The Awakening

Of Consciousness
Lesson 3
INTRODUCTION

This lesson deals with the awakening of Consciousness. While reading the title of the lesson, it
may be inferred that our Consciousness is sleeping. However, we normally consider that we
are awake most of the times. It is necessary to know that humanity is not awake. Humanity
consciousness is sleeping. People work asleep. People walk through the streets asleep.
People live and die asleep.

When we come to the conclusion that the entire world lives asleep, we realize about the
necessity to awaken. We need the awakening of consciousness. We want the awakening of
consciousness.

But… what is consciousness? Why does it sleep? Which are the causes of this occurrence?
How do I wake up? And, finally … Why do I have to wake up? We are going to deal with these
questions today.

What is consciousness?

People do not have a soul but a spark of soul that is called Essence. If we had a complete
soul, wars would not exist. However, this essence is more than important because it is God
inside us. It is the element that allows us to know ourselves. It is our real-being. It is what you
were looking for when you decided to initiate this course.

Consciousness is this Essence translated into facts. We have fallen into a mechanic life when
our EGO captured our essence. That is why we are unconscious. We cannot say that we are
free of making decisions if we have several psychological aspects that do not belong to us.

The soul is not embodied in the person yet. It is divided by the psychological self. The
percentage of consciousness that we have has concordance with the proportion of essence
that is not trapped inside the EGO. It is necessary to create Soul. It is necessary to disintegrate
the psychological self.

People believe that they do have an awakened consciousness. However, what we commonly
think of as Consciousness is the vigil state. We must not confuse consciousness with
psychological functions: thoughts, feelings, motor impulses and sensations. When we are in
the vigil state or are physically active, we mistakenly believe that activity defines the activity of
our consciousness, and we believe we are conscious when we are doing things, when we are
physically active, when we are living our lives from day to day.

Gnosis states that the vigil state is an aspect of consciousness, it is not the very definition of
consciousness, or even a good example of consciousness.

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Why does it sleep?

We have been endowed with an essence. However, the "Pluralized I" has seized a part of
consciousness and has trapped it inside. This caused us to have a sleeping conscience and
that we cannot own ourselves. The "Psychological I" manages our mind and emotions.
Consciousness bottled by the Ego cannot wake up. Humanity has a sleeping conscience.

The profound sleep of humanity is caused by fascination.

People are fascinated by everything in life. People forget their Selves because they are
fascinated. The drunkard in the bar is fascinated with the alcohol, the place, the pleasures, his
friends and the women. The vain woman in front of a mirror is fascinated with her own
glamour. The rich avaricious person is fascinated with money and possessions. The honest
worker in the factory is fascinated with the hard work. The father of the family is fascinated
with his children. All human beings are fascinated and sleep profoundly. When driving a car
we are astonished when we see people dashing across the roads and streets without paying
attention to the danger of the running cars. Others willfully throw themselves under the wheels
of cars.

There is not the least bit of doubt regarding the disastrous consequences of “intimate self-
consideration.” Besides hypnotizing the consciousness, it causes us to lose a lot of energy. If
one would not make the mistake of identifying too much with one’s self, then internal self-
consideration would be something more than impossible. When one becomes identified with
his “self,” such a one loves his own self too much and feels self-pity. Often, such a person
thinks that he has always behaved very well with this or that fellow, with the spouse, children,
etc. and that nobody has appreciated it, etc. In sum, one is a saint and all others are
scoundrels and rascals.

Preoccupation about what others might think about our own selves is one of the most common
forms of inner self-consideration. They might suppose that we are not honest, sincere, truthful,
courageous, etc.

IDENTIFICATION: People who lead a horizontal life feel identified with the mechanical
processes of life. They feel identification with all the problems of daily life (economic, political,
social, religious, home, street, work, etc). They also feel the same with the negative emotions
of jealousy, despair, euphoria, sadness, melancholy, envy, etc.

FASCINATION: People whose life unfolds on the horizontal line are fascinated with their own
life, with the world, with the environment, with the possibilities of becoming or having, etc.
Fascination is daydreaming in an uncertain future. It is to suppose that our life and that of
those people with whom we interact are developed in this or that way according to our
interests. Fascination is to think that the future holds for us trips, political, social positions, etc.,
etc. Both fascination and identification hypnotize our conscience and for that reason we are
victims of the circumstances of events and therefore of pain, suffering, etc.

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The work is very deep and frighteningly serious. Only in this way is it possible to remove,
eradicate from our psyche many undesirable, dark elements within which the essence is
imprisoned.

As consciousness wakes up the possibilities of direct experimentation increase, the work

becomes more and more lucid and continuous.

Normally people have only 3% of consciousness which is awake, and 97% of consciousness
which is asleep. Unquestionably, when it comes to possessing 4 or 5% of awaken
consciousness the first flashes of direct experience begin.

We must make a distinction between flashes and total fullness. Someone who possesses a
10% consciousness awaken will have a higher percentage of lucidity than those who have 4 or
5%.

In any case, the Essence is released as the Ego begins to dissolve. The capacity for direct
investigation will also increase progressively and orderly.

