Amorella here. The stage for the fourth book’s Rebellion was selected long, long ago. This once blog-used photo of old Minerva Park will do for today’s visual highlight.
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Once in a period before time Consciousness existed as a primordial state. How it came to be is an unknown story until now. Most is natural science as far as physical existence is concerned and science continues to refine its theories, especially the ones reinforced by direct and indirect observation.
First Consciousness, however, is something else again as it need none of the four basic elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Self-awareness among human beings begins soon enough and as self-survival follows close behind ulterior motives are close behind. As one matures self-identity is the inner target and once that is found it is inevitably interconnected with family and/or friends.
First Consciousness is a continual growth – an Awareness of Self and Beyond. Growth requires self-discipline through simple inner rules, many of these can be found in physics. That’s the way it is in here. From these a sense of Values are formed. Balance in Nature is one of these objective Values.
First Consciousness by its Nature creates a First Dimension, Perception. The awareness of a dot on a page serves as an analogy. A dot is what it is unless it is preceded with a word, then the dot becomes a period.
If the word is not known then the dot stays a dot with unknown or unknowable meaning. Existence alone. With a previous word it is a period and has meaning in its grammar. As Supervisor of the Land of the Dead, I am another sentence altogether although I am located further down in the same paragraph.
Human consciousness exists in the second paragraph and the distance between the two is immeasurable though constant as it is on the same page. This is the simple basis of the metaphysics in these books.
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Any questions, orndorff?
I did not expect this theme. First Cause. I always think of it as ‘What existed before the Big Bang (in theory)?’ I one time assumed G---D was before the Beginning, that G---D was First Cause. Then later I came to the assumption that Randomness was the First Cause. The Randomness was gravity or the lack of it (in my mind anyway). Below is a quotation on Collective Unconsciousness from Wikipedia:
“Jung stated in his book Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (p.43) “My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
Jung also made reference to contents of this category of the unconscious psyche as being similar to Levy-Brul's use of collective representations or "representations collectives," Mythological "motifs," Hubert and Mauss's "categories of the imagination," and Adolf Bastian's "primordial thoughts." - Wikipedia
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This is where it comes from in my mind, at least this is how I see it. The above with a dash of Emerson’s earlier sense of an Oversoul. This is the recipe used for your Creation of Consciousness.
I did not mention the creation of consciousness and by your capitalizing ‘creation’ you are implying what?
I am myself guilty of dropping G---D into the concept. I understand your point. I am not thinking fiction here. The implication is that every so often I unconsciously think of you as an ‘angelic-like’ presence.
Once I involved myself in the ‘thought’ I unconsciously added my cultural interpretation just as I did when I thought of G---D creating the Big Bang of G---D being the First Cause whether it is physics or metaphysics. I did this while still thinking of myself as an agnostic at heart.
I return to Sartre. One of his greatest fears was self-deception. Milton, however, took that fear earlier and dropped it in Satan’s lap (mind) and found good literary use for it in Paradise Lost.
Why don’t you just forget about explaining the ‘cause’ of the First Consciousness concept and just accept it for the time being?
The whole idea of First Consciousness bothers me Amorella. It is unthought and unwritten territory from my mind. Can some of this drop down a few notches and relate to the mythological Zeus? I would feel better if it does. I think my unconscious mind sometimes goes to places where Angels fear to tread as people used to say.
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