The Separation of Mind and Consciousness...

During your daily toils the separation between your mind and consciousness is
rarely thought about or discussed. But it is the primary cause for the majority
of your existence problems. This separation is not even a well-known fact, as
mind and consciousness appear to act as one. And paradoxically they do. But the
separation is at the core of existence. It is what keeps the materialist
isolated from the spiritualist, potentially robbing advancing humanity from a
progressive holistic base.

The mind is of physical origin, created out of your brain functions of
intellect, memory, imagination and intuition. These brain functions rise and
fall upon demand creating what is referred to as mind or mind functions. How
effectively these mind functions operate depends upon how genetically functional
the brain is, the interconnectivity of its circuitry and its chemical integrity.
This is what the materialist sees and works with: the transitory brain
functions. When the body is deprived of life, the brain dies. To the pure
materialist that is the end of that, establishing a potential agnostic or an
atheistic mindset.

Pure materialist scholars, scientists, philosophers etc. conclude that, as the
brain is material and contains all our mind functions, when it disappears, the
entity that used it equally disappears – not an unreasonable conclusion. This
conclusion can be supported by a variety of scientifically provable brain
function experiments. One medical proof of this contention is the debilitating
affliction known as Alzheimer's disease or senile dementia, characterized by
progressively diminished accessibility to brain functions. As the brain
functions diminish, so apparently does the entity that used them resulting in
impaired use of intellect and memory plus personality disorganization. By simple
observation, it is reasonable to conclude that we are the sum total of our brain
function output. And when the body dies so does everything the brain functions
produced. This is a pure materialist viewpoint conceived upon observable fact.

Using the same example – Alzheimer's disease – the brain or mind functions do
become partially or totally inaccessible, but consciousness never alters.
Consciousness is your ability to see and know both externally (awareness) and
internally (self-awareness). It is your internal screen that sees and knows what
is seen and known. And an Alzheimer's patient can always see and know. The
patient just does not know what he or she sees or knows, as the mind functions
that provided all that information are not accessible.

Consciousness (pure awareness) is who you are and does not have a physical
origin. The physical mind functions provide the opportunity for that
non-physical entity to learn and survive in the physical world. Mind functions
come and go, or rise and fall upon demand. Consciousness remains unchanged no
matter what the mind functions produce or do not produce. This is the split
between consciousness and your brain or mind functions. And that separation is
fundamental in understanding your existence. It points directly at pure
consciousness as who you are, and not what the mind functions produce. What your
mind functions produce is what consciousness can see and know. You take that
production as who you are, as it can be witnessed. It is a deception that
controls your life without you being aware of that deceit. This is your
shadow-world.

The materialist can work with and deduce logical conclusions from the study of
the brain. But they come to a brick wall when dealing with consciousness, as it
cannot be found or located anywhere. Consciousness always feels centered but its
exact location will perpetually elude discovery. The mind functions have
material origins, but consciousness does not. And here is where all the
difficulties arise.

The biological form is born with the brain functions ready to begin their
learning journey. The canvas they write upon is non-biological consciousness. As
the transitory biological form continues its journey of life, the form itself
dictates, to some degree, how it will function. The transitory body is what we
experience and take as who we are. But is there a knowable point where there is
an observable crossover from the temporary physical to spirit permanence? And
what is that crossover junction? Or, how does the transitory biology transform
non-biological consciousness into a known permanent reality? It is here where
consciousness becomes the focal point of interest, as the biology is a temporary
acquisition. If anything has permanence it is consciousness, as it never alters.

Consciousness cannot be grasped or held on to, as it is pure spirit awareness
and not material or not biologically produced. It is like attempting to grasp
and hold on to air with your hand. The air knowingly exists but cannot be held
on to. Similarly, consciousness knowingly exists and also cannot be held on to.
Air permeates the entire atmosphere. Likewise consciousness permeates the entire
human body and will never be located, although its center has a place of focus.
Consciousness is ageless, formless, colorless and genderless. It is separate
from your mind functions, as it never changes or alters. While your mind
functions are in continual states of change.

