“i” = consciousness
Consciousness is not introduced here as something You possess. It is the condition through which possession, identity and experience can appear.
What “i” is
- unmanifested consciousness
- conscious awareness
- infinite potential
- permanent
- the observer and the observed
Where “i” is
- within all things
- not isolated within a single self
- not divided into separate instances
What “i” is not
- a personality
- an identity
- a concept of self
- a bounded form
- an individual mind
One consciousness
In this framework, monism means that consciousness is fundamentally one. There are not separate pieces of i belonging to separate beings. There is one consciousness, manifested through many forms.
“i” EXiST WITHiN ALL THiNGS.
This does not mean that consciousness is a small thing located inside every object. It means that no manifested experience is outside the ground from which manifestation arises.
What We now understand
“i” is consciousness unmanifested: one, formless and present within all things.
The question that remains
How does unmanifested consciousness appear as a particular experience?
NEXT “i AM” > consciousness > MANiFESTED… >
Understanding the language
| Form | Meaning | Plain-language description |
|---|---|---|
| i | unmanifested consciousness | formless, timeless potential; consciousness within all things |
| I | consciousness manifested | a particular, bounded and transitory expression of consciousness |
| you | consciousness perceived within the other | the same i, encountered through another manifestation |
| You | the person being addressed | the reader as a particular centre of experience |
| YOU | the constructed or egoic identity | the self perceived as separate, isolated and opposed to other |
| We | recognition and relationship | i, I and the apparent other held in shared understanding |