Hi Aline,

That's a great question! To me, everything is consciousness. It is awareness of existence and from that, everything is formed. You could also call it 'universal life energy'.

The key thing about consciousness, is to realise that you cannot separate it from what it gives life to. So we are formed from consciousness and we are consciousness.

Hope this answers the question!

Chris

Thank you Chris for your quick reply !!!

Please tell me if you think that consciousness can exist without the physical body. For example, after we "die".

Thanks again,
Aline.

Consciousness is everywhere - we are everywhere, so no we can't die.

I expect though you were asking specifically about the consciousness you call 'you'.

That all depends on the experience you are currently having. In my truth there are layers of consciousness and your soul manifests through those layers - some of which are the bodymind. When you die, bodymind consciousness 'dies' (ie looses its form) but the soul continues. The soul is who you really are.

Chris

Dear Chris,

thank you very much for your reply !

I actually asked about Consciousness because my husband had an experience last week and I will try to tell you now:

First I will tell you a little bit about my husband, Kendi: he practices Qi Gong and he helps others healing using his energy and circulating the energy of the other person; he is very sensitive to other´s problemas and he´s expanding so much lately ! He is not religious.

My grandfather passed away last Friday at 5 AM.
At 11 PM Kendi went to see him and when he got there.
He wanted to feel the Qi / energy of my grandfather. He got scared because the energy was still circulating within my grandfather and it he saw my grandfather breathing although the heart was not beating anymore. There was also a 7 year old boy who saw it too and got also scared !!!

Then Kendi stoped to circulate the energy in my grandfather and came home. I told him that for me it was like my grandfather was sleeping and not dead, that was my impression.

In the next morning we went to the funeral; Kendi told me this time that my grandfather´s energy was not circulating anymore, but escaping through the "Huiyin". He felt the presence of my grandfather very strongly communicating with him asking to leave him alone; the my husband told him (all mentally) that there was no need to be afraid, because now, as energy, he could go anywhere he wants. Then my grandfather bacome calm and accept the idea that he was not in the physical body anymore.

Sorry that my text is so big, although I tried to make it short...that is the reason I asked about consciousness.

Best regards,
Aline.

Yes you had a powerful experience and yet not untypical. Many energetically sensitive people experience such occurances although often perhaps don't have the words to articulate it so choose not to share - its entirely understandable in a society that tends not to recognise spirit nor life after death.

In our work, I frequently experience connections to departed 'spirits' especially when working with people and unravelling past relationships.

When a person dies, sometimes they - as spirit - are so attached to the physical density (through the mental programs they've been running), that they recreate an illusionary reality for themselves and stay 'earth bound'. You end up with a condition some might call 'ghost' or 'entity'.

Sometimes a spirit can stay locked in this realm in this way for a long time.

As a spirit passes over, it is helped by the angelic realm to find the higher vibrations where it 'should' move into a period of reflection and deep meditation upon the lessons of the previous incarnation until it is time once more to reincarnate.

However quite frequently, the spirit is so locked in the lower vibrations that it cannot 'see the light' and reconnect. This can be quite a dangerous place to be - a kind of limbo.

If we ever find ourselves in this situation, we can help smooth the transition by holding love for the passed over and inviting in the guiding hand of higher consciousness - we become a conduit for the higher energies.

On the times I've done this myself, I've often found that a loved one in spirit will come forward and help 'retrieve' the earth bound soul.

It seems to me like your Grandfather may have had a temporary attachment to the physical plane based on some conditioning or fears he was habouring. Its likely however this only lasted a short period before he was once more helped to find the light.

Can you say more about his state of mind when he passed over?

Chris

Thanks again, Chris !

Yes, it was indeed a powerful experience my husband had. And actually he is not willing to share it with people we know, because, as you said, it´s hard to describe it with words and besides most of the people would not understand / believe it.

For me it seems, in the beginning my grandfather did not know that he died, because he had diverticulitis and had a surgery, then he came back from surgery taking lots of medicine for pain, in the day after he died. It all happened very fast.

