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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  If by "mind" you mean Universal Consciousness,...
But if by "mind" you meant the mind which is associated with an individual's brain, ... |
Mark, you touched the heart of the matter!
Awareness, mind and consciousness are words that get thrown around a lot. I take them to be the same thing, but perhaps I am missing something.
But assuming that I am not, the question now simply becomes is my consciousness the result of a "body" created by the "universal consciousness"? Or is my consciousness "the universal consciousness" which gives rise to the body?
If it is the former, then the body does not matter at all! If it is the latter, the body does indeed matter to a certain extent, but the reliance on that body would be lessened as the consciousness of the body approaches to the consciousness of the universal consciousness.
IOW, in the latter, reality is virtual wrt the universal consciousness, but very real and objective at some level for the creations of that universal consciousness. Note that, the objectivity is not necessarily at the level that my body perceives with my eyes.
I tend to believe this latter explanation these days.. Hence, there is an extra level of separation between the "created" and the "creator" -however, this is not a space-time kinda separation at all-.