PHILOSOPHY


PHILOSOPHY


How awakened are you?


You’ve probably seen it on social media and heard it said by certain friends; “The world is waking up”. What does this mean, and, is it true?


by Boris von Rechenberg


“You are not the voice in your head, but the one who is aware of it.” -Eckhart Tolle


There was a time when I listened to pop rock, drove like a hoon, smoked like a chimney, guzzled beer by the six-pack, and threw down cheese burgers like they were smarties. Those brief golden years of my late-


teen ignorant bliss -- when lusting after a big guzzling car was as natural as rocking my mullet – my own personal awareness seemed perfectly mirrored by the world around me. We weren’t exactly aware. There was no web, limited social awareness, and global awareness was virtually non-existent. Multiculturalism was not exactly tolerated by the main stream -- certainly not celebrated – the average person’s prejudice manifesting as xenophobia, racism, sexism, and ageism. On the ‘more-privileged’ side of the


fence, we spent our childhood and teenage years with Dallas and Dynasty on the TV; great social barometers that attested our beliefs that bigger was definitely better. Education was there to help you get the best possible job, to get you the most amount of money, and to amass the most amount of power. Elitism was rife; in our private schools,


the cut and thrust of the corporate world was idolised, and our ethics became the more malleable the greater the potential gain. Many believed success came on the back of others’ losses, and many of us were OK with that. On the ‘less-privileged’ side of the fence, the so-called ‘Australian convict-


mentality’ was palpable, along with an underdog streak (which was more anti- elitist than it was egalitarian). Generally speaking, the average worker was either mindlessly slaving away in lower-middle class office and management jobs, or made up the highly unionised trades & manufacturing working class. They may have fought for their workers’ rights, but they were also, by and large, accepting of their ‘lot’. Dreaming big wasn’t part of their upbringing. Doing what you loved was pretty much unheard of. For them bigger was also better, after all, we all watched the same movies, read the same mags and saw the same ads. So what’s changed? The most cynical


would say ‘not much’, and on some level they may be right; the human animal is very clever at pretending to ‘do good’, to ‘be good’, and to appear to change for the better, whilst secretly looking after numero uno and not changing at all. One of my friends says that our apparent ‘higher awareness’ is a first world luxury, and that we would all be exposed for what we really are if we had to work 18-hour days to survive; had no time for yoga, retreats, enlightened literature, web research, and workshops. The cynics aside, there are many


signs humanity is indeed ‘waking up’. It feels to many as if we reached some kind of tipping point, and that the worst of humanity and the best of humanity seem to be expressing at their highest levels all at once; those who have made truth, love, and loving compassion their number one priority, and those who fear and mistrust this (and/ or have vested interests in maintaining the opposite).


WHAT IS AWAKENING EXACTLY? “Human consciousness is not static, fixed once and for all. It’s the product of a long evolutionary development and is capable of further development. In the thirty- or fifty-thousand-year history of the species we proudly call Homo sapiens, the human body didn’t change significantly, but human consciousness did. And it can change again. I believe that quantum consciousness


could be the next stage in the evolution of our consciousness — and that this evolution could be our salvation. Here I call ‘quantum consciousness’


the consciousness we access when we use the potentials of our quantum- computer brain. Our brain is a macroscopic quantum


system, yet we use it as if it were exclusively a classical biochemical system. With its quantum-system functions,


our brain can receive information not only from our eyes and ears, but directly from the wider world with which we are “entangled” -- nonlocally connected. Insightful people throughout history,


whether shamans or scientists, poets or prophets, have extensively used this capacity, innate to all human beings. “ László Ervin, Philosopher of Science and Integral Theorist


I am in a fortunate position of seeing people wake up and transform on a daily basis. As a meditation master and healing facilitator, I am delighted to see so many people come to me already awakened. More people arrive at my


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