Games of Consciousness - The Principle of Conscious Continuity
A new type of consciousness is emerging on Earth, a way of perceiving reality that is destined to revolutionize life on our planet. It’s not that this is the right type of consciousness or even a better type of consciousness than what exists now. It’s just that the new consciousness is more inclusive than the current one and seems to be evolving out of the first in the same way that human consciousness evolved out of pre-human consciousness so long, long ago.
This different type of consciousness is not just a subject to talk about but a way to be, a way to act, a way to experience the world and self that puts a new dimension on what is currently accepted as experientially real.
Computer generated 3-D art can serve as a metaphor for the new consciousness. Someone may tell us there is a picture hidden in what appears to be a mere mass of color and abstract pattern, and we may stare and squint and cross our eyes till we get a headache, but the image remains hidden until we actually see it. And when we do, suddenly there it is, a picture that had been there all along, hidden only by the fact that we did not know how to look. Once we see it, of course, we can always go back and see it again, for now we know how to focus our eyes.
Such is the case with the new consciousness. Nothing need change in the external world for awareness to take place, only our view of that world must change, and what we bring to our meeting with that world. Yet as a result, it will be possible to experience life in a way that adds new perspective and meaning to what is commonly viewed at present as a mere mass of confusion and random happenings.
Application of the new consciousness in our daily lives will not only change us but will allow us to change the world in ways we can only dream of today. We will no longer see ourselves as alientated, separated beings, scratching and clawing to survive while competing with each other for limited economic resources. Earth will be treated as the true benevolent mother she is, creating enough for all her children to live without want. And an attitude of peace, impossible to fathom in today’s fragmented society, will mark the new way of being.
The new consciousness is available to anyone who wishes to find it. It does not require great training, nor study, nor advanced degrees to access. Nor does it require any particular form of belief system, religeous or otherwise. In fact, deeply entrenched belief systems can create blinders that hide it from our sight. What is necessary for experiencing the new consciousness is an open mind, a willingness to explore that mind, and the strength of will to affirm what you experience in that exploration, even if it goes against the nay-sayers, the vast majority who fear any change from the status quo. But why shouldn’t there be change? Look at the change in consciousness that has taken place on the planet so far.
Even though we know in our minds that humans did not always walk the Earth, it is not part of our natural thought process to realize that this means once upon a time rocks were the most evolved beings around. And although plants do not demonstrate the most evolved level of consciousness existing today, there can be no question of the great planetary breakthrough in consciousness that occurred when that form of life first appeared. Similarly, animal life and human life each brought the level of consciousness to new and hitherto unimagined experiences.
Indeed, humans are so far beyond the levels of consciousness that used to rule Earth that we tend to consider ourselves the ultimate development of evolution just as we are. With only a recent and cursory nod in the direction of whales and dolphins, we believe our experience of conscious reality to be the highest evolution of brain and mind possible. Some have even referred to humans as the goal of all creation.
Despite our protests to the contrary, and even accepting that we might be the most complex development consciousness has as yet produced, there is no reason to assume the evolutionary process has come to an end with us as we currently exist. For just as conscious awareness evolved in a constant continuum through the physical forms of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human in turn, so is this new level of consciousness currently manifesting on Earth. And just as each evolving level of consciousness demonstrated all the capacities and capabilities that preceded it, so does this one start from the conditions of human awareness and build from there.
Were this a physical change taking place, something as obvious in external reality as the emergence of a sixth finger or a new blood type that never existed before, we would not doubt its reality. It would be easy to see with the naked eye or some fancy instrument of technology, and we could observe and measure its evolutionary progress. But this development is proceeding in the immeasurable conscious awareness internal to humankind. Its existence cannot be measured and can only be experienced individually, though its effects and the results of its application can be recognized collectively.
For those of us who grew up in days when everything was neatly labeled as animal, vegetable, or mineral, it comes as a shock to discover that there are viruses, bacteria, and other micro-miniature entities that cross over categories and defy definition. Such beings, however, both illustrate the continuity of the process of evolution and open up the exciting reality that the new emerging level of consciousness is accessible to any being currently demonstrating normal human consciousness. It is an exciting thought.
The Principle of Conscious Continuity
First premise...
This means that consciousness exists ‘out there’, whether we know it or not, and also ‘in there’ whether we know it or not. It is both inside and outside each and every one of us and each and every atom of everything that exists in whatever size universe we can imagine. And if we can theoretically visualize a reality between `inside' and `outside', it would fill that space, too.
