Levels of Consciousness – Heart Wisdom

Published August 9, 2011 | By storyteller

Many people go to university but never get to know the experience that the original universities (wisdom schools) were designed to invite. This is the direct awareness of the universal Self. Professors were once those who had the ability to profess and the ability to prophesize. They were once seers who saw reality beyond this time and space dimension and initiated their students into this way of seeing and into the knowing of heart wisdom. The origin of the PhD doctorate was about the discovery of the new within the heart. Research was about connection to the eternal Source. It was an institution of learning, not so much about, but the direct experience of revelation from within.

You can spend your whole life within centres of higher learning and never discover who you are or why you are. You might learn much about a subject matter but never have the direct experience of what animates matter. You might never know the beauty, power and grace of how the universe moves through you and intends to create through you. The university of today is not the wisdom school of old but an institution designed to produce, not the initiated, but simply good corporate citizens who can do an effective job in the workplace.

University graduation suggests that you have a certain kind of intelligence. This is not to say that this intelligence is to be demeaned in anyway. It does help, however, if you are made aware that this intelligence is not the only form of learning and is not what would be called wisdom. In order to live the wild and precious life you need to be able to feel connected to the universal intelligence that creates form (meaning you as a body) from the formless. This is not achieved simply through more information but through inner knowing. Buddhists refer to this kind of knowing as insight. It is a form of revelation. It is a way of seeing and can include the physic ability of prophesy. Thus you become a real professor.

You are under a spell. This spell that you are under is wonderfully represented in the movie called The Matrix. The central character in this move is an individual who has an intuition that the world he lives in is not quite all that it seems. There are guards in this world referred to as agents who are on the look out for people who wish to escape the hold of the matrix. The matrix is a place were machines feed of the energy of humans. These machines represent the mechanistic linear logical mind. This is the mind that lives in the world of time that is believed to move only in one direction and that what cannot be proved by science does not exist. This linear logical mind is called rational consciousness. It is the level of consciousness that presently exists within our higher educational and political establishments in the Western world. It is a level above what most people in the world are now living. This is the mythic magic level of consciousness. This is the level of consciousness that gives rise to fundamentalism in all its forms.

Most wisdom teachers are inviting the direct awareness of what is called vision logic consciousness and above. More and more leadership in all sorts of fields are being driven by this level of consciousness. It is out of this level of consciousness that many of today’s seemingly insurmountable problems will be resolved. As the mystic, and father of modern science, Albert Einstein remarked,

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them.

Vision logic consciousness is not about more information. It is a way of viewing the world. Those at the vision logic level of consciousness have taken the red pill and awakened from the tyranny of thought and learned to dwell, if only for some little time each day, in the silence beyond thought and are willing to trust the way that still small voice within this silence guides their actions. This is the experience of the mind beyond thinking about. Vision logic consciousness is global in its interest. It is capable of grappling with global problems because its vision is beyond the limitation of the nation state. It is real intelligence in the sense that it is universal in its focus.

The vision logic consciousness is not so much about ideas and more information. It is more holistic. It is not focused on some idealism. It takes many view points and makes them one. More to the point it sees the whole. Vision logic is the result of the integrated personality. It is the integration of the first three chakras. It is the first level of consciousness where it can be said that there is integration of body, mind and emotions. This is a wonderful way to live in the world but like all levels of consciousness it has its downside.

Within this level of consciousness you can attain great worldly success because of this integral persona but you can also find that the world of success leaves you feeling empty of meaning and purpose. You are out on your own because for the vision logic conscious person there is no comfort in going back to the lower level of mythic magic consciousness. That way is closed and would, in any case, lead to despair. The only way out is up which is into what is called psychic consciousness or witness consciousness. This is the movement into the heart and into the consciousness that transcends the mind and offers peace beyond understanding. The practices that invite the opening of this level of consciousness are meditation and prayer.

This is not prayer to a mythic Sky God but contemplative prayer when you learn to be still and become the knowing of who you are. This is the experience of being universal Love that is not apart from you but is the knowing of who you are. When you are graced this direct knowing then you have truly graduated to the universal. You know beyond doubt that the universe is your home and that it is a friendly place. There is no program of learning this wisdom that exists within any higher educational establishment that I know. The reason for this is that such universal knowing threatens the matrix. It would break the spell of the separate sense of self. This wisdom makes you your own authority. You then cannot be controlled by religious, political or cultural authority.

We now live in an age where we have available to us all kinds of teachings centred around the use of sacred technologies of the mind. These were once only available to a few. Now they are readily available to anyone in the Western world who wishes to avail themselves of such real education. Avail yourself of some real universal education, which is the education from within, and which is beyond the sense of the personal self. You know you are accessing this universal wisdom when your heart begins to sing and there is joy in the experience of the discovery that is unfolding within you. In this way you become a true initiate rather than simply a graduate. The initiate is one who has glimpsed what is beyond the rabbit hole and begins to see (profess) the end of suffering. They become one who breaks the spell of the agents who maintain the matrix of separateness. The collective self then is threatened and the world as we know it ends.

This does not mean the end of the world in a physical sense but the end of the way in which the world is viewed as a collection of separate things rather than the sacred unity that is its essence. This is the end of time as we know it as the only dimension within which Mind is able to create. This ends the species called homo sapiens and heralds the arrival of homo luminous. The machines – the linear logical way of thinking – is expanded and is included in the wider view. This is the universal view of the world. This is what is on offer to those who would take the red pill and venture down the rabbit hole. Paradoxically speaking they go higher and dissolve their sense of separateness into the universal. This is universal education. It is the way of the initiate rather than the graduate. It is the revelation rather than the acquisition of more information. It is not only the Way of Love but the knowing that Love is who you are.

Let me finish with a lesson from a true seer.