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<blockquote class="definition"> | <blockquote class="definition">Consciousness is the underlying ground of all reality, material and immaterial. Think of Consciousness as simply pure awareness. ''<ref>Sosteric, Mike. The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness, and the Universe Within You. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, Unpublished.</ref> The more aware you of of things, like your body, your family, your environment, the economy, your internal realities, etc, the more conscious you are. </blockquote> | ||
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"There is no question about consciousness being real or not; consciousness is self-knowing and the epithet real adds nothing to that."<ref>Arthur Eddington, ''The Nature of the Physical World'' (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 265. </ref> | "There is no question about consciousness being real or not; consciousness is self-knowing and the epithet real adds nothing to that."<ref>Arthur Eddington, ''The Nature of the Physical World'' (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 265. </ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:27, 3 October 2024
Consciousness is the underlying ground of all reality, material and immaterial. Think of Consciousness as simply pure awareness. [1] The more aware you of of things, like your body, your family, your environment, the economy, your internal realities, etc, the more conscious you are.
Aspects of Consciousness
Aspects of Consciousness > Facet of Consciousness, Level of Consciousness, Structure of Consciousness
Syncretic Terms
Consciousness > Ain Soph Aur, E, Field of the Universe, God, Great Spirit, Original I, Supramental Mind, The Four Unthinkables, Transpersonal Realm
Related LP Terms
Consciousness > Awareness, Book of Emanation, Differentiated Consciousness, Differentiation of Consciousness, Fabric of Consciousness, Facet of Consciousness, Force, Intensification of Consciousness, Monad, Spiritual Ego, State of Consciousness, Strong Theory of Consciousness, Tree of Consciousness, Undifferentiated Consciousness
Related LP Terms
Consciousness > Awareness, Book of Emanation, Differentiated Consciousness, Differentiation of Consciousness, Fabric of Consciousness, Facet of Consciousness, Force, Intensification of Consciousness, Monad, Spiritual Ego, State of Consciousness, Strong Theory of Consciousness, Tree of Consciousness, Undifferentiated Consciousness
Non-LP Related Terms
Notes
Consciousness originally exists as in Undifferentiated Consciousness (UC) and ego-less state. Boredom causes an Intensification of Consciousness that results in the instantiation of Monadic Consciousness] (i.e., egoic consciousness). The instantiation of the original monadic spark (a.k.a. God represents the transition from UC to Differentiated Consciousness (DC). From there, Consciousness eventually transitions to Emanating Consciousness from which all of physical creation eventually emerges.
In popular usage, the term is typically used to refer to either Bodily Ego, Spiritual Ego (if theorized), or some undifferentiated combination of both.
At one time suggesting such a thing as Spiritual Ego would have been quite radical, now there is growing speculation that a non-naturalistic view of consciousness, i.e. consciousness is not tied to the material universe, is simply common sense.[2]
From a common-sense perspective, we are intimately aware of consciousness, and it is a truism that consciousness has a variety of properties (among them qualia, intentionality, and non-spatiality) that are so different from those of matter that it is difficult if not impossible to see how consciousness could ever have been produced by matter. The problems that arise here are formidable, and have given rise to what has recently become popularized as 'the hard problem' of explaining the existence of consciousness in a material universe. These problems have led some thinkers, like McGinn, to insist that we cannot explain the existence of consciousness in a material universe at all, and others, like Chalmers, to suggest that we need to revise our notion of matter to include consciousness as a fundamental property of nature, along with mass, charge, and gravitation.[3]
Chalmers suggests that an essential feature of Consciousness is a sense of a cognitive agent (i.e. Ego), and also that there is a felt feeling of experience."There is also an internal aspect; there is something it feels like to be a cognitive agent. "I am talking only about the subjective quality of experience: what it is like to be a cognitive agent."[4]
Conscious experiences range from vivid color sensations to experiences of the faintest background aromas; from hard-edged pains to the elusive experience of thoughts on the tip of one’s tongue; from mundane sounds and smells to the encompassing grandeur of musical experience; from the triviality of a nagging itch to the weight of a deep existential angst; from the specificity of the taste of peppermint to the generality of one’s experience of selfhood. All these have a distinct experienced quality.[5] He summarizes, "when I talk about consciousness, I am talking only about the subjective quality of experience: what it is like to be a cognitive agent."[6]
Quotes
"There is no question about consciousness being real or not; consciousness is self-knowing and the epithet real adds nothing to that."[7]
Related LP Content and Courses
Footnotes
- ↑ Sosteric, Mike. The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness, and the Universe Within You. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, Unpublished.
- ↑ Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW. Also Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.
- ↑ Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 85. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.
- ↑ Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW. p. 6.
- ↑ Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW.
- ↑ Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), 265.
