Affirming Our Awakening Connection to the Cosmic Collective

This article is part 8 of a multi-part series. To fully follow the train of thought, it is highly recommended that if you haven’t already read the earlier parts, you should go back and read Parts 1 through 7 before proceeding with Part 8. See… Our Brains Are Full of Tiny Wormholes! Part 1 of the series – Tiny Wormholes and the Crazy Dance. All parts are interlinked for ease of navigation.

Image Source    Penetrating Convergence Variation 1    by Bill M. Tracer

Push Away the Blinders

In this part we’ll focus our next meditation exercise on awakening our connections to the Cosmic Collective. We’ll discuss widening our perspectives, pushing away the blinders that limit us, and seeing how many outmoded ways of thinking hold us back. Willingness to acknowledge that these blinders have been present in our lives is an important step. Questioning our preconceptions is absolutely necessary. It is only once you begin to question that you come to realize you have gaps in your knowledge and understanding of reality. Until you know those gaps are present, you will blithely assume you already know all you need to know. So the motivation for progressive change can not be attained until you acknowledge the need for it. 

From Unconscious to Conscious

As has been stated before, especially in Part 3 and Part 5, our connection to the Cosmic Collective Consciousness is automatically present within us, but many of our preconceived notions limit our awareness of this connection, resulting in it falling to an unconscious level. In the East, some teachers suggest that the energy of this connection sleeps in what they call the base Chakra, at the base of the spine. The process of awakening this connection invigorates this Chakra, sending the energy up the spine through all of the Chakras until it reaches the top most or Crown Chakra, where the connection to the Cosmic Collective Consciousness can finally be fully realized. This may also correlate with what Christians refer to as the indwelling of the “Holy Spirit”. If one is willing to widen one’s perspective, one can begin to recognize the correlations between what may have previously been seen as vastly different belief systems. Seeking out and recognizing these correlations are important early steps in the process of awakening. This correlating of diverse beliefs and/or philosophies is known as syncretism. There have been many spiritual guides and teachers who have made attempts at syncretistic approaches. Syncretism, or the blending of various schools of thought, stretches far back in history. In the third century of the Common Era, the Babylonian/Parthian teacher known as Mani is credited by many scholars as being the first “great” syncretistic sage, blending ancient Babylonian beliefs with Persian Zarathushtrian concepts, Buddhism, Taoism, the beliefs of early Christian Baptizers, as well as Christian Gnostic ideologies. He wrote prolifically, but unfortunately, most of his writings are lost to time, with only fragments surviving, today. However, a much more controversial theory suggests that Mani was not really the “first” syncretistic prophet, and that even Jesus of Nazareth may have employed a certain amount of syncretism in his teachings. It is now known that the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic city of Sepphoris, capital of the Galilee in Roman and Talmudic times, was within an easy walking day trip from Nazareth. This very cosmopolitan city included a considerable mixture of people from all over the Roman Empire. This diverse population brought their various religions to Sepphoris, where there may have even been a Zarathushtrian temple, not to mention the possibility of Buddhists “missionaries”, now known to have traveled throughout much of the Empire, at that time. In such books as, Jesus and Buddha, The Parallel Sayings, edited by Marcus Borg, we find a strong indication that at the very least Jesus was aware of the teachings of Buddha. Could he have incorporated elements of those teachings, along with ideas from the cosmology of Zarathushtrian Magi, into his own Jewish foundation? If so, then his syncretism predated Mani’s more than 200 years. Undoubtedly, there will be naysayers regarding this notion. Sometimes the blinders are difficult to remove.