Part 3: 'Unlearning'

Understanding how the process of unlearning can help us in our search for the Truth

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.

Before we start the process of delving into the main body of the subject matter, we must first open ourselves up to possibility in general. Much of what is read here will not mean anything if you are not open to the possibility contained within the framework. If we approach any information from the initial perspective that we are closed off to it, it is entirely possible that we can reject it before we ever give it any chance to develop within our conscious perception beyond a certain stage. Part of the reason for why this is even more important to be aware of, with regards to the subject matter we will be covering, is because of the very nature of the subject matter contained within the framework.

Because of this, it is worth briefly asking the question, what exactly is the subject matter we will cover in this framework? The simplest and most concise answer to this question is to say that the subject matter encompasses quite literally everything. There is nothing which is not contained within its scope. Even this very framework is encompassed within it, the pages of the work, the letters on the pages, the author, and the reader. When this statement is truly absorbed, integrated, and understood, using the framework as an external tool for your self development will no longer be necessary. It is this ultimate realisation, experienced directly, that interacting with the framework is helping to bring you to.

I urge all seekers, before going much further into the main body of the framework, to begin actively engaging with the process of ‘unlearning’. It is this term which will be looked at in this part of the framework, as well as looking at the reasons as to why engaging in such a practice is important. When we read something, although we may not be consciously aware of it, we are naturally having to interpret what has been written. The words that we read are the primary medium for understanding what is being communicated to us by the author.

At the same time though, the words represent something that is limited, because they can only convey an idea or concept to us based on what we are able to interpret is the author’s meaning of that word. We find ourselves confronted with a paradox then; we can only interpret what has been written based on where our conscious perception has been developed to. In other words, the blocks in our conscious perception become a limiting factor for us in interpreting the very words that outline the framework.

At the same time as we are limited by the words and our own blocks in conscious perception, without the words and our conscious perception, however blocked it may be, there would be no ability for us to exchange with the framework and therefore have the possibility to shift our conscious perception. We need the words and our perception to interact with the framework and develop through our interaction with it and yet, ironically, those two phenomena are some of the greatest hinderances in fully realising the essence contained within the framework. Therefore, the concept of ‘unlearning’ is introduced in order to help to resolve this fundamental conflict.