If everything is consciousness, there's nothing left to prove, because consciousness can't be proven, it can only be experienced! The only question is, is our consciousness sufficiently awake, deployed and expanded to experience this consciously at all levels?
Si tout est conscience, il n'y a plus rien à prouver car la conscience ne se prouve pas, elle se vit ! Seule question, notre conscience est-elle suffisamment éveillée, déployée, expansée pour vivre cela consciemment à tous les niveaux?
Yeah, the good old 'There is only The One'. Spinoza wrote about this - that there is only one Substance. This substance has infinitely many attributes. This substance is God or nature (Deus Sive Natura or 'God is Nature'). Each of these attributes express the divine essence. And all else is a mode of the one substance. But then, as is usual with philosophers, it's pretty tricky to understand what exactly he means by these words.
Gurdjieff, too - there is the Ray of Creation, which differentiates according to the schemas he outlines such as the worlds within worlds. He also gets pretty tricky with his nested pentads, or levels of Being, as outlined in J.G. Bennet's Gurdjieff: The Making of a New World, or his discussion of the Trogoegoautocrat, Heptaparaparshinokh and its relation to the Triamazikamno. So there's the One, and there is differentiation.
The C's have intimated as much as well - all is One, divided into 7 densities. We are fragments or reflections of that One. But what to make of that notion 'All is One' or 'everything is consciousness'? In particular, what to make of:
everything is consciousness, there's nothing left to prove, because consciousness can't be proven, it can only be experienced
Well, my first thought was that there's no reason to assume consciousness can't be proven. Seems like an a priori truth claim.
'Everything is consciousness, there is nothing left to prove' has a curious twist. Seems to me that the statement 'everything is consciousness' needs itself to be proved in order for the statement to work. So the statement invalidates itself unless one accepts 'everything is consciousness' as an a priori truth.
Also, on a practical level, I don't think that if this 'One' is said to be Consciousness, then therefore we can conclude that 'there is nothing to be proved'. It's like looking into the sky and seeing the sun, and taking that at face value. Is there really nothing more to do than just experience a hot glowing orb in the sky?
A better approach for me is that of 'knowing Nature is loving God' as spoken about on the forum for many years now. Knowing Nature includes knowing the sun's characteristics and properties, making calculations - for instance proving correlations between sunspots and cyclical cataclysms, or proving correlations between the health of the human Soul and the function of the solar system. All of this detail would be missed if one just experiences the sun. After all, the C's did say that the meaning of Life is to organize information bits!
I don't think it makes sense to prematurely declare Oneness, either. We sure as hell are separate at some levels of reality - which can be easily proved. Yep, it's said to be an illusion, but we're also here to learn the lessons of 3D, and that includes, in my view, a degree of acceptance of that illusion, knowing it's limitations, and more importantly, our own limitations. Maybe it's just my past experiences speaking, but premature declarations of Oneness can be very bad news, a sign of wishful thinking or New Age fluff. I'd say that in 3D, we are both One and we are not.
So yeah, I'd prefer if we didn't call off the search just yet. Mostly because it's fun - kinda like a way of playing peekaboo with God (which God absolutely loves, apparently) even though the game is often pretty damn terrifying!
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