How Can We Raise Our Consciousness

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Consciousness is defined as the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, but how do we become conscious and aware? The idea of consciousness is not a passing stage in our world, people have been seeking ways to expand their consciousness for thousands of years.There are many ways that a person can become more conscious, a quick Google search will give you over 4 million results that you can explore, today I want to look at two specific ways that a person can become more conscious.

• Explore your mind
• Be aware of your language

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Consciousness is defined as the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, but how do we become conscious and aware? The idea of consciousness is not a passing stage in our world, people have been seeking ways to expand their consciousness for thousands of years.There are many ways that a person can become more conscious, a quick Google search will give you over 4 million results that you can explore, today I want to look at two specific ways that a person can become more conscious.

• Explore your mind
• Be aware of your language

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Interesting question. Let me offer some feedback:

Explore your mind

I am not sure how you define doing this but my way is the process of asking questions, and that this process is not towards an end when you suddenly knowe verything and can stop, it is a constant asking of questions which tends to undermine rigid authoritarian models be they myths, philosophies, ideologies, even science as currently understood. Exploring all of this IS exploring your mind because your and my mind are completely interconnected with everyone elses mind, so this must include history, and current ideas about reality.

Be aware of your language

When I discuss things in forums such as this, I often will want to present the etymology of a term that is being used. I think this is very imprtant to do because often the longo we use and its roots can become invisible to us, so it seems sensible to know the terms you use as best you can. I was inspired to pay attention to language mostly after reading a very influential book, for me, titled The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, by John Marco Allegro.
This is a mindblowing book for me, because it revealed to me that ancient peoples would think of their sacred mind-altering vegetation as gods, and give them names, and these names become in myth to be literalized--especially in Christianity--as actual humans who lived in history, but imagine this-----you find a name, and with help from Allegro trace the meaning of the name to a mind-altering fungi, and so you go to find it, or vegetation which is mind-altering and eat it, and then POW!!!! Go beyond language!! LOL

But even with other terms it is very important to know their etymology and origin, such as 'God' and 'Enthusiasm' etc. it is fascinating.

So this questioning is expanding awareness, and is creative. I stumbled on this really inspiring video eariler today with this young boy encouraging people to stop learning and think in your own unique way.

TEDxTeen - Jacob Barnett: Forget What You Know - YouTube

#message to forum people. it would be a lot cooler this place if you allowed Youtube code tags so we can embed videos

 

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The two methods of exploring the mind that I talk about in this article are meditation, naturally occurring psychedelics, and prayer, but it occurs to me that I may have mislabeled that section, as what I am really referring to is the ability to be in the now and focus on the present moment. I am working on a new post - hope to have it up in the next week or so - about the idea of constantly challenging your personal beliefs, and I think this falls more in line with the idea of exploring the mind.

The idea of language really fascinates me because even just in speaking things our loud I've found that I can feel the change in energy based on the words that I use, so I think that if we can be aware of the words that we use, we can affect the energy of not just ourselves, but the people around us as well.

 

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This some kind of advert?

No, just my thoughts and musings.