The normative state of the human creature is one wholly identified with it's process, which is to say that thought forms created and harbored are not recognized as artificial constructs. The life of all humans, such as it is, is the reflection of thought forms created spontaneously in the flux of the mind's passage through the vicissitudes of existence. The mind generally does not recognize that what shows up as "idea" is an actual self created field form in the tissue of the brain, so Awareness becomes shrouded in what were termed by the ancient masters of Zen as "creepers". These "creepers" vine on Awareness as the Strangler Fig vines upon a tree to the point that the tree is lost to life.
Thought forms manifest powerful efficacies for good or for ill, and there is no form of any kind without it's requisite inevitabilities.
When Awareness is awakened as the host of mental processes, thought forms are recognized as guests. Some guests bring gifts, and some bring sorrows. Some guests are to be welcomed and some are to be banished. But none are to be permitted to subsume the authority of the host.
This is precisely the difficulty when one succumbs to the memes of "consciousness". Consciousness is a state of excitation in the field of Awareness, and if our primary identity is that of consciousness the riches of Awareness are correspondingly inaccessible.
