The Consciousness to be Born-Again

We are born with our unconditioned consciousness. This consciousness is all the power we will ever need to express an enlightened awareness-of-being.

For us to be born-again, we must first understand what this seemingly impossible concept means. Obviously, we cannot actually be physically reborn in the same form as we possess now. So this has to mean a spiritual or consciousness rebirth.

When we become aware of how to use our unconditioned consciousness, then we understand that this rebirth in consciousness begins with our awareness-of-being dependent on others' beliefs and values. In other words, we become aware of how we created ourselves based on what others taught us.

Similarly, many of us continue to believe what others (parents and society) taught, and continue to teach, us about being born-again. They continue to teach us that being born-again is a ritual used to consummate our declaration of faith. 

Consequently, we continue to delude ourselves about this process. We now believe that all we have to do is make a declaration of faith,  participate in a ritual, and suddenly our lives are transformed from the beliefs and values taught us by others.

Meanwhile, after this process, if we continue to examine ourselves, we will discover that our beliefs and values are  basically the same. The primary difference is that we now believe this is a new, transformative experience, which requires us to try and control many aspects of our behavior. Unfortunately, we have forgotten that this information was in the world before we were born. 

As long as we are relying on the beliefs and values taught us by others, we are still powerless to them. This means we are still  perceiving ourselves with societal labels of race, color, gender, religion, class, and so on.

So what's the solution for rebirth? We have been provided the answer over and over again by Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, and others. Unfortunately, most of us still don't know how to do it.

Nevertheless, being born-again begins with our consciousness. We must accept that within our being is unconditioned consciousness. This consciousness begins and ends in itself. It is not dependent on societal beliefs and values for its purpose. 

The process of reuniting with our unconditioned consciousness is transcendence. In other words, we lose our current awareness-of-being (beliefs and values) and discover another one (enlightened beliefs and values). This means that the current one has to pass away in order for the other one to appear.

At the deeper levels of this consciousness, we must be willing to let go of the toxic beliefs and values from our parents and others. We must become our own teachers by understanding how to use our unconditioned consciousness.

We will discuss this further in future blogs.