March 24, 2017 - Clif High
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| Uh quick little thing about consciousness here. | |
| Uh it's pertinent. | |
| Uh this is a particular rant of mine. | |
| Consciousness cannot be altered in any way, shape, or form. | |
| Believe me, trust me on this. | |
| I was of a generation that spent years consuming every kind of psychedelic you can imagine attempting to do just that, alter consciousness. | |
| It cannot, does not, will not ever occur. | |
| Meditation does not work. | |
| Forty-five years of meditation produces great effects. | |
| Don't get me wrong, meditation is cool. | |
| Uh but um it doesn't alter consciousness. | |
| There is nothing on this planet that will alter consciousness. | |
| And when you leave this planet, what happens is your consciousness withdraws and remains unaltered. | |
| Yeah, I mean it's it's perpetual, it's there, it's the even strain that you always go back to. | |
| It is um what houses your body, not the other way around, and this consciousness cannot be altered, it can't be raised, it can't be uplifted, it can't be crushed, uh, it can't be uh in any way changed. | |
| It is the fundamental nature of the materium. | |
| It is the fundamental nature of universe. | |
| Everything else builds upon consciousness, and consciousness is as defined by the yogis, it is by the yogic community, uh, by the indigenous population community all around the planet. | |
| Consciousness is the ever flowing current that we are all part of, and that we all exist in and feed of and are. | |
| And so you cannot in any way change it. | |
| So the idea of someone running around just saying they're gonna uplift your consciousness, they're gonna raise you up, or any kind of thing like that, is bogus, it's bullshit, it can't happen. | |
| What you can do is you can alter your awareness. | |
| Now, awareness though relates to the personality. | |
| So when you're taking the psychedelic drugs to try and alter your uh your pain or change your relationship to your your consciousness, which is conscious of your pain and your suffering, it will not alter the consciousness, it won't change any of that. | |
| What it will do is to alter the awareness you have of your consciousness. | |
| As Bob Barley says, when you smoke the herb, it introduces you to yourself. | |
| It changes your awareness of your own consciousness. | |
| This awareness, this conscious of being conscious effect, is a really cool part of being human. | |
| It can be very terrible though, if part of that consciousness has to dwell continuously on suffering. | |
| This can be a very terrible thing to to be human when you when you have to dwell on suffering conscious uh consciously and continuously. | |
| And it is um uh to that end uh to that uh uh effect uh that people uh especially like the veterans, they try and kill themselves. | |
| Why are they trying to kill themselves? | |
| Do you suspect, right? | |
| What's up? | |
| Hey, you know, it's a it's a well, it's a pretty shitty world at the moment with the rain and the ice age and stuff, but it's something cool to get it get into and see about and get through its experience. | |
| So the veterans, they've had a terrible time. | |
| Their consciousness is conscious of its suffering, of their suffering continuously, and they cannot, it can't separate itself from its suffering. | |
| And so the the idea is that oh well I'll uh you know, perhaps, uh what is it, uh uh perhaps to dream, you know, um uh rather than suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, you know. | |
| Perhaps it would be better to kill yourself, basically, is what they're discussing in the um uh Hamlet so soloqually there. | |
| Uh but the point of the of my bringing this up is that consciousness doesn't change. | |
| When you kill yourself, your consciousness goes on to do the processing that uh you are too chicken shit to deal with here. | |
| And and you know, pardon my language. | |
| Uh uh I understand suffering, okay? | |
| I understand suffering. | |
| So uh my um harshness about it is deliberate. | |
| The same way that uh when you're doing Zazen meditation and your body is aching and your knees are about ready to scream in agony and draw your consciousness back to where the body thinks it should be. | |
| Someone comes along and walks you really hard with a s with a switch right across the back of your your shoulders. | |
| That says in meditation, and you needed that walk with the stick right then to refocus you back on what you were doing to so that you can get away from from the rest of it, from the body complaints, from the from the um uh the pull that the uh the environment has on you. | |
| Now, All meditation is basically a flawed system. | |
| It won't alter your consciousness. | |
| It won't save you from this. | |
| But it will give you strength. | |
| It gives you tools that allow you to manage your body, manage your brain, manage your mind. | |
| And so meditation is an extremely worthwhile practice. | |
| Even for those who are especially for those who are contemplating suicide. | |
| If you're thinking you're gonna do it, hey guy, you better get your shit together before you do that suicide act, right? | |
| Because it takes a lot to go through with it. | |
