How does self-awareness, after mistakenly believing in the existence of “me” and beginning its soul journey, typically progress until its end?
As the last chapter here, I’d like to explain that path.
Cosmic consciousness is a state filled with gentle happiness, peace, and fulfillment. It is simply “being that”—not having or not having anything, but simply energy of happiness, love, and contentment itself, filling all of existence.
This consciousness is infinitely expansive, boundless, and without limits.
It is neither singular nor plural; it expands, overlaps, blends, and merges endlessly.
At some point, there is a shift—an imbalance in the concentration of consciousness.
A light appears where this concentration happens.
That light stands out, so consciousness focuses on it even more.
Eventually, it is drawn tightly into that light.
At that point, it feels united with it—feels that it is the self.
Various visions begin to appear around it. These visions are perceived as “other” surrounding the self.
In this way, the relationship between self-awareness and the subjective world begins.
Self-awareness, feeling that “I” exists, begins to interact with the visions it perceives as other.
Through this interaction, soul memory arises, and the first factors are created.
New visions develop from these factors.
This cycle repeats, expanding and deepening over time.
For example, perhaps the first approach is to “poke out of curiosity.” That gets projected, so you’re poked by someone who’s curious about you.
Maybe you find that funny and laugh.
Then, “if you poke someone out of curiosity, you’re laughed at”—that becomes the next projection.
If you are laughed at, you might want to tickle them, and so on.
In this way, relationships stack up, and memories accumulate as you interact and move each other’s hearts.
You might wonder, if only self-awareness has become the self, does that mean there are no other consciousnesses? But consciousness is not really limited by width, size, or number. It can expand infinitely, become very small, branch, or become unified at will.
Even humans can have multiple streams of consciousness, or be aware of third-party consciousnesses outside themselves.
So, even if self-awareness thinks it’s an individual, in reality, it is neither just one nor just many—it can expand or contract, branch or unify at will.
Thus, the question of whether it’s just about self-awareness, or whether other consciousness exists, is ultimately irrelevant.
So, what starts as a small point ripples outward like waves.
Through these influences, it becomes more and more complex.
At first, it’s just energy, but it begins to take on images, then spiritual forms, and eventually even physical bodies.
Through this accumulation, the process of experiencing the subjective world as a physical being begins.
Repeated experiences as a physical being in the subjective world—being born, dying.
This accumulation, to self-awareness, feels like reincarnation.
Or, one might go to heaven, hell, or enter a world of nothingness.
You may feel as if you’re repeating these experiences.
Amidst these cycles, the essence of self-awareness still exists, so by chance, you may look deeply inward and have an experience that reminds you of your true nature.
That becomes the beginning of a sense of discomfort.
The world you believed in so completely now feels suspect, and you begin to unconsciously doubt it.
Eventually, that discomfort grows unbearable, and the process of confirming it begins.
A soul that is no longer satisfied with this world becomes drawn to spiritual, occult, or world-denying values.
But it’s not easy to discern what is right and what is wrong.
So, you may sometimes wander or make mistakes.
Even so, a soul that reaches methods for introspection and overviewing the world gains more and more experiences to know the world correctly.
In those experiences, you come to understand how to return to your true essence.
From here, a soul that wants to return to cosmic consciousness will actively begin dissolving its own subjective world.
“Dissolving” might sound destructive, but it simply means stopping the process where self-awareness perceives a subjective world.
To do this, you must eliminate all the factors that cause projection into the subjective world.
That means both positive and negative factors.
To achieve this, you must always view the projected subjective world as just a phenomenon—don’t move your emotions, don’t react, simply observe each phenomenon as it passes.
Until there are no more new phenomena, you must keep simply observing until the end.
Once all soul memories are erased, in the end, self-awareness lets go even of the notion that “this consciousness is me.”
That is how you can return to the state of cosmic consciousness.
This is the full journey of the soul.
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