Contemplation: Consciousness

Hello world. The following was written 01/27/2016.

con·scious·ness; ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs/; noun: the state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings.

“she failed to regain consciousness and died two days later”

the awareness or perception of something by a person.

plural noun: consciousnesses

“her acute consciousness of Mike’s presence”

the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.

“consciousness emerges from the operations of the brain”

As Alex and I were doing the filming of lesson 26 Holy Spirit had me sharing about consciousness. According to the Course “Consciousness” is considered to be right-minded thinking with Holy Spirit. If consciousness is right minded thinking with Holy Spirit, then what is this thing I have been calling consciousness all my life?

What I am being shown is what we are taught is consciousness is nothing more than Egoistic thinking. We are taught to live in an egoistic consciousness from the day we are born. We do not “see”. We do not “hear”. Instead we are taught to conform and follow blindly with no thoughts. Just do as you are told and do not ask questions.

Holy Spirit is telling me the way I was taught to think and believe is an egoistic way of thinking. I am to judge everyone and everything I come into contact with. This is what I have been taught is consciousness. He, Holy Spirit is…