There is a great deal of difference between being conscious and being aware. To most of you there will seem to be little or no difference. To be conscious one has to have a picture, idea, concept, image, memory or history relating to what one is conscious of. When you look at a tree, you know it is a tree with different qualities, size, color, and genus. But to be truly aware of what it is, you need to see directly, with your total being, without any abstract ideas of what it is.

The mind has put together its own reality, or what it calls reality, from abstractions from reality. This is not Reality. So, to say we are all consciousness is missing this Reality. To see we are Awareness Itself is far more accurate.

This may all sound like I am nitpicking over the use and meaning of words. It goes much deeper than that. If we don't start to see how the mind as ideas works, we will miss the true meaning of that which is beyond this conceptual process.

The whole problem of humanity is living, seemingly, in the fog of ideas. Ideas are not real. No matter how close they may seem to get to the thing we are trying to understand, describe, or explain, they are always just images about something, not the thing itself.

We are so lost in that process we have become the process. When you say you are conscious of anything, that is what is conscious, the idea machine called "me". Which is not conscious at all. In that state, which we accept as normal, we are always outside of life trying to look in.

When we Awaken, become Enlightened, that fog is removed and one sees Reality directly as pure Awareness. When we are totally aware of anything we step out of the dream world and into Reality, as Reality. One sees, doesn't think or believe, with the total being, the Heart, that there is no outside or inside, there is just Life in Its Fullness. We awaken to the fact that we were dreaming and that all humankind is dreaming. This is a profound transformation in our Being. We no longer see anything or person as being outside of us. We are Life and we can never end.

Don't accept that we are consciousness, we are beyond, before, consciousness. Yet, we go on using consciousness. It is a useful tool that we could not get by without. But the tool is not the Being. When you awaken you will clearly see the difference.

Direct Perception is our real way of seeing. When the mind as ideas, beliefs, is still then we have direct perception of what is. When we are totally aware we don't become ignorant of what is there in our environment. We perceive with intelligence and act with clarity. Only minds like that can see clearly what needs to be done in the world to bring about a transformation of the way the mind works. This is really up to you. The fact that you are reading this indicates you are ready to really look into the whole ego process and become free of it. One person at a time we will awaken and the more of us who do awaken will create the energy to help others to awaken. There is nothing in our past that can save the world. Only by a total transformation is there any hope.