Discovering What we Don't Know

Most of us already believe what we have been taught by others. This makes us quite comfortable with our beliefs and values.

This reliance on our beliefs and values also inextricably tie us to societal labels of race, religion, gender, status, and so forth. And once we have completely embodied these toxic labels, we're unable to envision ourselves being anything other than what we have been taught to be.

Many of us also give power to the labels. We treat them as if they are reality or something divinely created. And as we give more and more power to the labels, we give less and less power to ourselves.

After awhile we accept ourselves according to the labels. This acceptance only strengthens our toxic beliefs and values power over us. And it also plunges us deeper into powerlessness and dependency on others for clarity.


In our efforts to escape from what we have created, we limit our search to the familiar; that what others  teach us about the unknown consciousness. Unfortunately, others nearly always direct  to the Decalogue or similar precepts,  to assist us with our efforts to escape the suffering from our toxic beliefs and values.

The problems we face with trusting what others teach us is that they, themselves, are teaching what others taught them. And these fallacious teaching modalities continue ad infinitum without any of us ever being able to see the original documents or their creators.

Nevertheless, when we unlearn what others have taught us and accept that Enlightenism is our awareness-of-being, we enter into the realm of consciousness that is unknown to our parents and society. It is unknown to them because if they were aware of it, then we would have already been taught something that is known to all of us.

Enlightenism is the unknown consciousness. It is the unconditioned consciousness that answers only to itself. And as such, it has no barriers to its awareness-of-being or I Am.

When we enter into the realm of the unknown consciousness, then we understand that societal labels are nothing but human illusions or things we makeup in our efforts to understand ourselves and others. We also discover in Enlightenism consciousness that God (and the numerous other names used to describe the divine Creator) is different from what we have been taught by our parents and society.

The God that is present in our current awareness-of-being comes from our parents and society. This God is not born outside of our illusions, but come from them.

While we might revel in astonishment and soak our minds with effusive dosage of accolades about the wonderment of the ontological arguments for the existence of God, we must not lose sight of the fact that these arguments were not based on personal experience. They were philosophical attempts to define a power that was unknown to them.

For us to discover the unconditioned God, (the one not created by humans) we must search within our Enlightenism consciousness for the answers. There are no shortcuts for us to take.  And in a sense, everything returns to the Enlightened One who said, "We must be born again."

This rebirth is not a ritual or verbal affirmation of faith, it is a rebirth in consciousness. We must let go of all that we have received from our parents and society, and then seek unity with our unconditioned consciousness. 

Meanwhile, this entire process takes place in our consciousness. It is the letting go of our toxic awareness-of-being, and claiming our new awareness-of-being to be Enlightenism.