First, there is the field of complete consciousness.
This then expresses itself in an organic form.
From here on he gets lost in organizing the physical environment around him.
It begins to divide into mind, and mind then divides into ego, and ego then believes itself to be the origin of consciousness.
As the ego, arising from thoughts of limitation, fractures against obstacles, it develops what Eckhart Tolle calls the body of pain.
The painbody then becomes an inner unconscious entity. It seeks to feed on pain in order to survive. It causes a person to feel pain and causes this person to inflict pain on others.
After the painbody attacks, it tends to spread. Soon armies are formed and war spreads. The mind itself now works in the service of the painbody.
The last two world wars are an expression of the pain-body in complete domination.
The liberation of the body from pain comes from the observation of the mind; observing how he takes a feeling, fully identifies with it and thinks and acts on that feeling.
This witnessing is the separation from the body of pain, the disidentification of it. When this happens, the light of awareness begins to dissolve the pain. One sees this shadowy entity for what it is, an accumulation of past wounds, an expression of rogue life force particles.
Witnessing is recognizing that the self is distinct from the mental and emotional turbulence of the ego. It is a return to the recognition of consciousness that propagates thought, which is a small part of consciousness.
Witnessing is placing awareness in the moment and observing how it expresses itself through mentation.
Acknowledging oneself as the author of mind and not as the result of mind removes the automation that accompanies the belief in determinism, which in turn arises from the belief that mind arises from matter.
This is the movement referred to as spirituality, and it is a movement towards wholeness.
Spirituality itself can be confusing due to elaborate expressions about what it is; but, in its essence, it is an attempt to return to the whole.
The whole, it will be discovered, canâEUR(TM)t be fragmented.
Totality is a return to identification with the origin of creation; a return to the contemplation of one’s own field of consciousness; a return to what is known as God, Being or Spirit.
Our path of life is a path towards freedom, identifying ourselves with the real, which arises from pure subjectivity, from the implied order. Our entrapment in the order of explanation is due to the unconsciousness of the body of pain.