Awareness and Consciousness
posted by gibbsonline | May 19, 2010
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IcerocketAwareness to perception to apperception
I like the idea and the experience of unity in the context of diversity. Each person has his or her own conception and experience of unity. It is determined by their attained level of consciousness. Conciousness is best conceptualized on an evolving continuum. It ranges from kaleidoscopic consciousness, to symbiotic consciousness, to transcendent consciousness to transitional consciousness to transformational consciousness to ego consciousness to psychodynamic consciousness to synthetic consciousness to ....
There is no getting around the fact that each individual consciously and unconsciously selects what ever data from their own flow of personal experience to be utilized utilized in generating personal meanings.
It appears alltogether fanciful that any of us can seriously entertain the belief that we have a direct uninterpreted connection with an assumed absolute oneness.
Meanwhile we go about our individual lives stumbling and bumbling - occassionally awake, aware, relatively in control of our individual life trips, - until we hit inevitable limitations which we either greet with a sense of challenge or defeat.
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all linked through belief?
— May 21, 2010
Consciousness, unconsciousness, awareness, oneness. All exist at the same time. You sum this up well with this quote?
"... There is no getting around the fact that each individual consciously and unconsciously selects what ever data from their own flow of personal experience to be utilized utilized in generating personal meanings."
The key is in understanding the "individual" definition. I don't define individual in the human sense as difference or uniqueness although it is also that.
I define individual as strength. Where the strength comes from is in a belief. which I feel you have summed up in the above quote.
The quest for many is meaning. Yet they don't have the individual strength to believe. This strength of belief comes from the other essences you have referred to here.
Aside from discovering meaning, the other quest is for unity. To me, unity has always been from the beginning of existence and somewhere along he way we have lost it. So the search for unity is a search for meaning, which can't be found until you recognize your strength of individual belief.
But then, that would be easy, right?
Nice framing of the picture Doctor. I like your thoughts.
