Is there really such a thing as transcendence?

by Vic Shayne
author
Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience

To define consciousness as transcendent is to limit it. Consciousness is the singular movement of life that contains all creation, destruction, life, death, thought, memories, ideas, phenomena, animate and inanimate expressions, and the potentiality to become expressions in form.

Consciousness cannot be labeled as transcendent, because it is not an object or a being that moves from one place to another, from low to high, from good to bad, from here to there, and so on. It simply is. Like space.

We often speak of human consciousness, but this is yet another idea and it is erroneous. Where does a person’s human consciousness end and universal, total, consciousness begin? There is no delineation at all. There is just consciousness, a singular existence that is inseparable and indivisible. When a person is said to transcend, what is really happening is that she is dropping the egoic mind, the sense of self, as a false belief that acts as a barrier to realizing the whole of consciousness.

It is the egoic mind, or “I,” that stands in the way from fully realizing that consciousness is one singular existence and that the individual is merely an idea. There really are no individuals, except as a concept. Where does the individual begin and end relative to the environment? If you go closely enough, down to the atomic level, there is no delineation at all. And if you go into the quantum level then all that exists is a field, which is consciousness.

The idea that you are separate from the environment, from consciousness, is a belief that is reinforced by the senses that cannot see the wholeness of consciousness. It is also reinforced by those who have not realized the totality and indivisibility of life. Nothing exists in isolation, including who you take yourself to be.

Since you already are consciousness, what or who is there to transcend?