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Human Consciousness




What we call the self, is a collection of emotions floating within the life force we call consciousness, cocooned in the vessel of our mind-body. These collections of emotions are to consciousness what seasoning is to water: IT GIVES IT FLAVOR.

Without the flavor of emotion, our connection with the world would be completely impersonal.

Our bodies are a physical barrier which convinces us of the uniqueness of our existence and creates the illusion that our feelings and thoughts are unique to ourselves. Because we think our emotions are unique, we hold on to our hurts, fears, and insecurities in a belief that no one else would understand them. The visual illusion of separation that our bodies create is so strong that we neglect to see our connection to one another even when we see our emotions reflected in others.


The reality is that our thoughts and feelings, both good and bad, are shared by every single human in existence. They were here before us, and they will remain in the collective sea of consciousness to be inherited by those that come after us. 


This is why our feelings and emotions transcend geographical, social, economic, religious, and gender boundaries. 

The only difference between individual persons is why we feel.


Because every human has an individual relationship with the world, the hurt that two people may experience, comes for different reasons. One person's pain might be because of a loss of a loved one, while another person can be because of loss of a relationship, or even the pain from being incarcerated and away from the world.


Yet fear is fear, depression is depression, pain is pain, love is love, happy is happy, boredom is boredom, anxiety is anxiety, peace is peace, joy is joy. We may feel happier (or sadder) one day compared to the other, but each gradient of emotion is not unique to any one person. The only difference is the experience that has brought the emotion to surface.


If we were to stop identifying with the why of human emotions, we would see that the end result is the same.


If we were able to somehow shed our bodies and erase our experiences so that the only thing left is the raw emotions we each hold inside, we would not be able to tell each other apart. Our "emotional being" would return to the collective sea which makes up the foundation of human consciousness.


It is important to acknowledge that we each share the same feelings because when we do we honor each other on a deeper level. This acknowledgement reverberates the message that a person's pain is truly understood. That we are all cut from the same cloth. This is important because without a genuine understanding of our oneness, regardless of how many people we are surrounded by, we would all feel utterly alone in this world.





Author: Michael Pelaez

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