Is consciousness divine?

Answer 1

I would imagine so

But my imagination would

wouldn't it?

Answer 2

This is a fabulous question, the star was from me.

heart 04 gave a great answer, the "18 year-old" grouser.........well........he's a grouser. It's a question of which the simplicity leaves it to the reader to decide how far down the 'rabbit-hole' he or she wants to go.

Even the religionists can't baulk at this, because it is their own Genesis which starts with the very point, "In the Beginning...............". In the beginning what ?

In the beginning, before all else is the thought, which was expressed as 'logos', the word, but I have long held the view that the more accurate translation of the original Sumerian text would have been 'thought'.

Why ? Because that is what consciousness starts with, awareness of self.

Everything that we have to describe our origins is seeded with the same premise, that everything started with the 'First Thought', thus everything has to be 'God', deriving all it's provenance from this beginning.

Of course, I also believe that all 'matter' is produced by the action of consciousness on enerrgy, condensing it into the compressed form to allow 'stuff' to take shape, which is also the route by which Einstein guided us to a simplistic understanding of atomics, the release of all this compressed energy giving rise to the 'chain reaction, that produces both the catastrophic nuclear explosion, and the more controlled atomic reactor process that allows to gather that enrgy for peaceful use.

I just received the following from an interesting fellow, Neale Donald Walsch, it says pretty much the same thing, I hope that you find it interesting to :

"God is not a Super Being in the Sky, with the same proclivities and emotional needs as human beings, including the need for love and for revenge when love is betrayed or not given. God is life's Essential Energy. You might want to call that energy Pure Intelligence.

"Intelligence doesn't care whether you believe in It or not. It doesn't care whether you use It on purpose or not. If you do use It on purpose, It doesn't care how. It makes no judgment about any this. In fact, It makes no judgment about anything at all.

"Pure Intelligence wants nothing, needs nothing, seeks nothing. It simply Is. It exists in a way that allows Itself to be used. It does this, it allows this, it makes this possible, by placing Itself inside of Everything. Wherever you look you will find Pure Intelligence. It is at the basis of all things that exist. Snowflakes reflect Pure Intelligence. The tiniest atoms reflect Pure Intelligence. The biggest swath of the night sky reflects Pure Intelligence. The process of life Itself, examined at every level, reflects Pure Intelligence.

"The energy that I am here calling Pure Intelligence can be used -- is being used -- at every level of life, by Life Itself. You are using this energy, you are focusing this energy, every second of every minute of every hour of every day...usually without knowing it.

You can read the whole newsletter at the url below, and by the way, I am not 'preaching' this, I merely offer it for your own consideration.

Answer 3

So long as God is not a block of Swiss Cheese where individuals fit in the little holes, I'd say yeah...everything is divine.

...on the other hand, it depends whether you think we have consciousness, or if you think that consciousness has we.
Illusions have no concordant reality, and as such, can not be divine.

...non-existence cannot exist. That which is real cannot be threatened. All that is real is God. All that is God is Divine.

-Rob

Answer 4

In Source of Reality I argued that the Source must exist as the uncaused cause of all that exists. From Consciousness is All, we know that 'all that exists' is equivalent to 'all the minds that exist' (where mind or consciousness refers to all elements of awareness such as thoughts, feelings and perceptions). So the Source is the uncaused cause of all the minds that exist. I will now argue that the Source has certain properties, which according to our limited faculties we may describe as 'infinite consciousness', 'infinite power', 'infinite bliss', and so on. Hence, I will now refer to this source as the 'Divine Source', where the adjective 'divine' assumes its full richness. Finally, a tentative identification will be made between the supposedly 'created' minds and the infinite consciousness which 'creates' them.

yes

Answer 5

...consciousness is the one thing by which we ...know at all that world exists or can inquire into its truth and its meaning. If consciousness has no reality and no value, then there is nothing by which we can know the truth, - one explanation of things has then as little value as the other, neither can be claimed as the truth.

Answer 6

All living beings are consciousness.
As we all have the divinity in us, consciousness is divine.

Answer 7

Consciousness is a state of awareness...nothing more.

Your question appears to be one designed by an 18 year old trying to sound clever in the way that only an 18 year old can...not very.

Answer 8

Consciousness is just untrained memory!0!

Answer 9

It is the awareness and the level of awareness that makes it divine.
Else, there are manifest forms of this consciousness that are stuck to un-divine ways due to lack of such awareness.

Answer 10

Yes it is Spirit ..That Spirit is Holy..Piece of consciousness entrapped within mind is confused one...It lost its connection with that which we call God whom might be well Conscious of itself..no? Thus, it might represent vast infinity Consciousness....Lost Connection would be the case where mind taking role of god,giving and manifesting in reality its interpretation back to a confused one.

Answer 11

I don't think it could possibly not be.

The God idea is the background consciousness that makes all individual consciousness seem to exist.

love and blessings Don