Abstract:
Consciousness flows out of the Spirit. Knowing consciousness without studying and investigating its source, the Spirit is like putting the cart before the horse. One ought to study the Science of Spirit for understanding consciousness.
Twenty-two International Conferences of TSC have so far been held without as much as an agreement on the very definition of consciousness.
Tragedy is that we are looking for consciousness in wrong places. Consciousness does not emanate in the brain. Brain is not a computer and consciousness is not a result of complex computation among neurons or from as-yet-unknown circuits or features of biological matter and energy. I had, in my paper “Network of Creational Currents-Understanding Consciousness” in TSC 16, argued that the Current of Consciousness enters the human frame at the time of birth and imparts consciousness to its various parts. When it leaves the body, consciousness ceases, this world ceases as well. The Current of Consciousness is the subtlest and can neither be seen nor monitored. A fortiori, it can only be experienced by means of subtle instruments which exist only in the human body. I had, therefore, suggested interaction with such exalted spirits who have access to the subtle and the subtlest universes besides the physical worlds.
In order to access subtle creational currents, one need to practice Paravidya which is the science of Ultra-transcendental Spirituality, training, and development of the spirit force. Most Revered Prof. Satsangi Sahab discourses that all the things of science that we are learning are not going to waste. All these will generalize in due course of time to give us the science of Para Vidya. That, perhaps, may be too long and much beyond the lives of countless future generations. Should we wait until then or wrest an initiative now to understand it in our lifetimes?
Instead of Science of Consciousness, as pursued by TSC, perhaps, we need to work toward a Science of Spirit. Science of Spirit is inward and upward unlike the science of consciousness as pursued by TSC which looks outward and downward in search of consciousness.
This paper tries to argue that we might consider the desirability of pursuing the Science of Spirit instead of physical sciences to understand consciousness otherwise all knowledge about consciousness would remain a hollow and superfluous wild goose chase.
The present paper seeks to hypothesize and motivate the scientists to pursue the Science of Spirit in order to understand consciousness.
Let some hypotheses be formulated like:
1-Reservoir of Consciousness exists in the subtlest region of the creation;
2-Current of Consciousness is highly subtle and can be experienced only through Science of Spirit Paravidya;
Keywords:
Paravidya; Aparavidya; Creational Currents; Current of Consciousness; Science of Spirit; hypotheses