From Brain Barrier to Quantum Field
The purpose of consciousness meditation is to cross the bias-conditioned brain barrier threshold (the limit imposed by our conditioned thinking) and experience the expanded consciousness horizon. Experience is defined as the practitioner demonstrating the capacity to express as the four imperatives: insight, guidance, knowledge, and wisdom (see my article, The Four Imperatives, Part 1).
Consciousness meditation is the practice of identifying, confronting, and integrating the fragmented parts of ourselves—bias-conditioned traits and emotional responses — through the four qualities: humility, gratitude, compassion, and harmony.
Sitting (Eyes Closed) Meditation
The physicality of sitting meditation is simply comfort. Any presumed requirements for posture, leg or hand positioning, breathing methods etc., are not meaningful except to personal preference. The practitioner should be comfortable with relaxed breathing, without physical stress, for meditations lasting from ten to sixty minutes. Adequate blood and oxygen flow throughout the body and brain are important, so the seated position should not be restrictive.
Sitting meditation is the “safe zone” for the practitioner (as opposed to presence meditation). The challenges are primarily limited to the emotional impact of inner dialogue diversions. Those diversions are subtle; one moment the practitioner is in the meditative process and suddenly, twenty minutes have passed while they’re consumed by the inner dialogue. The heavier the emotional impact of the inner dialogue, the more diminished is the core discipline. Consciousness meditation is being present in the moment—consciously engaged in the meditation.
As discussed in Part 3, the discipline is to focus on what’s in front of you. In a sitting, closed-eyes meditation, what’s in front of most beginning practitioners is darkness. That’s fine, it’s the norm in the early stages. But when the practitioner is distracted by the inner dialogue, they are not consciously engaged in the meditation, they’ve lost sight of what’s in front of them.
Consciousness meditation is defined as the practitioner being intentionally conscious of what is occurring during the meditation—including the immediate recognition of inner dialogue incursions. At the point of any such incursion, the practitioner instantly shifts their focus back to what’s in front of them, not dwelling on or becoming fixated with the distraction of inner dialogue. This discipline is imperative during later encounters with the expanse.
The Expanse
The early stages of consciousness meditation occur within the brain barrier framework—our lesser consciousness. This is because the ego-bias influences constrain the meditation effort in the absence of the four qualities. Functionally, all meditation processes are inhibited without the influencing energies of humility, gratitude, compassion, and harmony.
Expressing as the four qualities is also interwoven into the practitioner’s presence meditation effort—a sort of Celtic knot of infinitely streaming energy (further explained in upcoming Part 5). When the practitioner reaches the capacity to begin expressing as any of, or a combination of the four qualities, there is an alteration in the evolution of the practitioner’s consciousness meditation.
With the declining influence of ego-bias conditioning, the practitioner intuits an expanse beyond the brain barrier framework. The expanse is eternally present, but commonly not perceivable because of the restrictive limits of our lesser consciousness. This new discovery is referred to as the unified field, the quantum field, collective consciousness or expanded consciousness—it is specific to the human species. There is also a unified consciousness construct that binds human beings with all sentient forms.
What’s In Front of You Is Going to Change
As stated in the first sentence of this article: The purpose of consciousness meditation is to cross the bias-conditioned brain barrier threshold and experience the expanded consciousness horizon.
When the practitioner perceives something beyond the brain barrier, they also discern the energy of that sensation. This is where the focus of the meditation shifts to letting the brain barrier fall away—a release from the confines of bias conditioning. This is a relaxed, intentional process and difficult to explain. It’s a release of selfness or singularity and will likely require more than one meditation session. But once the practitioner has that first intuition, or perception of the expanse, it will become their mission to flow into that space.
At first, there will only be glimpses or slight engagements with your expanded consciousness. The depth and breadth will be different for each practitioner. As you spend more time expressing as your expanded consciousness during meditations, what’s in front of you (the darkness) becomes intermittent. Different configurations of what's in front of you will be observed. I will not provide details on what any practitioner will experience. Each practitioner will experience uniquely—and will comprehend these events when sufficiently immersed in their expanded consciousness journey.
I do not share my experiences nor should any practitioner. Expanded consciousness encounters are specific to the individual. Sharing details with others may introduce expectations that coerce unproductive or imagined situations during their own meditation sittings. Having stated that, offering general perspectives is often beneficial between those with similar interests.
The essential questions are those that must be lived rather than answered. The energetic coherence activated through consciousness meditation feels like a sudden rush of clarity, a shared epiphany equivalent to a species finally understanding its inherent purpose and how to realize that purpose.
The Four Imperatives
The expanded consciousness horizon (or quantum field) is our control database —a metaphorical storehouse where all knowledge resides. There is no new knowledge in the quantum field, only what has been discovered and what remains to be discovered. Every human being is connected through and has access to this source, limited only by the self-induced obstacle of their bias-conditioned lesser consciousness.
Transitioning from lesser consciousness to the expanded consciousness framework progressively exposes the practitioner to the four imperatives: insight, guidance, knowledge, and wisdom. This is the outcome of the practitioner’s deepening capacity to observe and express as the four qualities (humility, gratitude, compassion, and harmony).
I will end the article at this point because further discourse requires a thorough examination and understanding of the dynamic interdependency between presence meditation and sitting meditation, which will be the subject of Part 5.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I handle inner dialogue during meditation?
The discipline is immediate recognition of inner dialogue disruptions and instantly refocusing on "what's in front of you," rendering the distraction irrelevant . This requires conscious engagement throughout the meditation session.
What is "the expanse" in consciousness meditation?
The expanse (or expanded consciousness) refers to the unified field, quantum field, or collective consciousness—eternally present and perceivable once the practitioner has crossed the brain barrier.
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