Consciousness Meditation, Part 1

Rob Taylor

Beyond the brain barrier

What is Consciousness Meditation?

Consciousness meditation is our experiential mechanism for penetrating brain barrier limitations, i.e., we encounter the expanded consciousness horizon absent the constraints of ego-bias interference. The preparation process for consciousness meditation involves inner work and a deep existential comprehension of the Four Qualities (humility, gratitude, compassion, harmony). Most importantly, the journey to expanded consciousness is never external–the journey is our inner work. It’s always our inner work.

Consciousness meditation is divergent from alternate meditative practices. Other meditation methods include mindfulness, healing, manifesting, contemplative, and numerous other techniques. Most of them are self-referential based—the practitioner is focused on their own qualities, functions, or desired present states and future outcomes. Mindfulness and self-referential focus are akin to baby steps when compared to the purpose and causality of inner work and expanded consciousness meditation.

A Little History

Mindfulness meditation originated in Buddhist traditions with a documented history of some 2,500 years. Siddhartha drafted the mindfulness system in The Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, which encompassed the Four Foundations of Mindfulness:

mindfulness of our body
mindfulness of our emotions
mindfulness of our mind
mindfulness of connected existence

I am not delving into the complex details of the Four Foundations or other aspects of the discourse as they are not the focus of this article. For those interested readers, there is an abundance of valid researchable information on the web.

The original mindfulness traditions have devolved into monetized digressions, which Ronald E. Purser eloquently detailed in his book, McMindfulness:

“Mindfulness is now said to be a $4 billion industry, propped up by media hype and slick marketing by the movement’s elites. More than 60,000 books for sale on Amazon have a variant of ‘mindfulness’ in their title, touting the benefits.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/69462805-mcmindfulness

Even in the strictest original Buddhism tradition, mindfulness was never about expanded consciousness. The mindfulness meditation practice is merely an extension of elaborate Buddhist dogma.

The monetization of mindfulness pointed out by Purser also extends to consciousness meditation or discovery practices. There is a plethora of nonsense promoting so-called dimensions of consciousness, or the false narratives around accessing the subconscious, or misrepresenting thought energy and mind control methods—commodified schemes devised to deliver cash flows to people who have no idea what they’re talking about. But they talk a good enough game to blur the delusions of what they sell to people who are sincere about engaging consciousness practices.

Anyone can investigate for themselves the ludicrous cost associated with mindfulness coaching hourly rates, corporate level mindfulness team building consultations, or the costs linked with mindfulness meditation retreats.

Acknowledging Self-Perceived Deficiencies

Our collective human consciousness does not flourish through the dominance or presence of any particular element. A healthy forest is expressed via its independent parts: sunlight, soil, water, plants, fungi, insects, and wildlife. Similarly, the unified consciousness is experienced when practitioners express (or influence) as the energies of humility, gratitude, compassion, and harmony.

If I decide to undergo changes in my life, to explore my inner essence, I am acknowledging self-perceived deficiencies in my character. I observe impulses in my interactions that are not pleasant. Most revealing are the conditioned emotional sensations I experience with everything I observe. I witness the same emotion patterns with my inner dialogue—the self-talk that is constantly active in my brain.

Key Contemplation: The message is simple: the consciousness evolution of the human species is attainable for a price. There’s just one caveat: the gurus, teachers, and coaches do not have, and will never have, the capability to deliver on their claims of inner peace.

Contemporary mindfulness business practices exploit spiritual or consciousness seekers by offering unquantifiable and unsustainable methods for communal or individual consciousness evolution. Western-based mindfulness artfully executes an end-run around the causal truths behind social fragmentation, political disruption, and any level of critical thought. Instead, it offers short-term “feel good” solutions that solve nothing over the long term.

“Something has gone wrong with the science of mindfulness. The literature on its supposed mental and physical benefits is conceptually and methodologically precarious and has been divulged in a sensationalist way.” Has the science of mindfulness lost its mind?

The Four Qualities Integration

Consciousness meditation and inner work are processes for embracing and interacting with the energetic flows that constitute the collective consciousness horizon. The quintessential difference between this method and the mindfulness approach is the integration of humility and the three constructs—gratitude, compassion, harmony (together, the Four Qualities). Integrating the Four Qualities does not infer performing acts or thoughts through which a practitioner becomes humble, grateful, or compassionate. Assimilating the Four Qualities means the practitioner is becoming those qualities, i.e., she or he interacts and influences as the energies of humility, gratitude, compassion, and harmony.

Inner work and consciousness meditation dismiss any notions of the subconscious, the mind, or thought energy—none of which are validated by credible scientific data or research. Instead, inner work and consciousness meditation explore what we know to be true: expanded consciousness, bias-driven consciousness, our brain and body.

The intent of consciousness meditation is to nullify our bias-driven limitations and strengthen our perceptual capacity. This journey is accessible to anyone looking to explore inner work and consciousness meditation, without the associated costs of expensive programs, retreats, or teachers.

In Part 2, I will detail the method of consciousness meditation through inner work.

Reference Material

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald E. Purser

McMindfulness Quotes by Ronald E. Pursur

Has the science of mindfulness lost its mind? Miguel Farias, Catherine Wikholm