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The Nature of Consciousness

July 14, 2014 – 7:10 AM

Reference: The Ground State of the Universe

In the beginning there is only awareness. Since there is nothing else to be aware of, there is simply self-awareness. This is consciousness.

The fundamental awareness is consciousness.

With awareness there is perception. The perception is followed by recognition. Awareness recognizes its nature to perceive. It then perceives, and the cycle continues. Thus awareness as a disturbance oscillates from perceiving to recognizing and so on.

Awareness oscillates between perceiving and recognizing.

Since consciousness is an oscillation, there is some justification in making an association between consciousness and light, which is also a fundamental oscillation. It appears that this association is intuitive and it has existed since ancient times. Thus, we may assume consciousness to have the form of light and the essence of awareness.

The essence of consciousness is awareness, and its form is light.

Form represents the physical aspect. Essence represents the spiritual aspect. These two aspects seem to be relative and not separate and absolute in themselves.

For a long time space and time were regarded as absolute dimensions in themselves. Newtonian mechanics built on those dimensions has been very successful on a human scale. But, on a cosmic scale, it has been found by science that space and time are relative dimensions.

Similarly, Abrahamic religions have long regarded spiritual and physical to be absolute aspects in themselves. This has been adequate on a human scale. But, on the cosmic scale, we find it necessary to regard spiritual and physical to be relative aspects.

A spiritual state will have physical form, no matter how subtle. And a physical state will have some spiritual characteristics, no matter how subdued. Thus, consciousness is both physical and spiritual having the form of light and essence of awareness.

Spiritual and physical are relative aspects and not separate and absolute in themselves.

Fundamentally, it is the desire to know that generates consciousness by disturbing the ground state. Consciousness, being a disturbance, has a certain frequency. Thus consciousness spreads as a wave with certain wavelength and period. As this desire gets stronger consciousness increases in frequency.

The desire to know pushes the consciousness to higher frequencies.

As its frequency increases consciousness develops into more complex forms, such as, inanimate matter, minerals, plants, animals and humans. Thus, every part of existence has the property of consciousness. All things are conscious to some degree if only as the properties they display.

Consciousness is the fundamental property of all existence.

Next: The Nature of Form

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The Ground State of the Universe (old)

July 13, 2014 – 6:37 AM

NOTE 9/28/14: The ground state is basically a transition point from non-awareness into awareness. This is described more fully at Universe and Awareness

References:

Aristotle and the Ground State

Awareness and the Ground State

Awareness is known to arise, change and disappear. It may be likened to a disturbance that arises, changes and disappears. We may assume some ground state, which when disturbed gives rise to awareness.

The ground state is the undisturbed state. It is an absence of awareness. It shall forever remain unknown because there is no awareness to accompany it.

The ground state is similar to that sound sleep in which no time seems to have passed. That time is just gone and cannot be found in memory either.

The ground state has no definition. The definition comes from awareness.

Awareness is a disturbance of some ground state, which is unknowable.

The idea of self exists throughout the spectrum of life. There is mineral self, plant self, the animal self, and the human self. Thus self is relative. The absolute Self of the Vedas is arrived at through the process of “neti, neti” (not this, not that). It leads to the same ground state described above.

The concepts of “Brahma” in Hinduism and “Nirvana” in Buddhism are based on this ground state. “Mahamudra” of Tantra is an attempt to describe this ground state.

The ultimate Self of Vedas arrived at through the process of “neti, neti” is the same ground state.

The God of Abrahamic religions is considered as the Creator of the world. Thus defined, God is relative to the ground state because the ground state has no definition.

The Static of Scientology is considered as the unmoved mover that can postulate and perceive. Thus defined, Static is relative to the ground state.

The concepts of God of Abrahamic religions and the Static of Scientology are relative to this ground state.

In the numbering system, zero is the absence of counting numbers. It then becomes the reference point of all numbers whether positive or negative, rational or irrational, real or imaginary.

