liberating Consciousness

Megan D’Arcangelo Liberating Consciousness and the Self What allows humans to become more conscious? One can see that it is not a matter of how one expands his or her consciousness; it is how one can stop constantly restricting and narrowing it. Humans are creatures that already have a wide-open and infinitely interconnected consciousness built into them. The fact that they choose to interfere and refine consciousness affects their state of being. In Zen …

…Both the mind and body are dependent upon one another for acquiring total self-awareness. In order to attain self-awareness the consciousness of the self cannot be restricted into a fixed boundary caused by the concept of consciousness as a Cartesian Theater. Consciousness must be a freely flowing stream of experience, exemplified by Dennett’s Multiple Drafts model. Only then can the mind abandon the endgaining mentality for the concept of the means whereby. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**