1. notwithstanding my anthropology of consciousness, when SO many
others speak of a so-called shared consciousness or even a
Christ consciousness, i accept those characterizations as
vague heuristic devices and imagine - not a metaphysical
reality, but - a semiotic reality, which is to suggest that
life's shared meanings are mediated via signs as icons,
indexes and symbols (think sacraments, for example, and other
incarnational realities)
any evolution toward higher consciousness, individually or
collectively, thus involves interpretations and
reinterpretations of signs, in and by communities , thereby
realizing shared-meanings and shared-values and does not
otherwise involve some arcane & occult metaphysical merging of
a primal, ethereal consciousness as some singular (intra-)
subjective reality evolves from the eventual dissolution of
illusionary, individual selves, who awaken from some slumber
induced by a fragmented consciousness now made whole via selfnegation
instead, higher consciousness is realized both intrasubjectively, by individuals, and inter-subjectively, by
communities, when new ways of seeing (be attentive,
descriptively), processing (be intelligent & reasonable,
interpretively), judging (be responsible, normatively) and
enjoying (be in love! evaluatively) reality are realized via
semiotic exchanges by otherwise discrete, bounded, quasiautonomous, semiotic realities (persons as self-ego axes)
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