Similarly, the ground state is an absence of awareness. It then becomes the reference point of anything that one can be aware of, whether potential or actual, real or imaginary, etc. All awareness, therefore, is relative. None of the awareness or considerations, such as, those of God and Static, may be regarded as absolute.

All awareness and considerations are relative to the ground state. There is no absolute awareness or consideration.

There is no bottom to the rabbit hole.

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What is Color?

July 7, 2014 – 4:46 PM

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Awareness and Light

June 25, 2014 – 6:30 PM

“Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding.” ~ Wikipedia

At the most fundamental level, awareness seems to have the nature of disturbance. The wave-length of this disturbance is nearly infinite, and the frequency nearly zero. The period and velocity are infinite for all practical purposes.

Self-awareness at this level appears to be a light-like aura. This is a very raw level of awareness. There is no other self, soul, energy, God, etc.

Awareness and light seem to be two different aspect of some primordial phenomenon of consciousness – awareness being the spiritual, while light being the physical aspect. The spiritual and physical aspects seem to go hand in hand.

Awareness and light seem to weave together to make various phenomena, entities, objects and the universe. They cannot be separated from each other.

There is no spiritual universe separate from the physical universe. There is only a single universe. It is the superset of all that exists with their spiritual and physical aspects.

There are no spiritual entities separate from physical objects. The spirituality of objects is expressed as their properties. This is well expressed in the periodic table of elements at the atomic and molecular levels.

There is no soul that separates from the body at death. The aliveness comes from the connectedness of awareness among the atoms, molecules, and organs of the body. There is a smooth flow of awareness throughout the body that creates the live organism. When this flow ceases death occurs. The body disintegrates into parts containing their own separate awareness.

The assumption that ‘physical’ and ‘spiritual’ are two separate phenomena is in error. Like “space-time”, we have “spiritual-physical” as a single or relative phenomenon. Neither spirituality nor physicality is absolute in itself.

The universe is the superset of all existence. Spiritual and physical are two different aspects that weave together into every particle and crevice of the universe. The fundamental nature of “spirtual-physical” is “awareness-light”.

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Theism, Atheism and Non-theism

June 19, 2014 – 5:34 PM

[NOTE: The earlier version of this essay titled “Theism versus Atheism” has been obsoleted]

(Wikipedia) The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning “god”. … they are “strictly and properly called Theists, who affirm, that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, existing of itself from eternity, was the cause of all other things”.

(Wikipedia) Atheism is rejection of theism in the broadest sense of theism; i.e. the rejection of belief that there is even one deity.

Theism views God, in its special role, to be separate from all existence. A culture that believes in theism assigns a similar role to self as being spiritual and separate from the physical existence around it.

The concepts of theism and atheism are coming strictly from a SELF-CENTRIC viewpoint. They are for or against “self” being the ultimate reality. The concepts of theism and atheism are created out of a focus on self.

The concepts of theism or atheism are foreign to the East and do not apply to the Vedic religions. Therefore, we may call Vedic religions non-theistic in nature. Some people consider Vedic religions to be atheistic or polytheistic because they are looking through a filter of theism-atheism.

Abrahamic religions, such as, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are theistic. The Vedic religions, such as, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism, are non-theistic.

Non-theism is based on the reality of existence. A non-theistic culture does not separate self from other things, but sees everything as part of the same reality of existence. The concept of non-theism, therefore, comes from a REALITY-CENTRIC viewpoint.

Theism, therefore, is self-centric. Non-theism is reality-centric.

Theism is based on subjectivity. Non-theism is based on objectivity.

Theism takes the affinities of people and molds it into a reality that is built around the idea of God. Non-theism takes the existing reality and transforms it into a sense of all-inclusive affinity.

The focus of Theism is on the uniqueness of self (individuality). This gives rise to the ideas of us and them. The focus of Non-theism is on oneness of all existence. Thus, differences may arise but they are secondary.

Theism holds a special idea of God. The idea of being one with God is unacceptable to it. Non-theism holds no special idea of God. The idea of being one with ultimate reality is part of it.

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