Perspective
One of the symptoms of psychological sleep is to have our consciousness trapped in the conditioned consciousness, and to live and die believing that the only reality is what our five senses tell us. According to our exteriorized mindsets, there is a material, three-dimensional reality that interacts with our psychological reality.
Within our limited perspective, we feel, even though we think we know better, that the world revolves around us. We are the central part in the movie of our life, and the others are just supporting roles.
We can remember that although we are the center of the universe- based on our perspective, and everyone else is also the center of the universe- based on their perspective.
The Center of the Universe
When the consciousness is no longer trapped in ego, it is free to realize the realities of the worlds beyond this planet and this solar system. The consciousness, not our mind, can comprehend the infinite worlds and their significance.
With the free consciousness there is comprehension that even though we live in our particular body and exist in this particular planet, that neither ourselves, nor the Earth, is the center. We are all connected.
Universal Mind
“The mind is a universal energy, the mind vibrates in all of creation. The entire universe is within the Universal Mind.”
-Samael Aun Weor
Gnosis is the study of the consciousness and the origins of consciousness. Consciousness is essentially a wave of energetic interaction, or concentrated universal energy, that connects us with everything. The physical brain is nothing more than the receptor antenna that can receive the universal energy.
We are not separate from the universe, which is expressed in the Hermetic axiom As above, so below.
The state of self-observation connects us to the source of our mind, the universal mind.
It is through this active consciousness, in connection with our essence, that our true internal Being knows itself. A greater mystery is that through the universal mind the Universal Being knows itself.
When we realize our own inherent emptiness, this comprehension fills us with love because we truly know we are not the center of the universe.