The Descent to Not
Awareness
Descending from the Spirit-Consciousness we leave behind the awareness of our own awareness as we arrive here at Key 3: Awareness. This is the Awareness that existed before it realized it was being aware. This is raw Awareness but with no comprehension of the Self. This is comparable to the Buddhist doctrine of No Self. We are no longer technically conscious here because by descending to this layer we have released the Self completely! There is no "I" to 'think and therefore "be."' This pure and raw Awareness is sentience. This is life! But it doesn't know it is living.
Descent III
Awareness
In swirls of dark blues, purples and pinks, surrounded by the black of space, we look side-long upon the disc of what appears to be a spiral galaxy. In the center is a great Form (from Key 2) which looks suspiciously like the eye of a lifeform (a life Form). This card ushers the sentience of life into the universe. In the top-left corner of this card is the AON symbol for Awareness indicating that Awareness is part of the Self Well.
Somehow, from inanimate Forms, we jump to animated Forms. This is the leap from lifelessness to life itself! We know this is life because we are alive to say, “This is life!” How lifelessness came to life is a mystery our science has yet to explain. How did lifeless energy and chemical matter become aware of its surroundings? The leap from Form which is not aware of its surroundings to Form that is aware of its surroundings is a huge leap. We can think of this as nothing less than miraculous!
Dropping down to the Awareness layer, we leave behind the identity of Self we absorbed in Key 4 (Spirit-Consciousness). Here at Awareness we need not concern ourselves with Self or any other aspects of Being. We need not even concern ourselves with Being. We may be here, but the Awareness of Key 3 is the Awareness of everything around us, not the Awareness of our Self from Key 4. Here we can completely let go of the Self and focus on being Aware everything around us.
Guided Meditation
Awareness
Awareness
Sentience... Life!
It is possible that to dropping this deeply in meditation (all the way down to Awareness) may be akin to becoming one with Awareness itself. As such, this might be like experiencing being all living things simultaneously without the affliction of memory or intellect.
We have still not reached the ultimate truth which explains Actuality, Reality and all of Existence. We are very close though! If we were to drop even deeper than Awareness, what might we find? It is Awareness that separates "Life" from the "Inanimate." Can we even imagine being "not life?"