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Can Consciousness Be Superceeded By A Radically New Awareness?
- Thread starter Sunstone
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Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Sunstone said:
Perhaps.
If consciousness is the awareness of a subject, and my consciousness is limited by my physical being, then it stands to reason that something with a greater perception through greater senses will have a greater awareness.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Willamena said:Just so. My answer is similar, except that I would say consciousness is awareness of objects, not a subject.
Agreed. I meant, "consciousness is the subject's awareness."
Nice catch!
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Yikes Phil, I am one of those infidels that uses the two terms interchangeably. Consciousness IS awareness and vice versa. My experience has always been as a distinct expansion of consciousness, like a balloon, rather than simply an alternate awareness. Some days that awareness has more hot air in it than others, hehe.Sunstone said:
In a manner of speaking, when one is within the thought process, that process causes an occultation, obscuring larger aspects of awareness from direct experience. When one is able to suspend that thought process, by whatever means, it is somewhat like the clouds part, allowing the sun to shine through. I do mean that both metaphorically and quite literally. There is an awfully good reason why all the religions talk about a Light within. Oneness has a tendency to have a distinct, perceptible glow about it. So, it is more of an expansion, rather than superseding, as the I that perceives simply takes in more of its surroundings, unencumbered by the thought process itself.
Perhaps I just have some odd "affliction" although if I do, it is an insanely pleasant affliction, not to mention that it is always incredibly beautiful, fresh and ever-new. In some ways, the thought process itself is like the wake of an immense cargo ship. In "normal" consciousness we are fixated on the wake, but when one stills their thought process and "moves beyond that process, by enlarging their perception, the source of the thought process comes into direct view. At that point, one sees how the thought process endlessly "percolates" from this source, sort of like steam wafting up from a pan of boiling water.
Most certainly, I could be wrong, but that is the way I see it.
pstevenson
Member
Consciousness is made up of all THINGS. To go outside of all things means you are experiencing NO-THING, but if you contemplate it it becomes something and is no longer nothing. I call it undefined awareness. Awareness that is undefinible and I have experienced it. But I have not yet seen how to descibe it to anyone....lol
pstevenson said:
Have you checked out this forum yet:
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=202