Gaining Self Awareness ~ A Beginning
MEDITATION is a word that is overused and is confusing to people. Meditation seems to bring about a particular frame of reference to people that may bear no resemblance to what the process is about.
Meditation, it seems to many people on the plane, is some mystical, difficult and unachievable ~ sitting in a cross legged position, arms in a particular position, sitting straight and chanting with candles.
This is certainly one way of meditation. It is not, however, the true essence of meditation ~ it is simply one technique. We feel that the word MEDITATION immediately brings to mind what we have just described and, therefore, entities would say, “I can’t meditate.”
Many people have some mysterious belief of meditation. There is nothing mysterious about meditation ~ it is simply the finding of answers from within Self. Meditation, then, is unique to Self.
We feel that the word MEDITATION needs to be changed because it carries too much baggage. If we change it, then it has a new identity. It has, as you call on the plane, reinvented itself. It is good to reinvent Self on occasion. It means that there is a new flow of energy. It means that there has been a change of awareness within Self.
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Posted in Search for Self ~ First Phase | September 15, 2005
October 25th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
[…] More information about quieting Self can be found on the website of the Community of Terra Lux. Introductory information about Gaining Self Awareness can be found, specifically, here. […]
December 20th, 2005 at 7:40 am
[…] During this time of year it is important to keep a sense of perspective and to remember our spirituality ~ we live in a concrete world as spiritual beings and all of our experiences contribute to our continuing evolution as spiritual beings. Waith tells us frequently that we are spiritual ~ for example, in his Class on Gaining Self Awareness, he said, “The fact that you exist means you are spiritual. There is not one energy out of The Universal Consciousness that is not spiritual. Every path is spiritual and every energy form is spiritual.” […]
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I have a LOT to comment on, LOL. I hope you have the time to read it all! I will put all text that I have copied from the transcript in quotes and follow it by my questions/comment.
“Every energy has Self-Awareness ~ for if you did not you would be back in The One. The One does not have Self-Awareness ~ it has Oneness.”
I don’t understand why The One (assuming, by this, you mean the Universal Consciousness as an entity) would not have Self-Awareness. After all, it is aware of our progress in our spiritual evolution, and since we are, ourselves, The One, why is the One not consider self-aware because WE are self-aware?
“Being peaceful ~ ultimately, one-hundred percent ~ means that you are back in the Universal Consciousness…”
Does this still apply if that peacefullness is only temporary? That section goes onto to mention that peacefulness implies that you have completed all that is necessary. Well, I’m very peaceful in the mornings when I am eating yogurt and sharing it with two of my cats with my husband sleeping next to me, with his hand resting on my leg. Does that mean that in that moment in time I am back in the Universal Consciousness? That at that moment I have completed something necessary? Perhaps it is a sign that I am in the right place at the right time? (sychronicities)
“Focusing is a tool for Gaining Self-Awareness…”
I notice that this says “A” tool, not “THE” tool. I read in a book by Starhawk, by the title of “The Spiral Dance” that another great way to reach the Self is any kind of ecstatic activity, such as dancing, chanting, or singing. Starhawk likens the Self to the Inner Child, and implies that the Self does not necessarily speak in words like the concrete self does, but may respond or speak more freely through imagery or thought forms. I think there is a lot to be said for just letting loose and letting the energy just FLOW into and through you!
“Conflict ~ if used correctly, is a good thing for it enables you to look at an issue and spread it out on the table, so to speak…”
I am amused by the phrase that was used! Since all this conflict arises in the Self there are so many different perspectives to look at things from! Perhaps when we cannot come to a creative solution to a problem it is because we are not allowing ourselves to listen to all the facets of ourself. As a side note, I believe that is part of what divination (i.e. Tarot Cards… which is why I find ’spread it out on the table’ amusing) is for, to help to listen and hear what ALL aspects of the Self are saying even if, consciously, you may not be allowing yourself to hear the answer. However, even in divination unwillingness to listen to yourself will still inhibit your ability to recieve the answer.
Alright… I guess that’s it for now! Sorry for the lengthy-ness, and I look forward to your responses!
Blessings
~Rogue Wyndwalker
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Hi Amy, Welcome to the site!
I wanted to take a stab at addressing some of the points you presented.
As to the One not having self-awareness: As we are energies out of the one we have a sense of separation, a sense of being ourselves. Once you’re in the one, you lose that sense of self and join into well, one and you lose that individuality. I think it’s more about being in or out of the one and not about capability. You gain great insight getting back into the one but then you don’t care anymore
As for being temporarily at peace: I think “being peaceful ~ ultimately one-hundred percent” is achieved through completing the journey you set out to finish when you left the one in the first place. So while I may be at peace for a moment, whether it be natural or chemically induced
can my self/soul look into self and say “Yup I feel everything is in order.”? I think that only happens when you’ve achieved what you set out to. Then you feel truly at peace. No more experiences needed, no more balancing to take care of, etc.
I believe that there is more to self than just our concrete selves here and one any given day “they” may not be doing as well
On self awareness: Yup, use what works for you.
On conflict: I think you have a good approach with it. Each of us has our own components of self who can run into conflict with each other. That is part of the exciting journey.
Thanks for contributing your ideas and your questions Amy!
Berick
January 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Hi Amy! You’ve posted some very good questions and responses! I would love to respond to you:
“Every energy has Self Awareness ~ for if you did not, you would be back in The One. The One does not have Self Awareness ~ it has Oneness.”
