How can one "know" or be "One With" this neutral state of Consciousness if beseiged by the noise and commotion of active life? Admittedly some can achieve such a state of Consciousness while emersed in the hub-bub of life. Some cannot. The seeking and experiencing of peace and quiet as in retreats, stays in monasteries, being in a forest, is essential to knowing that state where one learns to know Self as in the I AM. As one thinks so one experiences and vice versa. The neutral state or "place of voiding" is the causitive state of either the expansive or contractive. These two active states then are the effects of the cause. These two states are the active physical or 3D world or polarity or bipolarity. When one emerses into the active states they are then within the states of effects or illusion and not of the neutral causitive state of peace or quiet. Since we can admit life is an experience of consciousness the above applies to Mind, awareness or consciousness. Life then is an effect of one's state of consciousness. Being unconscious (as in dead) is being outside of the active realm Cayce often called the "sphere of activity". Death therefore must then be a state of "lack of awareness of physical activity" while life is "consciousness of physical activity". Here then is reference to the quote of "being dead is being alive" and vice versa. Does this infer that death is more alive than life? Not at all. The only difference between being dead and being alive is the mode or focus of consciousness or awareness whether to the physical or ethereal (awareness). The ideal then is to be in the physical state and be aware of the ethereal (awareness) state. "Dead unto the world" of activity as it were but more fully alive than otherwise. Being in the world (of activity) but not of it (caught up in the effects).
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