Living enlightenment

PREFACE

Many reputed intellectuals including scientists have recorded that there has been an

elevation in human consciousness in recent times. Whether it is to do with the Age of

Aquarius as rock groups foresaw or the metaphorical end of the world as the Mayans

predicted is not the question here.

The question is, how do we define consciousness? As societal beings who have been

guided all our lives by moral and legal commandments, our beacon of behavior has

always been conscience. But conscience is not consciousness.

Consciousness is the awareness that there is something more to our life than the material

pleasures that we seek. Consciousness is that tension within us that tells us there is

something higher than what we see. It is the beacon of inner awareness that guides us to

a state of being where we realize that we are more than what we think we are.