Consciousness is a process of working our stuff

People think that the world will get better and they will be happier or enlightened or something if they just connect to a higher consciousness or hang out in the chakras above the heart chakra when in fact consciousness is a process of SUBTRACTION! It's like people talk about 'practicing' compassion or understanding the gateless gate thing. Those things are natural outcomes of consciousness. You don't become Christ like by growing a beard and wearing sandals. Ok, so here's the 'bad' news. :-) You can't build higher consciousness by wanting higher consciousness, you get there by removing the filters through which you experience! Those filters are ALL fear based and occur in Chakras 1 and 2 almost exclusively and are stored mostly in chakra 3! This means that all of the dysfynctional programming that you took on as a child, and all the beliefs you carry need to be observed and understood. Examine every feeling, esp the tweaky little negative ones! Consciousness is like pure white light that is experienced by you but it is filtered through the prism of self! If the prism of self is gray and cloudy thats how you experience life! Bottom line...you have to do the sometimes unpleasant work of becoming friends with your baggage!