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I think, therefore I am. How can we know?
I personally vibe with the reverse. The reverse is: “I am, therefore I think.”
Meaning that even if there is no one there to think, there’s still something there… an awareness. So for me, thought is illumined by the awareness, not awareness as a product of thought.
Think about this: the mind is aware because the mind can observe itself. But what observes the mind’s self-awareness?
There’s another awareness which observes the mind’s awareness.
So there’s something that observes you observing yourself… and that is THE Awareness that illumines thought. AWARE of awareness. A BIG AWARENESS and a little awareness.
When you take it spiritually or religiously, who you are is the BIG AWARENESS, not the little awareness. You are that which can objectify yourself objectifying yourself.
In the Matrix movies, you have “people” in a computer simulation.
Let’s pretend we’re literally in a matrix right now. Even if we are just programs in a matrix, we are self-aware programs… which makes us real. And it also makes the world around us real too… Until we get “saved” like Neo in the movies and now there is a new reality which is considered real. Neo’s new reality is when he wakes up and he sees he’s like a cattle in a huge human farm. So your current experience as a person is real until a new reality is realized.
Investigate the BIG AWARENESS and there will be answers.
