The Nature of Consciousness

The previous chapter explained that The Experiencer has 2 parts:

1. Mind
2. Consciousness

The Mind is the matrix or arena where Existence happens. This is similar to a virtual reality that runs inside a computer. The difference is that the Mind is metaphysical.

But what is consciousness?

“Conscious” is Latin for ‘with knowing’ from con + scire. The problem is that knowing is the last phase of the process of experience, as the closed loop mentioned in Chapter 4.

The Perceiver

Knowledge is experience in its final form. To denote experience in its basic or non-final form, we use the word ‘perceiver’ instead of consciousness.

• Perceive is Latin for ‘by the taking’ which is similar to ‘receive’ and ‘conceive’ (i.e. we receive and conceive of experiences)

The journey from the conceptualization of an idea to its actual experience is powered by feelings which itself is powered by 2 forces*:

1. The Positive Force (Yang or Shiva)
2. The Negative Force (Yin or Shakti)

The mind is an arena or container for experiences for the perceiver or consciousness.

• A perceiver with an active mind is a living thing, due to the energy from the Positive Force
• A perceiver with an inactive mind is a non-living thing, due to the confinement of the Negative Force

A living mind is like a theater that has activity, allowing actors and props to enter, perform, and exit. A non-living mind is a theater that is locked or closed.

The performance of the actors with the props and sounds are like the mind’s thinking action. The backstage is like the memories waiting to go back onto the stage when called on.

This processing turns ideas into thoughts and makes the difference* between ‘ideation’ and ’thinking’.

*We can say that ‘idea’ is the cause, while ’thought’ is the effect

The Perceiver is to Perception as Consciousness is to Existence

While mind can be either active or inactive, the perceiver can only be ‘on’ or ‘off’ just as something can exist or not exist.

This means that consciousness is not a thing or substance, but is merely a state of an identity that determines whether it perceives or not.

This state has two kinds:

1. On or Perceiving
2. Off or Not Perceiving

All Things Can Perceive

The dynamics of the 2 forces implies that everything is conscious, having the ability to perceive.

It is the inability of some identities to express those perceptions, due to the influence of the Negative Force, that makes things not seem to have any perception-ability (not be aware). But the fact that they can react to actions done onto them is proof that they are aware or can perceive.

For example, ice thaws when heated. This reaction is proof that the ice atoms were able to perceive the heat and reacted accordingly.

There is nothing that does not react to actions done on it. This is proof that the universe is aware and conscious even if their reactive potential is very limited.

The perception-ability or consciousness in a piece of paper is proven when it:

• falls to the ground (reacts to gravity)
• is lifted by the air (reacts to aerodynamics)
• burns from a flame (reacts to thermodynamics)
• is cut by scissors (reacts to contact forces)
• and so on

A piece of paper that does not react to gravity, air, scissors, fire, etc has no perception-ability. But such a paper has never been observed and therefore does not exist.

This removes any mystical connotation on what consciousness or the perceiver is. Instead, the mystery is with:

• the nature of the mind that houses it, and
• what its perceptions are (i.e. how does a piece of paper feel about being cut, burned, or written on?)

Desire Causes Existence

Since consciousness, perception, and existence go hand in hand, does this mean that the pereception-ability or consciousness is the cause of existence?

We experience the existence of a new day after we wake up and regain our ability to perceive. Therefore, consciousness causes existence, right?

This is not entirely correct because behind the waking up is the desire to wake up. Thus, desire is the real cause of existence.

For example, if my entity (as my ego*) wants to experience the existence of a pink elephant, then:

• my desire will direct my mind to create a pink elephant, from my memories of an elephant and the color pink,
• that pink elephant will then be experienced by my perceiver (my consciousness), fulfilling my ego’s requirement.

*Ego is the feeling of the self. ‘Feeling’ itself is a wave and the base material of ‘desire’.

In this case, the existence of the pink elephant in my mind needed 4 ingredients*:

1. A desire to experience a pink elephant
2. A memory of the color pink and an elephant
3. A mind where those are combined to create the metaphysical pink elephant
4. A consciousness or perceiver to perceive it

*Most of our volunteers are software developers so it’s normal for us to painstakingly catch and list all the steps in any process

Thus:

• existence is the effect
• desire is the cause

In Hinduism, the Original Desire that created Existence, as Brahma, is called Parashakti, Mahashakti, or Cittishakti.

