Personal consciousness is the reflection of a singular
impersonal source of Awareness.
impersonal source of Awareness.
This impersonal awareness itself is not knowable or perceivable
unless reflected as consciousness.
unless reflected as consciousness.
As radiated light is not perceivable unless reflected on a material surface,
this light of awareness is not perceivable unless reflected on a sufficiently complex neural network.
Awareness is reflected as consciousness.
Consciousness is the reflection of awareness.
Consciousness is the sense of awareness.
Awareness itself is formless and non-local, unlocatable, by direct first-hand experience.
Formless awareness takes form when reflected as consciousness and the contents of consciousness.
Unlike radiated light and reflective surfaces, however, radiated awareness is not separate from the forms that reflect awareness as consciousness, forms such as neural networks and sensory nervous systems. Awareness is non-dual. Reality is non-dual.
Unlike radiated light and reflective surfaces, however, radiated awareness is not separate from the forms that reflect awareness as consciousness, forms such as neural networks and sensory nervous systems. Awareness is non-dual. Reality is non-dual.
Various spiritual traditions appear to express similar concepts, using various names such as God, Yahweh, the Holy Spirit, Brahman, Atman, the Self, the One Mind, Buddha Mind, Enlightenment, Liberation, the Absolute, or the Great Spirit, and others.
The light of Awareness is the Holy Spirit, the light of life. Spirit is life. Our true identity, our living identity is this Awareness itself, "what's looking", not the body or mind. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing."
Sufficiently complex forms such as human nervous systems may interpret this reflected consciousness in them as being their own, as their innermost being.
But it is not their own -- it is reflected in them, they being fleeting forms.
When the form dissolves, when the body dies, the consciousness remains as unreflected consciousness again, formless and still. The temporal reflection ends.
Sufficiently complex forms such as human nervous systems may interpret this reflected consciousness in them as being their own, as their innermost being.
But it is not their own -- it is reflected in them, they being fleeting forms.
When the form dissolves, when the body dies, the consciousness remains as unreflected consciousness again, formless and still. The temporal reflection ends.
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