COME AND GO, ARRIVE AND LEAVE, DIE AND BE REBORN… THE CYCLE CONTINUES.
An inner journey guided by the awakening of consciousness and the opening of the heart.
To be aware of something does not mean that we are conscious. Dreaming that it is possible to wake up is a way of starting to have some consciousness. To be conscious is possible when you wake up. To be conscious of something is to enter into direct contact and without interfering with what is observed. It’s like merging with what is being observed.
Today I had an internal experience caused by an external impulse. It was the sound of a flute which triggered a process of connection with consciousness and a feeling of transcendence of time and space.
I was sat in a hammock surrounded by many people, watching a session involving an entheogen. Suddenly Eric came with a flute and began to play it. The melody guided those who were in the entheogenic experience, but I was just an observer. I decided at that moment to observe the flute, which was incredibly beautiful, with a wooden carving of a Dolphin. As I know David Cubillos, the artist who builds them, my consciousness took me to him, to his hands working his heart to create and design. But then I came back and I found Eric Moreno, the young musician who interpreted it, and whose personal and transformational process I know in depth. And I went through everything I knew he had gone through and what he had done in his life to be sat there in front of me, offering me an inspiring concert. I watched as he blew and where the air came out from and how it turned into a magical vibration. At this moment he was fully committed to his inner experience. I lay down in the hammock and took the picture of the musician and the flute (cover photo) and from that point I decided to let myself be led into myself by the sound. I left the external and this led me to the internal.
The music went through my consciousness, it became consciousness itself and full of vibration. There were no thoughts or feelings, only ecstasy and the plenitude of allowing myself to be taken over.
When the consciousness that observes returns to the origin, the observer becomes the observed, and when the observed and the observer are observed, it is because cosmic consciousness has arisen. The consciousness of consciousness. What teachers have called supra-consciousness.
At that moment there is nothing, but everything is present there. I remained transposed as if I had ceased to exist. When I returned from the trip, approximately an hour after having started to listen to the flute, there was no one around me. I watched the trees, the sea, the sunlight. I breathed deeply and gave thanks.
All this without having consumed anything of at all. Just for having opened myself up to the internal experience. In my case I learned it more than 20 years ago when I started meditating. First I learned meditation techniques, then I learned to meditate and in the end I learned to convert meditation into the state of my soul. As the teacher Osho said, “You do not have to go to a place to meditate, when you know what it is to meditate you will take it to all parts of your life.”
We had been sharing inspiring words that guided us in the process of understanding with 15 people in the Conscious School for two days. I was able to realise once again that anything can make us travel the longest and most beautiful journey, and we can do it in so many ways, and it can be caused by so many everyday things. Not only the inspiring sound of a flute. It can be the hysterical scream of an angry woman, it can be the song of a bird in the morning, the look of a child or the encounter with fragrance of a flower.
That which is apparently outside, is internal. But consciousness has its own process. First it observes the observed, then observes the observer, then observes both and then observes the observation. And in the end it observes the consciousness that has observed everything. It is what is called UNITY.
If you perform this procedure with your depression or anxiety, with what has happened to you, with the emotion that bothers you or the thought that worries you, you will be able to see and verify the powerful effectiveness that consciousness has within you.
Maybe it’s time to release it, because you’ve probably never used it.
Alberto José Varela