Metaphysics of Awareness

I would like to revisit the metaphysical notion that all reality exists as awareness. I use the word 'awareness' here to refer to a pure knowing or transcendent consciousness independent of the subject, for this awareness has the capacity to know itself. All perceptive boundaries of our awareness are nullified by the pure awareness itself, in becoming aware of said boundaries they are overcome.

Easier than the task of proving that all existence is awareness is to ask of what exists outside of the sphere of awareness. If we visualise it quite concretely as a sphere there is a system equated with the self, and we ask of what exists outside of it. To give the discussion a more concrete grounding we can speak of the exterior universe or cosmos, a prime question of philosophy pertains to the nature of the 'thing in itself', reality beyond the perceptive faculties of the human mind. If any such reality exists then we visualise it outside of our sphere.

The contradiction is immediately recognised in that we become aware of whatever lies outside of the sphere by its very capacity to be named or cognised about; to visualise our awareness as a sphere limited is contradictory in itself for it would be more accurate to name awareness as the very spatial fabric that the sphere rests upon. As we concluded earlier, any presupposed boundary of awareness is transcended by the very nature of awareness as being fundamental and primordial, resting upon no other than itself. That which is unknown becomes known in its 'unknowability', a contradictory remark at first glance but I say to treat the concept of 'unknowability' as very much that, a concept.

Then it comes sense to speak of what we truly mean by 'unknowability', what the concept actually is. I should conclude here that what we call nothing (to generalise upon the notion of the unknown) is truly something, and what truly is nothing is an inconsistent concept and thus has no meaning in being spoken of. It may seem to the reader that I altogether divert attention and use this to justify my premise that all reality is awareness, but now I point out that what we call 'reality' or 'existence' are human concepts, and whatever substance of awareness is being actualised in overcoming boundaries still subsists as a human faculty. That which lies beyond the human spirit, is cognised by the human spirit, so all reality takes shape out of the mold of awareness.

This is to go beyond the notion that reality is simply shaped by the perceptive faculties, it is to say that there are conceiving faculties which more so than give shape to reality seem to be reality itself. This is truly what I mean by 'awareness'. I should take this opportunity to distinguish between awareness and 'consciousness', in modern times the word consciousness has taken scientific connotation so I let it lie within the realm of science to refer to the product of the biological brain. The awareness which I speak of is beyond physicality, beyond causality and time and space, for it is the singularity; the root of such form.

Those familiar with my earlier work would point out an apparent inconsistency, that I speak of the Divinity as being completely and absolute beyond our conception. This I still hold to be true, but it can be known in some way as being related to the human mind. If we speak of awareness as really being a manifestation of human will, then it is human will which is manifestation of the divine will. We cannot peer into the mind of God, but our own mind, that we are well acquainted with. We conceive ourselves as being form to perceive ourselves as being fragments of a singularity, a higher order and truth that we seek.