A PETER RUSSELL X SN YT X DYNAMIC STRUCTURED FIELD OF BEING

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everything i've thought about consciousness just got taken to a WHOLE new other level. Incredible some of these thoughts were brought up over 100 and two hundred years ago and by Yogi's, who've had it right for a millenium and we're just catching up, incredible!

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“Whatever matter is, it is not made of matter." - physicist Hans-Peter Dürr

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Consciousness comes first, before matter. I remember a time when I was pure consciousness, and it was before I manifested as matter.

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BRAIN IS A REALITY GENERATOR

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what I think is ego , what I am is consciousness

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Yes, you're absolutely right! Both "science" and "consciousness" do indeed share the Latin root "sciere," meaning "to know."

Science comes from Latin "scientia" (knowledge, understanding) → from "sciere" (to know)

Consciousness comes from Latin "conscientia" (joint knowledge, awareness) → from "con-" (together, with) + "sciere" (to know)

This etymological connection is quite meaningful. The prefix "con-" in consciousness literally means "with" or "together," so consciousness etymologically means "knowing with" or "knowing together" - suggesting an awareness that brings together different aspects of experience or knowledge.

Other English words sharing this same root include:

• Prescient (knowing beforehand)
• Omniscient (all-knowing)
• Conscience (moral knowledge/awareness)
• Nescient (not knowing, ignorant)

The shared etymology reflects how both concepts fundamentally involve different modes of "knowing" - science as systematic, empirical knowledge about the external world, and consciousness as the subjective, experiential knowledge of being aware. It's fascinating how language preserves these conceptual relationships across millennia.

This connection also highlights why consciousness has been such a challenging topic for science - we're essentially trying to use one form of "knowing" (scientific method) to understand another form of "knowing" (subjective awareness).

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SCIENCE IS WHAT WE KNOW 

KNOWING TAKES PLACE IN CONSCIOUSNESS

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Consciousness creates the information we perceive as the World.

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What a most appropriate way to end this fascinating talk: By quoting the Indian mystic, Nisargadatta. “The world you perceive is made of consciousness. What you call matter is consciousness itself.” What Sri Ramana Maharshi, and Meherbaba, and Nisargadatta, and Swami Vivekananda have said are not their original ideas or thoughts. All of them have only quoted from the Upanishads found in the Vedas, the scriptures that the Hindus consider holy or sacred. And what you find in the Upanishads is the truth revealed to the Hindu Sages at least three thousand years ago as they meditated. According to these Upanishads, mind is also matter, but composed of “subtle matter” ; and matter has consciousness also, the difference is only in the degree of awareness. Yes, “Matter as we know it exists only in the mind.” How true! Science is only beginning to understand and catch up with what was known to the ancient rishis of India thousands of years ago.

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Consciousness is it's content, infinite expressions of Love!

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Everything is consciousness. Life Is a dream of separate selves. We are in a bittersweet dance with ourselves.

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the solution ~ change yourself: Picture a child you love very much at the age of 2 years old. Imagine this child before you and focus on the feelings of love you have for this child. Focus on your love for the child until it has expanded so much that you are smiling and feeling joy. After you have maintained this feeling for a few minutes, move this child to the side and place in front of you ~ yourself at the age of 2. Picture yourself now at the age of 2 and keep focusing on the feelings you built up for the first child ~ is not the second child as precious as the first? You are now loving yourself ~ stay with the feeling and expand it further ~ open your heart. Now that you know how to get into a feeling of love for yourself, you can change your age to focus on areas that may be more difficult for you to love yourself. Do this exercise daily and loving yourself will be become your natural response to yourself

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I have been thinking this a lot lately. That all is consciousness. I even see it and feel it in more and more things. The dog, the cow, the insects flying around, the wind that rustles the leaves...

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DYNAMIC STRUCTURED FIELD OF BEING -JUST IS-NESS

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I agree with a lot of what Peter Russell spoke about. But, I am glad one of the questions posed was "how do you prove it?" And, the answer - "I don't know."

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You are always only looking at yourself!

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Clearly consciousness creates a virtual reality for us which is the map of the reality of nature but not the actual reality as such which would forever remain elusive to us

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HPOC X HPOM

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I think of it like the spirit uses the body and all it’s parts to be aware of it’s experience on earth or where ever

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There are tools to break through this dead dullness of matter and realize the essence of this cosmos and our existence and beyond. Yogis of different sorts have enumerated various paths for this. SatChidAnanda sums up the basis of reality - Existence-Knowledge(Consciousnesses)-Bliss

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MANDUKYA UPANISAD

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Max Planck 1944: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

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We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are consciousness. What body system is speaking through mouth is not you. You are consciousness or awareness aware of body and words coming from mouth

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ions of source we are...and we are this "presence" This is "consciousness"

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Consciousness is the stillness in the momentum of now. The centre of , hot - cold , inside - outside and so on,  the division that separates decision, the awareness of being .

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In answer to the question at the end as to how can we prove consciousness, I remember a lecture on Vedanta on the seer and the seen...The eyes see the book and the eyes are the seer, the mind knows what the eyes see and the mind is the knower, our conscious/awareness experiences the mind so consciousness is the seer and the mind is the seen. when it gets to consciousness they are strategically silent about being able to observe consciousness. Not that it is unknowable but that it is more than known, form Swami Vivekananda," The self is never an object of knowledge". This consciousness is the self.

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Universal conciousness permeates everything and individual counciuosness is just a part of the bigger one. Individual conciousness is a parallel on, happening there where the attention is. For example: Just because you can see a tree on the other side of the planet it does not mean it does not exist, but in fact it does exist because of its own part in the Universal conciousness. Its like a constant interconection of manifestation through this massive and no measurable consciousness that comprehends the all...At least, not measurable from a smaller portion of conciuosness.

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basic arguments of the 19th century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION

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WHY HPOC ?

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WE ARE THE UNIVERSE'S WAY OF RECKONING THAT WE ARE ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS

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ALL NAME FORMS THAT THE FIELD IS TAKING ON

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