Ignorance is the Result of Unawareness
The belief system constructs we have been conditioned into since birth make up your reality. But this is a false reality because everything in this belief system is based on ignorance. It is ignorance because no one really knows anything in its totality, the first of them being doctors and scientists. Through interdependence, this universal belief construct system then forms an illusory reality that we all live in and believe in because we entrust the status quo. You say to yourself, just because everyone believes in it makes it real. This illusory reality forms the Sleeping Consciousness. Living, working the 9 to 5, eating, the mundane day to day activities special events on the weekends, gossip, relationships, the latest technology, what's happening on the news ... and so on. But moreso, as taught by the Gnostic Samael Aun Weor, we are literally asleep because if we are awakened, then our consciousness would remember our previous lives. In order to awaken we would have to "pierce the 'forgetting process' which occurs at birth" (The Law of One by Ra) into this incarnation. However for this post we will just be focusing on the illusion aspect of the Sleeping Consciousness.
The reason we don't understand or can't figure out our Truth, connecting to who and what we are and what life is, is because of the ignorance that results directly from our unawareness. And most of the time we are unaware that we are ignorant in the first place. We live too much in our heads that we forget about what is actually real: the here and now. We are so involved with all the voices in our minds, attaching to this thought, attaching to that thought, believing this, believing that. The more you get wrapped up in these voices and thoughts, the more unaware you become. The Buddhist practices nonattachment to things, including the thoughts that whiz around in our minds. Out of countless thoughts that whiz around you seem to attach to one of those thoughts. Why is that?
The more quiet your mind becomes, the more awareness you have about reality or the Truth. Falsely living too much in our mind makes things very illusory. We can't live too much in the mind. That is extreme because the mind is responsible for analyzing and processing information that the 5 senses sends to the brain. However when you are to look at something with the naked eye, you will not see molecules because eyesight is limited and therefore your brain takes the image information for granted. We entrust too much to the brain just like we do with the status quo. With the uncontrollable thinking and thinking, the mind is preoccupied and distracted with the ether at all times and all that chatter builds up like a pressure cooker. In order to release the pressure you would have to meditate because meditation is needed to quiet the mind and reground yourself. Get back to what's real, back in your physical body and in the here and now. Meditate to quiet the mind and gravitate your being downwards towards the correct center of the human where the heart and solar plexus chakra are (search this blog to read more on the solar plexus). The center is not your head.
Another important problem to point out with people's false assumptions is the fact that people assume that Truth or Reality comes in a book, like a how-to or math book. It takes heaps of patience and a wealth of direct experience to learn and know what you are and this can only happen individually because every one of us has different challenges from the other. It takes constant progressive work on ourselves in order to illuminate our awareness because it takes effort to learn with certainty and to evolve to a higher level of being. The greatest individuals that have walked this Earth are guiding us because we are the lost souls. They guide us to realness but they can only point us in the right direction but you would have to walk it yourself. So in order to learn and know for yourself, it will have to take direct experience, it can not be read in the words of others because again you can't understand such words in its totality unless you have experienced it first. The process is to deconstruct this false ignorant reality and build one based on awareness to evolve. This is why it is tragic for people to remain in a stagnant routine -- they are the sleeping ones. They are disconnected from reality. But you are not alone in the search for yourself. Nature speaks to you all the time through the language of direct experience and intuition, but you are unaware that it can even speak. This is the problem with living in cities because it makes you forget about your nature by disconnecting you from the natural world, creating a world of delusion.
There is something peculiar about our circumstance. Here we are, mortal beings on a planet that goes around a sun along with other planets in the middle of a large galaxy with billions of other solar systems in a universe filled with billions of galaxies. Things are made up of largely empty space down to the subatomic particles. Yet we don't pay attention to any of that! We can't even grasp any of it or find poetic meaning behind existence. We forget about these in our daily lives. Our little nuances, our tiny troubles. That's how peculiar we are.
This is why it is important to meditate for the purpose of meditation is to figure out reality. With meditation all concentration is focused on one point with minimal distraction so that you can become aware of what is real. Problems will be solved by simply being aware of the root. You will be aware of every moment, you will see the mysterious synchronicites, you will know that you are not alone, and you will progress your level of being. It is all here right now. Please search this blog to learn how to meditate, there are videos as well as a book posted on here that will teach you.
