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We call the Esoteric Teaching The Vedic science of consciousness. Alright, then what is consciousness? We have been going around this point, but so far have not really defined it succinctly. It had to wait for several other concepts to be established.
Consciousness is, as we have asserted, the primary symptom of the soul. But what is consciousness? How does it work?
Consciousness is the sum total of perception. There are two main components of perception: experience and meaning. Experience and meaning are related as content and context. Our experience is the content and the meaning we give it is the context. The combination of these two is consciousness.
Experience is our perception. There are so many different perceptics: the bodily senses are commonly analyzed as sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. But in reality, there are many more perceptics, such as kinesthesia, temperature, blood sugar, stomach acidity, energy flow and too many more to list here. These are perceptics of the gross body.
And then there are the perceptics of the subtle body, composed of mind, intelligence and false ego. The perceptics of mind are emotion, memory, ideation, symbolic encoding and decoding, association, categorization, etc. Perceptics of intelligence include discrimination, prediction, cause and effect, various types of logical analysis, etc. Perceptics of the ego include identity, social rank and connections, the quest for perfection of the self and so on. This is our experience.
The other component of perception is the meaning and value that we assign to our experience. And of the two components of perception, meaning is by far the more important. Two individuals can have exactly the same experience, yet assign entirely different meanings and values to it.
If you doubt this, drop in to your local court and listen to two witnesses describe the same traffic accident, financial transaction or altercation. You would think they were describing two completely different experiences!
So the meaning we assign to our experience makes a far more lasting impression than the experience itself. And where does meaning come from? It comes from our ontology. There is that word again! I am not going to give up until you get it. What the heck is an ontology?
You have an ontology; everyone does. Your ontology is the million and one facts that form the context you bring to every experience. It is the database that you use to describe and predict reality. Consciousness and ontology are inextricably intertwined.
Everyone knows that objects when dropped fall down; dogs bark and fish swim; babies cry and women change their minds for no apparent reason. We also know that we prefer vanilla ice cream (or chocolate or whatever), shave the right side of our face first, and put our pants on one leg at a time. Some people are cat people, and some are dog people, and on and on.
Altogether this collection of millions of small stories forms our ontology, our picture of reality and how the world works. These are all categories of perception, and our experience is the substance of perception. Experience is the content, and ontology is the context. Experience is perception, and ontology provides the meaning of that perception. Together they define our consciousness.
But the funny thing about all this is that our stories determine the value we assign to our experiences. And if we do not have any stories about a particular type of experience, then we tend to assign little or no value at all to it. The effect of this is almost as though we never had the experience at all.
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