The emergence of thought within human consciousness

Answer the following two questions:

1. Who are you?

You undoubtedly answered: “I'm your name here.”

2. Who is your name here?

You answered: “I am.”

This condition is described by the fundamental formula as:

1 = 0

0 = 1

It is a mirror facing a mirror, leading to infinity. Here is the infinite reflection:

Go ahead and spend a minute or two describing your name here.

The first thing to notice is that you were able to describe “yourself” from a third-person perspective. The second thing to notice is that you were able to describe yourself for quite a while from this perspective. In actuality, if you were to keep thinking of ways in which to describe yourself from this perspective, it could have gone on forever. For example: your name here has two hands. Each of those hands has four fingers and one thumb. Each of those fingers contains two joints. The thumb has just one joint... The more you knew about the human body, the more descriptions you could provide. You could even start going down to the cellular, molecular, atomic levels. You could also start going into your life history, with each event being capable of description to the level of what you remember. The you you think you are goes on forever.

Now, describe “I am.”

If you notice carefully when consciousness is presented with the task of describing “I am”, it does the exact same thing as it did when it was aware of itself. This is reintegration of ≠ . Your intuition knows that the descriptions of Self are not Self. Consider once more the formula:

1 = 0

0 ≠ 1

Looking in the mirror, you can say that the reflection is you, but you cannot say that you are the reflection.

Are you the physical symbols that make up your name? Are you the vibrational waves of air that are produced when someone says your name? Are you your hand? Are you your life history? Are you any of the thoughts you think you are? Are you all of these things put together? Clearly you are not.

The “I am” is the fundamental mirror in which the Self is singularly, perfectly, reflected.

Being that everything is metaphor of Self, as all separate parts of a hologram display identical images of the same object, your individual human consciousness and human consciousness as a whole display the same process of Self-Realization. The following looks at how the fundamental formula relates to the inception and evolution of human consciousness as a whole.

The original thought was “I”. The arising of “I” was the evolutionary step into a higher level of Self-awareness. Up until that point, consciousness on earth had been aware of Self only in relation to it's interaction with itself as the physical realm. Every interaction, from the atomic, to the molecular, to the cellular, to the environmental was/is this relationship. In primitive man, consciousness knew it was because it saw, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted itself via the body.

When the “I” arose within consciousness via the evolutionary advanced human brain, suddenly consciousness was aware of Self in and of itself. It no longer required anything relative to itself “out there” in the physical realm from which to derive it's existence.

However, consciousness, having existed for eons in the relative realm of physicality, misinterpreted the “I” as originating from the body. This is the point where consciousness switches from the knowledge that 0 ≠ 1 into believing that 1 = 0.

Consciousness has perceived Self directly as “I” but has misidentified it as the mirror image of physical form. However, deep down, consciousness feels the ≠ of intuition telling it that Self is not physical. The “I”, having been recognized, will not go away. Intuition drives consciousness to continue to seek it's source. Having already accepted the source of the “I” to be the body, but not being able to find Self in the body, it projects the second mirror.

The projection of the second mirror is based upon the physical realm, as that is what has been consciousness' frame of Self-reference for eons. As a result, the second mirror reflects physicality.

The second mirror is the appearance of thought within consciousness.

Thought is a hybrid realm created by consciousness' attempt to integrate the “I” into physicality. When this hybrid image (of “I” combined with physicality) is reflected back onto/into physicality, it manifests as metaphor, symbol, language. Focusing on the symbol in an attempt to find the source of “I”, consciousness is “bounced back” into the thought mirror where the symbol takes on another hybrid image (another thought). That hybrid image then is reflected back into physicality in the form of yet another symbol/an expansion of language. This creates the feedback loop of dualism. The cycle of the feedback loop is powered by the focusing of consciousness.

All forms of language transmitted by symbol fundamentally do not represent physicality. Language represents thought. Thought is consciousness' attempt to integrate the “I” into physicality.