Over the past nine weeks, two movements have been traced. The first is the movement by which infinite consciousness seems to become each of us and, through us, a world. The second is the movement by which each of us, feeling ourselves cut off from our source, sets out in search of the happiness that is our own nature. This week, we pause to gather what has been understood, before the final post of our year-long series next week.
The Dream of Consciousness
Each night, the mind imagines a world within itself and enters that world as one of its own characters. From within the dream, the world seems to lie outside the one who inhabits it. On waking, the whole of it is understood to have been made of the very mind that dreamed it.
Consciousness is a field of infinite potential. It cannot know that potential directly, for consciousness, being all that is, cannot stand apart from itself. To bring what lies within it into existence, it must seem to divide itself into a subject that knows and a world that is known. Each of our minds is one such division, a dream in the infinite mind of consciousness. The one difference from the dream at night is that a mind asleep can have only one dream at a time. Consciousness has innumerable dreams simultaneously.
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