What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness?
In recent philosophy of mind, we are accustomed to underlining their independence. It is often emphasized that a person can be conscious of a host of objects, features, and states of affairs unrelated to her. When a person is conscious of the sky, or consciously experiences the blueness of the sky, she is not attending to herself in the least. That is, she is not self-conscious. Yet she is very clearly conscious. Therefore, consciousness can occur in the absence of self-consciousness.
The truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excite our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope of rear, is to fill a vacant hour with prattle and be forgotten.
The collective energy generated from the feelings, thoughts, and attitudes of the almost six billion people on this planet creates an atmosphere, or "consciousness climate". When events such as a terrorist bombing that kills hundreds, people all over the world are affected. They feel the tension wave of those unstable situations even though they're not directly impacted.
As stress waves are generated, our emotions pick up this incoherent energy. Even after the wave passes through, the emotional aftereffects keep reverberating. If you've ever lived through an earthquake and its aftershocks, you may have felt static energy reverberating in your body for days. Strong waves of emotional stress can affect the whole world in a similar way. When events take place that cause massive fear and anxiety, we all experience the stress at some level. At the level of consciousness, we're all in this together.
The collective energy generated from the feelings, thoughts, and attitudes of the almost six billion people on this planet creates an atmosphere or 'consciousness climate.' Surrounding us like the air we breathe, this consciousness climate affects us most strongly on energetic and emotional levels. An increase in coherent thoughts and feelings creates an uplifting momentum in the consciousness climate. An increase in incoherent thoughts and feelings creates a stress momentum in the consciousness climate. In other words, coherence or incoherence is broadcast via the consciousness climate much as music or noise is broadcast via radio signals. ~ Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. ~ Jonas Salk
When we look at the physics of collective consciousness, the nature of incoherence and coherence becomes increasingly important. Our own emotional management also ranks high on the priority list. Depending on how self-managed we are, we can deflect some of this stress influence. However, we can still be vulnerable to increases in the stress frequency in the world around us — increases that amplify our mental overprocessing and emotional reactivity and push us past our tolerance threshold. ~ Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Ongoing stress creates an energetic environment, affecting town and country, spreading from nation to nation, causing disharmony, disease, storms and wars. The heart's intelligence can help to dissipate these negative energies, giving people a fresh start in learning how to get along. As enough people learn about emotional fitness, it will cause a global shift into new consciousness that many are talking about, and then quality of life has a chance of becoming better for the whole. ~ Doc Childre
As a highly connected global society, we're moving rapidly toward having to make important choices that will affect our present security and the lives of future generations. The world's problems could get worse before they get better. But the very challenges of this time period also present opportunities for a significant shift in human consciousness. ~ Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Many people are now starting to experience a new energy filtering down through the density of mass consciousness. This energy stirs your spirit to find freedom of expression and amplifies the voice within your heart. This new planetary energy facilitates people in thinking more about the heart and its potentials in all human affairs. ~ Doc Childre, Self Empowerment
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. ~ Albert Einstein, quoted in H Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu (Boston 1977)
To fully grasp the complete and profound significance of the Law of One is an ever-expanding exploration for human consciousness. It may well always be for us an ultimate which we seek to understand and discover in ever-increasing increments of intelligence. ~ The Intelligent Heart, David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it.
~ A New Heaven and New Earth, Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, from New Thought for a New Millenium
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