CONSCIOUSNESS - BEING as SOURCE and ACROSS REALITIES

Consciousness is like a self-luminous 'space' in which the dream of Source (wich deep down is our own dream) makes sense...or not.

Consciousness is like a self-luminous, experiential, non-contingent 'space' illuminating the relative, dependent, and dynamic world process...the objects of experience dreamed by the One Source that reunites being and awareness.

As our personal 'space' expands, it doesn't just become more 'spacious' but also more luminous and we can distinguish things more clearly for what they truly are as they become more and more diaphanous. As our personal 'space' expands, our perspective-taking capacity also expands and we can appreciate more objects and categories of experience in a connected, organized way instead of being unconsciously attached and possessed by them.

In the dream (or within contingency), consciousness-as-awareness is always accompanied by a matter-form in every kind and level of physical and non-physical reality. And in the same dream (the 'dream' we customarily call "creation"), that matter-form (accompanying, restricting, and allowing specific experiences in a specific reality level) is an expression of consciousness-as-being. This suggests that the Dreamer itself (dreaming of contingency and existing as "all-possibilities" infinitely beyond it) is as much "Pure Being" as much as it is "Pure Consciousness," because "consciousness...is."

Matter resists being modified by awareness in the Physical Realm and its sub-planes. Here the exterior patterns of matter are highly stable. Matter molds and is molded by awareness in the Subtle Realm and in its sub-planes and matter yields completely to awareness in the Seed or Causal Realm (but still limits awareness with a basic sense of separation).

The Being aspect of Source (the Nondual that we can simultaneously imagine as pure, unlimited "Consciousness and Being") finds expression in the matter-forms as illusory extensions limiting its Consciousness aspect. As if a part of the absolute's nondual experiential freedom (Ananda) were self-projected as part of its Being into a limiting degree of matter. Thus, in every contingent world, consciousness would be invested in matter (or as matter) and "matter" (in every realm and sub-level) would be an extension of the "being" aspect of Consciousness-Being, capturing in form (or as form) the otherwise absolute free experiential capacity of Source.

I take that the issue can be clarified a bit more. The realms and levels can also be understood as expressions of single reality taking different characteristics. For instance, we could use the concept of "mahakasha" (the akasha of all three realms) taking different forms and forming different "spaces" according to vibratory rate and its informational patterning. It's the old debate between continuity and discontinuity. But the discontinuity within a single reality could also be understood in the sense that what we experience in our consciousnesses as exterior objects would respond differently to subjectivity. What we can call "experienced 'non-physical" exterior realities" would not resist subjectivity as physical exterior realities do but they would still have an impact on it. we are talking here about a different in kind that merits classifying as a sui generis ontological domain.

I posit that the impact of experienced exterior 'objects' upon subjectivity would (in principle) be co-equal in relation to how subjectivity also modified them in the Subtle Realm worlds. Moreover, in the "least dense" (and also qualitatively different) Causal or 'Seed' Realm worlds experienced exteriors would always yield to subjectivity awareness but subjectivity would still not be free in an absolute sense. Only in the original state of freedom from its dream (and dream identifications) would Absolute Source (absolute as consciousness and absolute as being or without differentiating its possibilities as if they were 'outside') include and infinitely transcend the 'dream', 'dependent existence' or 'creation'.

I find the teachings about the three worlds in Vedanta quite compelling and also Jurgen Ziewe's descriptions of his explorations of the non-physical levels/worlds. They should be compatible with these "musings." This search appears to me to be necessary to "grow up," to understand the nature of reality, who we are, what are we doing here, what our potentials may be, how to create a science that includes multidimentionality and consciousness and how to modify our cultures to be able to respect life on this planet, in this planet and beyond.