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studying creativity and our
creative
ability it has been observed that our ability to creatively
respond to any situation depends on whether we are aware and awake
to what is occurring. From a
creativity perspective, the awareness
of consciousness can exist in three forms - a conscious awareness,
subconscious awareness, and unconscious or an asleep or dormant
awareness.
These three forms of awareness give rise to three types of
consciousness - conscious consciousness, subconscious consciousness,
and dormant or unconscious consciousness. Similarly they give rise
to three types of “mind”
- a conscious mind, subconscious mind and unconscious mind. Mind is
a property of consciousness and is a result of the experience the
consciousness/awareness has. For any of the discussions on
creativity using the
energy consciousness model
and as used in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material, the term subconscious refers to that which
exists in mind as a result of the
experiences in our current life.
The term unconscious refers to that which exists in
mind prior to
this life.
Before proceeding, it needs to be noted that as used in the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material and the
creativity perspective the use of terms conscious, subconscious and unconscious
may or may not be consistent with how these concepts are used within
the various fields related to psychology, psychiatry, spirituality
and metaphysics and the like. The fact there may not be a
consistence in these terms does not really matter for in actual
practice, little reference to the concepts of a conscious mind,
subconscious mind and/or unconscious mind is made. Rather, the use of these terms is focused
on understanding how to make the nonconscious aspects of our
creative power conscious. These terms are used relative to our
awareness that is best described as a
detached witness to what we experience and how that awareness
responds to what is experienced as described below.
Within the
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material conscious awareness is what we perceive as
consciousness. That is, we perceives ourselves as existing. How we
define ourselves is another issue. Conscious awareness is the
awareness of existing and the ability to make choices in the
awareness of the choice. If we use a computer analogy, conscious
awareness is the part of the software that waits for a response from
the user before the program can continue to run. However, it needs
to be noted that there is a program running and a deeper question is
whether or not we are aware of the programming and exactly what it
is doing for us and how it is designed and runs..
Subconscious awareness is the ability to respond but without the
conscious awareness of knowing what one is doing. It is more like an
autopilot with a set program and/or default settings. It will
respond to what is experienced but it only responds to the
preprogrammed setting with a programmed response. There are no
options to the response unless there is a preprogrammed response to
adjust to different conditions. Most of the experiences we have in
life are determined and created by the subconscious programming. If
we use the computer analogy, subconscious awareness is the software
we are using. If we want to create something different in our life,
we will have to change the software or use the software in a
different way. More often than now, we have to change the software.
Unconscious awareness has no ability to respond. It is very much
fixed and frozen. It exist as pure potential. That is, you have the
potential to have an awareness but you have to go and consciously
choose to awaken it. It is the premise of the
Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity understanding that we have an infinite
awareness that permeates all of Creation. However, most of it is
unconscious much like an ice berg. Little of the ice berg is above
water. Most of it lies below the surface. So too our consciousness.
Most lies below the surface in an unconscious state. The form of our
unconscious awareness is ultimately what give rises to the reality
we experience. Using the computer analogy, unconsciousness awareness
and programming is analogous to the hardware.
However, the unconscious is not fixed as computer hardware is fixed
and must be removed if it is to be changed. Rather the unconscious
is dormant or
asleep. Dormant awareness is awareness that is
dormant, or asleep. As such it appears unconscious and function as
unconscious awareness until awaken when conditions are correct. It
is much like a tree that has become dormant in winter. When spring
comes and environmental conditions are correct the tree springs to
life. Dormant awareness awakens when certain conditions exist much
like a tree. Exactly what awakens depends on the conditions
experienced. When it awakens within our being, it can be
experienced as a whole new aspect of life unfolding. In radical
situations, it can become a life or personality unto itself and/or
seem foreign to the identity we have given ourselves.
Dormant awareness and the unconscious tends to be associated with
memories of experiences long past. Whenever conditions similar to
the past are again experienced, there is an increased possibility
that this dormant awareness will awake spontaneously in a
remembrance. This property of dormant consciousness can be use in
metatheater to surface the conditions that created subconscious
programming so that it can be changed. Continuing with the computer
analogy, dormant awareness is hardware components that can be easily
changed because they are modular or they have jumpers or switches
that can change their function if we change the position of its
jumpers or switches.
