binra 24 June 2014

Ha! I came here and found my comment no posted??? I was logged in. I looked at my copy of it and felt in hindsight it too dense so I opened to a fresh movement to communicate on 'the mythic self'.
That didn't post (session expired) but as I wrote it to share I share it here even though the original post now shows up.

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I wrote an input to add on the nature of 'the mythic self'; a story based sense of identity and experience. I feel after writing it that it is too much a different 'language' to serve here - because its basis is not expressing and supporting the 'perspective' of the mythic self.

The nature of myth is that it operates at a level of consciousness of which the 'personae' are unaware - for the attention is engaged in the drama that it was chosen to facilitate.

In the sense that myth is often used - of other or previous cultural stories and self-definitions - there is the sense of being in the 'real world' looking at other people's illusions, errors and superstitions - or that of our forebears. But is this actually so - or are we simply 'looking out' through a different set of filters and distortions - and self-justifying and self-reinforcing the 'reality' we have accepted as our current model.
For as we define our self in relation to anything - and indeed everything, we create a model that then gives us a real experience that operates on many levels simultaneously - because Consciousness is not merely the persona, but the props and creative background that sets the scene and even the capacity to forget its own nature - so as to in a sense turn the Lights down and serve a particular focus.
Using drama as a metaphor for a particular expression of consciousness is a pointer or sketch to draw attention within one's current appreciation to - as it were - turn up the Light a little so as to illuminate more than what the spotlight and scripted storyline were presenting as one's world or reality.
The use of the mind to create myth is in exploring the story of self IN world and there are only so many dramatic archetypes - yet they can be lived out in billions of unique ways.
The Self or Consciousness that the world and its self are experienced IN and OF is invisible to the persona.
There are myths or stories of awakening - such as that of Jesus - which penetrate the dream as an undoing and transcending of the myth of a separating, disconnected, conflicting consciousness.
There are also many myths that reflect in symbol and story, the nature of the mechanisms and devices of such apparent separation and the experience that it engenders.
The scientific myth is a kind of anti-magic. A special kind of magic that isn't magic because it rises from the ashes of all such irrational childishness and futility as a model of externally verifiable 'facts' to which the human imagination is excluded. But if we cannot imagine it, we cannot see it. So there is simply a tacit agreement to exclude Consciousness as the nature and source of our experience and give that power to 'material reality' - and of course the 'rationality' that saves us from fearful slavery of confusion and ignorance so as to protect consciousness from the raw transformative participation also known as Life.
I feel that the Shift of consciousness that is occurring, will open perspective on the mythic nature of our persona - and thus reopen a fresh appreciation and expression of truly creative endeavor and relationship.
Waking up from a mesmeric mental identity to participance in and as the energetic of a direct appreciation.
Waking up to the Consciousness that we are - that is in a sense living us - living all things - right in this moment, in this place in this exactly experienced moment.
Observation as a within-ness or total participant is no less verifiable but is not reducible or translatable to the conceptual model and its articulation. To attempt to communicate in such 'outer terms' is futile for the message is lost in translation and the potential recipient is not listening where the message is shared.
But in a willingness and desire of true curiosity, the messages not only come through - but are relevant and resonant to the current theme of one's unfolding experience at a more embracing level than the persona mentality is aware of.
Infinite truth has no gap or degree or difference. What we take as our mind cannot and is not fitted to embrace it - for such mind is a limiting filtering mechanism of a design that serves the purpose we give it - because consciousness is an act of extension.

The myth of separation for Source is a basis for playing in the dark. A prodigal waste of a living inheritance? Not within the Remembrance of Source as undoes all sense of separation.

All meanings we ascribe ourself and world are mythic - but the transparency of all meanings to One Meaning is Creation - which is not matter-stuff in nothingness for a ghost to make sense of, map out, define, control attempt to overcome and die in, but an all embracing expansion of All That IS - in infinitely rich reflection.
Every instant 'proves it' but not in a coercive way or to a coercively engaged attention. Only to a free willingness of acceptance does grace reveal the obvious and then as a revealed foundation and not as a struggling self-assertion.
If Science is willing to accept the 'myth of self' it can regain a true foundation as the Consciousness curiosity to behold truth. Our truly personal or intimate sense is uniquely signatured to its own joy. If one is not unfolding and extending one's joy in life - then the only truths available are joyless substitutes. But there is no substitute for the unique presence you are. Enjoy the power of illusions within the integrity of you and release the fascination of the illusion of power that undermines awareness of integrity... if you want.

binra 19 June 2014

As soon as there is self definition, there is a differentiation that generates or creates experience.
However, differentiation within a unified consciousness is more of a vibrational resonance - that cannot be directly translated into terms of a segregated consciousness, because it Is You, rather than something happening TO a someone presumed to be you.
The differentiation of a segregating intent is the basis of the story self. A self-construct that uses mythic or story continuities to assert its narrative as the central character framework that defines and filters a seemingly private experience.
The personality construct is a vehicle through which to experience the physical or externalized 'reality'. It operates as self definitions and beliefs, feelings and thoughts - with the experience reflecting this activity - much of which is unconscious or filtered out by the surface persona.
Choosing in a sense, to be defined by our own story rather than the energetic reception of That which is prior to the operation of a segregating prism, makes story the nature of our self and reality.
Drama of personae, cast amidst scenes and props that embody and reflect a will to power; a wish that things align THUS! - which then unfolds a multilevel Script of infinitely rich reflection - all of which reaffirm and uphold the 'identity' of the central character in a process of unfolding transformative changes.

The uncovering of the perspective beyond the drama is sometimes called self or Self-Realisation. The motive of the reintegration of Consciousness is that which stirs, wakes, reveals and uncovers the self and its world-reflective experience and identity - from a Unified Perspective that is essentially timeless.
Myth and stories reflecting the outgoing or segregating movement provide the dramatic frameworks for developing and growing themes and specific abilities; 'Man as a process of becoming'.
These are recognized or 'known again' as qualities of being.

Mutual reinforcement is the sharing of core beliefs and definitions such as to 'agree to focus on self-segregating consciousness'. In this sense our subjective sense is always already communicating itself as the presumption and assertion of a separated 'will'.
The symbol of Jesus is the idea that this 'will' can be discerned and truly accounted for, put aside and so make way for a Universal 'Will' which is not other than the undistorted communication of Being unto Itself. In this 'story' Man does not become the Light, but yields coercive distortion to the Light of an All Pervading Awareness. An awareness that the mythic 'self' forgets, usurps and denies in order to 'know itself' as judge or determiner of reality.

The mythic or symbolic aspects of our experience in the world can thus serve the discernment of the structures and devices by which such 'divide and rule' consciousness appears to replace 'Unify and extend'.

"Go forth and multiply" is not an option - but WHAT we each choose to extend and propagate will be the nature of our experience.

The reintegrative capacity of consciousness is the capacity to discern directly what is resonant and relevant to the current unfoldment of unique signature vibration. When we are aligned truly, all else is aligned to our clear appreciation and there is the capacity to move within an overall flow rather than assert a coercive will in ways that exacerbate struggle and pride.

Resonance is a different order of 'knowing' than rational construct. The knowing in the heart can guide and support rational activity instead of being usurped and enslaved or denied by it.