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The Body, Mind, Consciousness and beyond.
Learn how awareness forms the link.
A human being is a combination of the mind, the body, and the field of collective consciousness. Just like the four limbs may point in four different directions, there is one central node from which awareness reaches in four directions encompassing:
- Thoughts and the mind
- The physical body
- Collective field of consciousness
- The “unknowable.”
Thoughts and the mind
Thoughts are very delicate and require careful handling to get the most out of them. They usually have a very short lifespan, but in that brief period, a lot can happen through them. In many ways, thoughts are like leaves on a tree. The first thing we see of a tree from a distance are its leaves.
Similarly, in the mind, we first run into thoughts. Like leaves that need the support of rest of the plant and its roots, individual thoughts cannot exist by themselves. They depend on the hidden substratum of the subconscious. Similar to the branches of a tree which connect to one main trunk, all lines of thoughts ultimately connect to the individual sense or ego. The subconscious mind is like the root system of a tree. Both are hidden, and as the roots, the subconscious…
