Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:17 pm
Dontaskme wrote:
Sensation is the awareness of contrast. The essential feeling of BEING is the same.
If you always experience nothing but the same sensation, or even more so sensory deprivation, you would eventually hallucinate.
Yes you would, and is why there is a contrast button - the on/off switch between the sensation of being awake/alive as opposed to being unconscious. There are two sides to BEINGNESS.
An unconscious consciousness is a contradiction in terms, but could not have been any other way. When awareness knows sensation consciousness/mind is born.
Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:17 pmThe essential feeling of Being is the same as what? I presume that you mean that one individual essentially feels what another is feeling .
The essential feeling of Being is the same for every apparent 'individual' ..we all share the same sense of being alive. The seer looking from my eye is the same seer looking from every other eye. The same sense of being alive is the same for every living creature. We all have the same conscious awareness.
However, what arises in THAT essential BEINGNESS or AWARENESS is a different experience. The experience creates the sensation of being aware. When a thought says I am aware.. duality is born, aka mind is born aka knowledge. The unconscious becomes conscious.
We cannot feel what another one is feeling, or know what they know, simply because there is nothing outside of consciousness except what consciousness projects to be (out-there) in the form of images of other things...but these images are inseparable from the consciousness that is projecting them...seeing them, knowing them, feeling them, tasting, and smelling them.
There is nothing outside of consciousness except it's own self reflecting projections -consciousness is like a mirror ball in that respect projecting itself as if there existed many consciousnesses. The proof that there is only ONE CONSCIOUSNESS is obvious in that it is impossible to know or see the world of another. You can only project AN IDEA OF OTHER... and what we believe about ''others'' is always about ourselves, the original knowing self.
Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:17 pm This is not true because individuals differ from each other as to how they feel about all sorts of ideas and sensations.
There is no individual, except as an illusory ''I'' thought within the same one awareness that is everything. There is only one consciousness experiencing itself as an individual in the experience of ''I'' ..but it's just a thought.
''I'' is an experience within consciousness. Consciousness itself is not an experience because EVERYTHING is consciousness. The thought 'I am consciousness' is an illusion arising in what already exists prior to the thought and this existence is essential for a thought to even arise in the first place.
All thought is different, but the source of thought is the same.
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