The Lexicon
Who you really are
Consciousness
Consciousness is the fundamental ground of all experience — not a by-product of matter but the very medium in which the world appears. In this lineage it is held to be primary: mind comes first, and what we call physical reality is its expression rather than its cause. To know yourself as consciousness is to recognize that you are not a small object inside a vast universe, but the awareness within which the whole universe is known. Everything you have ever encountered has arisen within it.
Carried by 8 teachers · across 5 traditions · 4 quotes
The metaphysicians and the physicists meet on this ground. Neville Goddard declares consciousness the one and only reality; Max Planck regards consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative; Schrödinger held that consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. To work consciously, then, is to work at the level of cause: change your state of consciousness and the outer world, its faithful mirror, must change to match. The whole art is the disciplined occupation of the wished-for state.
In their words
Consciousness is the one and only reality.Neville Goddard
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.Max Planck
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.Erwin Schrödinger
The contents of consciousness are a kind of waking dream—a controlled hallucination.Anil Seth