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Beliefs

P. J. Bailey

30 Days to Get in Touch with our Beliefs

The next 30 days I’ll dedicate to “how to understand and get in touch with our beliefs.”

Extensive definition of a belief; Common beliefs that humans share;

Different type of beliefs; Beliefs that can’t be transformed;

The difference between conceptual and living (I call it three dimensional) realization of beliefs;

Practical suggestions to spot and witness a belief in work; Consciousness and beliefs.

Conscious Universe

Fundamental shifts in perception happen slowly, are subtle, and often seem inconsequential or even go unnoticed by the majority of people living through them.

Yet such shifts amount to nothing less than revolutions in our sense of ourselves, our relationships with others, and our view of the universe. Only three times in human experience has our view of reality been so thoroughly transformed.

You are going to be enlightened TOMORROW

What is the difference whether or not you find this freedom, this enlightenment or not. You will not be there to benefit from it.

What possible good can this state do you? This state takes away EVERYTHING you have. That is why they call it "jivanmukti" -- living in liberation.

It is neither happiness nor unhappiness. This you do not, cannot, want. What you want is everything, and that is not possible

You can't experience anything except through thought. You can't experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it.

The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is "me". Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion.

Anything you want to be free from, for whatever reason, is the very thing that can free you. You are always dealing with a pair of opposites in anything; so being free of one is to be free from the other, its opposite. It is not possible. Within the framework of the opposites there is no freedom.

The man who is not concerned with morality will not be interested in immorality.

Thought has created all these divisions, making what you call experience possible. The man who has freed himself from all divisions in consciousness has no experiences; he does not have "loving" relationships, does not question anything, has no notions about being a self-realized man, and is not stuck on wanting to help somebody else.

Your search for happiness is prolonging your unhappiness.

Similarly, enlightenment has no independent existence of its own apart from your knowledge about it. There is no enlightenment at all.

The idea of illumination is tied up with change, but there is nothing TO change. Change admits of time; change ALWAYS takes time. To change, to eliminate one thing and replace it with another, takes time. What you are now and what you ought to be are linked together by time.

You are going to be enlightened TOMORROW!

Seeing tomorrow involves only hope.

Seeing today demands action.

U.G. Mind Is a Myth

Brain, Thought, Awareness in Consciousness

"The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual. In that case such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance would be merely instances in which some of the limitations were removed."

William James

Awareness is a simple activity of the brain. It cannot be used to bring about any change, including a therapeutic one.

We have superimposed a naming process over this natural physiological awareness, an awareness we share, incidentally, with the other animals.

Awareness and the movement or tendency in you to bring about change in you are two different things entirely. That difference cannot be perceived by you, for there is no perception without the perceiver

You are conscious, aware, only through thought. The other animals use thought--the dog, for example, can recognize its owner--in a simple manner.

They recognize without using language. Humans have added to the structure of thought, making it much more complex. Thought is not yours or mine; it is our common inheritance.

There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind -- the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation.

We are all thinking and functioning in that "thought sphere", just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently.

U.G. Thought is Your Enemy

Higher Consciousness

For centuries, philosophers have investigated consciousness.

“There are many philosophical stances on consciousness, including: behaviorism, dualism, idealism, functionalism, reflexive monism, phenomenalism, phenomenology and intentionality, physicalism, emergentism, mysticism, personal identity etc.

Phenomenal consciousness (P-consciousness) is simply experience; it is moving, coloured forms, sounds, sensations, emotions and feelings with our bodies and responses at the center."

It is sometimes held that consciousness emerges from the complexity of brain processing.

I, personally, believe it is true.

Brain chemistry affects human consciousness. Sleeping drugs can bring the brain from the awake condition (conscious) to the sleep (unconscious).

Wake-up drugs reverse this process. Many other drugs have a consciousness-changing effect.

In my writing I often use the word Consciousness. Consciousness I refer to is Higher Consciousness as in being aware of our mental self.

“The concept of higher consciousness rests on the belief that the average, ordinary human being is only partially conscious due to the influence of inferior impulses and preoccupations.

As a result, most humans are considered to be asleep (to reality) as they go about their daily business.”

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You hold the key to physical, emotional, and spiritual healing within your remarkable mind. We heal by becoming truly ourselves, by discovering our wholeness...