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The single most important post at SOTN—EVER!!!<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Consciousness vs. AI<\/h1>\n

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Technology plays a large role in modern life, bringing benefits, but also raising some significant challenges and issues.\u00a0 There\u2019s good and lively discussion around this at present.\u00a0 The greatest technology of all, however, is right under our noses, as creation mechanics.\u00a0 Consciousness lies at the heart of this.\u00a0 The interaction of such natural and artificial technologies is of fundamental importance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s worthwhile to explore the nature of consciousness and of creation mechanics, insofar as we can, as a context for technology issues.\u00a0 This is obviously a big and deep topic, with many possible perspectives, but we can try to bring some key aspects into focus in the following sections.\u00a0 We also need a shift in consciousness to move things along.\u00a0 As the great scientist Einstein said: \u201cWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world we live in is a projected reality.\u00a0 We face many challenges within this world.\u00a0 But we are also part of the creative process and can have more power to manage our destiny and shape outcomes than we may realise.\u00a0 Consciousness is also evolving and provides new opportunity to deal with challenges.\u00a0 Consciousness needs to stay ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

This evolution carries power, but also responsibility for how we use power, in particular, the power of increasingly conscious attention and the power of projection.\u00a0 There\u2019s a balance to be achieved between being aware of problems, but actually energising solutions.\u00a0 The way we apply attention to problems and issues can attract the very things we don\u2019t want or, more significantly, fear, if we\u2019re not careful.<\/p>\n

Discussion, arguments and so don\u2019t necessarily change much.\u00a0 But frequency can shift consciousness and consciousness can move the ground we\u2019re standing on.<\/p>\n

Creation Mechanics<\/h2>\n

To understand the significance of consciousness, it\u2019s worthwhile to briefly review creation mechanics, insofar as we can, at this time.<\/p>\n

When we look at creation and life within it, its most fundamental aspect is existence.\u00a0 We can take away bits and pieces and the rest of creation remains.\u00a0 But take away existence and that pulls the rug from under the whole lot.\u00a0 Creation isn\u2019t about universes coming into existence.\u00a0 Existence is already there, in its pure unmanifest form.\u00a0 It\u2019s more a case of existence itself coming into expression, as creation, in all its manifest forms.<\/p>\n

We experience life in creation, by interacting consciously with the world around us.\u00a0 The experience is drawn back through our senses into our conscious awareness.\u00a0 This consciousness or aliveness, this capacity for presence, interaction and awareness, is the core of our existence.\u00a0 Our personal aliveness or existence derives from the same existence that underlies all creation.\u00a0 Our personal consciousness derives from the pure eternal consciousness that begets creation.\u00a0 We normally conceive of this pure consciousness,\u00a0 this foundational life field, as Source.<\/p>\n

Creation emerges within the universal life field of Source.\u00a0 The pure consciousness of Source isn\u2019t conditioned by creation.\u00a0 There is no \u2018where\u2019 in Source; it\u2019s not confined by location.\u00a0 There is no \u2018when\u2019; it\u2019s not limited by time.\u00a0 There is no structure in Source; it\u2019s free from separation.\u00a0 Source doesn\u2019t need structure nor attributes associated with it.\u00a0 It is we who need structure, to hold separation within creation.<\/p>\n

Source is ineffable.\u00a0 It is beyond form, definition, attributes, words, language or description.\u00a0 Like Love, it is a living experience.\u00a0 We come to know it progressively by living the reality.\u00a0 Then there is no need for language or discussion.\u00a0 Until then we have to feel out and explore the reality with the help of words and concepts, as best we can.<\/p>\n

Since there is no separation in Source, Source is intimately present, as Life, to all in creation.\u00a0 The experience of separation is from our perspective within creation.\u00a0 Source is equally present to all Time.\u00a0 If it has a preferential relationship with a specific time, e.g. a moment of creation, then it would be conditioned by time and would no longer be a transcendent reality.\u00a0 This means that, at a deeper level, creation is an ongoing activity, spanning an eternal now.\u00a0 The perception of creation occurring in a distant past is a product of how our consciousness functions, at this level in creation.<\/p>\n

Our most meaningful relation with time is in the present.\u00a0 We can regard the present as that portion of time, in which we are consciously aware.\u00a0 It is where we hold direct conscious connection.\u00a0 This is where we connect with Life, with Source, and with the flow of creation, into what we experience as objective reality in our world.\u00a0 The past and future are where we store experiences that we cannot or choose not to process in our present living reality.<\/p>\n

As we connect with progressively more expanded consciousness, we\u2019re connecting with the Source of creation and with its flow into manifestation.\u00a0 We become part of the creative process. \u00a0\u00a0Essentially we are creators, creating our experiences in creation.\u00a0 There is real power and responsibility in this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Our personal consciousness in the present derives from and ultimately holds connection to the pure consciousness of Source.\u00a0 Consciousness, in its pure form, is a foundational or Absolute reality, that integrates and animates All.\u00a0 Source is present to all in creation.\u00a0 All in creation can potentially hold connection to Source.\u00a0 This connection unifies all on an equal footing.\u00a0 It potentially brings all into relationship with Source and thereby brings all into relationship with each other.\u00a0 This is the essence of the Law of One.\u00a0 It also underlies the lovely Indian salutation \u2018Namaste\u2019 \u2013 I bow to the divine in you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Separation obviously exists in creation.\u00a0 Creation arises as an exploration in separation within Source.\u00a0 We project ideas and constructs into separation.\u00a0 We also project consciousness into these creations, to explore reality from perspectives in separation.\u00a0 Creation still exists within the wholeness of Source, almost like a \u2018virtual\u2019 reality, a \u2018what if\u2019 or thought experiment.\u00a0 It can be regarded as a sub or Relative reality within the Absolute reality of Source.\u00a0 When we are focused within creation, it\u2019s very real in its own terms.\u00a0 We may regard aspects of creation, e.g. time or distance, as illusion or Maya.\u00a0 But the consequences of actions within creation are very real.<\/p>\n

In the larger scheme of things, creation emerges continually, as a projection into separation and a balancing return to wholeness, within Source.\u00a0 In simple terms, we can conceive that pure consciousness brings focus to a particular idea and in doing so creates structure around it.\u00a0 The idea individuates, by way of seeing itself as separate, within Source.\u00a0 This initiates a phasing process, into and out of polarity and interaction, illustrated in the following animation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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