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guest939:
Why is there this assumption that there is only one consciousness? How can we not know that every individual has their own consciousness?

Jed McKenna:
All assumptions are false, that's why they are called ''assumptions''. Please define what you mean by ''consciousness'' and perhaps we can continue with less assumptions.

In addition, the answer to all ''why'' questions is very simple.... ''because''. One need know nothing more in order to answer every ''why?''.

Now, why do you ask?

Unless, you want  to make up more... assumptions.

Love ya, Jed.

guest939:
....Because.

Harharhar I get ya!

Yeah no I hear you Jed. Anything attached to thinking my ego is the be all and end all is just spinning my wheels. I guess to define consciousness again I'd say it's like the blank stage where all this stuff takes place including the stuff which seems to be taking place. It is becoming more felt over time. But yeahhh I'm still stuck in my attention being still on my ego. Unpleasant or boring things still suck and fun or delicious things are preferred. I desire stuff. Not stuff to prove myself to others but stuff that I just want. It's a felt and thought experience of desire. If I put my attention on what is not that experience isn't that still experience caused by my mind? Gurus talk of the self dropping but the self is part of consciousness just like everything that's occurring. So how can it drop? It seems like more of what might happen is it becomes no more significant than anything else. But I'm still at the point where a nice juicy steak eaten with a gorgeous woman on a tropical beach is more what my self prefers to have in  experience than catching the train home at 10pm after work. I can get a bit of peace from my skill at turning my attention away from my cognitions and into my senses in the now but that's just a little glimpse triggered by the mind.and that gets boring. Everything gets boring. I'm sure if I had enough steaks and tropical women that would get boring too. But I still want it.   I'm hungry 😋

Jed McKenna:
It's pretty challenging to talk about these matters, but you say that the self is part of consciousness... and if we are to take C as meaning T, then  you are not correct, Nothing is a part of Truth, it only appears within it... no as a part or it. This is an important distinction.

How can you drop what isn't there, what does not exist? Tell me, I would love to know. The only real hunger is for Truth, the revealing/discovery of your true nature. Everything that arises does so in You, but that doesn't mean it's real. And that is definitely not the you that you think you are. Anything that appears to have a beginning will be found to eventually have an ending. Truth just is... or perhaps IS! Always has been and always will be because in Truth there is no such thing as ''time''.... another illusion.

Love ya, Jed.

guest939:
I'm not sure which "you" You mean here do you mean the ego "you" or the TR "you"-. "Everything that arises does so in You, but that doesn't mean it's real. And that is definitely not the you that you think you are.

"Anything that appears to have a beginning will be found to eventually have an ending. Truth just is... or perhaps IS!" Consciousness doesn't appear to have a beginning and just is.

I can't know or experience outside of my consciousness so if the truth is beyond consciousness then how can it ever be known? It can't right?

So I read in another post you said remove a thorn with a thorn. So remove consciousness with consciousness. Can you offer any advice on that? If I try to write something true. I'd say truth is beyond my ability to know. If I can't know it what else is there to do? Knowing that hasn't popped my ego. Or changed anything

I'm sorry if I seem angry. I just am totally lost in this now


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