| And once you're done with that suicide act, hey, there you are. | |
| You're dead. | |
| And you better understand what happens when you're dead and what your consciousness has to deal with then. | |
| Because everything you're repressant repressing now, you're gonna go through on the other side of the death barrier. | |
| Now this is the option, see. | |
| You can stay here and you can tough it out. | |
| You can say I'm one mean son of a bitch, and I'm gonna integrate all of this suffering in me, eat it, I'm gonna eat my suffering, and I'm gonna contain it, and I'm gonna grow from it. | |
| I'm gonna have this in ideal, this hardness about it. | |
| And when I go to the other side of death, hey. | |
| It's pleasant, it's nice. | |
| I can coast a little tiny bit in hell and then right off into heaven. | |
| Because I don't have to deal with it, because I've taken the suffering, I've eaten it here. | |
| I didn't try and bail on it. | |
| I understand suffering limits, everybody has their own. | |
| I'm not trying to be prejudicial. | |
| Uh, if you have to, you have to. | |
| Every person has their own destiny. | |
| Uh but this is it about consciousness. | |
| When you kill yourself, you don't end consciousness. | |
| You are consciousness then, because you don't even have the distractions of the body. | |
| You don't have the distractions of the rain of the material. | |
| See, that's it about death. | |
| There's no movement, there's no dirt, there's no particles, there's no uh uh perception of any kind of thing that we see in the materium. | |
| It is an entirely different uh expression of our consciousness. | |
| It's an entirely different experience of consciousness. | |
| And when you're dead, you want to be alive because you don't have the distractions when you're dead of all of this physical matter and the sensation and feeling this way. | |
| So uh bear that in mind. | |
| Consciousness can't be altered, can't be destroyed, can't be contained, suppressed, or anything. | |
| You can hassle a personality, you can destroy a personality, you can uh alter awareness, you can destroy a brain, but the underlying consciousness is in no way altered, and it goes on. | |
| So uh don't listen to the uh people saying that you know uh we're gonna raise up your consciousness here, or any of that kind of stuff. | |
| It's bullshit. | |
| The words are misleading. | |
| They couldn't alter their own consciousness, nor could they destroy yours or change it in any way, shape, or form. | |
| And uh you can you don't have to trust me on this. | |
| You can go on out and try and repeat what I did in my youth. | |
| You can spend a few years taking every psychedelic drug you can get hold of in vast quantities to see what happens. | |
| It may not be good for you. | |
| Uh but on the other hand, for some people it is. | |
| Uh, you know, and for some of us, it's an unnecessary path. | |
| Uh it had to occur, uh, you know, even though there are those that are saying, oh, well, it was all engineered by the CIA and they introduced all the drugs into society to begin the degradation and the change the same way that certain kinds of uh classes of alcohol were introduced into France and uh other drugs were introduced into Russia prior to those revolutions. | |
| And you know, they could be well correct. | |
| It doesn't mean universe and the materium are not using the CIA for their own or for its own purpose, right? | |
| Um it's a level of depth of experience that um uh gets into an interpretation, and it's the ability to take those levels down into the rabbit hole that uh basically say whether the personality was enhanced uh in any way by the experience. | |
| So even though the CIA may have been out there pumping drugs for the society and caused all different kinds of mayhem, I'm quite sure that the mayhem would have existed without the CIA one way or another, because it appears to be necessary that a certain amount of mayhem and suffering and despair and misery exist in universe in order for us to get our karmic um uh uh bags moving and deal with shit, right? | |
| Otherwise, we'd be too complacent, sit around on the beach eating bananas, do a lot of surfing, that sort of thing. | |
| Um I'm all for that. | |
| So, anyway, uh that's my rant on consciousness. | |
| Now, the it also uh goes to ascension, right? | |
| Remember, there is no such thing as ascension. | |
| If anybody tells you we're gonna ascend into the fifth density, don't believe them. | |
| They're not ascending into anything. | |
| Uh it's cold out here. | |
| I've got the lights on and so on charging up the battery, so I don't want to run the heater and so forth. | |
| I'm gonna get an external heater for it. | |
| Uh we're gonna need it, it looks like. | |
| it actually has a propane one, but there's always the monoxide issues with those. | |
| Anyway, the um uh the idea of uh ascension is bullshit. | |
| Uh the planet is not going to ascend when the sun does some weird ass shit this year. | |
| Uh going from uh including any kind of density is adding yet another density into what we've already got. | |
| So fifth density is more dense. | |
| So if anything, we would descend, not ascend. |
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