It is, of
course, redundant to use the words cooperative and conscious in the same
phrase. These two always and only coexist. When
one becomes conscious, one is actually
becoming aware of cooperation. Cooperation is the name we give to the natural
flow of energies which are easily observable within any unified field, human or
otherwise.
What we call
consciousness before this awareness of the integrated, interrelated unity of
reality dawns on or in us is really a kind of unconsciousness. Totally unaware
of the unified field of the whole, we are aware of ourselves or
"conscious" of ourselves, that is we think of ourselves as physical
dense bodies which are separated and "different" from all other
physical dense bodies.
We go around
saying I am this body. I am not that other body. We think that our very
existence depends on our not being any other I. We struggle to not become lost
in some other's identity. We absolutely must remain ourselves.
The
unrealized fact of cosmic physics is that forms exist only in relationship to
other forms. Any I without that other I, ceases to exist. Gradually, as
consciousness expands out of this illusion of separation, we come to realize
this fact, and we begin to understand that that although separate, that other I
and me are pretty much one unit. We each exist
only in relationship to each other. And then we figure out that even if
we recognize that we are that other, we will not disappear. We are that other,
but we are also this unique individual that can see and understand that we are
simultaneously ourselves and our brother or sisters.
It is only
as this kind of consciousness develops within the human psyche that one becomes
truly aware of his or her unique individuality. We discover that we are unique
microcosmic variations of an infinite wholeness. So, we have that ancient
series of phrases, I Am./I Am That./I Am That I Am.
So, there is
no "I" there is only US.
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