In our human life, there are five levels of consciousness in the waking state. You are responsible
is the first level of consciousness, where the individual holds others
responsible for everything in life. Accusingly, his fingers are always
pointing outwards, fixing blame, complaining. He's a perpetual victim and
believes in concepts like 'survival of the fittest', 'there isn't enough for
all of us', 'life is a struggle', and 'everything is fair in love and war'.
He's perennially at war with the
world, trying to prove how great he is. He is into solving problems and
gloating about his achievements. In victory, he has a superiority complex; in
defeat, an inferiority complex. He remains a victim even in victory for,
despite applause from the outside world, in his loneliness he experiences
unworthiness. Most of humanity is at this stage. A poet says this is a society
of dead people floating around. Why dead? Because they are so low in
consciousness that they're sleepwalking, unaware that their life is but an effect
of stimulus and response. The individual is oblivious of his programing—partly
genetic (physical) and partly environmental (mental)—that was done by the age
of five and over which he had no choice.
In his insecurity, he's
constantly creating islands of security through knowledge, money, status,
skills and relationships. He lives a life of survival and suffers from
the 'pressure cooker' syndrome. The sages of yore recognized these dangers, so
every culture provided release mechanisms through social, religious or cultural
activities where people congregated and released pent-up emotions. Emotions are
nothing but e-motion, that is, energy in motion. When the flow of energy is
blocked by negative feelings, they create stress. This suppressed stress pops
up in another area, at another time, in a distorted way, creating illness.
Life in this state of
consciousness is a compensation game—compensating for lack of love, lack
of worthiness, lack of self-confidence. Rooted in the 'others are responsible'
mindset, the person attempts to 'rearrange' the outer world, thinking that this
will make him safe, secure and lovable. Totally unconscious, he does not
realize the futility of the game.
- by Pradip Mukherji