When you walk up to someone and you introduce yourself,
you introduce yourself by one name.
What this means is that you see yourself
as a single unit of consciousness.
You see yourself as "I" or as "me".
The problem with this
is that it indicates that you don't see the full truth of yourself.
In other words,
the perspective that you are a unit of consciousness
does not accommodate for the full truth of yourself.
What it means is that you're only seeing the forest
and not the trees that comprise that forest.
With all this in mind,
i'm going gonna say that one of the single biggest steps
you can take towards awakening,
is to see yourself as an ecosystem, instead.
To begin to see yourself as an ecosystem
that is being called by one name.
You call yourself by one name
but you are in essence an accumulation of a very complex system
of smaller units of consciousness.
Just like an ecosystem is.
To understand what I mean,
look at the ecosystem of the amazon rainforest.
We call the amazon rainforest by one name,
but it's an accumulation of its emergent layer,
canopy layer,
understory layer
forest floor layer,
which themselves are comprised
of an accumulation of evergreen trees,
flowering plants, birds, insects,
reptiles, fungi, amphibian,
rainfall and soil, etc...
From objective perspective
each physical human,
is his or her own universe.
You can zoom in to see that any element
that comprises what a human is,
has its own unique consciousness.
For example:
Every cell within you
has its own consciousness,
every organ that makes up your body
has its own unique consciousness.
You are an accumulation of your spiritual,
mental, emotional and physical layers.
Your body contains more bacterial cells than human cells.
About 10 times more, in fact.
Many of which you could not survive without.
They are integral to the system that makes up you.
They are considered to be an integral part of you.
Your psyche is also not singular.
It is made up of many different parts.
We have a tendency of calling these parts
"sides" or "facets" of a person's personality.
As a physical human,
you have so many things that added together equal you.
To understand more about this, watch my video titled:
Fragmentation (The Worldwide Disease)
Any ecosystem is a community of interacting organisms.
Any system is a community of interacting units of consciousness.
It is in essence a complex interconnected network.
The system that you are comprised of,
is entirely unique.
You may be able to identify common trends within your system
that may reflect or mirror
other trends within systems in the greater universe,
but it has its own configuration.
And each different element of it
has a specific relationship to all other parts of the system.
For example:
Your kidneys have a very specific relationship to your bladder.
Your mental layer of consciousness
has a very specific relationship to your gut biome.
And these relationships
that take place within the system of you
can range anywhere from
completely functional, symbiotic and loving...
Mutually beneficial...
All the way over to:
Oppositional, detrimental,
dysfunctional and anything in between.
To be fully aware and completely conscious
we have to be able to do two things:
We have to be able to zoom out
and we also have to be able to zoom in.
Both of these techniques
are necessary to be fully conscious
of what is occurring in any given circumstance.
When we treat the assemblage of everything that comprises us
as a single unit of consciousness
and therefore zoom out,
that is precisely what we are doing.
We are zooming out
to treat a collective, as a single point.
For example:
There are millions upon millions upon millions of people on this planet.
We could zoom out so that all of those people,
the amalgamation of them,
creates a single unit of consciousness.
We could call that The Consciousness of Humanity.
In all honesty,
we could zoom out or zoom in
indefinitely in this universe.
For example:
Even if you zoom in to become aware of the consciousness of a single cell,
that single cell is also, in fact, its own ecosystem
of even smaller units of consciousness.
And if you were to go into one part of a single cell,
that part too, would be its own ecosystem of sorts.
One of the reasons why we have to be able to do this zoom out process
where we're treating an amalgamation of things as one thing,
is to be able to identify
commonalities, patterns and trends.
To understand more about this, watch my video titled:
The Surprising Truth: Generalization, Stereotyping and Uniqueness
all this being said,
in order to be truly conscious,
we also have to be able to zoom in.
And that is what people have the hardest time doing.
Why? Because the process of zooming in
requires disidentification.
Essentially, in zooming in,
most people feel as if they are losing a sense of a singular self.
When you start the zoom in process,
the question quite quickly becomes:
What the hell am I?
The answer, of course, is that you are all of them.
And by being all of them, you are by definition
not any single one part.
This zooming in process requires disidentification.
In case you would like to learn more about disidentification,
you can watch my video that is titled:
Disidentification (The Process of Non-Attachment)
When all you see is the whole forest,
as if it is one thing,
and fail to recognize the tree within that forest,
you actually lose sense of what is happening in the forest.
Sticking with this analogy;
It is ignorant to refuse to recognize
that the tree has its own unique self.
This means its own personal truths,
including likes and dislikes desires and perspective,
as well as relationships to other trees,
insects, soil and weather in the forest.
If you cannot recognize the unique consciousness
that belongs to the tree, you will not be able to see
feel, hear or understand any of the problems
that are arising in the system of the forest.
So often when a person cannot figure out
what the hell is going on with them,
or doesn't really have a good sense of themselves,
it is because they are not doing this zoom in process.
All of what is happening at that "tree level",
is happening beneath the surface of conscious awareness.
In essence, using this analogy
they are looking at the whole forest
and refusing to see any one tree within that forest
and that tree's relationship to any other elements within that forest.
What you have to do in order to understand any element
within the ecosystem
or understand the ecosystem itself,
is to get deep into the perspective of any one unit within that ecosystem.
You have to get as deep as you possibly can
to fully understand and comprehend it
and its relationship to all of the things within that system.
When you do this,
the symptoms you are seeing in that greater forest that is you
begin to make sense.
The second the medical establishment understands this,
the entire human approach to both illness and medicine,
will change.
If this concept of learning how to zoom in
interests you,
I have your first step:
In order to learn this first step,
you can watch my video titled:
Parts Work (What is Parts Work and How To Do It)
But for the sake of this episode,
I simply want you to ask yourself a question.
And after you ask yourself this question,
I want you to ponder on it for the day.
I mean, don't just answer it outright.
just really be thinking about it.
Here's the question:
If it were true that my name is just the title given
to an accumulation of an entire system of things that I am comprised of,
in other words,
if I were to see myself as an ecosystem
instead of a single being,
what would change for me?
How might I begin to live differently?
And how would I approach problems that arose in my life differently?
Seeing the amalgamation of all of the units of consciousness
that added together create you,
will change your approach to life.
It will change the way you see life.
It will make it rich.
It will make it deep.
It will make it so much more alive.
What will be revealed to you is the incredible complexity of existence.
But within that complexity,
the simplicity of it all.
You also find so many of those answers you seek.
Have a good week.
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so you can see more content like this.
But I want to personally thank you for taking the initiative
and having the bravery to step into the space of awareness
not only for yourself, but for the benefit of those around you.
Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte www.tanyaduarte.com