Consciousness

Consciousness is a broad notion. It is about awakening. You will notice that there are exponents of consciousness other than the physical body, which you can call consciousness. This consciousness continues to develop throughout our lives, allowing us to gain insights about the path we’re following. We are on a journey, in a manner of speaking. During this process of development, our consciousness continuously gets shaped. It is important to realize that we have already come a long way. It started billions of years ago. Imagine you were once a kind of energy, which we will call mind. This mind was connected to energy, which is just love, rest, and peace. This energy is called All There Is, or All-comprehensive Love, and is also known as The Source. Despite this love, rest, and peace, there was a need to know the imperfect as well, besides the perfect. This implies making a distinction — the ability to experience the contrast between good and evil, power and powerlessness, and love and hate. And the mind made this choice. The mind broke free from The Source and started its process to develop consciousness. In order to experience these contrasts, the soul arose out of the mind. The soul is the part of consciousness that looks for experiences. First, the soul started experiencing consciousness of being a mineral, then a plant, and then an animal. Then the soul is ready to experience the contrasts belonging to the human beings. Contrasts of good and evil may simply be words. Nevertheless, it is hard to deal with them properly, which is best described as getting them in balance, or learning that we have everything within us — both good and evil. That is what humans will experience here on Earth. However, the soul is just energy and in order to have experiences the soul needs a vehicle, and that vehicle has become the physical body. Before starting this journey, a Plan, a Divine Plan, was made. The entire evolutionary process was written down in this Plan. This Plan supports your development as a soul. You are part of this Divine Plan. Although the destination is predetermined, you must choose the journey yourself. For example, you have made a fully conscious decision to experience a part of your development on Earth. Energy is central in the evolution; everything around us is pure energy. Every thought you have is followed by energy. The physical body is made of energy, but energy is more than just the physical body. There are multiple levels of energy around your body. These levels play their own roles in the process of developing consciousness. These levels are also called aura. Aura is connected with the chakras, the centers of energy. Energy can have different levels of density, ranging from very solid to very subtle. The energy of the physical body is completely different than the energy of The Source. Your state of consciousness defines your level of energy. As soon as the soul has experienced the contrasts on Earth and knows that it has internalized everything, it moves forward on its path. The soul experiences higher states of consciousness and eventually will reach Mastery and will disconnect itself from the physical body. It takes many incarnations to experience all these contrasts. This, too, is founded in a plan. There is a life plan for every life here on Earth. Call it a program with goals to be reached in this life. When everything goes according to plan, the total time on Earth will be short. But real life is different. You encounter many issues and choices to be made, some good and some not so good. You can only experience what is good when you have an understanding of what is bad. The same applies to each contrast, such as power and powerlessness. We all deal with these themes. There is no such thing as chance or coincidence; everything is subject to laws. One of these laws is the law of karma, which is the law of cause and effect. Master Saint Germain articulated it perfectly: “Each experience relates to a previous cause and at the same time each cause has an effect in the future.” When the soul is ready to come to Earth, it has already selected a mother to whom it wants to be born. But why this particular mother? That is related to what the soul of the unborn child and the soul of the mother intend to experience together, regardless of how painful and difficult it sometimes might be for both child and parent. Every life ends; everyone must part from the physical body. Whether it happens at a young age or at an older age depends on the intended experience of the soul on Earth. Are you at peace with the transition or do you fear death? When one deviates from the life plan, the body can get sick. What does getting sick mean? Of course you see a doctor first, but maybe there are other reasons for your sickness. Your body gets sick for a reason: the body is out of balance. After living many lives and continuing as a soul, ultimately the mind ends up as energy back at The Source. It merges with the energy of The Source, All There Is, and the All-comprehensive Love. The journey is completed, and you have reached your destination. At the end of this book I have included a story from experience, illustrating the process of consciousness. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, followed by topics in a question-and-answer format. Each question brings us closer to the heart of the matter. Each chapter ends with examples from my sessions with clients. These examples are meant as an impression of how the process of consciousness can work. And finally, in the addendums you’ll find an explanation of terms, an at-a-glance chart explaining the chakras, and a bibliography. This book is meant as food for thought, and readers may take whatever is relevant for them from within its pages.