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The regulatory and protective role of human consciousness
"As humans, we fear and resist anything we don't (yet) understand, which protects our processing system from being overwhelmed."
As humans, we play a role in a larger universe and are therefore bound by our human frameworks, just as my cat Dino plays a role in the larger whole and is bound by her cat frameworks, but at the same time we sense from each other when we are having a bad day.
The human lens:
Partly through human cognition, we can regulate ourselves as humans in a world more complex than ourselves. Anything we can't regulate, we tend to rebel against.
- Emotion
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Experiencing
These are all human matters that regulate our life on earth within a human framework.
Our ego defines us human, it protects us.
Our ego is what makes us inherently human. We long to be unique because it offers a sense of protection and survival. However, beyond our human consciousness lies a world of our being where who we are as limited humanmeat suits is not at all important.
When the human lens is confronted with a greater consciousness:
However, we can find influences from "that which is greater than ourselves" at the intersections of what makes us human.
Think of "intuition" or a so-called "gut feeling," which it is said you can always rely on to protect yourself.
Then it's no longer about "thinking" but about "knowing."
Because doubting everything and finding ways to protect our sense of self is a very human protective mechanism.
Scary and Overwhelming
But trusting that is scary and overwhelming, because who are we as individuals with our experiences? So we prefer to reject it. Myself included. I find it terrifying to think that I'm split into a piece that functions within my human flesh suit and interacts pleasantly with other flesh suits. But at the same time, I'm also part of a larger whole in which my flesh suit plays only an actor's role on the stage of consciousness and who we truly are inside, beyond our human limitations.
Human life is one big play
I've experienced that my human suit is only a fragment of my consciousness. Not because I'm supposedly unique, but because all of us, as human suits, are just fragments of a larger consciousness. I've written the following analogy to clarify this for myself.
Imagine: We all have to perform a play. We call that play "our life as humans." As part of our role, everyone is assigned their own human suit with a script and plays their part. Some of us become so attached to the role of our human suit that we forget we're playing a role. We start to identify with our role as humans on Earth because we're playing this role day in and day out, building a life within the play.
Total renunciation of the play isn't an option until we've finished our script, but sometimes I think we should be less guided by the role we've been given, because it can be a very fearful and limiting role. Because in the end we are all playing a big role together, and we can laugh about it sometimes without making each other's lives miserable by over-identifying with our roles.
So much is possible if we were less afraid of who I think we all truly are: Together, the God beyond the human suit, to whom we look up for advice and counsel within our human meatsuits.