Mind is the palette containing an endless array of color. Thought, motivation,
intent, feelings and emotions paint the color on the canvas of consciousness.
But painting consciousness to fit the color of your thoughts does not alter
consciousness. It simply becomes the visible picture you have created.
Consciousness never interferes or objects to the color your unfettered free will
chooses to paint it with. This is another pointer at the separation of mind and
consciousness, although each depends upon the other to give it observable
existence. Consciousness is your non-biological existent personality. It is who
you are. The picture you paint upon it is your character.

Consciousness is the totally open and pure canvas of knowable eternity that is
absolutely unrestricted. The canvas being absolutely empty points directly at
its absolute purity. To appreciate that last sentence you may have to use your
intuition and not your intellect. The developing mind of every individual colors
the canvas of consciousness, making it visible. And that color contains the
potential to restrict the purity of the consciousness canvas or illuminate it.
Consciousness always maintains its absolute unrestricted purity, for it cannot
be other than what it is. It is the mind that creates restriction. But that same
mind can use restriction to reach and understand the absolute non-restriction of
consciousness. The purity of consciousness is impersonally embedded within
itself, as the naturally occurring substance of the canvas. It is your mind
functions that paint the canvas with colors that illuminate that innate purity
or veil it in disharmonious colors that restrict what the canvas is. If you
restrict the substance of consciousness you unknowingly have restricted your
existence. And that restriction will always come back to bite you, in forms
where the causation may not even be recognizable, as being initiated from your
own self-created restrictive thought-forms. Whatever you choose, the canvas
never interferes by objecting or approving.

Non-interference is one of the primary spirit laws of existence. You have
freewill and any interference that restricts or diminishes that freedom is
prohibited. For if your freewill is imposed upon, then it is not freewill. This
spirit law does cause enormous problems in the physical world. When things go
horribly wrong it is natural to feel that if there were a loving creator that
destructive events would have been prevented. But that would be interference.
Whatever picture you choose to paint upon the canvas of consciousness will not
be interfered with, no matter how destructive it may be to yourself or others.
As difficult as it is to appreciate, that non-interference is absolute loving
kindness.

The picture formed upon the canvas of consciousness is what you see and know as
yourself. It is the observable and knowable character of your
consciousness-personality. The picture is your painting that attracts some and
repels others. It is how you are recognized: a self-created picture that people
admire or dismiss. But the picture is only the superficial color upon the
reality of the canvas. Even if the picture fades, is disfigured or totally
washed away, the canvas still remains. The canvas of consciousness perpetually
remains consistent, never altering.

The picture creates form upon formlessness. And it is the picture that can be
grasped or held on to. Holding on to the picture is what creates restriction
upon the open and pure non-restriction of the canvas. The formless canvas is not
what creates problems; it is the picture upon the canvas that does that. Each
picture will attract someone or something and repel others, and here the
problems begin and multiply. It is always surprising that amongst all the
bickering and squabbling as to which picture-form is the best, most pleasing,
more advanced, or just as forms should be, it is always forgotten that the
canvas is identical for all. The canvas of consciousness is your equality with
everyone else. The moment you create a belief that your picture is the correct
one, the seeds of potential problems have been sown. The varying forms then
fight it out in the playground of manifestation. It is a bewildering and
disturbing waste of forms. In all this destructive madness the canvas remains
unaffected whatever occurs.

The question is how does the transitory form potentially create or transform
into permanence? Or, how does self-created character transform self-existent
personality? Consciousness begins its journey in absolute unrestricted purity as
a clean spirit canvas. How you use your transitory mind functions to illuminate
the canvas of consciousness, in colors that are harmoniously resonate with its
substance, is the key to permanence of continued personality survival. It is the
expression or exposure of the substance of your consciousness that dictates if
the picture you created survives the transition of the physical to a pure spirit
environment or not. Consciousness is pure spirit, and it is your mind functions
that create spirit value or do not. If the canvas has been left blank, or in
discordant colors that have no resonate ability with its substance, then there
is nothing there to awaken it in a pure spirit environment and so give it
continued existential reality. A blank canvas and discordant colors are simply
just that: a blank canvas and discordant colors. When the physical body goes,
all that does not resonate with the substance of consciousness equally goes.
Only spirit matter or spirit value survives in a spirit environment, as it is
all harmoniously resonate. It is that spirit matter or spirit value that
reawakens consciousness in a spirit world. You have been given the gift of all
the mind-tools to color the canvass of consciousness. If you do nothing with
that gift beyond creating discordant colors, that have no resonate ability with
the substance of your consciousness, it is the same as rejecting the gift as not
wanted. And rejecting this gift is a rejection of existence, which is a choice
even without knowing that you have made one. And no one can interfere with that
freewill choice. There is no judging entity; you are your own judge and jury, as
consciousness is absolute self-referential. This is the natural result of the
spirit law of non-interference. You are totally responsible for your existence.
If you choose non-existence, that choice will be respected.

