Part 21: The Process Of Manifestation

This article is part of the Unified Consciousness Framework series. To gain the maximum benefit from reading this series it would be wise to read them sequentially.

The Invisible Part 

Our process of discovering more about the cosmos, which is ultimately a process of self-discovery, is something which you will often find being referred to as a game or play of sorts. Whilst we remain focused on the external nature of this discovery process though, we fail to see that approaching it from this perspective will constantly result in new layers of the phenomenal world being revealed to us. This does not necessarily mean that we are discovering the underlying reality of that world though, even though we may be producing information and some body of knowledge as a part of that process. 

We often therefore arrive at certain points, as we have seen many times before in the sciences, where the belief exists that we have discovered a ‘fundamental’ component of the cosmos. Having arrived at what we think is a root component of existence, we then think that is not possible to gain any deeper level of understanding related to the external world. A good example of this is observed when we look at the discovery of the atom. Originally, when the atom was discovered it was considered to be something that was indivisible. Since then we have come to realise, through a wide array of different experiments and observations, that there is a whole cosmos contained within every single atom, and that, ironically, an atom is predominantly empty space, even though from our perspective it seems to be the basic building block of the physical world we see and interact with around us.

This is why looking at this game within the context of a consciousness framework helps us to realise that it is not possible for us to come to a fundamental understanding of the root principles by simply looking at its various different layers and analysing them. It is as if there is an ‘active’ part to this process which is actively hiding from us in an effort to remain unseen. If we remain firmly focused on this external approach we will constantly run into this issue. It is true that we may come to know about a number of different phenomena by taking such an approach, but our fundamental understanding of the reality of things will remain unclear; hiding from us in this cosmic game of hide and seek.

It is for this reason that the approach that this framework takes must be different. If it was not, then it would simply perpetuate this game. Think of this framework as being primarily for those who know of the ‘existence’ of this game, perhaps they can even see it for themselves, but they have made a conscious choice that they would like to no longer play the game. You see, what is being inferred to the reader here is that they are caught up in a game which makes it appear as though the important part of the game is whether you have ‘won’ or ‘lost’ at it. The person playing the game becomes so focused on whether they have won or lost that they lose sight of the fact that in both cases they are still playing the game! In other words, win or lose the game still carries on. The only way to stop playing the game is not to stop the game itself, but to simply stop yourself from being a part of it. The difference between these two approaches may seem small, but this is a far more accurate way of seeing things clearly when looking at things from a consciousness perspective.