Consciousness exists independent of the physical body but not separate from it. We exist in it and it exists in us in much the same way that water exists in a living sponge and the living sponge exists in water. And like the water in relationship to the sponge, consciousness doesn't care whether we know it is there or not. Which is to say, consciousness exists independent of its being known, independent of our awareness of it, and independent of our being able to measure it. Consciousness just ‘is’.
Second premise...
The relationship between consciousness and material beings is similar to the way radio waves, passing unnoticed through space, are only made manifest by machines both designed to receive them and tuned to their particular frequency. Consciousness, needless to say, has many different frequencies and is infinitely more complicated than radio waves.
It is the receiver that determines what frequencies of total consciousness are received and with what clarity. As consciousness flows through the things of the physical world and the things of the physical world flow through consciousness, they interact in direct proportion to the evolutionary level of the thing of the physical world.
Thus, the nature and evolutionary development of each physical thing determines how many, what kind, and to what degree the capacities and characteristics of total all pervasive consciousness are registered and processed. From another view of the same relationship, it is the nature and evolutionary development of each physical thing that determines how much of total all pervasive consciousness that thing manifests in the physical world. It is only those aspects of consciousness that do manifest in the physical world that can be measured.
For example, total consciousness flows through rocks, trees and dogs just as easily and just as completely as it flows through humans. However, it is the amount of consciousness a thing picks up, processes, and displays that determines how evolved we, as humans, think it is. And since we, as humans, have more ways available for interacting with consciousness than rocks, trees, and dogs, we tend to think we are more advanced than they are. And since we think we are more advanced, we destroy them for our benefit. But that's another story.
That’s it. Simple. Yet the Principle of Conscious Continuity presents a way of looking for and at consciousness from within consciousness, via reproducible, experiential phenomenology. Those scientists willing to apply Conscious Continuity to their work will discover that the entire body of already existing scientific research becomes subject to whole new approaches of interpretation without changing the factual results of that research. How fascinating. Simply by looking from a different perspective, information and findings already available will lead to new understandings.
Such controlled experimentation, falling outside the scope of these writings, are simple, rational, inexpensive, and applicable to any particularized field. It requires only a recognition that consciousness is a process more than an object and that any externally oriented approach cannot help but be limited to a partial understanding of the totality.
Consciousness awaits explanation of its material unfolding in all of its manifestations from the inside out by any imaginative thinker who can look at the sun moving across the heavens and see Earth turning round.
This different type of consciousness is not just a subject to talk about but a way to be, a way to act, a way to experience the world and self that puts a new dimension on what is currently accepted as experientially real.
Computer generated 3-D art can serve as a metaphor for the new consciousness. Someone may tell us there is a picture hidden in what appears to be a mere mass of color and abstract pattern, and we may stare and squint and cross our eyes till we get a headache, but the image remains hidden until we actually see it. And when we do, suddenly there it is, a picture that had been there all along, hidden only by the fact that we did not know how to look. Once we see it, of course, we can always go back and see it again, for now we know how to focus our eyes.
Such is the case with the new consciousness. Nothing need change in the external world for awareness to take place, only our view of that world must change, and what we bring to our meeting with that world. Yet as a result, it will be possible to experience life in a way that adds new perspective and meaning to what is commonly viewed at present as a mere mass of confusion and random happenings.
Application of the new consciousness in our daily lives will not only change us but will allow us to change the world in ways we can only dream of today. We will no longer see ourselves as alientated, separated beings, scratching and clawing to survive while competing with each other for limited economic resources. Earth will be treated as the true benevolent mother she is, creating enough for all her children to live without want. And an attitude of peace, impossible to fathom in today’s fragmented society, will mark the new way of being.
The new consciousness is available to anyone who wishes to find it. It does not require great training, nor study, nor advanced degrees to access. Nor does it require any particular form of belief system, religeous or otherwise. In fact, deeply entrenched belief systems can create blinders that hide it from our sight. What is necessary for experiencing the new consciousness is an open mind, a willingness to explore that mind, and the strength of will to affirm what you experience in that exploration, even if it goes against the nay-sayers, the vast majority who fear any change from the status quo. But why shouldn’t there be change? Look at the change in consciousness that has taken place on the planet so far.
Even though we know in our minds that humans did not always walk the Earth, it is not part of our natural thought process to realize that this means once upon a time rocks were the most evolved beings around. And although plants do not demonstrate the most evolved level of consciousness existing today, there can be no question of the great planetary breakthrough in consciousness that occurred when that form of life first appeared. Similarly, animal life and human life each brought the level of consciousness to new and hitherto unimagined experiences.
