THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
Consciousness
and awareness. Do not confuse “awareness” with “consciousness” They are not the
same thing. Awareness is variable, it can change. There are an infinity of
levels of awareness. You can be acutely aware of something like excruciating
pain, and totally unaware of nearly everything else. Awareness is conditional.
Consciousness is absolute. Consciousness is the primary form of reality.
Awareness is secondary and fleeting.
Recently,
I heard a scientist saying: “We are searching for the ‘source’ of consciousness
in the human brain.” Searching for the source of consciousness in the human brain
is like searching for the source of happiness in the muscles of a smiling face.
You will not find it there. Consciousness has no source. It is the source, the source of
all things. The brain is merely a receiver.
Rene
Descartes famously said: “I think, therefore I am.” Was he implying that
thinking is consciousness? If he was, then he was wrong. Literally, “I think,
therefore I am” equates thinking with being. Does that mean that thought is the
source of being? I don’t think Descartes thought this through very well. And
yet much of modern science is based on Descartes’ thinking. If thinking ceases completely, being does not
go away. Thinking is not the source of being, any more than the brain is the
source of consciousness. Consciousness has no source, it is the source. Primary
Consciousness has no beginning and no end; and neither do you!
Expand
your consciousness today. You are surrounded by life and beauty! Be aware of everything around you, then expand
that awareness to include the earth, the sky, and the cosmos. Don’t limit your
awareness to what is going on in your head, or in your immediate surroundings.
Go beyond awareness, become Consciousness itself.
ERC 7/14/17
