Where does our sense of consciousness meet the material world?
To understand this I like to illustrate a poetic visual.
Our sense of self begins, ends, and begins again with our unique understanding of what it means to become aware of ourselves. When we begin to experience life less from our eyes and our emotions, but rather from the place of the observer observing oneself, we no longer need to put the weight of our identity as our personhood that we are experiencing this life through.
In today’s culture, we are taught to become the best person that we can possibly be, so then we become so immersed in personhood and we become so good at identifying as that person that we forget to observe whom operates the person. The operator is you, the true you, and the patient observer observing the experience of being human.
In a metaphorical sense, it’s like someone becoming so good at driving a car and immersing oneself constantly in the act of driving that eventually this person identifies as the car rather than the operator. In this light, we are taught to become the car often at the loss of remembering the operator.
On the flip side, many a times conscious awakening is sparked through examples of long past culture and traditions that do just the opposite; they focus on being aware as the presence of the operator and they choose to the limit the use of the car.
There is certainly nothing out of place with this approach; however, it is important to come to a place of understanding that such a lifestyle was a product of a radically different context and culture that remained largely untouched for thousands of years. Not to say that sacrificing certain experiences in this life will not lead you to your enlightenment anymore, that is absolutely untrue, but rather viewing the time and place in which we are living today as our personal higher calling to imbue our consciousness and path to enlightenment into our contextual everyday lives, technology and all, as the challenge we chose to participate in.
This is exactly where the union of consciousness and the materium resides. It is the divine dance of the two that are constantly evolving and swirling about each other while remaining infinitely pure and infinitely themselves. They are not separate from each other, but moreso they are simply different frequencies of the same source. One end of the spectrum is dense enough to appear as matter, while the other is light enough to connect everything invisibly.
In this light, one can observe that rejecting one end or another is actually an act of reducing circulation of the frequency and energy which clearly can prevent us from cultivating our highest abundance and realizing our mission. We can also observe that all things are encapsulated little expressions of consciousness, much to our delight of why we love plants and trees or feel so drawn to certain art and materials among other things. Everything has its consciousness which on some level or another we can see, feel, and recognize.
This is how we relate to the life that we are experiencing. We, ourselves, are pure consciousness and of a certain evolving frequency just as other beings, things, and ideas are they, themselves, pure consciousness of their evolving frequencies. We relate to the other frequencies that are resonant and dissonant to us, and we shape our realities between the spectrums of the two as we please. And all of a sudden, we end up with a life that is chalk full of people, places, and things that lie along that wave of our awareness as we navigate the densities and lightness.