The rewards of the development of consciousness are
limitless – every area of life is beneficially affected by the
growth of full human awareness. There is no problem, physical, emotional,
mental or spiritual that cannot be reduced and eventually resolved as an
individual moves more and more toward complete consciousness.
Why this must be so may not be immediately clear. The
problems of life are multi-fold and extreme. How can any one thing affect
all areas of life?
Consider our daystar. The Sun, a thermonuclear fusion
fire some 96 million miles from the Earth, brings light to all Earth’s
creatures by day, chasing the darkness from every corner of our lives.
Just so, there is a light within our minds, a light we
variously call our consciousness, our spirit, our Self, our soul. This
inner awareness acts in our individual lives like the Sun acts for our
Earth. This inner consciousness is the root of the tree of our life, the
basis of all that we think, all that we perceive, all that we feel, all
that we do. Calling the inner light the root of the tree of our life is
reminiscent of the metaphorical passage in the Bible about Eden and the
Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
This passage has, as has so much of the world’s
scripture, been interpreted from the waking state of consciousness –
with rather unfortunate results. The Tree in either case – as the Tree
of Life or as the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil – is the
human nervous system. When it is used properly, it functions as the Tree
of Life, bringing health and life and all good things to the human being.
When the human ego (the serpent) is drawn into the experience of duality,
the emotional nature (Eve principle) eats of the apple of duality, and the
rational mind (Adam principle) follows – the individual perceives
duality, feels hot and cold, believes in good and bad. In this state, the
nervous system loses its innocent perception of immortality and becomes
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In this state of judging,
dualistic life necessarily ends in death. A house divided against itself
cannot long endure. It will rot, it will decay, it will fall. If we live
by the two-edged sword of judgment, we will surely die by it.
It is not difficult to restore the proper functioning
of the nervous system – it is only necessary to take the poisoned apple
of duality back out of the mouth. To do this, the requirement is to stop
listening to the serpent, the desires of the ego that lead in the
direction of duality. There are two voices inside every human – the
first speaks for the ego and leads to judgement, to fear, to defense, to
the continuance of ignorance; the second speaks for the Ascendant and
leads to clear perception, to love, to invincibility, to Self-realization.
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