Expansion of Consciousness and Letting Go

November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

Before I get into this I will take a little diversion. It is to do with karmic “debt” which is another way of simply saying imbalance. If you take more than you give that is unbalanced and ultimately unsustainable. If we “wrong” someone we may feel guilty especially if we are socially caught in so doing, found out, reported to teacher. We may be socially required to say “sorry” even if we do not mean it. It does not change the “wrong” one iota. It is the sort of thing our mothers might require of us if we stole our sister’s Maltesers. It is a social “peace” keeping. It does not change the karma one tiny bit. Until such time we feel it in our hearts to be wrong, we will continue to accrue karmic debt from similar acts. Were the scales to fall from our eyes one fine day we might want to change our ways. We might re-orient our behaviour towards our fellow human beings, try to stop being selfish bellends and do some nice self-less stuff for a change. We would not do this for “show” or PR. Karma does not give a toss about PR. We can never undo a wrong we have meted out to someone nor can we “make it up to them”. What we can do is ensure that we do not inflict that behaviour on others.

Say for example you were to slag me off. You could never undo that. What you could do is make a general effort not to repeat this behaviour, not to inflict it on others. You could strive to be generally more positive and less derogatory. You could balance out your unpleasantness by being more pleasant generally. In so doing you would start to balance your books with the universe. There is no requirement to do anything in respect of me, rather a more general debt to the universe. I personally am unlikely to feel aggrieved or owed. So to try to make it up to me would be silly and probably disingenuous.

Here we have an example of a consciousness expanded away from the petty and personal to the wider and universal. At the moment it seems Trump takes everything personally and vindictively so. His focus is centered on him and does not have a wider universal view. It is all about his personality and his sense of self. He feels hard done by a lot of the time and is prone to playing angry victim.

This sense of victimhood is shared by vast tracts of humanity; they bemoan that life is unfair and complain that things are not as they should be. They imagine life a burden forced upon them. They try to have life on their own terms. If they don’t like how they look they will pay a plastic surgeon to surgically disfigure them. Their consciousness is not expanded beyond their perception of how the meat looks. They are fixated on something arguably silly.

In the blue books opus the Tibetan discusses initiation as a sequential expansion of consciousness, here diagrammatically represented.

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In the diagram, the scale is reconfigured at the end of each open cone. The diameters represent the breadth of consciousness and width of inclusiveness. Each successive cone is an order of magnitude increase in breadth of consciousness. The scale is perhaps logarithmic.

According to the text the consciousness of a fifth degree initiate differs very markedly from your normal common or garden human. What might concern them is not the same as the house home heart wallet and genitals of normal people. Normal people worry about a host of mundane things which in the wider evolutionary scheme do not matter very much. Your much sought after promotion in job is of no consequence in terms of your spiritual evolution.

If you think of a snake as it grows and evolves it has a tendency to shed its skin so that it, no longer constrained, can grow. A similar view can be had here. As a person evolves the ways and thought patterns of the old life must be shed. Let go of. So that a newer nascent consciousness can expand unburdened by the habits {bad} of the past. The fresh new skin does not need the scaly old ways to constrain it. This letting go can mean relationships which drag you down or they can simply need recalibrating. Old habits die hard and these are the detritus that needs letting go of.

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Being obsessed with little trite details can prevent the expansion of consciousness. One needs to move from the petty and personal to more universal and joined up. To recognise there is but one life to which we all pertain.

To the would be initiate expansion of consciousness and spiritual evolution are the only goals of merit. They seek to rise above the mundane and not remain trapped in the mire which is often petty and of a deeply personal nature.

Letting go is vital in order to enable expansion of consciousness. Mental skin, rigid self-image must be shed again and again.

You cannot expand your consciousness by keeping the same view of the world you currently have. It acts as barrier to evolution, a ghetto wall which keeps you constrained.

Letting go is a truly vital component to the expansion of consciousness. Letting go vivifies.

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Not Letting Go – Unresolved

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

Today the news said that the GDP growth for the UK was 0.1% . The wife asked how I thought they calculated that. I said that there was a whole host of metrics but that I doubted the measurements were accurate to the 0.1% level. In my mind the error bars on GDP calculation must be far bigger than plus or minus 0.1% so that all the hoo-ha concerning a 0.3% rise {for example} is simply bollocks; a headline made by those who do not understand data. The more you think about it the more bollocks it becomes. The reported number needs realistic error bars and some measure of statistical confidence. The headline figures are misleading.

That is my opinion and I offer it up.

This morning I had yet another dream about a massive mess {karmic} made by people I was previously acquainted with mostly of English nationality. “Yawn, not again, not still” was my mental response. It led me to thinking about national archetype. People who embody and display behaviour archetypal for the nation to which they pertain. I have already noted the political shenanigans associated with perfidious Albion and that never ending petty bickering one upmanship can be seen as archetypical. Such archetypical behaviour does by extrapolation feed into national karma.

What you do effects the karma of the nation in which you live. You are sharing your shitty behaviour with others, what you do impacts upon them.

My social interactions historically could be seen {in this life} to have largely been with the English {UK} intelligentsia. Specifically that part of the intelligentsia which pertained to science and perhaps a lesser extent technology. I had little to do directly with the overtly political classes.

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“The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Conceptually, the intelligentsia status class arose in the late 18th century, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Etymologically, the 19th-century Polish intellectual Bronisław Trentowski coined the term inteligencja (intellectuals) to identify and describe the university-educated and professionally active social stratum of the patriotic bourgeoisie; men and women whose intellectualism would provide moral and political leadership to Poland in opposing the cultural hegemony of the Russian Empire.”

