Consciousness

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Consciousness is the root of all things (Sharp, BOLVI).

Consciousness is all things.

Consciousness is in all things.

Consciousness is awareness pure and simple (Sharp, BOLVI).

Consciousness | ( Structure of Consciousness | Levels of Consciousness)

Notes

Consciousness here refers to consciousness independent of physical matter. At one time this would have been quite radical, but now there is growing speculation that a non-naturalistic view of consciousness, i.e. consciousness as not tied to the material universe, is simply common sense.

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.

Levels of Consciousness

Difference between Undifferentiated Consciousness (UC), Differentiated Consciousness (DC), and Emanating Consciousness (EC) (thanks to Andrei Arba for helping develop)

Consciousness | ( Structure of Consciousness | Levels of Consciousness)

Map

Consciousness/God ([[God|God with a big "G"] / परब्रह्मन् (parabrahman) / Ain Soph Aur / Supramental Mind / पुरुष puruSa)

Consciousness/Power (Supreme Puissance)

Consciousness/Formation (शक्ति)

Consciousness/Yin

":Consciousness/Divine Feminine

Consciousness/Force

Consciousness/Awareness

Consciousness/Light

Consciousness/Truth

Consciousness/Joy (आनन्द)

Consciousness/Self (Resident Monadic Self)

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