Gnostic Question of the Week

What is Consciousness?

Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.

People confuse CONSCIOUSNESS with INTELLIGENCE or the INTELLECT, and they label a highly intelligent or highly intellectual person as being "highly conscious."

We affirm that CONSCIOUSNESS in man is—beyond any doubt and without fear of error—a very particular kind of APPREHENSION OF INNER KNOWLEDGE that is totally independent of any mental activity.

The faculty of CONSCIOUSNESS allows us to know OURSELVES.

CONSCIOUSNESS gives us complete knowledge of what IS, of where one stands, of what is truly known, and of what is certainly unknown.

REVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY teaches that only man himself can come to know himself.

Only we can know whether or not we are conscious at any given moment. Only the individual can know about their own consciousness and whether or not it exists at a given moment.

Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Education.

Answer from the magazine "The The wisdom of the Being.".

While the mistake was often made of labeling an intellectual person—or someone with a certain degree of intelligence—as "highly conscious", it is urgent to define this term within Gnosis: Consciousness in man is the capacity for the APPREHENSION OF INNER KNOWLEDGE, totally independent of any mental activity.

This faculty, therefore, is what allows us to have full and direct knowledge of ourselves.

The Magazine "The Wisdom of the Being" 109: "What is Consciousness?"