Our body ages. Our brain ages. Our mind ages. Then, at the end of our incarnate existence, they dissolve into the earth, and into an etheric realm of infinite potential. Everything changes. This is the inescapable nature of the world we inhabit.
But what about our consciousness? Whereas our bodies and our mind are a function of this world, our consciousness, our spirit, originates from a different source. This is the fundamental difference between consciousness and the mind. Our individual consciousness exists beyond the mind, an aspect of infinite Consciousness, the Source of all Creation. Without our consciousness, the mind could not exist. Our minds are dependent on the incarnate consciousness that gives us life. Which then activates our bodies for this incarnation.
We can recognize subtle distinctions between our minds and our conscious awareness. Consciousness can be seen as a “background” presence, but not thoughts of the mind. Although it is responsible for the thought process. Consciousness is that which manifests recognition of life into the mind – much like a movie projector. The projector, with its light and gears, activates the illusion of the film onto the screen. That illusion is the mind at work. By themselves, the projector and the light represent the “potential” to experienced life: the film passing through it, the animation of our reality.
Sitting quietly, the mind calm, we witness our consciousness, our presence, existent there in potential. What does that feel like, this presence behind our thoughts? I would pose that it feels the same way it always has. Neither diminished, nor expanded. A paradox of ageless presence beyond time. Putting body and mind aside, do we sense ourselves to be any different? I am the same person I was when I was 20. Or when I was born.
Many people have told me age has caught them by surprise. Their bodies no longer match their spirit – the essence they feel themselves to be. There are differences in accumulated knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, but their core nature remains as it always has been. The mind may think itself to be the consistency over time. But mind and ego are easily buffeted by change and perspective. The mirror of age undermining the assurances of life.
We transcend the appearance of age when we recognize our conscious nature. Source Consciousness is eternal. Our individual consciousness, as an aspect of Source, is eternal. Consciousness just IS. It is not subject to earth limitations of space, of time and of age. It is the pure state of our original, timeless nature. A.S. 9/5/22
