no light in the room and it was perfectly dark; I had my eyes shut also. But notwithstanding the darkness I suddenly was conscious of looking at a scene of singular beauty. It was as if I saw a living miniature about the size of a magic-lantern slide. At this moment I can recall the scene as if I saw it again. It was a seaside piece. The moon was shining upon the water which rippled slowly on to the beach. Right before me a long mole ran into the water.

"On either side of the mole irregular rocks stood up above the sea-level. On the shore stood several houses square and rude which resembled nothing that I had ever seen in house architecture. No one was stirring but the moon was there and the sea and the gleam of the moonlight on the rippling waters just as if I had been looking on the actual scene.

"It was so beautiful that I remember thinking that if it continued I should be so interested in looking at it that I should never go to sleep. I was wide awake and at the same time that I saw the scene I distinctly heard the dripping of the rain outside the window. Then suddenly without any apparent object or reason the scene changed.

"The moonlit sea vanished and in its place I was looking right into the interior of a reading-room. It seemed as if it had been used as a schoolroom in the daytime and was employed as a reading-room in the evening. I remember seeing one reader who had a curious resemble to Tim Harrington although it [Page 85] was not he hold up a magazine or book in his hand and laugh. It was not a picture - it was there.

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