Technically, the idea-particle that took the form of a pink elephant was caused by the desire-wave for it.

A lot of metaphysical doctrines and moral philosophies emphasize consciousness and mind, but do not look into the nature of desire and feelings of the mind. In fact, we found only 3 authors so far who have explained feelings:

1. Spinoza
2. David Hume, as moral feelings
3. Ibn Khaldun, as group feelings

Mentality Creates Reality

The pattern of desires then form the mentality of a person, technically as the ‘shape’ of a person’s mind.

• The mentality of a Christian is formed by Christian desires
• The mentality of a Muslim is formed by Islamic desires
• The mentality of a scientist is formed by the desires for science
• The mentality of a KPOP fan is formed by the desires for KPOP

A person’s mentality then leads to his actions in the physical dimension. Thus, by having desire as the root, it is easier to understand why and how ‘mentality creates reality’:

A variation of this is ‘If you want to experience a certain reality, then you first have to want it.’

• some people go through life without knowing what they want
• other people claim that they know exactly what they want

Both of these are extremes which will reduce the probability of them experiencing their desired reality.

• the people who don’t know what they want will have too little desire-power to particalize their waves*. This will cause them to fail in achieving any reality that they might desire. An analogy is the undercooking of a dish, which makes it not edible or far from ideal.
• the people who specify exactly what they want will have too much desire leading to a premature and rigid particalization. This explains why sheer grit and determination do not always lead to success. An analogy is the overcooking of a dish, which makes it useless

Desire activates or ’turns on’ consciousness or the perceiver which then activates or creates mind.

The Absolute Entity (as Pre-existence) wanted to exist and so It became the Supreme Entity (Existence). Why It wanted to exist is outside the scope of Superphysics and falls within metaphysics or religion (dogmatic metaphysics).

The perceiver or consciousness thus has only one task: to experience existence.

In addition, the perceiver is only binary, as either on or off:

• A perceiver that is off is unconscious and not perceiving. This implies that desire has left it just as electricity has left a light bulb as to turn it off
• A perceiver that is on is conscious and perceiving. This implies that it has desire in it just as a glowing light bulb means it has electricity in it

This means that everything that exists exists because the Supreme Entity wanted it to exist, as its idea. The real question is why did the Supreme Entity desire that thing?

From the human perspective, this is embodied in the question: What do you want to do with your life? Or why do you exist?

Superphysics is a bit different in that it views everything as an idea of the Supreme Entity and our existence being inside Its mind. Thus, the proper question is:

Why is the Supreme Entity thinking of me?

Unlike the question “Why do I exist?” which enshrines the ego, this question puts the ego secondary or below that of the Supreme Entity. This will put the ego’s desire in line with desire the Creator of Existence. This, in turn, will increase the chances of achieving whatever that existential goal or plan may be.

In our earlier analogy, this prevents ‘undercooking’ or ‘overcooking’ of goals. The desire of the Supreme will guide the human desire in real-time in order to get the goal achieved just right.

Getting it just right requires a specific sequence or flow of steps. The Taoists call this flow as the Tao, while Hindus call it the dharma.

The Limitations of Materialism

Idea controls mind and mind controls reality. Some people ascribe to materialist ideas and so their reality consequently becomes something that they can’t control.

Nonmaterialists (metaphysicians) do not ascribe to materialist ideas and so they can control their reality. The technical term for this are siddhis (occult powers). There are schools in India and China for this just as there are science universities to teach materialist ideas.

The governing rules for metaphysics are called dharma. This limits the occult powers to a known range just as a propulsion technology is limited to known Mach speeds.

Metaphysical experiments work just as well as physical experiments do. In fact, we use metaphysics for agriculture to grow high yield crops at low cost. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336746/

Materialists embrace the easy and obvious. But as a consequence, they miss out on so many other parts of existence that we regard as spiritual or pseudoscience.

This principle is universal and infallible.

To test it, just absorb the idea that a man-eating monster is outside your door, as to truly believe it. This will then create the reality of you being stuck in your room.