Sometimes, yes sometimes the idea is really stubborn.
It pops up again and again and it wants to be nurtured.
So who am I to take or not take care?

From far around I get sense of a faint little sound.
When I try to catch it in my ears, I notice something peculiar.
It comes from way inside my mind.
It wants me to listen and if I try, it tenders me and it’s really kind.

Open your eye and feel so you can hear your idea,
resonating with your being and wanting to manifest in this world.
It’s a message from you of the now or from you of the future.
Maybe it’s a message from you of the now and you of the future.
Maybe it’s ‘a gift from The Universe’ or ‘a message from God’.

Listen and take action, because you know what’s good for you.
Enjoy the process of doing what you really want to do!

Consciousness is present in many ways. People use many different ways to describe it and of course everybody has a totally different experience in being conscious. There’s the sleepwalkers: Morron zombies that just live life without really noticing why they are living life as they do it. There’s also the hybrids: Half zombie half humanoid. Terribly confused in life and totally aware they are hybrid. They eventually and probably are enjoying themselves pretty much in that state. And there’s finally the third section which exists of humanoids shining as bright that you’ll need sunglasses to look at them (sunglasses will become an even more booming industry for sure). The problem for these people is that they even need sunglasses when they’re looking at themselves in a mirror. And of course, last but surely not least, there is everybody in between (the biggest piece of the pie). Ok, writing this part was just a waste of time, but I’ll keep it.

To make things discussable it could be a great idea to put the undefinable concept of consciousness in a few groups and scales.
At first there are is chunk 1 ‘the states of consciousness’. Sometimes you can come in a special state that’s great for thinking things out, helping people or doing business, etc. Some people can even call these states in existence at command.
At second there consciousness in al aspects of life, chunk 2. In example: ‘by doing a job pretty long you’ll become more conscious about detailed aspects of it’ or ‘when you’re talking with someone and that person gives you feedback about your behavior, it will result in you becoming more conscious of your behavior’. Both examples touch a certain but different aspect of consciousness.
The 3th chunck is all about the so called ‘planes of consciousness’. See this one as sort of perspectives. You go from ant level to bird level and everything in between. In the east they have tons of interesting theories about these planes of consciousness which are absolutely worth reading.
Finally the most profound idea of consciousness shows up in the 4th chunk. I use this chunk of consciousness to define the idea of people becoming conscious in their spiritual life. This last expression of consciousness affects somebody’s life in all aspects, because the spiritual level is the core of ones being. When consciousness changes at this level, the inner belief system changes for sure.

So now the subject is a bit chunked up it’s easier to think about it. So let’s take a very deep breath and dive into a state of consciousness that allows us to reveal all the secrets of the subject. Just kidding, there’s no way we’ll be able to do this the first century if ever at all. But why not give it a try? Let’s first think about the ways people get (more) conscious. I think this can happen by almost anything in life:  An accident, bad news, a song, a book, hypnotic trance, a good discussion, falling in love, life on the brink of life crashing down, after failure, by taking psychedelic drugs, by meditation, doing a training, by doing martial arts, by doing NLP, by growing older, etc, etc.
Some of these triggers have a profound effect that not only reach the second chunk of consciousness, but also touch the fourth chunk and enter the spiritual level. Some triggers just leave some small ripples at the surface and will only affect things in the second chunk of consciousness. Timing is also a factor not to be forgotten. If something happens yesterday or today,  a big difference in perception and experience could exist.

As I described before there is the 2nd chunck of consciousness that’s about the very aspects of our life and the spiritual consciousness in the 4th chunk. It’s interesting to think about the difference  between these two, but also about how these two chunks interact with each other. I think the image of a violin being played is in place here. When one snare is hit, due to the vibration this event generates, the other snares will resonate a little as well. Maybe that’s the same thing with consciousness at the specific level from chunck 2. When your consciousness expands at a certain aspect it will affect other aspects of your life as well.  But to make this more clear I would like to state that these little changes won’t affect your whole life that much and you’ll be able to live your life undisturbed without really noticing change.
When consciousness is changing in the 4th chunk at the spiritual level, the changes won’t pas by this unnoticed. This is the part where this line of thinking is really getting interesting and I think many upcomming posts will be related to this. Because by stating this (for the time being) I’m getting really curious and some questions arise.

