Ignorance prevails as long as the will remains cheated by its own offspring or its own image, consciousness, in which the knower always stand distinguished from the known. The cheating, however cannot last, the will wishes to be enlightened, to be free, to be by itself. Ignorance always presupposes the existence of something outside and unknown. This unknown outside is generally termed the ego or soul, which is in reality the will itself in a state of ignorance.
D.T. Suzuki is his 1926 essay
Enlightenment and Ignorance throws a spotlight on the separation within the self. Separation puts beliefs in categories and experiences in action. We are educated ignorant egos that prance around different stages of reality and search for the unknown that is firmly squeezing us with energetic awareness.
We have a tendency to believe that thoughts fall off a cliff in the mind. We usually can’t hold thoughts in consciousness for very long, unless we make them beliefs, but those other thoughts that are not beliefs continue to manifest in other realities. We experience them in those other realities, but we forget them n our state of ignorance.
The true dimension of the divine we so desperately seek is unendurable for any one consciousness so the splendor that exists within it is infinitely dimensionalized. Worlds spiral outward, expanding in each moment of a cosmic breath.
Separation of worlds is a necessity so individual and mass comprehension continues to expand at a rate where the infinite is multiplied in microseconds. Past and futures and other forms of time not recognized manifest in the process. Each is a reality with its own potentials and no form of consciousness however small is ever lost.
In that framework the past and the future exist in probable worlds. Each experience creates new questions just as a writer creates new stories. We travel to new positions with the psyche constantly and we set out on new psychic pilgrimages through unknown realities within our own consciousness and experience them in some way. Thoughts that disappear create a stage where all probabilities manifest in some way.
The splendor of this reality and the creations of consciousness in physical form are just one slice of the infinite possibilities that exist within the framework of consciousness, which is consciously expanding in our ignorance.
Hal Manogue
Born in Philadelphia, Howard (Hal) (Howie) Thomas Manogue spent the first twenty-one years of his life conforming to logical beliefs and rituals. He spent the next twenty-six years of his life rebelling against those beliefs and rituals in one way or another. For the last twelve years he has devoted his life to dissecting beliefs and that journey has taken him through the history of religious thought and the intricacies of philosophy.
Retiring from the shoe industry after 35 years of “sole” searching, Hal discovered his real soul when he started writing poetry in 1996. His first book, Short Sleeves A Book For Friends, was self-published in 2003. His second book, Short Sleeves A Book For Friends 2006 Collection, was released in May 2006. His third book, Short Sleeves A Book For Friends 2007 Collection, was released in January 2007. Short Sleeves Spirit Songs was published in July 2008. Spirit Songs Echoes of Silence will be released in 2011. Essays from the book, Short Sleeves Insights: Live An Ordinary Life In A Non-Ordinary Way (published in May 2008) have been republished in other books and newsletters around the globe. All these books are available on his Web site: http://www.shortsleeves.net/.
Hal’s poems have been published by Mystic Pop Magazine, Children of the New Earth Magazine, New Age Tribune, Seasons of the Soul Newsletters, The Ascension Network, Lightship News, and Writers in the Sky E-zine. On his blog, he has published over a thousand essays on consciousness.
His new novel living Behind the Beauty Shop is available online and in bookstores or visit: www.livingbehindthebeautyshop.com
He works as a free-lance writer and is published all over the world. Hal currently lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with his wife, Joanie.
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