Self Awareness – Who Are We Really?

By Dr. Maryann Miller

At some point, we ask ourselves: Who am I? Why am I here?  What am I supposed to be doing?  Georgia Lambert says “These questions shape the person we are and the civilization in which we live.” But most people focus on,  What am I to do? before finding out, Who am I?  While individually we’re asking these questions, should these same questions be asked by organizations, businesses, and even nations?

Listen to Georgia Lambert’s interview as she explains who we are and why it’s important to know the answer to this question first.

If you’re short on time, you may skip Georgia’s very interesting background information and move to the start of the interview, at the 4:00 minute mark.

As you develop your Higher Consciousness, it will eventually guide your life and all of your relationships.  Higher Consciousness operates through your heart and head and is that higher instinct that enables you to recognize and submit to your soul instead of just your ego.

Although this metaphor is incomplete, consciousness is like the ocean; we live, move, and have our beingness in it. Consciousness is who we are and who we will forever remain. Just as you can separate a drop of water from the ocean and it will no longer look or have the full power of the ocean, the ocean’s properties still remain in the drop. Alone, it doesn’t have the ability to produce great, powerful, pounding waves. The drop must re-mem-ber,  or one-itself with the ocean to have the ocean’s full power. The more you remember who you truly are, the more powerful, loving, and wise you become.

Some physicists say the universe is a hologram. If you create a hologram of a rose and then cut the hologram in half while shining another laser on it, both halves will contain the entire rose. If you cut those halves in half again, each of those halves will contain the entire rose. No matter how many times you cut them in half, a whole rose will always appear.

Consciousness could be likened to a hologram, and like a hologram, each portion of consciousness contains the whole of consciousness within it. So even though it may not be apparent, your individual portion of consciousness is an exact miniature of the whole of consciousness. Because of this, any minute change in the hologram produces a change in the entire hologram.

Becoming Self Aware

Once again using the ocean metaphor, before becoming conscious of self, the water drop did not distinguish itself from any other drop in the ocean of consciousness. However, with self-realization, it became aware of its self as an individualized drop of water/consciousness within the ocean of consciousness. With this individualization also came a sense of separation, aloneness, and lack.

Separateness is the foundation for all of humanity’s fear, sense of lack, anger, and any other challenge we encounter. It is humanity’s purpose to once again become conscious of its oneness with the entire ocean of consciousness, yet still, retain Consciousness of Self. This higher state of consciousness is attained through your individual efforts.

What is Higher Consciousness?

Higher Consciousness can be likened to a matrix or webbing of energy that transcends everyday thinking. When in resonance with Higher Consciousness you have the ability to reach greater levels of awareness, intelligence, inspiration, purpose, and wisdom. This matrix of energy is accessed when, through conscious effort, you establish a resonance with its higher frequencies.

Accessing Higher Consciousness brings about a transcendence or wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. It transforms the five physical senses and generates higher knowledge that leads to wisdom regarding life, death, purpose, and the universe itself. Higher consciousness produces an inner knowing, peace, and oneness that creates the ability to meet and successfully move beyond life’s challenges.

Phil Jackson, Basketball Coach

Higher consciousness is even more powerful when accessed during group work. In the book, Sacred Hoops, Basketball Coach, Phil Jackson says,

“There is an energy that’s unleashed when players put their egos aside and work toward a common goal. [There’s] a powerful group intelligence [that] emerges that is greater than the coach’s ideas or those of any individual on the team.”

What is that powerful energy and intelligence that emerges in a collective when the ego is set aside? How is it experienced?

“When a player surrenders his self-interest for the greater good, his fullest gifts as an athlete are manifested. He’s not trying to force a shot, or do something that’s not in his repertoire of basketball moves, or impose his personality on the team. It’s funny—by playing within his natural abilities, he activates a higher potential beyond his abilities, a higher potential for the team. It changes things for everybody. All of a sudden, the rest of the team can react instinctively to what that player is doing. And it just kind of mushrooms out from there—the whole begins to add up to more than the sum of its parts. We see this a lot in critical situations. When players are totally focused on the team goal, their efforts can create chain reactions. It’s as if they become totally connected to one another, in sync with one another, like five fingers on one hand. When one finger moves, the rest of them all react to it.” ~ Phil Jackson

When operating at lower frequencies of consciousness, it’s as if you’re looking at the world through a clouded lens. You have limited:

• Understanding of the situation, problem or event
• Awareness or perception
• Knowledge
• Wisdom
• Compassion
• Power

When operating at higher frequencies of consciousness, the structure or frequency of matter changes. The higher you go, the cleaner the lens so you develop more”

• Understanding of the situation, challenge or event
• Awareness, perception, mindfulness
• Knowledge
• Wisdom
• Compassion
• Power
• Purpose

Physical Matter and the Consciousness Field

All matter is composed of different frequencies within the infinite Consciousness Field. The difference between one physical object and another is its frequency – different frequency = different appearance.

If you change the frequency, the structure of matter will change.

“All matter originates and exists by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” ~ Max Planck, German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918

With self-realization, our frequency changed. Our frequency, as a drop of water, is different than the frequency of the entire ocean. Because of this, we erroneously feel separated and diminished. This feeling of separation produces the lower frequencies of fear, anxiety, lack, guilt, anger, and all other limiting conditions. The more we are attached to these negative feelings, the more real they become to us. When authority figures or leaders are able to convince us to live in these lower frequency states, we actually change the hologram and help them gain power, authority, and control over us.

If, on the other hand, we don’t succumb to fear, anxiety, lack, guilt, anger, and other limiting conditions, and determine to build trust, opportunity, inclusiveness, empathy, joy, and prosperity consciousness, we also influence and change the hologram.

So the question is, which frequencies of consciousness do you want to live in and, if you want to change your consciousness, how do you go about it?

How Consciousness Operates

We are, have always been, and always will be an integral, innate aspect of the Consciousness Field. Everything that exists, by virtue of its frequency, is part of the webbing of the Consciousness Field. Therefore, we are connected to everything else that exists. This is the reason biofeedback machines can register even insignificant changes when thought is directed to that with which it is connected. Consciousness forms matter and our senses fashion our reality. Our conscious designs affect the physical body through this etheric field.

The etheric body is but an etheric web of energy “composed of myriads of threads of force or tiny streams of energy, held in relation to the emotional and mental bodies and to the soul by their coordinating effect. These streams of energy, in their turn, have an effect on the physical body and swing it into activity of some kind or another, according to the nature and power of whatever type of energy may be dominating the etheric body at any particular time.” (Alice Bailey: Esoteric Psychology II, page 44)

How can we know when we’re in rapport with Higher Consciousness?

I’ve always been a huge fan of Jiminy Cricket; he’s Pinocchio’s conscience. Jiminy always lets Pinocchio know when he’s not living up to his highest potential.

Conscience is an awareness of Infinite Love, inner and higher knowledge, truth, and wisdom. Conscience is sometimes felt as an energetic love that steadily aligns us with our Higher Selves. It initiates an irresistible urge to allow higher consciousness to be our guide in all situations. It opens a “channel for the systemic energies of love-wisdom and the conscience of love is felt flowing through us, touching the conscience of everything else, adjusting its rhythm and inducing a temporary state of harmony with the whole. Freedom is felt too, because [this frequency] enables us to lift our eyes above the problems of the personality….” ~Alice Bailey  Joy is an indicator of invocative living. Joy lets us know we are in rapport with our Higher Selves and are living our life with purpose, love, and wisdom flowing through us freely.