Post #224, "The Lost Self"

Why doesn't Consciousness accept the 'Other" of Reality?

Lets update this to, 'why doesn't humanity accept 'other''?

This problem with humanity accepting what is other than itself begins with Consciousness

accepting the Other of Reality.

Humanity is Consciousness present in creation.

Humanity is Consciousness.

Who are we?
The answer to this question can only be answered by that which is 'other'.
The 'we' of  'we' and the 'I' of 'I', cannot know itself, cannot know Self, by itself .
When Consciousness Perceives itself, it knows itself in Perception, which is not knowing
itself at all.
If we, if humanity, cannot know itself, it certainly cannot know 'other',
that is, if we ever let 'other' exist.
We deny the 'Other' of Reality, so we have no idea of Reality.
We have no idea of anything beyond Self.
We dream and concoct our own interpretation of Reality and then we enter that contrived non-reality
and try to understand who we are, and to find meaning for ourselves and existence.
Such futility!

It would seem, would it not, that we are afraid to know what is Real.
But, this is exactly true.
We are afraid-----we fear Reality.
We fear what we Perceive because Perception blocks out our ability to see beyond ourselves.
Those who are afraid to Observe, Perceive to block out all that lies outside of the Self.
When Self Perceives, its view is entirely from within itself.
Self filters out, stamps out, and destroys all that is not of itself.
It does not Know Other and so Self fears Other.
This is what the Collective Consciousness is all about.
Consciousness 'collects' its parts and pieces and hides out in its 'wholeness'
pretending that its 'wholeness' is Entity.
Wholeness is not Entity but only a gathering of parts into a collective of that
which cannot stand on its own so hides out in a collective of itself.
But isn't this exactly what we humans do?

Do we not attempt to be whole ourselves, and when we fail, try to extend ourselves
into pluralities on which we depend to feel some identity and survival power?
Of course, not being able to accept the 'other', we try to make other into ourselves,
as Consciousness in Reality.
Consciousness, given the choice, almost unanimously chose to Perceive itself and
to Perceive the Other.
This Choice canceled out 'Other', not for 'Other' but for Consciousness.
This is where we instigated creation.
We couldn't, wouldn't, accept Reality.
Why not?
The truth is, we feared Reality and so we had to do away with it.
But anyone knows, you can't 'do away' with Reality.
The only way to rid ourselves of that which we could not and can not face, is to 'do away'
with ourselves.
That what most of us Chose.
We joined effort with ourselves to not 'do away' with Reality but to remove ourselves.
We removed ourselves into our own creation of our Perception of Reality
which is not Real at all.

How could we dream at all if we were just ourselves?
Even dreaming needs 'other'.
We would never have, nor do we have within ourselves, ability to dream out of Self.
Lets face it, dreaming neccesitates 'other'
We can't possibly know Self if we can't bounce Self  off of 'Other'.
This is proof of the Duality of Existence.
Existence must be Self and Other.
Reality Must be Self and Other.
When Self cancels out Other, Other is not effected.
But Self is totally devastated
Self, removing itself from the presence of the Other of Reality, destroys itself.
The destroyed Self can only create devastation.

We all sense the devastation.
We all sense such longing to escape.
To escape what?
What we have and continue to create?
Have we ever thought what happens to Self when we hide in the Collective?
--------when we try to replace Reality with our own Perception of Reality that canceled out
the Observation, Witness, and validation of Other.
How else can we come into identity without being Observed for who we are, for being
Witnessed as who we are, and as being validated as true Infinite Entity for ourself,
 to know ourself?