CONSCIOUSNESS: THE ONLY MAN'S LIMIT

Man is always imprisoned in himself, his crucifixion is in the body with the consequent limitations and its mind made of reason. He is imprisoned in his convictions, his fears, his prejudices, his ideals, his dreams. The psychological state in which he lives, his concept of himself, imposes to him the role he has in the world and determines the circumstances of his life. Are not the situations to limit him but he himself that puts himself into circumstances through his psychological state and then he judges starting from them. The habit of identifying himself with what is around him can be his condemnation but also his liberation, because only the desire of escaping those
conditions and the feeling of a different ideal will allow him to get away and it will show the means to put it into practice. The evasion  is from oneself, from the prison of one’s own identification with the external reality, it’s the identification with the observed condition that ‘imprisons’ man. A prison made of bars or limitations or circumstances doesn’t differ from the prison made of mental habits with which one continually confronts himself. Man expresses himself through his attitudes and in our society he is more and more addressed to the external by means that render him isolated, bringing him to seek on the outside the answers that he could only find within himself by looking at his attitudes. In the actual society he opens himself to the world through all sort of instruments of communication, and through the social reds he search for approval, for sharing and comparison about his conditions, but he doesn’t realize he’s looking into a mirror and talking to himself. The judgment he states about others and his own conditions, the comparison he seeks in others,  are imposed by his consciousness for a man can see nothing but the content of his own consciousness. The imprisonment seems commonly tied to places, like in the case of the refugee camps; or of jails, or of economic situations, but it lies  within man. The prison made of habits, prejudices, or human conditions is an internal fact and not an external one, it must be found within man and not on the outside where it manifests through results. Living in a refugee camp in example is not different from living in a society considered as ‘civilized’, comforts will never give man his spiritual freedom. Man feels to be free in a society that assures  every kind of comfort, from hot water to transportation, elaborated food, and so on, but then he makes himself a slave of the same amenities he’s created, searching for the consolation in other people by blaming the external world and the circumstances in which he thinks he is constrained to live, ignoring the real causes which have created those constraints which lie only within him. The states of being coexist undisturbed because man accepts them as possible. I’ve been inspired by the recent exhibition in Turin of the photographer Stefano Stranges about the refugee camps in India(*), where in the same area we can see situations of imprisonment in the refugee camps opposed to those of ‘free’ life outside them, in rich and poor zones of that country. If we observe those images, full of details and atmospheres, we find that they depict artistically the difficult and suffering conditions impressed, if we surrender ourselves to the appearance of the images, so much likely different form our own conditions in the western  life, we are affected in the soul and brought easily to determine that those men, imprisoned in isolated camps commonly not accessible, are exiles in search of liberty, for the human being is a being of habit and judges all according to the content of his consciousness, so that it’s common to wonder or feel indignation behind their conditions of life sometimes unhuman, in which freedom is deprived. But let’s abandon the common judgment pouring out from the observation of the images, let’s put aside the content of our consciousness and move us into a point empty of contents, impartial, and make the observation from that angle, and  soon a question arises ‘What is that gives life to that reality in the depth?’. Every external condition is the fruit of a psychological condition. If man, every man, could accept within himself a condition of freedom, the situation of wealth and of happiness, opposed situations  wouldn’t exist. Yet we notice that in society like the Indian one (not the only example in the world) we find  the existence of refugee camps where man lives as a fugitive, and in opposition we have the rich and poor classes, apparently ‘free’, but free from what? The condition of richness constitutes an élite goal (so is thought by the most) but they must live guarded due to the fear of robbers, then they are prisoners of their own condition. But those who assault them are prisoners of their condition of poverty, they're fighting against their own self, against the mirror of their own psychological state of being poor, thinking that the way of robbery and offense towards rich people is the only possible way towards richness, not comprehending that those who are rich are but persons that knew hot to rid themselves of the prejudice of being poor and in so doing found the means to be rich.

