Spectrum of consciousness: Time, eternity, space and infinity

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[...] are merely its objects; so each one of them except the Self or pure Consciousness is merely externalized object and cannot be the true Seer. Since the Self cannot be objectified, not being cognized by anything else, and since the Self is the Seer seeing all else, the subject- object relation and the apparent subjectivity of the Self exist only on the plane of relativity and vanish in the Absolute. There is in truth no other then than the Self, which is neither the seer nor the seen, and is not involved as subject or object.” Wilber clarifies this idea of Absolute Subjectivity by pointing out that it is merely for the sake of convenience that we call it subjective at all, because it is neither subjective nor objective. [...]

[...] Spectrum of consciousness: Time, eternity, space and infinity It has been established that Reality is a level of consciousness, and it is ultimately and inherently ungraspable and unthinkable by the human mind. In this chapter, Wilber discusses how consciousness is not contained by the human body or mind, but is Absolute Subjectivity, so termed because the subject really contains the object, and is actually just yet another term for non-dualism or Absolute Reality. People feel that things are perceived subjectively, and this subject that observes is somehow located in their own separate being, and that that separate being also perceives itself perceiving. [...]