Systems 1 – Awareness System
The Human Awareness System is comprised of these elements & activities:
What It Is……
AWARENESS SYSTEM: At the core of each human Awareness System (the AS) exists an intentionally created SEGMENT of universal Awareness. Like a powerful seed covered by a newly-formed shell, this Pure Awareness collects around it an energy field, beginning with a simple state of “Consciousness”, and then “descending” further to include the various fields of vibratory energies that are created, retained, and maintained by the AS on levels between this purest, simplest Consciousness level and the lowest and slowest physical/material level.
{Awareness System: Various Levels within & around Sensory System}
The Awareness System includes the non-physical paths of energy that flow within and around the physical Sensory System. These non-physical components of the Awareness System are variously called chakras, meridians, nadis, auric layers, or human energy field ‘bodies’. Most human organisms can not presently detect the energy levels involved in this system.
What It Does……
The Awareness System has several levels of Intent-sity, each one defined by the degree of Awareness directed at the Energy surrounding it. Along a continuum of aware focus, these levels are Attention, Intention, Retention, and Processing.
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ATTENTION: Attention is the act of Awareness generally directing its perceptive sensing (attentive observing) toward any thing in any environment, internal or external to the human organism, on any vibratory level.
Because of the Primary Truth that “Awareness Directs Energy”, this act of attentive observing attracts an accumulation of universal vibratory energy to the focal point of that perception, the target of that general focus and attentive observing. Awareness can use both physical and non-physical aspects (senses) of the human organism to perceive and sense its environment.
Note for a later chapter: The “perceived” things mentioned here are called Stimuli (S), or Environmental Energy Events. You will find much more on them in the section on the Belief System.
Here is an example and exercise for experiencing general aware Attention:
Step 1. Sit very still somewhere, but don’t lie down!
Step 2. Don’t move your physical body throughout this exercise. Just sit in the one position (don’t worry, it will be quick).
Step 3. Look at the space right in front of you, without turning your head at all. Don’t look for anything specific. Just see what you see, with little or no reaction.
Step 4. Next, without turning your head, and without moving your eyes, become aware of the space that is above you. It doesn’t matter if you recognize everything in that space. Just turn your attention from the space that is in front of you to the space that is above you. You may begin to wonder if this makes any sense. Don’t worry about making sense.
Step 5. Next, become aware of the space that is directly to your right side. Again, don’t worry about accuracy or correctness. It has been a long time since you were able to easily direct your awareness without a lot of complicated thinking and analyzing going along with this ability. Just sense what ever you can sense, and then move on to the next step.
Step 6. Next, you are going to shift your aware attention to the space that is directly to your left side. It doesn’t require imagination to do this. You get what you get. Sense the space, the things in that space, the temperatures or colors, the distances, or just plain air.
Step 7: Next, become aware of the space behind you. You still aren’t moving your body or your eyes to experience this. You are simply stretching your sense of aware attention to a place that is unavailable to your normal range of vision.
Step 8. For the last step of this exercise, you are going to return to the space right in front of you. Find one small thing anywhere in your current “space” to focus your attention on. It does not matter at all what it is. As you look at this one single thing, you are going to pretend that your eyes are like the lenses of a microscope. Stare only at that one small single thing, ignoring everything else around it. As you focus all of your attention on that one single thing, move in closer, not with your body, or anything physical, or any device. Simply move your aware attention closer and closer until you get the sense that you are right beside that small item. It becomes the only thing that you are aware of. You are so focused on that one thing, that you begin to feel that item as if it were right next to your body.
Step 9. Finally, bring your aware attention right back to your own body, in your chair, in the space where you sit.
As you develop a greater sense of aware attention, you will actually increase the accuracy and ability to sense in detail what ever is around you. You can conduct this exercise with your eyesight, your hearing, your sense of taste or smell, and your sense of touch. You will be able to sense things that are both outside and inside your body. This ability will become very useful when you need to sense the stimuli and body reactions related to your belief system, in future chapters and exercises. Your aware attention is what moves around the room even when your body or eyes don’t. Aware attention is how you re-learn to use your five normal senses to a greater degree than you have had. Young children should find this exercise easier to perform than an adult will. Adults don’t sense. They think. Children sense, though.
Aware attention was the first skill, or ability, of the human organism, even before it created a physical sensory system around it. Since birth, however, your aware attention has shifted to the five senses, and then to the never-ending demands of the belief system for certain types of experiences.
