Awareness

The Transformation Awareness and Consciousness article is a very interesting article dealing with the different concepts of Awareness, The different concepts are explained by the different experiences of different spiritual influential people, the main idea about Awareness is the transcendence of the conscious mind, going beyond our thoughts and ideas, and getting into contact with the nature of the universe. In my own personal experience the best way to get to a state of awareness is by doing self analysis of ourselves, we are a specie that developed language as a tool to communicate in order to survive in a hunter and gatherer society, but these languages developed into ideas and later on into abstract concepts, which later became ideologies, political ideals and religions.
The different concepts that we developed as a society for the most part have been negative, and have contributed to the deterioration of the planet and that of other animal species, what we don't realize is that we have become slaves of our thoughts and opinions, the only constant in the universe is duplicity things just want to make copies of themselves, genes are scared of disappearing and make us develop some crazy mechanisms just to keep themselves alive but this concept of duplicity doesn't stop in us, or in animals, it also applies to concepts ideas and opinions.
These ideas and opinions follow the same rules as everything else they just want to make copies and perpetuate themselves, maybe they existed or not without us but once they found us they just used us as a medium to duplicate themselves, thats why so many people are extremist, or live their whole life trying to validate their opinions or inculcating them in others.
This is how we became our opinions, and why Awareness is probably the most important stage in a person's life, it challenges the ideas and concepts by simply ignoring them and putting yourself in contact with the soul of the universe which is one, one single consciousness from which all of us belong. Once somebody reaches Awareness opinions ideas and beliefs become simple tools that can be used to improve our life instead of being our master's, by becoming aware we take back the control of our beings and we can experience our true self which is always quiet, just listens and it just knows.
Since we are all one single consciousness that it is experiencing itself any change in that consciousness will affect the whole and given that many people seem to be reaching the state of awareness, this leads me to believe that we are all living in a very crucial stage in the history of mankind, will we be able to give the next step into a higher state of being? I hope so, its about time to stop being slaves of opinions and beliefs.