Conscious and Unconscious
Human Evolution is Divided into 2 Phases - Conscious and Unconscious
Conscious and unconscious phases of evolution are leading us to one goal. Until today, we have evolved unconsciously, and from today onward, we can evolve consciously.
Conscious and Unconscious Phases of Evolution
Over the generations, human evolution has been under nature's control. We have evolved unconsciously, not knowing the cause of our existence and in the meantime have adhered to various beliefs and philosophies in order to provide us some kind of framework while living in this world. This represents one specific phase of our evolution, “the unconsciousness phase.”
In our era, this unconsciousness phase is coming to an end. We are gradually breaking through into the next phase—“the consciousness phase.”
Unconscious Evolution: Toward Pleasure, Away from Pain
Until today, nothing has depended upon the person. “Unconscious evolution” means that one is simply attracted toward some goal by the pleasure one pictures for oneself in that goal; or one is repelled to go somewhere else by means of pain. All of our progress throughout history has been controlled by remaining in any state as long as it is tolerable, and when no longer tolerable, we looked for a way out and moved onto a new and different path. We have acted this way all throughout history, in our lives today, and all of nature acts in the same way: toward pleasure and away from pain. This defines our unconscious evolution.
Conscious Evolution: Awareness of Life's Cause and Purpose
Today, in the conscious evolution phase, our development is dependent upon us. If we continue to simply follow nature’s commands, in other words, follow our thoughts and desires without any true awareness of their cause, we will be led into intensifying pain.
The alternative to this path is if we discover a means for attaining what exactly gives rise to our desires and thoughts, and start working on ourselves in order to reveal this cause. Kabbalists state that revealing this cause is the purpose for our being here, and that it is the sole purpose for studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.
This cause will be revealed to everyone, however our evolution leading to it can either be one of getting slapped around without ever knowing why (i.e. unconscious evolution), or one that reveals the goal before us, and a method for speeding up our understanding of where everything is coming from and why it is happening, and how to use everything we have in order to reach our final state in the shortest possible time.
Revelation of the Common Purpose for Each and Every Person
We will then evolve consciously toward this goal—researching and understanding how nature operates upon us, and revealing the complete picture of nature in order to live in a new dimension of life, peacefully and comfortably. This all depends upon the revelation of the common purpose for each and every person, of how incredible and great it is, and making it attractive and worthwhile to choose to advance towards.
The wisdom of Kabbalah has stemmed down to us in order to reveal the goal and purpose of our existence. Rather than being a philosophy, or a set of beliefs, the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how one can work on oneself in order to attain more complete levels of perception which are concealed from our inborn, egoistic mode of perceiving through the five senses.
The wisdom of Kabbalah, in general, includes our whole life. Everything that exists was created to correctly use ourselves and everything that has been prepared purposefully, to achieve life’s highest goal quickly, and in the most comfortable and short way. It wasn’t made so that we “just exist” in it. When we reach our goal, we will feel that we are in a state of eternal and perfect motion and existence, without death, birth, or any of the problems that we perceive in our world.
Today we are being pushed to realize that there is no worse state of existence than our present state. This is in order to develop in us the desire to rise to an altogether new state of existence, of boundless fulfillment and an eternal perception of our life—the purpose of our lives.
Related Material:
- Kabbalah.info - concepts in this article are based on the fundamental principles of Kabbalah as taught at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute: www.kabbalah.info
