what is consciousness ? i have my own theory here.?

This is what I discovered.

The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God, as if an infinite Ocean were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word "Who am I?” This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness.

Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to "Who am I?" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simple gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question.

The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms, each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in water, conversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air.

When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness.

So the original "Who am I?" imperative persists and inaugurates the second phase: reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people.

But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of "humanizing" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience.

Here begins the third phase: involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, "When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms), it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."

Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of "planes" and "realms." But individuality continues along this spiritual path. In fact, the book, “God Speaks,” quotes the Sufi saying "There are as many ways to God as there are souls...."

Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that preceded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, "pran." There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness.

The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. "The loving of God and the longing for His union," says Meher Baba "is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."

The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of "Who am I?" with "I am God." The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite, with infinite bliss, infinite power and infinite knowledge. And, he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which was the full awakening of his soul.

God Speaks by Meher Baba, free in PDF at: http://www.ambppct.org/meherbaba/BooksByMeherBaba....

Pure consciousness of nothing is nothing. Consciousness does not create, but only instigates. You cannot instigate nothing. To equate consciousness with matter and creation is to avoid the question and give no answer. What is consciousness? You cannot answer by saying simply that everything is everything, because you are left with no information.

Consciousness is in part perception, in part imagination, in part belief. Once you become conscious of a thing you can have a purposeful effect on it. Without at least some faint consciousness, there can be no purposeful effect. You must perceive something, imagine something, believe something, and then you have the ability to act based on this consciousness.

The quality of your perception, imagination, and belief system all affect your consciousness. The greater the quality of these things you acheive, the greater is your consciousness.

The ultimate consciousness would perceive all, imagine all, know all and therefore have a perfect system of belief. This would be the supreme consciousness of which no consciousness could be greater.

I was thinking....and according to my religious beliefs...the Consciousness would be the same to what we call an intelligence. An intelligence is not created but is infinite..meaning it has no end or beginning...like a ring...it just is...but we also belief that all elements both spiritual and physical are infinite too. Creation out of Nothing is not something we believe...because all things that are have always existed...it is just what state these elements may happen to be in is the difference. An intelligence or consciousness only has as much power as it has of knowledge of truth....God is the greatest of all and has organized all the treasures to benefit all other intelligences that wants to grow, learn and add to their own knowledge of truth. That is the way I understand so far.

I am guessing by your user name, and by what you say here, that you were raised in a civilization that was more "eastern" than "western". That would account for your first statement: "consciousness is a balance system to the universe .

it is generated from a point of no dimension in our brain . also it exists everywhere inside every atom ."

In the western tradition of consciousness, it is the mind, and only each individual mind, which contains consciousness. The existence of the universe does not have its own consciousness.

This difference in the way we understand "consciousness" may be in what we ascribe (connote) to the purpose of "consciousness". In your connotation, you seem to mean "the force that regulates the natural laws."

But in the west we take the Aristotelian connotation that "consciousness" is the faculty of a living mind that is capable of doing more than reacting, as one atom would "react" to another, the particular reaction being dependent on what the 2nd atom is. For example, put the north poles of 2 magnets together and they repel each other; put one negative pole with one positive pole and they attract.

Consciousness is capable of more than this atomistic reactionary kind of activity. Consciousness is the result of living sensory organs taking information such as sounds or sights to another organ, the brain, where this information wakens the mind, which at birth is "tabula rasa." A baby born with no sensory ability would never gain consciousness. (I don't know if a baby could be born this way, but that is what would happen.)

Your atomistic view of "consciousness" is certainly correct when we say that the nature of an object causes it to acts and react as its particular nature causes it to. An orange left on the ground does not react the same as a rock left on the ground. But to say the orange or the rock is "conscious" of being on the ground, conscious of what it is, conscious of what is happening to it, requires that we who think in the western Greek tradition would have to give up the idea that consciousness is available only to living organisms.

While the atomistic version you present shows that atoms act and react, it does not show that the atoms have any faculty of sense perception that identifies and integrates the material provided by those senses, from which to make willful, purposeful decisions of action.

In the western tradition, consciousness is the cause of willful, purposeful decisions of action (volition), not automatic reactions based on the natures of the atoms that come into contact with each other.

Yep conciousness is the instigator of what we have all around us now, but consider this, in a dimension of nothing but conciousness where it's self aware and is splitting itself, at what point did it loose its individuality and want/need for a material dimension.

Also consider the purpose of existance is to not advance into a more materialistic existance but to go back to being simply conciousness.

If you see conciousness as "God" then it's plan would be a test of self to see exactly what it is that makes it what it is.

Well, I guess it would be about the 'psychic ability' we all have, some just haven't found it yet. That kind of thing. I feel we are all united in the fact that we are all human, yet we are each incredibly individual. No one is exactly the same as you. As for sharing of conciousness, if you know someone extremely well, like a twin, or were seperated at birth or something and practiced telepathy a lot, I guess you could roam between your and their minds at will, making it as if your minds were one. I dunno. I guess I've had too much caffine or something.

I don't know what consciousness is. I am empty, so hollow,.... nothing grows in my being, nothing is green. There are no flowers within me. My spring has not come yet. Please tell me how to come to this consciousness.

the Secret to success

is to have Jesus

in the center of your life

so it is a metaphor, then?