Man try to destroy on the outside what he cannot help to accept on the inside, which proves his lack or his failure, but in so doing he’s appropriating the ideal he’s trying to destroy. In the refugee camps you can see how persons who are searching for the freedom from political or religious or social oppression, find themselves more and more imprisoned in a condition of guarded refugee, in places where they build a home anyway, but the question which spontaneously arises is ‘have they destroyed what they had intention to destroy?’. Sometimes to enter those camps you must have an authorization,  like the one used in jails, in other situations they are ‘ghettos’ in the core of ‘free’ towns, like during the second worldwide war when there were ghettos for Hebrew people, but then the problem isn’t confined to that historical moment. The states of consciousness never die, they just wait to be incarnated and man, not being aware of it, fights against them, but ‘what you resist, it persists’ said Carl Jung, so man becomes the victim of himself. To tolerate the existence of those situations at an individual level means letting them ‘to exist’ in the human worldwide consciousness. Just as well realized by the psychiatric Bert Hellinger through his ‘Family constellations’ and before him by Jung through his ‘collective consciousness’ which traduces into the practical personal archetypes, there is a diffuse mind, a mind that beholds everything and in that mind nothing ceases to exist. As the quantum physic shows, there’s  a ‘field’ in which everything exists and in which everything is comprised, it's a field of energy, a thinking matter, in which man is immersed and being part of it he uses it by thinking; through his imagination he molds it and extracts from it what after he sees by his physical eyes.  A man accustomed of seeing himself in captivity, in the habit of captivity, born in captivity, cannot live but the fruits of that concept of himself. But, the same man, who awakes from that profound sleep of dependence on the outside, can realize that his acceptation is totally personal and then he can make another choice, but until he doesn’t consider the possibility that a reversal situation is attainable, without foreseeing the means, he cannot attract to himself the ideas and inspirations which can allow him to escape, so that he fights against his external conditions, or he accepts them justifying them by social, economic, religious, historical or other arguments, but in so doing he consolidates them.  Placed into an opposite and better reality, when he's immersed in that same consciousness he would duplicate the same conditions of life, as in fact it happens when many exiles get away from such disadvantaged conditions and land in more developed neighboring countries, commonly more western, or just in more florid economical areas of their same territory.  Only by ‘entering’ a new archetype, meaning a new psychological state, it’s possible to think from that angle of observation and to foresee a world in harmony with that psychological condition, then those premises will produce insights and ideas which will promote the action towards the means of escape; so the world around him remolds itself automatically bringing that man from a visible condition of imprisonment to a visible one of liberty, and that happens disregarding the physical place and the limiting conditions in which he finds himself at the beginning. Those means will be accessible because the collective mind of which Jung speaks, or quantum field, contains infinite possibilities between which man makes his choices in every moment of his life. Scriptures gives a clear demonstration of that by calling it God, and today other instruments of study gives confirmation. It’s an infinity of parallel worlds, worlds within worlds, within worlds, an infinite deterministic series of possibilities, it's an infinity of states of consciousness, immortal and eternal, between which to choose, but until that choice is made, meaning a passage from an internal condition to another, man cannot change his world and then the fight against it will result useless. Man is the operant power of that transformation and it can happen only within him, while man is in the habit of perceiving only the physical reality, without considering that matter is always and only energy which vibrates at a different speed from that of thought, at a lower level respect the one of thought, a level visible to human eyes. But the origin of matter is in the thought and thought is visible only to the eyes of the mind, the only instrument that can elaborate a  speed likewise high of energy. Therefore if  is man that by thinking chooses the content he'll live and if that content is part of the collective mind, in consequence man must have within himself the ‘all’ and contemporary being part of the ‘all’, that ‘all’ in Scripture is called God, hence man contains God but he is also God. Then man is an holographic figure, man is the hologram of the infinite (like quantum physic states), like the DNA is the hologram of man. Having within himself the infinite, man has total power over his life. He is the DNA of God, of the universe, because he is the hologram of God, of the universe, like the human DNA is the hologram of man. Studies by the biologist Bruce Lipton have in fact determined that the human DNA can be modified by man, it’s under his control, opening the door to infinite possibilities to heal every illness, even those considered incurable, dissolving the concept of genetic illness, of genetic  limitation. Bruce Lipton’s discovery has opened the door of heresy for him, he won’t be burned like Giordano Bruno but he cannot teach medicine anymore because his discoveries aren’t provable through the common medical rules and then he’s been branded as heretic. Moreover who cannot prove something invisible and tied so strictly to the human consciousness, to spirituality? Lipton did it and continues to do it, and also other scientists like Gregg Braden. But every man can prove it to himself, inwardly, arriving to a realization which transcends every scientific evidence and gives a superior certainty. It’s a topic so fluctuant that of consciousness, because it’s tied to the fluctuation of consciousness itself. Man, and above all the man of science, commonly needs proofs and seeks them on the outside, he doesn’t enter himself to find them that’s why he fails in the test and even in failing he makes it true. These discoveries give faculty and power to man to appropriate his own life, to be able to decide by his own for himself and to act on his own for himself, without having to wait for external helps, without even having to become dominated by the idea of needing to be part of certain religious or political or social groups, or of certain social standards to realize his life as he wants, rid of negative background or genealogy now inconsistent, all conditions which limit him and imprison him even more than the limitations of a refugee camp or of the bars of a jail. This is the real identification of man with the entire universe and its infinite possibilities, this is the real identification of man with God, not a divine entity to whom you bow, or turn in supplication in the hope of obtaining favors, maybe conditioned to the satisfaction of certain external conditions such as a holy life or rituals, but instead the freedom from all that. And from that realization and freedom a deep feeling of unconditioned love and comprehension towards himself, his fellow men and the entire universe implicitly comes. But the man who is not awake to his creative imaginative nature, to his real essence made of universal energy and hence of power, is a man who continues to ‘sleep’ thinking of being awake. It’s a man who tries to give a meaning to his mental imprisonment while not seeing it; inventing rules, prejudices and social standards to follow with the intention to rid himself of it, without realizing that in so doing he is imprisoning himself even more. The identification with such infinite power, with the divinity that many so much praise but don’t know for they consider it as external to man, often becomes a blasphemous concept, as it becomes heresy pointing out what medicine doesn’t see or doesn’t want to see. Man is always born in captivity, everywhere he is, disregarding any condition, because he’s born in the ‘sleep’ of himself,  until he awakes and realizes that he’s dreaming and thereon his liberation starts.







 (*) Part of Stefano Stranges' HOMELAND project, which through some steps goes from the refugee camps of Bangladesh to the Slums and traditional villages of Mumbai and Calcutta,is shown in Turin during an exhibition until the 10 of April 2013, this link will bring you to the online image gallery.