Indeed, humans are so far beyond the levels of consciousness that used to rule Earth that we tend to consider ourselves the ultimate development of evolution just as we are. With only a recent and cursory nod in the direction of whales and dolphins, we believe our experience of conscious reality to be the highest evolution of brain and mind possible. Some have even referred to humans as the goal of all creation.
. . . Surprise! . . .
Despite our protests to the contrary, and even accepting that we might be the most complex development consciousness has as yet produced, there is no reason to assume the evolutionary process has come to an end with us as we currently exist. For just as conscious awareness evolved in a constant continuum through the physical forms of mineral, vegetable, animal, and human in turn, so is this new level of consciousness currently manifesting on Earth. And just as each evolving level of consciousness demonstrated all the capacities and capabilities that preceded it, so does this one start from the conditions of human awareness and build from there.
Were this a physical change taking place, something as obvious in external reality as the emergence of a sixth finger or a new blood type that never existed before, we would not doubt its reality. It would be easy to see with the naked eye or some fancy instrument of technology, and we could observe and measure its evolutionary progress. But this development is proceeding in the immeasurable conscious awareness internal to humankind. Its existence cannot be measured and can only be experienced individually, though its effects and the results of its application can be recognized collectively.
For those of us who grew up in days when everything was neatly labeled as animal, vegetable, or mineral, it comes as a shock to discover that there are viruses, bacteria, and other micro-miniature entities that cross over categories and defy definition. Such beings, however, both illustrate the continuity of the process of evolution and open up the exciting reality that the new emerging level of consciousness is accessible to any being currently demonstrating normal human consciousness. It is an exciting thought.
* * *
The Principle of Conscious Continuity
First premise...
.Consciousness exists in everything everywhere,
always has, always will.
always has, always will.
This means that consciousness exists ‘out there’, whether we know it or not, and also ‘in there’ whether we know it or not. It is both inside and outside each and every one of us and each and every atom of everything that exists in whatever size universe we can imagine. And if we can theoretically visualize a reality between `inside' and `outside', it would fill that space, too.
Consciousness exists independent of the physical body but not separate from it. We exist in it and it exists in us in much the same way that water exists in a living sponge and the living sponge exists in water. And like the water in relationship to the sponge, consciousness doesn't care whether we know it is there or not. Which is to say, consciousness exists independent of its being known, independent of our awareness of it, and independent of our being able to measure it. Consciousness just ‘is’.
Second premise...
.A being's material nature determines how and to what extent
consciousness is experienced.
consciousness is experienced.
The relationship between consciousness and material beings is similar to the way radio waves, passing unnoticed through space, are only made manifest by machines both designed to receive them and tuned to their particular frequency. Consciousness, needless to say, has many different frequencies and is infinitely more complicated than radio waves.
It is the receiver that determines what frequencies of total consciousness are received and with what clarity. As consciousness flows through the things of the physical world and the things of the physical world flow through consciousness, they interact in direct proportion to the evolutionary level of the thing of the physical world.
Thus, the nature and evolutionary development of each physical thing determines how many, what kind, and to what degree the capacities and characteristics of total all pervasive consciousness are registered and processed. From another view of the same relationship, it is the nature and evolutionary development of each physical thing that determines how much of total all pervasive consciousness that thing manifests in the physical world. It is only those aspects of consciousness that do manifest in the physical world that can be measured.
For example, total consciousness flows through rocks, trees and dogs just as easily and just as completely as it flows through humans. However, it is the amount of consciousness a thing picks up, processes, and displays that determines how evolved we, as humans, think it is. And since we, as humans, have more ways available for interacting with consciousness than rocks, trees, and dogs, we tend to think we are more advanced than they are. And since we think we are more advanced, we destroy them for our benefit. But that's another story.
* * *
That’s it. Simple. Yet the Principle of Conscious Continuity presents a way of looking for and at consciousness from within consciousness, via reproducible, experiential phenomenology. Those scientists willing to apply Conscious Continuity to their work will discover that the entire body of already existing scientific research becomes subject to whole new approaches of interpretation without changing the factual results of that research. How fascinating. Simply by looking from a different perspective, information and findings already available will lead to new understandings.
Such controlled experimentation, falling outside the scope of these writings, are simple, rational, inexpensive, and applicable to any particularized field. It requires only a recognition that consciousness is a process more than an object and that any externally oriented approach cannot help but be limited to a partial understanding of the totality.
Consciousness awaits explanation of its material unfolding in all of its manifestations from the inside out by any imaginative thinker who can look at the sun moving across the heavens and see Earth turning round.
* * *
posted by Anonymous | 1:59 PM
2 Comments:
So this is the thesis you've been pushing, eh? The one you think will change the world? You got balls, Doc. You got balls.
I'll bet it does.
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