My thoughts on this are similar to what Berick has said. For me also, the term Self, in and of itself, implies a separateness, an individuality. There is Self and there are Others. Of course, we really are part of The One ~ yet, in order to learn what we came out to learn, it is necessary, at least for part of that journey, to see ourselves as separate, to grow in our Self awareness. But in doing so, Waith has also said that we also need to consider the Other. Self and Others. They go hand in hand. There will be periods of time where we will appear to be concerned only with Self ~ others times, we will not. Of course, this is all really one big illusion ~ our separateness is really an illusion that masks our Oneness with every other energy ~ and, ultimately, with The Universal Consciousness (The One). How else would we learn? If we were fully aware of our oneness, then it would be pretty hard to have a conflict, and thus, to learn and grow!
“Being peaceful ~ ultimately, one-hundred percent ~ means that you are back in the Universal Consciousness…”
A good thing to keep in mind is that peacefulness, as does most things, occurs on a spectrum. You can feel peaceful at a particular point in time, but does that last? Usually, it doesn’t. Our level of peacefulness fluctuates. So, yes, in a way, peacefulness is temporary, at least a particular level of it. We achieve a particular percentage, but in order to move to a higher level of achievement, we get knocked out of that peace and then strive to another level. And that’s how we achieve all learning.
At the moment that you felt peaceful with your husband and cat ~ at that moment you have indeed achieved something. No feeling or thought is ever for nothing, or lost. (There’s a big scorekeeper up there adding up the percentages!) The one hundred percent means what it says ~ the ultimate peacefulness is achieved only when we have learned all we came out to learn and then we pop back into The One.
Further down on the page (Page 5) of that document, you will also see the term “harmony within the disharmony.” This is important to keep in mind ~ it is possible, as you discovered on those mornings, to feel a sense of peace. But, if you accept the statement that “the earth plane is a training ground of disharmony,” then you can say that you have found a bit of harmony within that disharmony ~ or peace, as the case may be. Disharmony may be all around you, and also within your other levels of Self, but for that moment, that part of Self felt peaceful.
“Focusing is a tool for Gaining Self-Awareness…”
Good observation! It is “a tool,” not the only one ~ you can find many sources of information that purport to have THE tool and only THE tool to gain self awareness. Yes, there are indeed many tools to help us. Dance, chanting and singing are all tools as well ~ some people may respond best to one or the other, others may not. That’s the fun of taking the responsibility for Self to explore the different tools and discovering what helps us to flow with our own energy. It can be so freeing when we learn to just relax and go with it! Self often speaks in subtle, easily overlooked ways to Self at concrete. Recognizing, acknowledging and deciding what to act on is also part of the fun!
“Conflict ~ if used correctly, is a good thing for it enables you to look at an issue and spread it out on the table, so to speak…”
I agree with you that, no matter what tool you are using ~ whether it be the Tarot, or other forms of divination ~ if there is a conflict within Self, then, as you have recognized, the quality of the answers that come from using those tools will be affected as well.
One last comment ~ regardless of what tool I am using, I take a few moments to surround myself with white light before proceeding. In the Gaining Self Awareness ~ A Beginning, I am sure you read the steps Waith has given to a formal focusing ~ calling in the white light is high on that list. I think this is very important, regardless of what tool I am using, whether I am using it to assist another or myself. (If I am assisting another, then I am a tool as well!)
January 24th, 2006 at 12:43 am
It took me a while to think of what to say here. Thank you, Amy, for questioning a quote that I had not noticed or thought about before: “The One does not have Self-Awareness ~ it has Oneness”.
On studying the context in the document, what I hear Waith saying is that when you are in the One, you have no Self Awareness, because there is no You. Like when a drop of water rolls down into a puddle, that drop becomes indistinguishable from the rest of the water, as it was before it was splashed out. Therefore, if the entities (if they can even be called that) which are inside The One have no Self Awareness (because they have no Selves), The One could not have a Self Awareness if there are no Selves of which to be aware. Self Awareness exists outside of The One, because it is through differentiation that we can define ourselves accurately. But rather than being schizophrenic and having multiple Self-Awarenesses of all of the individual entities, The One would feel Oneness with them, and in that way connect with all their aggregate feelings and experiences.
I feel that I have a handle on that concept, but it raises another question. The One could have Self Awareness if it were, itself, a differentiation from another entity. The term Universal Consciousness, which is used synonymously with The One, seems to imply that there is an Awareness (since there is a Consciousness). My question then becomes, is what we know as the Universal Consciousness, only “Universal” to those of us in this Universe? Or this part of this Universe? Does this relationship go on and on, like a nautilus shell, ad infinitum? In other words, is there another, or multiple other, Universal Consciousnesses out there?
I feel like there would have to be. I see patterns everywhere ~ electrons orbiting a nucleus, moons orbiting planets, planets orbiting stars, solar systems orbiting within galaxies, galaxies orbiting within the universe, and the whole known universe expanding and contracting like a beating heart… There has to be more than one level to this marvellous setup.
January 24th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Questioning is a lifeblood of Waith’s style of guidance ~ and mine!! Questioning indicates that we are actively engaged in the information being presented and is an important part of the search. Passive listening, however, is also an important component of the process of gaining information ~ however, at some point, we need to begin questioning all the information we have gained. We are each at different points on our journey for information, so whether we are actively or passively engaged in the process is not the concern ~ indeed, there is no concern, since we are always within the process, in some way.
So, let the questions continue ~ for everyone wins!!