When your time upon this planet is at an end, and nothing of spirit value has
been painted upon the canvas of consciousness, there is nothing there to awaken
it within a pure spirit realm. When the biology goes, all that is materially
developed goes with that going. In other words, there are no hell realms. All
the created material that does not resonate with the substance of your
consciousness simply disintegrates along with the physical body. The hell realms
are simply a method of control by fear, as is reincarnation and original sin.
They are all fear-based constructs negatively used in an attempt to produce
positive results. And that never works, no matter how well it is constructed, as
it is fear attempting to produce trust. All forms that establish an anxiety are
fear-based constructs that have no place to exist except in the minds of those
who wish to control or force the color of their painting upon others. It is not
dissimilar to attempting to train animals using fear and not trust. The results
are well known, as fear simply does not work. Or it works to create a fearful
and very untrustworthy animal that obeys until one day it does not, with
potentially disastrous results.

What then is the painting that illuminates the substance of consciousness and
what veils it? This can be acquired by reading either of the books, `Presence'
or `Resolution Psychology". But for this short essay it can best be described as
directional subjective knowing. Meaning that it feels right, and that `feeling
right' only occurs when your motivational thoughts are in direct resonate accord
with the various spirit patterns – augmented substance – impersonally existing
within consciousness. You can connect with the substance of consciousness by
resonance of your thoughts, motivation or intent; and you subjectively know its
correctness in producing an individual direction. These various spirit patterns
are there for you to use, and can be used without you even being aware of their
existence. But it is those spirit patterns that illuminate your consciousness,
and provide a means for it to awaken itself when the transitory really does
become transitory. Using your innate spirit patterns is not dissimilar to
downloading an extension to a program for your computer. It is still the same
program, but now you can do more with it.

The illumination of consciousness goes beyond simply having subjective knowing
and doing nothing about it. It is necessary to objectify the subjective knowing,
by allowing that illumination to shine of its own accord by becoming a beacon
and preventing others from losing themselves within the seduction of their own
physicality. It is this form of objective activity where consciousness initiates
its own pathway to eternalize itself. And that is the purpose and direction of
your existence, which you either do or do not. The choice is always yours. And
no one interferes with that choice.

If the agnostics altered their attention from mind function production to the
purity of consciousness they would discover what lies beyond the physical, and
there discover a first cause. If atheists focused upon the substance of their
own consciousness they would discover what they now deny exists. The separation
of mind and consciousness is a gift, allowing each to establish directional
integrity and alignment of their freewill without coercion of any kind.
Experiencing that separation as unity establishes a personal confirmation that
no one anywhere can remove. It is the essence of Zen, the bedrock of all
mystical experiences – the personal discovery of your creator source. It is an
illuminating-connective experience of pure consciousness as who you are, with no
mind functions moving. That subjective knowing creates direction. Embedded
within that direction the purpose of your existence visually unfolds. It is all
self-contained from the very beginning. It simply is a matter of removing your
self-created veils to expose it.

Consciousness is formless, but you give it form with your mind functions.
Consciousness is ageless, but you create the circumstances to make that
agelessness eternally yours. Consciousness is genderless, as you now see the
canvas of each and not the picture upon it. Consciousness is colorless, but you
expose the canvas as pure color by creating a resonate picture upon it. This
emerging picture is then recognizable as the Substance of Absolute
Consciousness, which is the substance of your canvas. The canvas of
consciousness contains your new emerging Identity, created by your own effort.
And that new Identity is who you are, and will always be. It is your exposed
personality picture-Identity that is now recognizable in a pure spirit
environment. Your purpose and direction has always been impersonally embedded
within consciousness, it is simply a matter of making it personal.

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The formation and functioning of consciousness

By Ray Morose