It is urgent to know that the "I" is a set of psychic energies. These "psychological aspects" fight
each other. “I must read a newspaper”, says the "I intellectual"; “I will go for a bike ride”,
contradicts the "I drive"; I'm hungry, declares the "I of digestion"; I'm cold, says the "I of
metabolism"; “they won't stop me”, exclaims the "Passionate I" in his defense.

Only by eliminating the “I” can we establish a permanent center of consciousness within our
own inner essence. This center is what is called Soul. Only a man with Soul can have true
continuity of purpose. Only in a man with Soul there are no internal contradictions and there is
true inner peace.

When the “I” begins to die, the raw material begins to accumulate. When the raw material
begins to accumulate, the establishment of a permanent center of consciousness begins.
When the I has died, the center of permanent consciousness has been fully established.

THE ATTENTION

The observation requires a special concentration. It requires a direct attention. Knowing that
you are sitting in a chair is an undirected attention or a passive attention, but observing the
chair would already be a directed attention.

So we can think a lot about ourselves, but this does not mean that we are observing our own
thoughts.

We live in a world of inferior emotions. Anything produces inferior emotions. Additionally, we

know we have them. However, it is different to know that one is in a negative state and another
to observe the negative state in which one is.

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So if you want to eliminate this or that "undesirable psychological element", you have to learn
to observe with the purpose of obtaining a change. If one does not learn to self-observe, any
possibility of change becomes impossible.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-OBSERVATION

When one learns to observe oneself, the sense of self observation is developed. Normally this
sense is stunted in the human being. It is degenerated. But as we use it, it unfolds and
develops.

Through self-observation we can realize that even the most insignificant thoughts, the most
ridiculous comedies that happen inwardly and that never externalize, are not ours. They are
created by the “I's”. We must not identify with those comedies, with these ridiculous things,
with those protests, with those anger, etc.

If one identifies with any inner end of those, the "I" that produces it becomes stronger, and thus
any possibility of elimination becomes increasingly difficult. So observation is vital when it
comes to causing a radical change in us.

PRACTICE S.O.L.

The exercise of the division of attention into three parts will allow us to demonstrate to a full
extent the degree of awareness acquired. This triple attention game is a complete exercise to
discover ourselves and raise awareness. We must divide the attention in three parts:

S- Subject: who am I? Not forgetting oneself is controlling the senses and the mind, feelings,
impulses, instincts, habits.

O- Object: What am I doing? If we forget ourselves when we see the object; we fall into
fascination.

L- Location: Where am I? Observe the place where you are. Observe everything around you
to the smallest details of the scene. See them as something new. Why am I here? What do I
have to do in this place?

When asking these questions; we must self-monitor each moment. Be alert in relation to our
thoughts, gestures, actions, emotions, habits, words, etc.

REMEMBERING ONESELF

The human being in his fascinated trance does not remember his Self. We must self-
remember ourselves from moment to moment. We need to self-remember ourselves in the
presence of every representation that could fascinate us. Let us hold ourselves while in front of
any representation and ask ourselves: Where am I? Am I in the physical world? Am I in the
Astral dimension? Then, give a little jump with the intention of floating within the surrounding

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atmosphere. It is logical that if you float it is because you are outside the physical body. Thus,
the outcome will be the awakening of consciousness.

The purpose of asking this question at every instant, at every moment is with the intention of
engraving it within the subconsciousness, so that it may manifest later during the hours given
to sleep, hours when the ego is really outside the physical body. You must know that in the
astral dimension, things appear just as they are here in this physical world. This is why during
sleep, and after death, people see everything there in a form very similar to this physical world.
This is why they do not even suspect that they are outside of their physical body. Therefore,
no dead person ever believes himself to have died because he is fascinated and profoundly
asleep.

Even when it seems incredible, when the student observes themselves, they do not remember
themselves. They do not really feel themselves. They are not aware of themselves.

It seems somewhat implausible that when the gnostic aspirant observes his way of laughing,
speaking, walking, etc., he forgets about himself. However, it is essential to try to remember
yourself while observing yourself. This is essential for the awakening of consciousness.

Self-observe, Self-know, without forgetting yourself, is terribly difficult, but frighteningly urgent
to achieve the awakening of consciousness.

What we are saying seems silly. People ignore that they are asleep. They ignore that they do
not remember themselves even if they look at themselves, even when they are observed in
detail.

This forgetfulness of oneself is really the cause of all human ignorance. However, when any
man comes to deeply understand that he can remember himself, he is very close to the
awakening of consciousness. We are talking about something that must be deeply reflected.

People are not able to feel their own mechanicity, while observing themselves.

During the intimate exploration of oneself in that tremendous super effort to be aware of one
owns Self, it is clear that attention is divided, and here we return again, to that of the division of
attention. One part of the attention is directed as it is hardly logical towards the effort, the other
towards the pluralized Ego or I.

The intimate remembrance of oneself is more than analyzing oneself. It is a new state, which
is only known through direct experience. Every human being has had those moments,
states of intimate self-remembering. Maybe a moment of infinite terror, maybe in childhood or
on a trip when we exclaimed: And what am I doing here, why am I here?

Self-observation of oneself, accompanied simultaneously with the intimate remembrance of

one own self, is terribly difficult and yet indispensable to truly know oneself.

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