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%STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS-2 850330
"Seek and ye shall find, ask and it shall be given,
knock and it shall be opened." The states of
consciousness---which we find and experience---depend
upon what we seek. The compulsively objective scientist
who seeks to demonstrate that there is no
objective consciousness succeeds in his venture. The
personable extrovert who seeks to become intimately
involved with as many other personable humans in
vulnerable relationships of mutual sharing of thoughts,
intuitions, sensations, feelings, premonitions,
visions, fantasies, fears, hopes, expectations, etc.---
also succeeds. Neither kind of success proves that the
other kind is not real. Each kind of person finds
that doors open to their desires---and the answer to
their request is given to overflowing; they get more of
what they sought than they may have bargained for. They
may not enjoy what the receive, but their receive.
Consciousness resides in relationships, not within
elements. Consciousness is created within relationships
and continues only so long as the relationships which
create and maintain consciousness continue in respected
ways. People committed to objective relationships as a
matter of principle minimize the level of consciousness
they have of their own relationships their relationships.
They seek relationships characterized by the minimization
of their personal involvement in and awareness of their
relationships. Their relationships therefore do not
involve the "discovery" of high levels of consciousness,
and they come to doubt that consciousness is real.
Elements are created by relationships, as much
as relationships are created by elements. People who as
a matter of principle seek to avoid deeply
personal relationships---tend to become very impersonal
people who seek to create very impersonal relationships,
etc. Thus scientists who are compulsively objective in
their search for objective understanding---tend not to be
very personable in their dealings with their students
and so their relationships with their students---tend
to be impersonal and non-supportive. They tend to
draw into their profession students who, like
themselves, fear to become involved in deeply personal
relationships characterized by high levels of
consciousness and intimacy.
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