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void
stars
system
awhile
Consciousnes
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Remember, when we speak of the beginnings of your system, we speak only in consideration of your ideas of time. All, obviously, then exists at once. To your way of thinking, some lives are lived in a twinkling (in various systems), and others last for centuries. The perception of consciousness is not limited, however. I have told you, for example, that trees have their own consciousness. The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes, the tree is conscious of fifty years before its existence, and fifty years hence.
Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the change of its own form. It has no ego to cut the “I” identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form. The inner self is aware of this integrity of identity, but the ego, focused so securely in physical reality, cannot afford this luxury.
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