moving on

We are a person and we are consciousness. We do not become consciousness until we get past being a person, past the ordinary mind, past the mind of constraint with its precarious poise atop the mass of fear and anger and stupor that we claim and insist upon as a human right.

When we are consciousness, person drops away. We open to the rhythms of life with joy, security, and love. This has variously been called "dying before you die," "the twice-born," "laying up your treasures in heaven." I call it going out of your mind.

Just as the fetus moves into and past the stage of fish-ness, so does the budding human move into and past the stage of person-ness. Both fishness and personness remain with us in vestigial form, but now we are consciousness itself.