Into The Rabbit Hole

Throughout history there have been many teachers who believed in a one great consciousness. People have believed that their souls are part of one great spiritual energy. Many have called this energy God.

Christ and Buddha are two of the common teachers who taught this. Throughout the existence of human kind, there has always been a spirituality, a worship, a humbleness, and love.

Many metaphysical teachings state that there is a possibility to connect with the one great mind. This is how people have explained clairvoyance and the great wise teachers. This is an explanation of prophecy.

If there IS one great mind– a collaboration of all knowledge that has ever been thought, all energy that has ever formed a thought in our minds, then I want to tap into it.

Most minds who attain this sort of connection with the one great consciousness do so through meditation. Or drugs. I prefer to go the route of meditation.

I have experience with hypnosis, which can be self induced or brought on by another, helping you relax and “find your way” to hypnosis, through hypnosis. I have minimal experience with directed meditation, but I believe it to be very much like hypnosis. I would like to practice this more. I’d like to see if, when I focus on it, I can become connected with the one great consciousness.

It sounds like voodoo or some kind of pagan blasphemy.

But it’s not different from prayer.

I was taught how to pray in the Lutheran church– which in many ways has all but lost the spiritual experience. They put a name on it– The Holy Spirit– but they do not teach you how to practice connecting with this elusive ghost. Prayer is a direct conversation with God. I think that if you add the Spirit into the prayer, you might discover that the conversation is not one sided.

As I continue to learn more about religious practice, I’m finding that most of the major streams of spirituality all have similar pieces. There is God. There are teachers. There is inspired writing. There is spirit and some call it soul.

All of the practiced rituals generally go back to paganism. Ceremonies, traditional blessings, and chants also go back to the same roots.

It’s beginning to appear to me that perhaps all spirituality is really one great spirituality with certain minor pieces that separate them from each other. If so many humans throughout the span of existence have embraced these things– have experienced the phenomena of these spiritual experiences, then it may be safe to say that this sort of spirituality may be part of the human experience/being.

I’ve not gone my whole life without spirituality. in fact, I’ve been blessed with many forms of spirituality. I have been formally taught in Christianity, have familial roots in paganism, and have done my own personal research on some forms of Buddhism and lots of reading on metaphysical beliefs. Basically, it all comes down to the same thing. For years I have fought this sort of thing, in my mind it’s a type of hysteria or silliness. However, as I become more comfortable in my own skin, I have discovered that spirituality does not detract from science and evolution. Rather, it enhances it.

The one great consciousness concept fascinates me. I am thirsty for knowledge. I realize I cannot learn it all in one lifetime. Because I believe that what we experience is constantly filtered through a lens of our own perspective and expectations, I recognize that if I believe a one great mind exists, then there is a significant chance that, I, too, can be part of it. If I believe this, my thoughts already are contributing to it. Hell, even if I didn’t believe it, my thoughts already could be.

Any way I look at it, I realize that whatever I believe works for me. And if this is something I can incorporate into my being, with the hopes of one day being able to tap into all knowledge that ever was and ever will be, then I see no reason not to begin thinking about it and searching for it.

Perhaps being a great teacher is not what I have in store for myself. However, being a great student has always been a hat I’ve embraced and worn proudly.