Did you know that your knowledge is not the most important factor, but is merely a tool for your development?
When you seek to broaden and expand your consciousness, it is important to understand that the expansion of consciousness does not only mean an accumulation of knowledge but is also a process in which you flex your perception and thought to reach a spectrum you have previously not accepted or perceived in your mind, which changes the way you observe and experience reality.
Meaning, this is a process where, in fact, you do not solely focus on gaining knowledge, but are ready to be humble and recognize that “you do not know what you do not know”, and from this point, you can open up and give new meanings to what you already know, and expand yourselves and your consciousness.
The truth has many faces. Your personal knowledge reflects just one channel out of many, one route within a multitude of routes existing within a comprehensive whole, a subjective truth that is the product of what your thought and perception hold as available and accessible knowledge.
Knowledge is not the most important factor, but rather a tool for the expansion of consciousness.
The willingness to observe the knowledge you have acquired from a broad, flexible, and more open perspective, and give this knowledge a new interpretation, transforms the knowledge into a tool that serves your consciousness. This perspective can protect you from being trapped in the jail that knowledge can create, and from the partial and limited perception of reality which is based solely on it.
Sounds complex?
Not really. In fact, it is really simple: Just like knowledge can assist in expanding understanding and consciousness, it can also prevent this expansion, create a veil and a glass ceiling that blocks the individual from seeing what exists beyond the limits of their knowledge.
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How can knowledge block, limit, and create a glass ceiling?
Some people possess vast and rich knowledge; however, their consciousness is narrow and veiled. This is because they conduct themselves under a glass ceiling of absoluteness that determines “only that which I know exists”, and “the way I see and understand things – is the truth, and it presents an accurate picture of reality”.
When an individual holds on to knowledge as something that defines them and grants them self-worth and confidence, and when they perceive their reality as absolute and unwavering truth, they condemn themselves to live in a limited and narrow reality that is based on thought patterns and perceptions that are a product of their knowledge.
The recognition that truth has many faces, and that personal reality is subjective, relative, and part of a much broader reality, opens a gateway to the continual expansion of perception and consciousness and allows for growth towards understandings and experiences that were not previously visible.
» Life in a threatening world and the connection to clinging to knowledge as power
Many perceive life as a threatening environment where one needs to fight in order to survive. Thus, their personal reality becomes one of competition, struggle over resources, over-achievement, constant fear of existence, stress, and an experience of uncertainty and a lack of existential confidence.
In this kind of reality, in which struggle and competition rule, knowledge is considered as such that grants advantage and power. This creates attachment to knowledge, clinging to it as something that defines the self and produces a sense of certainty and worthiness.
In the world we live in, the accumulation of knowledge has become easy, because of the exposure to online databases, which grant easy access to much knowledge. But together with that, the accumulation of this knowledge is often superficial and limited and is often biased by incorrect and manipulated data.
As mentioned, the tendency to accumulate knowledge stems from a survival desire to control, and from the perception that knowledge is a power that protects the self from the threatening and unpredictable world. This state causes the individual to depend on knowledge to feel safe, becoming attached to knowledge which gives a sense of self-worth, clinging to it as such that is absolute and unequivocal, while in fact, the reality is much broader than the personal knowledge and the subjective perception of the world.
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The reality we live in is a product of our mental patterns. How?
The recognition that truth has many faces, and that personal reality is subjective, relative and a part of a much broader reality, opens a doorway to a constant expansion of perception and consciousness that allows growth towards insights and experiences which were not accessible until now.
Reality is broad, multidimensional, and layered, and consciousness can open and expand to more and more dimensions of reality through a process of evolution of thought, emotion, and psyche. This is a process based on knowledge and insights, but also on a mental-emotional transformation, which enables us to change the way we decipher the world and give it personal interpretation.
This is a process where consciousness gradually expands beyond that which is known and familiar, and where thought and emotion ascend beyond social and cultural conditioning and the collective belief systems.
The collective belief systems, create predetermined paths of thinking modes and perception of reality, that define what is the “truth”, through mental patterns and routes in the brain that form norms and standards, some of which are worthy and promoting, while others are limiting, distorted, and blocking.
The mental patterns are determined by nerve cells (neurons) in the brain that create set pathways that form the manner we perceive reality.
Any thinking “outside the box” and beyond the norms and the known and familiar paths, creates new pathways that open the individual to a new possible reality.
As pathways exist in each and everyone’s personal brain, so do they exist in the “collective brain” of humanity, operating as a global neural network, that defines the culture in which we live and determines the various norms, conventions, and world perception.
When Jules Verne described the submarine Nautilus in his book ”20,000 leagues under the sea”, or the air vessel Albatross in his book “Robur the Conqueror”, long before the submarine or the helicopter were invented, or when Issac Asimov described in his books a world with artificial intelligence and robots, they in fact opened for the readers new neural pathways, that enabled them to be exposed to additional realities beyond those known to them.
So did Galileo Galilei who strengthened the heliocentric model by which the planets orbit the sun, thus undermining the existing norms, opening a path for a new perception of reality and the human collective self.
I cannot help but mention also the great scientist Nicola Tesla, who brought forth the alternating current and the radio and even sought to manifest the ability to transmit electricity in a wireless form, an attempt which was blocked by interest holders.
