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Mystic science - The nature of consciousness

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Updated: Jan 22

Consciousness is not within us, we are within consciousness


Question: (In response to my video: You are the Sun!)

The video presents a mystical view of consciousness as an unchanging entity trapped in human experience, contrasting with the scientific understanding of consciousness as a product of brain activity. The video's analogy of the sun and clouds portrays consciousness as being obscured, while a scientific view sees the brain as an information processor. The concept of "effortless being" can be interpreted as mindfulness, which can improve mental well-being but doesn't alter the fundamental nature of consciousness. therefore, the video offers a metaphorical perspective that doesn't align with scientific explanations of consciousness.


Answer:

Far from being ‘trapped’ in human experience, consciousness is in fact ‘having’ a human experience.

When we take the perspective of the apparent separate person and believe that person to be real it places limitations on our understanding of ourselves and the world. Upon introspection however, can this 'person' really be found or is it simply a thought arising in consciousness believed to be true?

If the person is found not to exist at all then any discussion which is founded on its erroneous existence must be flawed from the beginning. So one must first of all determine whether or not the person is real. This is where my video comes in...

The video points to the fact that from the mistaken position of the 'person' it may seem like consciousness is obscured (the sun veiled by clouds) but the pointing is to the fact that you are not the person, you are consciousness!


Regarding your interpretation of effortless being as mindfulness, this would be to reduce the divine flow of life to a meditation exercise. They are really not the same thing at all.

Although many gain great benefit from mindfulness meditation, for me it is a meditation practice born of society's obsession with mind, or in other words of unconscious, habitual thinking. While it can be argued that mindfulness is a good way to force an initial separation between thoughts and the one that witnesses thoughts, it still puts far too much emphasis on thinking, which is really not that important at all and comprises a very small part of what we truly are. Furthermore, so long as attention is focused on mind we will believe that thinking is something worth focusing on and we will be lost in the continual Sisyphean torment of trying to use effort to work our way out of the apparent predicament we imagine ourselves to be in.

Effortless being, on the other hand, does not push or pull life around. Indeed, thoughts come and go as they please and their very flow itself is effortless being. There is no such thing as duality.


This leads onto your final point as regards the scientific view...

All hypotheses, assumptions, and conclusions are formulated and abide entirely in the Body of Mind (the third of the 5 koshas), which is only a tiny part of the human experience. They are simply thoughts. If we don't think about anything, does science exist at all? Yet, even without thinking, you know that you exist.

Thus mind, being a part of consciousness, can never grasp the ultimate, infinite truth of what we are.


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An astronaut kneeling in space


 


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