This is a transcript excerpt of a Michael Beckwith talk (YouTube) distinguishing the external planet (Gaia) from the socially constructed "world," and contrasting awareness/consciousness with the transient content that flows through it (beliefs, memories, perceptions). Beckwith urges listeners to disidentify from historical/egoic content and align with a deeper, unchanging awareness to access inspiration, gifts, and possibility.
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All of you know by now that there is a difference between the world and the planet. The world is a synergetic network of conversations, beliefs, perceptions, attitude, experiences that create a world. And the planet is of course, gaia. It's a 3/4 water. It's alive, it's vibrating. Its energy is becoming more and more awake and more alive every minute that we're here. And so there's a difference between the planet and. And the world. Two people can stand on the same place on the planet, but be in two different worlds based on their inner perceptions, their beliefs, their attitude and their opinions. So you have created a field in which you are inviting yourselves to be in a world of possibility, to be in a world of intelligence, to be in a world of inspiration, to be in a world where the activation of your gifts, talents and capacities becomes so vibrationally real to you that all that you see, or open doors and possibilities, that all that you see are your assignments for downloading the world that most people can't see and anchoring it in time and space. Through your conversation, through your word, through your actions, through your deeds, and through your attitude, you're coming to an awareness. As you have heard the speakers speak this particular week, you have come to an awareness that there is a difference between consciousness and content. We throw the word consciousness around all of the time, but sometimes we need to just break it down. And there is a difference between consciousness and the content of your consciousness. Just as there is a difference between the ocean and the pollution in the ocean. They are not the same thing. Your consciousness, your awareness, you as an avenue of awareness is not the same as the content that is flowing through the beliefs, the experiences, your perception of your past experiences, that's content. But your consciousness is your absolute awareness. That God consciousness, that love consciousness, that peace consciousness. You are becoming aware that you are aware. And because of this week and the extraordinary work that you are doing upon yourselves, you are learning to separate yourself from content as identity and step into an ever expanding awareness where you have choice to begin to identify yourself with that nominal awareness, with that that which is beyond phenomena, that which has never been born, that which will never die, that which is your real life, which is extraordinary, which is light and love and luminosity. And the moment that you begin to disidentify yourself with the historical self, with the content, in that instant you become available to rich inspiration.
