Read the article Transformation: Awareness and Consciousness. React to this essay.

First, I’d like to commend you Prof. McNair on an essay well written. I found this article one of the most enlightening and entertaining, so much so, that I took the time to share this essay, or parts of it, with my family. I particularly enjoyed the physics aspect of it all in the quanta segment. Second, there were a lot of interesting takes on the definition of awareness and consciousness. In the awareness section of the essay I found myself relating to Zetty’s definition of awareness. There have been a few times in my life where I have encountered that timeless and euphoric feeling. The feeling that everything in the universe is as it should be, “absolutely complete and perfect.” But for me it’s always fleeting. I stumble upon this epiphany, and as soon as I can make sense of it, once again I’m left in a little pit of unease and filled with even more questions than before. What I want to know is how can I keep that feeling with me longer, if not for the rest of my life? With me, it occurs in the most random of times. I may be riding the bus and looking out the window watching the world as it goes by. And suddenly I am filled with an unmistakable sense of peace and euphoria. Somehow, in my mind I know that where I am is where I’m supposed to be, along with everyone else on the planet. The feeling is one of a cosmic connection to everything. This brings me to Chopra’s vision of being one with the environment. We mistake space and boundaries for the beginning and ending of things. But Chopra doesn’t believe that is the case at all. For even when we are sitting outside, alone, and seemingly isolated when we breathe in, we are breathing in atoms that were once exhaled by someone or something else. We are connected to our environment and to each other on a molecular level, and we can’t even see it. The section on consciousness was also very informative. I hadn’t realized there were so many levels of consciousness. I did however know that awareness and consciousness were two very different terms, barer of two completely different meanings. Consciousness is more of a quality of the mind or a mental state. With this notion I agree. To explain the conscious state of mind Wilson’s eight levels of consciousness were discussed. One segment of the essay that had me seeing ZZZs. But not because of my lack of interest on the subject, instead because of the topic of sleep that was being discussed. I figured to grasp the concept more readily I’d do a little research of my own on REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.