Most of these people also held different world perceptions and ways of living than was accepted during their lifetimes. I will bring as an example a man of many talents, the artist and scientist, Leonardo DaVinci who was a vegetarian, and so was Tesla who saw the slaughter of animals and their consumption as a barbaric custom that harms human morals.
Throughout the ages, among humanity grew scientists, authors, people of vision, spirit, and action, in diverse fields, who brought perspective and manner of thinking well ahead of their time, because they represented a range of possibilities and perception and thought pathways that were unconventional and were perceived as impossible. Thus, they, in fact, planted these possibilities within collective consciousness, brought them closer, and made them accessible and applicable later on.
Both the personal and collective mental templates are projected by humans onto the holographic realm in which we live, and these are experienced by the body and psyche as the manifested reality that can be perceived and felt by the senses and the biological and mental-emotional sensors. We shape reality according to what we can perceive in our mind and according to the values that outline for us the way to implement and realize what we think about.
In fact, all our perceptions of reality, our self-identity, and our relationships with each other and with the world in which we live, are mental representations that we perceive as real, thus we manifest them.
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Thinking in fixed patterns limits consciousness and traps the individual in a partial and limited reality
If consciousness is not flexible and open, and the individual is attached to that knowledge and identifies with it as absolute truth, that knowledge might restrict the person to the limits of what is known and familiar, to reason, logic, and mental templates on which the individual bases their sense of confidence and certainty.
In fact, attachment to what is known out of rigidity and absoluteness, and accumulating knowledge out of an ambition to feel power and confidence, limit personal development instead of advancing it.
The recognition that knowledge is just a tool within a much broader process in which the psyche goes through a transformation in order to allow a broader point of view and flexible consciousness, is just the first step in the path of growth and development towards a new range of realities, that enables an expanded and enhanced self-fulfillment.
In the path of development, I am describing, there is a process of releasing prejudices, dissolving limiting patterns of thought, a proactive undermining of distorted norms, a release of defense mechanisms that hold a fear to move away from what is known and familiar towards the unknown, and a willingness to convert the limited self-identity in favor of a more expanded one, that ascends beyond the personal and collective glass ceiling, towards the realms of the freedom of consciousness.
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Mental-emotional resistance and the attachment to knowledge
The process of expanding consciousness and personal knowledge will often be accompanied by a mental-emotional experience of burden, reluctance, resistance, or a lack of ability to contain.
Remember that when you are having a hard time containing new information, are experiencing mental-emotional resistance, loss of focus, or mental overload, this is the way of the psyche to signal you that you are in the midst of a process of dissolving a personal glass ceiling and expanding your thought and consciousness beyond it.
When you face this type of a challenge, instead of glorifying the glass ceiling of your personal knowledge as such that defines the self, your narrative, and personal agenda, agree to go through the glass ceiling, dissolve it while surrendering to what might be perceived by the ego and the mind as not normal, unreasonable, delusional and strange.
Often the mental-emotional resistance can be expressed as contempt for new knowledge, or “esoteric” knowledge, a tendency to laugh about it, or about a different perception, making fun of the person bringing the different perspective by mocking them.
The contempt, ridicule, and grin are a defense mechanism that rejects the chance for conceptual and consciousness renewal, as it expresses a lack of willingness to explore, be curious and expand.
When contempt, ridicule, and cynicism come up within you, remember that this is a defense mechanism that maintains an attachment to an agenda and a world perception that are not necessarily serving your expansion and mental, spiritual, and consciousness growth, and creates a conscious and aware consent to break through the predetermined thought pathways, and opens up to new paths that lead to new ranges of the truth and reality, even if this deters you.
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Epilog
We are all interconnected in profound reciprocal relations that create both our personal reality and our collective reality.
We are all part of the human collective brain and human collective consciousness, in which the fixed, familiar, and known thought pathways are intertwined.
These are pathways in a huge collective brain, that operate as neurons that create accepted norms that shape the reality in which we live.
The nature of the great people of mankind throughout the ages was that they bravely stepped outside of the predetermined thinking norms, and opened new channels of thought, world perception, knowledge, and consciousness.
The geniuses of these ages opened a gate for humanity for the expansion of existing knowledge, undermined the limiting norms and biased world perceptions, and enabled growth towards new levels of human evolution as a society and culture, that affect us to this day.
This process was done with great bravery, and often with a heavy personal cost of contempt, exclusion, and humiliation.
That which in the past was perceived as esoteric, delusional, and misguided, are today the accepted norms and conventions we live by.
As mankind, we must realize that knowledge is relative and partial, that truth has many faces, and that more and more of this vast truth is being exposed according to our maturity, our mental-emotional and consciousness ability to contain, the personal and collective set of values and mental and emotional flexibility.
We can always be exposed to new knowledge and observe the existing one from new angles and fresh perspectives.
The consent to go beyond the knowledge that is known and familiar stems from the recognition that the subjective and existing knowledge, is just one path out of many, a part of a rich and broad whole inviting us to go deeper, and to explore it with courage, flexibility, humility, curiosity, openness, and willingness to renew.
The paths of consciousness and knowledge are inviting us to travel in them freely, with no prejudice, and go on a wonderful adventure both within ourselves and externally.
Leonardo DaVinci, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Nicola Tesla, Galileo Galilei, and many more are waiting for us at the entrance of new pathways of thought and inspiration.
Are you coming?
