Awareness   Beingness

How is it that we are aware?  How is that happening?  Did you manufacture or create your awareness?  What, exactly, is it anyway?  What is it made of?  Of what does it consist?  Does it really make any sense that signals running around in our brains can cause awareness?

Notice that our awareness has no shape, no size, no extension.  It doesn’t really seem to be a pinpoint.  And yet it doesn’t seem to have any size beyond that either.  It seems to extend to whatever it is that we’re aware of.

Notice that it really doesn’t seem to be a substance of any kind.  It doesn’t seem to be made of anything.  And yet it is more real than substance because without it we would never be aware of substance.

So it confounds the entire idea of materiality.  Matter is so prominently substantial, and yet without insubstantial awareness all the substance of matter would be pointless.

Notice how absolutely gentle awareness is.  Unless what it is aware of has something to do with force, awareness itself is absolutely gentle.

Now notice how our very existence would actually have no meaning at all were it not for the fact that we’re aware of existing.   Notice how we can’t even be aware of anything existing without awareness because we can’t be aware of anything existing without awareness without being aware of just that.

And now, notice that it actually in fact is the greatest thing we could ever know, because without it we wouldn’t be able to know anything.   Notice that it actually in fact is greater than any other experience we could possibly have because without it we wouldn’t be able to be aware of any experience.

And now consider this:  Awareness is greater than anything else we could possibly know about God, because without it God wouldn’t be aware of anything, which would nullify everything else about God that is grand and magnificent.  Try to imagine God not being aware of His own existence.  Without awareness, God would be nothing.  Just think about that for a moment.

So the greatest thing we can know about God is that God is awareness, because God would be nothing without awareness, just as we would.  So, awareness is the one thing that is clearly essential both to us, and to God.

Notice that if we weren’t awareness in the first place, we couldn’t imagine ourselves to be something other than awareness.  We have to BE awareness before we can think we’re something else.  That being the case, what’s the point in thinking we’re something else?

And now consider this, can there possibly be anything more true than awareness?  Just try to imagine something that is more true than awareness.  Everything we can possibly know about Truth could not be known unless there was awareness in the first place to be aware of it.

So Awareness is our True Identity.

And look at what the Course in Miracles says about our True Identity:

W-224.1. My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give itself light.

“Heaven looks to It to give itself light!”

Of all the magnificent phenomena in the entire universe.  Of all the astounding miracles you could ever imagine.  None is more magnificent or astounding than our own awareness.  Imagine, “Heaven looks to It to give itself light!”

Much Love, 

Ben