The “truly Human” consciousness that is called the “soul.”
Question from the Internet:
“What is the nature of reality and its relationship to consciousness?”
Consciousness, “being conscious,” means that one is aware of existing in a certain reality.
When “I am conscious,” I feel myself existing in a certain world, and I have a certain sensation of my “self,” and that this “self” exists and performs certain actions in a world we feel around ourselves.
How true and accurate this consciousness and the reality this consciousness feels depends on how objective and unbiased the consciousness and its perception of reality is.
By default, our consciousness and perception of reality are highly limited and distorted. We feel ourselves and sense the reality around us through 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic filters and calculations. According to our original, 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic program, we are interested in a feel from reality only what serves our 100% introverted and personal “pleasure/pain” calculations and aspirations.
I take into consideration, sense, and use only those things, events, people, and activities that can take me ever closer to ever-growing personal pleasures while also distancing myself from personal pain and suffering.
This means that our original, 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic consciousness and perception of reality have almost no actual connection to “true reality.” Instead, we live in a real-life, illusory “Matrix” that our human ego paints and sustains for us.
If we want to get to know and attain reality “as it is,” if we want to learn and practice how to exist in “absolute reality” and through that “absolute reality” and our role and purpose in it, also learn and attain who we truly are, then we would acquire a true and expanded consciousness and perception of reality, outside of our “original self.”
Our true “self” and “consciousness” exist outside of and independent of the original, 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic consciousness. Our true self is that part and aspiration from us that aims to totally selflessly and unconditionally serve and love others above and against our original egotistic self-love and hate of others. Our true consciousness does not exist in the “self” we consider “ourselves” right now.
Our true “consciousness or self” — or in other words, our “soul” — exists through others when we become able to selflessly and unconditionally commit and devote ourselves to exist only to feel and fulfill the desires and needs of others according to their viewpoints.
This “true self” or “the soul” is a timeless and spaceless, infinite and eternal consciousness and perception of reality we can achieve while still living in this “world” in these “biological bodies.”
We just need to mutually practice, learn, and implement how to exist only for the sake of others in environments where all participants commit themselves to such a “supernatural” — above inherent nature — Human existence.