<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4893627633842930072</id><updated>2011-07-30T14:45:20.667-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Defining Consciousness</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousness-defined.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4893627633842930072/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousness-defined.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>James W. Patterson, Ph.D., Esogist</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15068983807305837381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GeEWJdiA2iE/TI_P5Rt_naI/AAAAAAAAAI4/dOweUgl0ZLE/S220/jp+photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4893627633842930072.post-8959020714739836935</id><published>2009-07-07T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T11:22:20.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LET US DEFINE CONSCIOUSNESS....</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;When I was young, I thought that the term "consciousness" just referred to the fact that a person was alive.  Sort of referred to that "stuff" that helps us differentiate between someone who is alive and someone who is dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not wrong entirely, but I believe today it is rather important for individuals to have a better understanding of this most misunderstood term.  It will no doubt surprise many of you to discover that "consciousness" refers to nothing physical, tangible or discernible by ones brain or physical senses.  Why have a term for that which one is unable to actually experience?   Because we "need" to label those elements of life that we "know" exist, and yet we are unable to perceive their existence.  Such terms are said to be "abstract" terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know, in other words that there is a difference between someone who is alive and someone who is dead.  What is the difference... I mean other than the obvious? One descriptive term is "life".  We see life all round us, and yet rare is the person who wonders what the term "life" means?  We marvel at it, point to it, and write sonnets to it... but rarely does one openly risk portraying ones ignorance by asking: What is life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every "living" thing has a Soul.  And when that Soul leaves that thing, that thing ceases to be "life".  So life is not the thing we see, it is that which we cannot see. We say that the thing is "alive" and we notice "life" by the thing within which life exists doing things.  So it is with "consciousness".  But what is it?  I mean what is it in actuality?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A number of years ago, I intuited the concept of Neutral Spiritual Energy, or NSgy. This intuition came to me while I was engaged in a search for some energy that could sustain Truth.  What would cause me to be searching for this?  Who Knows? But I had been doing so for quite some time.  To aide me I had set some criteria for the search.  1.  It must be permanent.  2.  It could not change.  3.  It could not be other than it is, ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I intuited the concept of NSgy,  it took some time for me to utilize the potential of this concept.... because I had always thought of "neutral" as being neither this nor that.  Not a thing in and of itself, but more that space between one thing and another.  But as I thought about it, the concept seemed to "fit" the criteria I had laid out for the energy I needed to sustain [house and sustain] the concept of Truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mention this event because with the concept of NSgy came the answer to some thirty years trying to construct a complete Psychology of Man.  NSgy was the "keystone" that allowed me to complete my construct of the Whole Human Being, or WHB.  Compressing about a decade of work and integration of NSgy into this sentence, and with the addition of the concept of "&lt;a href="http://apapsyche.blogspot.com/"&gt;Apapsyche&lt;/a&gt;" [Operational Energy of the Soul], I completed my Esoteric structure of the Whole Human Being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is how I came to discover the "Apapsyche", which is my substitute term for that of "consciousness".  The intuition of NSgy and the addition of the concept of Apapsyche concluded over thirty years research and resulted in my discovering how the Whole Human Being works.  This means "INSIDE" as well as outside.  This also meant that I now understood that Life has a "Purpose" and that I knew [and thus far I seem to be the only one who holds this belief]...what that purpose is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "purpose" has to do with NSgy.  That is, since God is an Absolute Energy [NSgy],  God is permanent, cannot change, and cannot be other than God is, ever. But this meant that God cannot leave God to be in the Creation, and this presented me with a big problem.  Then I recalled my learning of the term "Shabd", which is Hindi, and refers to the same things that the Christian term "Word" refers to.  The Shabd or Word is the means by which God projected the Creation, and then aspects of Himself as we Souls into that Creation to explore and experience everything that NSgy can be. Add two additional elements and one has a complete structure of Life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The additional elements are the Law of Karma, and the MIND which provides the Soul [which is itself NSgy] an opportunity to explore duality.  So the purpose of life is  to do Karma, and ones &lt;a href="http://thecompletemind.blogspot.com/"&gt;MIND&lt;/a&gt; with what I refer to as "MINDLines" keeps a complete record of all ones Karma and as one "completes" a certain Karma, this is converted by a process I refer to as "Esotransmutation" into Knowledge and Empathetic Understanding, and this contributes to ones "Spiritual Evolution" which helps ones Soul ascend the Ladder of Life.... etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this greatly abbreviated background, let us now focus on the Apapsyche or "consciousness".   The most crucial elements within Man are Esoteric in nature and therefore not discernible or perceivable by ones brain or thinking.  But you say -  I can "think" about my MIND.  To wit.... I say, can you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or can you "think" about the abstract term MIND?  Thinking about this abstract term does nothing about providing you with an actual "experience" of your MIND.  Nor does knowing "about" the abstract term MIND provide you any insight to or awareness of its primary Defense Mechanism.  The one I refer to as its DM=SI [Defense Mechanism equals Subtle Insanity].  It is the DM=SI that your MIND uses to set your conscious awareness aside as it causes you to "think" precisely what it wants you to think.   And of course you "believe" what you are thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That your Apapsyche is involved in everything one does, does not mean that one is aware of everything ones Apapsyche is doing.   Only that which ones Fate Karma requires is done, and only those portions of that which you are supposed to experience do you experience.   Is this getting very close to erasing the wonderful illusion of "free will"?  I'm afraid it is.  After only a few lifetimes ones Soul, Apapsyche and MIND have generated so many Karmic due bills [Karma that one has done and now must return to oneself] that the idea of "free will" is more myth that truth.  About the only thing one is free to do is to "Accept" what happens to one as due one, or to resist it and complain about it.  Now ask yourself which you do most often?  Each time you complain you simply set in motion yet another "Karmic due bill".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ones conscious awareness is fully dependent upon and totally consistent with the rung of the Ladder of Life upon which one is perched.  And the vast majority of Souls are perched upon the lower couple rungs of the Ladder of Life.  The amount of Conscience and Discretion, Knowledge and Empathetic Understanding available to one is relative to the amount of Karma one has completed.  Again, those Souls with higher levels of "consciousness" or Apapsyches,  are those Souls that have "completed" a great deal of Karma... and this takes a great many lifetimes to achieve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The greatest number of Souls operating on the physical plane are perched upon the lower couple rungs of the Ladder of Life.   And the peculiar thing is that the level of ones intellectualism has absolutely no relevance to the rung of the ladder upon which one is perched.  A human being experiencing his/her first life can possess the highest possible intellectualism and have precious little Conscience and Discretion available with which to monitor his/her actions.  Isn't that interesting?  Does this remind you of anyone in particular?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now you know what your consciousness is, what it's internal purpose is, and that it has very little to do with ones intellect.  The one thing it most certainly does not have to do with is ones thinking.  But ones intuition is directly tied to ones Apapsyche, so do trust your intuition.... if you are sure that is what you are experiencing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4893627633842930072-8959020714739836935?l=consciousness-defined.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://consciousness-defined.blogspot.com/feeds/8959020714739836935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://consciousness-defined.blogspot.com/2009/07/let-us-define-consciousness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4893627633842930072/posts/default/8959020714739836935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4893627633842930072/posts/default/8959020714739836935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://consciousness-defined.blogspot.com/2009/07/let-us-define-consciousness.html' title='LET US DEFINE CONSCIOUSNESS....'/><author><name>James W. 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