The crisis of chinese consciousness pdf

Skip to main content. Home » Search titles » Crisis. Email Address. First Name. Last Name. Series : China Story Yearbook. As the crisis of consciousness intensifies, some commentators are reviving the old Freudian division of the conscious and unconscious minds. The unconscious level is no more important or intelligent than the conscious mind. In other words, the unconscious is the repository of unexamined conditioning.

And psychological conditioning is never intelligent. The unconscious level is the active dimension of the past. Without self-knowing, people act out of it, and become conduits for the growing darkness of collective consciousness. Dispensing with the silly distinction between the conscious and unconscious levels, and without creating another duality, we need to make a sharp distinction between two orders of consciousness. Only then can we give any clear and coherent meaning to a revolution in consciousness.

There is the consciousness we generally experience, based on thought and memory. But with the ending of that consciousness, even momentarily, there is another consciousness, which flows from awareness and insight. In other words, the brain dominated by thought generates the consciousness we know.

But there is another kind of consciousness altogether, which awakens in the brain and is infinitely greater than thought-consciousness when thought falls essentially silent. Most of us, most of the time, have a partial consciousness based on thought, which blocks and precludes true consciousness. Moreover, that partial consciousness, which once contained the richness of myth and tradition, is devolving dangerously in humankind.

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Corporate Social Responsiblity. Investor Relations. Review a Brill Book. For the realist, memory simply means retrieving the previous perception of an external object. Without the external object, perception and recollection cannot be caused to arise.

In reply, though Vasubandhu agrees that memory should rely on the previous perception, he does not accept the claim that perception implies the existence of external objects. The same argument also applies to the critique of the existence of self as the agent of memory. Reference Works. Primary source collections.