Unfortunately I don´t know his state of mind when he passed over...I was not with him. Anyway I will ask my husband for more details so I can tell you later today or tomorrow, OK?

Thanks again,
Aline.

The very fact that he wasn't prepared for his death may well have been the cause for the shock and inability to release himself from the thought forms holding him in this physical realm - that's likely to be the answer. It is one of the typical causes.

Chris

Very interesting. Thank-you for the interesting topic and the replies.

Do you know why many people aren't able to see or sense ghosts (or other such entities), whilst others do?

Turtle

Yes another good question - why are most people unable to sense, feel or see so called ghosts?

The answer lies in what we are attuned to and the level of our energetic vibration - the frequency our consciousness vibrates at.

The physical realms in which we live have extremely dense vibrations and most people are completely attuned to this. They eat dense foods (such as animal products), fill their minds with distraction and other desensitising living habits.

Imagine an orchestra playing where the base drummer is playing extremely loudly. He would drown out the subtler instruments such as the flute and violin. Exactly the same happens in consciousness.

The soul is of an extremely high and pure vibration and in order to sense it, our vibration must be high enough to be able to attune to it.

If we spend our lives only attuned to the denseness, then we are very unlikely to pick up the subtle essences of spirit. Since most people live in a desensitised way, they would have us believe there are no such things as 'ghosts' because the phenomenon is not available to them in their limited experience of authentic reality.

However if you begin to turn down the internal chatter of thought and emotion, and if you cleanse and purify the mental and emotional bodies, then through meditation, you begin to sense the subtle realms of the soul.

In the beginning, they are extremely difficult to pick up but with practice, perseverence and internal surrender, the higher vibrations gradually unfold into our awareness as our psychic and intuitive skills develop.

Best wishes

Chris

Hi Chris !

According to my husband, he felt that my grandfather was a little bit lost and afraid to be alone. Then my husband communicate with him saying that he was not alone and now he could go anywhere he wanted. At that moment, Kendi felt that my grandfather accepted the idea and become more calm.

Unfortunately we cannot say anything about his state of mind in the moment he passed over.

I appreciate your attention !!!

Best regards,
Aline.

how does your metabolism effect your consciousness. do we have conscious choice over the bodys metabolic rate, do our surroundings play apart, or is it something that is effected by what we are feeling?

Hi Loud guitar,

What I've found is that as the metabolism lowers, one's vibration rises and the consciousness that is the soul expands. Why is this?

As the metabolism slows down, there are fewer and fewer cellular processes occuring moment by moment in the body so the system begins to quieten. The bodymind, which normally absorbs this consciousness to activate the processes, 'releases' the consciousness once more.

You could imagine the bodymind as a sponge soaking up water. The 'larger' the sponge (ie more processes) the more it would soak up the 'water of the soul'. But as the processing quietens, the soul is released once more.

That's why fasting can be so powerful. If the body is already fairly pure (and so you don't go into heavy detox), then the bodily processes really quieten and you can have some amazing spiritual experiences.

There are many other ways to slow the metabolism including:
- lowering dense foods in ones diet such as meat and dairy
- using only natural fibres in clothing
- avoiding toxic chemicals like household cleaning fluids
- not putting unnatural products on the skin
- reduced use of mobile phones and electronic gadgets
- switching off wireless internet
- switching off the TV
- clearing distractive items from one's living environment
- adopting a more simple life style
- sitting frequently in quiet beingness - meditation

There are many more but once you get the taste of a lowered metabolism, you'll be able to work them out for yourself!

Chris

This is a breath of fresh air Chris.

As a bonus these ways of slowing the metabolism also tend to induce a feeling of calm by lowing the heart rate, slowing down breathing, lowering bloodpressure and (most interestingly) increase energy levels. This is my own experience of them (and not always what the mass media (who have a slightly different agenda!!!) would have us believe).

I agree that we have a conscious choice in our metabolic rate by embracing vibrational raising choices (or not) day to day. I do think that it if we make the "right" choices (by "right" I mean the ones that our higher selves guide us to) then we shall automatically have the perfect metabolism for our genuine needs as they come.