Cosmic Consciousness and the Eternal Dance of Spirit by Allbert Chiwara

When we look around at the world, we see a vast array of seemingly different religions and spiritual traditions. The ego in mankind impels him to seek to negate the worldviews of others and to hold his outlook alone as correct. Of course, even a casual look should lead one to doubt the validity of such an egocentric worldview. The truth of the matter is that the knowledge of ultimate reality is contained in the various traditions. Due to differences in culture, tradition, language, the ultimate truth is reflected in different ways in different regions. However, it is the same truth that is contained in the various traditions. Within the confines of this essay I will very briefly point out that all of the world’s great religions and spiritual traditions contain the same eternal truth and that this truth is about the attainment of eternal bliss. This eternal truth begins with an exposition of the emergence of the universe from the primordial state of consciousness that existed prior to the concrete physical manifestation of the cosmos. Within the boundless ocean of the eternal Godhead, a desire to experience its own power of self-manifestation spontaneously arose. God-the-creator, in whom the causal principle has been activated, allows the exceedingly subtle vibrational dream structures to play out in his mind first as the sphere of ideas, then as the sphere of life and lastly as the gross physical sphere.

The manifestation of the world is a process in which Spirit folds back and reflects itself with its own being as the mirror. This reflection is manifested as an involution (the reversal of evolution) of consciousness from an unbounded state of pure infinite awareness to a bounded state of divided physical existence. The various scriptures detail the fall of the gross physical world and mankind from a sphere of undivided existence into a diminished state of being in which the individual ego is faced with fear, danger, hatred, disease, war and countless other misfortunes arising from duality or the false idea of division in the indivisible spirit. Instead of living in a state of unbounded bliss, mankind is observed to live without wisdom, experiencing divided states that fluctuate wildly between sorrow and joy. Standing in this desert of spiritual poverty, mankind receives the gift of scriptures through compassionate sages that provide him with a roadmap for finding the way back to eternal joy. Ignorance rooted in the illusion of the ego however creates conflict between different religions and promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry. In truth, there is absolute unity in the message of the world’s religions and spiritual traditions.

All phenomena in the realm of manifestation are nothing other than the dynamic motion of spirit. By retracing the path traversed by consciousness, the realm of the afterlife is explained in the context of the progression of consciousness through the unfolding of spirit in an evolutionary process of self-unveiling. At the dawn of the cosmos, spirit hides or veils itself as matter. Spirit then unveils itself from matter and reveals itself as life. Eventually spirit unveils itself from life and reveals itself as the sense-mind. At the end of the outward process of evolution, spirit unveils itself as intellect in mankind. At the level of mankind, there is no more outward evolution, and the process of evolution folds back and continues in an inward direction. The inward process of evolution proceeds through two realms which are the sphere of life and the sphere of ideas. The two inner spheres are the domains of experience in the afterlife.

Of particular importance in the evolution of consciousness is the state of cosmic consciousness that one must attain to reach the indestructible abode of eternal bliss. In the state of cosmic consciousness, one experiences oneness with the entire universe, feels compassion and love for all beings, experiences eternal bliss, is aware of their immortality and lives in the eternal now. Having reached the state of cosmic consciousness the soul is freed forever and ever. With the individual wave of joy having consciously reunited with the ocean of joyComputer Technology Articles,http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif the soul enjoys infinite and eternal bliss. That is eternal life.

Albert Chiwara is the author of “On the Meaning of Everything: The Hidden Secret behind the Eternal Philosophy of Life” available at http://sbpra.com/albertchiwara/, Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com.



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We call ourselves the human race; where are we racing to? The grave.

  When you find happiness in a smile that is success, enjoy each day no matter what happens.  When I was in Africa, the government provided continuous dog and pony shows.  We went to an orphanage to show all the great work we were doing.  I had been on enough of these that I was not thrilled at escorting some diplomats through more lies. Before the dignitaries arrived, we received the quick tour and told not to go to the room where the children there were terminally ill.  You guessed it, I went in the room, and there were several children lying down on the floor on mats.  I lay down next to the children, and they smiled at me.  These children could not have been any older than six, and I do not think they had many visitors.  A few brave little souls crawled up to me and put their little heads on me.  I do not think they had ever seen a Caucasian before, so as the others were getting the tour, I had more than a moment of bliss with these little children.  Their lives were almost over but their memory will be with me forever. It does not take a lot of light to wipe out darkness now, does it?  Never be afraid to try something new.  A lone amateur built the Ark, a large group of professionals built the Titanic.

If you are not getting the results you want and you know what you want your outcome to be, what should you do?  You change your approach.  Try something new and keep changing your approach until you achieve the results that you desire.  Your intuition will guide you.  It is not our job to figure out the how; our mission is to figure out the what.  The how will take care of itself through inspirational dissatisfaction.  Alternatively, perhaps an intuitive thought or action if we are aware, wide-awake, and have faith that the object of our desire is on the way.  If you see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand.

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”

—Buddha (563 BCE-483 BCE)

“Take the first step in faith.  You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just the first step.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  (1929-1968)