Enlightenment Rather Than Awakening

            For a while it has seemed that the concepts of a dream and awakening were great analogues for consciousness and the experiences that reveal the Onlyness of God, and that consciousness is a false reality. But now they seem like concepts shaped by ego.  Because what would be the dreamer of the dream that then awakens? Certainly, God is not lost to Itself in a dream! Consciousness represents a false idea (the opposite of God) that was simultaneously undone by God’s All-encompassing nature. So, to God consciousness is an impossible idea. Only the idea of time within that idea makes it seem like the idea of not-God arose long ago and will be undone in some indefinite future.

Consciousness registers either ego projecting ego or Spirit extending Spirit. It does not have agency. So, while consciousness here was dominated by ego, even buried under it as ego conflated itself with it, consciousness did not dream ego and then awaken to Spirit as though it took a journey from the false to the Real. Ego was its center until Spirit took center, revealing consciousness to be a neutral receptive mechanism. All sense of journey was ego.

 Perhaps, as a delusional thought system that asserted an illusion (consciousness) as reality, ego was the dreamer and the dream. But ego never awakens from itself. It does not become Spirit. It falls away from consciousness.

As Spirit has come to take the center of consciousness here, it could be said that “the Light has come.” So, enlightenment seems a more apt term now than awakening, as what has been brought to light is that there is nothing here that was lost in a dream and has awakened to its reality.

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