How to Achieve Sustainable High-Consciousness?

[Joseph Maynor]

Hey friends.  I've been thinking about this lately.  Recently I've had some breakthroughs in consciousness, and I realize that I had dipped back into the Ego for a while after being high-consciousness before.  I want to find a way to sustainably maintain high-consciousness once its high to avoid the yo-yo effect.

This question is also something you should review -- it's on point too:

 

Edited January 6, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Faceless]

What do you mean by low concious and high conscious friend? 

Do you mean there’s an identification with an image and sometimes there is not an identification and image projection?  

Edited January 6, 2018 by Faceless

[Faceless]

Im not really familiar with a low or high conciousness. Is there just consciousness and in watching that carefully when images are formed there is a sense of freedom from the image...Is this what you mean by higher consciousness? 

[Nahm]

@Joseph Maynor The practices or foundation are directly related to the ‘letting go’ for the trips, and also are the means of integration after trips. In my experience, the default / baseline awareness pops to a higher permanency sort of out of the blue, but is still directly from the discipline of practices and  increased doses. So, practices & psychedelics. One without the other is half, and half is a yo yo ride.   Jo - Please don’t take this like I am implying you are not on top of your practices. I am sharing experience & my best understanding of them. I did the practices for many years before I started the years of psychedelics. Surely, my view is biased by this. 

[snowleopard]

18 minutes ago, Faceless said:

Do you mean there’s an identification with an image and sometimes there is not an identification and image projection?  

Ditto that ... The so-called yo-yo effect is nothing but believing, identifying, privileging an imaginal notion that 'water' is better than 'ice cubes.'

 

[AleksM]

@Faceless

@Joseph Maynor Find ways to raise the vibrational frequency of your being, of your consciousness. Maintain awareness of the feeling state. Let your feeling state be your guiding mechanism to orient you if you are lowering your consciousness or raising your consciousness (don't rely on the agitated state).

[Faceless]

@AleksM

?? I understand friend. Although it’s seems feelings are influenced by thought “images” 

 I have not gone much into vibrational frequency and such and i wouldn’t  necessarily want to raise the “vibrational frequency of conciousness”... For me what is important is this conciousness “content and its images to cease” or to remain in a centerless state. 

Do you see where I’m coming from buddy? 

 

 

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[AleksM]

@Faceless

1 hour ago, Faceless said:

Do you see where I’m coming from buddy? 

Yes, nothing wrong with that.

From my perspective, if the frequency raises, that initiates a transmutation process of lower frequencies and so if one maintaints this high vibrational state and Works on bringing oneself in higher alignment every day, then the quality of the life experience Will increase.

Imagine being aware of your reality shifting 1000x faster than now. The old images and content would appear to be changing much quicker. This is basically consciousness work from a different perspective.

When one is meditating one is raising the frequency of consciousness, so it makes sense to find more ways to raise the frequency even more. I don't see much benefit in being aware of a low consciousness experience (low quality), I see amazing benefits of being aware of a higher consciousness experience (higher quality). Emotions are better, the overall feeling state is better, situations are amazing, health is good...

A few ideas to contemplate:

 

 

[Nahm]

@AleksM It’s really an amazing thing how people can ‘be in the same location’, and have completely different relativity and experience. 

[snowleopard]

@Faceless  @AleksM  I concur ... It seems core beliefs, imaginal thought-forms, are correlated to the vibrational/emotional state. As such, unless they are brought into awareness and resolved, they will subliminally sabotage any attempts at superficial positive thinking, as they will eventually once again override such attempts, however much temporary relief is found. But of course this is easier said than done as it requires deep and often painful inquiry and investigation, to delve into the shadows of the psyche.

[Nahm]

@AleksM Hope you don’t mind but I found the “stages” from your link so clear and precise I thought I’d just post them here. Question for you also...I would say one’s reality - as in surroundings & relationships - their ‘microcosm’ - miraculously transforms along with them somewhere along these stages of awareness. If you’re view is similar, where would you estimate that it begins to become apparent that this was happening all along? 

 

 

Shame – Just a step above death. You’re probably contemplating suicide at this level. Either that or you’re a serial killer. Think of this as self-directed hatred.

Guilt – A step above shame, but you still may be having thoughts of suicide. You think of yourself as a sinner, unable to forgive yourself for past transgressions.

Apathy – Feeling hopeless or victimized. The state of learned helplessness. Many homeless people are stuck here.

Grief – A state of perpetual sadness and loss. You might drop down here after losing a loved one. Depression. Still higher than apathy, since you’re beginning to escape the numbness.

Fear – Seeing the world as dangerous and unsafe. Paranoia. Usually you’ll need help to rise above this level, or you’ll remain trapped for a long time, such as in an abusive relationship.

Desire – Not to be confused with setting and achieving goals, this is the level of addiction, craving, and lust — for money, approval, power, fame, etc. Consumerism. Materialism. This is the level of smoking and drinking and doing drugs.

