Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain" video.

  1. The opening statement, that consciousness is „the thing that makes us ‘us’“, is false. Further deliberations down this path can not lead to coherent, meaningful clarity – only to simulations of mental scenarios accompanied by emotions of the same nature as our nightly dreams.  Consciousness is not the „I“! It is the awareness of the „I“ – whether „I" is thinking or not thinking.  By this awareness of the „I“ anyone may realize that ones identity is comprised of a body-image and a complex of mental ideas, often called the „ego“.  Before awakening, the individual has never noticed how the awareness is always present, no matter what he is thinking and/or doing – or not, as the case may be.  After awakening, the quality of everything changes and everyone to whom this happens will eventually realize that all awareness is Universal, that it is One and Indivisible – and that it is Eternal.  All matter on all physical planes of existence exist only in this Eternal Now of Awareness. Jesus of course knew this. When asked by the clergy how he could presume to know better than Abraham and the prophets, Jesus answered „I am, before Abraham was!“
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