• Can this event of consciousness expanding in the spiritual level be willingly triggered? (chunk 4)
• If this event can be triggered, how does it happen and why does it happen?
• Will this  spiritual consciousness (chunk 4) be triggered by the happening of expanding specific aspects of consciousness (chunk 2)? For example like this. At first growing consciousness at your job as web designer, second comes growth by getting feedback about your behaviour by a friend and the third event is by learning how to handle family a bit better. The question is:  do these three separated events help trigger growth in the spiritual level in a noticeable way?
• I see chunking the idea of consciousness in parts makes it even worse to describe things, instead of what I was thinking. So another question arises, is consciousness chunkable in a way like I did ?  :P
• Update 04-feb: To make this whole piece a bit more clear I numbered the chunks and made them more explicit while updating this piece of mental note. After this update the whole thing is working way better out!
• Are these so called planes of consciousness from chunk 3  really planes of consciousness or just very personal steps forward in personal growth?
• If people do share the same aspects of an experience when expanding consciousness, aren’t these shared aspects proof of certain planes of development of consciousness?
• Or are these so called planes just another model. Created to make it possible to talk about the different phases of the experience and guide other people?
• Why should’nt I call it personal growth? Or why should I?

Ok, interesting to see that the chunking up of the idea of consciousness made it even more difficult for me to describe ideas and ask questions.
Update 04-feb: Even more interesting is that after precise naming and numbering the chunk consistently, this writing became more clear and insightful to me.
I’m truly convinced Consciousness is pure magic and some more ideas hit the surface.

Let’s take the idea of a teacher trying to give you understanding in a certain subject to the realm of consciousness. The part of understanding is devided in a part of subconscious understanding as well as a part of conscious understanding.
So actually a teacher should be trying to raise the students consciousness in these two ways. A very important notion I think, because we are learning very many things about the brain and how it learns these days (Yes, magic also).

Some of the questions I just asked myself come in use now. Because how great will it be when we learn how to trigger a little consciousness in a wide range of aspects to get students (and myself) learn with ease, joy and comfort.

So if everybody has an unique personal style, the thing we should be doing is find a way to analyse what aspects should be or could be triggered in what way by what kind of people to reach a certain understanding at both levels of the mind. That’s where a model or something comes of good use.
Or maybe this could be reached from a different point of view: Maybe we should be learning how to trigger the (sub)conscious mind in such a way that it’ll finally be working out well for everybody with their unique set of expressions and talents. The idea is that students are given some suggestions during some kind of lessons or in a hypnotic trance. Those suggestions should remove the huge piles of garbage that makes our mind dirty and limits us more and more when we’re growing from baby to child to adult. (Yes, sounds like NLP) After cleaning up the student will be able to develop like she should truly be.
After thinking about this, it comes to my mind immediately that it doesn’t make real sense to clear the garbage if the system creating the garbage (in this case society, school system, etc) stays the same. So a combination of the things I thought about will be working way better for teaching students things than it does now.

Yes I’m now starting to mangle things and the story lost all of it’s potential of becoming a better story. I’m lost in this deep forest of thought and also the foreign language made me lose sight of any structure there was :) The great thing is that this isn’t a quality blog, but just a place where I can wonder on with thought’s like these. But nonetheless this writing  wasn’t a waste of time at all, it gave me some peculiar and interesting thoughts:

• Chuncking consciousness up in self made segments doesn’t make it always easier to talk about it.
• It’s interesting to discover while writing this, that language is a really important factor in the way I think. ( I’ll try playing with this a little )
• That the so called ‘planes of consciousness’ are maybe some kind of model that people created to talk about growing consciousness, to guide others and to explore it more intense.
• The idea of ‘the adventure game of learning’ that invites me to explore which aspects are important to get a better understanding of a certain subject.
• To don’t forget to see ‘the adventure game of the learning proces’ in a ‘Monky Island’ like setting where great fun and tons of jokes are basic ingredients.
• That there’s finally coming an end to this messy post.

That above is a little talk from my last post. After writing all this I discovered I was wondering about some funny things I didn’t want to forget. Imagine that it’s not a piece of software that gives you the picture where your brain will react to, but a friend using Twitter, Flickr, Youtube or Facebook. So it’ll be sent to you with a special intention, but it could be from all around the world. Will your brain react the same as in the case with the random selection software? Maybe your brain is already starting when the girl on the other side sends you the piece of (personal) art. Or maybe wouldn’t start preparing the emotions earlier at all. When it’s the same with text messages for example, than your brain will have a pretty bussy job reacting to al those interesting things our social streams deliver to us. Ghehe, when you take the subject on the road to all things in live, then it will be not ‘love in first sight’ but ‘love before sight’. That would be really weird ;)