The major character of The Master is the One. The One can also be understood as the UCFC and, as such, is the condition of being just before the Big Bang explodes. Just as Aquinas allocates qualities to the UCFC, I have infused The One of The Master with a quality that I believe to be of the highest value to human life — consciousness. By imbuing the One with consciousness, I have intimated that the UCFC which was infinitely hot and had a space of zero was pure consciousness in the form of pure energy. The Uncaused Cause of the First Cause, in the persona of the One, possessed not only consciousness but expanded that consciousness to develop knowledge of the Self to the to nth degree. How can that be?
I was not there. I was not yet born and I am not a scientist nor do I have the scientific knowledge equal to that of Stephen Hawking. What is my thinking that allows me to make such assumptions?
The process of my thinking follows a path somewhat like that taken by Aquinas. His process of describing the UCFC began with the present and walked the cause-effect chain of events back to the first cause and then to the uncaused cause that caused the first cause. My understanding of the UCFC starts with attempting to understand the present and then reasoning how understanding the present renders some insight into the reality of the past (the UCFC) which can be explained through my reasoning that IT ** is The Intangible that created the reality that transforms and moves the tangibles.
**Capitalization is not a mistake just as Stephen Hawking purposefully capitalized the word BE
Begin by understanding the intangibleness of verbal communications. All communications were verbal before writing was invented. Writing made language visible. I want to say that sound is intangible but sound is not as intangible as the idea of “justice”. Typing “sound” into my Google browser first rendered the definition of the noun form of sound: “1) vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s ear; and 2) sound produced by continuous and regular vibrations, as opposed to noise.” Scientists have devices that can capture sound waves, make visual graphs of those sound waves and thereby analyze complex sounds waves distinguishing one from another. Therefore sound is tangible. If sound is tangible then human speech tangible. Language is tangible.
Scientists could capture, record and make visible a conversation between myself and my wife so that conversation would be tangible in the sense of having a visual record of all the sound waves produced by that conversation. Most, if not all human verbal communications, are composed of three basic elements: the message, the encoding of the message and the decoding of the message. One individual wishes to communicate a message to another individual. The sender of the desired message must first encode the message into the language shared by the sender and the receiver. Once encoded, the message is transmitted to the receiver who must then decode the sent message. If the encoded and the decoded message is identical then the communication is successful. Miscommunication increases to the degree that the difference between the encoding and the decoding of the message increases.
As a teacher, the process of communicating and the assessment of miscommunication is critical; and, while sound and verbal language are tangible, what is it that forms the message, encodes it into the sounds of the appropriate language by modifying the biological apparatuses through which the breath moves out from the lungs through the vibrating vocal cords until it reaches the mouth, the tongue, the teeth and the lips that further modify those sounds that overall transmits that coded message through the air to enter the ear of the receiver? Likewise what is it that receives the message that has entered the ear to be decoded? If the response is the individuals involved in the conversation, then the question is what part of the individual is involved in the construction, transmission and reception of the meaning which the message conveys? If the conversation under discussion is between the teacher and the student, then the question is what part of the individual learns? The easy answer is the brains of individuals are where learning resides. I have a different perception.
In my past writings, I have put forth that cognition is only a part of the decision-making process. Learning or the lack of learning is critical to the decision-making process. It is my understanding that the consciousness of the individual is what decides which choice or choices are embraced and followed. Where does the individual’s consciousness reside? Some would simply say the brain or the mind. I contend that the brain and the mind are not the same reality. The brain is reference to the biology through which the mind resonates. The brain is tangible. The mind is intangible. The mind learns. The brain facilitates learning. My consciousness is of the mind that consciousness is facilitated by a full body experience. I also surmise that consciousness is also intangible. Mind, learning and consciousness are all intangible.
While cognition is very important in making decisions, I aspire to engage my full consciousness when making important decisions. As the importance of any decision increases so it becomes more and more important to engage all of my consciousness in resolving the decision to be made. My consciousness is as tangible as energy is tangible because the definition of energy is the ability to do work. According to this definition, my whole life is an energy flow. My life can be perceived as an immense process of energy transmissions. My character is determined by my life’s activities. My activities and all of my decisions are a consequence of my consciousness. My consciousness is not error free. I have made many mistakes. I have chosen incorrectly and received the natural consequences of those errors. My consciousness has learned from those mistakes and less than favorable choices or I did not learn anything at all which renders me vulnerable to repeat such errors. If this is how I perceive my life, then my consciousness, my spirit, and my soul are all one and the same. My spirit or my soul is intangible because my consciousness is intangible. If there is anything about me that is immortal, it is my consciousness.
It is this perception of my consciousness and thus my perception of all other human consciousnesses that promotes my infusion of consciousness in the One of The Master.