Anger – the level of frustration, often from not having your desires met at the lower level. This level can spur you to action at higher levels, or it can keep you stuck in hatred. In an abusive relationship, you’ll often see an anger person coupled with a fear person.

Pride – The first level where you start to feel good, but it’s a false feeling. It’s dependent on external circumstances (money, prestige, etc), so it’s vulnerable. Pride can lead to nationalism, racism, and religious wars. Think Nazis. A state of irrational denial and defensiveness. Religious fundamentalism is also stuck at this level. You become so closely enmeshed in your beliefs that you see an attack on your beliefs as an attack on you.

Courage – The first level of true strength. I’ve made a previous post about this level: Courage is the Gateway. This is where you start to see life as challenging and exciting instead of overwhelming. You begin to have an inkling of interest in personal growth, although at this level you’ll probably call it something else like skill-building, career advancement, education, etc. You start to see your future as an improvement upon your past, rather than a continuation of the same.

Neutrality – This level is epitomized by the phrase, “live and let live.” It’s flexible, relaxed, and unattached. Whatever happens, you roll with the punches. You don’t have anything to prove. You feel safe and get along well with other people. A lot of self-employed people are at this level. A very comfortable place. The level of complacency and laziness. You’re taking care of your needs, but you don’t push yourself too hard.

Willingness – Now that you’re basically safe and comfortable, you start using your energy more effectively. Just getting by isn’t good enough anymore. You begin caring about doing a good job — perhaps even your best. You think about time management and productivity and getting organized, things that weren’t so important to you at the level of neutrality. Think of this level as the development of willpower and self-discipline. These people are the “troopers” of society; they get things done well and don’t complain much. If you’re in school, then you’re a really good student; you take your studies seriously and put in the time to do a good job. This is the point where your consciousness becomes more organized and disciplined.

Acceptance – Now a powerful shift happens, and you awaken to the possibilities of living proactively. At the level of willingness you’ve become competent, and now you want to put your abilities to good use. This is the level of setting and achieving goals. I don’t like the label “acceptance” that Hawkins uses here, but it basically means that you begin accepting responsibility for your role in the world. If something isn’t right about your life (your career, your health, your relationship), you define your desired outcome and change it. You start to see the big picture of your life more clearly. This level drives many people to switch careers, start a new business, or change their diets.

Reason – At this level you transcend the emotional aspects of the lower levels and begin to think clearly and rationally. Hawkins defines this as the level of medicine and science. The way I see it, when you reach this level, you become capable of using your reasoning abilities to their fullest extent. You now have the discipline and the proactivity to fully exploit your natural abilities. You’ve reached the point where you say, “Wow. I can do all this stuff, and I know I must put it to good use. So what’s the best use of my talents?” You take a look around the world and start making meaningful contributions. At the very high end, this is the level of Einstein and Freud. It’s probably obvious that most people never reach this level in their entire lives.

Love – I don’t like Hawkins’ label “love” here because this isn’t the emotion of love. It’s unconditional love, a permanent understanding of your connectedness with all that exists. Think compassion. At the level of reason, you live in service to your head. But that eventually becomes a dead end where you fall into the trap of over-intellectualizing. You see that you need a bigger context than just thinking for its own sake. At the level of love, you now place your head and all your other talents and abilities in service to your heart (not your emotions, but your greater sense of right and wrong — your conscience). I see this as the level of awakening to your true purpose. Your motives at this level are pure and uncorrupted by the desires of the ego. This is the level of lifetime service to humanity. Think Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At this level you also begin to be guided by a force greater than yourself. It’s a feeling of letting go. Your intuition becomes extremely strong. Hawkins claims this level is reached only by 1 in 250 people during their entire lifetimes.

Joy – A state of pervasive, unshakable happiness. Eckhart Tolle describes this state in The Power of Now. The level of saints and advanced spiritual teachers. Just being around people at this level makes you feel incredible. At this level life is fully guided by synchronicity and intuition. There’s no more need to set goals and make detailed plans — the expansion of your consciousness allows you to operate at a much higher level. A near-death experience can temporarily bump you to this level.

Peace – Total transcendence. Hawkins claims this level is reached only by one person in 10 million.

Enlightenment – The highest level of human consciousness, where humanity blends with divinity. Extremely rare. The level of Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus. Even just thinking about people at this level can raise your consciousness

[starsofclay]

If you were permanently in high-consciousness, how would you know it? Eventually you may forget what it feels like to be anything but high-consciousness, and it will become baseline. Would you then get depressed and wish for even higher-consciousness? 

[AleksM]

@Nahm

It's okay but include a link to the article in your post

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I would say one’s reality - as in surroundings & relationships - their ‘microcosm’ - miraculously transforms along with them somewhere along these stages of awareness. If you’re view is similar, where would you estimate that it begins to become apparent that this was happening all along? 

I wouldn't call these the stages of awareness, you might have a different definition.

All of the perceived outside reality is being transformed by us all the time. In my opinion, we start to recognize this more accurately on the stage of courage, notice the columns force and power. This is the name of the book in which all these concepts are explained in more detail.

 

Edited January 6, 2018 by AleksM