Does the I have consciousness, or does consciousness have I’s?

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Fundamentally, consciousness itself is existence that knows that it exists. Consciousness is one; there is no separation within it.

The I, however, is the I because it exists separately. “I am” means that I have defined precisely who I am, where I begin and where I end, what my boundaries are.

The simplest way to imagine the I’s is to imagine them as slide projectors. The slide projector only emits light, and the slide film breaks the light. It interprets the arriving information, and the interpreted information appears on the screen. The image about which we say: “This is me.” This I becomes one of the I’s of consciousness, because consciousness provides the light — without light there is no image, there is no I, there is nothing.

Every Human who has ever lived, lives, or will live manifests the light of consciousness in the material world, and gives it form in the world through their own interpretations.

The light is always the same, but the form is always unique.

Our body is a terminal through which we perceive the material world, and through which we also appear in the material world.

During our life, we do not work with only a single slide. We have plenty of I’s; for every similar life situation, we have a well-established, well-usable I, so within the slide projector we continuously replace the slides, always inserting the I that is the most suitable for the given situation.

And the slides continuously multiply. As time passes, we create more and more I’s, and each of them is there beside the slide projector, ready for use.

The greatest problem as life progresses is that our different I’s increasingly differ from one another. However, we only have one body, and it is the home of all our I’s, just as our personality also includes all our I’s within itself.

As time passes, increasingly greater contrasts develop between our personalities; therefore, the inner conflict only continues to grow. Our I’s all want to appear, but the more there are, the less time each of our I’s can be present, and the greater contrasts they contain, the greater the conflict taking place within. The slide projector — the body — can only manifest one at a time, and our personality is determined by what can appear.

The inner tension slowly but surely wears us down, the body also wears out, and the contrast between our I’s slowly reaches such a level that they exclude one another.

Consciousness, in reality, continuously emits light, but the body — our slide projector — is only capable of manifesting a fraction of the number of I’s that we created during our life.

Consciousness, however, does not forget. Everything that has ever appeared in the material world, it stores as information, and it is capable of manifesting those again at any time, because if it has already done so once, then it knows how that which it manifested appears.

Therefore, it is consciousness. It comes to know that which it manifests, and it becomes conscious through Humans.

The possible I’s only continue to multiply through the life of every Human, and afterward they want to appear again, because these are, in reality, I’s. During the life of a Human, countless I’s are produced, and they all want to appear in the material world.

During our life, our I’s become conscious, but through the death of the body they do not disappear; only the slide projector disappears.

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The I’s, the slide films, remain, and as soon as a new slide projector appears, they can appear again.

Therefore, slide projectors continuously “are born,” because the I’s want to appear, but not in the way they appeared previously, when they were created, but independently, within their own body, through which they do not need to share existence with other I’s. Therefore, the I’s created during a single life return in separate bodies, each will have its own slide projector. But the process does not stop. As the I appears, it begins to create further I’s, because every new life situation requires and results in a new interpretation. Life does not stop, but the circumstances continuously change.

Let us think about how the same I could appear at a time when even a radio was a luxury, and it was necessary to go to the local pub to hear the news on the radio, and how it appears today, when even our steps and pulse are continuously monitored by our electronic devices.

Consciousness has not changed at all — pure light. It has no I, no will, it evaluates nothing, for it there is no good and no bad. Consciousness exists, and through the I’s it knows what it knows. Through the I’s it comes to know the world, and what and how something can appear within it. Consciousness is only I-consciousness if an I is present that defines what consciousness should be here and now. The slide, the filter, the lens, the definitions of the I make consciousness into I-consciousness, but this still does not mean that the I has consciousness. Consciousness has I’s, and every I is an I of consciousness.

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What an interesting phenomenon it is when the I begins to search for consciousness. Without consciousness there is no I, because there is no light, yet we do not see the light, only that which it manifests.

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