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…..Transcendental consciousness can be attained not by one who desires it, but by one who has nothing else left to do, who can go neither forward nor backward because they have become aware of going around in circles.

Ivan Antic, The Physics of Consciousness: In the Quantum Field, Minerals, Plants, Animals and Human Souls

When we incarnate we ask our consciousness to inhabit a physical body and brain, with all the constrictions that come with it. Primarily, the physical body and brain dwell in the physical reality of this world. We live inside our own heads, and that is the point. We have the experience of separateness. Our physical reality is sometimes called the Matrix, a description that borrows from the idea that we live inside a system that is not real.

Why were our human minds made this way? 

Why must we go through these lifetimes as physical creatures when there is a lot of suffering involved? 

One answer is that the material world, and the beings within it, are the Divine observing itself. We are incarnated for the unique experience of being physical creatures, separate from each other and largely unable to see beyond the dimensions of the physical world. We experience things that only can be experienced as separate physical beings. In this light, our experience as humans has a purpose. Our experiences contribute to a larger expansion of consciousness. 

What happens here, in the physical world, resonates in other planes. And vice versa. Sometimes we sense the influence of other planes.

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO AWAKEN? IS THAT THE GOAL?

We will stay inside our own heads for the duration of our lives no matter how much meditation or yoga or sitting on the mat we do. But we may have growing insight. “Awakening” for us may simply mean paying more attention to subtle feelings and intuitions. Giving focus to subtle intuitions expands us. Dwelling on our course ruminations has the opposite effect.

Paying attention to subtle intuitions enables us to evolve us in the direction of “waking up.” We grow over the course of our lifetimes. And somehow, perhaps this experience and growth we have in this physical domain contributes to the greater Consciousness. This last statement is a statement of faith. If you want to feel a purpose, you need to have faith.

Caveat: Almost everything written in the “spiritual” category is written in declarative sentences with an assuredness that usually accompanies half truths. Into that category I am sure much of this website fits.