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INTENTION: Intention is the act of Awareness specifically prolonging or increasing its perceptive sensing toward any thing in any environment, thus leading to the further INCREASED accumulation of energy at the point of that perception.
This “deliberate/willful” act of prolonged observing may later involve or include the manipulation of the Sensory System to act out a behavior to further assist Awareness with this concentrated effort of focus. Awareness, through intention, begins to focus/shape/control the accumulating energy at the point of that perception. Intention = will = purpose.
Here is an example and exercise for experiencing increased Intention:
This exercise is fairly easy to do, and because of that, it is one of the best ways to not only experience awareness, but to improve your skill at becoming aware of things both inside and outside of your physical body. This is a beginner exercises for what is often called the “body scan exercise.” But we are going to use just one part of that body scanning procedure.
Step 1: First of all, like with the Attention exercise above, get into a comfortable sitting position where you are not likely to fall asleep. This is going to be a basic breathing exercise. It is done best with your eyes closed. I also highly recommend that both the inhale and exhale are conducted through the nose, and the mouth remains closed and the jaw muscles remain relaxed.
Step 2: As you take your first breath in, you want to feel the air coming in through your nose rather slowly if possible, and have that air enter in not just to your lungs, but into and through your whole body. Don’t try to use logic here, or common sense. For now, we are just intending to feel what aches or pains the body may have inside of it at this very present moment. Examples would be sore muscles, or a slight headache, or a tightness in any part of the body. For this particular exercise we are going to focus on the body area called the solar plexus — that all-too-common pain called “The Naughty Knot in the Stomach.” It is one of those nerve centers located right below the rib cage and above the belly-button. A lot of people feel some sense of pain there whenever they are stressed, or fearful, or even thinking very intensely.
Step 3: As you sit as comfortably as possible, feel the air coming in through your nose very slowly, and direct it simply by your aware imagination to the area around the solar plexus, or the “stomach knot.” With your aware attention, you are going to direct the air to flow around and around this shape. It is up to you to imagine how big this shape is. Common reports make it something like the size of a baseball, or even a grapefruit. That difference doesn’t matter as long as you can feel the area around the solar plexus. This exercise is about increasing your focused ability of intention.
Step 4: Once you direct the air to flow around the outside of this shape, you then exhale fully.
Step 5: Then you bring in another breath that flows into and around that same spot. But now, we are trying to follow the definition of Intention, rather than just general Attention: “…leading to the further INCREASED accumulation of energy at the point of that perception.” This time the air doesn’t just flow around the shape. It begins to enter the shape on the outside edges, as if there were small tunnels or holes inside of the shape. Then once again, exhale all of the air and slowly take another breath.
Step 6: This time you focus your attention even more, and you will probably begin to feel a sense of warmth or coldness in the shape. The air you breathe in begins to flow a little deeper into the inside of the shape near the solar plexus. Just relax and let the air flow inside as if the shape were becoming more porous, like a sponge, with holes and air pathways all the way through. This is an even more intense practice of focusing your awareness.
Step 7: Exhale again, and then keep this practice up very slowly, over and over again. With each new breath, the inhaled air flows deeper into the inside of the shape inside of your body, and it picks up new information each time. As the focused attention increases it’s accumulation of energy at the point of that perception, new information like color, shape, or even movement may occur. Don’t worry about whether or not this information is totally in your imagination. The extra detail is only to demonstrate how, with each new breath, your intention to focus your awareness increases bit by bit. You are now moving from an aware state of general Attention to a more focused aware state of Intention.
Yes, you can continue this exercise for a much longer period of time, and maybe even experience some interesting results in relaxation and stress control. Those specific goals will occur much easier later on, the more you practice. For now, keep the exercise simple. Breathe in, focus your intention on something general, exhale. Breathe in, focus more of your attention, exhale. Breathe in again, feel even more attention, or intention, on the shape that you are studying. Each time you inhale, more attentive energy is being directed toward the singular source of that attention. Then exhale and repeat as often as you comfortably can. This is a very simple demonstration of how your general Attention can turn in to a more focused Intention whenever you desire to study or examine something a little more closely.
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RETENTION: Retention is the act of Awareness directing accumulated energy to be stored within the various vibratory levels of the human organism (physical and non-physical “bodies”).
