A TREATISE ON CONSCIOUSNESS
Have you ever wondered why despite all your best intentions, despite the yearly habitual round of New Year’s resolutions and promises to yourself and sometimes to others for added support (or to get them temporarily off your back) – it is very, very hard to truly change and create the new you, become the version of yourself you know deep inside is the truer, more self loving and loving real you?
At times we might succeed for a while, but sooner or later we give in to what just seems too hard and impossible to change and succumb to a self-defeating ‘she’ll be right’ kind of attitude and just labour on as we always have, ensconced in yet another layer of devitalising giving up energy. Or you might find that if you do change certain habits, that you have swapped one condition or personal so-called vice for another: the ex-smoker finds themselves at the mercy of food cravings and overpowering snack attacks; when you don’t drink alcohol anymore you replace its sugar content and checking-out effect with distractions, hobbies, anything at all; the attempt to get fit and look after and care for yourself more, ends in an injury because you were chasing an ideal and must-have rather than truly listening to your body; and the working dad and mum who decided to lovingly spend more time with their children end up being more rushed, stressed and feeling more guilty still.
“If you need to know why your mind and your patterns
are so ingrained or hard to control etc – read Book 2.”
‘A Treatise on Consciousness’ will open up your awareness and it invites you to consider that consciousness is not the aloof ivory tower philosophical pastime of academics and hermits, but something very real and tangible in as far as its outplay on your day to day life is concerned: you yourself, all others around you, all the companies and organisations you care to name, all political systems, religions and ideologies, all good and bad ideas so called, are rooted and aligned to a consciousness.
So where does consciousness come from? And could it be that there is more than one consciousness? After all, we have hatred and war and cruelty on this earth and we also have people who clamour and or fight for peace - and is it possible to fight for something ‘good’ or is this pursuit only coloured in with a different shade of consciousness chosen from the very same palette?
Could it be that we only think we think our own thoughts? And if this is so, what does it mean for all the decisions we have made and are still to make? And if they are not ours, whose thoughts and decisions are they?
In summary, could it be that we are not as free as we like to think? And what if it were discovered that we are not so free to think? What if your thoughts came pre-destined or with a pre-designed range or limit? It is worth entertaining those questions given the range of cruelty, mania and the like our minds are capable of. And so, the un-asked question beckons -- to what degree do we give our power away to something that we have never questioned because on the whole, we are far too busy getting on with our life and keeping it all going – somehow?
If we really sat with it, it is in the ‘somehow’ that the question is beckoning. How is it that we can manage through life somehow but not question its very basis and or premise when in truth we are all only just managing, getting through it and existing rather than living?
The following quote from the book makes it clear that you have come across an immensely practical and pertinent presentation. How would it be if you could rediscover and re-acquaint yourself with the fact that you can actually feel what is true and what is not true and never be fooled again rather than being fed morsels of something you can’t ascertain the validity of because we have debased ourselves and are stuck in a desert of self doubt, uncertainty, the luck or bad luck of the draw and so called fate?
“It will come to pass that man will know that
all stems from the living quality of consciousness.
That consciousness is a measurable quality
and this quality can be quantified and qualified
in its vibrational distinction” ~ SB
If the above extract has any bearing or even foreboding, then this Book is not only a must, it is an ongoing study that you will find unfolds the more times you read it. That can be said of all of Serge’s books, for they are simply too vast and too revealing and thus exposing of our so-called assumed truths and apparently solid foundations. But then, when truly studied, nothing else makes more sense than this work of art and its illusion free revelations.
And so, ‘A Treatise on Consciousness’ may at first deeply challenge you and all that you know or even trusted was true, but slowly and surely, it re-orientates what you have deeply always felt but perhaps had no support to fathom let alone pursue – the what if’s of this world.
