Summary 2

Awareness

Is no ‘thing’.

Yet it is not ‘nothing’.

It is that which first allows us to

Be aware of any ‘Thing’ whatsoever.

Not least our own body, and

That of all other

‘Things’.

 

‘Awareness’ is no

Mere abstract, intellectual concept.

For what more basic and primordial dimension of

Any being’s tangible, lived experience can there be,

If not the very awareness that they themselves are,

The primordial awareness of being,

And of the particularities of

Their own being?

 

If the most

Primordial experience

Of any being is awareness of Being

And of their own particularity as a being,

How then can awareness be a property of ‘Being’,

Let alone particular beings?

 

 

 

 

If awareness of our own bodies

And of a whole world of bodies in space and time

Is a no less primordial experience than awareness of

Being, then how can awareness as such be the

Property of any body - let alone a mere part

Of our own body - the brain?

 

Awareness is not simply something

Dwelling like a ‘soul’ within our bodies,

Let alone locked up in our heads and brains.

For in the same way that, as bodies, we dwell within space,

So also, as beings, do we dwell within awareness.

We ourselves are pervaded by awareness,

As our bodies are pervaded by space.

 

Awareness is no ‘thing’ we can find ‘in’ space,

Nor it is anything enclosed by our bodies or brains.

Instead awareness is the very space, inner and outer

Within which we experience all things.

To be awareness is to be the very

space, inner and outer, in which

We experience all things.

 

Awareness, like space,

Is that which first ‘makes room’

For all things to be - to ‘ex-ist’ or ‘stand out’

In space, and to become, in time,

All that they potentially are.

 

 

 

The very being of awareness

Is nothing else but awareness of being.

And yet awareness embraces more than being,

More than all beings, and more than everything that Is.

For Awareness includes awareness of ‘non-being’ too,

Which is not a void of ‘nothingness’, but a plenum or

Fullness of potentiality - transcending every

Actual thing or being, and yet immanent

Within all things and beings.

 

 ‘Potential’ realities, can

In principle, have reality

Only subjectively - within awareness.

They can therefore be nothing else but

Potentialities of awareness, its own limitless

Potentiality for differentiation and for

Individualisation in the form of

Actual things and beings.

 

Awareness

Bridges and spans

That most primordial abyss

 Between non-being and being,

Potentiality and actuality,

Out of which all beings,

And all worlds

Arise.

 

 

 

 

As the pre-condition

For us being aware of any

Thing or any universe of things,

As the pre-condition too, for each and every theory

We might create about the things we are aware of,

Awareness - though ‘no-thing - is, in principle

The sole possible and the sole thinkable

‘Theory of Everything’.

 

Awareness is also the

Sole possible concept of ‘God’,

Not a Supreme Being ‘with’ awareness,

But that Supreme Awareness that

Is the source of all beings.

 

The recognition that Awareness is,

In principle, the ultimate reality or 1st Principle

Underlying and pervading all realities, is

 

‘The Awareness Principle’.