Are you a human being with a spirit inside? Are you a spirit with a human being inside? What is consciousness and how can we prove it exists?
Well I suppose we can't prove anything but let's have some fun trying
When you sleep there seems to be no connection to your physical body, you have dreams and you're in them and sometimes you're not in them, but you are always the dreamer. When you're awake, like right now, look around you, what do you see? An office, your computer, you can hear birds and a plane, the radio and the clock ticking.
All these things are in your awareness, so they exist, but what about things outside your awareness? Does the man sitting in a chair at an outside cafe in France drinking coffee exist? How do you know? The only way to know for sure is to go there and use your senses to make him and the environment real in your awareness.
Does anything exsit if you're not there to observe and sense it? What about people? When someone is in your awareness, it's real and tangible, but what happens when that person leaves you and goes to work or goes away? Do they cease to exist? What about the 6 billion people out there in the world? What about the world itself, the stars and planets?
Consciousness must be something, it must be somewhere, so if you're in your own awareness 24/7 and nothing and no one else can be there 24/7 then you must be consciousness, but consciousness isn't just your body, it's everything in your present moment awareness, it's the noise, the light, the chair, the coffee and the person (the observer, your physical body)all of it, consciousness.
So consciousness is a sort of container with everything inside including you to observe the container/consciousness.
Well, it's not really proof, but it was fun right?
How can considering all this help us? If nothing exists outside of your consciousness, if you are all there is (including your human body) then you must be creating not only what happens, but what is inside the container/consciousness.
So if we follow this line of thought, then you must be choosing what goes in, stays in and leaves the container/consciousness. Nothing is happening to you, you are making everything happen and then observing it through your human physical being and importantly as you observe it, it's created.
Observation must be creation inside the container/consciousness. So to create something new inside, we just have to observe it, because if what's in there right now is real, then somehow we started to observe it and it became real. You made some money, you got a new job, a new love, there's things didn't pop into creation, you observed them and they were created.
What is consciousness? It's your awareness, everything in it, including an observer, your physical body to observe consciousness, to observe creation and importantly as you observe it, you create it, observation
is creation.
Where is consciousness? Look to your present moment awareness, there it is, right there and importantly it's
no where else. You may think that you get up and leave and go somewhere else, but I consider that's part of the perception of growth and time. Consciousness/container doesn't move or change, things inside change and seem to move, that's the illusion or the perception and you (consciousness) observe and create change, movement and growth.
Proof? Not really, Interesting? I think so
Max