When we're able to accept that consciousness is greater than our current awareness-of-being, then we are able to explore other perspectives currently unknown to us.
Some of us are already aware that there are major differences between spiritual awareness and sense-certainty. Although most of us currently rely on sense-certainty to make sense of what's happening in our lives and in the world, we continue to struggle with our own unknown feelings of "something is missing" in our lives.
We have been taught by others that what's missing in our lives is spirituality or the faith and believe in God, or in a greater power than all of us. However, they also teach us that spirituality is achieved in a psyche-morphogenetic process that's similar to the one we experienced with our sense-certainty education.
In other words, our spiritual education comes from the myriad religious organizations beliefs and values on spirituality. This is the world's answer to that "something is missing" feeling we cannot escape by relying on our sense-certainty beliefs and values.
Most of us remain confused throughout our lives about the value of a sense-certainty education viz a viz a spiritual education. We devote tireless energies toward maintaining the requisite religious-spiritual virtues for achieving a desirable level of spiritual acceptability.
As many of us have discovered, that "something is missing" feeling is still there even as we struggle to live virtuous lives. We're still challenged by our anthropomorphic beliefs that our feelings have been assuaged by such and such person or religious beliefs.
Nevertheless, we continue inexorably in our search for the "something is missing." We have been told many stories about where and what it is, and when we can actually find it. In most of the stories, we can only find this "missing" in death.
Many us find this unacceptable. We need to find it now. We try all sorts of things to make us feel spiritually fulfilled. Unfortunately, most of efforts are in vain.
The challenge for many of us is how do we give equal value to spirituality (faith) and sense-certainty (knowledge). This is difficult for most of us because faith is contradictory to sense-certainty. Faith requires a belief in something that exists outside of our current awareness-of-being.
Similarly, sense-certainty is confined to things like science, mathematics, language, art, and so forth. And while this also requires some faith or trust in what others have said about these things, we believe that there's little doubt that 1+1=2. Our dependency on faith doesn't enter into our thinking about this.
Meanwhile, faith is rooted in the belief that there is a power that's greater than all other powers. Most of us believe this existence with the same faith-certainty as with our sense-certainty that 1+1 = 2.
Nevertheless, when we get off the crowded road of sense-certainty and discover that Powers of Mind consciousness is greater than sense-certainty is when we begin the process of a new education. This education is found only in our consciousness, which is the beginning and ending of our awareness-of-being.
Many of us are so deeply invested in sense-certainty that we're unwilling to acknowledge that we've made a deleterious investment in our spiritual development. This makes it even more difficult to let go of our current beliefs and values and create a new, non-toxic awareness-of-being.
For us to become educated in Powers of Mind consciousness we must acknowledge its existence. We must trust consciousness with the same or greater value as we trust the sense-certainty we achieved from the various universities.
When we discover that consciousness is greater than everything we can imagine, we will have discovered the glorious awareness spoken by the sages and spiritual masters of consciousness. And like them, we too will be educated by our unconditioned consciousness.
"I acknowledge that I have the power to change my beliefs and values."
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