The Three Cups

Unconsciousness, Anti-Consciousness and Consciousness

 Off the bat, what exactly is consciousness? The least complex definition of consciousness is that it refers to your sentient, aware or woke state. On the other end, the mystical psychiatrist Richard Bucke, defined cosmic consciousness, as “awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened”. Between these two definitions is a whole lot of wiggle room. I've found that, generally speaking, between these two tent poles are three buckets:: unconscious, anti-conscious and conscious. Now unconsciousness and consciousness tend to be expressed as spectrums, with plenty of  blurry overlap. Anti -consciousness, less so. 

Unconscious
These are the folks who maintain this reality. They can range from knee jerk skeptics to folks who've experienced magic but gaslight themselves for fear of their own consciousness exploration.

These poor souls often deny magic and miracles exists, denying themselves, usually at great personal cost. They cherish fitting in and enforce others to conform. It is possible for these folks to become conscious, but the social cost of becoming conscious is usually a price greater then they’re willing to pay. Most people fall into this category.

Conscious
These folks straddle a difficult line. They've experienced magic, perhaps lots of it, but let the world convince them they're wrong for having these experiences. They get labeled "weird" they're written off and generally ignored and minimized at worst they are diagnosed mentally ill. They commonly believe there's a wrongness about themselves. A herculean effort is required by then to get out of this perception of wrongness. They perceive subtle energies of both body and mind. If they’ve received a mentally illness diagnosis many of these folks are medicated out of their self knowing.

 

Anti-Consciousness 
On one end of the spectrum these are the murderers of life and spirit. On the other end of the spectrum they are your master manipulators, narcissists and haters.

These are the folks that maintain a healthy thread of insanity in this reality. Not a whole lot of light can get through to them. The only good news about them is that they're in the minority.

Next week I dig in a bit about what I mean by magic. Till then...