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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a pragmatic
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Consciousness
Consciousness:
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The state of being conscious.
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The state or faculty, or a particular state, of being aware of one’s thoughts,
feelings, actions
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The totality of the thoughts, feelings, impressions, etc., of a person or group;
such as a body of thoughts etc. relating to a particular sphere; a collective awareness or sense. Oxford
Dictionary
Peter: Consciousness has three meanings –
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In a normal person consciousness is what is happening when one is alive and
awake. Unconsciousness is what is happening when alive and in deep sleep, concussed or anaesthetised and is epitomised by oblivion.
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The second meaning is the one that is commonly used to describe the awareness of
oneself and is epitomized by three faculties … the sensate, the cerebral and the affective. Thus in a normal person consciousness refers to
the consciousness of the psychological and psychic entity only, who we ‘think’ and ‘feel’ we are, as opposed to what we are. It is
only in a Pure Consciousness Experience that the psychological and psychic entity’s affective and cerebral dominance is temporarily absent
that the extraordinary perfection and purity of the actual is sensately evidenced.
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This collective sense of consciousness forms such a strong illusion as to appear real.
Unfortunately the actual evidence of this collective ‘consciousness’ is that it varies from culture to culture and religion to religion
and, as such, is merely a socially imbibed and adopted belief system. The collective sense of consciousness is the direct result of the
automatic instilling of a culturally appropriate conscience in each group member with it’s associated values, ethics and morals. This
collective consciousness is epitomized by a feeling of belonging to a group and gives rise to such feelings as ‘we are all one’, ‘we
are all God’s children’, ‘we are all That’ or other similar platitudes. As is evidenced by the facts of ethnic, territorial,
religious and ethical wars these feelings are utterly fanciful and nonsensical.
The over-riding selfishness inevitably proves stronger for those willing to grab for power and in the
spiritual world the most powerful leaders inevitably declare narcissistically that ‘I am the One’, I am God’ or ‘I am That’. For the
mere followers, the collective consciousness operates such that one will inevitably surrender one’s will for the supposed ‘good of the
whole’, and if ‘push comes to shove’ to willingly and passionately kill and die for the group and its leader. It is this collective
consciousness that lies at the very heart of one’s social identity and forever enslaves the individual to a particular group and all human
kind to the Human Condition of malice and sorrow.
Richard: Please bear in mind that, in actualism terminology, the word consciousness refers to a flesh-and-blood body
being conscious (the suffix ‘-ness’ forms a noun expressing a state or condition), as in being sentient, and not to some
mystical/ psychic entity, which ‘quits the body’ at physical death, as is so prevalent in religio-spiritual/
mystico-metaphysical terminology.
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