Opening through the human Being, Awareness reveals itself through consciousness.

Through consciousness not only does Awareness become individualized but so too does Being. Awareness takes the perspective of one, though constantly changing, Being. In Being’s being conscious, other beings are shown, or revealed, as beings.

We may at this point have to accept ‘nothing’ as the state prior to Being and Awareness. If we acknowledge the co-dependency of Being and Awareness to its fullest extent, along with our tracing back from our current state, then this seems the most acceptable conclusion. The common view seems to take the ‘outer perspective’; this world was as it was before any awareness of it and will be as it is once Awareness fades away. This view overlooks the necessity of Being and Awareness, in that Being is allowed to be without any awareness.

The other perspective which may be considered the ‘inner view’ often grants the privilege to awareness. By this view it may be claimed that Being is dependent upon awareness. There is issue here as I experience only an individualized mode of awareness. This individualized mode is made possible only through consciousness, which is inseparable from Being. So then, I am unable to claim that ‘what is’ springs forth only in my being aware of it. This would deny my own individual perspective which I experience as so due to the relationship of consciousness and Being.

I find it reasonable then to accept what the tracing back through memory from our current state reveals; a co-arising from nothingness of Being and Awareness which together allow for this experience. So privilege is not granted to the outer world, being, or the inner world, awareness. Rather, privilege is given to experience; the occurrence of both Being and Awareness. Experience emerges from nothingness into itself. This is how it appears to us. From where else could experience emerge?

I have assigned a sense of emergence, or coming from, to experience. This would imply a process that occurs. We have described some such process in our examination of consciousness, but this process is that process’ origin. As the process of the development of consciousness shares a relationship with time, we must wonder if the process of emergence, as we have currently revealed it, also shares some relation to time or if its close proximity to nothingness should not allow for such a relation.