MEDITATION:The goal of enlightenment is to be able to separate our identity from our spacesuit so that we can be both “in the world but not of it”.

 I learnt to distinguish between my personality and my “owner”; my “owner” being the part of consciousness that could stand back from identifying with my personality and see it more objectively.  I have tended to think of this “owner” as being like a parent for the personality; it’s role being to understand, take responsibility for and get the best from our childlike personality.  Ram Dass, from a spiritual perspective, talks about how we become identified with our “space suit” in each incarnation and that part of the goal of enlightenment is to be able to separate our identity from our spacesuit so that we can be both “in the world but not of it”.  He describes consciousness as the “witness” and this is common in many spiritual writers such as Ouspensky and Rudolf Steiner.  It is also common in most religions where meditation attempts to still the mind and allow us to step back from the “mind chatter” of our personality in order to connect with the pure consciousness of being.  There are also interesting implications for astrology.  Is the personal horoscope describing the shape of our transceiver or the nature of our connection to consciousness?  Perhaps it is both.  And what of mundane astrology, is this describing the nature of consciousness more generally – the whole frame? Or is it describing the framework or field on which consciousness plays out?  Perhaps, again it is both.

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