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The problem of “not letting go” pervades social psychology. People bear grudges, are envious, hateful, vengeful, clingy. They may hang on to some illusion, some unmet ideal. They can be obsessed about how things are supposed to be, how they should be and how they ought to be. They can conspire with each other and mutually reinforce an unwillingness to let go. Even if some notion or idea is well past its sell by date, they cling. Not letting go can cause anxiety, misery and inertia.

The antidote to “not letting go”, sometimes painful, is reality.

“Not letting go” can be a phenomenon of group mind. The most trite example of this is 1966 and the soccer world cup {FFS}. People can imagine themselves patrician benefactors instead of brutal colonialists. To admit that India is/was not British {old boy} was a hard pill to swallow.

One of the primary glues in group mind which prevents letting go and moving on is secrecy. Shared secrets are perhaps the singular most psychologically binding pact between individuals. Secrets are rarely seen as the knot and shackles which they actually are. Strange things grow in the darkness. Offered to the light of day pustules can cease to fester and may even heal.

That which you keep secret has a power over you unlike any other things. Your secrets whisper to you in a conspiratory tone, they gnaw at your fear and stoke your near sexual salacious enjoyment. They skew sense of proportion. In very many cases a secret dragged out into the light of a dawning sun simply evaporates on a cloud of “no big deal”. No drama.

If you share a secret with another then you are bound and shackled to them. The strength of the chains relates to the nature of secret.

The thing is that unresolved problems are thermodynamic in the sense that the do not spontaneously self-resolve by magic. Mess does not clean itself up. There is no saviour or fairy godmother to sort your crap out for you.

I am sorry if that seems brutally unfair…

One of things people have difficulty letting go of is their personal narrative of events and of they themselves. If they have cast themselves as knight in shining armour, it can be hard to accept that they have behaved like a shitty little nematode. People invest very heavily in the stories they tell themselves and tell others. It can be very liberating to let go of a lie you have been propagating.

Until you have the wisdom gained from personal experience, letting go of an increasingly dubious story can be a terrifying notion. It is only when the massive boulder of propping up a lie has been let go of that you feel lighter and may be able to soar. A story, a narrative can be like the boulder of Sisyphus.

Many, in fear of letting go, keep pushing that same old shit up the hill day after day.

In many cases shared secrets are like a mutual ball and chain that keep you tightly claustrophobically incestuously bound together. There is nothing quite like a secret to stoke the fear of letting go. They can be hellish.

This is an opinion and I offer it up.

Goal Orientation – Suffering and Dissatisfaction

December 13, 2024 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

If you search for “coaching” you will find many people offering their services as coaches and often a part of this is setting goals or targets for success and advancement. Few notice the similarity of goal and gaol. People can become prisoners of their goal orientation. Society is obsessed with measurable metrics and tick lists of things to do, to the extent that life can be a wearisome endless list of devoirs. It is de rigueur to have goals and ambition it seems.

Siddartha wanted so badly to end suffering for all sentient beings, suffering, or dukka, can be translated as dissatisfaction.

I’ll make a statement: goal orientation is directly causal of dissatisfaction.

If you fail to make a goal you are dissatisfied, if you make a goal, you are temporarily done but the next goal awaits lurking on the horizon. Any “satisfaction” is fleeting. This measurement obsession more often than not suggests some measure of inadequacy, could do better.

People then have massive internal dialogue about whether of not they are meeting their goals. Internal dialogue is nearly always negative and hence the being suffers unnecessarily because of this internal “mental” cacophony.

Goal orientation and rush often skip hand in hand. Focussed only on the goal there is a tendency to finish quick and this can cause poor application to task and lower standards. Goal orientation can prevent impeccability. Eye on goal one does not fully absorb into whatever it is one is doing. There are distractions from other pending goals. Quality suffers on the noose of measurable quantity. Goals hang.

The antithesis of spiritual development is rush. It is impossible to rush it, but many try and seek milestones to prove progress. The hangover of societal obsession with goal orientation is difficult to ease.

Striving is a form of suffering.

Relaxation and complete absorption is the antidote. Complete absorption brings completion but without obsessional suffering. Complete absorption quietens the internal dialogue and therefore reduces dissatisfaction. Everyone knows when they have been impeccable. Impeccability is not an absolute. If you give completely of your current very best that is all you can do, this never brings dissatisfaction. Subsequent comparative internal dialogue can cause the nine headed hydra of dissatisfaction to rise again.

Internal dialogue is a primary cause of dissatisfaction and suffering.

Endless measuring is causal of dissatisfaction and suffering.

Comparison mind is directly causal of dissatisfaction.

Rational thinking causes dissatisfaction. Therefore, rational thinking is an irrational unwise thing to do. It does not make sense.

Of course, under certain circumstances one needs some rationality.

If one is ever goal oriented one never experiences the moment, the eternal now, because the goal is very distracting. Not being fully present causes dissatisfaction. If one lives in the twin worlds of what if and if only, there is rarely now. The past whether melancholic or rose tinted, the future whether idealised or catastrophe is not now, it is mind-stuff often of the nature of internal dialogue. Trash.

Goal orientation causes impatience which is a form of dissatisfaction. Goal orientation when one is driving a car is a cause of road rage.

Letting go of goal orientation is liberating.

Try it, having no goals is harder than it might seem, because societal habituation near worships them.

Hence there is suffering and dissatisfaction, which we might call samsara or saṃsāra, which is another term for endless human folly.