Hello (M) and (N), this is Simon. You are asking about Consciousness.
This is a very good question. It is all to do with how humans relate to their surroundings. Some people would live their lives completely instinctively and all they are conscious of is set patterns that they live by. You could say that they are ruled by them and they would feel uncomfortable if challenged, they are safe within their limits.
There are others, however, who challenge the limits society imposes on them and break out of the mould. They have their own ideas of how they should live their lives and so their Consciousness expands accordingly. This is a very simplistic picture of quite a complicated issue. Each person is an individual who expands their Consciousness in different ways, but it helps to understand human kind as those who accept the status quo and those who do not.
Now we have reached the interesting part!
In the practice of Meditation it is possible to Be Conscious without being conscious of external stimuli. This happens when a person becomes at One with what they are Meditating on.
It is a hard concept for anyone to understand if they have not Experienced this. How can it be possible to be totally aware, and yet there is no thing to be aware of!
But more and more people are Experiencing this outside of Meditation. Each time it happens their Consciousness expands Spiritually and their Knowledge of the Higher Realms increases. It is like breaking through a veil which they don’t know is there.
This can happen to anyone at any time, even to people who are not normally interested in being taken out of their comfort zone. It is Awe inspiring and can be life changing – miraculously people can see the World completely differently and want to explore this new Knowledge.
Life on Earth has infinite possibilities. A person’s Consciousness can expand Spiritually to the Ultimate Expansion, when it is possible to Realize that there is only One Consciousness – Them!
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