The purpose (intention) of the storage should be the later full processing of any Energy perception/sensing information (a Stimulus), especially when the person who is interacting with that Energy is not able to fully experience the impact of such Energy right away during the original occurrence of that Stimulus. But more often, the result of Retention of Energy is the continual maintenance of Energy patterns (beliefs/thoughts/memories, etc) — and the future repeated replication/Assistance or avoidance/Resistance of these incompletely processed past experiences, leading to a further increase in the excess accumulation of stored Energy. Every time a retained event is observed but not fully processed, more Energy is added to it (it becomes more “Real”). Note: There will much more on all these new terms later.
Here is an example and exercise for experiencing prolonged Retention:
The retention process is about re-examining those events and beliefs that have been stored inside the Sensory System body. Eventually, you will discover that Awareness-directed energy is also stored in “non-physical ” bodies as well. Remember that the result of the Retention of Energy is the continual maintenance of Energy patterns like beliefs, thoughts, memories, etc. The Retention process can involve events that actually happened, or it could involve beliefs that were created as a reaction to actual experiential events.
Step 1: One simple exercise you could try would be to start at any point in your day, like even a few moments ago.
Step 2: And then as you sit down in a relaxed position, focus your attention on what occurred a few moments before that.
Step 3: Go further backward in time and figure out what happened before that. And then what happened before that. And then what happened before that.
Step 4: There is no specific end to this exercise. Just travel back along whatever previous chain of memories you have. Don’t force this journey backward. Just take what comes to you, without any judgment or analysis. And then just stop after a few minutes. The point of watching this stream of ideas is to study, at a simple level, those images that are Retained in memory versus the many possible thousands of things that occurred around you AT THE SAME TIME, but that you do NOT remember.
I call this the “Retro Recall Revisited” exercise. All of the events of your day are stored somewhere in your neural network, which includes both the nervous system, all of the brain sections, and even the muscle tissue sections. Some of these past events have possessed very intense amounts of energy, almost like a traumatic event. Some of them are simply things you want to recall, like a series of numbers or letters or names. Let me demonstrate a random example of this form of exercise:
“In my current active memory, I can visualize the color red. The color red is connected to a Ford Galaxy 500 I used to own about 30 years ago. The car is connected to a trip I took from New England to Denver back in the 1970s. The 1970s are related or connected to the ending of a nasty little overseas war at that time. The nasty little war is connected to the nature of relationships between countries. These countries are connected to the existence of boundaries between people. Boundaries between people are connected to the relationships we have with each other. Relationships are connected to family members. Family members are connected to a trip we all took to the mountains. Mountains are connected to the rise and fall of continents many thousands of years ago. Continents are connected to theories about Atlantis and Lemuria. Atlantis is connected to fancy fables and stories by Plato. Plato is a lot like the word “Play Dough”, which was a fun toy many years ago. Toys are connected to creativity. Creativity is connected to writing sentences. Writing is connected to the arts. And finally, for now, the arts are related to painting and colors, specifically the color red.”
All of these things, and so many more, are simply retained events, or memories, or thoughts, or beliefs, which are all stored somewhere in the human body/Sensory System. For what reason, and by what method, are they retained there? Well, hopefully, you will discover an answer to that question in the rest of this project.
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PROCESSING: Processing is the act of Awareness intentionally directing its total attentive observing to fully sensing the Energy impact of an environmental event (a Stimulus), be it an event presently occurring, or previously perceived and retained/stored. This act is the fulfillment of the Primary Purpose for all Creation. Awareness directs Energy into a new creation, then observes and watches and “feels” it with all of its attention. Thus, the individual bits of energy in those creations are no longer needed, and are released back into their original states of particlehood or wavehood. Now some other newly emerging consciousness, with other creative plans, can use them elsewhere.
Here is an example and exercise for experiencing aware Processing:
To experience an example of Awareness System processing, you simply look closely at something that you experience in your environment. For now, we are not dealing with internal stimuli, like memories or beliefs or feelings. For this exercise, simply locate things outside of your body with your five senses. Your goal here is to examine whether or not you have any previously stored (retained) impression of those things. Then those items which are already stored in your Awareness System can be examined with a little more aware attention. Here are some of the simplest examples that can be expanded upon in order to develop a greater processing ability. We seek to intentionally direct our “total attentive observing to fully sensing the Energy impact of an environmental event (a Stimulus),” and for now, only if it is an “event presently occurring.”
