Is consciousness an integral part of the Life construct?  Is awareness a part of either consciousness or the Life Construct? Can living beings fully conceive of themselves or their roles in life?

For many questions like this, the answer is not a simple “yes” or “no”, and context (and maybe perspective) is a key element of it. 

When the original 7 Energies began to first form integrated beings, and began working together, it took some time for them to learn and understand that they were acting as a single unit.  They did not have consciousness or awareness; this was before the basic particles of matter had been formed. They could sense that “others” were able to influence them, but they did not know how or why. (Ultimately, it was determined that this “influence” was due to electrostatic attractions between the groups of 7 Energies.) Awareness, which they later defined as understanding the influences that these electrostatic attractions were having on one another, took hundreds of Billions of years to develop, but once they developed, “growth” of this basic awareness occurred at an exponential rate. One must remember that at this point fo existence, the concepts of Time and Space were not yet known. 

The leap from awareness to consciousness occurred when the basic Energies realized that they were able to work together; they did not yet understand how this was happening.  But they did know that the distances that one could influence another were getting greater – greater than what they had been used to with the electrostatic influence that began their process of awareness. We would now call this point in time the birth of communications – it was through communications that they were able to overcome some of the limitations of the attractions.  The movement that was enabled by the electrostatic attractions were too great to overcome through that method, but there was a desire to move together. This “desire” was key, because it would ultimately form the basis of what we now know to be intention.  In essence, they “willed” themselves to be nearer each other, and it was intention that made this possible. The Energies recognized the importance of intention, and it would become one of the essential elements of Consciousness, along with the new found ability to communicate with each other. Remember that this initial effort to communicate was very rudimentary – there was no language, and these communications could best be described as “thought forms”. 

They were “Conscious”, even though this initial capability was somewhat rudimentary.  They could “communicate” to a degree, and they could use “intention” as a way to come closer together. And of course they were now also aware of their surroundings to a limited extent. It would take several Billion years to further develop Consciousness to a point where it would allow for some degree of autonomy.  At this time, they were aware of their own existence – so they had a level of self awareness, but it was not until they began the “experiments” (which in reality were more like playing for them) that they began to understand the magnitude of being self aware and what that meant. 

As the Life Construct (and the other Constructs later) would realize, they understood that both this Awareness and Consciousness were essential elements that could be used to enable large elements of the Construct. But once they had laid out the requirements for what we would eventually know to be a “body”, with an associated Energy Soul as a controlling element, that they realized that there would need to be limits to what these new forms of Life could allow. For instance, how could a controlling Soul, within the context of its “body” (and acting as a singular entity) grasp that it included not a single Soul, but multiple Souls all working together towards a common cause? And that this “oversoul” would not only have control, but would also be expected to work together in a cooperative manner. They realized that this could be enabled in the background, with a degree of autonomy, by limiting the amount of knowledge that the “oversoul” was exposed to. This would ultimately make autonomous life a realistic proposition. (The alternative was to expose al of the knowledge; but it would be exceedingly difficult for a controlling Soul of a body to not only coordinate daily activities, like eating and movement, while having to have to be concerned with the flow of bodily fluids from one location to another to support all of this activity.)  It was for this reason that the concept of “self awareness” would be limited.

The final question to be answered here, “Can living beings conceive of their role in life”, is a bit simpler. It is already understood that there is a significant amount of coordination that must occur prior to each incarnation, in order to establish the elements and circumstances in life that will provide the greatest opportunity to balance karma and learn the lessons of Life. But there are, too, factors that must be considered for this as well.  The first is the concept of Free Will – that ability to make decisions regarding the life path one is to take. The second is the concept of Karma – the ability to maintain a record of Energy and Energy imbalances so that one can know the current state of their own Energies, and then have a basic knowledge of the understanding in order to learn from the errors and actions taken during a life.

Free Will was incorporated as a concept under the Life Construct in order to allow for individuals to decide what they wanted to learn in a given life, how they could learn that, who they would have assist them in this process, and when they would know that the lessons were complete. The alternative was an existence that was completely scripted – lessons would be mandated, everybody had a script that they must adhere to.  This was deemed unacceptable, simply because the original Souls understood the level of creativity, freedom, and inspiration that existed when a Soul was allowed to do what they wanted, instead of doing what another wanted them to do. Free Will ultimately did have some limits placed on it, but that had more to do with the ability of a given Soul to accomplish what it has set out to do, and to limit the adverse effects of having too much information to process. 

The second element here, involving Karma, was intended to be the check on the ability of a Soul to make a Free Will decision that would be contrary to their own best interests. It is a way to keep track of the “+s” and “-s” that were associated with a decision making process. It provides a record of Energy movements associated with decisions. Since it winds up being a very significant amount of information, it was felt that allowing full access to this information would be not allowed – in part too because knowing the current state of Karma of the Soul could influence the decision making ability of the Soul in Life.

So although both Consciousness and Awareness were included as integral elements of the Life Construct, it was determined that complete “self awareness” would be limited in order to not overwhelm a body’s Soul, because of the significant amount of information and coordination that would ensue.