Nov 05 2008
The difference between Awareness and Consciousness
There is a difference between awareness and consciousness, and a big one. For many people they are tantamount to the same thing. The field of experience is Consciousness, irrespective of what that experience might be: a thought, a feeling, a body sensation, a planet, an angel or a cup of tea. All these things are conscious happenings.
Awareness on the other hand is the empty living field of Who one is. Consciousness arises in Awareness. It is timeless and all encompassing. It can be likened to the Now, which one could say is the body of Awareness. It has no beginning, and there for it has no end; it has no specific location; it has no boundaries; it is the true infinity.
So, can it be experienced you may ask? No, of course not. It can’t be pointed at; you can not say that you have found the Now: likewise you can not say that you have found awareness. You can be aware of being consciousness, but no conscious of being Aware. Put another way: you cannot see your own eyes, but try seeing without them.
Awareness can be known even though it defies measurement, definition and the experienceable.
How can it be known? There are a few basic observations one can make, though observation is the wrong word. Insight might be a better word, or realisation even (the act of making something real).
So, why not realise it Now? Realise the following without using the analytical mind that merely wants to categorize and experience.
A few fundamentals:
Not only do you know, you Know that you know. The Knowing that knows is Awareness.
If I cut off your arm, have you become less?
You have not become less. It is The Awareness that you are that tells you this.
Do you arise in you body, or does your body arise in you?
If you can accept that there is a greater knowing that knows consciousness and that you there is something that has not become less if one of your arms is removed, then you can also see that you body arises in Awareness and that Awareness will continue after the body has fallen away.
So, your body arises in who you are. What a releif. You are AWARE. You are boundless, infinite and without the limitied idea that you exist betwix your ears. You are free, irrespective of your experiences.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!! That makes a lot of sense!!!
And thank you for your comment:-)
What is the material basis of Quantum Consciousness ?
Knowledge of Consciousness. ( A New Era: XXIc.)
Will Physics explain Consciousness?
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Our brain works on dualistic basis:
usually consciousness (logically) and rarely unconsciousness
( at first it seems illogically but at last it shows as very wise act)
In book ‘ The Holographic Universe’ Michael Talbot
on page 160 explained this situation in such way:
‘ Contrary to what everyone knows it is so, it may not be
the brain that produce consciousness, but rather consciousness
that creates the appearance of the brain ’
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In our terrestrial world the Information ( some basis of Consciousness)
can be transfer to you only by Electromagnetic waves.
Lorentz proved: there aren’t Electromagnetic waves without Electron.
Therefore I say,
only Electron can be the Quantum of Information/ Consciousness.
We don’t have any other theory of Information’s transfers.
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We know the Electron is very important particle in our live.
It acts in Maxwell’s electrodynamics.
It acts in the atom.
But how Electron acts in cell and in Outer space we don’t know.
We need time to understand this fact.
And when we understand the Vacuum and Electron
we will know the Ultimate Nature of Reality, it means we
will know the material basis of Quantum Consciousness too.
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Now nobody knows what the Vacuum and Electron are.
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” The problem of the exact description of vacuum, in my opinion,
is the basic problem now before physics. Really, if you can’t correctly
describe the vacuum, how it is possible to expect a correct description
of something more complex? ”
/ Paul Dirac /
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You know, it would be sufficient to really understand the electron.
/ Albert Einstein /
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Tell me what an electron is and I’ll then tell you everything.
/ Somebody /
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“… indeed an understanding of psi phenomena and of
consciousness must provide the basis of an improved
understanding of quantum mechanics.”
/Evan Walker /
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Best wishes
Israel Sadovnik Socratus
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Thanks for this very interesting post.
I have one question, if we cannot experience the awareness we are.
then after we die, wouldn’t that be just death?
totally blank and black, or not even that? or would it be some
sence that we still is?
Interesting question Chris - and probably the most important one. It all boils down to theory I guess - unless one is willing to die before death. But don’t be alarmed: this has been achieved by many and they are still wandering the planet: Gangaji, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle just to name a few. If you want to know what exists prior to and after life, experience has to stop for a mere moment. This gives way to the obvious recognition of what truly is. When this is recognized it is also known to have existed before birth and will continue after death. As stated before. Not only do you know, you know you know. Put aside all theory and find that which knows the knowing.