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Not many realize the potential that comes with the fact that our minds never turn off.  That our minds also process information that is not obtained via our conscious senses, sometimes referred to as intuition.  People don't realize that their minds are in sync with the entirety of what is going on.   By being in sync, it is both sending and receiving 'information' perpetually.  It merely becomes a matter of teaching one's conscious mind what it is capable of. 

In psychology, certain people have given the unconscious, or a part of the unconscious, depending on which person one would be talking with, the term hidden observer.  This issue becomes much like metaphysical conversation because we are attempting to use words to describe an extremely complex, yet simultaneously simple phenomenon, in that it just is, the mind never shuts off.  Semantics.  The trick is to see the pattern, the image, of what is going on.  What one word can describe a huge complex abstract and convert it appropriately in communication?   One must experience for one’s Self.  

Like the realization that our thinking is less than 1% of the totality of brain function at any given moment.  The realization must follow that whatever it is our conscious thinking thinks, it will always ever only be less than 1% of what is really going on.  To be fully aware in the moment suddenly becomes a matter of not thinking.  This is why so many spiritual paths in the East require meditation, because it is a good way to learn how to not think.

Think of this though in the language of spirituality.  Here is an explanation of the hidden observer from a subject participating in a study on the unconscious by Professor Ernest Hilgard, while at Stanford University. 

"The hidden observer is analytical, unemotional, businesslike...The hidden observer is a portion of Me.  There's Me 1, Me 2 and Me 3.  Me 1 is hypnotized, Me 2 is hypnotized and observing, and Me 3 is when I'm awake...The hidden observer is cognizant of everything that's going on; it's a little more narrow in its field of vision than Me 3, like being awake in a dream and fully aware of your actions...The hidden observer sees more, he questions more, he's aware of what's going on all of the time, but getting in touch is totally unnecessary...He's like a guardian angel that guards you from doing anything that will mess you up...Unless someone tells me to get in touch with the hidden observer I'm not in contact.  It's just there."  1

I take special note of his choice of words using 'guardian angel that guards you from doing anything that will mess you up,' because I am currently reading another book by a different author, James Hillman regarding this supposed guardian angel.  Even more interesting though, is this pattern with how a lot of religious people view god.  Think of the overall pattern of how this person’s explanation of what the unconscious does compared with what a lot of people think god does.  They see god as an all knowing being, handing out rewards and punishments, a looking out for us, kind loving deity. 

A lot of people word the phenomenon in a lot of different ways, but universally most see god as having some kind of Providence.  I challenge this idea in the face of this description of the unconscious mind.  I say it is peoples own minds doing all these things; looking out for them, creating synchronicity, answering prayers, yet they are attributing it to a god.  Keep in mind that suffering teaches powerful lessons so it makes sense that just like people propose god of doing this, so too will the unconscious bring about unpleasant circumstances to teach the conscious mind lessons.  It is quite easy to see this same pattern materialize in the fact that our unconscious minds create suffering when our conscious minds are out of sync.  What is called the Shadow Effect is a perfect example.  This is the neurotic, the self-destructor, the ones who hurt themselves and others; they are at war with their own mind, their own soul. 

Our minds have been recording everything, and then some since day one.  All that stuff we are still unaware of has been accumulated into our minds too.  Some would argue before day one.  It knows the truth whether the conscious person we see, that is, the people we deal with every day of our lives, knows it or not.  Not only that, but our minds are connected to everything else and it receives information via what most would term telepathy; PERPETUALLY.  In this sense, compared to our conscious mind, our unconscious mind is ALL KNOWING.  We live in a giant ocean of information that is yet to be discovered by scientific methods.  They have yet to figure out a way to detect and measure the energy our brains use to convey images between minds.  If we are unaware of our unconscious, how can we be aware of how it ‘knows’ things our conscious minds cannot know? Thus, god is unknowable because our unconscious is unknowable.  Do you see the pattern?

In almost all of the literature I have been reading regarding these matters the word soul is fairly consistently given to the unconscious.  That is to say, to a fair number of people in the various academic/professional fields, unconscious and soul are interchangeable.  When the 'holy spirit' conveys something to an individual, that is simply their unconscious mind forcing its way into consciousness.    It is a greater, or stronger form of intuition.  A matter of degrees.  Creativity is often used in this context.  I've read that Plato considered the soul to be the bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind.  

I say, if Jesus existed, he wasn't god, or a god, he was a dude who realized what his mind could do more fully than the rest.  That is assuming he existed at all.  Like the Einstein of mind power, the Stephan Hawking of consciously realizing mental connection with matter.  Because of the culture and the time of his life, he supposedly used religious language to convey the image.  The energy generated internally is greatly magnified if a person associates it with a god, with need, with motivation, with love.  The truth is it doesn't matter what your motivation, it is simply a matter of having the right amount of energy while doing whatever it is one does. 

Regarding love.  What mind wouldn't love itself?  What mind/body wouldn't be more energetic, more powerful, if it was charged with a sense of love?  What mind wouldn't do better, or have a better life not loving itself?  Of course your unconscious loves itself.  The issue is it doesn't think in those terms.  Those terms are generated by this culture, this society, which has been accumulating for thousands of years.  Can you see this comparison regarding love?  The way god's love is supposedly beyond knowing, and the way the unconscious' sense of love for itself is not really communicable?   Of course the all-knowing, never sleeping mind loves itself.  It's not even a question.  If the conscious mind could somehow realize its full potential it would never again for a single moment in its life ever do anything harmful to itself ever again.   It wouldn't even be a question.  It would just be.  The spiritual language is that the answer is within, god is within, the truth is your unconscious already knows, so of course the answer is within. 

It is not god, or an angel, a spirit or a daemon that is looking out for us, it is our own mind.   It is a mind that is literally connected to everything else.   It never ceases, it never falters, it does not reason inductively.  It is only our conscious mind which does so.  You see the pattern?  Can you see the comparison in language and phenomenon?  They say things like, god never lets you down.  God always knows what you need before you need it.  God hears your prayers and looks out for you.  God tests you.  On and on the list could go.  Now study and compare this with the unconscious mind.  It shouldn't take one long to see that it is the unconscious mind that does all those things.  Protects you, rewards you, punishes you, doles out the karma.   God is not omnipresent; your OWN MIND is omnipresent.  Good news is, now your conscious mind knows this fact, if it didn't already.  Bad news is, now your unconscious will never let you forget it. 

Christ supposedly said, "All these things I can do, you can do and more."  You see, it has nothing to do with god and everything to do with realizing the power of your own mind.  If you had the level of awareness that Christ supposedly had, you too would be able to do amazing things.  The issue is, in reality, those things are not amazing at all.  It's that big fish in a little pond phenomenon again.   These amazing things are simply things you were born to do, they only seem amazing because of how this culture tints our view of reality.  For most people I know it would be amazing to just touch someone and them be healed, but if we were raised to be aware of our potential it wouldn't be amazing at all; It would just be how it is. 

1. The hidden observer….It's just there: From Ernest Hilgard, Divided Consciousness (1977); quoted in Crabtree [124], p. 32.