Observing dormant consciousness is like observing the nuclear
structure of the atom and the elementary particles of reality. The
nucleus and elementary particles exist and how they function are
essential to how reality is constructed. However, unless under
special laboratory conditions, we do not normally observer either
the particles or their individual characteristics. So too with the
dormant consciousness. In the way the nuclear and elementary
particles of matter lie deep within the mass structure, dormant
consciousness lies deep within the unconscious below the
subconscious. Although how the dormant consciousness functions is
essential to how the reality we experience is constructed, unless we
establish the correct conditions, we will not observe either it or
its characteristics These three types of consciousness can ve viewed
in two ways. One is analogous to the atomic structure of matter and
the other is as an iceberg.
In looking at these three forms of consciousness relative to the
Creation we experience, the dormant consciousness/unconscious
consciousness has a fixed form and that fixed form is what
determines much of the creation experience that we have. We can look
at the dormant consciousness as creating the reality that we
experience, that is
Physical Creation. The subconscious as creating
the details of the reality we experience that can be changed with
effort. The conscious aspects of consciousness creates the flow and
animate the experiences we have within the details and reality that
we experience. If can look at our dormant consciousness as the mass
and the arrangement of that mass of the physical world we
experience. Our subconscious as the time, place and details of the
particular physical experience that we have and our conscious
consciousness as our ability to manipulate and change the details of
what we experience.
Some analogies for these three
types of consciousness
Iceberg analogy of dormant
consciousness. One way to explain dormant consciousness is
to look at consciousness as an iceberg. As an iceberg, conscious
consciousness is the surface of the iceberg that rises above the
water. It is what consciousness readily sees and experiences within
itself. The subconscious is the surface of the iceberg that would
come above the surface of the water if consciousness could flip the
ice berg over or flip it on its side. It is that part of the iceberg
under water that is in direct contact with the water. The dormant
consciousness is all that lies below the surface inside of the
iceberg that consciousness cannot access unless it melts the outer
surfaces and/or probes into the depths of the iceberg. However, the
portion of the ice berg that is above water, the conscious portion
is determined by the entire shape and size of the iceberg. If
conscious changes any aspect of the iceberg, a different portion
will be above the surface. It is an extremely dynamic and
instantaneous process for from the perspective of energy
consciousness there is no time.
Time only exists in relationship to
something else and all that is is energy consciousness so there is
no time as we know it and experience it.
Atomic structure analogy of dormant consciousness.
Functionally, we can look at dormant consciousness as the structure
of an atom. As an atom, conscious consciousness functions as the
outer electrons. It is what allows consciousness to interact with
its creation or world to have the types and kinds of experiences it
does. However, in this model, consciousness cannot do everything
that is possible because it only has only so many outer electrons in
which to interact with other atoms. There is a set of inner
electrons that, if consciousness creates the correct conditions, it
can get some of them to interact increasing the types and kind of
interactions that it has. This inner set of electrons is the
subconscious. By accessing and using the subconscious, consciousness
can create a much larger set of experiences that possible with only
the outer electrons.
In the same way an atom is limited by its nucleus to the number of
electrons it can have, dormant consciousness holds consciousness to
a particular time and place in a given creation, physical or
otherwise. As long as consciousness realizes it is limited to a
particular creation that is has created through its dormant
consciousness, it can have any type and kind of experience that it
chooses within the bounds of that particular creation. For example,
if consciousness creates a physical reality and a body to experience
that physical creation, it is limited by that body to have the
physical experience. It can have any experience that it chooses
within that body and its environment. In the same analogous way that
we can rearrange the nucleus of an atom to create a different atom,
if consciousness successfully and permanently rearranged the dormant
consciousness, it would find ourselves in a different world. How
different the world would be would depend on how much of the dormant
conscious it rearranged.
Related topics
Subconscious and unconscious
Conscious and nonconscious creation
Energy consciousness perspective on sleep
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