consciousness

[abraxas]

is consciousness fundamental to all existence?

[BadBoyBubby]

No. A rock exists, but isn't conscious. You think, therefore a rock is...but the rock doesn't think...

[jak108]

There are two types of consciousness, soul consciousness (the awareness that I am an eternal soul who is using this body as a vehicle) and there is body consciousness (a person who totally relates to their body being them). Let me further explain; Ever since the moment when I came into this physical body, I hvae been labelled and put into compartments according to my physcial classification. It has been instilled into my consciousness that I am a girl and I grew up absolutely committed to this idea. And in fact if someone were to question this today, to question the identity of being a man or a woman, a person would probaly consider it a very great insult. But is that what I am? Can I be accurately labelled young or old, man or woman, fair or dark? Is there a real indicatino of who I am simply through this? Yet this is the mistake we have been amking; not only have others made this mistak about me, putting me into a bodily compartment, but I have also been guilty of this same error. I have totally identified myself with the body and I have cut out all other possibilities; my consciouness has become quite restricted by the colour the age the nationality the religion, culture into which the BODY has been born. I am athe living, I am not physical. I know I am not because I can experience things beyond physical limitation. My body cannot go back to childhood, but I can. Within a second, my mind can race back to the days of my youth. It can even race forward to the days of my probaly old age. I travel through time without any hesitation at all. Wherever there is a pull, my thoughts will take me anywhere, all this whilst my body has been seated in one specific place. So my body is physical, I am not physical, I am metaphysical unhinderd by the physical limitations of time or distance. So in answer to your question YES. But it is soul consciousness which is fundamental to existence.