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In the West in particular, we tend to judge every thought that comes to us, and to do so almost instantly. Mostly our thoughts go to ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and this gives rise to very hard-edged thinking. In matters of the physical world, this approach can be a helpful faculty.
However, in matters of higher consciousness – especially when many are exploring just what this might mean – hard edged thinking becomes entirely inappropriate. Indeed, there are two foolish positions with regard to the many pronouncements on where we are going and what is happening to us at this time. One is to believe it all, without any form of discernment, and is likely to end in plain gullibility. The other is to believe none of it – and therefore lock oneself out from any form of higher experience.
In the East, thinking about higher matters has always had a softer, more accepting, way to it.
The question is ‘How might we proceed with discernment, yet making the best use of our more challenging experiences and phenomena, together with similar input from others that would almost certainly not stand up to ‘hard edged thinking’?
Here is what has served me well in this regard.
I was given an idea a long time back which I now choose to call ‘POSSIBILITY CONSCIOUSNESS’. This approach to dealing with unusual / radical ideas calls for a third mode, alongside those instant judgements that say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to any arriving idea. In this third mode, whatever crazy (apparently) or challenging higher consciousness idea or experience is happening to you, you elect to work with it AS A POSSIBILITY. This approach does not require you to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but merely ‘oh, that is interesting – I wonder where it might lead’ – or some such. Essentially it is a combination of accepting, with an element of curiosity. It is absolutely not ‘fatalistic’, in the way of some more ‘eastern’ cultures, having more of a pro-active sense to it.
Time and again I have found that I am holding a number of apparently crazy ideas in this mode of ‘possibility’, only to receive just one more – and discover that they all work together, and thereby reveal something quite profound. Had I judged each input in the conventional way, I would never have reached this new understanding, having probably thrown out every element from which it was constructed.
For me, then, POSSIBILITY CONSCIOUSNESS is immensely valuable. I recommend it as a tool within the great toolbox of techniques that assist us in moving toward the light.
