Consciousness

Consciousness is seen as something we possess. Something inseparable from our bodies.

When studying the idea of consciousness, or rather the essence of consciousness, there is longstanding debate about where it lives in the human psyche. Is consciousness our thoughts? Or is it what recognizes our thoughts as a second-order phenomenon?

During a meditation session in a park overlooking the Sydney Harbour, I dwelled on this question and came up with a new conclusion.

The conclusion being that consciousness does not make residence in our being at all, rather that it is external from the human mind and body. Consciousness occurs in the space around us where interaction is possible with worldly things. Consciousness is the space where light travels to our eyes, or sound travels to our ears, or smells travel to our olfactory receptors.

The consequences of this gives a new appreciation for consciousness, a new appreciation for space. It is contained in space the idea of experience. In the nothingness, contains everything.

So what is the point? Consciousness affords people the opportunity to improve consciousness by increasing space and the quality of the space around them.