The gift of consciousness

[TheSelf]

17 hours ago, Snt_lk said:

Who gave us the gift of consciousness?

and, where did it come from?

Asking on a forum? You are conscious right? Trace the very source of your consciousness in the Now!!

It's not like its been given to you in the past! If you get rid of these stories, who are you that is conscious and alive, in any moment? 

[cetus]

When the sage opens their eyes, the world comes into existence.

Edited yesterday at 12:34 AM by cetus

[Clarence]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

A bag of 5-MeO-DMT would be nice.

I just had a dream this morning where you made a big bag of 5-MeO-DMT that you colored purple. You then sent it in the mail to your brother that lived in Canada so he could deliver it all over the world!

I guess it fits the theme. The bag was well over a pound 

[Mellowmarsh]

On 18/11/2025 at 6:08 AM, Snt_lk said:

Who gave us the gift of consciousness?

and, where did it come from?

Consciousness comes from the curiosity shop. 
 

 

 

[Mellowmarsh]

On 18/11/2025 at 6:08 AM, Snt_lk said:

Who gave us the gift of consciousness?

and, where did it come from?

That’s the one question to all our answers. 
 

 

[Yimpa]

No more debating. Let’s start Loving!

[Yimpa]

I should host a retreat and kidnap you all 

[Snt_lk]

A precursor to this post was me watching the below video 

I felt a deep understanding of this and questioned how could there not be an out there.

I also watched this and felt the sense that God was out there too somewhere in the center of everything or as the center of everything.

 

I know that whatever God is, I am. But .. I could not help but feel like there was something much bigger than me.

 

[Yimpa]

Gift Of Consciousness 

GOD

[Breakingthewall]

On 18/11/2025 at 7:08 AM, Snt_lk said:

Who gave us the gift of consciousness?

and, where did it come from?

Consciousness is the reality in an specific configuration. Consciousness arises from what we call life, and life is a self-organizing system that needs to preserve itself within another system governed by laws called the universe.

Life, that is just the next phase of complexity after the complex molecules, creates duality within the cosmos, and with it the possibility and the need to perceive. This creates complex structures called brains that create a model of virtual reality to optimize their permanence. Everything in the universe "wants" to remain, from an atom to a living being. Same than everything "wants" to organize in more complex patterns. This happens due the inherent instability due to the absence of limits. Everything tends toward stability and persistence, which at the organismic level becomes ‘wanting". 

Complex systems tend naturally toward the emergence of new stable configurations, because unlimited degrees of freedom generate inevitables reorganizations and those that are coherents remains. 

These brains undergo a phase shift and give rise to the mind, which operate with symbols and creates symbolic worlds, thus creating a representation of the individual who wishes to remain interacting with other individuals through an emotional and symbolic system.

We call this interface virtual world consciousness. It is simply reality unfolding in two. Consciousness is the reality "knowing" itself. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Breakingthewall