As there is a certain degree of presence, that is, of silent and permanent attention in human perceptions, our species has the faculty of feeling the divine vital essence, the conscience, or the immutable spirit, which is in all creatures, in all forms of life, recognizing it as compatible with our own essence. That’s why we can love divine as we love ourselves. Until that happens, however, most people see only the outer forms, not paying attention to the inner essence, just as they do not perceive their own essence and identify only with their physical and psychological form.
Will humanity be ready for the transformation of consciousness. We will be able to lose the density of our mental structures. Will we be able to defy the gravitational pull of materialism and materiality and stay above form-identification, which holds the ego immobile and condemns us to prison within our own personality?
The possibility of such a transformation taking place has been the essence of humanity’s great wisdom teachings, like the messengers – Buddha, Jesus, and others, not all known. Is humanity more prepared now than at the time of the first masters? Why could this be expected? What, if any, can you do to bring about or hasten this inner change? What characterizes the old egoic state of consciousness and what signs allow us to recognize the new consciousness that is emerging? What are the reference points towards awakening?
An essential point of awakening is the identification of that part of us that has not yet changed, the ego in the way it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental process that perpetuates this unweakened state. Show the main aspects of the ego and how they manifest themselves at the individual and collective level. This is important for two interrelated reasons. The first of these is: unless you know the basic mechanism behind the ego’s workings, you will not detect it, and it will deceive you. preventing you from recognizing it every time you try. It shows he’s mastered you – he’s an imposter pretending to be you. The second reason is that the act of recognition is itself one of the ways in which awakening takes place. When you discover unconsciousness in yourself, what makes recognition possible is the arising of consciousness, it is awakening. You cannot fight the ego and win, just as you cannot fight the darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is needed. You are the light.
Source: A New World – The Awakening of a New Consciousness – Eckhart Tolle.