“In Self Awareness Universe the breakthrough is that consciousness is the ground of being.”

—  Amit Goswami

Interview at NewConnexion (September 2002).
Context: In Self Awareness Universe the breakthrough is that consciousness is the ground of being. We have to introduce consciousness into science, but to do this consciousness must have some structure to manifest itself. That structure requires mind, vital energies, supra-mentality, soul in other words. All of that was lacking in the "self aware universe model." If I had stayed with that model I would have felt as dissatisfied as I was before the "self aware universe model."

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