Inside/Outside

[Salty Booger]

An alternative view is that everything we consider as "outside" is actually "inside" our conscious awareness. Even the body exists within the conscious being.

How do you feel about the above statements and what else might they imply?


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It's early morning here and I am thinking of breakfast

 

[exchemist]

An alternative view is that everything we consider as "outside" is actually "inside" our conscious awareness. Even the body exists within the conscious being.

How do you feel about the above statements and what else might they imply?

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It's early morning here and I am thinking of breakfast

I find this sort of thing all a bit pointless.

If you get hit by what we call a "No. 97 bus", everything you experience is consistent with the boring and traditional concept that there is such a thing as a bus and it is outside you - apart from the part that has just penetrated your vitals, which is now inside. So I think we are served best by that model of reality, rather than by some let's-all-stare-up-our-own-arses alternative version.

 

[Salty Booger]

I find this sort of thing all a bit pointless.

If you get hit by what we call a "No. 97 bus", everything you experience is consistent with the boring and traditional concept that there is such a thing as a bus and it is outside you - apart from the part that has just penetrated your vitals, which is now inside. So I think we are served best by that model of reality, rather than by some let's-all-stare-up-our-own-arses alternative version.

I think the world becomes intimate and personal when viewed as an internal experience, whether that be the "No 97 bus" or the people in our lives.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Altering one's perspective changes everything, and changes nothing. Since everything is changing and nothing stays the same, not even for a second, it makes sense to look at it all anew. And to wonder. The capacity for wonder is what makes us human. Maybe...

 

[Aupmanyav]

An alternative view is that everything we consider as "outside" is actually "inside" our conscious awareness. Even the body exists within the conscious being.

I agree with that, Salty Booger, but I do not think it implies anything more than what it says.

 

[Salty Booger]

I agree with that, Salty Booger, but I do not think it implies anything more than what it says.

Perhaps it implies we are conscious beings more than we are physical beings?

 

[RestlessSoul]

I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself, and knows itself divine.

Percy Shelley (from The Song of Apollo)

 

[Aupmanyav]

I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself, and knows itself divine.

I am an atheist, I do not know any divine.

Perhaps it implies we are conscious beings more than we are physical beings?

Consciousness is part of being physical. Otherwise what is the difference between a conscious being and a physical being? Do you think a lion or a deer is not conscious?

 

[Salty Booger]

Consciousness is part of being physical. Otherwise what is the difference between a conscious being and a physical being?

Without the physical how could consciousness experience creation?

Do you think a lion or a deer is not conscious?

Why would I think that?

 

[Twilight Hue]

An alternative view is that everything we consider as "outside" is actually "inside" our conscious awareness. Even the body exists within the conscious being.

How do you feel about the above statements and what else might they imply?

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It's early morning here and I am thinking of breakfast

Our conscious/awareness isn't a thing that holds nor stores 'stuff'.

There is interconnectedness however that links everything together, negating any real inside/outside where one goes inside or outside as if such is contained independently as if there's a door or portal there.

 

[Salty Booger]

Our conscious/awareness isn't a thing that holds nor stores 'stuff'.

Agreed, it is not a "thing."