BRIDGE #03

An
Overwhelming
Realization

Life is consciousness and all forms of life, to differing degrees, have consciousness. But only human beings have the miraculous capacity to be aware of consciousness itself. This capacity for self-reflective awareness or Self-consciousness, in the context of fourteen billion years of development, is a very recent emergence. Now, the First Cause, the creative principle, the evolutionary impulse, the God-impulse is just beginning to become aware of itself directly, as consciousness itself. Indeed, the energy and intelligence that created the universe is only able to know itself directly through the awakening human. The mythical God has fallen out of the sky and is re-emerging in the human self as the light of consciousness, as the creative impulse or the urge to become. And I believe our future depends upon more on more of us being willing to bear the overwhelming implications of this realization and take responsibility for it.

Andrew Cohen
August 2005

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