Cogito Ergo Sum

The title of this little old blog came from,"Rene Descartes" from his philosophical proposition,
and translated as, "I  think therefore I am". I am the body that looks back at me in the mirror ,this
outer manifestation of form, am I a thinking conscious soul, who is only using this vehicle of a
body to gain entrance into the phenomenal world of expression? In meditation I have often left
the body and travelled to many places, and all as real as getting on a plane, but  very much cheaper
I may add! Many times while astral travelling I have observed my outer body either sitting in a chair
or lying on a bed ,awaiting  its owners return! I think that life does not need a body at all to express itself ,except maybe in the form of a soul. As I think therefore I am, absolutely,  Descartes called
this argument his "Archimedes Point" thought reigns supreme, El  Supremo? Whether we travel on
the inner or outer realms of consciousness, the common  denominator is mindful presence.
How is it that consciousness which seems so non-material  can take on the material form we
experience? How do "space time" colour ,sound, texture, substance, and the many other qualities
that we associate with the material world, emerge in consciousness? What is the process of
manifestation within the mind? Whatever we may be conscious of the faculty of consciousness
is something we all share, consciousness is the one truth we cannot deny, it is the absolute
certainty of our existence. Sleep has been called the "first cousin of death", each night we rehearse
the ritual of passing from this world into the astral realm, few of us  remember these nightly
sojourns, but there are some that do.  Each night as we sleep, we leave our dense physical body
and move into our astral body, which at this  stage in our evolutionary arc is the exact replica of
our physical body,(albeit much less dense). It is a cycle of  "off" and "on" while we are awake
we are "on" to being conscious within the physical plane, when we sleep ,we are "off" to the
physical plane and "on" to the astral plane, where we are every bit as conscious as we are on the
earth plane,(more so in fact) Consciousness resides within the life form It "carries" the
individualised being who has mindfulness, and further supplies the vehicles of expression
(bodies) that it needs to express on the physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual planes of
existence. Astral travel is a natural involuntary phenomena that occurs while we slumber
perfectly in line with natural law, and the evolutionary arc we are all on .Consciousness  remains
at all levels ,however  the influence of the ego is somewhat lessoned as we progress spiritually.
warmest regards Michael.
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