By Anna Bonshek, Corrina Bonshek, Lee Fergusson
Whereas debate keeps within the fields of the sciences and arts as to the character of cognizance and the site of attention within the mind or as a box phenomenon, within the Vedic culture, cognizance has been understood and is still articulated as an enormous box of intelligence on the foundation of all varieties of life. This limitless box of intelligence is on the market to human expertise, being the very nature of the brain and the structuring dynamics of the physiology-from the DNA, to the cellphone, tissues, organs, and to the complete physique and its refined functioning. This two-part quantity, the large Fish: attention as constitution, physique and house, considers partially One the Vedic method of cognizance, particularly referencing Maharishi Vedic technological know-how, and discusses subject matters pertinent to the humanities, together with notion and cognition, reminiscence as knowledge, historical past and tradition, inventive functionality and social accountability, observatory tools as areas and buildings to reinforce recognition, and, past metaphor, architectural websites as multi-layered enclosures of the mind distinctive within the Shrimad Devi Bhagavatam and, as cosmic habitat or Vastu aligned to the celestial our bodies. offering a few extra common consciousness-based readings, half comprises essays by means of a variety of authors on Agnes Martin and her perspectives on paintings, perfection and the "Classic", unified box established schooling and freedom of expression as opposed to censorship in paintings, prints from the Renaissance to the modern period as allegories of awareness, the paintings of Australian artist Michael Kane Taylor as past a contemporary /postmodern dichotomy, the photographic sequence the sea of good looks via Mark Paul Petrick referencing the Vedic textual content the Saundarya-Lahari, a Deleuzian research of the dual-screen multi-arts paintings Reverie I, and an account of the making of Reverie II, a single-screen video projection encouraged via the belief of dynamics of expertise. This ebook, hence, offers a large variety of pursuits and examining whereas delivering a different, but profoundly transformative point of view on attention
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Being conscious of itself, consciousness is the knower of itself. Being the knower of itself, consciousness is both the knower and the known. Being both the knower and the known, consciousness is also the process of knowing. Thus consciousness has three qualities within its self-referral singularity—the qualities of knower, knowing, and known—the three qualities of ‘subject’ (knower), ‘object’ (known), and the relationship between the subject and object (process of knowing). Wherever there is subject-object relatedness; wherever subject is related to object; wherever subject is experiencing object; wherever subject (knower) is knowing object, these three together are indications of the existence of consciousness.
9. 12 Preamble—What is Consciousness? Hagelin argues that the unified field exists permanently (it is eternal) and everything else exists by virtue of it. Taking the unified field, as identified by physics, as the same field of Transcendental Consciousness experienced as unbounded awareness by the individual, then one can appreciate that Transcendental Consciousness, as described by Maharishi, is a reliable state of consciousness. The nature of this state is that it is unchanging or eternal and it is bliss consciousness.
In speaking of being fully awake, we are speaking of a human subject. The human nervous system is that nervous system that has the potential to rise to and experience higher states of consciousness. Another important point raised by Searle with respect to any research and understanding of consciousness, is that subjectivity is inherent within consciousness. From the perspective of Maharishi Vedic Science, self-referral consciousness is a field of pure subjectivity, where all that there is is consciousness knowing itself.