Consciousness: The Fundamental Reality

Consciousness. It's our awareness, our understanding, our ignorance. Our daily consciousness leaves out more than it takes in, and due to this, it leaves out important things—things that would help relieve us if we knew them.

If we had a higher awareness, a better consciousness, we would feel better. We would be more at peace with things. The deep down truth of things is screened by our consciousness. Our sensory organs will pick things out. Our eyes can see certain things; our ears can only hear certain things.

We have to create instruments and other tools to see things we, as humans, cannot, to expand our understanding and thus our ego or consciousness. Humans evolved and became the dominant species on Earth by a long shot. It's due to our innate ability to network with each other.

If humanity was wiped out and restarted like loading an old save file, communities would still form. Structures within society are inevitable due to the variety of brains. Some are good at critical thinking; others are more artistic. However, we are all wired with some innate features. Just as humans formed societies that evolved, other creatures do as well.

But we're different. We are customizable characters. Basically, we can kind of mold ourselves into whatever kind of person we want to be. We can't know for certain that animals or any other life on Earth is conscious or can even function in the same way that we do.

Let's put it this way: I know that I have my own thoughts, feelings, and emotions, but how can I know for certain that you or anyone else does? There's no way I can go to your head and see things 100% from your perspective. I can't know what you're thinking or if you can even think in the first place.

To truly understand the universe, to understand and actually experience life, you have to give yourself up. There's no point in sustaining bliss and being permanently at an all-time high. The life you're living is what you have put yourself into—what ego you've formed. Only you don't want to admit it.

You want to believe it happened to you. Day to day, you play non-bliss in order to be able to experience bliss. You put yourself into bad situations. You let in the negative experiences in life just to feel some kind of satisfaction when it goes the other way.

Self implies other; white implies black; death implies life. You could feel your existence as fundamental, not as an accident. At the basic level, at the lowest level imaginable, you are the fundamentals of existence. The same thing that makes you is the same thing that makes up everything else.

If you can step back from what you believe, if you can step back from what your sensory organs have turned you into, you start to see things for what they actually are. Do you define yourself as a victim of the world or as the world?

Love is only possible due to the lack of self. You give up all your secrets. The walls you've built to keep people at an arm's distance slowly lower one by one until you're a completely open book. Until all your pages have been read and the rest of the pages are blank, waiting to be filled with this newfound love.

In basketball, or soccer, or football, you're constantly giving the ball to someone else. The point of the game is to have the ball in your hand for the least amount of time—to constantly be passing it to someone else, to shoot it, to get it out of your hands. It keeps the game going, and life is the same way.

If you define yourself as only being what your ego is, as the things you do voluntarily, then you're the victim. It's because of some higher power that you were put here when you didn't ask for it. But what about the things you do involuntarily? Do you beat your heart, or does it just happen to you?

You do those things even though you don't know how. Words don't work here, as Alan Watts said. Everyone is fundamentally the alternate reality. Not God in a traditional sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic or whatever there is. And you're all that—only you're pretending you're not.

Mine that can ask, "Who am I? Why am I here? What is the purpose of all of this?" tends to forget, as I said, your consciousness...