Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24393519-20140107171445/@comment-8986886-20140128002440

No worries, Shar. Rather than debate, I'll just confirm we're on the same page. The world-view you refer to is something like this:

"''In short, the impression that your consciousness is located in space is an illusion. Everything you experience is a construct within consciousness. Your sense of being a unique self is merely another construct of the mind. Quite naturally, you place this image of your self at the center of your picture of the world, giving you the sense of being in the world. But the truth is just the opposite. It is all within you. You have no location in space. Space is in you.

''Again we see close parallels with physical light. The light of physics does not exist in space and time; nor does the light of consciousness. In physics, light is absolute, not space and time. In the realm of mind, the light of consciousness is absolute, the common ground of all experience, including our experience of space and time.''

''Both lights are intrinsically unknowable–at least in the way that everything else is known. Both are invariant. Every photon of light is an identical quantum of action. The same is true of consciousness. The light of consciousness shining in me, is the same light that shines in you. These parallels suggest that the physical world and the world of mind share a common ground–a common ground that we experience as light. Monotheistic religions call this common ground God–and, not surprisingly, this God has many of the attributes and qualites of light.''

No matter what we believe, we can at least agree that existential questions make a very interresting topic. Regards. ^^