Step 1: Go somewhere and sit down quietly. The outside world is a bit more useful for this exercise, but you can really do it anywhere.
Step 2: To start, look at something, anything, in front of you. See, for example, a tree. And without any thinking or deep analysis, decide if that tree triggers a painful, or a pleasurable, or a neutral effect on you. Then, seconds later, once you have that answer, move on to something else. Think of the response you make as being a minus-sign (painful or disturbing), a plus-sign (pleasurable feeling) or a 0 (zero, for no reaction at all).
Step 3: Don’t think about this very long. Look at something else, or feel something else on your skin. Or hear something else with your ears. Or taste something else in your mouth. Or smell something else with your nose. Keep it quick, and keep it simple. Take your first impression of each item. For the next example, if you actually went outside, pick out a cloud. If you put a plus sign next to it, that simply means that you have positive first impressions about clouds. If the next sight is water, if you put a minus sign next to it, that would possibly mean you were afraid of water. Or maybe you can’t swim. Somewhere there is a negative connection to water, and that will eventually determine how you process the feeling or meaning or impression of that word. For now, though, DON’T go through the whole processing experience. We will get to that later.
Step 4: Sit in your position long enough to have placed your aware attention on at least 20 items, using as many of your senses as possible. Find simple, but forgettable items, like your clothing, or the air, or the wind, or a passing car, or a motor humming. Those are the kinds of items that may end up in the no-impression “0” category. Painful items might include certain animal smells, or a hot or cold weather day, or a really loud truck noise. Pleasant items might include a nearby radio song, or a high-flying airplane, or the soft furry fabric of your coat.
Step 5: As stated, this exercise of placing those various stimuli into those three categories will become more important as we learn about the other two systems, the Sensory System and the Belief System. For now, you are simply starting to wake up your innate Awareness ability.
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Here is an exercise to experience all four different degrees of Aware attention:
1.) Attention: Using your eyes or your ears, find something in your immediate environment that is interesting to you.
2.) Intention: Focus as much attention as you can on that thing that you found. Study its shape, size, color, distance away from you,
3.) Retention: Now you are going to go into your memory banks, and try to recall any past experience that you had with this particular thing that you are studying. What is the nature of that memory? Was it positive or negative? Was it painful or pleasurable? How often do you think about it? What other thoughts immediately come to your mind when you think about this particular thing? You are only looking for associations that you have retained in the past about this item of attention.
4.) Processing: Finally, take one of those memories that you just came up with, and think about the memory as a separate thing itself. What kind of physical sensations do you feel in your body when you think about it? If there are any painful sensations, breathe into those areas of the body that feel some sense of pain or discomfort. While you breathe slowly, focus all of your attention on the areas of your body that feel either comfortable because of this thing or that feel painful because of this thing. Don’t judge the sensations themselves, don’t judge the item itself. You are simply going to wrap this memory in your breath as if it were a cloud surrounding the thing and the sensations associated with it. Relax while you do this exercise, releasing any judgments. In your memory of this event, once again go to your first level of attention. Now simply see its shape, its size, its color, and its distance away from you.
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Note on PTP, Awareness, and the “Collapsing of the Wave Function”:
When a source of awareness focuses itself on any section of our infinite universe of waves of absolutely all shapes and sizes (amplitudes and frequencies), those waves collapse into particle form. Thus is created a material “thing.” However, when that aware source removes its focus, the particle returns to its original wave state. “A wave observed will tend to collapse into a particle.” Or, from a wikipedia article: “when a measurement (observation) is made, the wave function collapses – from an observer’s perspective – to just one of the basis states”
So, anything that is detected as a thing has some form or source of consciousness behind it, directing energy toward a collection of waves that then form a particle-based shape. When the aware consciousness removes itself from that creation, the particle releases all of that focused energy, thus returning to its state of “wave-hood.”
The primary problem that humans will have with this idea is that they tend to anthropomorphize everything into the limited understanding of limited human-beingness. What if there are other more aware forms of consciousness out there, shaping and creating alongside us? What if they are the sources of awareness that are indeed shaping us ourselves?
The PTP steps described in the four chapters “Awareness System”, “Sensory System”, “Belief System,” and “The Belief Barrier” are perfect examples of what quantum physicists call the “Collapse of the Wave Function.”