Does consciousness arise from the brain?  Quite the opposite, dear one.  The brain is an epiphenomenon of consciousness.  Without awareness, you would not be aware of this instrument that serves as a filter for all that is swirling about in Awareness.  When the brain no longer functions, that which you call the world is revealed in a different way.  Thank the brain for the wonderful role it plays whilst you, Expanded Awareness, are having the brain-body experience, and then imagine yourself without either a brain or a body.  They are tools for now, but tools are used by something higher.  Go deep into expanded awareness and ask to be shown what this higher state of being is.  You already know it intimately, for it is what took on the brain-body and will continue on long after it is gone. 

You are so very loved.

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