The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter

Thus, the only substance present in experience is awareness. Awareness is not simply the ultimate reality of experience; it is the only reality of experience.

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Only awareness knows that there is awareness. Only awareness is aware.

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The self that knows is the self that is known, just

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Max Planck, who coined the term ‘quantum’, insisted that ‘Mind is the matrix of matter’.

The idea of a flat earth that prevailed in the ancient world was first challenged by Pythagoras in the sixth century BCE,

heliocentric universe was first suggested as early as the third century BCE,

Paul Cézanne referred when he said, ‘The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will trigger a revolution.’* It is the revolution to which Max Planck, developer of quantum theory, referred when he said, ‘I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.’†

It may well be…that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.’‡

Carl Jung referred when he said, ‘It is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.’§

Aldous Huxley referred to this as the ‘perennial philosophy’, that is, the philosophy that remains the same at all times, in all places, under all circumstances and for all people.