The structure of consciousness

If you close your eyes and imagine a pink elephant, you most likely see it as a visual in your mind

Before it appeared, there was either a different thought, or no thought

What do these thoughts or images appear in?

Consciousness

Awareness

Two words to describe the screen against which we have a thought or an image

The movie plays out on the screen. It can't exist without it

The experience of a thought or image cannot exist without consciousness

Who sees the pink elephant?

Of course, it's none other than you

But is it the 'You' that is a thought?

If it is, who (or what) is aware of the idea of 'You'

What we're arriving at is the 3 fold structure of consciousness

• The known — pink elephant

• The knower — you as the seer of the pink elephant (in your mind)

• Knowingness — the magic sauce that enables you to be aware of anything

This structure is conceptual

Experience itself is one holistic flow

Hence, consciousness has a 3 in 1 structure

It is both unified and diversified

You are both

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