[sorry for grammatical errors, english is not my native]
Hello DMT-Nexus, it's nice to be here!
I've read "The Conscious Watching the Conscious" thread on the shroomery.org forums, and this was my reply, and I thought it's good to share it here to have some developmental debate:
"The Conscious Watching the Conscious" is for sure related to this logically reasonable idea of a conscious organism in which humanity is.
www.reddit.com/r/philoso...ale_we_understand_it_be/and, most importantly, this topic bringed to my mind the bright 'enlightening' method called "Awareness Watching Awareness"
http://albigen.com/uarel...ost_rapid/chapter07.aspxhere's full site
http://albigen.com/uarelove/Generally speaking, this simple RECURSIVE techique can do magic with your consciousness, literally widening field of your awareness.
The room you're in right now is part of your awareness. You must to have a map of it in your mind to know which way is the toilet. But most of the time you are unconcious of the fact that the room, the surroundings are mapped in your awareness.
The same with senses, feelings, pain, pleasure. It's all encoded in the spectrum of your awareness. But the curious thing is that this awareness is not really yours. 'Belong' is just a concept.
Awareness 'can' be aware (nope, it can't be aware. awareness just is. I just 'personified' the awareness because it's easier to explain like that) and 'must' be aware simply of everything this mind is experiencing, and among all those 'things' is your person, persona, psyche, character, ego, self, soul, you.
You can experience yourself, but only INDIRECTLY. You cannot directly experience yourself, it's impossible (guess why? ... I'll try to explain that in next post).
You can experience yourself only through the agency of the awareness. Actually, that's not true also.
'You' exist as a part of the full spectrum of an actual experience. And on the surface of awareness you are a tool. Tool. Function. Important one, of course. But only a tool. Flesh, bones and electric current.
But I've lost my train of thought.
Anyway, the technique can be called a form of meditation in which you're focusing on being aware of being aware.
As you practise, your gonna be more and more conscious of the things you are aware of.
The first goal is to get enlightened. I suppose 1 year of daily 30min practice is enough, hopefully.
Correct me if I'm wrong in all of this, because I obviously may be.
I wanted to post this in the Spirituality & Mysticism section, but I have no privileges yet, so move this thread there if it fits, thanks!